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.
An optical network unit is configured to send a plurality of optical signals with different wavelengths to an optical line terminal. The optical signals in the plurality of optical signals carry indicating information. The indicating information is used to indicate the wavelength serial number of the optical signal and the temperature information of the laser chip when the optical signal is generated. The optical unit is further configured to receive temperature adjustment information from the optical line terminal; and adjust, based on the temperature adjustment information, the emission wavelength of the laser by adjusting the temperature of the laser chip.
An apparatus include a first circuit board, which has a detection circuit. The first circuit board has a first plurality of cable plugs, wherein each of the cable plugs has an array of electrical contacts such that a same multiwire cable type is physically and electrically pluggable to the different cable plugs of the first plurality. The detection circuit is configured to obtain information indicative of whether, at least, one of the cable plugs is connected by a multiwire cable of the multiwire cable type to a matched cable plug of a second plurality of cable plugs on a second circuit board. The detection circuit is configured to obtain the information by sensing a pattern of direct current signals across a first subset of the electrical contacts of the one of the cable plugs of the first circuit board.
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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SEGMENTS FOR A DOWNSTREAM TRANSMISSION AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING SEGMENTS OF A DOWNSTREAM TRANSMISSION FOR A PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK
A method for transmitting a first segment of a first modulation format, a second segment of a second modulation format and a third segment of a third modulation format, wherein the second segment is transmitted between the first segment and the third segment, wherein the first modulation format includes a first set of constellation points, wherein the second modulation format includes a second set of constellation points, wherein the third modulation format includes a third set of constellation points, wherein the second set is included in an intersection of the first set and the third set, wherein the first set and the third set differ by at least one constellation point.
Disclosed are methods for precoding in a downlink multiple-input multiple-output system based on an array of subarray architecture. An example method may include: determining an analog precoding matrix for a plurality of radio frequency chains in the downlink multiple-input multiple-output system; determining a digital precoding matrix for the plurality of radio frequency chains based on the determined analog precoding matrix; and performing a hybrid precoding for a plurality of downlink data streams based on the determined digital precoding matrix and the determined analog precoding matrix. Related apparatuses and computer readable media are also disclosed.
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POINT-TO-POINT OPTICAL COMMUNICATION VIA A FREE SPACE LINK
An apparatus comprises an optical data receiver to receive first and second data-modulated optical carriers in different wavelength bands via a free space optical link and to generate an output digital data stream from demodulated segments of the first and second data-modulated optical carriers. The optical data receiver is configured to make selections between temporally corresponding portions of the first and second data-modulated optical carriers for generating successive portions of the output digital data stream. The optical data receiver is configured to make one of the selections between two of the temporally corresponding portions of the first and second data-modulated optical carriers based on at least one value of a quality indicator obtained for at least one of two temporally corresponding portions.
There are provided measures for efficient cell baseband processing pooling. Such measures exemplarily comprise acquiring a predicted future computational load of baseband processing for each selected radio cell of a plurality of radio cells, and determining an allocation of each selected radio cell of said plurality of radio cells to anyone of a plurality of processing resource units based on said predicted future computational load of baseband processing for each selected radio cell of said plurality of radio cells and computation capabilities of each of said plurality of processing resource units.
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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.
According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for performing the following. The apparatus maintains, in at least one memory, information on a reference incidence direction and reference configuration information defining a plurality of configurations of a plurality of tunable load impedance circuits of a tunable reflective array of a reconfigurable intelligent surface or a subpanel thereof for the reference incidence direction. The apparatus measures an incidence direction from which electromagnetic waves are received by the reconfigurable intelligent surface. The apparatus calculates, based on the reference incidence direction, the measured incidence direction and the reference configuration information, corrected configuration information defining a plurality of corrected configurations for the measured incidence direction. Finally, the apparatus configures the plurality of tunable load impedance circuits according to a corrected configuration.
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H04B 7/0456 - Selection of precoding matrices or codebooks, e.g. using matrices for antenna weighting
Various example embodiments for supporting processor capabilities are presented herein. Various example embodiments for supporting processor capabilities may be configured to support increased efficiency in utilization of a micro-operations cache (UC) of a processor. Various example embodiments for supporting increased efficiency in utilization of a UC of a processor may be configured to support increased efficiency in utilization of the UC of the processor based on configuration of the processor such that UC lines created by a prediction window (PW) during execution of a set of instructions by the processor are not invalidated on misprediction of a branch instruction in the set of instructions.
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 comprising: means for implementing a first component configured to provide a backhaul connection to a parent node of a network; means for implementing a second component configured to provide a backhaul connection to a child node of a network and/or to an access link to a user equipment (UE); means for receiving a plurality of code blocks (CB) of a transport block (TB) arranged in a first time domain resource allocation from the parent node; means for decoding at least a first subset of code blocks; and means for transmitting at least the first subset of code blocks of the transport block at a second time domain resource allocation to the child node or the UE, wherein the number of code blocks in the first subset is configured to be determined at least based on a processing time for decoding the first set of code blocks or a latency target of the plurality of code blocks of the transport block or channel quality parameters of the link.
A controller of a RAN detects an interferer is present in a region covered by antenna array(s) that provide a 3D view of segments of a cell, using at least a mapping from the segments to corresponding anomaly signatures, and using radio measurements taken in the segments, to determine segment(s) affected by the interferer. The controller performs mitigation of interference in the segment(s). A base station controlling the antenna array(s) determines that an event has been detected because radio measurement(s) of the segments of the cell meet an event detection threshold, and performs and sends to the controller multiple symbol-level radio measurements. The controller also causes channel sensing and radio measurements to be performed by the base station for steady state and states of interest in the cell. The controller correlates these radio measurements to map from segments to anomaly signatures and uses the mapping to perform interference mitigation.
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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 K identifier: 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 K identifier: 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 front frequencies and rear frequencies 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.
This specification relates to an apparatus which stores a machine-learned model including a first neural network block including multiple convolutional neural network layers, a second neural network block including at least one dilated convolutional neural network layer, and a linear transformation block. The apparatus is configured to receive input data representing in-phase and quadrature signals of an input signal that is to be amplified by a power amplifier, to process the received input data using the first neural network block of the machine learned model to generate a first neural network block output, to process the received input data using the second neural network block of the machine learned model to generate a second neural network block output, and to combine, using the linear transformation block, the first neural network block output and the second neural network block output to generate a pre-distorted signal for amplification by the power amplifier.
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.
An apparatus includes an optical wavelength multiplexer to multiplex a sequence of optical wavelength channels. The optical wavelength multiplexer comprises a first passive optical filter to combine odd channels of the sequence of optical wavelength channels into a first multiplexed optical signal, a second passive optical filter to combine even channels of the sequence of optical wavelength channels into a second multiplexed optical signal, and an optical combiner to combine the odd channels and the even channels into a composite optical signal. The optical wavelength multiplexer comprises variable optical attenuators, and an electronic controller to operate the variable optical attenuators to substantially block one or more adjacent optical wavelength channels adjacent to a particular optical wavelength channel provisioned to the optical wavelength multiplexer in response to a width for the particular optical wavelength channel being larger than a width of the adjacent optical wavelength channel(s).
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.
G01S 5/02 - Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position-line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations using radio waves
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.
A method including: receiving, by a multi-panel user equipment from a serving network entity, information indicative of predicted transmissions of reference signals by a serving network entity or target network entity; and applying a panel prioritization strategy for the multi-panel user equipment based on the received information indicative of predicted transmissions of reference signals.
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNAL CONDITIONING OF BURST SIGNAL
In one embodiment, the apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions and cause the apparatus to perform, receiving, by a receiver in an Optical Line Terminal, OLT, a burst of an upstream signal transmitted in burst mode, adjusting settings for an analog signal conditioning of the received upstream signal; performing the analog signal conditioning of the received upstream signal based on the adjusted settings such that a first compensated signal is provided, obtaining coefficient(s) for a digital signal conditioning of the first compensated signal; performing the digital signal conditioning of the first compensated signal based on the obtained coefficient(s) such that a second compensated signal is provided.
Various embodiments relate to a transport slice controller, including: 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: initialize a transport slice activation and deactivation protocol (TS-ADCP) session for a transport slice of a telecommunications network; determine an indication of the login status of users of the transport slice, wherein the login status includes an indication that a first user has logged in to the transport slice or that a last user has logged out of the transport slice; and sending a message with the indication of the login status of users to a network element to indicate that the transport slice should be activated or deactivated.
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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Disclosed is a method comprising transmitting one or more requests for charging or discharging batteries of a plurality of base stations, wherein the plurality of base stations comprise at least a first group of base stations associated with a first communications service provider, and a second group of base stations associated with a second communications service provider different to the first communications service provider.
An apparatus including at least one processor configured to execute instructions and cause the apparatus to perform, obtaining for a first possible state (s) of a received sample at the current time step (k), log-likelihood ratio, Ilr, values Ilrold,min, Ilrold,max of a first transmitted bit (bj), wherein, the Ilr values Ilrold,min, Ilrold,max are respectively associated with a most likely state and a less likely state related to a received sample at the previous time step (k−1); determining based on path metrics and branch metrics corresponding to the received sample at the current time step (k); a first parameter (Q) related to a difference between likelihoods of the most likely state and the less likely state; updating magnitude of the Ilr value Ilrold,min at least based on the Ilr value Ilrold,min, the Ilr value Ilrold,max, and the first parameter, to obtain an updated Ilr value Ilrold,updated.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable medium of a configuration of successful primary secondary cell (PSCell) change report. The method comprises obtaining information associated with a SPCR; and determining a configuration of the SPCR based at least partly on the information.
Disclosed is a method comprising obtaining a first set of measurement information associated with a reference signal transmitted from a set of positioning reference units; selecting a subset of positioning reference units from the set of positioning reference units, wherein the selection is based at least on determining that the reference signal transmitted per positioning reference unit of the subset of positioning reference units is measured by a same set of network nodes that measured a reference signal transmitted from a target user device; and refining a location estimate of the target user device based at least on a subset of measurement information from the first set of measurement information, wherein the subset of measurement information is associated with the subset of positioning reference units.
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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.
Disclosed is a method comprising generating a preamble matrix comprising a plurality of entries, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of entries indicate random-access preambles; obtaining a sequence encoded with the preamble matrix; and transmitting the sequence to one or more user devices.
Disclosed is a method comprising initiating, by an apparatus, an activation procedure for activating one or more positioning reference units for a positioning session of the apparatus; wherein the activation procedure is initiated via a small data transmission based on at least one of: a number of detected network nodes being above a first threshold value, or a number of detected positioning reference units being above a second threshold value; or wherein the activation procedure is initiated by transmitting an activation request to the one or more positioning reference units over sidelink based on the number of detected positioning reference units comprising at least the one or more positioning reference units.
An apparatus comprising means for implementing a near-real-time radio access network intelligent controller; means for detecting an event triggering a need for an auditing of active service subscriptions at an associated access node; means for transmitting a service subscription audit request to said access node; means for receiving a service subscription audit response comprising information about at least one active any existing service subscription for said near-real-time radio access network intelligent controller from said access node; and means for carrying out a procedure to ensure that a configuration of said at least one active service subscription at the near-real-time radio access network intelligent controller corresponds to the information received from the access node.
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.
Disclosed is an apparatus comprising means for: detecting an occurrence of a traffic burst event on a flow within a wireless network; responsive to the detection of the occurrence of a traffic burst event, determining whether a traffic burst allowance is available; responsive to determining that the traffic burst allowance is available, scheduling the flow and/or another flow within the wireless network with a traffic burst bit rate at which to transmit data, the traffic burst bit rate being greater than a first, guaranteed bit rate indicated by an assigned quality of service for the flow; and responsive to determining that the traffic burst allowance has been exhausted and/or determining that occurrence of the traffic burst event has stopped, scheduling the flow with the first bit rate.
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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A method includes estimating an uplink channel for a terminal device, based on an amount of antennas used by an access node for transmitting signals to the terminal device, antennas used for receiving the transmitted signals at the terminal device, and sub-bands used for transmitting the signals. Based on the estimation, a channel covariance matrix is determined for a precoder comprised in a transmitter of the access node by determining a limited number of elements of a full dimensional channel covariance matrix, which is different than the channel covariance matrix. The limited number of elements are elements corresponding to i-th row and j-th column of the channel covariance. Correlation computation is performed for the limited number of elements. Elements of the full-dimensional channel covariance matrix that are excluded from the limited number of elements are determined and set to be zero. Precoding is performed using the determined channel covariance matrix.
Systems, methods, and software for load management among a plurality of cells that overlap a sector within a Radio Access Network (RAN). In one embodiment, a system receives, at a machine learning system, input data for a sector of the RAN having a plurality of cells overlapping at the sector. The system processes the input data at the machine learning system to determine recommended load distribution parameters for the sector based on a machine learning model, where the recommended load distribution parameters are configured to maximize an aggregated user throughput of the sector. The system applies the recommended load distribution parameters in the sector to distribute users among the cells.
An apparatus includes circuitry configured for determining which one or more user equipment of a plurality of user equipment are to be scheduled in a scheduling round. This is based on an associated quality of service and on a time domain metric associated with a respective user equipment of the plurality of user equipment.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for power state transition handling for energy harvesting aware user equipment are provided. For example, a method can include monitoring an energy level and power state of a user equipment. The method can also include determining whether the energy level satisfies a power state transition criterion. The method can further include transitioning from a first power state to a second power state based on the power state transition criterion being determined to be satisfied by the energy level of the user equipment.
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.
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Software for automating the lifecycle of telecommunication networks operation, including service orchestration, service fulfillment and service assurance; software for use in the field of telecommunication network and internet security; software for use in the field of computer virus protection; software for use in monitoring and controlling firewall, network intrusion detection, network intrusion prevention, endpoint security, and security information and event management (SIEM) systems deployed across computer and telecommunication networks; software for use in detecting and preventing malware, virus, trojan, ransomware, spyware, adware, exploits, denial-of-service (DoS), and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over computer and telecommunication networks; software for use in checking, configuring, upgrading and improving the effectiveness of computer and telecommunication network security systems; software for managing SIM cards and telecommunication devices including IoT, mobile and home devices; software for managing and controlling subscriber profiles and subscriber access to information technology networks and telecommunication networks; software for charging telecommunication services; software for collecting, consolidating, processing and refining data from information technology networks and telecommunication networks, including call data records and other information relating to customer care, marketing, charging and billing. Software as a Service (SaaS) for automating the lifecycle of telecommunication networks operation, including service orchestration, service fulfillment and service assurance; software as a Service (SaaS) for use in the field of telecommunication network and internet security; software as a Service (SaaS) for use in the field of computer virus protection; software as a Service (SaaS) for use in monitoring and controlling firewall, network intrusion detection, network intrusion prevention, endpoint security, and security information and event management (SIEM) systems deployed across computer and telecommunication networks; software as a Service (SaaS) for use in detecting and preventing malware, virus, trojan, ransomware, spyware, adware, exploits, denial-of-service (DoS), and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over computer and telecommunication networks; software as a Service (SaaS) for use in checking, configuring, upgrading and improving the effectiveness of computer and telecommunication network security systems; software as a Service (SaaS) for managing SIM cards and telecommunication devices including IoT, mobile and home devices; software as a Service (SaaS) for managing and controlling subscriber profiles and subscriber access to information technology networks and telecommunication networks; software as a Service (SaaS) for charging telecommunication services; software as a Service (SaaS) for collecting, consolidating, processing and refining data from information technology networks and telecommunication networks, including call data records and other information relating to customer care, marketing, charging and billing.
A screw assembly, including: a removable shoulder screw including: a first screw shaft portion; a second screw shaft portion; a first threaded portion; and a first shaft edge between the first screw shaft portion and the second screw shaft portion, wherein the second screw shaft portion is between the first screw shaft portion and the first threaded portion, and wherein a diameter of the second screw shaft portion is smaller than the diameter of the first screw shaft portion; and a first removable shoulder including a first removable shoulder opening and a first removable shoulder edge, wherein the first removable shoulder opening has a diameter less than the diameter of the first screw shaft portion and is configured to engage the second screw shaft portion, and wherein the first removable shoulder edge is configured to engage the first shaft edge.
Systems, methods, and software for load management among a plurality of cells that overlap a sector within a Radio Access Network (RAN). In one embodiment, a system performs sector throughput optimization over multiple optimization iterations of determining a total number of active users in the sector, determining a target number of users per cell that maximizes an aggregated user throughput of the sector where a sum of the target number of users per cell is equal to the total number of active users in the sector, determining recommended load distribution parameters for the sector based on the target number of users per cell that maximizes the aggregated user throughput of the sector, and applying the recommended load distribution parameters in the sector to distribute users among the cells.
A user equipment transmits a request to configure a first network to transmit complementary content associated with multicast or broadcast content received at the user equipment from a second network. In some cases, the request is transmitted in response to the user equipment detecting that a quality of a signal received from the second network is below a threshold. In response to receiving the request, the first network is configured to transmit the complementary content. The complementary content is transmitted from the first network concurrently with transmitting the multicast or broadcast content from the second network. The user equipment combines the complementary content received from the first network with the multicast or broadcast content received from the second network.
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A cache management subsystem (CMS) for a network having network gateways logically organized into network gateway (NG) subsets, each NG subset comprising redundant network gateways and each network gateway comprising a local cache configured to store cache entries corresponding to information requests from network users. The subsystem includes (i) a cache manager configured to synchronize certain cache entries between the network gateways of an NG subset and (ii) a CMS cache configured to store, for the NG subset, other cache entries that are not synchronized between the network gateways of the NG subset. In certain implementations, the cache manager synchronizes within NG subsets recent cache entries having relatively frequent hits and the CMS cache stores recent cache entries having relatively infrequent hits, thereby increasing efficiencies if and when a redundant network gateway handles requests for a failed network gateway.
An apparatus is disclosed, which may include: 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 perform: receiving downlink channel estimates between a plurality of access point (AP) antennas of one or more APs and a plurality of user equipment (UE) antennas of one or more UEs; iteratively updating a set of power allocation weights for the AP antennas using weights extracted from a precoder; computing the precoder based on the received channel estimates and a previous set of power allocation weights; performing the iterative updates until a stopping criterion is reached; and outputting data representative of a precoder computed from the received channel estimates and the updated set of power allocation weights.
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.
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To update subscription related information using explicit notifications different solutions resulting to a notification updating information relating to a plurality of subscriptions per a network function are disclosed.
An apparatus in a source radio access node comprises means for receiving first information for determining a last packet to be forwarded to a target radio access node to which a communications device is being handed over from the source radio access node, said source radio access node providing a multicast or broadcasting service to the communications device. The means may be for causing the last packet to be forwarded from the source radio access node to the target radio access node with end information indicating that there no further packets are being forwarded.
