The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, a base station and respective operation methods. The mobile terminal comprises circuitry, which in operation assumes that a base station is configured to use one of a plurality of transmission beams, receives a downlink control channel candidate and a corresponding demodulation reference signal using one of a plurality of reception beams corresponding to the assumed one of the plurality of transmission beams, performs channel estimation based on the received demodulation reference signal, and, depending on the quality, demodulates the downlink control channel candidate using the channel estimation. The channel estimation is performed using a demodulation reference signal sequence which is generated observing an association which is associating the generated sequence with the assumed one of the plurality of transmission beams such that at least two of the plurality of transmission beams are associated with different demodulation reference signal sequences.

The embodiments of the present invention relate to apparatuses and methods for resource management in a multi-carrier system wherein a plurality of component carriers (CCs) is defined per cell. According to a method in an apparatus corresponding to a radio base station, a message is assembled comprising information on the structure of the cell served by the radio base station; the information including one or more CCs used in the cell that is/are available for a user equipment for performing initial access in the cell. The method also comprises, transmitting the assembled message to the user equipment and indicating to the user equipment to what resources to use for random access in the cell. The exemplary embodiments of the present invention also relates to a method in the user equipment, to a radio base station and to a user equipment.

The present disclosure proposes schemes, techniques, designs and methods pertaining to timing handling for integration of terrestrial network (TN) and non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications. Communications between a user equipment (UE) and a TN node and communications between the UE and an NTN node are established. The UE compensates for a first propagation delay in the communications between the UE and the NTN node, and the UE is able to obtain a second propagation delay between the UE and the NTN node.

The disclosure relates to an electronic device and method for a wireless communication system, and a storage medium. Various embodiments regarding beam management are described. In one embodiment, an electronic device for a terminal device side in a wireless communication system can comprise a processing circuit system. The processing circuit system can be configured to obtain random access configuration information, and send a random access preamble based on the random access configuration information, so as to indicate one or more transmission beams of a base station side, in a downlink, paired with one or more receiving beams at the terminal device side.

A user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system, including circuitry configured to communicate with a base station of the mobile telecommunications system, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: detect scheduling information for on-demand multicast broadcast service system information, wherein the scheduling information is included in predetermined system information transmitted from the base station to the user equipment; and request the on-demand multicast broadcast service system information based on the detected scheduling information.

An application method implemented by a device desiring to be an applicant for relaying data between an object and a base station in a cellular network, the object and the device being synchronized and connected to the base station. The device emits a request, over a random-access channel, to request resources of the network to relay the data, the request including an identifier of the object. If the base station selects a device from among the applicant devices, it allocates resources in the network for this device and sends a positive response to the selected device.

A method for listen-before-talk random access with adaptive energy detection threshold selection is executed by a device. Component units, such as code block groups (CBGs) in a transport block are determined to be retransmitted through a contention-based random access operation. A component unit based energy detection threshold (EDT) is selected. The EDT is associated with the component units determined to be retransmitted. The selected component unit based EDT is used to perform energy detection in an initial contention-based random access operation.

The present disclosure relates to random access methods and terminal devices. One example method includes determining a first random access time-frequency resource corresponding to a first network slice service, where the first network slice service is a network slice service that is to be initiated, determining a random access type corresponding to the first network slice service, determining a second random access time-frequency resource from the first random access time-frequency resource based on the random access type, where the second random access time-frequency resource is a random access time-frequency resource corresponding to the random access type, and initiating random access based on the second random access time-frequency resource.

A second base station sends, to a wireless device, an indication of a data radio bearer (DRB) configured for a small data transmission (SDT) procedure of the wireless device. The second base station receives, from a first base station, a request for a context of the wireless device. The second base station sends, to the first base station, in response to the request, a response message indicating not to relocate the context of the wireless device, and the DRB configured for the SDT procedure. The second base station receives, from the first base station, downlink data forwarding information associated with the DRB configured for the SDT procedure. Based on the downlink data forwarding information, the second base station sends, to the first base station, downlink data of the SDT procedure received from a core network node.

A system and method for providing early indications. In some embodiments, the method, includes: indicating, by a User Equipment (UE), as part of an initial access uplink transmission, a characteristic of the UE, the characteristic including at least one of the following: the UE is a reduced-capability UE and has a Msg3 repetition capability, the UE is a reduced-capability UE and lacks a Msg3 repetition capability, the UE is not a reduced-capability UE and has a Msg3 repetition capability, and the UE is not a reduced-capability UE and lacks a Msg3 repetition capability.