A radio frequency (RF) unit, a digital unit, and methods of transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system are provided. The digital unit may include: a transceiver configured to receive compressed data from an RF unit, a processor configured to divide a frequency domain and a time domain into a plurality of blocks, set a compression parameter to be applied to each of the plurality of blocks, and expand the received data in units of the blocks based on the set compression parameter, and a memory storing the compression parameter.

The present 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 Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to 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. The disclosure provides a method and device for switching a serving cell.

A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product for resource isolation in wireless communication systems. A communication network in a plurality of communication networks of a wireless communications system is identified. Each communication network in the plurality of communication networks has one or more communication components logically isolated from one or more communication components of another communication network in the plurality of communication networks. The identified communication network is selected for transmission of data associated with a user device. Data associated with the user device is transmitted using the identified communication network.

Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating beam training with relay link are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a control node includes determining a first set of measurements associated with at least one set of beam pairs. In some examples, the at least one set of beam pairs is associated with a wireless backhaul link between a first wireless device and a relay device, a first relay access link portion between the first wireless device and the relay device, or a second relay access link portion between the relay device and at least one second wireless device. The example method also includes configuring at least one subset of beam pairs of the at least one set of beam pairs based on the first set of measurements. Additionally, the example method includes transmitting information indicating the at least one subset of beam pairs to the relay device.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB)-donor central unit (CU) may trigger connectivity between a distributed unit (DU) of a first network node and the IAB-donor CU, wherein the first network node comprises an IAB-node. The IAB may instantiate connectivity between a mobile terminal (MT) of the first network node and the IAB-donor CU after instantiation of the connectivity between the DU of the first network node and the IAB-donor CU. The IAB may transmit a communication to a second network node via the first network node. Numerous other aspects are described.

During operation, a mesh network access point (MAP) may communicate, via multiple mesh paths in a mesh network with the one or more root access points (RAPs), uplink packets or frames to or from at least two electronic devices. Notably, at a given time, the MAP uses a first mesh path in the mesh paths to communicate a first subset of the uplink packets or frames associated with a first electronic device in the two electronic devices and uses a second (different) mesh path in the mesh paths to communicate a second subset of the uplink packets or frames associated with a second electronic device in the two electronic devices. Moreover, the MAP may dynamically distribute the first electronic device or the second electronic device over the multiple mesh paths, e.g., based at least in part on one or more communication-performance metrics of the mesh paths and/or the mesh network.

With advanced compute capabilities and growing convergence of wireless standards and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, there is a requirement to run multiple wireless standards, e.g., 4G LTE, 5G NR and Wi-Fi, and AI on a single hardware together. Typical solutions include reserving some compute resources for specific wireless standards and a dedicated AI resource due to different precision compared to baseband processing. Typical solutions for signal processing with converged wireless standards and machine learning (ML) applications include having dedicated hardware acceleration and reserving some commutating or processing resources for specific wireless standards and a dedicated AI operation. Such approaches result in inefficient use of resources and lack of operation flexibility. The present patent document discloses embodiments to leverage commonalities in hardware acceleration for converged baseband and AI operators, thus achieving improved efficiency in power consumption and improved hardware resources utilization.

Methods and apparatuses are provided for activating or deactivating packet duplication in a wireless communication system. A central unit (CU) of a first base station transmits, to a distributed unit (DU) of the first base station, via an F1 interface, information to activate or deactivate a dual connectivity (DC) based packet duplication for a data radio bearer (DRB). The information is transmitted to a second base station. A medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) indicating whether to activate or deactivate packet duplication for the DRB, based on the information, is transmitted to a user equipment (UE).

A method for dynamically allocating radio resources across a set of virtualized radio access points (vRAPs) in a virtual radio access network (vRAN) includes collecting contextual information across all vRAPs that share a common carrier bandwidth of a physical radio access point. The method also includes mapping, by a radio resource controller according to an internal mapping policy, the contextual information of the vRAPs into an allocation of vRAN slices to the vRAPs, wherein each vRAN slice comprises allocated computing resources and an allocated bandwidth part (BWP) of the common carrier bandwidth, the BWPs being orthogonal across the vRAN slices. The method also includes notifying the vRAPs of the allocated BWP.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for handing overhead messages in new radio (NR). An exemplary method generally includes receiving a first overhead message of a first type comprising first configuration information for the UE, determining a first priority level of the configuration information in the first overhead message, taking one or more first actions based on the first priority level, attempting to receive a second overhead message of a second type comprising second configuration information for the UE, if the second overhead message is received, determining a second priority level of the second configuration information in the second overhead message, taking one or more second actions based on the second priority level.