A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that monitors a control resource set (CORESET) associated with an active bandwidth part (BWP), and a control section that determines a CORESET to monitor in a period during switching the active BWP from a first BWP to a second BWP. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, reduction in communication throughput and the like can be suppressed even if control based on BWPs is performed.

A user equipment (UE) may transmit a first random access message to a base station in a first bandwidth part (BWP), switch from the first BWP to a second BWP, and start a timer following a time gap after transmission of the first random access message in the first BWP, the timer associated with a window of time for receiving a second random access message from the base station in the second BWP. The window of time may be a random access response (RAR) window or a contention resolution window that may extend until the expiration of the timer. The switch from the first BWP to the second BWP may be based on a subcarrier spacing (SCS) change from a first SCS to a second SCS.

A scheduled entity in a wireless communication network, configured to receive, and a scheduling entity configured to transmit, a physical random access channel (PRACH) indication indicating resources of: at least one reference slot, at least one joint random access channel (RACH) occasion (RO) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) occasion (PO) (joint RO and PO) slot within the at least one reference slot, and at least a first RO and at least a first PO within the at least one joint RO and PO slot, the at least the first RO and the at least the first PO corresponding to each other and corresponding to a first beam of a plurality of beams of the scheduling entity. According to some aspects, the joint RO and PO slot corresponds to a plurality of contiguous slots that collectively include a plurality of RO and PO combinations scheduled consecutively in time.

Reception or transmission of physical downlink control channels (PDCCH) associated with a master node (MN) or with a secondary node (SN) involve an indication for a first number of cells N.sub.cells,MCG.sup.cap and for a second number of cells N.sub.cells,SCG.sup.cap. A first total number of PDCCH candidates is determined on N.sub.cells,MCG.sup.DL,μ cells of the MN over a time period according to N.sub.cells,MCG.sup.cap and a second total number of PDCCH candidates is determined on N.sub.cells,SCG.sup.DL,μ cells of the SN over the time period according to N.sub.cells,SCG.sup.cap. μ is a subcarrier spacing (SCS) configuration for an active bandwidth part (BWP) on each of the N.sub.cells,MCG.sup.DL,μ cells or N.sub.cells,SCG.sup.DL,μ cells.

A method of efficient wideband operation for intra-band non-contiguous spectrum using extending bandwidth part (BWP) configuration is proposed. The BWP definition is extended to cluster BWPs to aggregate distributed spectrum blocks within a frequency range (e.g., 200 MHz) by single carrier operation and facilitate UE to filter out the transmission of unknown RAT between any two of the distributed spectrum blocks. In addition, the cluster BWP configuration enables dynamic aggregation of the number and location of the distributed spectrum blocks based on LBT results in unlicensed spectrum. Specifically, the BWP definition is extended to a group of one or multiple radio resource clusters, each of which contains a set of contiguous PRBs in frequency domain within the associated carrier.

A communication method and a system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, a smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for efficient transmission and reception of control information in a sidelink communication.

Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for indicating a time gap in case of a BWP switch are provided. A base station may transmit to a UE, and the UE may receive from the base station, an indication of a BWP switch from a first BWP to a second BWP. The UE and the base station may communicate with each other via a PDSCH or a PUSCH, in the second BWP based on a time gap. The time gap may be based on at least one of a first time parameter associated with the indication or a second time parameter associated with the BWP switch. The time gap may have a duration that is at least as long as a first duration of a BWP switch delay associated with switching from the first BWP to the second BWP.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may determine a minimum time gap for a set of uplink transmissions in a set of timing advance groups; and schedule a first uplink transmission, of the set of uplink transmissions, in a first timing advance group, of the set of timing advance groups, and a second uplink transmission, of the set of uplink transmissions, in a second timing advance group, of the set of timing advance groups, with at least the minimum time gap between the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for signalling transmissions using carriers of different numerologies. In one example, a baseband processor of a base station is configured to perform operations including encoding a first signal to be transmitted on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a first component carrier with a first subcarrier spacing. The first signal includes downlink control information (DCI) indicating resources for a second signal to be transmitted on a second component carrier with a second subcarrier spacing. The DCI is based on a predetermined numerology and respective numerologies of the first component carrier and the second component carrier are different from one another in accordance with the first subcarrier spacing and the second subcarrier spacing. The baseband processor is configured to cause transmission of the first signal on the PDCCH.

The present disclosure relates to a communication technique and system thereof that fuses a 5G communication system with IoT technology to support a higher data rate than a 4G system. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, health care, digital education, retail, a security and safety related service, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. According to the present invention, a method of a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: detecting a synchronization signal block at a synchronization signal block candidate position which is determined according to a subcarrier interval of the synchronization signal block; and performing synchronization on the basis of the synchronization signal block.