A Radio Access Network (RAN) wirelessly serves a User Equipment (UE) over a frequency channel based on a radio signal metric. The RAN comprises baseband circuitry and a radio. The baseband circuitry determines when multiple Physical Cell Identifiers (PCIs) are available to serve the UE. In response, the baseband circuitry selects some resource blocks in the frequency channel and generates a UE instruction to measure the radio signal metric for the selected resource blocks. The radio receives the UE instruction for the baseband circuitry and wirelessly transfers the UE instruction to the UE. The radio wirelessly receives a measurement report from the UE that indicates the radio signal metric for the selected resource blocks. The radio transfers the measurement report to the baseband circuitry. The baseband circuitry receives the measurement report and responsively schedules the UE in the selected resource blocks based on the radio signal metric.

A method by a UE for performing a random access procedure is provided. The method comprises transmitting a MSGA, monitoring a MSGB-RNTI within a MSGB window starting from an earliest symbol of an earliest PDCCH occasion after the MSGA transmission, receiving the MSGB in a first slot, the MSGB including a success RAR that contains a HARQ Feedback Timing Indicator, a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) Resource Indicator, and a UE Contention Resolution Identity, determining, by a MAC entity, to instruct a lower layer to transmit a HARQ feedback in a second slot in response to the reception of the success RAR, delivering, by the MAC entity, the HARQ Feedback Timing Indicator and the PUCCH Resource Indicator to the lower layer, and performing, by the lower layer, a HARQ feedback delivery on an uplink (UL) resource.

A method by a UE for performing a random access procedure is provided. The method comprises transmitting a MSGA, monitoring a MSGB-RNTI within a MSGB window starting from an earliest symbol of an earliest PDCCH occasion after the MSGA transmission, receiving the MSGB in a first slot, the MSGB including a success RAR that contains a HARQ Feedback Timing Indicator, a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) Resource Indicator, and a UE Contention Resolution Identity, determining, by a MAC entity, to instruct a lower layer to transmit a HARQ feedback in a second slot in response to the reception of the success RAR, delivering, by the MAC entity, the HARQ Feedback Timing Indicator and the PUCCH Resource Indicator to the lower layer, and performing, by the lower layer, a HARQ feedback delivery on an uplink (UL) resource.

Techniques are described for extending a cellular quality of service bearer through an enterprise fabric network. In one example, a method obtaining, by a first switch of a network, a packet to be delivered to a client connected to the network via a cellular access point; identifying quality of service (QoS) bearer information associated with the packet, wherein the QoS bearer information is associated with a radio access bearer for the client and the QoS bearer information comprises a bearer indicator and a QoS class identifier; providing a fabric tunnel encapsulation for the packet, wherein the bearer indicator and the QoS class identifier are included within the fabric tunnel encapsulation of the packet; and forwarding the packet within the fabric tunnel encapsulation toward a second switch of the network via a fabric tunnel, wherein the cellular access point is connected to the network via the second switch.

A communication method of performing Bandwidth Part (BWP) switching between a non-dormant BWP and a dormant BWP is provided. The communication method is performed by a UE configured by a Base Station (BS) with a serving cell and a dormancy group to which the serving cell belongs. The communication method includes activating the non-dormant BWP as an activated BWP for the serving cell; initializing a first Random Access (RA) procedure on the serving cell; receiving, from the BS, one of a first indication for BWP switching for the serving cell and a second indication for BWP switching for the dormancy group while the first RA procedure is ongoing; switching the activated BWP for the serving cell, based on one of the first indication and the second indication, from the non-dormant BWP to the dormant BWP; and stopping the first RA procedure after receiving one of the first indication and the second indication.

A communication method of performing Bandwidth Part (BWP) switching between a non-dormant BWP and a dormant BWP is provided. The communication method is performed by a UE configured by a Base Station (BS) with a serving cell and a dormancy group to which the serving cell belongs. The communication method includes activating the non-dormant BWP as an activated BWP for the serving cell; initializing a first Random Access (RA) procedure on the serving cell; receiving, from the BS, one of a first indication for BWP switching for the serving cell and a second indication for BWP switching for the dormancy group while the first RA procedure is ongoing; switching the activated BWP for the serving cell, based on one of the first indication and the second indication, from the non-dormant BWP to the dormant BWP; and stopping the first RA procedure after receiving one of the first indication and the second indication.

A system information indication method and apparatus and a communication system. In the embodiments of this disclosure, by indicating a correspondence between an area related ID or a system information related index and system information, and/or notifying information on a change of the area related ID or system information related index, a case may be avoided where a UE needs still to obtain system information from a network side when system information of a current cell is stored, thereby efficiently lowering power consumption of the UE in acquiring the system information.

A system information indication method and apparatus and a communication system. In the embodiments of this disclosure, by indicating a correspondence between an area related ID or a system information related index and system information, and/or notifying information on a change of the area related ID or system information related index, a case may be avoided where a UE needs still to obtain system information from a network side when system information of a current cell is stored, thereby efficiently lowering power consumption of the UE in acquiring the system information.

A user equipment (UE) and a method for small data transmission (SDT) are provided. The method includes receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) release message from a Base Station (BS), the RRC release message indicating an SDT configuration including a Configured Grant (CG) configuration and a timer; initiating a transmission on an Uplink (UL) resource while the UE is in an RRC_INACTIVE state, the UL resource being either configured by the CG configuration or scheduled by a UL grant from the BS; starting or restarting the timer after initiating the transmission; and monitoring a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) addressed to a specific Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) on a specific search space while the timer is running.

A user equipment (UE) and a method for small data transmission (SDT) are provided. The method includes receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) release message from a Base Station (BS), the RRC release message indicating an SDT configuration including a Configured Grant (CG) configuration and a timer; initiating a transmission on an Uplink (UL) resource while the UE is in an RRC_INACTIVE state, the UL resource being either configured by the CG configuration or scheduled by a UL grant from the BS; starting or restarting the timer after initiating the transmission; and monitoring a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) addressed to a specific Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) on a specific search space while the timer is running.