Blackberry Corporation

Malikie Innovations Limited

Research in Motion Corporation

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

Nokia Siemens Networks Gmbh & Co Kg

Eswar Kalyan Vutukuri

Stephen John Barrett

Nicholas William Anderson

Rene Faurie

Takashi Suzuki

Gordon Peter Young

Adrian Buckley

Robert Novak

Robert Mark Harrison

David Philip Hole

René Faurie

Zhijun Cai

Werner Karl Kreuzer

James Randolph Winter Lepp

Michael Eoin Buckley

Mohammed Nawaf Smadi

Claude Jean-Frederic Arzelier

Yan Xin

William Anthony Gage

Biswaroop Mukherjee

Shirook M Ali

Huan Wu

Shouxing Qu

Nicholas Alfano

Dinesh Kumar Arora

Nicholas Patrick Alfano

Hartmut Wilhelm

Leonardo Provvedi

Ayman Ahmed Mahmoud Abdel-Samad

Mohamed Galal El-Din Ebrahim

Eoin Buckley

Eddie Riddington

Shouxing Simon Qu

James R Lepp

Barrett Stephen John

A method for allocating resources for device-to-device transmission between two or more user equipment (UEs) includes transmitting, from a first UE to a second UE, a resource allocation configuration for device-to-device communications. A resource request for a device-to-device transmission is received from the second UE. In response to the resource request, a resource for the device-to-device transmission is selected at the first UE. A resource grant is transmitted to the second UE. The resource grant identifies the selected resource. A device-to-device transmission is received from the second UE over the selected resource.

Allocating resources for a device-to-device transmission

In some examples, a device includes a processor configured to compare a current transport status of the asset to a predicted transport status of the asset at each respective time instance of a plurality of time instances, and in response to determining that the current transport status does not differ from the predicted transport status by greater than a specified threshold, skip sending a report relating to the current transport status to a service over a network at the respective time instance of the plurality of time instances.

Sending reports of asset transport status

A device, serving cell and method of switching between modes of operation for the device in a cellular network comprises receiving a service via a connection with the serving cell. A condition indicative of deterioration in network service and an absence of a suitable neighbor cell are detected. In response, discovery of relay nodes is initiated. When a suitable relay node is discovered, a mechanism to switch to receiving the service via the suitable relay node is initiated. The service may be a mission critical push-to-talk over Long Term Evolution service. The relay node may be user equipment acting as a user equipment-to-network relay node. When the device is in an RCC_CONNECTED state, the mechanism to switch includes sending a relay mode preference indication to the serving cell, receiving a connection release message from the serving cell, releasing the serving cell connection, and establishing a sidelink connection with the relay.

Switching between network based and relay based operation for mission critical voice call

Systems and methods to configure sidelink resources in a dual connectivity operation are provided. In some aspect, a method comprising: transmitting, from a user equipment (UE), a first message to a first evolved Node B (eNB), wherein the first message indicates a request to establish a sidelink communication; receiving, at the UE, a second message from the first eNB, wherein the second message indicates a frequency that is used by a secondary evolved Node B (SeNB); transmitting, from the UE, a measurement result to the first eNB; and receiving, at the UE, sidelink configuration information from the first eNB, wherein the sidelink configuration information indicates sidelink resources managed by the secondary eNB.

Configuring sidelink communications

A control circuit determines that a wireless portable electronic device currently being serviced via licensed wireless spectrum should also be served via unlicensed wireless spectrum and then transmits a Radio Resource Control (RRC) message to cause the wireless portable electronic device to connect to a network node operating in the unlicensed wireless spectrum. By one approach this control circuit comprises an Evolved Node-B base station in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) Radio Access Network (RAN) and the network node operating in the unlicensed wireless spectrum comprises an 802.11-compatible wireless local area network node.

Method and apparatus for simultaneous use of both licensed and unlicensed wireless spectrum

A method for transmitting a scheduling request includes receiving, at a relay UE and from a remote UE, a sidelink control information. The relay UE is within a coverage area of a base station. The remote UE is outside of the coverage area. The relay UE is configured to relay transmissions from the remote UE to the base station, and the sidelink control information indicates a future transmission of a data packet over a sidelink channel. A scheduling request is transmitted to a base station. A scheduling grant that indicates an uplink resource is received from the base station. A data packet over the sidelink channel is received from the remote UE.

Transmitting a scheduling request for a device-to-device transmission

In some examples, by a first network node of a first network sends, in response to a request from a user equipment (UE) served by a second network, scheduling information to a second network node of the second network, the scheduling information granting a resource for use by the UE for a direct wireless transmission between the UE and a wireless device, where the first network is different from the second network, and where the sending of the scheduling information to the second network node of the second network is to cause the second network node of the second network to send the scheduling information to the UE.

Resource configurations and scheduling in multi-network environments

In some examples, a system receives first information corresponding to an intelligent transport system (ITS) station, and detects, based on the first information corresponding to the ITS station and based on second information provided by a cellular network relating to the ITS station, misbehavior of the ITS station, the second information includes location information acquired by the cellular network.

Detecting misbehavior of intelligent transport stations

Disclosed herein is a method at a User Equipment (UE) comprising determining that a current radio resource configuration is of a normal type, and responsive to the determining, prohibiting the UE from sending a Power Preference Indication (PPI) for a radio resource configuration of the normal type. Also disclosed is a method at a UE comprising: determining that a current radio resource configuration is of a power optimized type, and responsive to the determining, prohibiting the UE from sending a PPI for a radio resource configuration of the power optimized type. Also disclosed is a UE including a processor, the UE configured to: determine that a current radio resource configuration is of a normal type, and responsive to the determining, refrain from sending a PPI for a radio resource configuration of the normal type.

Mechanisms to support UE power preference signaling

A user equipment (UE) sends, to a wireless access node in a wireless local area network (WLAN), a network access identifier (NAI) that includes an identifier for a cellular access network node. The UE receives an authentication challenge based on information in the NAI.

Network access identifier including an identifier for a cellular access network node

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Eswar Kalyan Vutukuri