There is provided a UE for configured to operate in a wireless system. The UE comprises: at least one transceiver; at least one processor; and at least one computer memory operably connectable to the at least one processor and storing instructions that, based on being executed by the at least one processor, perform operations comprising: transmitting first signal which is one of UL signal or SL signal; performing switching between UL transmission and SL transmission; and transmitting second signal, which is different from the first signal, which is one of the UL signal or SL signal.

An apparatus configured to be employed in a gNodeB associated with a new radio (NR) system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors configured to configure one or more sidelink sounding reference signals (SRS), for one or more user equipments (UEs) associated with the gNodeB, to be utilized by the one or more UEs for transmission or reception, or both, over sidelink. The one or more processors is further configured to generate one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals to be provided, respectively, to the one or more UEs, wherein each sidelink SRS configuration signal comprises sidelink SRS configuration information on the one or more sidelink SRS configured for a respective UE. The apparatus further comprises a radio frequency (RF) interface, configured to provide, to a radio frequency (RF) circuitry, the one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals, for subsequent transmission to the one or more UEs, respectively.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether an uplink communication for a first radio access technology (RAT) has been dynamically scheduled or semi-statically configured, wherein the UE is in a dual connectivity mode using the first RAT and a second RAT. The UE may identify an uplink subframe for transmission of the uplink communication based at least in part on whether the uplink communication has been dynamically scheduled or semi-statically configured, and based at least in part on a downlink-reference uplink-downlink configuration. The UE may transmit the uplink communication in the identified uplink subframe. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for dynamic slot management for radio frames. A method that may be performed by abase station (BS) includes determining a physical resource block (PRB) utilization of each active slot of a plurality of active slots over a first monitoring period of time. The method also includes calculating, based on the PRB utilization of each of the plurality of active slots, a PRB average utilization value over the first monitoring period of time. The method further includes determining whether the PRB average utilization value satisfies a first PRB threshold value. The method also includes in response to determining that the PRB average utilization value fails to satisfy the first PRB threshold value, deactivating a set of active slots of the plurality of active slots resulting in a modified plurality of active slots over the first monitoring period of time.

Wireless communication devices, systems, and methods related to communicating UCI are provided. For example, a method of wireless communication may include receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from a base station (BS), scheduling information for transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) and uplink control information (UCI) during a time period. The UCI may include channel state information (CSI) or a scheduling request (SR). The method may include determining, by the UE, that the UCI and a HARQ-ACK codebook have a common priority, the HARQ-ACK being based on the HARQ-ACK codebook. The method may include transmitting, by the UE to the BS, the HARQ-ACK and the UCI during the time period based on the scheduling information, the transmitted UCI using resources determined based on a duration associated with the HARQ-ACK codebook, and the duration being based on the UCI and the HARQ-ACK codebook having the common priority.

Methods and apparatuses for group scheduling for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) overhead reduction. A method of operating a UE includes receiving first configuration information for reception of first PDCCHs. A PDCCH from the first PDCCHs provides a first downlink control information (DCI) format that includes a first number of information bits. The method further includes receiving second configuration information for a location of a second number of information bits, smaller than the first number of information bits, in the first DCI format; receiving at least one of the first PDCCHs; and determining, from the second number of information bits, values of one or more fields associated with reception of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or with transmission of a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify that an uplink data transmission scheduled for transmission by the UE in a first transmission time interval overlaps with multiple uplink control transmissions also scheduled for transmission by the UE during corresponding second transmission time intervals that are shorter in duration than the first transmission time interval. The UE may determine that the multiple uplink control transmissions satisfy a scheduling constraint that is based at least in part on an uplink control transmission type of the multiple uplink control transmissions that overlap with the uplink data transmission. The UE may transmit the uplink data transmission and the multiple uplink control transmissions based at least in part on the scheduling constraint being satisfied.

Aspects described herein relate to receiving, from a base station, a downlink communication indicating resources scheduled for one or more repetitions of a downlink control channel, receiving, from the base station, the one or more repetitions of the downlink control channel, and combining the one or more repetitions of the downlink control channel to decode the downlink control channel. In another aspect, the network can transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a downlink communication indicating resources scheduled for one or more repetitions of a downlink control channel, and transmitting, to the UE, the one or more repetitions of the downlink control channel over the resources.

Some embodiments include an apparatus and method for enabling concurrent peer-to-peer (P2P) communications via a scheduled resource unit (RU) allocated by an access point (AP). For example, the AP may use a trigger frame to schedule uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) access for a first station of a plurality of stations by allocating an RU to the first station. Instead of using the allocated RU for UL infrastructure communications with the AP, the first station may utilize the allocated RU for a P2P communications with a second station. In some embodiments the AP facilitates RU utilization for P2P communications between stations. In some embodiments, the first station uses the allocated RU and the AP may be unaware of the P2P communications.

A system configured to track network slicing operations within a 5G communication network includes processing circuitry configured to determine a network slice instance (NSI) associated with a QoS flow of a UE. The NSI communicates data for a network function virtualization (NFV) instance of a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) system within the 5G communication network. Latency information for a plurality of communication links used by the NSI is retrieved. The plurality of communication links includes a first set of non-MEC communication links associated with a radio access network (RAN) of the 5G communication network and a second set of MEC communication links associated with the MEC system. A slice configuration policy is generated based on the retrieved latency information and slice-specific attributes of the NSI. Network resources of the 5G communication network used by the NSI are reconfigured based on the generated slice configuration policy.