Sony Group Corporation

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Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

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Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Convida Wireless, LLC

Basuki Endah Priyanto

Rickard Ljung

Martin Warwick Beale

Shin Horng Wong

Anders Berggren

Nafiseh Mazloum

Olof Zander

Erik L Bengtsson

Peter C Karlsson

Brian Alexander Martin

Zhinong Ying

Bo Hakan Larsson

Fredrik Rusek

Gengshi Wu

Thomas Bolin

Vanja Plicanic Samuelsson

Shashi Kant

Sha Hu

Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri

Lars Nord

Linh Trang

Jianjun Chen

Magnus Persson

Johan Hill

Elias Jonsson

Kåre Agardh

Anders Isberg

Ove Edfors

Daniel Lönnblad

Fredrik Tufvesson

Mitsuru Goto

Rui Nunes

Anders Larsson

Shin Homg Wong

Adnan Prlja

Ola Cedell

A method, performed by a network node, is disclosed for handling positioning of a User Equipment, wireless device. The network node obtains a first approximate position of the wireless device, based on a first positioning procedure for the wireless device in a first frequency allocation. The network node determines, based on the first approximate position of the wireless device, a set of resources to be used for a second positioning procedure in a second frequency allocation. The network node initiates the second positioning procedure in the second frequency allocation using the determined set of resources. The network node obtains an updated position of the wireless device based on the second positioning procedure.

Methods for handling positioning of a wireless device and related network nodes and wireless device

A method carried out in a User Equipment, UE, for controlling uplink transmission of data to a base station of a wireless network, includes: transmitting, to the base station, a buffer status report, BSR, indicative of a buffer data level value; transmitting, to the base station, information indicative of packet arrival rate of data entering the transmit buffer; receiving uplink resource information from the base station, in response to the BSR and said information; and transmitting data from the buffer using the received resource information.

Enhanced buffer status report (BSR) procedure based on packet arrival rate of data entering the buffer

Method for network access carried out in a User Equipment, UE, the method comprising: acquiring at least one of a plurality of synchronization signals transmitted from a base station, each synchronization signal identifying a synchronization resource usable for identifying an associated access channel resource of a sequence of access channel resources; synchronizing to the base station based on the at least one synchronization signal; obtaining, from the base station, information identifying a first access channel resource and a second access channel resource; transmitting an access preamble in the first access channel resource, and transmitting, based on meeting a repetition criteria, said access preamble in the second access channel resource for enhanced coverage operation.

Coverage enhancement in a wireless network

A communication device includes a receiver, a transmitter and a control circuit. The receiver is configured to receive, from an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network, downlink signals on a downlink via a wireless access interface of the mobile communications network. The transmitter is configured to transmit, to the infrastructure equipment, uplink signals on an uplink via the wireless access interface. The control circuit is configured to control the receiver to receive the downlink signals and control the transmitter to transmit the uplink signals. The control circuit is further configured to delay a reception period for the receiver to receive the downlink signals after a transmission period in which the transmitter transmits the uplink signals when a duration of the transmission period exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Infrastructure equipment, communications devices and methods for compensating for frequency drift of an oscillator of a communications device

A method for controlling operation of a mobile first Edge Computing, EC, server () configured to provide compute resources to User Equipment, UE, (), wherein the first EC server is connected to an EC management entity () configured to manage a plurality of EC servers (-), the method being carried out in the first EC server and comprising receiving () status information associated with the first EC server from an external entity; receiving () control information from the EC management entity, said control information identifying a power state control instruction; determining () a power state triggering event in accordance with the power state control instruction, based on the received status information; controlling () the power state of the first EC server responsive to the determined power state triggering event.

Power management of movable edge computing servers

A communications device transmits data in preconfigured resources of an uplink of a wireless communications network by performing a procedure to determine whether the communications device can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources of the uplink, and if the communications device determines that it can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources, transmitting signals representing the data in the preconfigured resources. The procedure to determine whether the communications device can transmit signals in the preconfigured resources of the uplink includes a transmission parameter confirmation procedure which confirms that a value of one or more transmission parameters to be used for transmitting the signals representing the data can be used for the signals representing the data to be detected by an infrastructure equipment of the wireless communications network.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods

A communications device for transmitting data to or receiving data from an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network. The communications device comprises circuitry configured to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, receive signals from the infrastructure equipment via the wireless access interface, determine that the communications device is to send an indication of quality information to the infrastructure equipment, the quality information indicating a relative quality of signals received by the communications device, perform measurements on one or more signals received by the communications device from the infrastructure equipment, encode the indication of quality information, based on the performed measurements, using at least one bit of a first signal in combination with a parameter of a second signal, and transmit the first signal to the infrastructure equipment.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods for quality information report

The present application relates to methods of operating a UE (-) and operating access nodes (-) of a cellular network (). A method comprises receiving control information from a cellular network (). The cellular network () comprises a dynamic cell. The control information is indicative of one or more availability parameters of the dynamic cell. The method furthermore comprises configuring the communication between the UE (-) and the cellular network () based on the control information.

Communication in cellular networks comprising dynamic cells

A method of operating a terminal device () includes configuring a data connection () on a wireless link () between the terminal device () and a network () based on a first control signal (-) native to a first layer () of a transmission protocol stack () associated with the wireless link (). The method also includes participating in a data communication via the data connection (). The method also includes receiving a second control signal () native to a second layer () of the transmission protocol stack (), the second layer () being arranged lower in hierarchy of the transmission protocol stack () than the first layer (). The method also includes in response to receiving the second control signal (): activating a discontinuous reception () for the data communication.

Early activation of discontinuous reception

A method of operating a UE includes receiving a configuration of multiple bandwidth parts. Each bandwidth part of the multiple bandwidth parts is associated with a respective access node of multiple access nodes. The method also includes receiving positioning signals on each bandwidth part of the multiple bandwidth part from the respectively associate access node of the multiple access nodes. Said receiving is in accordance with the configuration. The method also includes participating in positioning of the UW based on said receiving of the positioning signals.

Bandwidth parts for positioning signals

A method of operating a terminal device to communicate with a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications system using radio resources comprising a narrowband carrier supported within a wider system frequency bandwidth of the wireless telecommunications system, wherein the method comprises: establishing initial frequencies for radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; receiving configuration signalling from the network infrastructure equipment providing an indication of a frequency shift to apply to the initial frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; establishing shifted frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier by applying the indicated frequency shift to the initial frequencies; and communicating with the network infrastructure equipment using the radio resources for the narrowband carrier with the shifted frequencies.

Telecommunications apparatus and methods

For uplink-based positioning, a transmission of an uplink reference signal via a transmit beam at a user equipment (UE) () is coordinated with a respective receive beams at one or more receivers (). A positioning computation node () sends configuration information to the UE () and to the one or more receivers (). The configuration information enables the receivers () to configure receive beams () to receive the uplink reference signal transmission from the UE (). The receivers () perform various measurements of the uplink reference signal and report the measurements as well as beam information to the positioning computation node (), which generates a position estimate.

Methods and devices for coordinated uplink-based positioning

A positioning estimate for a user equipment (UE) is determined based on a combination of uplink-based positioning and downlink-based positioning. Positioning measurements based on downlink signals and uplink signals can be utilized to determine the positioning estimate. The positioning estimate may be computed by the UE or a node of a wireless communications network. This positioning scheme can include two parts, where a first part and second part are either uplink-based or downlink-based, but the two parts are different from each other. Positioning measurements performed in the first part may be sent along with reference signals in the second part.

Methods and devices for dual-direction positioning of a device

A method performed in a wireless device, for enhancing paging operations with a network node is disclosed. The method comprises determining a group identifier based on a paging occurrence parameter, wherein the group identifier is indicative of a subset of wireless devices belonging to a paging group paged at a same paging occasion.

Methods for enhancing paging operations, related wireless devices and related network nodes

A network node () dynamically configures and controls assistance information transmissions by wireless communications devices () in a wireless communications system (). The assistance information facilitates performance of power saving adaptations for the wireless communications device (). The network node () configures what information to indicate in assistance information messages, how the message is sent by wireless communications devices (), and/or when the message should be signaled. The wireless communications devices () transmit assistance information messages in accordance with configuration parameters signaled by the network node ().

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