The present disclosure relates to communication methods and apparatus, which are particularly applied to a non-terrestrial network. In one example method, a terminal device determines a first duration, and determines a timing advance amount based on the first duration, where the timing advance amount is used for communication between the terminal device and a network device.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A serving base station or a serving satellite may transmit a timing configuration to the UE based on a reference unit, such as a location at a beam center for a respective satellite, a threshold distance relative to the beam center for the respective satellite, a reference time, or any combination thereof. In some cases, the UE may monitor for one or more SSBs from the neighboring satellites according to the timing configuration and a respective propagation delay between the UE and each of the neighboring satellites. The UE may measure the SSBs according to the measurement gap and measurement window in the timing configuration. In some examples, the UE may perform a cell handover procedure or a cell reselection procedure based on measuring the SSBs.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may obtain, via broadcast signaling or UE-specific signaling, an indication of an uplink communications configuration for one or more uplink wireless communications that span a set of one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs). The indication may be based on one or more types of the one or more uplink wireless communications. The UE may determine a duration of time for which an uplink pre-compensation is to be applied to the one or more uplink wireless communications. The duration of time may be based on one or more parameters of the uplink communications configuration. The UE may output the one or more uplink wireless communications within the duration of time with the uplink pre-compensation applied.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for bandwidth allocation using machine learning. In some implementations, a request for bandwidth in a communications system is received. Data indicative of a measure of bandwidth requested and a status of the communication system are provided as input to a machine learning model. One or more outputs from the machine learning model indicate an amount of bandwidth to allocate to the terminal, and bandwidth is allocated to the terminal based on the one or more outputs from the machine learning model.

A communications system, e.g. an Internet-of-Things (IoT) communications system, includes satellite gateways in addition to terrestrial gateways. High QoS end point devices utilize communications via satellite gateway to be able to communicate with a network server when communications with the network server via terrestrial gateways are unavailable or unreliable. Low QoS end point devices may communicate with the network server via terrestrial gateways but are restricted from using the satellite gateways. An additional receive window, corresponding to the satellite gateway, is used for communicating downlink signals from the satellite gateway to the high QoS end point device.

Aspects of wireless communication are described, including a radiofrequency (RF) amplifier chip, configured for transmitting or receiving data, comprising a first substrate comprising a first material and a second substrate comprising a second material that is different from the first material. The first substrate and the second substrate may be lattice-matched such that an interface region between the first substrate and the second substrate exhibits an sp3 carbon peak at about 1332 cm.Math..sup.1 having a full width half maximum of no more than 5.0 cm.Math..sup.1 as measured by Raman spectroscopy. In some aspects, the first substrate and said second substrate permit said chip to transmit or receive data at a transfer rate of at least 500 megabits per second and a frequency of at least 8 GHz. In some aspects, the RF amplifier chip is part of a satellite transmitter.

A data transmission method and a communications device, the method including: determining, by a first communications device, a target data transmission mode, where the target data transmission mode is used to indicate a quantity of times that the first communications device transmits an encoded-bit combination to a second communications device and an encoded-bit combination transmitted each time, the encoded-bit combination transmitted each time may include one encoded bit sequence or a plurality of encoded bit sequences, where the encoded bit sequence is obtained by encoding all or some of K information bits, and K is a positive integer, and sending, by the first communications device, the encoded-bit combination to the second communications device in the target data transmission mode, and receiving, by the second communications device, the encoded-bit combination sent by the first communications device, and decoding the encoded bit sequence included in the encoded-bit combination.

An appropriate MAC Control Element (CE) operation start timing control process is realized in an NTN system. A terminal 100 comprises: a wireless reception unit 106 that receives a MAC CE and an offset value (K.sub.MAC_ACTION, etc.).sub.; and a control unit 110 that, on the basis of the offset value, sets a slot for starting an operation based on a MAC CE control command.

Various solutions for beam utilization management in in non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications are described. An apparatus (e.g., a UE) obtains a duty cycle configuration with respect to a duty cycle of one or more beams of a set of beams of a cell in NTN communications. The apparatus then performs a task according to the duty cycle configuration.

Timing advance (TA) reporting may be used in wireless communications. TA reporting information may be provided by a wireless device to align timing between the wireless device and a base station, such as in a non-terrestrial network. TA reporting information may be sent via a scheduling report (SR) procedure, a buffer status report (BSR) procedure, and/or a random access (RA) procedure. To avoid unnecessary transmissions of TA reporting information, TA reporting may be canceled based on one or more of a receipt of a timing offset and/or an expiration of a timer.