Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive configuration information identifying a plurality of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates that are to be monitored for downlink control information (DCI). The plurality of PDCCH candidates may include a PDCCH candidate having a first aggregation level and a set of linked PDCCH candidates, for repetitions of DCI, having a second aggregation level. The PDCCH candidate may overlap with one PDCCH candidate of the set of linked PDCCH candidates. The UE may communicate according to one or more rules for the PDCCH candidate overlapping with the one PDCCH candidate of the set of linked PDCCH candidates. Numerous other aspects are described.

PBCH design may affect timing indication in a wireless network and polar code interleaver design, among other things. Mechanisms may indicate half frame timing though de modulation reference signal sequence initialization, de-modulation reference signal mapping order, or de-modulation reference signal resource element location.

A channel encoding method in a communication or broadcasting system is provided. The channel encoding method includes reading a first sequence corresponding to a parity check matrix, converting the first sequence to a second sequence by applying a certain rule to a block size corresponding to a parity check matrix and the first sequence, and encoding information bits based on the second sequence. The block size has at least two different integer values.

A decoding method and apparatus, a network device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving data before de-interleaving and soft bit encoding locations; dividing the data before de-interleaving to obtain first data banks; acquiring punctured data, and obtaining second data banks according to the punctured data, wherein the data before de-interleaving and the punctured data are determined in encoded data according to the soft bit encoding locations; and performing decoding according to the soft bit encoding locations, the first data banks and the second data banks, so as to obtain decoded data.

In an 802.11be wireless system, data units are generated for transmission by configuring a transmitting device to process encoding parameters, including a first encoding parameter N.sub.SD and a second encoding parameter N.sub.SD,short, to select a padding boundary from pre-defined padding boundaries in the last symbol that will most closely include the number of information bits N.sub.EXCESS in the last symbol and to append padding bits to the number of information bits N.sub.EXCESS to fill up to the selected padding boundary in the last symbol, thereby generating pre-encoded data bits which are encoded for data transmission, where at least the first encoding parameter N.sub.SD is specified for an aggregated resource unit size that is allowed under the 802.11be protocol as a sum of N.sub.SD values for at two other resource units.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may perform rate matching of coded bits of each transport block, of a plurality of transport blocks, on a per-channel basis among a plurality of channels in a wideband channel of an unlicensed spectrum. The rate matching is performed on the per-channel basis in a first set of slots and such that coded bits of each transport block are mapped to a respective one of the plurality of channels. The wireless communication device may receive, after a transmission of the plurality of transport blocks on the plurality of channels, per-channel acknowledgment information. The wireless communication device may selectively adjust a plurality of contention windows, each associated with a listen before talk procedure to be performed on a respective one of the plurality of channels. Numerous other aspects are provided.

A method for facilitating Physical Downlink Shared Channel, PDSCH, rate matching is presented. The method is performed in a network node (2) and comprises sending (102) to a wireless device (1) an indication whether a group of all available resources of an aperiodic Channel State Information Reference Signal, CSI-RS, resource pool is used in a given subframe, wherein the sending (102) comprises transmitting, to a wireless device in transmission mode 9, a Downlink Control Information, DCI, format 2C message, in values of two additional bits representing a determined use of CSI-RS resources.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to rate-matching a stream of bits encoded using polar codes. An exemplary method generally includes determining a mother code size (N) for transmitting an encoded stream of bits based, at least in part, on a minimum supported code rate for transmitting the encoded stream of bits (Rmin), a control information size of the encoded stream of bits (K), a number of coded bits for transmission (E), and a maximum mother code size (Nmax), encoding a stream of bits using a polar code of size (N, K) and storing the encoded stream of bits in a circular buffer, and performing rate-matching on the stored encoded stream of bits based, at least in part, on a comparison among the mother code size (N), the control information size of the encoded stream of bits (K), and the number of coded bits for transmission (E).

Provided is a coding control method in a passive optical network (PON). The method includes acquiring data of a service to be coded and a preset codeword length N corresponding to the service to be coded; acquiring a coding mode corresponding to the preset codeword length N in a preset table describing a correspondence between codeword length ranges and coding modes; and coding data of the service by using the coding mode corresponding to the preset codeword length N. Further provided are a coding control apparatus in a PON, a communication device and a storage medium.

The disclosed subject matter is directed towards semi-static or dynamic shifting of New Radio demodulation reference signals to avoid collisions with LTE cell specific reference signals (LTE CRS) in a physical downlink shared channel symbol (PDSCH). In dynamic spread spectrum (DSS) deployments, where NR PDSCH mapping type B is used, e.g., to allow for two NR physical downlink control channel symbols, when the NR PDSCH starts on a symbol carrying LTE CRS, the NR DMRS of the NR PDSCH is shifted to the first symbol of the NR PDSCH not carrying LTE CRS. Whether mapping type A or mapping type B, shifting the symbol containing NR DMRS facilitates the use of two DMRS symbols without colliding with LTE CRS.