In a message modulated according to orthogonal amplitude-modulated component signals in 5G or 6G, the receiver can attempt to recover a corrupted message by evaluating the modulation quality of each component signal in each message element. The modulation quality of each component signal may be determined according to a distance between the amplitude of the component signal and the closest amplitude level of the modulation scheme, as determined by a prior demodulation reference. The modulation quality may also be determined by the SNR and amplitude stability of the component signal. Upon detecting a corrupted message, the receiver can identify the faulted message elements according to modulation quality, and if the faulted message elements are clustered in a portion of the message (as is common), the receiver can request that just the faulted portion be retransmitted, saving time and bandwidth.

A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a network entity, a request for one shot hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for multiple HARQ processes. The method also includes transmitting, to the network entity, the one shot HARQ feedback in response to receiving the request. The method further includes starting or restarting a discontinuous reception (DRX) HARQ round trip time (RTT) timer for one of the multiple HARQ processes based at least on satisfying a condition, after transmitting the one shot HARQ feedback.

In one embodiment, a communication apparatus, including a network interface configured to receive over a network a sequence of data packets of a network flow having a defined packet order, wherein the network interface is configured to receive an out-of-order data packet instead of multiple missing data packets according to the defined packet order, a timer, and packet processing circuitry configured to activate the timer responsively to receiving the out-of-order data packet, and set the time period over which the tinier is activated responsively to a quantity of the multiple missing data packets.

A wireless device may receive a first TB associated with a first HARQ process number. The wireless device may determine to defer a first HARQ feedback, associated with the first TB, from a first timing to a second timing. The wireless device may receive, in a third timing, a second TB associated with the first HARQ process number. The wireless device may transmit the first HARQ feedback in the second timing or may drop the first HARQ feedback based on the second timing and the third timing.

In accordance with example embodiments as described herein there is at least an apparatus and method to perform determining that at least one packet data convergence protocol data unit of a packet data convergence protocol sublayer are duplicate packet data convergence protocol data units of the packet data convergence protocol sublayer having been submitted for transmission on two or more carriers in a communication network; signaling to a control sublayer an indication of each packet data convergence protocol data unit that is a duplicate packet data convergence protocol data unit; and based on the indication, preventing a trigger of a radio link failure when a number of retransmissions based on the duplicate packet data convergence protocol data units reaches a threshold number of retransmissions. Further, there is at least an apparatus and method to perform transmitting packet data convergence protocol data unit duplicates over two or more carriers; receiving an indication that indicates packet data convergence protocol data unit has been correctly transmitted via one of two or more carriers; and upon receiving the indication, instructing to discard other packet data convergence protocol duplicates over carriers other than the one of two or more carriers with a successful delivery.

A method and device for retransmitting data are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a first device, on a DRB, a first PDCP PDU transmitted by a second device; performing, by the first device, on a PDCP layer, an IP verification for the first PDCP PDU; transmitting, by the first device, a PDCP status report to the second device when the IP verification for the first PDCP PDU is failed and a trigger condition is met, where the triggering condition is used for triggering the first device to transmit the PDCP status report to the second device. Thus, it can be ensured that the first PDCP PDU transmitted by the second device is received on the DRB again by the first device when the IP verification for the first PDCP PDU is failed, thereby effectively solving the problem of data packet loss caused by a failure of IP verification.

In an example from the perspective of a first User Equipment (UE), in response to performing successful listen before talk (LBT), the first UE determines a channel occupancy time (COT). The first UE determines whether or not a second sidelink transmission, to be performed by a second UE, is within the COT. The first UE determines information, associated with LBT type and/or cyclic prefix (CP) extension, for inclusion in a first sidelink transmission in the COT, wherein whether the information includes first information associated with LBT type and/or CP extension or the information includes second information associated with LBT type and/or CP extension is based on the determination of whether or not the second sidelink transmission is within the COT. The UE transmits, to the second UE, the first sidelink transmission in the COT. The first sidelink transmission includes the information. The second sidelink transmission is associated with the first sidelink transmission.

A wireless communication device is described. The wireless communication device includes a memory and a processor in electronic communication with the memory. The processor is configured to determine a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) acket count corresponding to a last radio link control (RLC) packet received in-sequence. The processor is also configured to detect a missing PDCP packet based on a comparison of the PDCP packet count and a sequence number of a last PDCP packet received in-sequence.

A method and apparatus for bandwidth parts (BWPs) deactivation and discontinuous reception (DRX) for communication between wireless devices is provided. A first wireless device operating in a wireless communication system performs transmission of a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) to a second wireless device, and starts a discontinuous (DRX) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round trip time (RTT) timer for a HARQ process ID after end of a specific repetition of the transmission of the MAC PDU. The first wireless device starts a DRX retransmission timer based on 1) the DRX HARQ RTT timer being expired, and 2) a number of transmissions of the MAC PDU not reaching a maximum number of transmissions, and monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) carrying a sidelink retransmission grant during an active time including a time interval for which the DRX retransmission timer is running.

A communication apparatus concurrently transmits packets to the partner apparatus on a plurality of links, determines whether an acknowledgment for a transmitted packet has been received on each of the plurality of links, and if it is determined that an acknowledgment for a first packet transmitted on a first link among the plurality of links has not been received, generates a changed first packet having an increased packet length by reducing a data rate of the first packet, and generating a changed subsequent packet by increasing the packet length of a packet subsequent to a packet transmitted on each of one or more links other than the first link among the plurality of links, and concurrently transmits the changed first packet on the first link and the changed subsequent packet on each of the one or more links other than the first link