A detection method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes that: a decoding parameter in a process that a decoder of a Narrowband Physical Downlink Control Channel (NPDCCH) decodes Downlink Control Information (DCI), a comparison parameter obtained by comparing an encoding result obtained by reversely encoding the decoded DCI by an encoder of the NPDCCH with the DCI before decoding, and a Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the DCI are acquired; in a case where the decoding parameter, the comparison parameter and the SNR satisfy a first valid condition, a data transmission repetition number and a search space length of the NPDCCH are acquired; and in a case where the search space length matches the number of subframes corresponding to the data transmission repetition number, it is determined that the DCI is valid.

A method and apparatus for reporting data transmission procedure failure for network optimization in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device performs the data transmissions to a network in idle state and/or inactive state. A wireless device detects failures of the data transmissions. A wireless device logs information related to each of the failures and counts a number of the failures, while the logging validity timer is running. A wireless device establishes or resumes a connection with the network based on that the counted number is equal to or bigger than a threshold value.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The UE starts a first timer (such as a discontinuous reception (DRX) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round-trip-time (RTT) timer), after sending an uplink (UL) data transmission to a network entity. The UE then starts a second timer (such as a DRX retransmission timer) when the first timer expires. The UE then determines whether to wake up or sleep for a duration of the second timer based on a prior block error rate (BLER).

Aspects are provided allowing a base station to configure a UE to accumulate CSI over time for downlink data transmissions, and to transfer the accumulated CSI to a base station in a CSI report in response to a CSI report trigger event, thereby improving efficiency in CSI reporting and subsequent transmission reliability. Initially, the base station configures a CSI report trigger event and sends a plurality of data transmissions to a UE. The UE receives the data transmissions and then identifies the CSI report trigger event. Afterwards, the UE sends a CSI report to the base station including a CSI for each of the data transmissions in response to the CSI report trigger event. The base station may then adjust MCS or other parameters for subsequent data transmissions in response to the CSI report.

A method and apparatus are disclosed for configuring at least one set of beta offset values, and for each of the at least one set of beta offset values, at least one subset of beta offset values being defined for information corresponding to Uplink Control Information, UCI, and being associated with at least one service type. A method and apparatus are disclosed for obtaining a configuration of at least one set of beta offset values, for each of the at least one set of beta offset values, the configuration being associated with at least one subset of beta offset values, the at least one subset of beta offset values being defined for information corresponding to UCI and being associated with at least one service type.

In order to appropriately estimate the number of radio frames that fail to be acquired, an estimation apparatus 200 includes: a memory storing instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a plurality of radio frames transmitted and received through a radio channel; specify key frames, based on time information of the plurality of acquired radio frames; calculate a sum of time lengths of at least a part of the plurality of radio frames being located between two adjacent ones of the key frames; and estimate a number of unacquired radio frames, based on the specified key frames and the calculated sum, the unacquired radio frames being radio frames failing to be acquired.

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for ascertaining reliability aspects for Device-to-Device (D2D) links prior to actual data transmission. In some embodiments, a method performed by a second Wireless Communication Device (WCD) comprises attempting to receive synthetic packet transmissions, each comprising R replicas of a respective synthetic packet, from a first WCD over a direct or indirect D2D link using a current resource allocation. The method further comprises determining that the D2D link violates a requirement based on results of the attempting to receive the synthetic packet transmissions and sending a violation notification to a Centralized Scheduler (CS). Corresponding embodiments of a second WCD are also disclosed. Embodiments of a method of operation of a first WCD and corresponding embodiments of the first WCD as well as embodiments of a method of operation of a CS and corresponding embodiments of the CS are also described herein.

In a method for exchanging packets between first and second nodes of a packet-switched network, each packet comprises two fields settable to an idle value or measurement value. The first node transmits to the second node first packets having a filed set to measurement value. Upon reception of each first packet, the second node transmits back to the first node a second packet having a field set to measurement value. Upon reception of each second packet, the first node transmits to the second node a third packet having another field set to measurement value. A packet loss measurement is calculated as a difference between the number of first packets and the number of third packets.

A communication quality estimating device estimates an error rate of a signal with FEC capable of correcting K errors. The device obtains a frequency measurement value that indicates a frequency at which a codeword including m errors is received. The device determines a transition probability and a continuation probability included in each of a plurality of formulae, such that a frequency calculation value that is calculated using the plurality of formulae and indicates a frequency at which a codeword including m errors is received is brought close to the frequency measurement value. The device calculates a frequency at which a codeword including more than K errors is received, by using the plurality of formulae each with the determined transition probability and the determined continuation probability. The device estimates after-FEC error rate based on a result of the calculation.

A system and apparatus can include a port for transmitting data; and a link coupled to the port. The port can include a physical layer device (PHY) to decode a physical layer packet, the physical layer packet received across the link. The physical layer packet can include a first bit sequence corresponding to a first ordered set, and a second bit sequence corresponding to a second ordered set, the first bit sequence immediately adjacent to the second bit sequence. The first ordered set is received at a predetermined ordered set interval, which can occur following a flow control unit (flit). The first ordered set comprises eight bytes and the second ordered set comprises eight bytes. In embodiments, bit errors in the ordered sets can be determined by checking bits received against expected bits for the ordered set interval.