Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit acknowledgment feedback for a combined signal derived from individual downlink signals received on respective radio links, where the acknowledgment feedback is transmitted with a phase shift applied to the transmission. In some cases, the phase shift may indicate which individual downlink signals were unsuccessfully received and decoded on the respective radio links. For example, the acknowledgment feedback message may include acknowledgment feedback for a final decoding of the combined signal on whether the combined signal is successfully received and decoded and side negative acknowledgment information indicating which individual radio links were unsuccessfully received and decoded via the phase shift. The UE may transmit the acknowledgment feedback on a strongest radio link, a subset of the radio links, or on all of the radio links.

Disclosed is a method for processing code blocks as implemented by a baseband processor. The method involves performing a cyclic redundancy check on decoded and deinterleaved code blocks until one fails its CRC check. On first failure the baseband processor requests a retransmission of the code blocks and resumes CRC checks on the retransmitted code blocks, beginning at the code block that had failed. In the event of subsequent failures, the baseband processor performs a soft combine on the failed retransmitted block with its original transmitted counterpart. Only if the soft combined code block fails does the baseband processor request another retransmission. In this case, subsequent CRC failures result in soft combines of three corresponding code words, making the process more robust. The method reduces the number of retransmissions as well as the computing resources needed for processing incoming code blocks.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a base station (BS), multicast broadcast service (MBS) configuration information including information about at least one hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process for an MBS, receiving, from the BS, MBS data based on the MBS configuration information, and processing the MBS data based on an HARQ process corresponding to the MBS data among the at least one HARQ process for the MBS.

A method and a user equipment for performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback operation are provided. The method includes: receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a first configuration indicating whether HARQ feedback for a HARQ process is enabled or disabled; receiving, from the BS, Downlink Control Information (DCI) on a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), the DCI indicating (i) activation or deactivation of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) and (ii) a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) reception for the HARQ process; and determining, based on a second configuration, and regardless of the HARQ feedback for the HARQ process is enabled or disabled, whether to transmit the HARQ feedback to the BS in response to the PDSCH reception in a case that the second configuration is received from the BS and the DCI indicates the activation of the SPS.

The disclosure relates to a fifth generation (5G) or sixth generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a terminal for processing multicast and broadcast service (MBS) data in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, first downlink control information (DCI) including first resource allocation information based on a first radio network temporary identity (RNTI), receiving, from the base station, second DCI including second resource allocation information based on a second RNTI and in case that a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifier of the first DCI and a HARQ process identifier of the second DCI are identical, determining whether a new data indicator (NDI) of the second DCI is toggled, based on the first RNTI and the second RNTI, wherein, in case that the first RNTI corresponds to a group-radio network temporary identify (G-RNTI) and the second RNTI corresponds to a cell-radio network temporary identify (C-RNTI), whether the NDI of the second DCI is toggled is determined based on an NDI value of the first DCI and an NDI value of the second DCI.

An electronic device receives a first data unit including a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) unit and transmits a second data unit including first HARQ-related information indicating that the first HARQ unit fails to be decoded. The electronic device receives a third data unit including a preamble. The preamble includes a first STF, a first LTF, a signal field, a second STF, and a second LTF, and the third data unit includes second HARQ-related information indicating whether the third data unit includes retransmitted data. The electronic device obtains a second HARQ unit based on determination that the second HARQ-related information indicates that the third data unit includes retransmitted data and decodes the second HARQ unit with the first HARQ unit.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may attempt to connect to a base station using a random access procedure. During the random access procedure, the base station may transmit control information associated with a random access response (RAR) during a RAR window. The UE may attempt to receive a single instance of the control information and, in some cases, may be unable to receive and decode the single instance of the control information. The base station may configure one or more RAR windows (or segment(s) thereof) to support transmitting repeating instances of the control information and/or RAR. The UE may identify a quantity of instances of the repeated control information and combine the instances. The UE may successfully decode the combined instances of control information and identify a location for receiving the RAR.

An apparatus and method for a base station (BS) in a cellular network for uplink (UL) Joint Reception of Coordinated Multi Point (JR-CoMP) operations, wherein the User Equipment (UE) sends to the serving and coordinating Radio Units (RUs) a first data block, wherein because of different channel qualities, first data block arriving as second data block at serving RU and as third data block at coordinating RU, respectively. The Baseband Unit (BBU) associated with these RUs using two nested HARQ processes: First, a ‘fake’ HARQ process to combine the separately channel processed second data block with the third data block; then, a real HARQ process to combine the fake HARQ-combined data block with the retransmitted first data block. Fake HARQ uses Chase Combining while real HARQ uses Incremental-Redundancy Combining.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may attempt to connect to a base station using a random access procedure. During the random access procedure, the base station may transmit control information associated with a random access response (RAR) during a RAR window. The UE may attempt to receive a single instance of the control information and, in some cases, may be unable to receive and decode the single instance of the control information. The base station may configure one or more RAR windows (or segment(s) thereof) to support transmitting repeating instances of the control information and/or RAR. The UE may identify a quantity of instances of the repeated control information and combine the instances. The UE may successfully decode the combined instances of control information and identify a location for receiving the RAR.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting sidelink control information indicating no sidelink data. One method includes determining, at a user equipment, that there is no sidelink data available for a destination. The method includes transmitting sidelink control information to the destination that indicates that there is no sidelink data available for the destination and triggers a feedback response from the destination. The method includes receiving the feedback response from the destination.