Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf Gmbh

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.

Volkswagen Ag

Huawei Technologies Sweden Ab

Chan Zhou

Panagiotis Spapis

Apostolos Kousaridas

Alexandros Kaloxylos

Emmanouil Pateromichelakis

Serkan Ayaz

Chenghui Peng

Liang Hu

Markus Martin Dillinger

Riccardo Trivisonno

Xueli An

Oemer Bulakci

Ishan Vaishnavi

Jian Luo

Malte Schellmann

Peter Jung

Josef Eichinger

Slawomir Stanczak

Yunyan Chang

Fan Wu

Supeng Leng

Meng Li

Jun Wang

Ke Zhang

Zhongfeng Li

Wanqiang Zhang

Wenjie Peng

Richard Stirling-Gallacher

Egon Schulz

Yi Tong Wang

Henrik Olofsson

Konstantinos Samdanis

Roman Alieiev

Ömer Bulakci

Prajwal Keshavamurthy

Riccardo Guerzoni

Dario Serafino Tonesi

Konstantinos Manolakis

Mario Castaneda

Athanasia Alonistioti

Jan Schreck

Miruna Raceala-Motoc

Sokratis Barmpounakis

Raja Sattiraju

Andreas Andrae

Patrice Michel Christophe Hèdé

David García Roger

Jose Francisco Monserrat

Haiyan Luo

Ramya Panthangi Manjunath

Andreas Klein

The present disclosure relates generally to the field of wireless communications, and particularly to a procedure for dynamically updating a path selection policy for a UE in a wireless communication network. According to this procedure, a network entity detects a need to update the path selection policy based on data relating to a first communication path currently used in accordance with the path selection policy and at least one other communication path available in a wireless communication network. The data may comprise RRM measurements, Radio Channel measurements, QoS parameters, their statistics or predictions, and UE notifications of a success rate of the path selection policy. By using the data, the network entity dynamically updates the path selection policy by selecting, among the at least one other communication path, a second communication path to be used to support the communication service instead of the first communication path.

Dynamic update of path selection policy for user equipment in wireless communication network

The present disclosure relates to sidelink DRX operation in the UEs. One example method comprises: receiving by a first UE a first set of DRX configuration parameters from a network device, wherein the first set of DRX configuration parameters comprise: a set of cellular link DRX configuration parameters between the first UE and the network device, and a first set of sidelink DRX configuration parameters for device to device (D2D) communication; operating, by the first UE, in DRX mode on the sidelink communication according to the first set of DRX configuration parameters.

Method and device for discontinuous reception operation on sidelink communication channel

Example methods and apparatus for multihop transmission are described. One example method includes receiving a scheduling request by a network device from a User Equipment (UE) for a multihop transmission. The network device sends a first message to one or more UEs in response to the scheduling request, wherein the first message indicates one or more sidelink resources and/or sidelink resource allocation information for the one or more UEs to perform a multihop transmission.

Communication devices and methods for providing multihop transmission

A method for executing multipath communication at a target communication device includes obtaining, from a source communication device, data packets via two or more different paths, where a header of each data packet includes packet information, which is indicative of an association among the plurality of data packets. The packet information in each data packet at a source communication device is the same as packet information in each data packet at a target communication device irrespective of different radio access technologies, communication protocols, or radio links used in the two or more different paths. The plurality of data packets includes different data packets having different payload or duplicate data packets having a copy of the same payload. The method further includes identifying a first set of data packets received via a first path and a second set of data packets received via a second path based on the packet information.

Executing multipath communication

The present disclosure relates to providing a quality of service (QoS) function for the communication services in communication networks. The disclosure presents a device for providing a QoS function, for a communication service of an application entity in a communication network comprising a plurality of network entities. The device is configured to transmit a monitoring request to one or more of: the application entity, a network entity, and a user equipment (UE), obtain a monitoring response from one or more of: the application entity, the network entity, and the UE, determine a change in QoS of the communication service of the application entity, based on the obtained monitoring response, and transmit the determined change in the QoS to the application entity and/or at least one of the network entities in the communication network.

Device and method for providing a quality of service function

The present disclosure relates to the fields of mobile communication, connected driving, Internet of vehicles (IoV), self-driving car, and autonomous car. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to side-link communication and network slicing. The present disclosure provides a control unit for assisting side-link communication for at least one slice of a communication network, wherein the control unit is configured to obtain at least one of an upper layer requirement, and a session requirement; and to configure, for the at least one slice, at least one side-link resource pool based on the upper layer requirement and/or session requirement.

Control unit and method for assisting side-link communication

A control device configured for determining a data format for data to be sent via a V2X communication link between a vehicle and at least one device, wherein the control device is configured for receiving information regarding communication capacity and computation capacity of the vehicle and/or of the at least one device, the control device is configured for analyzing the received information based on the communication capacities and the computation capacities, the control device is configured for selecting, based on the analysis, a data format from a set of data formats for the V2X communication link, wherein the data formats of the set are differentiated with regard to the data volume of the data to be sent, and the control device is configured for sending to the vehicle and/or the at least one device an indication of the data format to be used for the data to be sent.

Control device configured for and method of determining a data format

The invention relates to a control plane network entity for providing a multicast/broadcast service to one or more user equipments (UEs) in a cellular communication network using one or more user plane functions of a plurality of selectable user plane functions. The network entity includes processing circuitry configured to: receive a request for a multicast/broadcast service for the one or more UEs, wherein the request comprises one or more identifiers identifying the one or more UEs and/or one or more spatial regions the one or more UEs are located in; select one or more user plane functions of the plurality of selectable user plane functions on the basis of the one or more identifiers for providing the multicast/broadcast service to the one or more UEs; and provide the one or more selected user plane functions with information about the multicast/broadcast service.

Providing multicast/broadcast services in 5G networks

The present disclosure relates to providing a quality of service (QoS) function for communication services in communication networks. The disclosure presents a device for providing a QoS function, for a communication service of an application entity in a communication network comprising a plurality of network entities. The device is configured to transmit a monitoring request to one or more of: the application entity, a network entity, and a user equipment (UE), obtain a monitoring response from one or more of: the application entity, the network entity, and the UE, determine a change in QoS of the communication service of the application entity, based on the obtained monitoring response, and transmit the determined change in the QoS to the application entity and/or at least one of the network entities in the communication network.

Controlling a vehicle-to-everything, V2X, service for one or more user equipments is described. An apparatus is, for example, configured to determine a requirement for the V2X service based on a network parameter of a network and/or an application requirement of a V2X application of the V2X service. The requirement includes at least one of the group consisting of: a quality of service (QoS), a mode of operation, and a resource requirement. The apparatus is configured to transmit an adaptation request message comprising the requirement for an adaptation to the requirement.

Entity, network, and user equipment for a V2X service as well as V2X application

A control plane network entity for providing a multicast/broadcast service for one or more user equipments in a cellular communication network is provided. The control plane network entity is configured to: receive a session setup request for a multicast/broadcast session for the user equipments, wherein the session setup request comprises one or more identifiers identifying the user equipments and/or one or more spatial regions the user equipments are located in; select one or more access and mobility management function entities of the cellular communication network based on the one or more identifiers for providing the multicast/broadcast session to the user equipments; and send a user plane session setup request to the selected one or more access and mobility management function entities. Moreover, the disclosure relates to a user plane network entity and a radio access network node for anchoring and providing a multicast/broadcast service respectively.

Entities and methods for providing multicast/broadcast services in 5G networks

The present application relates to a global communication management entity for managing vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication parameters of a plurality of vehicular user equipments of a V2X communication network, the corresponding V2X communication network and vehicular user equipment. The global communication management entity comprises at least one processor and a memory configured to store computer readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the global communication management entity to provide execution comprising determining one or more V2X communication parameters of a vehicular user equipment of the plurality of vehicular user equipments, wherein the one or more V2X communication parameters are associated with a local vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) congestion control scheme implemented on the vehicular user equipment and/or a V2V communication module of the vehicular user equipment for communicating with the other vehicular user equipments; and providing the one or more V2X communication parameters to the vehicular user equipment.

Devices and methods for managing communication in a V2X communication network

The present disclosure relates to a network entity for a communication network for providing a plurality of communication services to a plurality of mobile communication devices, the network entity comprising: a session manager configured to select a first geographical code from a plurality of geographical codes, wherein each geographical code is associated with a geographical region and wherein the first geographical code is associated with a first geographical region including or close to a current geographical position of at least one of the plurality of mobile communication devices; a encoder configured to encode on a MAC level and/or physical level at least a portion of a message intended for the at least one mobile communication device using the first geographical code; and a communication interface configured to send the message with the portion encoded with the first geographical code to the at least one mobile communication device.

Network entity and mobile communication device for providing communication services based on geographical codes

The disclosure relates to a mobile device configured to receive from a network a notification of a predicted change of a Quality-of-Service, QoS related to a local end-to-end data communication path; and configured to provide a report to the network, the report comprising at least one of the following information: location information, application layer information, mobile device status information, experienced QoS at mobile device side, radio channel conditions. The disclosure further relates to a network device configured to transceive communication data via a communication path, in particular a local end-to-end data communication path between a mobile device and another mobile device, based on a Quality-of-Service, QoS, requirement for the communication path; and configured to notify the mobile device about a predicted change of the QoS related to the communication path.

Techniques for notifying a quality of service change

A user equipment is configured to be connected to a first cellular communication network and a second cellular communication network. The user equipment comprises: a communication interface configured to transmit a first message to the second communication network, when the user equipment is connected to the first communication network and is triggered to connect additionally to the second communication network, wherein the first message comprises information about the first communication network.

User equipment capable of attaching to multiple communication networks

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Munich, Germany

Chan Zhou