One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for operating an electronic device. The technique includes an electronic device determining one or more signal characteristics of a link between the electronic device and a base station, estimating a coupling loss for the link based on the one or more signal characteristics, determining whether the coupling loss exceeds a maximum coupling loss (MCL) for the link; and in response to determining that the coupling loss exceeds the MCL, delaying transmission of one or more messages from the electronic device over the link to the base station.

A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE receives a configuration, of a logical channel, associated with 2-step Random Access (RA) procedure. The UE triggers a Regular Buffer Status Report (BSR) for the logical channel. The UE determines whether to initiate a first 2-step RA procedure or to initiate a first 4-step RA procedure based on the configuration of the logical channel.

A wireless device transmits a first scheduling request (SR) in response to initiating a beam failure recovery procedure. A second SR for a buffer status reporting procedure is transmitted. A downlink control information comprising an uplink grant is received via a downlink control channel while the first SR and the second SR are pending. Based on the reception of the downlink control information: the second SR for the buffer status reporting procedure is cancelled, and the first SR for the beam failure recovery procedure is kept pending.

A wireless device transmits a first scheduling request (SR) in response to initiating a beam failure recovery procedure. A second SR for a buffer status reporting procedure is transmitted. A downlink control information comprising an uplink grant is received via a downlink control channel while the first SR and the second SR are pending. Based on the reception of the downlink control information: the second SR for the buffer status reporting procedure is cancelled, and the first SR for the beam failure recovery procedure is kept pending.

Disclosed herein are a method and a device for transmitting an uplink channel in a wireless communication system. According to the present disclosure, a UE transmits to a base station information associated with uplink transmission supported by the UE and the UE information includes a subset including at least one transmit precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) supported by the UE. The UE may receive from the base station uplink transmission information including a TPMI for transmitting an uplink channel and transmit to the base station the uplink channel based on the uplink transmission information, and the uplink channel may be transmitted through full transmission power configured by the base station based on a case where the TPMI is included in the subset.

A first terminal according to an embodiment of the disclosure may obtain information regarding reception power of a reference signal transmitted to a second terminal, obtain information regarding reception power of a source signal transmitted to the second terminal, obtain information regarding reception power of a first combined signal that is transmitted to the second terminal and is a combination of the reference signal and the source signal, obtain information regarding reception power of a second combined signal that is transmitted to the second terminal and is a combination of a modified source signal obtained by shifting a phase of the source signal and the reference signal, and determine a transmission beam of the first terminal, based on the information regarding the reception power of each of the reference signal, the source signal, the first combined signal and the second combined signal.

Described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for providing an optimal voice experience over varying radio frequency (RF) conditions while using EVS audio codecs. A user equipment (UE) may adaptively transition between using a music-capable EVS codec (e.g., EVS-FB) as a default audio codec that provides a first audio bandwidth and a different EVS audio codec that provides a second audio bandwidth that is less than the first audio bandwidth. The transition to the different EVS audio codec may occur in response to determining a value indicative of a RF condition associated with a serving base station is less than a threshold value, which allows for providing preserving at least a minimal level of voice quality in degraded RF conditions.

Described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for providing an optimal voice experience over varying radio frequency (RF) conditions while using EVS audio codecs. A user equipment (UE) may adaptively transition between using a music-capable EVS codec (e.g., EVS-FB) as a default audio codec that provides a first audio bandwidth and a different EVS audio codec that provides a second audio bandwidth that is less than the first audio bandwidth. The transition to the different EVS audio codec may occur in response to determining a value indicative of a RF condition associated with a serving base station is less than a threshold value, which allows for providing preserving at least a minimal level of voice quality in degraded RF conditions.

A device comprising at least one hardware processor obtains a bandwidth for a communication from a station in a wireless network and a signal strength for the communication from the station, and determines that the communication is a communication related to network maintenance in case the bandwidth is below a first value and an expected bandwidth based on the signal strength is above a second value, and that the communication is a data communication in case the bandwidth is below the first value and the signal strength is below the second value, in case the communication is a data communication, the at least one hardware processor can determine that the station is active.

A device comprising at least one hardware processor obtains a bandwidth for a communication from a station in a wireless network and a signal strength for the communication from the station, and determines that the communication is a communication related to network maintenance in case the bandwidth is below a first value and an expected bandwidth based on the signal strength is above a second value, and that the communication is a data communication in case the bandwidth is below the first value and the signal strength is below the second value, in case the communication is a data communication, the at least one hardware processor can determine that the station is active.