Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for policy control for broadcast sessions. One method may include receiving, by a multicast/broadcast session management function, at least one broadcast session creation request comprising at least one broadcast session indication associated with at least one policy control function. The multicast/broadcast session management function may receive at least one policy update from the at least one policy control function, and transmit at least one resource allocation request associated with at least one broadcast session transmission to at least one application management function.

The technology of this application relates to a data transmission method. The method includes an application server sending a subscription request to a core network element, to subscribe to a notification indicating whether transmitting data of a first service to first user equipment in a multicast mode is supported, so that a transmission mode of the data of the first service can be flexibly selected based on a subscription result.

A method and device for data transmission. The method comprises: a first device determines configuration information of a first resource, where the configuration information of the first resource comprises: cycle information of the first resource and information of the first resource; the first device transmits the configuration information of the first resource to multiple second devices; and the first device multicasts first information to the multiple second devices via the first resource. With the first device transmitting the first information to the multiple second devices in a multicasting manner, compared with the transmission of information in a unicasting manner, the redundancy of data transmitted is reduced, and the transmission efficiency is increased.

A terminal includes a reception unit that receives a synchronization signal block in an unlicensed band of a high frequency band higher than or equal to a frequency band of a frequency range 2 (FR2), the FR2 being in a range including a frequency range 1 (FR1) that is a low frequency band and the FR2 that is a high frequency band in a new radio (NR) system; and a control unit that identifies an index of a candidate position for transmitting the synchronization signal block based on a sequence of a demodulation reference signal of a broadcast channel included in the synchronization signal block and a payload of the broadcast channel.

Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method including receiving multicast and broadcast service (MBS) information from a base station, identifying an MBS service that the UE desires to receive from the base station, based on the MBS information, transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) connection setup request message for the identified MBS service to the base station, based on a temporary mobile group identity (TMGI) of the identified MBS service included in the MBS information, receiving RRC connection setup information from the base station, and receiving, from the base station, data corresponding to the identified MBS service, wherein the TMGI of the identified MBS service includes access category information for controlling access to the base station.

Apparatus and methods are provided for group scheduling configuration and uplink HARQ configuration for the NR multicast services. In one novel aspect, the UE receives broadcasts the SIB message related to multicast transmission, receives multicast control information via RRC message, and configures the uplink HARQ feedback. In one embodiment, the SIB message includes control Resource Set and/or search space for MB-RNTI scramble. The multicast control information includes control Resource Set and/or search space within the MTCHinfolist G-RNTI scramble. The multicast control information includes one or more elements including MTCH index, uplink HARQ feedback request to inform the concerned UE(s) the HARQ feedback is disabled or enabled, the timing information between PDSCH and the uplink PUCCH feedback resource, the option of HARQ based feedback, one or a set of PUCCH resource or PUCCH resource instance, and an MTCH retransmission timer.

A method of operating a first device 100 in a wireless communication system is proposed. The method may comprise: generating a MAC PDU related to a groupcast transmission; and selecting at least one SL resource for a transmission of the MAC PDU among a plurality of candidate resources in a resource pool, wherein a first SL resource included in the at least one SL resource is included in a first SL DRX active time, and the first SL resource being selected outside the first SL DRX active time is not allowed, based on the MAC PDU being related to groupcast transmission.

A wireless communication device can expedite beam scans for beam management. The wireless communication device can perform a beam scan using a first beam reference signal of a synchronization signal block (SSB) and a second beam reference signal associated with a physical broadcast control channel (PBCH) of the SSB. For each synchronization signal block (SSB) index (e.g., transmit beam) monitored by the wireless communication device, the wireless communication device can obtain a respective beam quality metric on each of two or more respective receive beams using at least the first and second beam reference signals. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described.

Methods, systems, and devices are described for reference signal design in wireless communications. A base station may select a reference signal density scheme from a set of available density schemes associated with a port count. The reference signal density scheme may also be selected based on the category of the mobile device receiving the reference signal transmissions. The reference signal density scheme may be a higher density reference signal density scheme or a lower density reference signal density scheme, where the higher density reference signal density scheme includes more reference signal resource elements per subframe. The mobile device may determine the reference signal density scheme based on characteristics of a channel. The higher density reference signal density scheme may provide additional channel estimation opportunities for the mobile device. In some cases, the mobile device sends the channel estimated based on the received reference signals to the base station.

Embodiments of a station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The STA may be included in a first plurality of STAs affiliated with a first multi-link logical entity (MLLE). A plurality of links may be established between the first MLLE and a second MLLE, wherein the second MLLE may be affiliated with a second plurality of STAs. The STA may receive a first subset of a sequence of MAC protocol data units (MPDUs). A second subset of the sequence of MPDUs may be transmitted by another STA of the first plurality of STAs. The STA may transmit a block acknowledgement (BA) frame that includes: a number of BA bitmaps, configurable to values greater than or equal to one; and BA control information for each of the BA bitmaps.