Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

The present disclosure relates to an Internet of Thing, loT, receiver, comprising: a transceiver, which in operation, receives a structure indicator for a control information; a circuitry, which in operation, determines a structure of the control information based on the structure indicator.

Provided is a communication apparatus, comprising a transceiver which, in operation, receives an indication regarding adaptation of resources for a physical random access channel, PRACH, wherein the indication indicates whether or not a paging downlink control information, DCI, indicates one or more PRACH adaptation parameters, and/or an information portion of the paging DCI, the information portion indicating the one or more PRACH adaptation parameters; and receives the paging DCI. The communication apparatus further comprises circuitry which, in operation, if the paging DCI indicates the one or more PRACH adaptation parameters, determines the one or more PRACH adaptation parameters based on the indication, and determines resource occasions of the PRACH based on the one or more PRACH adaptation parameters. The transceiver, in operation, performs transmission, reception, and/or monitoring of the PRACH on the determined resource occasions.

The present disclosure relates to a communication apparatus comprising the following. The communication apparatus includes a transceiver, which monitors a signal occasion, SO, of a low power signal. The communication apparatus also comprises a processing circuitry, which identifies a collision between the signal occasion and at least one other radio resource; and performs a UE behavior by adapting at least one segment of the signal occasion in time-domain to resolve the identified collision.

An embodiment relates to system information for supporting non-terrestrial network operation. The system information includes a BS-level information associated with an identification of the base station. The BS-level information comprises two or more beam-level information elements, and each beam-level information element is associated with an identification of a respective beam-level area illuminated by one beam or by an aggregation of beams smaller than an area illuminable by the base station. Methods and apparatuses capable of generating and transmitting as well as methods and apparatuses capable of receiving and parsing said system information are provided.

The present disclosure relates to a communication apparatus comprising the following. A transceiver of the communication apparatus, in operation, receives a first indication indicating an availability of additional resource occasions for a common channel. A processing circuitry of the communication apparatus, in operation, obtains a set of candidate resource occasions for the common channel from a configuration of the additional resource occasions, determines a start timing for applying the additional resource occasions among the set of candidate resource occasions, based on a reception timing of the first indication, and starts to apply the additional resource occasions from the determined start timing.

The disclosure relates to a user equipment, UE, and respective methods for the UE. Moreover, a network node and respective methods for the network node are provided. The UE comprises: circuitry which, in operation: obtains a configuration for a frequency synchronization raster indicating transmission of Synchronization Signal Blocks, SSBs, wherein the configuration indicates a first periodicity for a transmission of SSBs on a first frequency and a second periodicity for a transmission of SSBs on a second frequency, wherein the second frequency is different from the first frequency; and a receiver, which, in operation, scans a resource based on the configuration for receiving a SSB.

The present disclosure relates to a communication device comprising the following. A transceiver of the communication device transmits device capability information to another device. The device capability information indicates a capability of the communication device to support at least any two of: - one type or plural types of synchronization signal blocks, SSB, - SSBs in a same frequency location or different frequency locations, - SSBs on one or more frequency synchronization raster, and - one or more SSB measurement timing configurations, SMTC, respectively defining a measurement time window for the UE to measure one or more SSBs.

An embodiment relates to system information for supporting non-terrestrial network operation. The system information includes at least one of: a) a delivery time information indicating a time interval that includes at least time required until data transmitted from the communication device via the base station are conveyed to a terrestrial gateway, and b) a storage status information indicating capacity available in a storage of the base station for storing the data from the communication device. Methods and apparatuses capable of generating and transmitting as well as methods and apparatuses capable of receiving and parsing said system information are provided.

The present disclosure relates to an Internet of Things, IoT, device comprising the following. A transceiver of the IoT device transmits a response to a message in a first access procedure with a reader. Circuitry of the IoT device determines whether to start a re-access timer for receiving, during a feedback period, feedback on the response transmitted in the first access procedure.

Provided is a user equipment, UE, comprising a transceiver which, in operation, receives Downlink Control Information, DCI, including a Channel State Information, CSI, request. The CSI request indicates a group of CSI report configurations, and the group of CSI report configurations includes an event-triggered CSI report configuration and/or a network, NW,-requested CSI report configuration, wherein the event-triggered CSI report configuration pertains to event-triggered CSI information and the NW-requested CSI report configuration pertains to NW-requested CSI information. The UE further comprises processing circuitry which, in operation, performs a determination as to which of the event-triggered CSI information and/or the NW-requested CSI information is to be transmitted, based on the CSI request, wherein the processing circuitry controls the transceiver according to the determination.