Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

Nokia Corporation

Hmd Global Oy

Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.

Cellular Communications Equipment LLC

Claudio Rosa

Frank Frederiksen

Chunli Wu

Timo Erkki Lunttila

Klaus Ingemann Pedersen

Benoist Sebire

Esa Tapani Tiirola

Kari Juhani Hooli

Daniela Laselva

Henri Markus Koskinen

Klaus Hugl

Samuli Heikki Turtinen

Troels Emil Kolding

Benny Vejlgaard

Karol Schober

Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas

Tao Tao

Andrea Cattoni

Simon Svendsen

Olli Alanen

Woonhee Hwang

Nitin R Mangalvedhe

Elena Virtej

Jun Tan

Bo Bjerrum

Nuno Pratas

Roberto Maldonado

Yang Liu

Vinh Van Phan

Lars Dalsgaard

Mika Kasslin

Tero Henttonen

Mark Conrad Cudak

Esa Mikael Malkamäki

Johannes Harrebek

Bernhard Raaf

Oumer Teyeb

Frederick W Vook

Laurent Thiebaut

Emad N Farag

Haitao Li

Takeshi Tanaka

Jeroen Wigard

Juha Sakari Korhonen

Esa Mikael Malkamaki

Suresh Kalyanasundaram

Jedrzej Stanczak

Oana-Elena Barbu

Peter Skov

Mikko Saily

Jari Petteri Lunden

Juergen Michel

Samantha Caporal Del Barrio

Tsunehiko Chiba

Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani

Istvan Zsolt Kovacs

Ping-Heng Kuo

Antti Sorri

Jürgen Michel

Preben Elgaard Mogensen

Jari Olavi Lindholm

Morten Toft

Lianghai Ji

Youngsoo Yuk

Nhat-Quang Nhan

Lorenzo Galati Giordano

Masatoshi Nakamata

Petteri Lunden

Dajiang Zhang

Adrian Garcia Rodriguez

Jani Matti Johannes Moilanen

De Shan Miao

Renato Barbosa Abreu

Carsten Ball

Betsy Covell

Per Henrik Michaelsen

Gustavo Wagner

Mauri Johannes Nissilä

Marco Centenaro

Esa Malkamäki

Fred Vook

Ejaz Shah

Erika Portela Lopes De Almeida

Robert Müllner

Hua Wang

Jie Gao

Sheshachalam Bangalore Satyanarayana

Carlos Ubeda Castellanos

Johannes Hejselbaek

Jing Yuan Sun

Robert Muellner

An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: receiving control information including a slot format indicator configured to indicate scheduled channel usage for time units, wherein the slot format indicator includes at least one indicator configured to indicate that simultaneous uplink and downlink communications are scheduled to occur on a shared channel in at least one of the time units; and determining a type of channel sensing to use prior to initiating an uplink transmission on at least a portion of the shared channel based, at least in part, on the control information, wherein determining a type of channel sensing to use comprises analysing the scheduled channel usage for, at least, the time unit in which the uplink transmission is scheduled to be initiated and the time unit before the time unit in which the uplink transmission is scheduled to be initiated.

Channel sensing

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to selecting random access (RA) mode. In example embodiments. The method comprises obtaining an impact factor associated with RA of a terminal device to a network device, the impact factor indicating at least one of the following: a synchronization status between the terminal device and the network device, a status of a channel between the terminal device and the network device for performing RA, a capability of the terminal device for supporting early data transmission (EDT), a predefined access category of the terminal device, or a RA mode-related indication received from the network device; selecting a RA mode at least in part based on obtained impact factor; and performing RA to the network device with the selected RA mode. In this way, the terminal device may select different RA mode according to different scenario.

Selection of random access mode

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a solution for performing an operation related to a listen-before-talk (LBT) process for a transmission. In an aspect, an apparatus determines a duration of a gap between an end point of a first transmission to be transmitted by a further apparatus and a start point of a cyclic prefix extension prior to a second transmission to be transmitted by the apparatus. The apparatus performs an operation related to an LBT process for the second transmission based on comparisons between the duration of the gap and a plurality of threshold durations associated with a plurality of types of LBT processes. Example embodiments of the present disclosure can increase or even maximize the likelihood of the success of LBT processes.

Operation related to LBT process

According to an aspect, there is provided a terminal device configured to perform the following. Initially, the terminal device monitors physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, transmissions according to a first set of rules. The first set of rules comprises rules for performing monitoring over at least two beam pair links, each beam pair link corresponding to a control resource set, CORESET, with a different active transmission configuration indication, TCI, state. The terminal device receives, using a first CORESET with a first active TCI state from an access node, an indication for limiting monitoring and consequently limits monitoring of PDCCH transmissions associated with CORESETs having a TCI state other than the first active TCI state for a period of time.

PDCCH monitoring in unlicensed spectrum for a terminal device with a single active panel

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to, apparatuses methods and computer readable medium for Message 3 enhancement. In a method, a first apparatus transmits, to a second apparatus, a random access request in at least one of a non-subband non-overlapping full duplex (non-SBFD) resource or a subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) resource. The first apparatus receives, from the second apparatus, information indicating a part of at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource, wherein the part of the at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource is to be used for an additional Message 3 transmission. The first apparatus performs the additional Message 3 transmission to the second apparatus in the part of the at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource.

Message 3 enhancement

At least one embodiment includes at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions and cause the apparatus to perform receiving downlink control information common to a plurality of apparatuses, wherein the downlink control information includes beam format information relating to an access node, and using the received beam format information to adapt transmission to the access node or reception from the access node on at least one channel.

Configured grant operations for use with beamforming

Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for a signaling procedure. An example method may include transmitting a first portion of a signaling message in a first sub-band and transmitting a second portion of the signaling message in a second sub-band, the second portion including an indication to the first portion transmitted in the first sub-band. Related apparatuses and computer readable medium are also disclosed.

Methods and apparatuses for signaling procedure

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device, a method, an apparatus and a computer readable storage medium for bandwidth part (BWP) switching. In example embodiments, a method is provided. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, whether continuous Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) failures occur on a first bandwidth part (BWP), the terminal device operating on the first BWP. The method further comprises in response to the continuous LBT failures occurring on the first BWP, switching to a second BWP different from the first BWP. Instead of triggering a re-establishment procedure once continuous LBT failures are detected, switching to another BWP on different LBT sub-channels can be much more efficient than going through the whole re-establishment and reconfiguration procedures.

Bandwidth part switching due to LBT failure

A transmitter is configured to set a counter to a starting value, sense whether a channel is busy or idle and to update the counter value during sensing. When there is data to be transmitted, the transmitter is configured to determine, based on at least the counter value at a transmit opportunity and a duration the channel has been sensed idle before the transmit opportunity, whether to transmit the data or to continue the sensing the channel to a next transmit opportunity without resetting the counter value to the starting value.

Channel access procedure

A method may include determining, by a user equipment, a beam alignment reference value and a beam alignment test value; and determining, by the user equipment, based on the beam alignment reference value and the beam alignment test value, that a user equipment receive beam used by the user equipment is not aligned with a transmit beam of the base station.

Beam alignment verification for wireless networks

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to bit reduction in resource information. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the number of bits to indicate the resource allocation is reduced and the network device generate the control information based on an offset associated with the bit reduction. In this way, multiple transmission opportunities for the transmission of Msg3 of the random access procedure are provided without increasing the signaling overhead.

Bit reduction in resource information

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method including, receiving, from a wireless terminal, a second connection request message with an uplink reference signal sequence and in response to receiving the second connection request message, transmitting a contention resolution message to the wireless terminal, the contention resolution message including a temporary identifier associated with the wireless terminal and an identifier of the uplink reference signal sequence.

Random access in wireless communication networks

In accordance with some example embodiments, an apparatus may comprise at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to transmit at least one parameter configuration of a random access channel procedure to a user equipment; receive at least one physical uplink shared channel part of a first random access channel message using at least one transmitter beam configuration; upon detection of at least one preamble part of the first random access channel message, decode the physical uplink shared channel part of the first random access channel message and perform at least one channel quality measurement on at least one demodulation reference signal sequence transmitted on a number of selected transmitter beam configurations.

Rach-based Tx beam refinement procedure

Example embodiments relate to wideband communications based on availability assessment. A method for communication comprises performing availability assessment on a set of configured frequency subbands to obtain an availability result, the availability result indicating that at least one of the set of configured frequency subbands is available for a period of time for transmission of intended information and transmitting supplementary information that has been prepared using the at least one frequency subband during a first portion of time within the period of time. The method also comprises preparing the intended information based on the availability result and transmitting the prepared intended information using the at least one frequency subband during a second portion of time following the first portion of time within the period of time. As such, the processing of the intended information can be adapted depending on the dynamic available subband(s) indicated by the availability result.

Wideband communications based on availability assessment

There are provided measures for handling of paging messages in communication endpoint to network relaying scenarios. Such measures exemplarily comprise, at a relay terminal connected to a mobile access entity of a cellular network systems, selecting, for a terminal to be relayed, a sidelink communication group of a set of configured sidelink communication groups, monitoring network-served paging indicator resources corresponding to said terminal to be relayed for a network-served paging related identifier indicative of transmission of a network-served paging message and information on network-served paging message resources for said transmission of said network-served paging message, transmitting, if said network-served paging related identifier indicative of transmission of said network-served paging message is detected in said network-served paging indicator resources corresponding to said terminal to be relayed and information indicative of paging of said terminal to be relayed is identified in said network-served paging message transmitted in said network-sewed paging message resources as a result of said monitoring, in inter-terminal paging indicator resources configured for said sidelink communication group and next to said network-served paging message resources including said information indicative of paging of said terminal to be relayed, an inter-terminal paging related identifier indicative of transmission of an inter-terminal paging message and information on inter-terminal paging message resources for said transmission of an said inter-terminal paging message, and transmitting said inter-terminal paging message in said inter-terminal paging message resources for said transmission of said inter-terminal paging message.

Handling of paging messages in communication endpoint to network relaying scenarios

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