Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

Apple Inc.

Blackberry Corporation

Nortel Networks Corporation

Cellular Communications Equipment LLC

Devaki Chandramouli

Rainer Liebhart

Curt C Wong

Laurent Thiebaut

Bruno Landais

Lei Du

Colin Leon Kahn

Woonhee Hwang

Alessio Casati

Philippe Godin

Yi Zhang

Ling Yu

Sung Hwan Won

Troels Emil Kolding

Robert Zaus

Saurabh Khare

Subramanya Chandrashekar

Vinh Van Phan

Frank Frederiksen

Benoist Sebire

Chandra Sekhar Bontu

Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani

Zexian Li

Henri Markus Koskinen

Suresh P Nair

Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas

Yang Liu

Ingo Viering

Antti Anton Toskala

Guillaume Decarreau

Xiang Xu

Peter Rost

Nagendra S Bykampadi

Tsunehiko Chiba

Matti Einari Laitila

Markus Isomäki

Nicolas Drevon

Dawid Koziol

Srinivasan Selvaganapathy

Klaus Hugl

Wei Lu

Jari Mutikainen

Seppo Ilmari Vesterinen

Amaanat Ali

Sean S Kelley

Juha Antero Rasanen

Yannick Lair

Hannu Petri Hietalahti

Lauri Kalevi Lahtinen

Guenther Horn

David Navratil

Rakash Sivasiva Ganesan

Cinzia Sartori

Thomas Theimer

Pilar Andrés Maldonado

Georgios Gkellas

Gyorgy Tamas Wolfner

Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler

Peter Leis

Prabaharan Kanesalingam

Navin Hathiramani

Stefano Paris

Martin Oettl

Laura Luque Sanchez

Thomas H Jacobsen

Hans Thomas Hoehne

Christian Mannweiler

Hans-Jochen Morper

Ömer Bulakci

Miikka Juhana Poikselka

Christian Markwart

David Navrátil

Jani Moilanen

Kari Juhani Niemela

Panagiotis Spapis

Ulrich Wiehe

Miikka Poikselkä

Borislava Gajic

Maximilian Riegel

Hakon Helmers

Wolfgang Hahn

Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam

Kalle Petteri Kela

Peter Szilagyi

Kaisu Iisakkila

Rainer Stademann

John Juha Antero Rasanen

Anna Sillanpaa

Horst Thomas Belling

Nuno Pratas

Renato Barbosa Abreu

Jens Gebert

Tuomas Niemela

Sheyam Lal Dhomeja

Pekka Juhani Korja

Alexander Milinski

Christian Mahr

György Tamás Wolfner

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for efficiently activating or deactivating user equipment. An example method includes receiving a deactivation request comprising one or more identifiers for one or more user equipment or one or more user equipment groups, determining which one or more user equipment or user equipment groups are impacted by the deactivation request and causing a suspend request to be transmitted to the one or more user equipment or user equipment groups that are impacted. Another example method is provided for receiving an activation request comprising one or more identifiers for one or more user equipment or one or more user equipment groups, determining which one or more user equipment or user equipment groups are impacted by the activation request, and causing a notice to be transmitted to the one or more user equipment or user equipment groups that are impacted.

Method and system for efficiently activating or deactivating user equipment

A method may include receiving, by a traffic ingress entity of a communication network, one or more packets of a traffic flow. The method may also include assigning a classification, by the data reception entity, to each packet of the one or more packets of the traffic flow according to one or more protocol data unit sets to which the packet belongs to. The method may further include mapping the one or more packets of the traffic flow to one or more quality of service flows for quality of service handling of the one or more packets based on the classification assigned to each packet. In addition, the method may include outputting the classification assigned to each packet to a network element for enabling quality of service handling of the one or more packets based on the mapping and one or more quality of service information.

5GS classification of packets of a traffic flow

Methods of providing service continuity with respect to a service of a first network for a user equipment and a service of a second network for the user equipment, as well as a user equipment and networks being adapted to be operated according to the methods are disclosed.

Concurrent services of non-public and public networks

There is provided an apparatus comprising means for determining a quality of experience value associated with a user equipment's application session, the quality of experience value being based on one or more values associated with a respective one or more quality of service metrics for the user equipment's session. The apparatus also comprising means for adjusting one or more network parameters based on the determined quality of experience value.

Method, apparatus and computer program for determining quality of experience of an application session class

Methods, user equipment and apparatus for controlling VR image in a communication network. The VR image is represented by image data being associated to respective parts of the image. The VR image data is handled on the basis of identifications indicating different viewports for a user.

Methods, user equipment and apparatus for controlling VR image in a communication network

Techniques are provided for enabling user equipment (UE) context retrieval in radio resource control RRC inactive status with a shared radio access network (RAN) database (DB) within a distributed database architecture. A version indicator in an inactive Radio Network Temporary Identifier (I-RNTI) is populated by the UE to indicate one or more I-RNTI versions, defined herein, and indicates the type of data in the remainder of the I-RNTI used for communicating the location of a RAN DB that stores the UE context, to a target network node. The target network node then uses the data in the I-RNTI, further dependent on the I-RNTI version, to retrieve the UE content from the RAN database. Certain embodiments utilize a RAN DB Area (RDBA) and/or RAN DB Set Area (RDSA), and certain embodiments utilize a network node set ID.

User equipment context retrieval in radio resource control inactive state

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for 5G support for time sensitive communication. One method may include sending a report of user equipment capabilities to a communication network. The method may also include receiving a propagation delay compensation configuration from a network node. The method may further include configuring a communication with the network node based on the propagation delay compensation configuration. Further, the propagation delay compensation configuration may take into consideration at least one of propagation delay compensation information from an application function or the report.

Application function influencing intra-5G propagation delay compensation

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamically unsubscribing from a public land mobile network (PLMN)/non-private network (NPN) service. In example embodiments, a method is provided. The method comprises transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), at least one first message () associated with registering with at least one network, wherein the at least one first message () includes first information that indicates whether the user equipment (UE) is capable of unsubscribing from one or more services associated with the at least one network; and receiving, by the user equipment (UE), at least one second message () associated with accepting registration of the user equipment (UE) with the at least one network, wherein the at least one second message () includes second information that indicates whether the user equipment (UE) is allowed to unsubscribe from the one or more services.

Dynamically unsubscribing from a PLMN/NPN service

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for working clock determination for a mobile user equipment. A method may include receiving time domain information at a session management function during a protocol data unit (PDU) session procedure. The method may also include forwarding the time domain information to a user plane function for the PDU session procedure. The method may further include configuring the user plane function according to the time domain information to enable determination of a correct mapping between the time domain information and a user equipment or a PDU session.

Working clock determination for a mobile user equipment

Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products provide for specifying, in quality of service (QoS) requests, alternative QoS-related parameter sets and/or alternative traffic pattern parameter sets. In the context of one method, the method receives a QoS request comprising one or more QoS parameters and/or one or more traffic pattern parameters, and one or more alternative QoS parameter sets and/or one and more alternative traffic pattern parameter sets. The method also selects the one or more QoS parameters or an alternative QoS parameter set of the one or more alternative QoS parameter sets based on a supporting capability of a network. The method also causes transmission of a Policy and Charging Control (PCC) rule based on the selected parameters and transmits an indication of the selected parameters.

Time sensitive communication quality of service alternatives

There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for receiving, from a session management node, burst timing information for a 5G ingress node, receiving burst timing adjustment capability information for an application from a function associated with the application, determining at least one of preferred burst arrival times and periodicity at the 5G ingress node for at least one periodic traffic stream from the application based on the burst timing information and burst timing adjustment capability information and providing an indication of the at least one of determined preferred burst arrival times and periodicity to the function.

Apparatus, method and computer program

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for device-to-device (D2D) assisted 5G timing synchronization by enabling or disabling time compensation are provided. One method may include determining to initiate a procedure to determine whether to enable or disable propagation delay (PD) compensation for acquiring 5G system (5GS) timing with a sidelink (SL) group of user equipment. When it is determined to initiate the procedure, the method may include transmitting propagation delay (PD) information of the user equipment as a sidelink (SL) groupcast message over a sidelink (SL) control channel to at least one of the group of user equipment, receiving at least one of acknowledgement or nonacknowledgement from one or more of the group of user equipment, and determining whether to enable or disable the propagation delay (PD) compensation based on the received acknowledgement or nonacknowledgement from the group of user equipment.

Device-to-device assisted timing synchronization

Method, apparatuses, and computer program products provide means for monitoring time sources for nodes of a network and providing timing resiliency solutions. An example method includes: establishing time synchronization within a network comprising a plurality of nodes using a time source; receiving an indication regarding at least one of degradation or failure of the time source for at least one node; receiving an indication regarding at least recovery of the time source for the at least one node; and determining, within the network, an action to be taken to upon failure at the at least one node in response to the at least one of the degradation or the failure of the time source for the at least one node, where the action to be taken comprises instructing the at least one node to leverage either hold over functionality or a backup time source.

Time source health monitoring support for network timing resiliency

An apparatus in a communications device supporting a plurality of different identities, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine at least one paging overlap occasion for networks associated with the different identities; communicate the at least one paging overlap occasion determination to one of the networks associated with one of the different identities within a registration request to the one of the networks, wherein the one of the networks is caused to schedule at least one paging message to the apparatus based on the at least one paging overlap occasion determination such that the at least one paging message is scheduled at a time other than the at least one paging overlap occasion determination; and control a reception of the at least one paging message for the one of the networks such that the apparatus is caused not to listen for a paging message for the one of the networks during the determined at least one paging overlap occasion and control a reception of at least one paging message for a further one of the networks associated with the different identities during the determined at least one paging overlap occasion.

Ue assisted paging enhancements for multi-usim devices

Various communication systems may implement network management tools to help manage registration requests from a user equipment. For example, network functions in a communication system with a shared data layer may be used to manage requests from the user equipment. A method may include transmitting a request from a user equipment to a network function. The method may also include receiving at the user equipment a temporary identification from the network function The temporary identification comprises an identifier that helps locate a shared data layer function that stores context information for the user equipment. In addition, the method may include transmitting from the user equipment a subsequent request comprising the temporary identification to another network function or the network function.

Network selection with stateless network functions

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