Patent classifications
H04L1/1657
ENERGY DETECTION INDICATOR
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for an energy detection indicator. In one embodiment, a method for a network node includes performing energy detection on assigned resources corresponding to a configured uplink grant for a wireless device, WD; and based on a level of the detected energy, one of: sending an energy 5detection indication corresponding to the assigned resources associated with the configured uplink grant; and demodulating and decoding a transport block associated with the configured uplink grant. In another embodiment, a method for a wireless device includes receiving an energy detection indication corresponding to assigned resources associated with a configured uplink grant; and determining whether to 10perform an uplink retransmission based at least in part on the received energy detection indication.
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST, NETWORK DEVICE AND TERMINAL
A method and a device for transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request, a network device and a terminal are provided. The transmitting method includes: receiving a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in an uplink grant-free transmission occasion; and transmitting an explicit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) according to a reception result of the PUSCH, wherein a content of the explicit hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) includes at least one of: an acknowledgement (ACK), a negative acknowledgement (NACK), or a discontinuous transmission (DTX).
Terminal device, infrastructure equipment and methods
A terminal device comprises a transmitter, a receiver and a controller. The transmitter is configured to transmit a first radio signal to infrastructure equipment of a wireless telecommunications system, the first radio signal being repeatedly transmitted a predetermined number of times during each of a plurality of consecutive time periods, each of the consecutive time periods being separated by a separation time period. The receiver is configured to receive, from the infrastructure equipment during one of the separation time periods, a second radio signal that comprises an indicator indicating that transmission of the first radio signal should continue or that transmission of the first radio signal should be terminated and the second radio signal having a measurable characteristic on the basis of which the terminal device reduces an offset of a reference radio frequency of the terminal device relative to a transmission radio frequency of the infrastructure equipment.
EARLY TERMINATION OF UPLINK COMMUNICATION REPETITIONS WITH MULTIPLE TRANSPORT BLOCKS
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which repetitions of communications may be configured for multi-transport block (TB) communications. A UE may determine that an acknowledgment of one or more initial repetitions of one or more TBs is received, and may cancel one or more subsequent repetitions of the acknowledged TB(s). The acknowledgment of the one or more initial repetitions may be provided by a base station in a new resource grant that provides an implicit acknowledgment of one or more TBs. In cases where multiple different TBs may be associated with the prior resource grant, the UE can determine to drop one or more repetitions after an implicit acknowledgment of a TB based on whether the resource grants are for a single TB or are for multiple TBs.
Methods and procedures for narrowband LTE operation
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for narrowband (NB) LTE operation. A WTRU may receive a first downlink data transmission, for example, via a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The WTRU may determine to send a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment (ACK) in response to receipt of the first downlink data transmission. The WTRU may transmit a first uplink reference signal. The WTRU may indicate the HARQ-ACK using a first cyclic shift index that is applied to the first uplink reference signal. The WTRU may determine to send a HARQ negative ACK (HARQ-NACK), for example, on a condition that a second downlink data transmission is not correctly received. The WTRU may send a second uplink reference signal. The WTRU may indicate the HARQ-NACK using a second cyclic shift that is applied to the second uplink reference signal.
Quasi co-location assumption during bandwidth part switching
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some wireless communications systems, a user equipment (UE) may be configured to transition to communicating on a first bandwidth part from communicating on a second bandwidth part. In order to ensure that the UE is able to perform receiver processing for demodulating data received on the first bandwidth part, after transitioning to communicating on the first bandwidth part, the UE may be configured to perform receiver processing using reference signals received on the second bandwidth part. That is, for a configured period of time, before the UE is able to perform receiver processing for demodulating data received on the first bandwidth part using reference signals received on the first bandwidth part, the UE may perform receiver processing for demodulating data received on the first bandwidth part using reference signals received on the second bandwidth part.
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPROVING PHASE MEASUREMENT ACCURACY
A method and device for increasing an accuracy of a phase measurement, wherein the method includes: receiving a measurement signal; performing a frequency-domain transformation to the measurement signal to obtain a frequency-domain measurement sequence; determining phases that correspond to frequency-domain measurement signals, and determining a phase difference between the frequency-domain measurement signals that correspond to two neighboring specified frequency points; according to the phases, the phase difference and a window function, performing a sliding-window-type phase fitting to the frequency-domain measurement sequence, to obtain phase-fitting data that correspond to sliding windows; and according to the phase-fitting data of the sliding windows, determining phase-calibration data that correspond to the sliding windows, and, by using the phase-calibration data of the sliding windows, forming phase-calibration data within a specified frequency band. The method reduces an error of fitting, and increases an accuracy of a phase calibration.
COMPONENT CARRIER ACTIVATION AND DEACTIVATION USING RESOURCE ASSIGNMENTS
A communication method includes transmitting resource assignment information including bits that indicate activation or deactivation statuses of respective downlink component carriers, which are secondary downlink component carriers added to a primary component carrier which is always activated, each of the downlink component carriers corresponding to one bit included in bits, and the one bit indicating that a corresponding downlink component carrier is to be activated or deactivated. When any one bit of the bits indicates that its corresponding downlink component carrier is to be activated, the bits jointly indicate the activation or deactivation statuses, a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission request and a channel quality information (CQI) reporting request. The method also includes receiving a SRS and a CQI that are transmitted, in response to the SRS transmission request and the CQI reporting request, on an uplink component carrier linked to an activated downlink component carrier(s).
Data synchronization in optical networks and devices
Optical transmitters and receivers for improving synchronization of data transmitted over an optical network are described. The receiver can perform non-linear filtering as part of framer index estimation operations to improve the synchronization. The receiver can determine estimated positions of framer indices in data frames received from the transmitter. Next, using a non-linear filter, the receiver can remove estimated positions that are likely erroneous or are greater than a threshold away from the median or mode estimated framer index position. By removing the likely erroneous estimated positions, the receiver can then determine the estimated position of a framer index position for multiple frames with greater confidence.
Instant uplink access without always on feedback
According to certain embodiments, a method is disclosed for use in a wireless device. The method comprises transmitting uplink data to a network node. The uplink data is transmitted according to a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration obtained from the network node. The uplink data is transmitted without transmitting padding when no data is available for transmission. The method further comprises retransmitting the uplink data to the network node until receiving an indication to transmit new uplink data. The indication is received from the network node via a control channel.