A method of configuring a random access resource, a terminal, and a network node are provided. The method includes: receiving configuration information of a physical random access channel PRACH resource transmitted by a network node; wherein the configuration information is configured to indicate a PRACH transmission resource reserved by the network node for the terminal and used to transmit a beam failure recovery request.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE, an indication of a first uplink timing advance for communications from the second UE to a base station. The UE may estimate, based at least in part on the first uplink timing advance received from the second UE, a second uplink timing advance for transmission of a random access message from the first UE to the base station. The UE may transmit, to the base station, the random access message using the second uplink timing advance.

A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system includes intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, a method and an apparatus for transmitting a random access preamble in a wireless communication system are provided. In accordance with another aspect of the disclosure, a method and an apparatus for requesting and transmitting system information are provided.

The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for the Internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for handling message A retransmission during 2 step random access procedures.

Techniques are described for wireless communications. One method includes determining a contention window size for a first broadcast transmission or a first multicast transmission on at least one channel of a shared radio frequency spectrum band, where the first broadcast transmission or the first multicast transmission is targeted for a first plurality of UEs, and contending for access to the at least one channel of the shared radio frequency spectrum band for the first broadcast transmission or the first multicast transmission based at least in part on the determined contention window size. In some cases, the first broadcast transmission or the first multicast transmission may be an example of a multipoint transmission, which may include a coordinated multipoint transmission.

An apparatus and a method for providing measurement information are provided. The method for providing measurement information of a user equipment (UE) includes measuring an uplink duty cycle percentage within a measurement duration, wherein the measurement duration is one of a configuration duration form a network node, a default duration, and a pre-defined duration, and reporting a maximum uplink duty cycle percentage according to a measured uplink duty cycle percentage within the measurement duration.

This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, methods, devices and systems for including signaling regarding enhanced features of new wireless communication protocols. The signaling may be included in various portions of a physical layer preamble of a wireless transmission. In some implementations, the physical layer preamble may be used to indicate puncturing of subbands or content channels that may carry further signaling in accordance with preamble signaling designs of this disclosure. The physical layer preamble signaling be parallelized for different subchannels of a wireless channel that consists of multiple subchannels. Some implementations of the physical layer preambles may be used to multiplex different types of wireless local area network communications into different subsets of the plurality of subchannels of the wireless channel.

A message retransmission method and a related apparatus are disclosed. The message retransmission method includes: User equipment sends a message to a network device at a first power using a first spatial filter; and the user equipment retransmits the message to the network device using N second spatial filters, where a second power ramping counter corresponding to a transmit power of each of P second spatial filters is greater than a first power ramping counter corresponding to the first power, and the N second spatial filters include at least one spatial filter different from the first spatial filter. Both N and P are positive integers, and P≤N.

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5.sup.th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4.sup.th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A mobility application method of a user equipment (UE) residing in a system of wireless communication systems, which supports transmission/reception of data, using a beamforming, via multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas is provided. The method includes measuring beam measurement reference signals that a network transmitted using different transmission nodes and evolved NodeB (eNBs) and transmitting the measured information to the network in a system using a number of beams.

Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating uplink control information (UCI) in a network operating over multiple aggregated unlicensed carriers are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a downlink communication signal. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, an unscheduled uplink communication signal including an uplink report associated with the downlink communication signal, the unscheduled uplink communication signal communicated based on a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure. The uplink report includes at least one of an acknowledgement (ACK) for data in the downlink communication signal, a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) for the data in the downlink communication signal, or channel information based at least on the downlink communication signal.