Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Emma Wittenmark

Peter Alriksson

Henrik Sahlin

Mai-Anh Phan

Andres Reial

Robert Baldemair

Stefan Parkvall

Bengt Lindoff

Gunnar Mildh

Icaro L J Da Silva

Johan Rune

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Jinhua Liu

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Erik Bengt Dahlman

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Erik A Eriksson

Pål Frenger

Stefan Wager

Dennis Hui

Martin Hessler

Magnus Stattin

Sven Oscar Petersson

Joakim Axmon

Karl Norrman

Qianxi Lu

Qingyu Miao

Johan Torsner

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Fredrik Athley

Gabor Fodor

Kumar Balachandran

Janne Peisa

Joachim Sachs

Ali S Khayrallah

Gen Li

Claes Tidestav

Thorsten Lohmar

Zhang Zhang

Bo Hagerman

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Lars Lindbom

Torgny Palenius

Niclas Wiberg

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Johan Furuskog

Niklas Johansson

Jianfeng Wang

Hai Feng Wang

Lars Sundström

Zhan Zhang

Jose Luis Pradas

Andreas Bergström

Pontus Wallentin

Patrik Rugeland

Henrik Asplund

Martin Johansson

Karl Werner

Mårten Ericson

Mikael Coldrey

Patrik Torgny Karlsson

Johan Axnäs

Jonas Kronander

Shehzad Ali Ashraf

Fredrik Lindqvist

Reza Moosavi

Dennis Sundman

Ning He

Mikael Prytz

Håkan Axelsson

Nadia Brahmi

Yngve Selén

Andreas Cedergren

Ali El Essaili

Niklas Jaldén

Jonas Medbo

Elena Myhre

Jörg Huschke

Hugo Tullberg

Virgile Garcia

Ulf Gustavsson

Lars Manholm

Thomas Walldeen

Ke Wang Helmersson

Peter Von Wrycza

Bengt-Erik Olsson

Rui Fan

Walter Müller

Anders Furuskär

Håkan Björkegren

Edgar Ramos

Olof Liberg

Stephen J Grant

Henning Wiemann

Johan Nilsson

Bo Lincoln

Amitav Mukherjee

Anders Wallén

Chunhui Zhang

Christer Östberg

A method for accommodation of latency variation in a communication network is disclosed. The method comprises identifying that a service is currently associated with a user device associated with the communication network, wherein a deviation between a latency requirement of the service and an internal latency performance of the communication network is bounded, predicting an upcoming reduction of communication network throughput for the user device, and providing a rate adaptor associated with the service with a feedback indication in response to predicting the reduction of communication network throughput, wherein the feedback indication is for rate reduction of the service. In some embodiments, the prediction and provision are performed only for user devices associated with services with bounded deviation between the latency requirement of the service and the internal latency performance of the communication network.

Accommodation of latency variations of a communication network

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes receiving a downlink signal comprising an uplink access configuration index, using the uplink access configuration index to identify an uplink access configuration from among a predetermined plurality of uplink access configurations, and transmitting to the wireless communications network according to the identified uplink access configuration. The example method further includes, in the same wireless device, receiving, in a first subframe, a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission formatted according to a first numerology and receiving, in a second subframe, a second OFDM transmission formatted according to a second numerology, the second numerology differing from the first numerology. Variants of this method, corresponding apparatuses, and corresponding network-side methods and apparatuses are also disclosed.

Network architecture, methods, and devices for a wireless communications network

Embodiments include methods implemented in a wireless device for reporting of a cell global identifier (CGI) in a wireless network. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block from a network node; locating a control resource set (CORESET) configured by the network node through determining a frequency position of the CORESET based on a value received from the network node through radio resource control signaling; and determining and reporting the CGI to the network node based on the located CORESET. In another embodiment, the CORESET is located through testing a set of one or more reference frequency candidates from which a frequency position of the CORESET is determined.

Enhanced cell global identifier reporting

A method for latency control in a communication network is disclosed. The method includes identifying that a service is currently associated with a user device associated with the communication network, wherein a deviation between a latency requirement of the service and an internal latency performance of the communication network is bounded, and dynamically adjusting a configuration of the communication network for the service. In some embodiments, the dynamic adjustment is performed only for user devices associated with services with bounded deviation between the latency requirement of the service and the internal latency performance of the communication network. In some embodiments, dynamically adjusting the configuration of the communication network comprises controlling the communication network to provide latencies below a maximum latency threshold for the service. In some embodiments, the dynamic adjustment of the configuration of the communication network is based on the current traffic load.

Latency control for a communication network

Synchronization signal and Physical Broadcast Channel, SS/PBCH, block management. A network node determines whether a network condition is met, signals to a communication terminal to apply a first detection method for SS/PBCH block detection when the network condition is determined to be met, signals to the communication terminal to apply a second detection method for SS/PBCH block detection when the network condition is determined as not met, and transmits SS/PBCH blocks according to the first or the second SS/PBCH block detection method, based on whether the network condition is met. The communication terminal receives the signalling from the network node associated with the communication network, determines whether the indicated SS/PBCH block detection method is a first or a second SS/PBCH block detection method based on the received signalling, and applies, based on the determination, the first or the second SS/PBCH block detection method for SS/PBCH block detection.

Synchronization signal / physical broadcast channel block method detection and management

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications network, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes determining a reporting quality threshold for a parameter related to channel state information (CSI); performing a measurement for each of a plurality of beams from a first predetermined set of beams for evaluation; evaluating the measurement for each of the plurality of beams against the reporting quality threshold; discontinuing the performing and evaluating of measurements in response to determining that the reporting quality threshold is met for one of the beams, such that one or more beams in the first predetermined set of beams are not measured and evaluated; and reporting, to the wireless communications network, CSI for the one of the beams.

A multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) scheduling method is disclosed for scheduling transmission from a plurality of transmission instances to a plurality of receivers. The method comprises acquiring, for each pair of a transmission instance and a receiver, a communication quality metric and forming a first group of receivers from the plurality of receivers. The first group of receivers is formed by selecting a first receiver as a first group member and associating a first transmission instance to the first receiver and—when a plurality of communication quality metrics of the first transmission instance and not yet selected receivers fulfill a first criterion for sufficient communication quality—selecting a second receiver from the not yet selected receivers as a second group member and associating a second transmission instance to the second receiver. The communication quality metric of the first transmission instance and the second receiver fulfills the first criterion for sufficient communication quality and indicates a lower communication quality than the highest communication quality among the plurality of communication quality metrics that fulfill the first criterion for sufficient communication quality. The method also comprises forming at least a second group of receivers from the plurality of receivers by repeating the selection steps for receivers not included in the first group of receivers, and scheduling MU-MIMO transmission to the receivers of each group from the corresponding associated transmission instances. Corresponding apparatus, deployment server, and computer program product are also disclosed.

MU-MIMO scheduling

A network-based method allows a network to optimize its control of radio resource usage by directing connected and idle mode User Equipment (UEs) () to another network node, e.g. a neighbor cell, having a better duty cycle, or by configuring the UEs to use another frequency band served by the same network node or a different network node. Signaling its duty cycle budget to the UEs allows the UEs to optimize their idle mode operation by performing cell reselection to a network node which has a better duty cycle budget.

Mobility management with base station using duty cycles

New signaling is defined from wireless devices () to a wireless communication network, concerning the wireless devices' duty cycle statuses. This allows the network to optimize its control of the radio resource usage. Additionally, embodiments described herein provide new signalling from the network to wireless devices concerning the network's duty cycle status. This allows wireless devices () to optimize their idle mode operation, including decisions whether to request a connection setup or remain in idle mode. Embodiments described and claimed herein provide a set of simple methods for operating a cellular system in a duty cycle controlled radio frequency band.

Duty cycle aware scheduling for wireless networks

Methods, nodes and computer program products control radio channel deployment when using un-licensed carriers in a wireless communication network and control mobility and/or load balancing target selection when using un-licensed carriers. When performed in an access node, unlicensed carrier intrinsic cell channel load is determined in a cell served by the access node based on one or more predetermined channel load indicators and neighbor cell channel load information is obtained, from one or more neighboring access nodes. The neighbor cell channel load information includes unlicensed carrier channel load in respective cells based on the one or more predetermined channel load indicators. At least one channel deployment operation is initiated based on an outcome of one or more comparative operations including the determined unlicensed carrier intrinsic cell channel load and/or the obtained neighbor cell channel load information.

Mobility and load balancing target selection for unlicensed carriers

There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network, the method comprising receiving signaling on an initial bandwidth part (IBWP) utilising a subcarrier spacing, the subcarrier spacing being based on at least one of a signaling characteristic of received synchronisation signaling and/or information carried in received synchronisation signaling. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Subcarrier spacing indication

A network-based method allows a network to optimize its control of radio resource usage by directing connected and idle mode User Equipment (UEs) () to another network node, e.g. a neighbor cell, having a better duty cycle, or by configuring the UEs to use another frequency band served by the same network node or a different network node. Signaling its duty cycle budget to the UEs allows the UEs to optimize their idle mode operation by performing cell re-selection to a network node which has a better duty cycle budget.

A method performed by a wireless communication device for reducing handover delay, wherein the wireless communication device is arranged to operate in a cellular communication system and to operate in a cell using unlicensed spectrum. The method includes receiving a downlink, DL, signal from network node operating a neighbouring cell operating in the unlicensed spectrum, wherein the DL signal includes a discovery reference signal, DRS, subframe, storing data associated with the DRS subframe, receiving a handover command from a network node operating a serving cell where the neighbouring cell is a target cell, and performing a random access procedure for handover to the target cell. A device performing the method and a computer program for implementing the method are also disclosed.

Handover delay reduction operating in a cell using unlicensed spectrum

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