This application provides a communication method and apparatus, and relate to the communication field, so that an inter-node negotiation process between an MN and an SN can be completed when the MN uses a CU-DU architecture in DC communication. The method includes: A DU receives a first request message from a CU, where the first request message requests the DU to determine configuration information of an MN, and the configuration information of the MN is used to assist an SN in determining configuration information used for a terminal device; and the DU sends a first response message to the CU, where the first response message includes the configuration information of the MN. Embodiments of this application are applied to a DC scenario.

Aspects described herein relate to determining a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) limit corresponding to at least one of a number of blind detections (BDs) and a number of control channel elements (CCEs) based on one or more PDCCH candidates for a first cell that are monitored in a second cell or one or more PDCCH candidates for the first cell that are monitored in the at least a third cell, wherein the first cell is scheduled by the second cell and the at least a third cell different from the second cell, and communicating one or more PDCCH transmissions for the first cell from the second cell and the at least a third cell based on the PDCCH limit.

The downlink control channels in a control region of each downlink subframe in a telecommunication system are divided into at least one common subset of the downlink control channels and a plurality of group subsets of the downlink control channels, such that the common subset or each common subset will be decoded by every user equipment, and each group subset will be decoded only by a limited group of user equipments. Resource assignment messages for a user equipment can then be transmitted on a downlink control channel of the relevant group subset, to avoid the need for messages to be decoded by a large number of UEs that will not act on them, while broadcast messages can be transmitted on a downlink control channel of the relevant common subset, to avoid the need for messages to be transmitted many times.

The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communications. A UE receives first information, the first information being used for indicating M DCI blind decoding(s); monitors a first-type radio signal respectively on each of S sub-band(s) in a first time-domain resource; and performs at most M1 DCI blind decoding(s) of the M DCI blind decoding(s) on the S sub-band(s) in the first time-domain resource. Herein, the first-type radio signal detected on the S sub-band(s) is used for determining the M1 DCI blind decoding(s) out of the M DCI blind decoding(s). The above method allows the base station to make dynamic adjustments to the UE's blind decoding on PDCCH resources according to LBT results, ensuring that sufficient PDCCH resources are available and not too many PDSCH resources are preempted, and that excessive blind decodings can be avoided.

A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) with a first sub-carrier spacing (SCS) includes receiving a bitmap indicating symbols of a slot that are first symbols of control resource sets (CORESETs) for PDCCH receptions, determining, based on the bitmap, a first number of symbols that is a smallest number of symbols in between a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in first CORESETs and a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in second CORESETs, determining, based on the first number of symbols and the SCS, a first maximum number of non-overlapping control channel elements (CCEs), and receiving the PDCCHs with the first SCS according to the first maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs.

A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a network in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the method includes the network configuring a User Equipment (UE) with cross-carrier scheduling, wherein the network transmits Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) on a first cell scheduling a second cell. The method further includes the network configuring the UE with PDCCH repetition on two search spaces of the first cell. In addition, the method includes the network being allowed to configure the UE with PDCCH repetition on two search spaces of the second cell only if two search spaces of the first cell, having same search space identities as the two search spaces of the second cell, have been configured with PDCCH repetition.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may support both unicast and multicast downlink signaling, such as on a single component carrier (CC). A UE may receive a unicast message over a first CC during a transmission time interval (TTI) using a first set of processing resources. The UE may simultaneously receive a multicast message over the first CC during the same TTI using a second set of processing resources. The first and second sets of processing resources may be associated with first and second hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) soft buffers, first and second CCs, or first and second transmit/receive points (TRPs).

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether a slot timing difference, between a first cell and a second cell for a dual connectivity mode, satisfies a threshold value, where the first cell is a serving cell associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and the second cell is a serving cell or a candidate cell associated with a second RAT. The UE may perform an operation to prevent the dual connectivity mode with the second cell, establish the dual connectivity mode with the second cell, maintain the dual connectivity mode with the second cell, or terminate the dual connectivity mode with the second cell based at least in part on whether the slot timing difference satisfies the threshold value. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. Referring to the method, blind detection of a terminal device can be performed in different scheduling periods based on a maximum number of blind detection in a preset time period, thereby helping to reduce energy consumption that is caused to a terminal device by blind detection, and reduce blind detection complexity.

The present disclosure provides a method in a network device for configuration of Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, monitoring by a terminal device. The method includes: determining a PDCCH monitoring configuration indicating a PDCCH resource pool to be monitored by the terminal device at an aggregation level; and transmitting the PDCCH monitoring configuration to the terminal device.