Abstract:
A method and apparatus for power control for wireless transmissions on multiple component carriers corresponding to multiple serving cells associated with multiple timing advances are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may determine transmit powers for a first physical channel for a first serving cell in a first timing advanced group (TAG) and a second physical channel for a second serving cell in a second TAG. The first TAG may less timing advanced than the second TAG. The WTRU may determine a WTRU configured maximum output power (PCMAX) for an overlapping portion, which may be a portion of a transmission of the first channel in a first subframe that overlaps in time with a portion of a transmission of the second channel in a next subframe. The WTRU may adjust the channels such that a sum of their transmit powers in the overlapping portion does not exceed the determined PCMAX.
Abstract:
A method for performing measurements in a device with at least two radio access technologies (RATs) is disclosed. The method may include establishing a first measurement schedule on a first RAT, and establishing a first transmission schedule for a second RAT. The method may further include changing at least one of the first measurement schedule or the first transmission schedule to prevent measurements of the first measurement schedule from occurring contemporaneously with transmissions of the first transmission schedule. Transmissions from the second RAT may interfere with measurements on the first RAT. The method may include transitioning from the first measurement mode to a second measurement mode based determining the second RAT is operating on potentially interfering frequency.
Abstract:
Methods and devices for offloading and/or aggregation of resources to coordinate uplink transmissions when interacting with different schedulers are disclosed herein. A method in a WTRU includes functionality for coordinating with a different scheduler for each eNB associated with the WTRU's configuration. Disclosed methods include autonomous WTRU grand selection and power scaling, and dynamic prioritization of transmission and power scaling priority.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for determining a vertical beam for reception are disclosed herein. A method in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes that the WTRU may receive a broadcast message from an evolved Node B (eNB) that includes information associated with a plurality of beam reference signals, wherein the information includes at least one set of Physical Random Access Control Channel (PRACH) resources associated with each of the plurality of beam reference signals. Further, the WTRU may measure reference signals transmitted on each of the plurality of beam reference signals. Then, the WTRU may select a beam reference signal from among the plurality of beam reference signals. In addition, the WTRU may transmit a PRACH preamble in a set of resources associated with the selected beam reference signal. The WTRU may then receive further communications from the eNB.
Abstract:
Techniques for performing inter-frequency and/or inter-radio access technology (RAT) measurements are disclosed. A multi-receiver wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive downlink transmissions via a plurality of downlink carriers, of a set of configured downlink carriers, simultaneously. The WTRU may receive gap configuration information for at least one of the set of configured downlink carriers. The WTRU may further perform inter-frequency measurements on carriers outside of the set of configured downlink carriers during a measurement gap in response to the received gap configuration information. The WTRU may further receive information that at least one of the set of configured downlink carriers is to be disabled. The WTRU may then perform measurements on the frequency of the disabled downlink carrier without using measurement gaps. The WTRU may perform measurements on the disabled carrier without measurement gaps maintaining a status of the disabled carrier as disabled at a physical layer.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for power control for wireless transmissions on multiple component carriers associated with multiple timing advances are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may perform power scaling or other adjustments on physical channels in each subframe to be transmitted on component carriers that belong to different timing advance groups (TAGs) if a sum of the transmit powers of the channels would or is to exceed a configured maximum output power for that subframe where each TAG may be associated with a separate timing advance value for uplink transmissions. The WTRU may adjust the transmit power of at least one physical channel if a sum of transmit powers in an overlapping portion of subframes of a less advanced TAG and a more advanced TAG would or is to exceed a configured maximum WTRU output power during the overlap.
Abstract:
A WTRU may receive downlink control information (DCI) from a first transmission/reception (TRP). The DCI may indicate that the WTRU is to transmit a physical random access channel (PRACH) transmission. The DCI may include an indication of a preamble, an indication of a first PRACH mask, and/or an indication associated with a first synchronization signal block (SSB), and/or an indication of a reference signal (RS). The WTRU may be configured to transmit the preamble, to a second TRP, the preamble in a first PRACH resource. The first TRP and/or the second TRP may be associated with a same physical cell identity (PCI). The WTRU may receive, from the second TRP, a first response to the preamble. The first response may include a first timing advance (TA) command for the second timing alignment for transmission to the second TRP and/or an index indicating the second TRP.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed herein associated with transmission of demodulation reference signals (DMRS) in wireless systems. DMRS symbols may be placed in a slot for channel estimation operations. For example, channel estimation performance may be enhanced based on using an increased number of DMRS symbols. Channel estimation enhancements may be performed by transmitting DMRS symbols in an extended slot, for example, to avoid data degradation (e.g., which may result from replacing data transmission symbols with DMRS symbols). An extended slot may be a slot that includes symbols spanning across multiple slots (e.g., two slots, consecutive slots), for example, such as a slot n and a slot n+1.
Abstract:
Methods, apparatuses, systems, etc. directed to beam management for, and/or for use in connection with, multiple cells and/or multiple transmission/reception points are provided. Among the methods is a method that may include any of determining first and second reference signals sets (RS sets) associated with first and second sets of beams; receiving information for first and second beam failure recovery (BFR) sets corresponding to the first and second RS sets, wherein the information indicates an RS set associated with candidate beams (CB-RS set) and an uplink resource set for each of the first and second BFR sets; determining beam failures based on the first and second RS sets; selecting the CB-RS set and UL resource set from the first or second BFR set; determining an RS of the selected CB-RS set; and transmitting information indicating the beam failures using uplink resources of the selected uplink resource set.
Abstract:
The disclosed method and an apparatus are directed to determine an uplink transmission power in in New Radio (NR) systems by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for transmitting at least one physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), using multiple beams toward multiple Tx/Rx points (TRPs). The method includes determining common parameters like a target receive power, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) specific offset, and a transmit power control (TPC) command parameters common to the multiple beams. he method also includes determining beam-specific parameters like path loss for each beam, a configurable fractional power compensation factor for each beam, and a configurable maximum transmit power level of the each beam, wherein the fractional power compensation factor and the configurable maximum transmit power level for the each beam are determined dynamically or semi-statically based on at least deployment, WTRU mobility, or interference level.