Methods described herein are for wireless communication systems. One aspect of the invention is directed to a method for a HARQ process, in which the HARQ process includes a first transmission of an encoder packet and at least one retransmission. The method involves allocating a transmission resource for each respective transmission. The method involves transmitting control information from a base station to a mobile station for each respective transmission. The control information includes information to uniquely identify the HARQ process and an identification of one of a time resource, a frequency resource and a time and frequency resource that is allocated for the transmission. In some embodiments of the invention, specific control information is signalled from a base station to a mobile station to enable RAS-HARQ operation. In some embodiments of the invention, retransmission signaling in included as part of regular unicast signaling used for both first transmission and retransmissions. In some embodiments of the invention, a 3-state acknowledgement channel and associated error recovery operation enables the base station and mobile station to recover from control signaling error and reduce packet loss.

Methods and systems are provided for signaling for semi-static configuration in grant free uplink transmissions. Radio resource control (RRC) signaling is used to provide information from a base station to a user equipment (UE) that configure the grant free transmission resource to be used by the UE. In some implementations, the RRC signaling may be used in conjunction with system information that is transmitted to all UEs and/or Downlink Control Information (DCI) that the UE needs to access subsequent to the RRC signaling. In some implementations, the DCI includes an activation or deactivation indicator that the UE monitors to determine when the UE is allowed to transmit to the BS or should stop transmitting. Implementations allow for grant free transmission resources to be configured on an individual user based and a group basis.

A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a network node. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a resource request to allocate SPS resource from a UE, wherein the resource request indicates a first logical channel. The method also allocating the UE with a first SPS resource and a second SPS resource for the first logical channel and a second logical channel associated with the first logical channel based on the resource request.

A sidelink data transmission method for ultra-low latency and high reliability communication in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are provided. A method for transmitting sidelink configuration information by a base station according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes transmitting first sidelink configuration information to a transmitting UE and a receiving UE, transmitting second sidelink configuration information to the transmitting UE and the receiving UE, receiving a result of repeated transmission of sidelink data from the transmitting UE or the receiving UE, determining at least one of whether the sidelink data is retransmitted or the number of repeated transmissions for next sidelink data to be transmitted, and transmitting downlink control information to the transmitting UE and the receiving UE.

Some demonstrative embodiments may include an apparatus including a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) buffer configured to buffer compressed Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) values corresponding to an unsuccessfully-decoded transmission of a data block, a bit size of the HARQ buffer is equal to or less than 2.5 times a supported HARQ receive (Rx) size, which is to be reported to a transmitter of the data block; and a decoder configured to decode a retransmission of the data block according to the HARQ scheme based on combined LLR values, which are based on the compressed LLR values and on LLR values corresponding the retransmission of the data block, wherein a HARQ gain of decoding the retransmission of the data block based on the combined LLR values is at least 2 Decibel (dB) for an Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A downlink message associated with a feedback process identifier may be received at a first time. An uplink feedback message for the downlink message may be scheduled for a third time. Another downlink message associated with the feedback process identifier may be received after the first time and before the third time. Additionally or alternatively, an uplink grant associated with a feedback process identifier may be received at a first time. An uplink message may be scheduled by the uplink grant for a third time. Another uplink grant associated with the feedback process identifier may be received after the first time and before the third time, and another uplink message may be scheduled by the other uplink grant for a fourth time after the third time.

Methods and apparatuses for retransmitting uplink control information. An apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives uplink control information (UCI) from a remote unit, wherein the UCI includes hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback corresponding to a plurality of downlink transmissions; a processor that decodes the UCI; and a transmitter that, in response to the UCI not being correctly decoded, transmits downlink control information (DCI) including a first signaling to the remote unit, wherein the first signaling includes an indicator indicating that the UCI is not correctly decoded and an identification corresponding to the UCI.

A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a network node. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a resource request to allocate SPS resource from a UE, wherein the resource request indicates a first logical channel. The method also allocating the UE with a first SPS resource and a second SPS resource for the first logical channel and a second logical channel associated with the first logical channel based on the resource request.

An HARQ process management method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium are provided. The HARQ process management method includes: receiving SCI; determining whether the SCI indicates a HARQ process identity to obtain a first determination result and determining a HARQ process associated with the SCI based on the first determination result.

The invention relates to an improved transmission protocol for uplink data packet transmission in a communication system. A receiver of a user equipment receives a Fast Retransmission Indicator, referred to as FRI. The FRI indicates whether or not a base station requests a retransmission of a previously transmitted data packet. A transmitter of the user equipment retransmits the data packet using the same redundancy version as already used for the previous transmission of the data packet.