Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for link configuration-specific modulation and coding scheme (MCS). A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving control information indicating an MCS index corresponding to one or more MCS parameters to be used for a communication link, determining the one or more MCS parameters corresponding to the MCS index, wherein a mapping of the MCS index to the one or more MCS parameters is dependent on a configuration of the communication link, and communicating via the communication link in accordance with the one or more MCS parameters.

Example aspects include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for scheduling transmissions of transport blocks (TBs) at a base station of a wireless communication network, comprising accessing static transmission information indicating configuration information of TB transmissions. The aspects further include transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), first downlink control information (DCI) corresponding to a first transmission. Additionally, the aspects include transmitting, to the UE according to the static transmission information and the first DCI, the first transmission comprising at least a portion of encoded bits of the TB. Additionally, the aspects include receiving, from the UE, an indication of at least one code block that failed to be successfully decoded. Additionally, the aspects include transmitting, to the UE, second DCI corresponding to a second transmission. Additionally, the aspects include retransmitting, to the UE according to the static transmission information, the first DCI, and the second DCI.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration that indicates multiple time intervals corresponding to multiple physical sidelink shared channels (PSSCHs) within a slot, wherein at least one PSSCH, of the multiple PSSCHs, starts in a symbol other than an initial data symbol of the slot. The UE may communicate in one or more PSSCHs, of the multiple PSSCHs, within the slot based at least in part on the configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit a request, for an uplink transmission or a downlink transmission, for data aided phase tracking reference signals (PT-RSs); and communicate the uplink transmission or the downlink transmission based at least in part on the request. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Provided are a control information indicating method, a communication node and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: sending, by a first communication node, control information to a second communication node, where the control information is used for indicating the scheduling of one or more transport blocks, each transport block corresponds to a respective one of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes when being scheduled, and each HARQ process has a corresponding HARQ process index and new data indication (NDI) information.

A data transmission method is disclosed and described herein. The method includes: determining configuration information of a multi-transmission-block (TB) alternate transmission according to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback binding configuration; and on the basis of the configuration information, using the multi-TB alternate transmission to send a TB.

Methods and apparatus are provided for switching a waveform for UL transmissions in a communication network to optimize power usage of the UE. In exemplary embodiments, the UE can use either CP-OFDM waveform or DFT-S-OFDM waveform for UL transmissions. A mechanism is provided to prevent excessive switching in environments where the channel conditions are rapidly changing Further, a signaling mechanism is provided for switching waveforms for UL transmissions using Layer 1 (L1) signaling to reduce the transmission time needed to switch between CP-OFDM and DFT-S-OFDM waveforms.

In a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, a transmission station (STA) may transmit a PPDU including a first data field and a second data field to a reception STA, and the second data field may be generated by duplicating the first data field. The PPDU may include information indicating that the first data and the second data are the same data.

The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond the 4G system, and a system thereof. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for configuring an out-of-order delivery function of a protocol layer device.

Methods, systems, and devices related to related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to an improved repetition transmission method. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication is disclosed. The method can include receiving, at a terminal configured to perform a number of transmission repetitions according to a rule, a first message from a network node, the first message including an indication to modify at least one transmission repetition of the number of transmission repetitions according to the rule. The method can also include modifying, by the terminal, the at least one transmission repetition of the number of transmission repetitions identified in the first message.