Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) soft combining for a subset of HARQ processes supported by a user equipment (UE). A method performed by the UE generally includes transmitting capability information indicating a capability of the UE to perform hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) soft combining and receiving, based on the capability information, configuration information from the BS configuring the UE to perform soft combining on only a subset of a set of HARQ processes.

An instructing computing device (210) is disclosed that is operable to implement a 5Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP). The computing device comprises processing circuitry configured to send a first message (211) to a target computing device (220), which comprises a first message identifier and store a record (212) of the first message in a memory. The processing circuitry is further configured to receive a second message (223) from the target computing device, the second message confirming that 0the target computing device has received the first message, wherein the first message is configured to cause the target computing device to store a record (222) of the first message.

A method of processing data includes: receiving, by a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer, a PDCP Service Data Unit (SDU) from an upper layer; and deleting the PDCP SDU and a PDCP Packet Data Unit (PDU) corresponding to the PDCP SDU upon determining that a discard timer corresponding to the PDCP SDU is not expired and a preset condition is satisfied. The PDCP SDU is mapped to an Unacknowledged Mode (UM) or a Transparent Mode (TM) of a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer. Thus, the PDCP SDU will not reside in a UE cache, thereby reducing cache space occupied by the PDCP SDU.

A method at a first wireless network element, the method receiving, from a second wireless network element, a plurality of packet data units (PDUs) for a user equipment; transmitting the PDUs to the user equipment (UE); compiling a PDU delivery status report in response to the transmitting of the PDUs; and sending the compiled PDU delivery status report to the second wireless network element.

Communication devices and methods for multi-link block acknowledgement are provided. One exemplary embodiment provides a multi-link device (MLD) configured to operate with a first plurality of affiliated stations, the first multi-link device comprising: circuitry, which in operation, initiates setup of a block acknowledgement agreement with a second multi-link device that is configured to operate with a second plurality of affiliated stations, wherein a link has been established between each station of the first plurality of stations and a corresponding station of the second plurality of stations; and a transmitter, which in operation, transmits frames of a Traffic Identifier (TID) on one or more links to the second multi-link device based on the block acknowledgement agreement, wherein the first plurality of stations are configured to share a common transmit buffer that stores the frames of the TID to be transmitted to the second multi-link device and a common transmit buffer control to manage the transmission of the frames over the one or more links, and wherein each of the first plurality of stations is configured to maintain a per-link transmit buffer control to manage the transmission of the frames on a corresponding one of the one or more links.

Systems and methods for data collection for an industrial heating process are disclosed. The system according to one embodiment can include a plurality of data collectors, including a swarm of self-organized data collector members, wherein the swarm of self-organized data collector members organize to enhance data collection based on at least one of capabilities and conditions of the data collector members of the swarm, and wherein the plurality of data collectors is coupled to a plurality of input channels for acquiring collected data relating to the industrial heating process, and a data acquisition and analysis circuit for receiving the collected data via the plurality of input channels and structured to analyze the received collected data using a neural network to monitor a plurality of conditions relating to the industrial heating process.

Disclosed is the radio (wireless) communication system providing a radio communication service and the terminal, and more particularly, to a method of an uplink HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest) operation at an expiry of time alignment timer in an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (E-UMTS) evolved from the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system.

The present invention provides a hybrid automatic repeat request management method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: determining, by a first network node according to at least one of a first correspondence between a carrier set and a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ process or a second correspondence between the carrier set and a HARQ entity, a HARQ process and/or a HARQ entity corresponding to the carrier set, where the carrier set includes at least one of: at least one uplink UL carrier set or at least one downlink DL carrier set; and receiving and/or sending, by the first network node, data and/or signaling according to the HARQ process and/or the HARQ entity by using the carrier set.

The present application provides an HARQ entity management method which is executed by a user equipment or a medium access control (MAC) entity in the user equipment. The HARQ entity management method includes: initializing an HARQ entity corresponding to a secondary serving cell group when a first secondary cell in a secondary serving cell group is added, or when the secondary serving cell group is added. The method may further include: receiving a secondary serving cell adding command from a base station. The present application also provides a corresponding user equipment.

Techniques and apparatus for using downlink control information (DCI) to avoid hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifier (ID) conflicts in scenarios where multiple semi persistently scheduled (SPS) configurations share the same pool of HARQ process IDs are provided. One example technique involves a user equipment (UE) receiving an indication of a plurality of SPS configurations, each SPS configuration allocating the UE with a set of SPS occasions for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions. Information for resolving a conflict between a first HARQ process ID associated with a first SPS occasion of a first of the plurality of SPS configurations and a second HARQ process ID associated with a second SPS occasion of a second of the plurality of SPS configurations is received. The first SPS occasion occurs prior to the second SPS occasion. The conflict is resolved based on the information.