A base station and terminal in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Each of the base station and the terminal of the wireless communication system includes a communication module and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether a channel is idle during a defer duration, determine whether the channel is idle during a random backoff time interval determined based on an initial value of a counter and a slot duration that is a constant time unit when the channel is idle during the defer duration, wherein the initial value of the counter is determined based on a random value, and perform a transmission when the channel is idle during the random backoff time interval. The random number is obtained with a uniform probability within a contention window that is an integer set by the base station.

A method and apparatus for supporting communication buffer status reports (BSRs) are disclosed. A wireless device may generate a first buffer status report (BSR) associated with first data for transmission to at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). Also, the wireless device may generate a second BSR associated with second data for transmission to a base station. Further, the wireless device may transmit the first BSR and the second BSR in a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) to the base station. Additionally, the wireless device may transmit the first data to the at least one WTRU. Moreover, the wireless device may transmit the second data to the base station. In a further example, the wireless device may generate the first BSR and generate the second BSR are based on a priority associated with the first BSR and a priority associated with the second BSR.

The present invention enhances the quality that a user feels in a wireless communication system. This base station device 60 is provided with: a calculation unit 63 which calculates a data transmission start deadline at which data transmission to a wireless terminal device 70 can be completed by a completion deadline for transmission to the wireless terminal device 70 set on the basis of information about the application, when the data, which is transmitted to the wireless terminal device 70 by the application executed by a server device 80 in response to a request from the wireless terminal device 70, is transmitted to the wireless terminal device 70 by using a wireless resource; and an allocation unit 64 which allocates a wireless resource necessary for the transmission of the corresponding data to the wireless terminal device 70 on the basis of the transmission start deadline and the current time.

Embodiments of the present invention provide an information transmission method, including: when a terminal device is in a power headroom report (PHR) triggering state, receiving, by the terminal device, a first indication from a network device, where the first indication is used to indicate a first uplink transmission resource of the terminal device, and the uplink transmission resource is used by the terminal device to perform uplink transmission with the network device; and keeping, by the terminal device, the power headroom report triggering state in a first time period, and canceling the power headroom report triggering state when the first time period expires, where the first time period is a second time period starting from a receiving time point of the first indication to a time domain end of the first uplink transmission resource indicated by the first indication.

Methods and apparatus are provided for shortened Transmission Time Interval (sTTI) configurations for low latency communications. A User Equipment (UE) receives at least one transmission in a first TTI of a first duration configured for the UE, the first TTI assigned within a second TTI of a second duration, wherein the first TTI is configured for Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) and uses, at least in part, a configuration for communicating using the second TTI.

A method and apparatus for supporting communication buffer status reports (BSRs) are disclosed. A wireless device may receive from an eNode-B a first indication indicating a logical channel group and at least one associated priority. The wireless device may produce a BSR associated with first data, which may include an indication associated with the logical channel group and an index indicating an amount of the first data. The wireless device may transmit the BSR to an eNode-B. Then, the wireless device may receive allocation information for transmission to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) group. Further, the wireless device may transmit at least a portion of the first data to the WTRU group over a logical channel in the logical channel group. Also, the BSR may further include a plurality of indications associated with a respective plurality of logical channel groups.

The present disclosure provides a resource scheduling method and device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a buffer status report BSR, wherein the BSR indicates that data to be transmitted of the terminal device comprises target-type data; transmitting, by the terminal device, the BSR to a network device, wherein the network device configures a transmitting resource preferentially for the terminal device based on the BSR.

Protocol independent signal slotting and scheduling is provided by receiving a frame including a header and a payload for transmission; in response to determining that the frame matches a rule identifying the frame as part of a control loop, compressing the header according to the rule to produce a compressed packet of a predefined size that includes the compressed header and the payload; scheduling transmission of the compressed packet; and transmitting the compressed packet to a receiving device. In some embodiments, before compressing the frame, in response to determining that a size of the payload does not match a predefined size threshold: the payload is fragmented into a plurality of portions, wherein each portion satisfies the predefined size threshold, or the compressed packet is padded to the predefined size threshold via forward error correction padding information.

Method and apparatus for providing information to a network are disclosed. An eNodeB (eNB) may receive pattern information relating to connection state management behavior of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The eNB may receive this information over S1 signaling when a connection is established. The eNB may determine a time factor for connection state management, wherein the time factor may be based on the received information. The determine time factor may be used to adjust connection states of the WTRU.

An in-vehicle terminal includes: a communication unit; a necessity determination unit; a basic life determination unit that determines a life of data; a life correction unit that corrects the basic life determined by the basic life determination unit according to factors presumed to affect data fluctuations/data change; and a transmission determination unit that determines a transmission order of the data by the data transmission unit based on (i) the transmission necessity of the data determined by the necessity determination unit and (ii) a post-correction life corrected by the life correction unit, in a manner that (a) data having the higher transmission necessity and/or the shorter post-correction life has an earlier transmission order while (b) data having the lower transmission necessity and/or the longer post-correction life has a later transmission order.