The invention refers to a method being performed by a wireless device, UE, to forward data of an application patent unit, PDU, the application PDU being generated by an application in the UE, wherein this wherein the UE performs the steps of: segmenting (100) the application PDU into a plurality of data packets, determining (101) one or a plurality of Quality-of-Service, QoS, parameters associated to the application PDU, determining (102) that different data packets need a different forwarding treatment to comply with the one or the plurality of QoS parameters, and mapping (103) the different data packets to different data radio bearers, DRBs, or providing a different treatment for forwarding in one DRB; the invention further refers to corresponding methods in a code network and in a radio access, RAN node; the invention further relates to a corresponding UE, a core network node and a RAN node.
A method is disclosed for handling a radio communication of a malicious user equipment, UE, in a wireless communication network. The method is performed by at least one network node in the wireless communication network. The method includes obtaining information identifying the malicious UE attached to the wireless communication network. The method includes performing at least one action to deter or delay serving the malicious UE without terminating the radio communication of the malicious UE with the wireless communication network. Further, the method includes controlling allocation of resources to the malicious UE to allow the malicious UE to retain the radio communication with the wireless communication network. Corresponding network node, and computer program products are also disclosed.
A method for communications is proposed. The method may comprise receiving a signaling message from a network node. The signaling message may indicate a subcarrier spacing numerology for a synchronization signal transmission. The method may further comprise determining the subcarrier spacing numerology, based at least in part on the signaling message.
H04W 48/10 - Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery using broadcasted information
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A COMPUTER A SOFTWARE MODULE ARRANGEMENT, A CIRCUITRY ARRANGEMENT, A USER EQUIPMENT AND A METHOD FOR AN IMPROVED USER INTERFACE CONTROLLING MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY
A user equipment comprising at least one side sensor and a controller, wherein the side sensor configured to receive touchless user input, thereby providing a touchless input area, and wherein the controller is configured to: detect a group of objects in the touchless input area; determine a number of objects in the group of objects; determine an application associated with the number of objects; receive input based on the detected group of objects; and determine an action associated with the input for the application associated with the number of objects.
G06F 3/0488 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
G06F 3/01 - Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
G06F 3/0484 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
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METHOD AND DEVICE(S) FOR SUPPORTING MACHINE LEARNING BASED CREST FACTOR REDUCTION AND DIGITAL PREDISTORTION
Method and device(s) for supporting performance of machine learning based CFR and DPD on multiple digital input signals relating to different frequency bands, respectively, in order to signal condition said signals before power amplification and subsequent transmission in said frequency bands by a wireless communication network. The device(s) obtain said multiple digital input signals as complex valued signals. The device(s) perform feature construction that takes said multiple digital input signals as input and provides constructed feature signals according to predefined constructed feature types as output. Said predefined constructed feature types relate to at least the following per complex valued sample of the obtained complex valued multiple digital input signals the real part of the sample, the imaginary part of the sample and at least one of the absolute value of the sample and the phase of the sample.
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for transmitting a mixture of critical and non-critical data in a wireless network. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises receiving a configured uplink grant that allocates uplink resources in a plurality of transmission time intervals and determining, at a time tarrival, that critical data is to be transmitted using the configured uplink grant, where a time tarrival+PT occurs after a start of a particular transmission time interval and where PT is a preparation time needed to prepare an uplink transmission on the configured uplink grant. The method further comprises transmitting an uplink transmission comprising the critical data using allocated uplink resources in the particular transmission time interval starting at a time that is at or after the time tarrival+PT. Corresponding embodiments of a wireless device are also disclosed.
A method of transmitting a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) frame in a Very High Throughput (VHT) Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system includes generating a MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) to be transmitted to a destination station (STA), generating a PLCP Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) by adding a PLCP header, including an L-SIG field containing control information for a legacy STA and a VHT-SIG field containing control information for a VHT STA, to the MPDU, and transmitting the PPDU to the destination STA. A constellation applied to some of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbols of the VHT-SIG field is obtained by rotating a constellation applied to an OFDM symbol of the L-SIGfield.
Network nodes and methods for control thereof for dynamic network slice selection. An AMF receives a UE request originating from the UE, the UE request being any one of a registration request and a session request. A network slice requester controls a transmitter to transmit a network slice selection request to a PC_NSS. A selection data manager of the PC_NSS determines selection data specifying one or more UE specific parameters affecting network slice selection. A network slice selector selects a network slice assignable for the UE, based on the selection data, determines network slice data and a corresponding network slice routing rule, and transmits them to the AMF. A network slice manager of the AMF controls assignment of a network slice to the UE in dependence on the received network slice data and network slice routing rule.
H04W 48/18 - Selecting a network or a communication service
H04W 4/18 - Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
A first wireless communication device (401, 404), WCD, transmits a first indication to a second WCD (401, 404) or receives a first indication from the second WCD. The first indication indicates a first time period (501) during which the first WCD is expected to monitor for receipt of a transmission. The first WCD monitors for receipt of a transmission during the first time period. The first WCD is not expected to monitor for receipt of a transmission during a second time period (502) before the first time period begins. The first WCD performs the transmission or receipt of the first indication after a link has been established between the first WCD and the second WCD for relaying of information to and/or from a network via one or more sidelink transmissions between the first WCD and the second WCD.
There is provided a method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable media for designing and deploying a network service (NS) meeting availability requirements. The method comprises computing availabilities and failure rates of virtual network functions (VNFs) instances available for deploying the NS. The method comprises designing the NS by defining VNFs instances constituents placement and redundancy, using the computed availabilities and failure rates of the VNFs instances. The method comprises deploying the NS.
H04L 41/5054 - Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
H04L 41/0895 - Configuration of virtualised networks or elements, e.g. virtualised network function or OpenFlow elements
H04L 41/40 - Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
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Authentication and Authorization of Servers and Clients in Edge Computing
Embodiments include methods performed by a client in an edge data network. Such methods include obtaining an initial access token before accessing the edge data network. The initial access token is based on an identifier of the client. Such methods include establishing a first connection with a server of the edge data network based on transport layer security (TLS) and authenticating the server based on a server certificate received from the server via the first connection. Such methods include providing the initial access token to the server, via the first connection, for authentication of the client. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a server in an edge data network, as well as apparatus (e.g., user equipment and servers) configured to perform such methods.
A network node and method therein for ultra-reliable communication with a communication device in a wireless communications network are disclosed. The network node determines whether the communication with a second communication device is to be relayed via a relay node and determines that the first communication device is able to act as a relay node for the second communication device. The network node requests the first communication device to operate in a relay mode for relaying communications to the second communication device. The network node communicates with the second communication device over a relay link from the network node to the first communication device and from the first communication device to the second communication device.
H04W 40/22 - Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing using selective relaying for reaching a BTS [Base Transceiver Station] or an access point
H04W 40/10 - Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing based on wireless node resources based on available power or energy
H04W 40/12 - Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing based on transmission quality or channel quality
H04W 40/18 - Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing based on predicted events
H04W 40/20 - Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing based on geographic position or location
A method for enabling attestation of a platform comprising a Trusted Execution Environment, TEE, and a Trusted Platform Module, TPM is disclosed. The method is performed by the TEE and comprises: receiving, from an Application of the platform, a request for generation of an attestation quote, the request comprising a nonce, information on which PCR(s) to be used and information about Attestation Keys; establishing a connection to the TPM and obtaining from it at least one PCR value; generating an attestation quote based on the received nonce and the at least one PCR value; signing the attestation, and rendering the attestation quote available for the Application.
G06F 21/53 - Monitoring users, programs or devices to maintain the integrity of platforms, e.g. of processors, firmware or operating systems during program execution, e.g. stack integrity, buffer overflow or preventing unwanted data erasure by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
Methods, apparatus and systems performed and configured to operate in a wireless communication network are presented. In example implementations, a request to register or update a Network Function, NF, profile of an NF in a Network Repository Function, NRF, is sent from the NF to the NRF. The NF profile signaled via the request comprises one or more parameters relating to one or more of a hardware characteristic of hardware comprised in the wireless communication network, a latency characteristic of the wireless communication network, and a throughput characteristic of the wireless communication network. An acknowledgement of the request may be sent from the NRF to the NF.
H04L 41/40 - Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
H04L 41/082 - Configuration setting characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
H04L 43/20 - Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV
Methods and apparatus are described for adapting wake-up signal monitoring to optimize power saving performance. In one embodiment, a UE can be configured to selectively skip WUS monitoring based on a current UE context. In another embodiment, WUS/PDCCH monitoring and/or other UE procedure can be adapted based on a statistic related to the wake-up signals transmitted by the base station to the UE.
A technique for performing neighbor cell measurements for one or more cells of a cellular radio access network, RAN, is provided. As to a method aspect, a method (200) comprises or triggers a step of detecting (202) at least two neighbor cells of the RAN, wherein at least one of the detected neighbor cells is in a neighbor cell list, NCL, of the RAN, and wherein at least one of the detected neighbor cells Is not in the NCL of the RAN. The method (200) further comprises a step of measuring (204), for each of one or more of the detected cells of the RAN, a measurement signal (300) from the respective cell. The method (200) still further comprises a step of estimating (206), for each of the one or more of the detected cells of the RAN, a radio signal value based on the measured measurement signal (300) from the respective cell.
A user equipment, base station and method for transmitting semi-persistent channel state information (SP-CSI) on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) are provided. The user equipment includes processing circuitry configured to receive a control signaling message the control signaling message configuring the user equipment with at least one SP CSI report configuration on the PUSCH, and the message identifying a SP CSI reporting periodicity. The user equipment also receives physical layer control signaling identifying and activating the at least one SP CSI report configuration. Transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit a plurality of SP CSI reports, the reports being transmitted with the periodicity and according to the physical layer control signaling and the control signaling message.
A method, decoder, and program code for controlling a concealment method for a lost audio frame is provided. A first audio frame and a second audio frame of the received audio signal are decoded to obtain modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) coefficients. Values of a first spectral shape based upon the MDCT coefficients decoded from the first audio frame decoded and values of a second spectral shape based upon MDCT coefficients decoded from the second audio frame decoded are determined, the spectral shapes each comprising a number of sub-bands. The values of the spectral shapes and frame energies of the first audio frame and second audio frame are transformed into representations of FFT based spectral analyses. A transient condition is detected based on the representations of the FFTs. Responsive to detecting the transient condition, the concealment method is modified by selectively adjusting a spectrum magnitude of a substitution frame spectrum.
G10L 19/005 - Correction of errors induced by the transmission channel, if related to the coding algorithm
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G10L 19/02 - Speech or audio signal analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis using spectral analysis, e.g. transform vocoders or subband vocoders
G10L 25/18 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups characterised by the type of extracted parameters the extracted parameters being spectral information of each sub-band
G10L 25/45 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups characterised by the type of analysis window
There is disclosed a method of operating a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The method includes communicating based on reference signaling, the reference signaling being based on a sequence root, the sequence root being one out of a set of sequence roots comprising at least two sequence roots, the set of sequence roots being configured to the wireless device. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
A first method performed by a first network function implementing Edge Enabler Server (EES). The first method comprises receiving a first request message comprising information regarding exposure context information, from a second network function implementing Edge Application Server (EAS). The first method further comprises transmitting a second request message for retrieving the exposure context information to a third network function implementing EES, in response to the information regarding exposure context information. The first method further comprises to receive a first response message including the retrieved exposure context information from the third network function. The first method further comprises to transmit a second response message including information regarding the retrieved exposure context information to the second network function. The disclosed techniques offer an option to transfer EDGE-3 exposure context between the EESs so that the existing subscriptions can be re-used.
A method by a network device to dynamically allocate cores to a user plane application based on a processing load of the user plane application. The method includes determining a processing load of the user plane application, where the user plane application has a plurality of worker threads that are configured to poll queues for traffic to process, determining, based on the processing load of the user plane application, that the user plane application is to be allocated a number of cores in the plurality of cores that is different from a current number of cores allocated to the user plane application, allocating the different number of cores in the plurality of cores to the user plane application, and executing the plurality of worker threads of the user plane application using the different number of cores in the plurality of cores instead of the current number of cores.
A method, system and apparatus for random access with slice grants for prioritized slices are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes receiving a physical random access channel (PRACH) message from a wireless device (WD). The method also includes transmitting at least one random access response (RAR), message the at least one RAR message being configured to provide at least a first grant and a second grant, the first grant configured to grant uplink resources to a WD on a low priority slice, the second grant configured to grant uplink resources to a WD on a high priority slice.
Methods and apparatuses for classifying mobility failure. A method performed by a wireless device comprises detecting a failure event in a MCG, wherein the failure event is at least one of a RLF and a HOF. The method further comprises logging MCG Failure Information associated with the failure event subsequent to detection of the failure event, wherein the MCG Failure Information comprises an elapsed time between time of reception of a last RRC reconfiguration message associated with the MCG and time of MCG connection failure. The RRC reconfiguration message including reconfiguration with sync.
A method performed by a first IP multimedia system, IMS, node (15), for handling a network function in a communication network. The first IMS node (15) requests a first core network node (13) for at least a part of contact information of a network function instance, and receives a response from the first core network node (13) with at least the part of the contact information for the network function instance. The first IMS node (15) communicates with a second IMS node (16) or a core network node over a service based interface, based on the received part of the contact information for the network function instance.
Methods and systems for resume request followed by release and redirect are herein provided. According to one aspect, a method performed by a User Equipment for communicating within a telecommunications network comprises: while in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) INACTIVE state, sending, to a base station, a request to resume communication, and, without entering an RRC CONNECED state, receiving, from the base station, an instruction to release and redirect; and in response to receiving the instruction to release and redirect, performing cell selection in a Radio Access Technology and attempting to establish or resume communication with the selected cell.
A computer-implemented method (1400) performed in a radio access network (1510) for secondary carrier prediction is provided. The method includes obtaining (1402) an uplink channel impulse response based on a reference signal transmitted by a user equipment (UE) (104) over a primary carrier link to a serving network node (102) in a primary cell (102) currently serving the UE (104). The method includes extracting (1404) one or more features from the uplink channel impulse response. The method includes predicting (1406) an existence or non-existence of a secondary carrier link between the UE (104) and a target network node in a secondary cell (106) based on the extracted one or more features. The method includes determining (1408) whether to perform a handover procedure of the UE (104) from the serving network node in the primary cell (102) to the target network node in the secondary network cell (106) based on the predicting.
Embodiments of a radio frequency feedline structure. A first printed circuit board (PCB) includes upper and lower metal layers and at least one cutout defining an upper portion of an open channel. The upper and lower metal layers are electrically connected by vias on opposite walls of the cutout. A second PCB includes upper and lower metal layers and elongated slots defining a suspended signal path within the open channel. The upper and lower metal layers are electrically connected by vias. A third PCB includes upper and lower metal layers and at least one cutout defining a lower portion of the open channel. The upper and lower metal layers are electrically connected by vias on opposite walls of the cutout. Respective upper and lower ground planes are electrically connected to the upper metal layer of the first PCB and the lower metal layer of the third PCB.
A method for access and mobility policy control in a communications network, the method comprising receiving at a first policy control entity for handling UE policies from a network node a notification including access and mobility policy data for a user equipment, the notification further including an application identifier or a packet flow descriptor to which the access and mobility policy data applies; obtaining at the first policy control entity PDU session information for the user equipment relative to the application identifier or the packet flow descriptor, particularly wherein the PDU session information is at least one of an application start/stop event, an out of credit event, a reallocation of credit event or a usage report; and modifying at least one access and mobility policy at the first policy control entity based on the obtained PDU session information. The network node may be a user data repository.
A technique for forwarding a mobility update report from a remote radio device (100-RM) that is in relayed radio communication with a radio access network, RAN (530), through a relay radio device (100-RL; 1100; 1391; 1392; 1430), is described. The remote radio device (100-RM) is in a first radio resource control, RRC, state (502-RM) relative to the RAN (530), and the relay radio device (100-RL; 1100; 1391; 1392; 1430) is in a second RRC state (502-RL) relative to the RAN (530), wherein the first RRC state is different from the second RRC state. As to a method aspect of the technique, the method (300-RL) performed by the relay radio device (100-RL; 1100; 1391; 1392; 1430) comprises or initiated the step of receiving (302-RL) the mobility update report from the remote radio device (100-RM) on a sidelink, SL, between the remote radio device (100-RM) and the relay radio device (100-RL; 1100; 1391; 1392; 1430), the mobility update report being indicative of a mobility update of the remote radio device (100-RM). The mobility update report is transmitted (304-RL) to the RAN (530).
A method is disclosed of selecting users for multi user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication from an initial set of potential users. The method comprises repeating the following steps in successive iterations until a stopping criterion is met: determining a channel correlation metric for each user in the set of potential users, reducing the set of potential users by exclusion of a user based on the channel correlation metric, and calculating a performance metric of the set of potential users. The method also comprises selecting users corresponding to one of the sets of potential users, wherein the selection is based on a comparison of the calculated performance metrics of the sets of potential users. The channel correlation metric for a user may comprise one or more of: a channel filter norm for the user, a channel norm for the user, a channel gain for the user, pair-wise correlations between the user and one or more other users of the set of potential users, and a channel eigenvalue for the user. The performance metric may comprise
A computer-implemented method performed by a first node (111). The first node (111) operates in a communications network (100). The first node (111) obtains (501), from another node (112, 113) operating in the communications network (100), a respective indication. The respective indication is of a respective efficiency measure of power use of a plurality of nodes (110) operating in the communications network (100) along at least two paths (151, 152). The first node (111) then selects (502) a path for a first packet in the communications network (100), among the at least two paths (151, 152), based on the obtained respective indication.
H04W 40/08 - Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing based on wireless node resources based on transmission power
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Method and Apparatus for Selecting Machine Learning Model for Execution in a Resource Constraint Environment
Embodiments herein disclose a method for selecting a machine learning model to be deployed in an execution environment having resource constraints. The method comprises receiving, by an apparatus, a request for a machine learning model solving a task T using a feature set F. Further, the method includes retrieving, from a model store, a first set of machine learning models that solves the task T using at least a subset of features F. The complexity of each machine learning model in the first set of machine learning models is calculated. The method includes determining, from the first set of machine learning models, at least one suitable machine learning model to be deployed, wherein the determining is based on the calculated complexity and the resource constraints of the execution environment.
A User Plane Function, UPF (35), sends a load report to a Session Management Function, SMF (45). Responsive to receiving the load report from the UPF (35), the SMF (45) installs a load reduction policy rule in the UPF (35). The load reduction policy rule comprises a criterion for identifying one or more users subject to the load reduction policy rule. The UPF (35) selectively applies the load reduction policy rule to user plane traffic of the one or more users based on the criterion.
A method is disclosed for handling delivery of network-delivered services to a user equipment, UE, in a wireless communication network. The method is performed by at least one network node in the wireless communication network. The method includes receiving a service request associated with a network-delivered service from the UE. The method includes notifying one or more service plans related the service request to the UE, in response to the service request. The method includes receiving a user selection order from the UE, wherein the user selection order identifies a selection of at least one of the one or more service plans from the one or more service plans. Further, the method includes initiating the network-delivered service in accordance with the user selection order. Corresponding network node, user equipment and computer program product are also disclosed.
Methods and systems for power supply unit (PSU) control. A method includes measuring one or more properties of the PSU to obtain property measurements, and initiating transmission of the property measurements to a machine learning (ML) agent hosting a trained ML model. The method further includes receiving the property measurements at the ML agent, and processing the received property measurements using the trained ML model to generate suggested actions to be taken by the PSU. The method further includes predicting the effect of each of the suggested actions on the measured PSU properties, and selecting a subset of the suggested actions predicted to have a significant impact on the measured PSU properties. The method further includes initiating transmission of the selected subset of suggested actions to the PSU, and performing, at the PSU, the selected subset of suggested actions.
A method performed by a wireless device for handling configured resources for a data transmission to a network node in a wireless communications network is provided. When being in connected mobility state, the wireless device receives (201) a configuration from the network node at a first point in time, T1. The configuration is for resources for the data transmission. The wireless device enters (202) into inactive mobility state. When being in inactive mobility state, the wireless device deciding (203) whether or not a Timing Advance, TA, for the resources configured at T1 for the data transmission is valid at a second point in time, T2. The wireless device sends (204) an indication to the network node, indicating whether or not the TA for the resources configured for the data transmission at T1 is valid at a second point in time, T2, as decided.
According to an aspect, a wireless node selects a set of reference signal antenna ports for use in transmitting data to other wireless nodes in a given transmit time interval, from a plurality of sets of reference signal antenna ports that are available for use and that include reference signal antenna ports having different reference signal densities in the frequency and/or time dimension. The wireless node sends a message to a second wireless node indicating a reference signal assignment and including an indication of the selected set of reference signal antenna ports.
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
H04L 5/00 - Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path
H04L 5/10 - Channels characterised by the type of signal the signals being represented by different frequencies with mechanical filters or demodulators
A method for a handover procedure comprises establishing a connection with a source network node of a first core network; receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message including an information element, wherein the information element indicates a second core network associated with a target network node; applying security parameters based on the second core network indicated in the information element; and performing a handover toward the target network node using the applied security parameters. The method provides an indication in RRC connection reconfiguration procedure to indicate the UE the core network of the target network node, so that the UE may recognize that this is an inter-system handover and apply corresponding security parameters for performing the handover without additional signaling.
A method of rendering an audio source is provided. The method comprises receiving an input audio signal corresponding to the audio source and receiving a reverberation parameter indicating a target energy ratio with respect to a reverberant sound component of audio for the audio source. The method further comprises obtaining a directivity pattern of the audio source, deriving a relative gain for the audio source based on the obtained directivity pattern, wherein the relative gain is relative to an omnidirectional audio source, and generating an adjusted audio signal using the received input audio signal, the reverberation parameter, and the derived relative gain.
Embodiments include methods performed by a wireless device configured to communicate via an uplink (UL) to a network and via a sidelink (SL) to one or more other wireless devices. Such methods include, based on availability of data to be sent via the SL, triggering a SL Scheduling Request (SR) to obtain a first UL grant to facilitate transmission of a Sidelink (SL) Buffer Status Report (BSR) indicating the data available to be sent via the SL. Such methods include, prior to transmitting the SL SR to obtain the first UL grant, transmitting an UL SR to obtain a second UL grant to facilitate transmission of an UL BSR indicating data available to be sent via the UL. Such methods include selectively transmitting the SL BSR using the second UL grant and cancelling the SL SR transmission in response to transmitting the SL BSR using the second UL grant.
A method for use in a User Equipment configured to operate according to the New Radio (5G) standard, said method comprising: monitoring a control region for mini-slots for a transmission; detecting a start of the transmission; monitoring a control region of said transmission for regular slots; detecting that the transmission has ended; and in response thereto monitoring the control region for mini-slots again.
An antenna filter unit and a base station having the antenna filter unit are disclosed. The antenna filter unit according to an embodiment comprises a dielectric body that defines a plurality of single-mode resonators each including a tuning hole. At least one slot is formed on a surface of the dielectric body to serve as an antenna radiator. The at least one slot is coupled to at least one of the resonators.
H01Q 1/24 - Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set
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A COMPUTER SOFTWARE MODULE ARRANGEMENT, A CIRCUITRY ARRANGEMENT, AN ARRANGEMENT AND A METHOD FOR AN IMPROVED USER INTERFACE FOR INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICES
A user interface arrangement comprising a controller, a sensor and a communication interface, wherein the sensor is arranged to receive input, and the controller is configured to: cause the user interface arrangement to operate in a first power level; receive the input; detect an indication of at least one command, and in response thereto cause the user interface arrangement to operate in a second power level, wherein the second power level is higher than the first power level; determine that at least one IoT device is in front of the user interface arrangement, and in response thereto cause the user interface arrangement to operate in a second power level, wherein the third power level is higher than the second power level; extract at least one command from the input; match the extracted at least one command to the at least one IoT device, and if a match is found; execute the extracted at least one command on the matching IoT device.
H04L 67/125 - Protocols specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks involving control of end-device applications over a network
G06F 1/3206 - Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality
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A NETWORK DATA ANALYTICS FUNCTION WITH DYNAMIC EVENT REGISTRATION
A system for network data analytics comprising a network data analytics function, NWDAF, and one or more network functions, NF, wherein the NWDAF is arranged to obtain a dynamic event definition, wherein the dynamic event definition defines a custom data analytics function for processing data, and register the dynamic event definition at the one or more NFs, where an NF is associated with one or more NF entrypoints for the data, wherein at least one of the NFs is arranged to receive the dynamic event definition from the NWDAF, verify the dynamic event definition in accordance with one or more pre-determined verification criteria, and, if the verification criteria are fulfilled: assign an identifier to the received dynamic event definition, transmit the identifier back to the NWDAF, and register the dynamic event definition in an event definition store of the NF, wherein the NWDAF is arranged to receive the identifier associated with the registered dynamic event definition from the at least one NF.
A method performed by a first network node serving a first terminal when handling a call between the first terminal and a second terminal is provided. The first network node determines that the call is associated with longer than expected delays between the first and second terminals. The network node provides a Long Delay Indication to at least one of said first and second terminals to indicate said longer than expected delays in the call.
A method performed by a user equipment, UE, is provided. The method comprises detecting that the UE has lost navigation system coverage partially or wholly. The method further comprises, after the detection, transmitting towards a network node a loss notification indicating that the UE has the lost navigation system coverage.
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for authentication. A method performed by a session management and gateway entity comprises receiving a create session request comprising an identity of a terminal device from a mobile management entity. The method further comprises determining to use a second authentication method rather than a first authentication method. The second authentication method has a higher security than the first authentication method. The method further comprises triggering a procedure of the second authentication method related to an authentication authorization and accounting (AAA) server.
Embodiments herein relate e.g. to a method performed by a radio network node for handling communication in a wireless communication network. The radio network node schedules a user equipment served by the radio network node in a first cell of a first RAT, to a resource part of a total bandwidth for the first RAT for communicating, wherein resource parts of the total bandwidth have different maximum power limits, and the resource part is selected based on a pathloss of the UE.
H04W 52/36 - Transmission power control [TPC] using constraints in the total amount of available transmission power with a discrete range or set of values, e.g. step size, ramping or offsets
H04W 52/24 - TPC being performed according to specific parameters using SIR [Signal to Interference Ratio] or other wireless path parameters
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RADIO NETWORK NODE, NETWORK NODE AND METHODS PERFORMED THEREIN
Embodiments herein relate to for example a method performed by a radio network node for handling data in a wireless communication network. The radio network node transmits to a network node a report associated with a user equipment, UE, wherein the report comprises an identifier uniquely identifying the UE across all operators sharing the wireless communication network.
In accordance with particular embodiments, there is disclosed herein a method performed by a wireless device for handover. The method comprises receiving a first handover message from a source network node associated with a source cell. The first handover message comprises an identification of a target cell and access information associated with the target cell. The target cell is different than the source cell and comprises one or more beams. The method also includes identifying at least one beam from among the one or more beams of the target cell. The at least one beam is identified based on the identification of the target cell and the access information from the first handover message. The method further includes accessing the target cell using the identified at least one beam.
A radio device receives first sidelink control information from a further radio device. Based on assistance information stored in the radio device and the received first sidelink control information, the radio device determines a configuration for transmission of second sidelink control information. Based on the determined configuration for transmission of the second sidelink control information, the radio device receives the second sidelink control information from the further radio device. Based on the received second sidelink control information, the radio device receives a sidelink radio transmission from the further radio device.
According to an aspect, a user equipment, UE, in a suspended state in a Radio Access Network, RAN, in response to expiration of a first timer, transmits an RRCResumeRequest message. The UE receives a reject message in response to the RRCResumeRequest message. In response to the reject message, the UE starts a second timer and subsequently transmits a further RRCResumeRequest message. The further RRCResumeRequest message is received by the network during a period bounded approximately by the lesser of a duration of the second timer and a period of the periodic UE event and the greater of the duration of the second timer and the period of the periodic UE event.
Systems and methods for determining timing advance (TA) validity are disclosed. In some embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed herein in which a wireless device implicitly considers a TA to be valid in a full cell when no TA validation mechanisms are explicitly configured. In other embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed herein in which a timer serves a dual purpose. If the timer is set to infinity, a wireless device will always consider a TA to be valid within a given cell, and at the same time will disable other TA validation mechanisms. Otherwise, the wireless device will interpret the timer as indicating for how long the TA value that the wireless device possesses is considered to be valid. Benefits of the solutions described herein include reducing signaling bits in the configuration and avoiding the possibility of conflicting configurations.
Method and apparatus relating to a wireless device supporting 3GPP 4G and 5G radio interfaces and also supporting non-3GPP access, i.e., WiFi, for selecting a security gateway of a first type e.g., ePDG or a security gateway of a second type, e.g., N3IWF for accessing to the core network of first type, e.g., EPC or of a second type e.g., 5GC. As the access methods via ePDG and N3IWF are not the same, the wireless device has to determine based on information obtained by a function in the network and its capabilities whether to use an ePDG or an N3IWF for untrusted non-3GPP access. The wireless device may take into account in the selection whether it is connected to the Core network over 3GPP 4G or 5G radio access network. A corresponding apparatus claim is provided.
Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) configured to operate in a radio access network (RAN). Such methods include receiving, from a radio node in the RAN, a new feedback indicator (NFI) that indicates whether acknowledgement signaling previously scheduled for transmission by the UE was received by the radio node. The acknowledgement signaling is associated with one or more first downlink (DL) hybrid ARQ (HARQ) processes. Such methods include, when the NFI indicates the acknowledgement signaling was not received by the RAN node, selecting a first HARQ codebook to be used for encoding the acknowledgement signaling together with further acknowledgement signaling associated with one or more second DL HARQ processes. Such methods include, using the selected first HARQ codebook, encoding the acknowledgement signaling and the further acknowledgement signaling to obtain first encoded information and transmitting the first encoded information to the radio node via an uplink (UL) channel.
Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for user equipment and network nodes.
Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for user equipment and network nodes.
An example method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes the UE detecting a failure relating to a connection between the UE and a Master Cell Group (MCG). The UE provides, to a master node via a Secondary Cell Group, SCG, a first message relating to the detected failure. The UE receives, from the master node via the SCG, a second message indicating to the UE to perform a connection reconfiguration.
Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for user equipment and network nodes.
An example method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes the UE detecting a failure relating to a connection between the UE and a Master Cell Group (MCG). The UE provides, to a master node via a Secondary Cell Group, SCG, a first message relating to the detected failure. The UE receives, from the master node via the SCG, a second message indicating to the UE to perform a connection reconfiguration.
An example method performed by the master node includes the master node receiving, from the UE via the SCG, the first message including information relating to the detected failure of the connection between the UE and the MCG. The master node determines, based on the first message and a user equipment context, to perform a connection reconfiguration. The master node provides, to the UE via the SCG, the second message indicating to perform the connection reconfiguration.
A wireless device according to one or more embodiments receives a request from a base station for capability information, with the wireless device transmitting the capability information in segments, responsive to the request indicating that the base station supports a protocol that utilizes segmentation for reporting the capability information. A base station according to one or more embodiments transmits a request for capability information to a wireless device. The request indicates the base station supports a protocol utilizing segmentation for reporting the capability information and the base station receives the capability information in segments, as transmitted by the wireless device.
A technique for handling messages generated in an industrial control procedure by a first device for being transmitted via a communication network towards a second device is presented, wherein the first device is one of a field device and a field device controller and the second device is the other one of the field device and the field device controller. A method implementation of the technique comprises intercepting a first message generated by the first device, wherein the first message is intercepted before the communication network towards the second device, and wherein the first message has a first message content. The method also comprises storing the first message content and forwarding the first message content on the communication network towards the second device. Further, the method comprises intercepting at least one second message generated by the first device, wherein the at least one second message is intercepted before the communication network towards the second device, and wherein the at least one second message has a second message content. Further still, the method comprises determining if the second message content matches the stored first message content, and if the second message content matches to the stored first message content, preventing the matching message content from again being forwarded on the communication network towards the second device.
H04L 47/32 - Flow control; Congestion control by discarding or delaying data units, e.g. packets or frames
H04L 67/12 - Protocols specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
H04L 67/564 - Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
The present disclosure provides a device for signal delay. The device comprises: a frame of insulation material; multiple signal electrodes provided in the frame and electrically connected to each other in series; an input terminal electrically connected to a first of the multiple signal electrodes and configured to receive an input signal; and an output terminal electrically connected to a second of the multiple signal electrodes and configured to output an output signal that is delayed by the multiple signal electrodes with respect to the input signal, wherein at least one of the multiple signal electrodes is located at a different height than those of other signal electrodes with respect to a surface on which the device is to be mounted.
Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) configured to receive public warning system (PWS) messages from a radio access network (RAN) comprising a plurality of cells. Such methods include receiving, via a first cell having a first ground coverage and a first aerial coverage, a PWS message having a relevant area within a second ground coverage of a second cell but not within the first ground coverage. Such methods include determining whether the PWS message is applicable to the UE based on a first indication of the relevant area, a second indication of relevant altitudes for the PWS message, a third indication of applicability of the PWS message to aerial UEs, and/or a type of signaling by which the PWS message is received. Other embodiments include complementary methods for RAN nodes and core network (CN) nodes, as well as UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.
There is disclosed a method of operating a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The method includes communicating based on reference signaling, the reference signaling being based on a sequence root, the sequence root being one out of a set of sequence roots comprising at least two sequence roots, the set of sequence roots being configured to the wireless device. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
A core network node (16) is configured for use in a wireless communication network (10). The core network node (16 receives a registration request (14) that requests registration of a wireless device (12) with the wireless communication network (10). The core network node (16) protects a security context (20) shared between the wireless device (12) and the core network node (16, e.g., including encrypting the security context (20). The core network node (16) transmits, to a radio network node (23) in the wireless communication network (10), signaling (24) that includes the registration request (14) and the protected security context (20P). In some embodiments, the signaling (24) indicates the registration request (14) and the protected security context (20P) are to be re-routed to a target core network node (18) in the wireless communication network (10).
A system for network data analytics, the system comprising a network data analytics function, NWDAF, (200) and at least one NWDAF service consumer function, SCF, (220) arranged to connect to the NWDAF (200), wherein the SCF (220) is arranged to obtain (Sa1) a dynamic analytics function definition, wherein the dynamic analytics function definition defines a custom analytics function for processing data at the NWDAF (200), and register (Sa4, 310, 410) the dynamic analytics function definition at the NWDAF (200), wherein the NWDAF (200) is arranged to receive (Sb1) the dynamic analytics function definition from the SCF (220), assign (Sb3) an analytics function identifier to the received dynamic analytics function definition, transmit (Sb4, 320, 420) the analytics function identifier back to the SCF (220), and register (Sb5) the dynamic analytics function definition in an analytics function definition store of the NWDAF (200), wherein the SCF (220) is arranged to receive (Sa5, 320) the analytics identifier associated with the registered dynamic analytics function definition from the NWDAF (200) in response to the registering.
H04L 41/40 - Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
A method is disclosed for a sensing coordination device associated with one or more wireless sensing devices comprising a first wireless sensing device. The method comprises determining a threshold value for the first wireless sensing device, wherein the threshold value is for comparison with a difference between channel estimates of wireless sensing measurements of the first wireless sensing device, and causing application of the threshold value in control of operation of the first wireless sensing device for performing wireless sensing measurements. A method for the first wireless sensing device is also disclosed. The method comprises acquiring the threshold value, and operating the first wireless sensing device based on the threshold value, wherein operating the first wireless sensing device based on the threshold value may comprise refraining from transmitting a report of the wireless sensing measurements when the difference between channel estimates of the wireless sensing measurements is less than the threshold value. Corresponding apparatuses, devices and computer program product are also disclosed.
There is provided a method for encoding a picture. The method comprises, for each picture on either side of the current picture with a distance of one or two away from the current picture, computing a first error value, E, wherein the first error value, E, is computed for each block of a set of blocks of a first block size of the current picture and is based on the respective block of the current picture and a corresponding block in the picture. The method comprises, for each picture on either side of the current picture with a distance of one or two away from the current picture, aggregating the first error value, E, over a block of a second block size for each block of the set of blocks of the first block size contained in the block of the second block size to generate a second error value, E′, corresponding to the picture. The method further comprises computing an importance score for the block of the second block size in the current picture based at least in part on the second error value, E′, corresponding to one or more of the pictures on either side of the current picture with a distance of one or two away from the current picture. The method comprises computing a change in quantization parameter, QP, value for the block of the second block size in the current picture based on the importance score. The method comprises signaling the change in QP value to an encoder.
H04N 19/117 - Filters, e.g. for pre-processing or post-processing
H04N 19/169 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using adaptive coding characterised by the coding unit, i.e. the structural portion or semantic portion of the video signal being the object or the subject of the adaptive coding
H04N 19/172 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using adaptive coding characterised by the coding unit, i.e. the structural portion or semantic portion of the video signal being the object or the subject of the adaptive coding the unit being an image region, e.g. an object the region being a picture, frame or field
H04N 19/176 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using adaptive coding characterised by the coding unit, i.e. the structural portion or semantic portion of the video signal being the object or the subject of the adaptive coding the unit being an image region, e.g. an object the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock
H04N 19/65 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using error resilience
H04N 19/80 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals - Details of filtering operations specially adapted for video compression, e.g. for pixel interpolation
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY CONTROL IN AN ELECTRICAL ENCLOSURE
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus that employs an opening/closing mechanism for controlling temperature and humidity in an electrical enclosure. The electrical enclosure comprises a first and a second vent hole, wherein the second vent hole is further a drain hole. The vent holes both comprise an opening/closing mechanism that can be controlled based on sensor data obtained inside and/or outside the electrical enclosure.
A method of operation of a wireless communication device to perform handover from a source cell to a target cell in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless communication device performs (202) a beam tracking procedure for one or more neighbor cells to provide, for each neighbor cell, a list of tracked beams for the neighbor cell. The wireless communication device receives (212) a handover command from a source radio access node that instructs the wireless communication device to perform a handover from a source cell served by the source radio access node to a target cell served by a target radio access node. The target cell is one of the one or more neighbor cells for which the beam tracking procedure is performed. The wireless communication device then selects (214) a beam of the target cell from the list of tracked beams for the target cell based on random access resource configuration and/or a quality threshold. The wireless communication device then performs (216) random access on the selected beam.
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
The invention relates to a method for operating an application server providing a service to a multipath enabled mobile entity connected to the application server with a first bearer of a first access network of a first mobile communications network, wherein the application server is external to the mobile communications network, whereas the method comprises the steps of receiving an indication that the mobile entity has an option to use another bearer not belonging to the first mobile communications network for accessing the application server, and of transmitting a request message towards a policy control entity of the first mobile communications network requesting the policy control entity to disconnect the first bearer.
H04W 8/02 - Processing of mobility data, e.g. registration information at HLR [Home Location Register] or VLR [Visitor Location Register]; Transfer of mobility data, e.g. between HLR, VLR or external networks
H04W 28/02 - Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
H04W 76/15 - Setup of multiple wireless link connections
A method for measurement reporting performed by a wireless device includes obtaining a beam measurement configuration from a network. Based on the beam measurement configuration, the wireless device performs at least one beam measurement while operating in a dormant state. The wireless device reports a result of the at least one beam measurement to the network. The reporting is done after a transition from the dormant state to a connected state.
A method of operating a session management function SMF entity of a wireless communication network may be provided. An Ethernet context for a wireless terminal may be received from a first user plane function UPF entity, wherein the Ethernet context is provided for an Ethernet Protocol Data Unit PDU Session for the wireless terminal using the first UPF entity, and wherein the Ethernet context includes a Medium Access Control MAC address for the wireless terminal. The Ethernet context including the MAC address for the wireless terminal may be transmitted to a second UPF entity. Related methods of operating user plane function UPF entities of a wireless communication network may also be provided.
A wireless device configured to acquire network support information associated with a neighbor cell, wherein the network support information indicates that the neighbor cell supports a Stand-Alone (SA) mode of operation and/or a Non-Stand-Alone (NSA) mode of operation; and transmit to a serving network node a report comprising identification information associated with the neighbour cell and the network support information indicating that the neighbor cell supports a SA mode of operation and/or a NSA mode of operation. A serving network node configured to receive a report transmitted by a wireless device, wherein the report comprises identification information associated with the neighbor cell and network support information indicating that the neighbor cell supports a Stand-Alone (SA) mode of operation and/or a Non-Stand-Alone (NSA) mode of operation; and determine, based on the report, a type of interface to establish between the serving network node and the neighbor network node.
There is provided a method performed by an entity for load balancing in a system including a function-as-a-service (FaaS) system and a container-as-a-service (CaaS) system. The method is performed in response to a change in a load balancing configuration of a plurality of software containers of the CaaS system and/or a second load balancing configuration of a plurality of software functions of the FaaS system. Each software container is associated with a respective software function. The first load balancing configuration and second load balancing configuration are coordinated such that, following the change, each execution instance of one or more of the plurality software functions is subject to the same load balancing configuration as each instance of one or more of the plurality of software containers with which the one or more of the plurality of software functions is associated.
A method performed by a network node for handling communication in a communication network. The network node configures a CSI reference resource as a function of a periodic transmission time of a downlink semi-persistent scheduling configuration or a group of downlink semi-persistent scheduling configurations and/or as a function of a dynamically scheduled physical downlink shared channel time.
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for MCS table switch. A method performed by a network device comprises determining that a terminal device supports a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and a second MCS. The method further comprises transmitting configuration information regarding a first bandwidth part associated with a first MCS table supporting the first MCS to the terminal device. The method further comprises transmitting configuration information regarding a second bandwidth part associated with a second MCS table supporting the second MCS to the terminal device. The first MCS table is different from the second MCS table.
H04L 1/00 - Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received
H04W 52/36 - Transmission power control [TPC] using constraints in the total amount of available transmission power with a discrete range or set of values, e.g. step size, ramping or offsets
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CONFIGURING A REINFORCEMENT LEARNING AGENT BASED ON RELATIVE FEATURE CONTRIBUTION
A computer implemented method for configuring a reinforcement learning agent to perform an efficient reinforcement learning procedure, wherein the reinforcement learning agent comprises a model trained using a machine learning process to determine actions to be performed by the reinforcement learning agent. The method comprises using the model to determine an action to perform, based on values of a set of features obtained in an environment; determining, for a first feature in the set of features, a first indication of a relative contribution of the first feature, compared to other features in the set of features, to the determination of the action by the model; and determining a reward to be given to the reinforcement learning agent in response to performing the action, based on the first feature and the first indication.
A technique for forwarding data packets (730) during a handover of a radio device (100) from a source cell to a target cell of a radio network (702) serving as a time-sensitive networking, TSN, bridge (700) is described. As to a method aspect of the technique at the radio device (100), first TSN data packets (730) are forwarded in the source cell using a first PDU session (704) between the radio device (100) and a user plane, UP (300), of a core network, CN (720), of the radio network (702). Prior to releasing the first PDU session (704), a second PDU session (704) is established (404) between the radio device (100) and the UP (300) of the CN (720) in the target cell, wherein the first PDU session (704) uses a first active protocol stack at the radio device (100) and the second PDU session (704) uses a second active protocol stack at the radio device (100). Second TSN data packets (730) are forwarded in the target cell using the second PDU session (704).
A method for implementing an AF multipath policy. The method may be performed by a PCF and may include a step of transmitting a request message comprising a UE ID identifying a UE. The method also includes receiving a response message transmitted as a response to the request message, the response message comprising: the AF multipath policy, an application ID (App-ID) identifying an application, and an application protocol ID (App-ID-Protocol), identifying a protocol used by the application. The method further includes generating a multipath policy using at least: i) the AF multipath policy and ii) the App-ID-Protocol. The method further includes providing the generated multipath policy to a management function (e.g., SMF).
A method implemented by a first network node in a communication network is provided. The method comprises: receiving a first subscription for subscribing a first User Equipment UE reachability event of a UE from an event subscriber, wherein the first subscription comprises a first indicator for indicating whether the first UE reachability event is to be reported in a direct mode or an indirect mode; sending a second subscription for subscribing a second UE reachability event to a second network node that is registered in the first network node, the second subscription comprises a second indicator for indicating that the first UE reachability event is to be directly or indirectly reported to the event subscriber according to the first indicator; and sending a first UE reachability report to the event subscriber.
Network equipment in a wireless communication network is configured to receive at least a portion of a subscription concealed identifier, SUCI, for a subscriber. The SUCI contains a concealed subscription permanent identifier, SUPI, for the subscriber. The received at least a portion of the SUCI indicates a sub-domain code, SDC. The SDC indicates a certain sub-domain, from among multiple sub-domains of a home network of the subscriber, to which the subscriber is assigned. The network equipment is also configured to determine, based on the SDC and from among multiple instances of a provider network function in the home network respectively allocated to provide a service to be consumed for subscribers assigned to different sub-domains, an instance of the provider network function to provide the service to be consumed for the subscriber.
A method and a wireless device (100) for handling handover in a wireless network (102) from a source cell (104) to a target cell when the device has obtained and stored a handover configuration for at least one target cell X (106A-C). Upon detecting a communication failure, the wireless device (100) performs cell selection and initiates handover to one of the target cell(s) X when that cell was selected, by applying the stored handover configuration of the selected cell. When none of the target cell(s) X was selected in the cell selection, the wireless device (100) initiates an RRC re-establishment procedure.
A method by a first security edge protection proxy (SEPP) for security edge protection of messages being communicated between first and second communications networks of a communications system. The method receives, from a first network function of the first communications network, a first message containing an address identifying a second network function which is located in the second communications network. The method receives, from a second SEPP operating to protect communications with the second communications network, a second message containing a fully qualified domain name, FQDN, reference for a combination of the second SEPP and the second network function. The method stores the FQDN reference for the combination of the second SEPP and second network function in a label-to-FQDN mapping data structure with a logical association to a substitute locally-unique label, and sends a third message containing the substitute locally-unique label to the first network function.
H04W 8/02 - Processing of mobility data, e.g. registration information at HLR [Home Location Register] or VLR [Visitor Location Register]; Transfer of mobility data, e.g. between HLR, VLR or external networks
Method and apparatus in which a network exposure node receives, from a server, a first request for monitoring communication failure for at least one terminal device. The network exposure node obtains a connection identity (ID) for identifying a connection between the at least one terminal device and the server, based on the received first request. The network exposure node sends, to a subscriber management node or a policy decision node, a second request for monitoring communication failure for the at least one terminal device. The second request includes the obtained connection ID.
A method for operating a User Equipment (UE) is disclosed, wherein the UE is served by a source first network function in a first network and requires to register with a target second network function in a second network. The method comprises generating a registration request with integrity protection for at least a part of the registration request, and sending an integrity protected part of the registration request to the source first network function via the target second network function.
There is provided mechanisms for processing uplink signals. A method is performed by a RRU. The method comprises obtaining uplink signals as received from wireless devices at antenna elements of an antenna array of the RRU, each wireless device being associated with its own at least one user layer. The method comprises capturing energy per user layer by combining the received uplink signals from the antenna array for each user layer into combined signals, resulting in one combined signal per user layer. The combining for each individual user layer is based on channel coefficients of the wireless device associated with said each individual user layer. The method comprises providing the combined signals to a BBU.
H04B 7/08 - Diversity systems; Multi-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the receiving station
Methods, a first, and a second network node as well as a user equipment for exchange of measurement period related parameters are provided. The user equipment performs a method for measuring a measurement quantity of a secondary cell on a second carrier operated by a second radio network node. The user equipment receives, from the second radio network node, an indication indicative of the second carrier and a first parameter indicating a measurement period for measuring the measurement quantity of the secondary cell. The user equipment measures said measurement quantity on the secondary cell on the second carrier over the measurement period. The measurement period is a predefined value times the first parameter.
There is provided a method performed by a central entity of a network. A first set of features is selected for a machine learning model to take into account when analysing data. The machine learning model is to be deployed at an edge entity of the network. The selection is based on first information indicative of data that is available for the machine learning model to analyse, second information indicative of features that are available for the machine learning model to take into account when analysing data, and contextual information associated with the network.
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a network node for handling a received signal in a communication network. The network node distributes a first number of inputs of a demodulated signal to a first processing core of at least two processing cores and a second number of inputs of the demodulated signal to a second processing core of the at least two processing cores. The network node further decodes the first number of inputs of the demodulated signal by a first message passing within the first processing core, and decodes the second number of inputs of the demodulated signal by a second message passing within the second processing core. The network node further decodes the demodulated signal by performing a third message passing between the different processing cores over a bus that is performed according to a set schedule.
H03M 13/11 - Error detection or forward error correction by redundancy in data representation, i.e. code words containing more digits than the source words using block codes, i.e. a predetermined number of check bits joined to a predetermined number of information bits using multiple parity bits
H03M 13/00 - Coding, decoding or code conversion, for error detection or error correction; Coding theory basic assumptions; Coding bounds; Error probability evaluation methods; Channel models; Simulation or testing of codes
H04L 1/00 - Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received
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Technique for Configuring a Phase Tracking Reference Signal
A technique for transmitting and receiving a configuration message for a phase tracking reference signal, PT-RS, on a radio channel between a radio access node and a radio device is described. The radio channel comprises a plurality of subcarriers in a physical resource block, PRB. A subset of the subcarriers in the PRB is allocated to a demodulation reference signal, DM-RS. As to a method aspect of the technique, the configuration message is transmitted to the radio device. The configuration message comprises a bit field that is indicative of at least one subcarrier allocated to the PT-RS among the subset of subcarriers allocated to the DM-RS.
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a method and an apparatus for voice activity detection (VAD). The VAD comprises creating a signal indicative of a primary VAD decision and determining hangover addition. The determination on hangover addition is made in dependence of a short term activity measure and/or a long term activity measure. A signal indicative of a final VAD decision is then created.
G10L 25/87 - Detection of discrete points within a voice signal
G10L 19/00 - Speech or audio signal analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocoders; Coding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for measurement information. The method, which may be implemented at a terminal device, comprises obtaining measurement information based at least in part on configurations of a master network node and a secondary network node. The terminal device is connected to the master network node and the secondary network node. The method further comprises transmitting a report including the measurement information that comprises frequency information to the master network node, in response to a failure related to the secondary network node.
A first network node, a second network node and methods therein, for handling baseband processing of signals communicated with wireless devices in a wireless network. The first network node communicates a first type of signals with a first wireless device and performs a first part of baseband processing of the first type of signals using a non-GPP implemented processor. The first network node also communicates the first type of signals with the second network node for a second part of baseband processing of the first type of signals using a GPP implemented processor. The first network node further communicates a second type of signals with a second wireless device and performs both of said first and second parts of baseband processing of the second type of signals using the non-GPP implemented processor.
Methods and apparatuses for establishing a transport protocol to use between a client and a sewer are disclosed. In particular there is disclosed a method a proxy, for establishing a transport protocol to use between a client and a server, the method comprising: receiving, from the client, a plurality of transport protocol setup messages; selecting at least one transport protocol setup message from the plurality of transport protocol setup messages; sending at least one transport protocol setup message to the server based on the selected at least one transport protocol setup message; and responsive to receiving from the server at least one transport protocol setup response message corresponding to a transport protocol setup message sent to the server, sending a transport protocol setup response message corresponding to a received transport protocol setup response message to the client.
There is disclosed a method of operating transmitting radio node in a wireless communication network. The method comprises transmitting data signaling on multiple layers, wherein on each layer, there is transmitted a sequence of samples representing data, samples representing PT-RS being inserted into the sequence of samples in one or more groups, each group representing a PT-RS sample sequence. Groups of PT-RS of different layers are shifted relative to each other. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
Systems and methods for restricting a number of primary secondary cells (or primary cells in a secondary cell group) (PSCells) in a Mobility History Information (MHI) managed by a wireless device are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by the wireless device for restricting a number of stored PSCells in MHI comprises storing PSCell history information in memory of the wireless device for a maximum number of PSCells. The PSCell history information is part of MHI stored for the wireless device. In response to the number of PSCells exceeding the maximum number of PSCells, the method further comprises removing at least some of the stored PSCell history information from the memory of the wireless device.
Disclosed is a method performed by a network node (130) of a wireless communication network (100) for efficient usage of downlink transmission resources. The method comprises transmitting, to a wireless device (140), an encoded first control data packet on a downlink control channel using a first level of a transmission parameter, and receiving, from the wireless device (140), information on decoding status for the first control data packet transmitted on the downlink control channel using the first transmission parameter level, the decoding status being a quantitative measure of decoding complexity of the wireless device in decoding the first control data packet. The method further comprises transmitting, to the wireless device (140), an encoded second control data packet on the downlink control channel using a second level of the transmission parameter, the second level being determined based on the received information on decoding status.
H04W 72/232 - Control channels or signalling for resource management in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal the control data signalling from the physical layer, e.g. DCI signalling
H04L 1/00 - Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received
H04L 1/1607 - Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received by using return channel in which the return channel carries supervisory signals, e.g. repetition request signals - Details of the supervisory signal
A method for performing online convex optimization is provided. The method includes receiving, from two or more worker nodes, a local decision vector and local data corresponding to each of the two or more worker nodes. The method includes performing a multi-step gradient descent based on the local decision vector and the local data received from the two or more worker nodes. Performing the multi-step gradient descent includes determining a global decision vector and corresponding global information. The method includes sending, to each of the two or more worker nodes, the global decision vector and corresponding global information.
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for determining channel parameter. The determined channel parameter may be used for adaptive subband precoding. A method performed by a network device comprises determining at least one channel parameter for a subband related to a terminal device. The at least one channel parameter for the subband is calculated based on at least one channel parameter for a larger frequency band comprising the subband.
H04W 72/0453 - Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
H04B 7/0456 - Selection of precoding matrices or codebooks, e.g. using matrices for antenna weighting
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
H04W 72/54 - Allocation or scheduling criteria for wireless resources based on quality criteria
It is provided a method for encoding complex data. The method includes the steps of: obtaining an input signal made up of a series of numerically represented samples; determining a time frame of the input signal to process; applying a first window function on data in the time frame, resulting in first windowed data, wherein the first window function tapers sample magnitude towards the edges of the first window function; performing a windowed complex discrete Fourier-related transform on the first windowed data, resulting in frequency-domain data including a plurality of coefficients, keeping only the real part or the imaginary part of each coefficient; quantizing the frequency domain data resulting in quantized data; outputting the quantized data as encoded data; and repeating the method, wherein each subsequent iteration of the step of determining a time frame includes determining a time frame that overlaps in time with a preceding time frame.
A method of operating a master node in a vertical federated learning, vFL, system including a plurality of workers for training a split neural network includes receiving layer outputs for a sample period from one or more of the workers for a cut-layer at which the neural network is split between the workers and the master node, and determining whether layer outputs for the cut-layer were not received from one of the workers. In response to determining that layer outputs for the cut-layer were not received from one of the workers, the method includes generating imputed values of the layer outputs that were not received, calculating gradients for neurons in the cut-layer based on the received layer outputs and the imputed layer outputs, splitting the gradients into groups associated with respective ones of the workers, and transmitting the groups of gradients to respective ones of the workers.
The present disclosure provides methods for event subscription management in a network comprising a set of NF nodes, and corresponding NF nodes. The method implemented at a first NF node includes receiving a subscription request of an event for a user equipment, UE, from a third NF node; transmitting, to a second NF node that serves the UE, a subscription report request for the event for the UE; receiving, from a fourth NF node that currently serves the UE, a UE registration request for the UE, including an indication indicating whether the UE is in a restricted service area; and determining whether to transmit a notification for the event to the third NF node based on the UE registration request. The present disclosure further discloses a corresponding method implemented at the second NF node. The present disclosure further provides corresponding computer readable medium.
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