Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Convida Wireless, LLC

Research in Motion Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Blackberry Corporation

Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Hideji Wakabayashi

Yuxin Wei

Vivek Sharma

Shinichiro Tsuda

Brian Alexander Martin

Matthew William Webb

Anders Berggren

Yassin Aden Awad

Jussi Tapani Kahtava

Shin Horng Wong

Martin Warwick Beale

Yuichi Morioka

Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri

Stephen Truelove

Dimitris Koulakiotis

Chrysovalantis Kosta

Lars Nord

Muhammad Ali Imran

Koutarou Sugisawa

Atta Ul Quddus

Hiromasa Uchiyama

Miho Maeda

Kazuhito Niwano

Svante Alnås

Ayesha Ijaz

Yinan Qi

Lei Zhang

Kazuyuki Shimezawa

Naoki Kusashima

Stephen Trulove

A method of operating a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: measuring received signals transmitted in a first cell at a first location to generate a measurement result, wherein the communications device is not permitted to access the first cell, and transmitting in a second cell a minimization of drive tests (MDT) report based on the measurement result, the report comprising an indication of the first location.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment, core network element and methods for minimization of drive tests, MDT, report

A method of requesting a handover of a communications device in a source cell by a source infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network, the wireless communications network comprising the source infrastructure equipment and a non public network (NPN) portion comprising a target infrastructure equipment providing a wireless access interface in a target cell, the method comprising: transmitting by the source infrastructure equipment to the target infrastructure equipment, via an interface connecting the source infrastructure equipment and the target infrastructure equipment, a handover request message requesting the handover of the communications device, the handover request comprising an indication of one or more identities associated with non-public cells which the communications device is permitted to access.

Method of requesting a handover of a communications device

A base station for a mobile telecommunications system, comprising circuitry configured to: obtain time-sensitive network information or enhanced positioning assistance information; encrypt the time-sensitive network information or the enhanced positioning assistance information for including the encrypted time-sensitive network information or the encrypted enhanced positioning assistance information in system information; and transmit the system information to a user equipment in a cell, wherein the encryption is performed if the cell hosts and shares functionalities of a non-public cell and a public cell.

Base station, access mobility management entity, evolved serving mobile location center and user equipment

A method of communicating data by a terminal device in a wireless telecommunication system comprising a first radio access node and a second radio access node, the method comprising establishing an RRC connection with the first radio access node, entering a dual connectivity mode of operation for the terminal device in which the first radio access node acts as a master radio access node and the second radio access node acts as a secondary radio access node, communicating the same first data between the terminal device and the first radio access node and between the terminal device and the second radio access node, determining that radio link failure criteria are satisfied in respect of at least the first radio access node, and communicating second data between the terminal device and the second radio access node.

Terminal device, infrastructure equipment and methods

A method of operating a communications device comprises detecting a plurality of beams of radio signals each being transmitted periodically according to a time divided structure of a wireless access interface provided by a wireless communications network, selecting a first of the plurality of beams of radio signals for detecting a first version of a synchronisation signal transmitted with the first beam of radio signals, selecting a second of the plurality of beams of radio signals for detecting a second version of the synchronisation signal transmitted with the second beam of radio signals, and synchronising with the time divided structure of the wireless access interface from at least one of the first version of the synchronisation signal and the second version of the synchronisation signal.

Communications device and method for synchronising with a wireless access interface

A method of transmitting or receiving data by a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: establishing a connection for transmitting or receiving the data in a first cell of the wireless communications network, determining a value of one or more input parameters, using the value of the one or more input parameters as inputs to a model trained using machine learning, determining, based on an output of the model, that the communications device should perform a handover to establish a connection in a second cell, and responsive to determining that the communications device should establish a connection in the second cell, transmitting a handover message to request the establishment of a connection in a second cell.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods for performing handover using a model based on machine learning

A plurality of communications nodes are configured to form a wireless backhaul network to communicate data from a core network of the wireless communications network for transmitting to one or more communications devices or to communicate data to the core network received from the one or more communications devices. At least a first and a second of the plurality of communications nodes are donor communications nodes formed from radio network infrastructure equipment having a physical connection to the core network. According to example embodiments, a migrating communications node determines that it should migrate from a first attachment point in the wireless backhaul network in which the migrating node communicates the data to or from the core network via the first donor communications node. The term 'attachment point' is used to express a link of a communications node to other nodes in the backhaul network. The radio communications links are formed to communicate data to and from the core network via donor communications nodes and may be also via one or other nodes according to an established hierarchy of the wireless backhaul network. The migrating communications node determines a second attachment point in the wireless backhaul network to which the migrating communications node should attach to the wireless backhaul network to communicate the data to or from the core network, and the migrating communications node migrates from the first attachment point to the second attachment point. The second attachment point is determined by biasing a selection of the second attachment point either to provide the migrating communications node with radio communications resources from the first donor communications nodes when attached to the wireless backhaul network at the second attachment point as an intra-donor migration, or to provide the migrating communications node with radio communications resources from the second donor communications node when attached to the wireless backhaul network at the second attachment point as an inter-donor migration.

Cost-based route selection for IAB node migration

An infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network for transmitting data to or receiving data from a plurality of communications devices is provided. The infrastructure equipment providing a cell having a coverage area in which the plurality of communications devices are located. The infrastructure equipment comprises circuitry configured to transmit signals to the communications devices via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, receive signals from the communications devices via the wireless access interface, transmit to the plurality of communications devices an indication of one or more of a plurality of uplink data transmission configurations, receive a first signal comprising a random access preamble and uplink data from one of the communications devices, and transmit a random access response message to the one of the communications devices.

Infrastructure equipment, communications device and methods

A method for controlling a connection procedure for a terminal device requesting a radio connection to a cell supported by network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunication system, the method comprising: determining, at the terminal device, that a request to connect to the cell supported by the network infrastructure equipment is to be made, establishing, at the terminal device, application information relating to an operating context for the terminal device; transmitting a connection request message from the terminal device to the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the connection request message comprises a request for the terminal device to connect to the cell and an indication of the application information; and determining, at the network infrastructure equipment, whether to allow the request for the terminal device to connect to the cell based, at least in part, on the application information received by the network infrastructure equipment from the terminal device.

Telecommunications apparatus and methods

A user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system, including circuitry configured to communicate with a base station of the mobile telecommunications system, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: detect scheduling information for on-demand multicast broadcast service system information, wherein the scheduling information is included in predetermined system information transmitted from the base station to the user equipment; and request the on-demand multicast broadcast service system information based on the detected scheduling information.

User equipment and base station for on-demand multicast broadcast service system information

A terminal device comprising circuitry configured to detect a value of a parameter which is variable in response to a variation in vertical position of the terminal device; receive, from infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, a reference value of the parameter, a reference value of a vertical position at which the reference value of the parameter is associated, and a valid duration information of the reference value of the parameter, the reference value of the parameter being defined relative to a first reference vertical position; and determine a value of the vertical position of the terminal device defined relative to the first reference vertical position.

A communications device that, when in an inactive state, transmits a first signal comprising a random access preamble and a first portion of data to infrastructure equipment, receives a random access response message from the infrastructure equipment, and transmits a second signal comprising a second portion of the data to the infrastructure equipment.

Communications device which communicates with infrastructure equipment in an inactive state

A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises determining, by a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of the wireless communications network, that a plurality of different communications paths exist from a second infrastructure equipment to the first infrastructure equipment via one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, transmitting, by the first infrastructure equipment, an indication at least part of each of one or more of the plurality of different communications paths to the second infrastructure equipment, and selecting, by the second infrastructure equipment based on the indication received from the first infrastructure equipment, at least one of the plurality of different communications paths for communicating with the first infrastructure equipment.

Methods, wireless communications networks and infrastructure equipment

A method of transmitting data by a communications device, the method comprising receiving a plurality of service data units including a first service data unit and a second service data unit at a Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP), service access point (SAP) according to one or more quality of service (QoS) flows, each of the QoS flows defining a quality of service for the data received from the service data units, mapping the service data units received according to the one or more QoS flows on to one or more radio bearers, each of the one or more radio bearers being defined by a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity within a PDCP layer, forming the service data units into protocol data units for transmission via the radio bearer to which the corresponding QoS flow has been mapped, and transmitting the protocol data units via the corresponding radio bearer.

Wireless communications apparatus and methods

A wireless communication device comprising circuitry that is configured to measure, in an idle mode, only macro cells, and to start the measurement of one or more indirect network connection nodes in accordance with the wireless communication device turning into a connected mode.

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Hideji Wakabayashi