Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a communication apparatus, and relate to the communication field. The method includes: A first network device receives a first report from a terminal device, where the first report includes first information, and the first information indicates that the terminal device passively falls back from 2-step random access to 4-step random access, or actively falls back from 2-step random access to 4-step random access. The first network device performs processing based on the first report.

Methods, systems, and devices are described for low latency communications within a wireless communications system. An eNB and/or a UE may be configured to operate within the wireless communications system and may send triggers to initiate communications using a dedicated resource in a wireless communications network that supports transmissions having a first subframe type and a second subframe type, the first subframe type comprising symbols of a first duration and the second subframe type comprising symbols of a second duration that is shorter than the first duration. Communications may be initiated by transmitting a trigger from the UE or eNB using the dedicated resource, and initiating communications following the trigger. The duration of time between the trigger and initiating communications can be significantly shorter than the time to initiate communications using legacy LTE communications.

Disclosed is a wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver transmitting/receiving a wireless signal; and a processor controlling an operation of the wireless communication terminal. The transceiver receives a first frame including information on a manner for accessing, by a plurality of wireless communication terminals including the wireless communication terminal, a base wireless communication terminal. The processor acquires a manner for accessing the base wireless communication terminal on a basis of the first frame. The transceiver accesses the base communication terminal on a basis of the manner for accessing the base wireless communication terminal. The base wireless communication terminal is any one communication terminal different from the plurality of wireless communication terminals.

Methods and apparatuses for random access procedure. A method at a terminal device comprises receiving information of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource allocation mode from a network node. The PUSCH resource allocation mode includes at least one of interlace or non-interlace. The method further comprises transmitting a first message including a random access preamble and payload to the network node. The payload is transmitted on a PUSCH based on the PUSCH resource allocation mode.

A method, system and apparatus for sharing of physical random access channel (PRACH) resources between New Radio (NR) and Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio access technologies (RATs) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a network node is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to: receive a physical random access channel, PRACH, signal from a wireless device; correlate the PRACH signal with one of at least two orthogonal sequences from a common set of sequences shared among a first radio access technology, RAT, and a second RAT; and determine whether the wireless device is operating according to one of the first RAT and the second RAT based at least in part on the correlation.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for performing a listen-before-talk on beams and/or panels. One method (500) includes receiving (502), at a user equipment, at least one indication to use a set of beams, a set of panels, or a combination thereof. The method (500) includes performing (504) the listen-before-talk on at least one beam of the set of beams, at least one panel of the set of panels, or a combination thereof before beginning a downlink reception, an uplink transmission, or a combination thereof. The method (500) includes performing (506) the downlink reception, the uplink transmission, or the combination thereof in response to the listen-before-talk being successful on the at least one beam of the set of beams, the at least one panel of the set of panels, or the combination thereof.

The present disclosure relates to a transmission method and apparatus. The method may comprise: receiving at least one piece of downlink control information; determining, based on the downlink control information, a time resource of a to-be-sent hybrid automatic retransmission request-acknowledgement and/or a content of the hybrid automatic retransmission request-acknowledgement; and sending the hybrid automatic retransmission request-acknowledgement based on the determined time resource and/or the determined content.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first downlink control information (DCI) for New Radio (NR) licensed operation and receive a second DCI for NR unlicensed operation, where the second DCI received for NR unlicensed operation is a same length as the first DCI received for NR licensed operation. Numerous other aspects are described.

Disclosed is a wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver transmitting/receiving a wireless signal; and a processor controlling an operation of the wireless communication terminal. The transceiver receives a first frame including information on a manner for accessing, by a plurality of wireless communication terminals including the wireless communication terminal, a base wireless communication terminal. The processor acquires a manner for accessing the base wireless communication terminal on a basis of the first frame. The transceiver accesses the base communication terminal on a basis of the manner for accessing the base wireless communication terminal. The base wireless communication terminal is any one communication terminal different from the plurality of wireless communication terminals.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an uplink grant message in a first fixed frame period (FFP) in frame based equipment mode, and transmit data to the base station in a first part of a second FFP, based at least in part on information in the uplink grant message. Numerous other aspects are provided.