Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.

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Gunnar Mildh

Icaro L J Da Silva

Johan Rune

Oumer Teyeb

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Magnus Stattin

Jose Luis Pradas

Pontus Wallentin

Paul Schliwa-Bertling

Patrik Rugeland

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Rui Fan

Angelo Centonza

Karl Norrman

Niklas Johansson

Stefan Wager

Erik Bengt Dahlman

Joachim Sachs

Qianxi Lu

Stefan Parkvall

Gabor Fodor

Walter Müller

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Dinand Roeland

Pål Frenger

Robert Baldemair

Joakim Axmon

Qingyu Miao

Torgny Palenius

Bengt Lindoff

Jinhua Liu

Andres Reial

Erik A Eriksson

Martin Hessler

Janne Peisa

Gen Li

Thorsten Lohmar

Bo Hagerman

Zhan Zhang

Mårten Ericson

Christofer Lindheimer

Henrik Sahlin

Dennis Hui

Sven Oscar Petersson

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Fredrik Athley

Ali S Khayrallah

Claes Tidestav

Muhammad Ali Kazmi

Jung-Fu Cheng

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Leif Wilhelmsson

John Walter Diachina

Ralf Keller

Johan Torsner

Kumar Balachandran

Zhang Zhang

Lars Lindbom

Niclas Wiberg

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Johan Furuskog

Jianfeng Wang

Hai Feng Wang

Lars Sundström

Peter Alriksson

Riikka Susitaival

Andreas Bergström

Henrik Asplund

Martin Johansson

Karl Werner

Mikael Coldrey

Patrik Torgny Karlsson

Johan Axnäs

Stefan Rommer

Anders Furuskär

Rolf Blom

Mattias Bergström

Tomas Hedberg

Henning Wiemann

Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi

Johan Nilsson

Magnus Norberg Olsson

Mats Näslund

György Miklós

Konstantinos Dimou

Torsten Dudda

Monica Wifvesson

Noamen Ben Henda

Anders Wallén

Mats Folke

Attila Mihály

Qian Chen

Andreas Höglund

Peter Hedman

Laetitia Falconetti

Hans Bertil Rönneke

Peter Larsson

Panagiotis Saltsidis

Emre Yavuz

Mats Fredrik Sågfors

A method for avoiding unnecessary actions in a connection establishment comprises sending a request to a network node to initiate the connection establishment, upon sending the request to the network node, starting a timer for the connection establishment, wherein an expiration of the timer stops the connection establishment for a user equipment (UE), and stopping the timer to stop the connection establishment upon the UE receiving a suspend message or a release message, or upon the UE performing a cell reselection procedure while the timer is running. The timer may prevent the UE from waiting the connection establishment to be completed if there is an error or bad transmission in the connection establishment. Furthermore, the timer to stop the connection establishment may avoid unnecessary actions and inform other layers in the network when the timer expires to stop the connection establishment.

Method for avoiding unnecessary actions in resume procedure

One aspect provides a method performed by a radio access network node in a telecommunications network. The method comprises: responsive to detection of a trigger event associated with a wireless device having a connection to the telecommunications network via the radio access network node or seeking to establish a connection to the telecommunications network via the radio access network node, transmitting a message directly to a user plane core network node providing functionality for the connection via the radio access network node, the message comprising one or more of: an indication of an identifier of the wireless device; and an indication of an identifier of a session for the wireless device. The user plane core network node has access to a data storage layer shared between a plurality of user plane core network nodes, the data storage layer storing respective contexts for the sessions of a plurality of wireless devices, including the wireless device.

Tunnel initiation in a communications network

A method for inter-Radio Access Technology (RAT) handover comprises preparing, at a target node, a reconfiguration message based on that the target node is inter-RAT and intra-system to a source node, and sending, to the source node, the reconfiguration message for forwarding the reconfiguration message to a user equipment (UE). The reconfiguration message comprises configuration for reconfiguring lower layer at the UE and further keeps the UE from reconfiguring upper-layer configuration. The target node disclosed in the method prepares a reconfiguration message specific to different types of RAT combination and system between the source node and the target node to provide loss-less and in-order data delivery during and after the handover.

Method for inter-radio access technology handover

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

One aspect provides a method performed by a radio access network node in a telecommunications network. The method comprises: responsive to detection of a trigger event associated with a wireless device having a connection to the telecommunications network via the radio access network node or seeking to establish a connection to the telecommunications network via the radio access network node, transmitting, directly to a user plane core network node, a message initiating establishment of a user-plane tunnel for the connection between the radio access network node and the user plane core network node. The message comprises one or more of: an indication of an identifier of the wireless device; and an indication of an identifier of a session for the wireless device, and further comprises an indication of a downlink tunnel endpoint identifier of the radio access network node.

According to certain embodiments, a target network node for communicating with a user equipment (UE) that was previously in communication with a source network node, comprises an interface operably coupled to processing circuitry. The interface is configured to receive a connection resume request from the user equipment, wherein the connection resume request comprises a resume identification associated with the source network node. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that the UE was previously in communication with the source network node. The interface is further configured to transmit the connection resume request to the source network node, receive a radio resource control (RRC) response from the source network node, and forward the RRC response to the UE.

Radio resource control resume without context fetch

A method by a first network node in an Integrated Access and Wireless Access Backhaul (IAB) network is provided. The method includes, in the absence of an New Radio (NR) link between the first network node and a second network in the IAB network, sending, to the second network node over Long Term Evolution, LTE, radio, one or more Stream Control Transmission Protocol/Internet Protocol (SCTP/IP) packets. The one or more SCTP/IP packets includes F1-Application Protocol (F1-AP) signaling.

Supporting IAB CP signaling over LTE

A method, performed by a wireless device, is disclosed. The method is for managing radio resources in the wireless device and comprises receiving a message configuring a radio bearer for use by the wireless device, checking the message for a ciphering configuration setting enabling or disabling ciphering for the radio bearer, and performing at least one of enabling or disabling ciphering for the radio bearer in accordance with the received message. Also disclosed are a method performed by a base station for configuring radio resources for use by a wireless device, a wireless device, a user equipment and a base station.

Configuring radio resources

Embodiments herein relate to a method, performed by a User Equipment (UE), for handling discontinous reception (DRX) operation. The method comprises applying a delay for at least one action performed as a response to data and/or signaling received by the UE during a predefined first time period after the UEhas entered an active state. Embodiments herein further relate to a method, performed by a network node, for handling discontinous reception (DRX) operation. The method comprises sending a configuration message to a User Equipment (UE), which message comprises information regarding actions to be delayed by the UE

Method and apparatus for handling discontinuous reception in a communications network

Systems and methods are disclosed herein relating to wireless device behavior after rejection of a resume request triggered by a Radio Access Network (RAN) based Notification Area Update (RNAU) or upon cell reselection during resume. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device comprises transmitting, to a RAN node, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) resume request triggered by an RNAU and receiving, from the RAN node, an RRC resume reject message comprising a wait timer value in response to the RRC resume request. The method further comprises starting a wait timer initialized with the wait timer value and sending the RNAU when the wait timer has expired. Corresponding embodiments of a wireless device are also disclosed. Embodiments of a wireless device and methods of operation thereof related to the behavior of the wireless device upon performing a cell reselection during resume are also disclosed.

UE behavior with rejection of resume request

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for User Equipment (UE) assisted data collection for mobility prediction. In one embodiment, a method performed by a UE for UE-assisted data collection for mobility prediction comprises receiving, from a network node of a cellular communications system, a UE trajectory prediction model for predicting a UE trajectory. The method further comprises executing the UE trajectory prediction model to generate a predicted trajectory for the UE, comparing the actual UE trajectory to the predicted UE trajectory, and sending, to a network node of the cellular communications system, a result of the comparison of the actual UE trajectory to the predicted UE trajectory. In this manner, mobility prediction performance is improved.

UE-assisted data collection for mobility prediction

The disclosure relates to a method in a wireless device for transmitting an uplink signalling message in a wireless communication network. The wireless device is connected to a first network element over at least a first and a second wireless link. The method comprises determining a transmission mode among alternative transmission modes for transmitting the uplink signalling message. The alternative transmission modes comprise: transmitting on the first wireless link; transmitting on the second wireless link; and transmitting on both the first and the second wireless links. The method also comprises transmitting the uplink signalling message according to the determined transmission mode. The disclosure also relates to a corresponding method performed in the network element, and to the corresponding apparatus.

Uplink signaling for dual connectivity

A wireless device performs a method for updating a stored configuration. While in a power saving state, the wireless device monitors a paging channel. When the wireless device receives a paging message on the paging channel, it determines whether the paging channel includes a message relating to updating a stored configuration of the wireless device. If the paging channel includes a message relating to updating the stored configuration of the wireless device, the wireless device performs actions determined by said message.

Release, suspend and reconfiguration in paging

A wireless device performs a method for resuming a Radio Resource Control, RRC, connection. While in a power saving state, the wireless device monitors a paging 5channel. When the wireless device receives a paging message on the paging channel, it determines whether the paging channel includes a message enabling the wireless device to resume the RRC connection. If the paging channel includes a message enabling the wireless device to resume the RRC connection, the wireless device performs actions determined by said message.

Resume in paging

Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a wireless device and a network node, and corresponding methods therein, for prescheduling uplink communications in a wireless network. Such prescheduling is performed prior to the time the uplink communication is needed. According to the example embodiments, the prescheduling is performed with the network node having knowledge of a communication pattern of the wireless device via at least one prescheduling parameter obtained by the network node.

Node and method for prescheduling ULink resources in a wireless network according to a UE's application requirements

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