A device comprises a processor. The processor may be configured to: receive information about an existing cell site; and generate a distance histogram for the existing cell site based on the received information. Additionally, the processor may be configured to at least one of: calculate, using the generated distance histogram, a first value that indicates an amount of traffic to be offloaded from the existing cell site to a new cell site, or calculate, using the generated distance histogram, a second value that indicates an amount of traffic to be offloaded from operating bands of the existing cell site as a result of an upgrade at the existing cell site.

This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and provides a communication method and apparatus, to determine a measurement periodicity in which a communication device performs layer 1 signal to interference plus noise ratio (L1-SINR) beam measurement based on a channel measurement resource (CMR) and an interference measurement resource (IMR). The method includes: A communication device receives a CMR and an IMR corresponding to the CMR. A terminal measures an L1-SINR of a receive beam based on the CMR and the IMR, to determine an optimal receive beam of the terminal. The CMR and the IMR are channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources in different CSI-RS resource sets. The communication device determines a value of a first parameter based on repetition corresponding to a CSI-RS resource set corresponding to the CMR, and determines, based on the value of the first parameter, a measurement periodicity for measuring the L1-SINR.

A measurement method includes obtaining first parameter information corresponding to a first target RS. The first target RS includes at least one of a first RS or a second RS. The first RS is used for channel measurement, the second RS is used for interference measurement. The first RS is associated with the second RS, and the first RS and the second RS are corresponding to different first information; and measuring the second RS according to the first parameter information corresponding to the first target RS.

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to relaxing measurements for failure detection in a cell. In example embodiments, a device performs measurements on one or more reference signals on one or more measurement occasions and determines one or more reference signal received power, RSRP, levels of a cell based on the measurements on the one or more reference signals. Further, the device determines one or more reference RSRP levels reflecting radio link quality or beam quality, one of the reference RSRP levels being associated with one of the determined one or more RSRP levels of the cell. The device evaluates a relaxation criterion based on the one or more reference RSRP levels and the one or more determined RSRP levels of the cell. Moreover, the device relaxes measurements for failure detection in the cell, if it is evaluated that the relaxation criterion has been fulfilled for a time period.

A method of a first user equipment (UE) to transmit information related to a conflict of a reserved resource in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from a second UE, a first sidelink control information (SCI) related to a first reserved resource for a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH), receiving, from a third UE, a second SCI related to a second reserved resource for a PSSCH, determining a conflict between the first reserved resource and the second reserved resource, and transmitting, to the second UE or the third UE, information related to the conflict.

Various embodiments relate to a next generation wireless communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4.sup.th generation (4G) wireless communication system, and the like. According to various embodiments, a method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for supporting same can be provided. Various other embodiments can be provided.

According to an embodiment, An electronic device comprises at least one communication circuit, a display and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to perform connection of second communication network in response to receiving an add configuration for the second communication network based on first communication network using the at least one communication circuit, with the first communication network connected, control the display to display a first indicator indicating that the second communication network is connected, based on the connection of the second communication network, measure a parameter of a signal corresponding to the second communication network, based on detection of a disconnection of the second communication network, and determine whether to display the first indicator based on the parameter of the signal. Other certain embodiments are possible as well.

A method of quality of experience (QoE) measurement and reporting includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state, an RRC release message indicating transitioning of the UE from the RRC connected state to an RRC idle state or an RRC inactive state, selecting or reselecting, while in the RRC idle state or the RRC inactive state, a first cell provided by a first base station (BS), camping on the first cell and determining whether to remain camped on the first cell based on one or more QoE parameters associated with the first cell.

Example antenna positioning methods for a first base station and communication apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving a first reference signal received power (RSRP) value by a server from a first base station, where the first RSRP value is measured by the first base station and is of a reference signal from a first neighboring base station of the first base station. The server determines an antenna azimuth of the first base station based on an RSRP set corresponding to the first neighboring base station and the first RSRP value, where the RSRP set corresponding to the first neighboring base station includes N RSRP values, and the N RSRP values correspond to N antenna azimuths of the first base station.

The disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with 5G communication systems designed to support a higher data transfer rate beyond 4G systems, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The disclosure provides a method for improving the coverage of an uplink channel with respect to uplink transmission.