Kyocera Corporation

Kyocera Wireless Corporation

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Qualcomm Incorporated

Henry S Chang

Masato Fujishiro

Amit Kalhan

Noriyoshi Fukuta

Yushi Nagasaka

Kugo Morita

Hiroyuki Adachi

Chiharu Yamazaki

Doug Dunn

Fangwei Tong

Douglas L Dunn

David Comstock

Gregory Poilasne

Hiroyuki Urabayashi

Jorge Fabrega-Sanchez

Susumu Kashiwase

Mayumi Komura

Katsuhiro Mitsui

Erik Stauber

Ramon A Khalona

Peter J Black

Way-Shing Lee

Akinori Iwabuchi

Timothy Thome

Randeep Singh

Naohisa Matsumoto

Takahiro Saiwai

Tim Forrester

Arnold Burger

Ammar Kitabi

Richard J Camarillo

Huan-Sheng Hwang

Ralph B James

Kuo-Tong Chen

Srivatsan Veeraraghavan

A communication control method according to an embodiment is a method for controlling dual connectivity communication in which user equipment communicates simultaneously with a master node and a secondary node. The communication control method includes detecting, by the user equipment, deterioration of a radio link between a first base station operating as the master node and the user equipment, transmitting, by the user equipment, a first message based on the deterioration of the radio link, to a second base station operating as the secondary node, and transmitting, by the second base station having received the first message, a second message to the first base station, the second message being used to recover the dual connectivity communication.

Communication control method

A communication control method includes, by a relay node relaying communication between a lower node and an upper node, detecting a failure in a first radio link between the upper node and the relay node, by the relay node, in response to the detection of the failure, transmitting, to the lower node, a first notification indicating the detection of the failure and attempting recovery of the first radio link, and, by the lower node, executing predetermined processing in a state of maintaining a second radio link with the relay node until a predetermined time period elapses after reception of the first notification from the relay node.

A communication control method according to a first aspect is a method used in cellular communication system including a relay node for relaying communication between a base station and user equipment. The communication control method includes the steps of: broadcasting, by the base station managing a cell belonging to a Non-Public Network (NPN), a system information block including an NPN identifier identifying the NPN to the cell; receiving, by the relay node, the system information block from the base station; and determining, by the relay node, whether an access from the relay node to the cell is permitted, based on the system information block.

Communication control method and relay node

A communication control method includes broadcasting, by a first relay node configured to manage a cell, relay node support information indicating that the cell supports the relay node, communicating, by the first relay node, a failure-related notification indicating that a failure has occurred in a backhaul link, and stopping, by the first relay node, the broadcasting of the relay node support information according to the communication of the failure-related notification.

After receiving a PCS RRC connection released notification from a source user equipment (UE) device, a base station notifies a peer UE device. Where the base station is the serving base station of the peer UE device, the base station sends a PCS RRC connection released notification peer message to the peer UE device. Where the base station is not the serving base station of the peer UE device, the base station sends a PCS RRC connection released notification base station message to the other base station that is serving the peer UE device and the other base station sends a notification peer message to the peer UE device. In some situations, the base station evaluates data to determine whether notification should be sent to the peer UE device. At least some of the data may be included in the notification received from the source UE device.

PC5 radio resource control (RRC) sidelink (SL) connection management with base station notification

A handover control method for performing a conditional handover of a user equipment from a source cell to a target cell, the source cell to which the user equipment connects. The handover control method comprises transmitting, by a source base station which manages the source cell to the user equipment, a RRC message including a list of candidate cells which are candidates for the target cell and a handover condition specified for each of the candidate cells in the list; and starting, by the source base station, transfer of a copy of downlink data of the user equipment to a candidate base station which manages the candidate cell in the list before the user equipment performs the handover.

Handover control method, and user apparatus

A communication control method according to an embodiment is a method used in a mobile communication system for providing a multicast broadcast service (MBS) from a base station to a user equipment. The communication control method includes transmitting, by the base station to the user equipment, switching information for switching a delivery mode between a first mode in which an MBS configuration is provided through dedicated signaling and a second mode in which the MBS configuration is provided through broadcast signaling; and performing, by the user equipment having received the switching information, mode switching between the first mode and the second mode based on the switching information.

Communication control method and user equipment

A peer user equipment (UE) device maintains an existing Sidelink Radio Bearer (SLRB) configuration to support a first PC5 Radio Resource Control (RRC) sidelink (SL) communication link with a source UE device. The peer UE device receives a request to establish a second PC5 RRC SL communication link with the source UE device and determines that the existing SLRB configuration is required to support the second PC5 RRC SL communication link. The peer UE device releases the first PC5 RRC SL communication link.

PC5 radio resource control (RRC) sidelink (SL) connection management

A device-specific synchronization signal (DS-SS) is transmitted by a base station within a data channel transmission prior to a page timing window (PTW) of designated for at least one mobile device. The DS-SS includes a plurality of sequence instances where each sequence instance is based on a single root sequence. Prior to entering a sleep state, the mobile device receives transmission information indicative of the DS-SS transmission including at least one of a timing and format of the DS-SS transmission. After a sleep state, a mobile device acquires the DS-SS.

Scheduled device-specific synchronization signals

A communication control method is used in a user equipment in a cell operated in an unlicensed band. The communication control method comprises performing, by the user equipment, Listen Before Talk (LBT) before preforming transmission in the cell; determining, by the user equipment, whether the number of the LBT failure reaches a threshold; and when determining that the number of the LBT failure reaches the threshold, performing, by the user equipment, transmission in another cell in which the number of the LBT failure does not reach the threshold.

A first user equipment (UE) device manages the cast type for transmissions to other UE devices within a group during handovers. At least two cast types can be used from a set of cast types that comprises groupcast and unicast although other cast types may be included.

Cast type transmission management during handovers for sidelink communication

A base station assigns a first set of device-to-device (D2D) communication resources to a first D2D group and assigns a second set of D2D communication resources to a second D2D group. The D2D communication resources of the first set are different from the D2D communication resources of the second set. The first set of D2D communication resources and the second set of D2D communication resources are subsets of reserved D2D communication resources which are a subset of defined uplink communication resources defined by a communication specification for uplink communication between the D2D UE devices and a base station where the reserved D2D communication resources not used for uplink transmission to the base station.

Management of device-to-device communication resources

A user equipment comprising a receiver configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) Release message from a serving cell, wherein the RRC Release message includes an indication causing the user equipment to transition from an RRC connected state to a specific state, the specific state being a state in which a RRC connection is suspended for the user equipment, and a controller. The controller is configured to cause the user equipment to transition from the RRC connected state to the specific state in response to receiving the RRC Release message, perform a cell reselection operation when the user equipment is in the specific state, and perform, when the user equipment in the specific state, an operation of causing the user equipment to transition from the specific state to an RRC idle state in response to reselecting a predetermined cell.

Base station and radio terminal for performing radio access network paging

A mobile wireless communication user equipment device (mobile device) simultaneously stores logs for two minimization drive tests (MDTs) where a first MDT is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second MDT is associated with a second RAT. The mobile device logs MDT data for both MDTs to generate two MDT logs. In response to a request, the mobile device transmits a requested MDT log where the MDT log may be transmitted to a base station of a RAT different from the RAT of the MDT log.

Minimization drive test for wireless devices with multiple radio access technologies (RATs)

The examples set forth herein describe methods, devices, and systems in which a wireless communication device that is a node of a vehicle ad-hoc network (VANET) spreads a reservation channel message with a spreading code, according to a codedivision multiple access (CDMA) scheme. The wireless communication device transmits a reservation channel transmission to at least one other wireless communication device, which is another node of the VANET, via time-frequency resources selected from a reservation channel resource pool. The reservation channel transmission contains the spread reservation channel message. In some examples, multiple reservation channel messages may be included in a single reservation channel transmission. In these examples, each reservation channel message is spread with a different orthogonal code before combining the reservation channel messages and spreading the combined reservation channel messages with a spreading code, according to a CDMA scheme.

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Henry S Chang