For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in [1] and the following apply. A term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in [1].
BL/CE:
A Bandwidth-reduced Low-complexity or Coverage Enhanced (BL/CE) UE is capable of coverage enhancement mode A support and intends to access a cell in a coverage enhancement mode or is configured in a coverage enhancement mode.
Non-BL/CE:
A non-BL/CE UE is a UE that does not fulfil the conditions in the above definition of a BL/CE UE.
For the purposes of the present document, the following symbols apply:
N DLRB
Downlink bandwidth configuration, expressed in number of resource blocks [2]
N ULRB
Uplink bandwidth configuration, expressed in number of resource blocks [2]
N SLRB
Sidelink bandwidth configuration, expressed in number of resource blocks [2]
N SLsubchannel
Number of sidelink subchannels configured on the resource pool of a subcarrier [2]
N RBsc
Resource block size in the frequency domain, expressed as a number of subcarriers
N PUSCHsymb
Number of SC-FDMA symbols carrying PUSCH in a subframe
N PUSCH-initialsymb
Number of SC-FDMA symbols carrying PUSCH in the initial PUSCH transmission subframe
N ULsymb
Number of SC-FDMA symbols in an uplink slot
N SLsymb
Number of SC-FDMA symbols in a sidelink slot
N SRS
Number of SC-FDMA symbols used for SRS transmission in a subframe (0 or 1).
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:
AUL
Autonomous Uplink
AUL-DFI
AUL downlink feedback information
AUL-UCI
AUL uplink control information
BCH
Broadcast channel
CFI
Control Format Indicator
COT
Channel Occupancy Time
CP
Cyclic Prefix
CSI
Channel State Information
DCI
Downlink Control Information
DL-SCH
Downlink Shared channel
EN-DC
E-UTRA NR Dual Connectivity with MCG using E-UTRA and SCG using NR
EPDCCH
Enhanced Physical Downlink Control channel
FDD
Frequency Division Duplexing
HI
HARQ indicator
LAA
Licensed-Assisted Access
MCH
Multicast channel
MPDCCH
MTC Physical Downlink Control Channel
MUST
Multiuser Superposition Transmission
NE-DC
NR E-UTRA Dual Connectivity with MCG using NR and SCG using E-UTRA
NPBCH
Narrowband Physical Broadcast channel
NPDCCH
Narrowband Physical Downlink Control channel
NPDSCH
Narrowband Physical Downlink Shared channel
NPRACH
Narrowband Physical Random Access channel
NPUSCH
Narrowband Physical Uplink Shared channel
PBCH
Physical Broadcast channel
PCFICH
Physical Control Format Indicator channel
PCH
Paging channel
PDCCH
Physical Downlink Control channel
PDSCH
Physical Downlink Shared channel
PHICH
Physical HARQ indicator channel
PMCH
Physical Multicast channel
PMI
Precoding Matrix Indicator
PRACH
Physical Random Access channel
PSBCH
Physical Sidelink Broadcast Channel
PSCCH
Physical Sidelink Control Channel
PSDCH
Physical Sidelink Discovery Channel
PSSCH
Physical Sidelink Shared Channel
PUCCH
Physical Uplink Control channel
PUSCH
Physical Uplink Shared channel
RACH
Random Access channel
RI
Rank Indication
SCI
Sidelink Control Information
SL-BCH
Sidelink Broadcast Channel
SL-DCH
Sidelink Discovery Channel
SL-SCH
Sidelink Shared Channel
SPDCCH
Short Physical Downlink Control channel
SPUCCH
Short Physical Uplink Control channel
SR
Scheduling Request
SRS
Sounding Reference Signal
TDD
Time Division Duplexing
TPMI
Transmitted Precoding Matrix Indicator
UCI
Uplink Control Information
UL-SCH
Uplink Shared channel