Nokia Technologies Oy

Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel

Avanex Corporation

Hakon Helmers

Philippe Godin

Dawid Koziol

Anna Pantelidou

Matthew Baker

Min Zhang

Malgorzata Tomala

Devaki Chandramouli

Bruno Landais

Amaanat Ali

Jing He

Cinzia Sartori

Zhilan Xiong

Guang-Hua Duan

Arnaud Leroy

Jo&euml;l Jacquet

Zizhou Wang

Jean-Ren&eacute; Burie

Hu Teck

Fangchen Cheng

Phillippe Godin

There is provided a network apparatus that is caused to receive as part of a handover procedure for handover of a terminal to the network apparatus, metadata about at least one machine learning model accessible for execution and/or training by the terminal, determining whether or not the terminal should execute and/or train the at least one machine learning model after the terminal is handed over to the network apparatus; and signal the result of the determining to the terminal.

Communication system for machine learning metadata

An apparatus comprising means for performing: determining information comprising: a rate of failure for random access channel attempts in at least one cell controlled by the apparatus; and/or a number of successful random access channel attempts in the at least one cell controlled by the apparatus and a number of failed random access channel attempts in the at least one cell controlled by the apparatus; and sending the information from the apparatus to a second apparatus.

Apparatus, method and computer program for sending random access channel information

A method may include receiving, at a user equipment, a configuration message from a network element. The method may also include detecting a signaling radio bearer that has been used to transmit the configuration message. The method may further include storing the configuration message according to a trigger associated with the configuration message, wherein the configuration message may be either management-based or signaling-based. Further, the method may include performing measurement data collection pertaining to a cell according to the configuration message.

Preventing signaling based minimization of drive test configuration overwrite in dual connectivity

An apparatus is provided, the apparatus being connectable to at least one user equipment by a radio connection, and being connectable to at least one centralized unit, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: sending to at least one centralized unit sharing information which concern information about sharing of same physical radio resources of the apparatus with more than one centralized unit.

Collaborative neighbour relation information

A method comprising: detecting at a device associated with a first public land mobile network, a cell; receiving, for each of a plurality of public land mobile networks supported by the cell, an indication as to whether or not the cell is available for standalone access for that public land mobile network; and determining, in dependence upon the indications and based on the first public land mobile network, whether to request standalone access of the cell.

Cell access procedure

In accordance with an embodiment, an apparatus may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code can be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least transmit a request for one or more cell global identities associated with one or more cells to a network entity. The at least one memory and the computer program code can be further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least update one or more neighbor relation tables based upon the received automatic neighbor relation related information. The at least one memory and the computer program code can be further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least transmit information based upon the updated one or more neighbor relation tables.

Automatic neighbor relation enhancements for dual connectivity

According to certain embodiments, a method and apparatus may include performing, by a first network entity, at least one benchmarking procedure of at least one network hop delay per at least one transmit resource towards at least one peer network node identified by at least one internet protocol destination address. The method and apparatus may further include deriving, by the first network entity, a second table, by, for each peer node associated with an internet protocol destination address, determining at least one existing configured mapping of at least one network instance into a transport resource Tper internet protocol destination address. The method and apparatus may further include updating, by the first network entity, the first table and the second table for each internet protocol destination address and transmitting the updated second table to the second network entity.

Benchmarking of delay estimates in a 5G network for quality of service flow setup and monitoring

Improving cell access procedure

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for X2 signaling. The method comprises, in a wireless communication network supporting coordinated multiple point transmission, transmitting load information from a first base station to at least one second base station via X2 signaling, wherein the load information comprises at least one item of i) a relative narrowband beam information element or ii) a relative narrowband scheduling information element. Current X2 signaling is enhanced to support coordinated multiple point transmission with non-ideal backhaul and improve interference coordination.

Method and apparatus for X2 signalling

A method is intended for establishing a dual connectivity between a user equipment and a MeNB and a SeNB. This method includes i) a first step during which the MeNB chooses a SeNB to offload a data rate requested by the user equipment, ii) a second step during which the MeNB sends a resource request, including data defining at least complementary radio resources to be allocated, E-RAB parameters, TNL address information, user equipment capabilities, current radio resource configuration for the user equipment, and a user equipment history cell information, to the chosen SeNB, and iii) a third step during which the chosen SeNB determines from these received data and from its not yet allocated radio resources if it can allocate the requested complementary radio resources for the user equipment and how to set corresponding radio parameters.

Method and device for establishing a dual connectivity between a user equipment and a MeNB and a SeNB, by providing the user equipment history information

A method of facilitating coordinated multi-point communication (CoMP) in a wireless communications network including at least a first base station (BS) and a second BS, a plurality of user equipment (UEs) being associated with the second BS, includes generating, at the first BS, a status request message for requesting the second BS to report one or more types of status information, the status request message including at least one of an aggregation indicator and conditional reporting indicator, the aggregation indicator specifying whether the second BS is to report individual measurements or aggregated measurements to the first BS, the conditional reporting indicator indicating to the second BS to report measurements corresponding to the one or more types of resource status information to the first BS only when one or more conditions are met; and sending the status request message to the second BS.

Selective signaling information sharing for CoMP enhancement

Methods of controlling a network node, network nodes and a computer program product are disclosed. A method of controlling a network node includes, upon determining a proposed change to characteristics of the network node, providing a first indication of the proposed change to other network nodes within a predefined network node cluster of which the network node is a member; and, in the absence of a second indication from the other network nodes within the network node cluster rejecting the proposed change to the characteristics of the network node, making the proposed change to the characteristics of the network node.

Network node control for plurality of clusters for managing characteristics

One embodiment of a method for inter-base station signaling includes receiving, at a first base station, first information from a second base station. The first information indicates commitments regarding transmission power by the second base station. The embodiment further includes determining, at the first base station, whether the second base station will follow the commitments indicated in the first infatuation based on second information. The second information indicates for at least one of the first and second base stations which subframes in a series of subframes will be special subframes. Each special subframe has at least one of less transmit power than a maximum transmission power and less data than a fully loaded subframe.

Method for inter-base station signaling

An optical resonant cavity ( ) defined between two mirrors ( ), one of which ( ) is a variable pitch Bragg reflector grating, is characterized in that a parameter C of variation of the Bragg wavelength of the grating is such that the cavity resonates continuously from a first optical frequency to a second optical frequency higher than the first optical frequency. The invention can be used in particular to produce broadband band-pass filters with steep flanks, broadband amplifiers with no gain fluctuation, and continuous emission spectrum lasers and light-emitting diodes.

Optical cavity resonating over a continuous range of frequencies

The invention relates to modulator of the Mach-Zehnder type in which an optical wave source is coupled to an optical waveguide separating through a coupler (,) into two branches (B,B,) which recombine, the branches being respectively provided with electro-optical modulators (,). According to the invention, the coupler (,) has an adjustable coupling ratio, regulation means being provided for adjusting the said coupling ratio following the application of at least one signal (V) to at least one of the electro-optical modulators (,) so that the output optical powers of the branches (B,B,) are respectively equal for destructive interference conditions and for constructive interference conditions. These regulation means comprise at least one regulation electrode (,). The invention applies principally to optical signal transmission systems.

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