Sony Group Corporation

Sony Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Other

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Convida Wireless, LLC

Sony Mobile Communications Ab

Sony Europe Limited

Sony Europe B.v.

Sony Network Communications Europe B.v.

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

Johan Hill

Shashi Kant

Sha Hu

Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri

Lars Nord

Linh Trang

Jianjun Chen

Torgny Palenius

Jose Flordelis

Magnus Persson

Elias Jonsson

Kåre Agardh

Anders Isberg

Ying Zhinong

Anders Mellqvist

Henrik Sundström

Andrej Petef

Ove Edfors

Daniel Lönnblad

Mitsuru Goto

Fredrik Tufvesson

Rui Nunes

Anders Larsson

Shin Homg Wong

Hatem Odetalla

Guoda Tian

Yujie Zhang

Henrik Sundstrom

Yan Shu

Adnan Prlja

Ola Cedell

Olaf Zander

Disclosed is a method is disclosed, performed by a wireless device, for resource reservation of a contention-based sidelink transmission. The method comprises obtaining information defining a transmission resource pool and a resource reservation pool comprising one or more resource reservation blocks associated with respective transmission resources in the transmission resource pool. The one or more resource reservation blocks comprise a plurality of occasions. The method comprises transmitting a resource reservation signal using a first occasion of a resource reservation block associated with a transmission resource selected by the wireless device for sidelink transmission. The method comprises monitoring one or more other occasions of the resource reservation block for resource reservation signals transmitted by other wireless devices aiming at reserving the same transmission resource. The one or more other occasions are different from the first occasion. The method comprises controlling, based on the monitoring, the sidelink transmission using the transmission resource.

Methods for resource reservation of a contention-based sidelink transmission and related wireless devices

A method of operating a wireless communication device () connectable to a communications network is provided. The communications network includes an access node (---). The method includes: monitoring for a plurality of reference signals () of a transmission () in a plurality of resources, the transmission being provided by the access node (---); and based on said monitoring: participating in positioning of the wireless communication device () depending on an indicator indicative of at least one of a magnitude or a phase of at least one first path component () of an impulse response () of a radio channel, the at least one first path component being associated with at least one reference signal () of the plurality of reference signals () of the transmission ().

Angle of departure estimation based on channel impulse response

Methods () of operating a wireless communication device () and of operating an access node () of a communication network () during a two-step random access procedure are provided. The methods () comprise communicating (), from the access node () to the wireless communication device (), a message comprising a configuration defining at least one of multiple different types of scheduling usable for resource allocation of an uplink shared channel () of the communication network (). An uplink message () of the two-step random access procedure includes a connection request for establishing a data connection between the wireless communication device () and the communication network (), and is communicated () on the uplink shared channel () in accordance with the configuration.

Uplink shared channel assignment in two-step random access procedure

According to an aspect, a method is provided of operating a wireless communication device (UE) to provide positioning related data for determining a position estimate of the UE, the UE being connected to a communications network via a radio link, the method comprising: monitoring for a control channel associated with a positioning occasion in which the UE monitors for at least one positioning reference signal, wherein the control channel comprises an allocation configuration of resources for transmitting the positioning related data. According to further aspects, a method of operating a wireless communication device, a wireless communication device and an access node are provided.

Control channel for positioning related data

Disclosed is a method performed by a wireless transmitter device, for contention-based sidelink transmission. The method comprises obtaining information defining a transmission resource pool and a resource reservation pool comprising one or more reservation resources associated with respective transmission resources in the transmission resource pool. The method comprises monitoring a reservation resource associated with a transmission resource selected by the wireless transmitter device for sidelink transmission, for a resource reservation signal transmitted by one or more other wireless transmitter devices attempting to reserve the same transmission resource. The method comprises: upon determining based on the monitoring that the transmission resource is available, transmitting, after the monitoring, to a wireless device, using the reservation resource, a resource reservation signal indicating that the wireless transmitter device intends to use the transmission resource. The timing of the transmission of the resource reservation signal is randomly selected by the wireless transmitter device.

Methods for contention-based sidelink transmission and reception and related wireless devices

The present disclosure provides a method performed in a wireless device, for enabling communication of additional data in connection with a pre-allocated uplink data transmission. The method comprising communicating between the wireless device and a radio network node, using one or more resources associated with the pre-allocated uplink data transmission, a data indicator indicating that the additional data is to be communicated. The method comprises communicating the additional data, between the wireless device and the radio network node, based on the communicated data indicator.

Methods for enabling communication of additional data, related wireless devices and radio network nodes

A method is disclosed, performed by a first wireless node, such as a wireless device, for enabling positioning of the wireless device. The method comprises providing, to a network node, a measurement report comprising a positioning measurement based on one or more reference signals transmitted from one or more second wireless nodes, such as base stations. The measurement report comprises an indication as to whether the positioning measurement is performed on a Line of Sight, LoS, component of the one or more reference signals.

Methods for positioning of a wireless device, a related wireless device and a related network node

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

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