The present invention relates to a method for configuring a retransmission protocol on the uplink between a network node and a relay node in a mobile communication system, the configuration being performed at a network node or at a relay node, and to the corresponding relay node apparatus and network node apparatus capable of configuring the retransmission protocol. In particular, the number of transmission processes is determined based on the position of time intervals available for the transmission and may be selected in order to control the round trip time of the retransmission protocol. Once the number of transmission processes has been configured, the transmission processes are mapped on the available time intervals in a predefined order and repetitively.

The present invention relates to a method for configuring a retransmission protocol on the uplink between a network node and a relay node in a mobile communication system, the configuration being performed at a network node or at a relay node, and to the corresponding relay node apparatus and network node apparatus capable of configuring the retransmission protocol. In particular, the number of transmission processes is determined based on the position of time intervals available for the transmission and may be selected in order to control the round trip time of the retransmission protocol. Once the number of transmission processes has been configured, the transmission processes are mapped on the available time intervals in a predefined order and repetitively.

Aspects described herein relate to determining a congestion level related to communicating with one or more devices in a wireless network, determining, based on the congestion level, a retransmission scheme for transmitting and/or retransmitting communications in the wireless network, and transmitting or retransmitting a communication in the wireless network based on the retransmission scheme.

Embodiments include methods, performed by a user equipment (UE), for hybrid ARQ (HARQ) feedback in relation to multicast transmissions from a network node in a radio access network (RAN). Such methods include receiving, from the network node, first downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a first multicast transmission associated with the UE and determining a HARQ feedback mode for the first multicast transmission. Such methods also include, based on the first DCI, attempting to decode the first multicast transmission; and selectively transmitting HARQ feedback related to the first multicast transmission to the network node based on the determined HARQ feedback mode and on whether the attempt to decode is successful or unsuccessful. Embodiments also include complementary methods for a network node, as well as UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.

A HARQ-ACK feedback mode determining method, a HARQ-ACK feedback mode configuration method, and a device are disclosed. The method includes: determining, according to a service type corresponding to a PDSCH, a HARQ-ACK feedback mode corresponding to the PDSCH; determining, according to a radio network temporary identifier RNTI of a PDSCH, a HARQ-ACK feedback mode corresponding to the PDSCH; or determining, according to downlink control information DO for scheduling a PDSCH, a HARQ-ACK feedback mode corresponding to the PDSCH.

The present disclosure relates to a 5G communication system or a 6G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Disclosed is a method by a base station for use in a non-terrestrial network (NTN) comprising: transmitting one of a predetermined number of re-transmissions including a packet in a blind re-transmission mode to an user equipment (UE); receiving a channel quality indicator (CQI) message after the transmission; in response to a particular configuration of the received CQI message, terminating transmission of any remaining of the predetermined number of re-transmissions.

Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e.sup.−j(π/2)”, so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).

Provided is a radio communication device which can make Acknowledgement (ACK) reception quality and Negative Acknowledgement (NACK) reception quality to be equal to each other. The device includes: a scrambling unit (214) which multiplies a response signal after modulated, by a scrambling code “1” or “e.sup.−j(π/2)”, so as to rotate a constellation for each of response signals on a cyclic shift axis; a spread unit (215) which performs a primary spread of the response signal by using a Zero Auto Correlation (ZAC) sequence set by a control unit (209); and a spread unit (218) which performs a secondary spread of the response signal after subjected to the primary spread, by using a block-wise spread code sequence set by the control unit (209).

Provided are a configuration method and apparatus, a receiving method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The configuration method includes: determining a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) set based on a higher-layer configuration parameter; and configuring an MCS of data based on the MCS set; where the higher-layer configuration parameter indicates whether data transmission supports a 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) modulation scheme, and the MCS set includes one or more of: a first MCS set and a second MCS set.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for combined blind and feedback based retransmissions. One method (500) includes determining (502), for a first logical channel, a number of blind retransmissions to perform in a blind retransmission mode. The method (500) includes performing (504), by the first logical channel, the number of blind retransmissions in the blind retransmission mode. The method (500) includes, in response to performing the number of blind retransmission in the blind retransmission mode, switching (506), for the first logical channel, from the blind retransmission mode to a feedback based retransmission mode. The method (500) includes performing (508), by the first logical channel, one or more feedback based retransmissions in the feedback based retransmission mode.