A donor communication station transmits a unicast transmission comprising a plurality of device data sets where each device data set directed to each of a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices. A relay node receives the unicast transmission and retransmits the data sets in a broadcast transmission over a broadcast communication channel to the plurality of UE devices. In one example, the donor communication station encodes data for multiple user equipment (UE) devices by applying broadcast encoding to the data for each device before applying outer encoding to the data. The dual encoded data is transmitted to the relay node over a dedicated channel. The relay node applies outer decoding to the dual encoded data to retrieve the broadcast encoded data. The relay node then transmits the broadcast encoded device data in a broadcast transmission without outer encoding.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may use low latency communications to improve the throughput of a wireless link. To facilitate efficient low latency communication, the UE may send UE-initiated CSI reports in addition to periodic and base station-initiated reports. For example, the UE may, in various examples, send UE-initiated CSI reports using contention based spectrum, using a request-to-transmit, or using a CSI differential (i.e., an indicator of a change in channel conditions). The base station may schedule different UEs for uplink low latency communication by providing resources to each UE for CSI and scheduling requests (SRs) using coherent or non-coherent uplink transmissions. The CSI and SR may also be combined with uplink feedback.

The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining a 5G communication system with an IoT technology to support a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system, and a system thereof. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, services related to smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety, etc.) based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. In an embodiment of the disclosure, a method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message including information on an identifier to indicate a secondary cell (Scell), information on at least one bandwidth part (BWP) of the Scell, and information including first information on a first BWP to be used as dormant BWP among the at least one BWP and second information on a second BWP to be activated as non-dormant BWP from dormant BWP; receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) including a bitmap associated with a BWP activation of the Scell; and activating a BWP identified based on the identifier, the bitmap, and at least one of the first information or the second information. According to the disclosure, via a method by which a new dormant (or hibernation) mode may be operated in units of bandwidth parts (bandwidth part-level), a carrier aggregation technology can be rapidly activated, and a battery of a terminal can be saved.

The present disclosure describes method, systems, and devices for transmitting feedback information by a communication node. The method includes sending a hybrid automated repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) in response to a preset rule being satisfied.

Terminal device comprising; MAC layer control circuitry configured to manage a first timer for a HARQ process and a second timer for the HARQ process which starts with expiry of the first timer, and reception circuitry configured to receive a first PDCCH indicating a first transmission of a HARQ-ACK feedback for a transport block for the HARQ process and a second PDCCH indicating a second transmission of a second HARQ-ACK feedback for the transport block for the HARQ process where the second transmission occurs later than the first transmission, wherein, the MAC layer control circuitry configured to start the first timer for the HARQ process at a timing of the first transmission, the MAC layer control circuitry configured to start or restart the first timer for the HARQ process at a timing of the second transmission.

A wireless device receives message(s) comprising parameters of cells grouped into: a primary control channel group comprising a primary cell with a primary control channel, and a secondary control channel group comprising a control channel secondary cell with a secondary control channel. Parameters comprise RRC dedicated parameters. A secondary cell other than the control channel secondary cell is mapped to the secondary control channel group if a first control channel parameter is present in the RRC dedicated parameters of the secondary cell when the secondary cell is added to the cells. Otherwise the secondary cell is mapped to the primary control channel group. A secondary cell is considered to be the control channel secondary cell if second control channel parameters are present in the RRC dedicated parameters. First channel state information is transmitted via the secondary control channel. Second channel state information is transmitted via the primary control channel.

A wireless device receives a first downlink control information (DCI) comprising a first hybrid automatic request (HARQ) process identifier and a first new data indicator (NDI). A second DCI is received with the first HARQ process identifier and a second NDI. The second NDI is considered as toggled regardless of a value of the second NDI in response to the first DCI indicating postponing a HARQ acknowledgement transmission for a HARQ process identified by the first HARQ process identifier. The wireless device flushes a HARQ buffer associated with the HARQ process based on the second NDI being toggled.

Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) deferral for PUCCH groups are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a downlink configuration of a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) group that configures a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback payload corresponding to a first semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) downlink packet for deferral and does not configure a second HARQ feedback payload corresponding to a second SPS downlink packet for deferral. The UE also may delay transmission of at least the first HARQ feedback payload based on different configurations for HARQ feedback deferral between the first SPS downlink packet and the second SPS downlink packet.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, downlink control information (DCI) that includes a request for a dropped hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebook, wherein the DCI indicates a codebook identifier (ID) associated with the dropped HARQ codebook. The UE may transmit, to the network node, the dropped HARQ codebook based at least in part on the codebook ID associated with the dropped HARQ codebook, as indicated in the DCI. Numerous other aspects are described.

A method of a terminal may comprise: receiving, from a base station, DCI including a first field indicating HARQ-ACK retransmission and a second field indicating a priority; identifying first HARQ-ACK information having a priority identical to the priority indicated by the second field; and transmitting, to the base station, a first HARQ-ACK codebook including the first HARQ-ACK information based on the indication of the first field.