The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present invention presents a method for efficiently estimating a physical channel and, according to the present invention, a terminal of a communication system receives a synchronization signal from a base station, receives a broadcast channel from the base station, and can estimate the broadcast channel on the basis of the synchronization signal.

Techniques and apparatus for achieving multi-cell synchronization for dual connectivity and carrier aggregation are described. In one technique, a timing difference between a first base station (BS) and a second BS is determined, where the first BS is in an asynchronous timing configuration with respect to the second BS. A measurement configuration for measuring signal(s) from the second BS is determined, based on the timing difference. The measurement configuration is signaled to a user equipment (UE) served by the first BS. The UE performs a measurement procedure for the signal(s) in accordance with the measurement configuration. In another technique, the second BS receives a synchronization request, which includes a first time stamp, from the first BS via a network interface between the first BS and the second BS. The second BS sends a synchronization response, which includes a second time stamp, to the first BS.

This application provides a link state switching method and a communications device. The method includes: switching between a first link state and a second link state based on a first guard period, where the first link state and the second link state are link states of an integrated access backhaul IAB node in different transmission modes.

A configuration information indication method and apparatus, applicable to systems such as a vehicle to everything V2X communication system and a vehicle-to-vehicle V2V communication system, to resolve a problem that SL transmission causes interference to DL transmission due to relatively poor indication accuracy of UL transmission time in the conventional technology. The method includes: receiving an uplink-downlink time division duplex TDD configuration from a network device; determining, based on first periodicity information included in the uplink-downlink TDD configuration, a first subcarrier spacing SCS corresponding to the first periodicity information, where the first SCS is used to indicate a sidelink SL reference SCS; and sending indication information to a second terminal device based on the uplink-downlink TDD configuration and the first SCS, where the indication information is used to indicate uplink UL transmission time corresponding to the first periodicity information.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) downlink communication. The UE may detect a collision between a configured uplink resource associated with a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) for the SPS downlink communication and a candidate synchronization signal block (SSB) position. The UE may transmit the HARQ-ACK for the SPS downlink communication in the configured uplink resource or in a deferred uplink resource in connection with detecting the collision. Numerous other aspects are described.

A UE is connected to a serving cell via an active BWP of a first BWP, and receives a message having criteria for switching from the first BWP to a second BWP. In response to at least one of the criteria being met, the UE waits until a first preconfigured time to switch from the first BWP to the second BWP, and switches the active BWP from the first BWP to the second BWP. The UE communicates with the serving cell and performs SSB measurements while using the second BWP as the active BWP. The UE switches from the second BWP to the first BWP after a second preconfigured time corresponding to a duration of time in the second BWP. The serving cell sends the message having the criteria, switches active BWPs accordingly, and communicates with the UE in the active BWPs.

A UE is configured to perform Radio Link Monitoring (RLM) with a first Coverage Enhancement (CE) configuration that provides a first CE level. The first RLM configuration associated with the first CE configuration has a first radio-link-quality-improving threshold value that corresponds with a third distance from a base station that is closer to the base station than a second distance associated with an in-sync radio link quality threshold value associated with a first RLM configuration. The first RLM configuration also has a first radio-link-quality-improving-cancellation threshold value that corresponds with a fourth distance from the base station that is located farther from the base station than the third distance and closer to the base station than the first distance. If conditions are satisfied, the base station reconfigures the UE with a second RLM configuration and a second CE configuration having a second CE level lower than the first CE level.

Provided are a method of adjusting uplink timing in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for a user equipment to adjust uplink timing in a wireless communication system includes transmitting, to a base station, an uplink signal, receiving, from the base station, a timing advance (TA) command configured based on the uplink signal, and performing uplink transmission to the base station by applying a timing advance (TA) indicated by the TA command. The TA command may be interpreted based on subcarrier spacing of at least one frequency resource region to which the TA is to be applied.

Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for wireless communications. Cells may be grouped into a plurality of cell groups. A base station may transmit a control message to modify a cell group of a cell associated with a wireless device.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may transmit a first set of synchronization signal block (SSB) burst sets with a first set of SSB parameters; and transmit a second set of SSB burst sets with a second set of SSB parameters, wherein the first set of SSB burst sets and the second set of SSB burst sets are transmitted in a common carrier. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive at least one SSB of the first set of SSB burst sets or the second set of SSB burst sets. Numerous other aspects are provided.