A method of operating multiple time alignment timers (TimeAlignmentTimer) is provided for facilitating communication between and evolved Node B (eNB) and a User Equipment (UE) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system supporting multiple carriers. The method includes starting a first TAT of a first group including the primary cell, starting a second TAT when Timing Advance (TA) information on a second group not including the primary cell is received; and determining transmission of at least one of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative-acknowledgement (HARQ ACK/NACK), a physical uplink control channel, and a sounding reference signal according to a start and an expiration of at least one of the first and second TATs.

Communication between a cellular network (102) and a communication device (101) occurs in a first frequency band (111) and a second frequency band (112), the second frequency band (112) being at least partly different from the first frequency band (111). A data packet is sent in the first frequency band (111). Depending on an acknowledgment of receipt of the data packet, the data packet is selectively sent in the second frequency band (112).

A method of operating multiple time alignment timers (TimeAlignmentTimer) is provided for facilitating communication between and evolved Node B (eNB) and a User Equipment (UE) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system supporting multiple carriers. The method includes starting a first TAT of a first group including the primary cell, starting a second TAT when Timing Advance (TA) information on a second group not including the primary cell is received; and determining transmission of at least one of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement/Negative-acknowledgement (HARQ ACK/NACK), a physical uplink control channel, and a sounding reference signal according to a start and an expiration of at least one of the first and second TATs.

Embodiments of this application provide a scheduling request processing method and a terminal device. The scheduling request processing method includes: determining that a regular buffer status report, BSR, associated with a first logical channel is triggered and has not been canceled; determining that there is no uplink resource available to transmit data of the first logical channel, and a first timer of a terminal device is not running; and triggering a scheduling request, SR, wherein the first timer is configured to delay transmission of the SR.

A method for handling DL and UL HARQ transmissions for a UE. The method includes performing a first HARQ transmission including information related to a single HARQ process to the UE with an associated new data indicator, NDI. Toggling of the NDI indicates at least a change of information of the single HARQ process over a previous HARQ transmission and the first HARQ transmission moreover starting a C-DRX inactivity timer, and determining that a HARQ NACK has been received for the transmitted information from the UE. The method includes detecting a measurement gap has started and awaiting an end of the measurement gap. If the C-DRX inactivity timer has not expired at a time where the measurement gap has ended, then performing a second HARQ transmission of the information, with associated NDI to the UE for the single HARQ process. The value of the NDI is toggled in relation to a value of the NDI of the first HARQ transmission.

Provided are a terminal and a network node and method thereof for performing communication in a non-terrestrial network. The method includes receiving system information including reference round trip delay offset information of a non-terrestrial network cell, performing a random access procedure in the non-terrestrial network cell; receiving configuration information for performing communication using the non-terrestrial network cell, and controlling a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation on the basis of the configuration information.

The present invention relates to a method of transmitting uplink (UL) data by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: based on the UE transmitting the UL data on a first UL resource of a configured grant (CG) con-figuration based on a Hybrid-ARQ (HARQ) process, starting a CG retransmission timer for the HARQ process and a CG timer for the HARQ process; based on a second UL resource of the CG configuration not being configured between an expiration time point of the CG retransmission timer and an expected expiration time point of the CG timer, stopping the CG timer upon expiration of the CG retransmission timer; and performing retransmission of the UL data based on the HARQ process after the expected expiration time point of the CG timer.

The disclosure provides a method for sidelink channel state information (CSI) reporting in a wireless communication system. The method comprises steps in which: a user equipment (UE) obtains parameters associated with discontinuous reception (DRX); the UE transmits, to a peer UE, a CSI request; and the UE monitors a sidelink channel in an active time of the DRX for receiving, from the peer UE, sidelink CSI in response to the CSI request, wherein the active time of the DRX includes a time duration between transmitting the CSI request and receiving the sidelink CSI.

A method, an apparatus, and a processor-readable storage medium for wireless communication are provided. A transmitter transmits data packets to a receiver, encodes the data packets to generate parity packets, stores the parity packets in a retransmission buffer, receives information from the receiver indicating that a data packet was not correctly decoded, and transmits to the receiver the parity packets stored in the retransmission buffer for recovering the data packet not correctly decoded without retransmitting the data packet not correctly decoded. The transmitter may further retransmit to the receiver the parity packets. The transmitted data packets may be encoded at a medium access control (MAC) layer of the transmitter. The retransmission buffer may be located at a radio link control (RLC) layer or a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer of the transmitter. A reordering buffer at the receiver may be located at the RLC layer or PDCP layer.

Methods of operation of a wireless device are provided. In particular, Media Access Control (MAC) protocol aspects are disclosed relating to Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) cells and, more generally, to cells of a cellular communications network operating in an unlicensed frequency spectrum.

According to one aspect, a method of operation of a wireless device comprises transmitting an Uplink (UL) transmission on a cell for a corresponding UL Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process, the cell operating in an unlicensed frequency spectrum, and setting a locally maintained status for the UL HARQ process to Acknowledgement (ACK) based on an assumption that the UL transmission was successful.