Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a wireless communications system may support short reference signals for sidelink communication. A transmitting user equipment (UE) and a receiving UE may receive, from a base station, configuration signaling that indicates a set of sidelink resources that includes a set of slots within a subcarrier. A subset of the slots may include a first set of symbols allocated to a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) and a second set of symbols allocated to a reference signal, where the first set of symbols comes before the second set of symbols in a time domain. The transmitting UE may transmit, to the receiving UE, a reference signal over the second set of symbols and the receiving UE may utilize the reference signal to decode data message received from the transmitting UE.

To prevent a client device from being stranded, a steering controller of an access point device can provide an improved network environment or performance by steering a target client device to a basic service set (BSS) of a network device that is different from the current BSS of the target client device based on a first or a poor link quality threshold where non-associated client (NAC) link quality parameters for NAC network devices within the network environment, such as a mesh network, is not available. The steering controller can select or identify a candidate BSS and then send a steering query to the target client device. The steering controller can receive a response from the target client device that indicates whether the steering to the candidate BSS was successful or accepted by the targeted client device.

Methods and apparatuses for operating in different bandwidth parts (BWPs). A method includes receiving a first synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block in a first BWP; determining, based on information provided by the first SS/PBCH block, a first control resource set (CORESET) in the first BWP; and receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in the first CORESET. The PDCCH provides a first downlink control information (DCI) format that schedules a reception of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) providing a system information block (SIB1). The method further includes receiving the first PDSCH, determining a second BWP based on information provided by the SIB1, and receiving a second SS/PBCH block in the second BWP. The second BWP does not include a bandwidth of the first SS/PBCH block. The second BWP does not include a bandwidth of the first CORESET.

The various embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for uplink scheduling schemes for low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite based Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN). According to an embodiment, a zone-based scheduling (ZBS) scheme is described where the coverage area may be divided into a plurality of zones and independent scheduling-offsets may be allocated for each of the zones. The ZBS scheme improves upon the overall user latency by reducing the K2 and cell offset delay for low-propagation delay users within the NTN cells. At the same time, the impact of differential doppler may also be mitigated with such a zone-based allocation strategy.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a configuration for frequency hopping across repetitions of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmitted via a plurality of component carriers, wherein the plurality of component carriers includes at least a first component carrier and a second component carrier. The UE may transmit the repetitions of the PUCCH in accordance with the configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a configuration for a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle periodicity, the indication including a selection of a non-integer number for the DRX cycle periodicity. The UE may receive one or more communications based at least in part on the configuration for the DRX cycle periodicity. Numerous other aspects are described.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a configuration for a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle periodicity, the indication including a selection of a non-integer number for the DRX cycle periodicity. The UE may receive one or more communications based at least in part on the configuration for the DRX cycle periodicity. Numerous other aspects are described.

Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a transport block size (TBS) when transmitting a transport block through a PUSCH by applying transport block processing over multiple slots (TBoMS) in a wireless communication system. The UE determines the TBS based on the number of resource elements (N.sub.RE) allocated for the PUSCH, in this case, considers the number of slots for the TBoMS.

A first resource assignment can be transmitted in a first TTI. First downlink user data corresponding to at least a first transport block in the first TTI in a first set of resources for receiving a first portion of a first downlink user data and second set of resources receiving a second portion of the first downlink user data can be transmitted. The second set of resources can be configured for DCI and can be used instead for downlink user data and the second set of resources may not overlap with the first set of resources. A second resource assignment in a second TTI can be transmitted. Second downlink user data corresponding to at least a second transport block can be transmitted. The second downlink user data can be transmitted in the second TTI in third and fourth sets of resources.

A method by which a terminal transmits data in an unlicensed band, and an apparatus using the method are provided. The method comprises: transmitting data to a base station through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in the unlicensed band; and receiving, from the base station, acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information about the data in the unlicensed band, wherein the terminal receives, from the base station, timeline information notifying of a time relationship between the PUSCH transmission time point and the ACK/NACK information reception time point.