Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus and a method for device identification in wireless local area network. A first apparatus (50) comprising means (510) configured for: performing a first authentication procedure between the first apparatus (50) and a second apparatus (70) in a wireless local area network. A second apparatus (70) comprising means (710) configured for: performing a first authentication procedure between a first apparatus (50) and the second apparatus (70) in a wireless local area network. A first identification information of the first apparatus (50) is assigned during the first authentication procedure. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, an improved manner for device identification in wireless local area network may be provided. An identification information of an apparatus may be assigned during an authentication procedure. Thus, in some scenarios, an unidentified apparatus may be further avoided.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamically enabling and disabling hybrid automatic repeat request feedback even for the same hybrid automatic repeat request process without changing downlink control information are provided. For example, a method can include determining a subframe index of a start of a transport block. The method can also include deciding provision of hybrid automatic repeat request feedback based on the determined subframe index.
Time domain resource allocation of demodulation reference signals is provided. An apparatus may include at least a processor and a memory storing instructions. The stored instructions and the processor may cause the apparatus to receive, from a network entity, information on slots and symbols of a transmission that may include a physical channel and a signal. The signal may include a reference signal or waveform, and the information on the slots and the symbols may include a type of slot and symbol for a unidirectional transmission and for a bidirectional transmission. The apparatus may be further caused to receive a first configuration and a second configuration of time domain resource allocation information of the signal and a waveform of the transmission to be scheduled. The apparatus may also be caused to determine time domain resource allocation of the signal and the waveform of the transmission to be scheduled.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to security countermeasure for distributed network slice admission control (NSAC). Specifically, a first device receives a first message for updating or reporting an admission number of user equipments (UEs) or packet data unit (PDU) sessions associated with a serving area corresponding to the second device from a second device, where the admission number is specific to a slice or single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI). Then the first device determines a first number of UEs or PDU sessions specific to the slice or the S-NSSAI counted by at least one third device, such that the admission number is verified with the first number, and performs an admission control procedure based at least in part on the first number.
An apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: receive a message with a physical downlink shared channel; determine a physical uplink control channel resource used for transmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement, based on the message received with the physical downlink shared channel; wherein the physical uplink control channel resource is used for repetition of transmissions; and transmit the hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment, using the determined physical uplink control channel resource for repetition.
Various example embodiments relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable media for distributed central unit control plane (CU-CP) resiliency with optimized resource allocation in a split radio access network (RAN) architecture. A first CU-CP node in a radio access network may be configured to send a capacity poll request to one or more second CU-CP nodes in the radio access network configured as standby CU-CP nodes for the first CU-CP node, receive from the one or more second CU-CP nodes a capacity poll response comprising capacity information of the one or more second CU- CP nodes, and allocate at least one distributed unit associated with the first CU- CP node to one of the one or more second CU-CP nodes at least based on the capacity information of the one or more second CU-CP nodes.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to positioning reference signal (PRS) transmission indication. A terminal device obtains configuration information associated with a resource of a sidelink (SL) PRS transmission indication indicating if an SL PRS is to be transmitted in an SL PRS resource corresponding to the SL PRS transmission indication. Moreover, the terminal device detects the SL PRS transmission indication in the resource of the SL PRS transmission indication based on the configuration information. As a result, resource utilization can be improved.
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METHOD OF USER EQUIPMENT TRIGGERING GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM MEASUREMENT
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for UE triggering global navigation satellite system measurements. One method may include estimating at least one of a downlink time error or downlink frequency error by measuring at least one downlink receiving signal; determining that at least one of the downlink time error or downlink frequency error is larger than a threshold; and transmitting, to a network entity, an indication of global navigation satellite system related information.
A user equipment comprising means for: receiving from a network node an indication to disable hybrid automatic request (HARQ) feedback for at least a downlink contention resolution message in a contention-based random-access procedure; and means for disabling, in dependence upon the received indication, hybrid automatic request (HARQ) feedback for at least a downlink contention resolution message in a contention-based random-access procedure.
A method comprises determining a discrepancy based on information relating to a first set of codewords and information relating to a second set of codewords, the first set of codewords being received from a user equipment and providing information about a channel between the user equipment and a base station, the user equipment using a first model, trained with a first set of training data, to generate the first set of codewords.
There is provided an apparatus comprising means for: receiving, from a client device, a location request for a target user equipment, wherein the request comprises an indication for supporting one or more intermediate responses, one or more trigger conditions for the one or more intermediate responses, and one or more location accuracy requirements; based on the received request, sending, to a second network device, a request to provide the location of the target user equipment, wherein the request comprises the one or more trigger conditions and the one or more location accuracy requirements; receiving, from the second network device, one or more responses comprising information identifying the location of the target user equipment; and sending, to the client device, one or more responses comprising information identifying the location of the target user equipment and an indication of whether the sent one or more responses comprise an intermediate response or a final response.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method of PDCCH mapping in SBFD slot. A network device determines validity of resources associated with a plurality of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates, and transmits, to a terminal device, a PDCCH transmission on at least one PDCCH candidate with valid resources among the plurality of PDCCH candidates. The terminal device determines validity of resources associated with a plurality of PDCCH candidates and performs blind detection of PDCCH on a set of PDCCH candidates with valid resources among the plurality of PDCCH candidates. The solution enables the PDCCH channel estimation/detection is with high efficiency without any waste.
Disclosed are devices, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for data rate adjustment. An example terminal device may include at least one processor and at least one memory.The at least one memory may store instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, may cause the terminal device at least to perform: increasing a data rate from a first value to a second value; and transmitting to a network device, an indication indicating the data rate is increased.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for setting up an indirect path as an additional path in cases where a relay user equipment may be in idle or inactive state, such as radio resource control idle/inactive are provided. For example, a method can include receiving, from a network element, a configuration of a relay user equipment container related to an addition to, or modification of, an indirect path between the apparatus and the network element. The method can also include indicating the relay user equipment container to a relay user equipment.
The disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to: receive (600), from a network function service consumer, a request to consume a service from a network function service producer including network function service consumer details; send (602), to a network function repository function, a request to discover a profile of a network function service producer including authorization attributes; receive (604), from the network function repository function, a profile of the network function service producer including the authorization attributes; and determine (606) whether the network function service consumer is allowed to consume the service from the network function service producer based on the authorization attributes and the network function service consumer details.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to handover enhancements. In response to receiving a first message from a third device, for initiating a handover related to a first device and a second device, the first device performs a handover procedure to a target cell indicated in the first message. The first device acts as a UE-to-network relay for the second device to communicate with the third device. The first device then transmits, to the second device, at least one indication based on the handover procedure. In this way, the remote UE is capable of applying different operations based on respective indications associated with a handover result. As a result, the operation of the remote UE can be aligned with the operation of the relay UE in case of performing the handover, and the system performance and reliability can be improved.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to PRS resource allocation for sidelink positioning. A first device receives a configuration indicating a first set of resources associated with PSFCH transmission. Resources in the first sets of resources occupy different frequency locations in different slots in a time period. The first device determines, at least based on the first set of resources, a second set of resources frequency-division-multiplexed with the first set of resources. Resources in the second set of resources in the different slots in the time period jointly occupy a bandwidth of a sidelink resource pool. The sidelink resource pool comprises the first set of resources and the second set of resources. The first device transmits or receives a PRS via a sidelink connection using the second set of resources. In this way, a large bandwidth for PRS transmission is ensured, and sidelink positioning performance is enhanced.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to handling of RTD of intra-band carriers. A first device receives, from a second device, an indication indicating that information of a RTD relevant to a first cell and a serving cell is to be reported, the first cell being non-co-located with the serving cell in a frequency band. The first device transmits the information of the RTD to the second device. In this way, information of RTD of a non-co-located cell may be indicated to a network for optimization of network scheduling and system performance.
There is provided an apparatus comprising means for determining, at a first device, position information associated with an object of interest and providing, from the first device, a discovery message for device to device communication, wherein the discovery message comprises the position information.
Method comprising: converting each log of a sequence of N logs into an identifier among K different identifiers to obtain a sequence of N identifiers; for each n between 0 and N: for each of the K identifiers: counting occurrences of the identifier among the first n identifiers of the sequence to obtain a front frequency of the identifier for the respective n; and for each of the K identifiers: counting occurrences of the identifier among the last N-n identifiers of the sequence to obtain a rear frequency of the identifier for the respective n; arranging the front frequencies and the rear frequencies of the identifiers in a count vector; inputting the count vector an autoencoder to obtain an output vector for the respective n; determining a difference between the output vector and the count vector; marking the sequence as anomalous if the difference between the output vector and the count vector is larger than a threshold; wherein each of the identifiers is an integer.
An apparatus configured to: determine to perform an opportunistic reception beam alignment procedure; receive, from a first user equipment, an indication of a type of beamforming the first user equipment applies; determine to use at least one transmission of the first user equipment for the opportunistic reception beam alignment procedure based, at least partially, on one or more predefined conditions; perform the opportunistic reception beam alignment procedure based on at least part of a transmission of the first user equipment intended for, at least, at least one second user equipment; and transmit, to the first user equipment, an indication that a valid reception beam is determined with respect to the first user equipment, wherein the valid reception beam is determined as a result of the opportunistic reception beam alignment procedure.
There is provided an apparatus comprising means for determining, at a first device, position information associated with an object of interest and means for providing, from the first device, a message, wherein the message comprises the position information.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of Mobile Terminated Early Data Transmission (MT-EDT) for Internet of Things (IoT). The method comprises in response to detecting, at a first device, a paging from a second device for a MT-EDT, sending, to the second device, a paging response at least comprising authentication information negotiated between the first device and a third device for a verification at the second device; and receiving data transmission from the second device. In this way, the performance and efficiency of the MT-EDT in the S&F mode can be improved significantly.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to for positioning. A first device receives configuration information associated with a first RS for positioning the first device, from a second device in the radio access network. The configuration information comprises frequency hopping configuration associated with transmission of the first RS. The first device receives a second RS for positioning the first device from the second device on a first frequency hop and a second frequency hop overlapping with the first frequency hop in frequency domain. The first device causes pre-compensation for the transmission of the first RS to be performed based on a phase offset obtained from the received second RS. The first device transmits the first RS to the second device based on the configuration information.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to conditional measurement reporting. A terminal device receives, from a network device, a first message comprising one or more conditions indicative of relative levels of one or more measurements performed by the terminal device. Based on determining that at least one of the one or more conditions of the relative levels is met, the terminal device reports the one or more measurements through transmitting a second message to the network device. In this way, unnecessary signaling and power consumption at the terminal device side may be avoided, thereby saving energy.
Disclosed are devices, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for coverage window prediction. An example terminal device may include at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory may store instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, may cause the terminal device at least to perform: receiving from a network device, information on a predicted coverage window and measurement information relating to the predicted coverage window, the measurement information comprising one or more expected measurement values; performing, according to the predicted coverage window, at least one measurement according to the measurement information; and determining whether the predicted coverage window is accurate or inaccurate based on a value of the performed at least one measurement and the corresponding at least one expected measurement value from the one or more expected measurement values.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of feedback for multi-channel sidelink communication. A first device performs a plurality of listen-before-talks before a plurality of resources for a sidelink feedback channel associated with a first sidelink data channel. If at least two listen-before-talks (LBTs) of the plurality of LBTs pass before at least two resources of the plurality of resources, the first device transmits, to a second device, on a first resource of the at least two resources, first feedback for a transmission from the second device via the first sidelink data channel. The first device also transmits, to the second device, on a different second resource of the at least two resources, second feedback for a transmission from the second device via a previous second sidelink data channel.
An apparatus configured to: receive at least two resource set configurations, wherein a first configuration of the at least two resource set configurations comprises an indication that a first number of ports are mapped to a first set of resources that are used for a first type of resource, wherein a second configuration of the at least two resource set configurations comprises an indication that the first number of the ports are mapped to the first set of resources that are used for a second type of resource, wherein the first type of resource is different from the second type of resource; determine to use one of the at least two resource set configurations; and receive at least one reference signal based, at least partially, on the determined configuration of the at least two resource set configurations.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to access control for energy saving mode. A first device receiving, from a second device, at least one barring configuration corresponding to at least one energy saving mode of the second device. The first device receives, from the second device, a first mode indication that the second device operates in a first energy saving mode of the at least one energy saving mode. The first device performs a first operation associated with an access to the second device based on a first barring configuration, of the at least one barring configuration, corresponding to the first energy saving mode.
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose devices, methods and apparatuses for a beam reporting. A terminal device receives a configuration of mapping restriction for performing a logical channel prioritization (LCP) procedure associated with a configured grant (CG) from a network device. The mapping restriction is configured for a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE). The terminal device performs the LCP procedure to generate a MAC Protocol Data Unit (PDU) for the CG based on the mapping restriction. Then, the terminal device transmits the MAC PDU to the network device via the CG.
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose devices, methods and apparatuses for a beam reporting. A first terminal device receives a plurality of sidelink (SL) positioning reference signal (PRS) configurations from a plurality of terminal devices. The first terminal device determines, based on the plurality of SL PRS configurations, whether the plurality of terminal devices select overlapping resources for a plurality of SL PRS transmissions. Based on determining that the plurality of terminal devices select overlapping resources for the plurality of SL PRS transmissions, the first terminal device transmits, to a second terminal device among the plurality of terminal devices, a request to update an SL PRS transmission by the second terminal device.
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Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to QoE measurement reporting. A terminal device receives, from a first network device, a message indicative of pausing QoE reporting to the first network device. Then the terminal device transmits, to the first network device, a message for requesting a SRB configuration with a second network device. Next, the terminal device transmits, to the second network device, QoE measurement result based on the received SRB configuration. Thus, timely and effective QoE measurement reporting mechanism is provided.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to location identification and verification. A first device determines at least one time resource configured by a second device or a third device, determines at least one respective first time advance (TA) to be used at the at least one time resource, and transmits the at least one respective first TA to the second device or the third device. In this way, with the at least one respective first TA to be used at the at least one time resource, the network may identity/verify the location of the first device.
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Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to sidelink subchannel frequency mapping. A terminal device is provided comprising at least one processor and at least one memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the terminal device at least to: determine subchannel indexing schemes supported by a resource pool; determine SCI to indicate a set of resources in the resource pool for at least one sidelink transmission to a second terminal device, the SCI comprising a FRIV that is applied using at least one of the subchannel indexing schemes; and transmit the SCI to the second terminal device. As such, a terminal device can reach all useful resource allocation patterns of subchannels in a resource pool.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of an Aperiodic Reference Signal (ARS) based Secondary Cell (SCell) activation. The method comprises transmitting, from a first device to a second device, a request for triggering a transmission of an aperiodic reference signal based on available beam information upon a secondary cell activation; and receiving the aperiodic reference signal for the secondary cell activation.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to HARQ feedback at a fractional rate. In an example method, a terminal device receives, from a network device, a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback configuration indicating a fractional feedback rate for HARQ feedback between the terminal device and the network device. The terminal device transmits the HARQ feedback to the network device or receives HARQ feedback from the network device based on the fractional feedback rate. In this way, the configurable HARQ feedback rate enables the network device to receive acknowledgement of control messages and perform link adaptation while improving user throughput in NTN deployment scenarios. Moreover, reduced ACK/NACK transmissions also lead to UE power saving, which is critical for IoT devices.
Some example embodiments may relate to updating policy rules of a user equipment. An apparatus may transmit, by an access and mobility management function of a first communication network, to a policy control function of the first communication network, a request for updating policy rules of a user equipment; and request the policy control function to notify when the policy control function has updated the policy rules of the user equipment.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a buffer status report (BSR) triggered by data discarding. A terminal device discards uplink data. Moreover, the terminal device triggers a BSR based on the discarding of the uplink data. As a result, it is possible to increase network capacity, save power consumption and improve transmission efficiency.
Various example embodiments relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable media for coverage window update due to user equipment movement within a tracking area during discontinuous coverage. A terminal device may be configured to detect movement of the terminal device from a first cell in a tracking area to a second cell in the tracking area, and report coverage related information of the terminal device to a network device in response to the movement of the terminal device from the first cell to the second cell.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for conditional skipping of measurements. A first device first determines that a first condition to perform a measurement is met. In this case, if a second condition to skip the measurement is met, the first device skips the measurement. As such, radio measurements can be performed conditionally so as to save power for the first device.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for paging early indication monitoring in user equipment specific discontinuous reception and cell specific discontinuous reception are provided. For example, a method can include determining at least one of an overlap between first paging frames of a user equipment specific discontinuous reception cycle and second paging frames of a cell specific discontinuous reception cycle, relative lengths of the user equipment specific discontinuous reception cycle and the cell specific discontinuous reception cycle, or whether an indication about transmission of a user equipment specific paging early indication is present. The method can also include deciding monitoring for a paging early indication for a paging frame based on a result of the determining.
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose devices, methods and apparatuses for reconfiguration control. A terminal device receives, from a first network device, indication information on at least one reconfiguration performing condition related to data transfer status regarding one or more applications. Then, the terminal device performs a reconfiguration operation based on determining that the at least one reconfiguration performing condition is fulfilled. In this way, the terminal device may perform reconfiguration with an optimized execution time, thereby minimizing service disruption.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to data transmission for discontinuous connectivity. A terminal device receives, from an access network device, an indication that an acknowledgement for application data from the terminal device is to be deferred. The terminal device avoids retransmitting the application data based on the indication. As such, redundant retransmissions of the application data can be avoided.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to positioning enhancements. A first device receives, from a second device providing a serving cell for the first device, a configuration of a plurality of SRS triggering states associated with a plurality of SRSs on a group of bandwidth parts. The first device receives, from the second device, an indication of a target triggering state of the plurality of SRS triggering states. The first device then transmits, based on the target triggering state, the plurality of SRSs on at least a part of the group of bandwidth parts sequentially. In this way, SRS transmissions across multiple SRS resources or SRS resource sets withing multiple BWPs can be triggered in a frequency hopping manner via single DCI, which reduces the signaling overhead and latency, and improve the positioning efficiency.
Disclosed are devices, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for radio resource reservation. An example network controller may include at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory may store instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, may cause the network controller at least to perform: updating a value for a local burst arrival time in response to a report of a time sensitive communication related event monitoring result from at least one network device of one or more network devices controlled by the network controller; updating a radio resource reservation instruction based on the updated value for the local burst arrival time; and transmitting to the at least one network device, the updated radio resource reservation instruction which comprises the updated value for the local burst arrival time.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to certificate management for network functions (NFs). A first core network device receives, from a second core network device, status information of a certificate of the second core network device. The first core network device further stores the status information in a profile of the second core network device. As such, with the status information of the certificate being stored in the profile of the second core device, the certificate of the second core device can be managed in association with the second core network device itself, thereby improving efficiency of certificate management for the NFs.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to improvement of accuracy of angle based positioning. A terminal device receives a plurality of beams from an access network device. The terminal device determines a time offset referenced to a slot start reference which is synchronized to the access network device and a received power level for each of the plurality of beams. The terminal device transmits, to the access network device, a list including the determined time offset and the received power level respectively, and a corresponding beam identity (ID) for each of the plurality of beams. The list of beams is utilized by an access network device to determine a position of the terminal device using an angled based positioning method.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method, device and computer readable media for sidelink communications. A first device determines whether in-band emission (IBE) will degrade a reception of a first transmission from the first device or a second transmission from a second device, wherein the first transmission and the second transmission are to be performed on a first slot and in a first transmission band. If the in-band emission will degrade the reception, the first device changes a first starting point of the first transmission.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of cell selection. A first device receives, from a second device, an indication of a cell list associated with a feature and at least one of an allowed cell list or an excluded cell list. The first device determines, based on a capability of the first device, at least one of the following: one or more allowed cells for the first device based on one or more cells in the allowed cell list and one or more cells in the cell list associated with the feature, or one or more excluded cells for the first device based on one or more cells in the excluded cell and one or more cells in the cell list associated with the feature. As such, separate cell reselection control for devices supporting and not supporting new feature (s) is provided.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to controlling a process towards a cell with a duplex operation. A method comprises: receiving, at a first device from a second device, at least one of a first set of values and a second set of values for a parameter set associated with a process towards a cell; determining whether a condition associated with a duplex operation is met; and in accordance with a determination that the condition is met, at least applying the second set of values to the process towards the cell.
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for protecting information for a SoR procedure initiated by a user equipment (UE). A method comprises, creating at a UE, a first secured packet which is protected with one or more keys, wherein the first secured packet comprises enhanced steering of roaming (SoR) related information for triggering a SoR procedure; and sending from the UE to a first visited public land mobile network (VPLMN), a message comprising the first secured packet. Each of the one or more keys is a symmetric key, which is available for the UE and a home public land mobile network (HPLMN) of the UE before a primary authentication of an initial registration to the first VPLMN.
An apparatus comprising a plurality of resonant tunneling diode, RTD, elements and a synchronization signal source configured to provide an optical synchronization signal to the plurality of resonant tunneling diode elements.
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Disclosed is a method comprising determining, for a terminal device, a connection path, wherein the connection path comprises multiple radio links connecting an overlaying network and a subnetwork, and wherein the terminal device is comprised in the subnetwork, obtaining a management scheme for co-ordinating radio resource usage of the multiple radio links, and causing radio resource control states of the radio links to be synchronized in accordance with the management scheme.
In an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network, an IAB node may provide a wireless access service and a wireless backhaul service for user equipment. In such a network one or more IAB nodes may act as relay nodes relaying data between the UE and the core network. Embodiments relate to configuring a wireless backhaul link for relaying wireless communication packets between an IAB relay node and a centralised network node. The centralised IAB node maps a user equipment UE bearer associated with a UE to at least one backhaul bearer, the UE bearer being between the UE and the network node, and the backhaul bearer is between a relay node and the network node. The centralised node then transmits the mapping to the relay node.
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An apparatus configured to: determine to switch from a first positioning method to a second positioning method, wherein the first positioning method is different from the second positioning method in terms of at least one of: a node at which interference is performed, a node at which user equipment location estimation is performed, an input to an artificial intelligence or machine learning model, a structure of the artificial intelligence or machine learning model, an output of the artificial intelligence or machine learning model, or a task of the artificial intelligence or machine learning model; and determine a position of the apparatus based on the second positioning method.
Apparatus and methods are proposed for use in a communication network comprising a plurality of positioning reference units and a plurality of transmission-reception points, wherein a positioning reference unit has a positioning reference unit location and is adapted for establishing a communication link with one or more transmission-reception points, the communication link being associated with an indicator subject to noise, the indicator having an indicator value. The apparatus and method use a first learning model to obtain ground truth values for indicators that can be used for enhanced positioning of user equipment in the communication network. One or more iterations of the following are performed : - training the first learning model with: - as input features, positioning measurements received from the plurality of positioning reference units for a plurality of transmission-reception points, and indicators associated with the communication links between the positioning reference units and the transmission-reception points, and - as output variables, predicted locations, - running inference of the first learning model to obtain predicted locations, - adjusting the values of the indicators to optimize a metric based on the positioning reference unit locations and the predicted locations.
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CONDITIONAL SKIPPING MONITORING OF DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to for conditionally skipping monitoring of downlink control channel in random access. A first apparatus receives, from a second apparatus, a command indicating the first apparatus to skip monitoring a downlink control channel between the second apparatus and the first apparatus for a time period. The first apparatus initiates an RA procedure towards the second apparatus. The time period at least partially overlaps with a time window associated with the RA procedure and an end of the time period is after an end of the time window. The first apparatus determines whether the RA procedure is successfully completed or contention resolution for the RA procedure is successful. Based on the determination, the first apparatus ignores or performs the command after the end of the time window.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a dielectric resonator and a microwave device. A dielectric resonator comprises a housing defining a cavity and a dielectric body arranged within the cavity. The housing is at least surface conductive. The cavity comprises a first top surface, a first bottom surface and at least four side surfaces. The dielectric body comprises a second top surface in conductive contact with the first top surface, a second bottom surface in conductive contact with the first bottom surface and eight side surfaces. A first set of four side surfaces among the eight side surfaces are parallelly separate from the four side surfaces of the cavity. A second set of four side surfaces among the eight side surfaces face four lateral edges of the cavity. In this way, the dielectric resonator has a reduced volume, low manufacturing cost, and reliable performance.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to traffic transferring in user equipment (UE) -to-network (U2N) relay scenario. A central unit of a first network device transmits, to a central unit of a second network device, a request to use a distributed unit of the second network device and a relay terminal device for transferring traffic between a remote terminal device and the central unit of the first network device. The first network device and the second network device are a master node and a secondary node for the relay terminal device. Then, the central unit of the first network device receives, from the central unit of the second network device, a response comprising information for the central unit of the first network device to transmit the traffic of the remote terminal device to the relay terminal device or receive the traffic of the remote terminal device from the relay terminal device via the distributed unit of the second network device.
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for mitigating a risk of service un-availability during a migration of certification authority (CA) for the communication network. A method comprises, causing a creating of a first set of network function instances which is redundant for a second set of network function instances using a new root certificate updated in a migration of certificate authority (CA), wherein respective certificates for the second set of network function instances are to be updated in the migration of CA; and causing services being served by the second set of network function instances to be transferred to the first set of network function instances.
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Beam configuration optimization is disclosed. A network node device may deter- mine a grid of beams. The grid of beams is determined to maximize a fairness function of an estimated received power of at least two of the beams of the grid of beams that are optimal for each client device of a plurality of client devices.
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Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to architecture of a distributed AP MLD. An apparatus comprises at least two upper MAC sublayer function entities and at least one middle MAC sublayer function entity configured to be affiliated by at least one AP that has a lower MAC sublayer function entity. The at least one middle MAC sublayer function entity is configured to communicate with the at least two upper MAC sublayer function entities through a logical port.
Method comprising: receiving, at a first microservice of a user plane, a first packet or a first frame, wherein the first packet or the first frame, respectively, comprises first metadata and first content; processing at least one of the first metadata or the first content, respectively, according to at least one of the first metadata or the first content to obtain a result of the processing; generating second metadata and second content based on at least one of the first metadata, the first content, or the result of the processing; producing a second packet or a second frame, respectively, wherein the second packet or the second frame, respectively, comprises the second metadata or the second metadata and the second content; forwarding the second packet or the second frame, respectively, on a next hop to a second microservice of the user plane or to a destination indicated in the second metadata.
There is provided an apparatus comprising means for: determining a minimum number of antennas in an antenna array of a base station for using for transmissions between the base station and at least one user equipment, wherein the minimum number of antennas satisfies a quality of service requirement for the at least one user equipment served by the base station; based on the determined minimum number of antennas, determining an antenna configuration pattern of the antenna array; and using the determined antenna activation pattern for the transmissions between the at least one user equipment and the base station.
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systems; Multi-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
A sidelink transmission beam sweeping may be performed by transmitting, from a transmitting apparatus, during one sidelink transmission slot, which comprises a plurality of symbols, at the beginning of the slot a first portion of the symbols using a wide beam with a first transmission power, and after the first portion two or more second portions of the symbols using two or more narrow beams, a sec-ond portion per a narrow beam with a second transmission power, which is de-termined based on a gain difference between the wide beam and the narrow beam. The first portion comprises at least one or more symbols for automatic gain control in the one or more receiving apparatus, and the second portions comprise at least reference signals, a reference signal per a second portion.
Systems, methods, and software of adapting an application service. In one embodiment, a Radio Access Network (RAN) controller (404) of a RAN (102) is configured to provide radio service to User Equipment (UE) (106). The RAN controller receives a request from an application service (410) for performance metrics (702) of an application service flow (512) between the application service and an application client hosted by the UE. The RAN controller receives an identification token (701) from the application service that identifies one or more data radio bearers (504) of the RAN serving the application service flow, receives a report message from one or more RAN nodes (402) of the RAN containing the performance metrics for the data radio bearers, and provides the performance metrics to the application service indexed by the identification token. The application service may then be adapted based on the performance metrics.
An apparatus comprising: at least one processing element configured to process a data flow in at least one direction of a plurality of directions; a configuration register comprising at least one setting that determines the processing of the data flow with the at least one processing element; and a shift register configured to select data of the at least one processing element from the at least one direction, and to provide at least one shifted data sample to a plurality of slices configured to perform at least one arithmetic operation with the data flow; wherein at least one slice of the plurality of slices is configured with the at least one setting of the configuration register.
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INTERFERENCE WEIGHTING BASED SUBBAND SELECTION PROCEDURE
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of interference weighting based sub-band selection procedure. The method comprises receiving, from a second device in a radio access network, a configuration for determining a weighted inter-subnetwork interference between a first subnetwork of the radio access network and at least one second subnetwork of the radio access network, wherein the configuration is indicative of at least one of a first weighting or a second weighting for the weighted inter-subnetwork interference; determining the weighted inter-subnetwork interference at least based on the configuration; and transmitting the weighted inter-subnetwork interference to the second device for selecting at least one sub-band for the first subnetwork. In this way, weighting operations may be proposed for the inter-subnetwork interferences and the associated low-complexity sub-band selection procedure to minimize the sum weighted interference over all the subnetworks, which may flexibly optimize and balance various system performance.
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Abstraction of machine learning performance, including: a first device transmits, to a second device, a first abstraction request for at least one performance of a machine learning (ML) entity provided by the first device, the machine learning entity used for a third device. The first device receives, from the second device, a first abstraction report comprising at least one index of the at least one performance, the at least one index being understandable by the third device. In this way, artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning performance metrics are qualified and abstracted into AI or ML consumer understandable indices.
A method comprising: training a machine learning model to learn a communication protocol for a communication medium by assigning a function to control plane actions in a set of control plane actions without predefined associated function, wherein the protocol defines control-plane messages to be transmitted via the communication medium and a user-plane policy; wherein the machine learning model is configured to identify, in the set of control plane actions, a control plane action to be performed during a current transmission time interval by a protocol agent at a network node.
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In a system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium, an intelligent transportation system node may be caused to, determine traffic condition information associated with a desired segment of a road network, the road network including at least one reserved lane, determine whether to dequeue at least one access request token from the plurality of input queues based on the determined traffic condition information and vehicle information corresponding to at least one vehicle associated with the at least one access request token, and transmit at least one reserved lane access token from a set of reserved lane access tokens to at least one vehicle corresponding to the at least one dequeued access request token, the at least one reserved lane access token instructing the at least one vehicle to access to the reserved lane.
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G08G 1/065 - Traffic control systems for road vehicles by counting the vehicles in a section of the road or in a parking area, i.e. comparing incoming count with outgoing count
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Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses of quality of experience (QoE). A first device receives, from a second device, a QoE configuration request, wherein the QoE configuration request indicates an action for at least one of the following: QoE measurement data, at least one QoE configuration maintained at the first device, or QoE measurement collection. The first device performs the action indicated in the QoE configuration request. Through this solution, it is flexible to control QoE measurement behaviors related to buffered QoE measurement data, previous QoE configuration (s), and/or performing of QoE measurement collection, without leaving ambiguity to the first device.
In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform identifying at least one extended Antenna-Carrier identifier (eAxC ID) profile for configuration of at least one of cells or carriers by an operator of a communication network; receiving or using over an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) management plane (M-Plane) flow from an Open Radio Access Network radio unit (O-RU) a capability report comprising a list of at least one extended Antenna-Carrier identifier (eAxC ID) subfield assignment supported by the Open Radio Access Network radio unit (O-RU); mapping the supported at least one extended Antenna-Carrier identifier (eAxC ID) subfield assignment to the at least one extended Antenna-Carrier identifier (eAxC ID) profile; selecting an optimal and mutually supported extended Antenna-Carrier identifier (eAxC ID) profile of the at least one extended Antenna-Carrier identifier (eAxC ID) profile; and based on the selecting, configuring endpoints with extended Antenna-Carrier identifier (eAxC ID) subfield assignment and extended Antenna-Carrier identifier (eAxC ID) values for one of transmitting or receiving a signal for data exchange to available resources over control signal and user data exchange planes (C/U).
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method, device and computer readable media for sidelink communications. A first device obtains a configuration of a first PSFCH resource in a secondary band. The first PSFCH resource is for HARQ feedback information in response to a sidelink data transmission from a second device in an operating unlicensed band. The secondary band comprises a non-congested unlicensed band or a band where a channel access procedure is not required. The first device determines whether the HARQ feedback information is to be transmitted on the first PSFCH resource in the secondary band. The first device transmits, to the second device, the HARQ feedback information on the first PSFCH resource in accordance with a determination that the HARQ feedback information is to be transmitted on the first PSFCH resource in the secondary band.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to failure detection. In this solution, a first device receives a reference signal configuration from a second device. The reference signal configuration indicates a set of occasions for monitoring a set of reference signals. The first device also receives information indicating a change in a transmission of the reference signal. The first device performs a predetermined operation associated with a failure detection. For example, if no reference signal is transmitted or a reference signal is transmitted with a reduced transmission power in an occasion from the set of occasions based on the information, the first device may perform the predetermined operation. In this way, it can avoid false alarm of failure declaration. Moreover, it may also avoid false reset of a failure detection counter due to absence of reference signal when the network device determines not to send the reference signal for power saving.
Certain examples of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus, method and computer program for determining channel access priority. Certain examples provide apparatus (10) comprising: means (11) for determining information indicative of a channel access priority (p) for a physical sidelink feedback channel, PSFCH, transmission (205) based at least in part on: information indicative of at least one status of a last at least one PSFCH transmission (204); or information indicative of a cast type of a sidelink, SL, transmission (202) that is associated with the PSFCH transmission (205).
Various example embodiments relate to methods and apparatuses for network slice security for non-3GPP access. An apparatus may be configured to send to an access network device, a request message comprising network slice group information corresponding to network slice identification information of the terminal device; and receive from the access network device, an identification of a non-3GPP access network device capable of serving at least one network slice indicated in the network slice identification information in response to the request message.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for optimizing downlink control signaling to carry more information such as HARQ feedback enabling and disabling. One method may include determining at least one subset value associated with a control information field, and transmitting a configuration of at least one subset value in DCI associated with the control information field to a user equipment.
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for slice scheduling. A terminal device receives, from a network device, a slice scheduling indication, wherein the slice scheduling indication indicates scheduling control information for one or more slices. Then, the terminal device performs, based on the scheduling control information as indicated by the slice scheduling indication, data transmission of the one or more slices. In this way, the terminal device may be directly specified the number of resources required at the slice level. Therefore, RAN slice resource quotas in uplink direction is effectively controlled.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to registration enhancements for multi-access. A terminal device is provided comprising at least one processor and at least one memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the terminal device at least to: initiate a first registration procedure with a first network device of a first PLMN, and based on determining that the first registration procedure is completed, initiate a second registration procedure with a second network device of a second PLMN. As such, registration for multi-access is enhanced.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable media supporting network slice or tenant specific automated certificate management configurations. A network slice certificate orchestrator may be configured to receive from a management system certification authority configuration indicative of a certification authority configured for one or more network slices, and transmit to a registration authority or a certification authority a certificate request with respect to a network function allocated to one of the one or more network slices along with information of the certification authority configured for the one or more network slices.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to resource selection for subnetworks. A first device obtains status information associated with a first subnetwork of the radio access network. The first device determines, based at least on the status information from at least a first mode and a second mode, a resource selection mode for selecting a resource for communication within the first subnetwork. The first device transmits, to a second device in the first subnetwork, configuration information at least associated with the determined resource selection mode.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for cell re-selection enhancements. A first device receives, from a second device providing a source cell, cell re-selection information indicating a set of candidate cells or candidate frequencies for cell re-selection. The first device receives, from the second device, assistance information for cell re-selection indicating at least one frequency or at least one neighbor cell applying a wake-up signal (WUS), and the set of candidate cells or candidate frequencies comprises at least one neighbor cell or the at least one frequency. The first device performs, based on the cell re-selection information and the assistance information, a cell re-selection evaluation on at least a part of the set of candidate cells or candidate frequencies. In this way, UE supporting WUS can prioritize cells or frequencies that apply WUS, thus energy efficiency can be improved.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to codec bitrate adaptation. A terminal device negotiates, with a second terminal device, a first codec bitrate supported by the first terminal device for voice communicating with the second terminal device. The terminal device receives, from the second terminal device, a second codec bitrate supported by the second terminal device for voice communicating with the first terminal device. Based on the second codec bitrate, the terminal device determines a third codec bitrate supported by the first terminal device for voice communicating with the second terminal device, the third codec bitrate being less than or equal to the second codec bitrate. In this way, the unnecessary access network bitrate recommendation (ANBR) procedure may be avoided, thereby reducing the latency of codec adaptation as well as the voice packet loss in the case of bitrate increase considering the pathloss change trend in NTN system.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of uplink (UL) grant selection for User Equipment (UE). The method comprises determining a plurality of UL grants for a transmission from the first device to a second device, the plurality of UL grants being overlapped or non-overlapped with each other in at least one of the following: a time domain, or a frequency domain. The method further comprises selecting, from the plurality of UL grants, at least one UL grant to be used for the transmission based on data available for the transmission and respective Transport Block Sizes (TBSs) corresponding to the plurality of grant and transmitting the data on the at least one UL grant. In this way, the power saving may be achieved at the UE side without increasing the complexity at the network side.
Embodiments of the present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for slice scheduling. A network device determines buffer statuses for respective logical channels, LCHs, associated with respective slices based on buffer statuses reported by terminal devices for logical channel groups, LCGs. Based on the buffer statuses for the respective LCHs and quotas associated with respective slices, the network device performs resource allocation from respective slices to the terminal devices. In this way, the network device may allocate resources to LCHs as per their resource slice quotas on a best-effort basis, including the complicated case where the LCHs are from the same LCG but have quotas in different slices. Therefore, RAN slice resource quotas in uplink direction is effectively controlled and UL grants from respective slices are properly allocated.
There is provided a computer program, method and an apparatus for causing a geostationary first access node to: establish a radio resource control connection between the geostationary first access node and a user equipment, wherein the radio resource control connection is defined by a user context; and provide the user equipment with information relating to when a non-geostationary second access node will be available to provide service coverage to the user equipment using the user context.
Various example embodiments relate to radio resource control in a communication network. A method may comprise: receiving, by a distributed unit of an access node, a radio resource control identity of a device and an access stratum context associated with the radio resource control identity from a central unit of the access node; configuring, based on the access stratum context, a radio resource control entity of the distributed unit of the access node for delivery of radio resource control data to the device over a signaling radio bearer; generating radio resource control data for the device; and transmitting the radio resource control data to the device on the signaling radio bearer.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of the measurement requirement for the energy saving. The method comprises in accordance with a determination that a DTX is enabled by a second device, determining a relaxed measurement period associated with a measurement performed by the first device; and performing the measurement based on the relaxed measurement period or an unrelaxed measurement period. In this way, by introducing the relaxed measurement period, the required measurement accuracy may be achieved at the terminal device even the energy saving is enabled at the network device.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to handling of QoE sessions that survive RRC-IDLE mode. An access network device determine that a terminal device is to perform a quality of experience, QoE, measurement collection after disconnection from the first access network device; based on determining that the terminal device is to perform a QoE measurement collection after disconnection, transmit, to the terminal device, a QoE context identifier identifying QoE context information used for the QoE measurement collection; and transmit the QoE context identifier and the QoE context information to a core network device. As provided in the present disclosure, the stored QoE reports can be sent to the new serving gNB and then to MCE.
Disclosed are devices, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for configured grant activation. An example terminal device may include at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory may store instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, may cause the terminal device at least to perform: receiving from a network device, configuration information of a configured grant resource; determining to activate the configured grant resource; and performing a transmission to the network device using the activated configured grant resource.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for status notifications of access network for time sensitive communication. In example embodiments, a terminal device determines a target access device via which the terminal device communicates with a target gateway device. Further, the terminal device transmits, to a source gateway device with which the terminal device communicates via a source access device, a message indicating a handover from the source access device to the target access device. Moreover, the terminal device communicates with the target gateway device based on the same context associated with the terminal device as the source gateway device does.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback enabling and disabling in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). A terminal device receives, from a network device, downlink control information. The downlink control information indicates the number of transport blocks associated with uplink transmission or downlink transmission on a HARQ process, the number of subframes for a transport block of the transport blocks, and a repetition number for the uplink transmission or downlink transmission on the HARQ process. The terminal device obtains a threshold for determining whether HARQ feedback for the HARQ process is disabled or enabled. Moreover, the terminal device determines an enabled state or a disabled state of the HARQ feedback based on the threshold and at least one of: the number of transport blocks, the number of subframes for the transport block, or the repetition number.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to sidelink feedback transmission enhancements. A first device obtains sidelink control information of sidelink transmissions with feedback associated with a same feedback occasion of the first device. The first device further obtains respective values of at least one channel access parameter associated with the feedback of the sidelink transmissions based on the sidelink control information. The first device further determines a value of the at least one channel access parameter for transmitting the feedback of the sidelink transmissions on the same feedback occasion of the first device as a function of the respective values of the at least one channel access parameter. In this way, the sidelink feedback transmission can be enhanced.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for synchronization of buffer status reports with respect to other communication events, such as discontinuous reception cycles are provided. For example, a method can include receiving a configuration from a network, wherein the configuration comprises a discontinuous reception configuration, a report configuration, or both the discontinuous reception configuration and a report configuration. The method can also include starting a discontinuous reception on duration timer for a user equipment in accordance with the discontinuous reception configuration. The method can also include deciding to conditionally send a report for the user equipment upon the start of the discontinuous reception on duration timer in accordance with the configuration. The method can further include sending the report to the network if an uplink grant for the user equipment is preseet.
A UE is configured to receive a set of repetitions of a downlink message from a base station and attempt to decode the DL message after receiving one or more of the repetitions. If decoding is successful, then the UE transmits an uplink message (e.g., a HARQ-ACK) indicating successful decoding. If decoding is not successful, then the UE does not transmit an uplink message indicating unsuccessful decoding. If the set is not completed, then the UE receives one or more additional repetitions and again attempts to decode the DL message. If the base station receives the UL message indicating successful decoding before transmitting all of the repetitions in the set, then the base station stops transmitting repetitions. For half-duplex UEs with HARQ feedback processing disabled, upon successful decoding, the UE switches from downlink mode to uplink mode to transmit the uplink message, thereby avoiding processing of subsequently received repetitions for that same downlink message.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to transmission reception point (TRP) adaptation for network energy efficiency. A terminal device receives, from a network device, a configuration for configuring one or more timers corresponding to one or more TRPs for the terminal device. The terminal device starts or restarts a timer of the one or more timers based on one or more transmissions or receptions associated with a corresponding TRP of the one or more TPRs. The terminal device determines that the TRP is muted based on expiry of the timer. In this way, with expiry of the timer corresponding to the TRP, the terminal device may determine or assume status of the TRP without a need to receive indications from the network, thereby enabling the dynamic TRP adaptation without increasing downlink control overhead.
Some embodiments relate to network data analytics in a communication network. In some embodiments, an inference output generated by an AI model is accessed. The inference output is generated in a network context of a communication network. Data indicative of the network context is collected. The inference output is stored together with the data indicative of the network context as inference- context history. The inference-context history is used for network data analytics of the communication network.
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A network node able to communicate with a UE in a wireless network determines dynamic resource allocation. A single message for the allocation schedules resources on multiple periodic shared channels for the UE to use. The network node transmits the dynamic resource allocation toward the UE. The network node transmits or receives the resources on the multiple periodic shared channels according to the dynamic resource allocation. A UE receives, from a network node in a wireless network, a single message comprising a dynamic resource allocation that schedules multiple periodic shared channels for the UE to use. The UE transmits or receives the multiple periodic shared channels according to the dynamic resource allocation.
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