User equipments, base stations, and methods

A base station, comprising:

• transmission circuitry configured to transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a random access response (RAR), wherein the RAR contains a RAR uplink (UL) grant scheduling a PUSCH transmission;
• and
• control circuitry configured to determine, for the PUSCH transmission, a frequency hopping mode from two frequency hopping modes, intra-slot frequency hopping and inter-slot frequency hopping, wherein
• in a first case that the PUSCH transmission is scheduled with repetitions across multi-slots, the inter-slot frequency hopping is determined to be applicable for the PUSCH transmission, and a frequency offset for a PUSCH repetition transmitted in a slot with an odd slot number is given based on an initial UL BWP size, the initial UL BWP size being equal to or less than a bandwidth that the UE can support, and
• in a second case that the PUSCH transmission is scheduled without repetition, the intra-slot frequency hopping is determined to be applicable for the PUSCH transmission.

A method performed by user equipment (UE), comprising:

• receiving, from a base station, a random access response (RAR), wherein the RAR contains a RAR uplink (UL) grant scheduling a PUSCH transmission;
• and
• determining, for the PUSCH transmission, a frequency hopping mode from two frequency hopping modes, intra-slot frequency hopping and inter-slot frequency hopping, wherein
• in a first case that the PUSCH transmission is scheduled with repetitions across multi-slots, the inter-slot frequency hopping is determined to be applicable for the PUSCH transmission, and a frequency offset for a PUSCH repetition transmitted in a slot with an odd slot number is given based on an initial UL BWP size, the initial UL BWP size being equal to or less than a bandwidth that the UE can support, and
• in a second case that the PUSCH transmission is scheduled without repetition, the intra-slot frequency hopping is determined to be applicable for the PUSCH transmission.