Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Unwired Planet International Limited

Beijing Samsung Telecom R&d Center

Gert Jan Van Lieshout

Himke Van Der Velde

Soeng Hun Kim

Kyeong In Jeong

Soenghun Kim

Kyeong-In Jeong

Soeng-hun Kim

Jaehyuk Jang

Sang Bum Kim

Soeng-Hun Kim

Sangbum Kim

Boon Loong Ng

Jae Hyuk Jang

Sung-Ho Choi

Kyeongin Jeong

Donggun Kim

Alexander Sayenko

Ju-Ho Lee

Seungri Jin

Joon Young Cho

No-Jun Kwak

Kook-Heui Lee

Aris Papasakellariou

Yong-Jun Kwak

Jung Soo Jung

Lixiang Xu

O-Sok Song

Mangesh Abhimanyu Ingale

Sang-Bum Kim

Wooseong Kim

Youn-Hyoung Heo

Himke Van Dervelde

Youngbum Kim

Jin-Kyu Han

Chengjun Sun

Seong-Hun Kim

Hong Wang

Himke Vander Velde

Hwan-Joon Kwon

Young-Bum Kim

Satish Nanjunda Swamy Jamadagni

Xiaowan Ke

Xutao Zhou

Joon-Young Cho

Rajavelsamy Rajadurai

Taehan Bae

Thomas David Novlan

Byoung-Jae Bae

Jeong-Ho Yeo

Jun-Sung Lee

Sung-Man Han

Songyean Cho

Sangkyu Baek

Xiaoqiang Li

Per Johan Beming

Woo-Seong Kim

Seonghun Kim

Anil Agiwal

Sangsoo Jeong

Song-Yean Cho

Han-Na Lim

Hyo-Jin Lee

Göran Rune

Sang-Soo Jeong

Sunghwan Won

Craig Bishop

Elena Voltolina

Chen-Ho Chin

OSok Song

Sung-Hoon Kim

Johan Torsner

Sung-oh Hwang

Beom-Sik Bae

Pontus Wallentin

Youngbin Chang

Per Hans Willars

Young-Kyo Baek

Eun-Hui Bae

Sudhir Kumar Baghel

Chunying Sun

Venkateswara Rao Manepalli

Kundan Kumar Lucky

Shahrokh Amirijoo

JongSoo Choi

Pär Gustavsson

Prateek Basu Mallick

Joakim Bergstrom

G&ouml;ran Christersson Rune

Howard Peter Benn

Kook-Heul Lee

Ingale Mangesh Abhimanyu

Joakim Karl Olof Bergström

Seong-IIun Kim

A method for operating a mobile device in a mobile communication network. The method comprises transmitting a mobile device component identifier to a network node within the mobile communication network. The mobile device component identifier identifies at least one hardware or software component of the mobile device. The mobile device component identifier is indicative of capability information specifying at least one capability of the mobile device for communication with the mobile communication network. A corresponding method for operating a network node is also provided.

Mobile device capability identifier

A method of processing state information relating to user equipment in a communications system comprising a radio access network, the method comprising: maintaining current state information relating to the user equipment; and on the basis of a change of connection of the user equipment from a first cell to a second cell: transmitting a current value associated with a given state information part to the target radio access node in response to detecting at least one of one or more predetermined triggers that indicate that the target radio access node may not have received the current value from the source radio access node; or relying on the target radio access node having received the current value from the source radio access node if said at least one of said one or more predetermined triggers is not detected.

Processing state information

An apparatus and a method are provided for operating HARQ in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving a number of HARQ processes of a semi-persistent resource allocation and semi-persistent resource allocation interval information for a first transmission; receiving data in the first transmission at a subframe based on the semi-persistent resource allocation interval information; calculating a HARQ process IDentifier (ID) using the number of HARQ processes of the semi-persistent resource allocation, the semi-persistent resource allocation interval information, and time information; receiving control information including the HARQ process ID on an L1 control channel; receiving data in a retransmission based on the control information including the HARQ process ID; combining the data received in the first transmission and the data received in the retransmission; and decoding the combined data.

Apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving packets in a mobile communication system supporting hybrid automatic repeat request

The present disclosure relates to converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT), and may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method according to disclosed aspects includes receiving a first control message including a first random access response window for a first cell group, receiving a second control message for adding a second cell group, including information on a second random access response window size for the second cell group, transmitting, on a cell of the second cell group, a random access preamble, and monitoring, on the cell of the second cell group, a random access response based on the second random access response window size for the second cell group.

Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data using plurality of carriers in mobile communication system

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides apparatus and method for controlling data flow in wireless communication system. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of managing a data flow in a wireless communication system comprises controlling a quality of service (QoS) flow to be transferred from a first data radio bearer (DRB) to a second DRB. Herein, the QoS flow is a flow of data carried by a DRB between a terminal and at least one network entity.

Apparatus and method for controlling data flow in wireless communication system

The present invention proposes a method of processing a buffer state report when a wireless communication system uses inter-eNB carrier aggregation technology. According to the present invention, a terminal may be provided with a proper amount of uplink resource allocations by notifying base stations of a buffer state.

Method and device for processing buffer state report in wireless communication system using inter-eNB carrier aggregation technology

Methods and devices in a wireless communication system are provided. A method includes receiving, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message configuring a medium access control (MAC) parameter for the terminal; identifying an uplink grant for a MAC protocol data unit (PDU); identifying that skip uplink transmission information indicating for the terminal to skip an uplink transmission is configured in the RRC reconfiguration message and that the uplink grant is addressed to a cell-radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) or is a configured uplink grant; and skipping a generation of the MAC PDU for the uplink grant, in case that a MAC service data unit (SDU) for the MAC PDU does not exist, and the MAC PDU includes only a padding buffer status report (BSR).

Communication method and apparatus in wireless communication system

A method of operating a target base station in a wireless communication network to determine an addressing information for a source base station. A method to operate a target base station in a wireless communication network includes receiving a connection request message from a terminal, transmitting, to the terminal, a terminal information request message, and receiving, from the terminal, a terminal information response message including source base station information in response to the terminal information request message.

Method and apparatus for mobility management

The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, a security and safety related service, or the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. A method and an apparatus for reselecting a beam and selecting a suitable beam to be camped on, by a terminal, in order to be provided with a service in a next generation mobile communication system operating on the basis of a beam.

Method and apparatus for beam selection in mobile communication system

Methods and apparatuses are provided in a wireless communication system. A service data unit (SDU) is received from an upper layer. A protocol data unit (PDU) including a header for the SDU is generated based on an expiry of a timer for the SDU or an indication obtained from the upper layer. The PDU including the header is delivered to a lower layer. The PDU includes only the header and does not include a payload.

Method and apparatus for supporting light connection in next generation mobile communication systems

There is disclosed a method of a User Equipment, UE, in a 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, compliant mobile communications network supporting dual connectivity, and a corresponding UE. The method comprises detecting a signalled reconfiguration procedure of a Data Radio Bearer, DRB, having or changing to a DRB type in which downlink, DL, data is received from only serving cells of a Secondary Cell Group, SCG, connected to a Secondary eNB, SeNB, via an SCG DRB, or in which DL data is received from a SCG and also from serving cells of a Master Cell Group, MCG, connected to a Master eNB, MeNB, via a split DRB. If a DRB reconfiguration procedure type including one or more of: a handover; an SCG change; and DRB type change; is detected, the method further comprises: deciding one or more required layer 2 DRB-related actions resulting from the DRB reconfiguration based on: the initial DRB configuration; the final DRB configuration; and relevant DRB reconfiguration procedure types; and performing said decided layer 2 DRB-related actions.

Signaling in dual connectivity mobile communication networks

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A handover method of a terminal in a mobile communication system according to the present disclosure includes transmitting UE capability information including a random access-free handover indicator to a first base station, receiving a handover command message from the first base station, and transmitting, when the handover command message includes uplink resource information, a handover complete message to a second base station based on the uplink resource information.

Access control method and apparatus for use in mobile communication

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus in which a terminal performs contention-based access in a mobile communication system, wherein the method comprises: a sensing step of sensing whether or not contention-based access is allowed for at least one logical channel; a receiving step of receiving a contention-based reverse grant from a base station; and a transmitting step of transmitting data to the base station through the logical channel for which the contention-based access is allowed. According to the present invention, contention-based access can be efficiently performed, and the reliability of transmission can be ensured.

Method and apparatus for performing contention-based access in a mobile communication system

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