In satellite communication systems, the cost of a terminal often corresponds to a maximum data rate that the terminal is required to transmit towards a satellite. The higher the data rate, the higher the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) the terminal may be required to radiate. The EIRP of the terminal is directly proportionate to the transmission power and to the effective area of the antenna. Using coherent transmission combining may facilitate a similar EIRP while reducing the cost of the terminal through using smaller antennas and lower radiated power. Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer readable media are described herein for facilitating coherent combining of transmissions.

A remote user equipment (UE) device receives a sidelink (SL) discovery message from each of a plurality of candidate relay UE devices where each SL discovery message is transmitted using a discovery resource of a discovery resource pool of a plurality of discovery resource pools. Each discovery resource pool is allocated to a range of Reference Signals Received Power (RSRP) levels. Each relay UE device measures an RSRP level of a link to a destination and transmits the SL discovery message using a discovery resource from the discovery pool associated with the RSRP range containing the measured RSRP level. The remote UE device selects (or reselects) a relay UE device from the candidates based, at least partially, on the RSRP ranges of the links from the candidate relay devices to the destination.

A position of a first entity of a wireless communication network is determined on the basis of one or more measurements between the first entity and a second entity. For one of the measurements, a reference signal is transmitted between the first and the second entities. The first and the second entities use respective antenna patterns for transmitting or receiving the reference signal. The position of the first entity is determined using antenna pattern information about the antenna pattern used by the first entity and/or antenna pattern information about the antenna pattern used by the second entity.

A user equipment arranged to operate sidelink communication. The user equipment includes a transceiver that is configured to receive a first signal from a first synchronization source. The user equipment further includes a processor which is configured to obtain a set of sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS), identifiers (IDs). The processor is further configured to operate power control of transmission of a synchronization signal based on the first signal and the set of SLSS IDs. The user equipment manifests a reduced power consumption, an improved energy efficiency as well as an efficient synchronization coverage expansion, in and out of network coverage of a base station.

The present application relates to an aerial user equipment in a UAV swarm and a method for transmission of measurement report. The method includes: receiving a configuration of measurement from a base station; determining whether to transmit a measurement report to the base station or to another aerial user equipment according to the configuration; and transmitting the measurement report to the base station or to the another aerial user equipment according to a result of determining whether to transmit the measurement report to the base station or to the another aerial user equipment.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE), such as a dual-subscription UE, support a first subscription and a second subscription. The first subscription may be in an active mode with a first cell and the second subscription may be in an idle mode with a second cell, and the UE may determine whether to exit or postpone entrance into a merged state in which the UE may perform idle mode measurements for the second subscription using the first subscription and the first cell based on a channel quality-based merge condition. For example, the UE may measure a channel quality associated with a communication link between the UE and the first cell and, in examples in which the measured channel quality fails to satisfy a threshold channel quality, the UE may exit or postpone entrance into the merged state.

An example electronic device for controlling a base station antenna in a wireless communication system includes a communication unit; and at least one control unit electrically connected to the communication unit. The at least one control unit may be configured so as to acquire location information of another electronic device, determine a threshold value based on the location information, determine a radiation angle corresponding to the threshold value, transmit a steering instruction to a base station so as to control an antenna based on the radiation angle, and determine whether the steering of the antenna based on the radiation angle has been carried out or not.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify that one or more thresholds are satisfied. The UE may estimate, based at least in part on the one or more thresholds being satisfied, for each beam at one or more beam levels on one or more antenna panels, an application layer throughput, wherein the one or more beam levels are each associated with a number of antenna elements. The UE may generate a set of candidate beams that includes one or more beams for which the respective estimated application layer throughput satisfies an application layer throughput requirement. The UE may select a serving beam for which the estimated application layer throughput satisfies the application layer throughput requirement with a fewest number of antenna elements. Numerous other aspects are described.

A communication method performed by a network device includes: determining a bias of a communication parameter and a threshold of the communication parameter; and sending the bias of the communication parameter and the threshold of the communication parameter. A communication method performed by a terminal includes: acquiring a bias of a communication parameter and a threshold of the communication parameter; and conducting communication based on a measurement value of the communication parameter, the bias of the communication parameter, and the threshold of the communication parameter. A communication apparatus is also provided.

The present disclosure provides a method for determining a target cell, a terminal device and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The method is performed by the terminal device, and includes: measuring at least one neighboring cell, in response to a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of a serving cell being less than a first threshold value; and determining a target cell based on a result of measuring the at least one neighboring cell.