Broadcom Corporation

Conversant Wireless Licensing S.a R.l.

Xiaomi H.k. Limited

Other

Nokia Technologies Oy

Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.

Renesas Mobile Corporation

Jianke Fan

Juha Sakari Korhonen

Esa Mikael Malkamaki

Mikko J Rinne

Brian Alexander Martin

Jarkko Tuomo Koskela

Tero Henttonen

Gilles Charbit

Seppo M Alanara

Disclosed herein are methods, computer program instructions and apparatus for performing random access procedures in a wireless communication system. A method includes receiving at a network access node, in different time and frequency resources that are allocated for preamble transmission, and in different ones of a plurality of component carriers, a plurality of random access requests from individual ones of a plurality of user equipments; and transmitting a corresponding plurality of random access responses in a time and frequency resource of a single component carrier.

Random access channel response handling with aggregated component carriers

A method for determining information about access barring includes the steps of: receiving a message set transmitted via a radio interface to a user equipment, the message set including at least a starting message that is a paging message; obtaining at least a first bit of a bit set from the starting message, wherein the bit set includes at least two bits and is intended for access barring; determining information of the bit set; the information at least disclosing whether the access barring is on or off; and receiving a system information block transmitted via the radio interface to the user equipment, the system information block comprising a scheduling information list that lists a further system information block that contains access barring parameters.

Method and apparatus for determining information about access barring

Random access channel response handling with aggegrated component carriers

A method for a wireless network node to support an extended control signaling is provided. The method comprises configuring a control signaling message over extended control symbols on a layer 1 (L1) downlink control channel, the control signaling message encoded over an increased aggregation of control channel elements (CCEs) in a time domain; placing the controlling signaling message in a designated set of subframes on the L1 downlink control channel; indicating a support for the extended control signaling to one or more UEs; indicating to the one or more UEs a position of the designated set of the subframes in a spare field of the Master Information Block (MIB); and transmitting the control signaling message to the one or more UEs over the L1 downlink control channel.

Method and apparatus for extending control signalling in an LTE network

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to schedule the uplink grant in a manner that efficiently utilizes uplink resources. In the context of a method from the perspective of the user equipment, an indication regarding data to be transmitted is received and a scheduling request is caused to be provided via a control channel. The scheduling request is configured to indicate a size of the data to be transmitted. In response to a grant, data may be caused to be transmitted via allocated uplink resource blocks. In the context of a method from the perspective of a base station, a scheduling request including an indication of the requested size of the uplink grant is received via a control channel. The method may cause the grant to be provided to a user equipment and, in response, may receive data from the user equipment via allocated uplink resource blocks.

Method and apparatus for scheduling an uplink data transmission

The invention provides a method, an apparatus and a computer program for wireless communication. The invention includes setting a wait timer value for a delay tolerant apparatus for wireless communication as a response to an unsuccessful radio resource connection setup procedure, said wait timer delaying the radio resource connection setup procedure and calculating or searching the wait timer value from a table comprising timer data and values corresponding to timer setup information.

Wait timer for delay tolerant terminal

A method and apparatus are provided that may enable the facilitation of using a mobile terminal as a mobile gateway to integrate with a machine-to-machine (M2M) network. Communication with a user terminal that is stationary may therefore be optimized or simplified by providing mechanisms by which the user terminal may communicate its stationary status to the network. The network may then adjust communication configurations involving the user terminal based on the knowledge of the user terminal's status.

Method and apparatus for handling a stationary user terminal in a network

A method of informing a user equipment about access barring includes the steps of: determining a bit set for the access barring, wherein the bit set includes at least two bits and discloses at least whether the access barring is on or off; placing at least a first bit of the bit set in a starting message, the starting message being one the following messages: a master information block message or a paging message; and transmitting the bit set in a message set via radio interface to the user equipment, the message set including at least the starting message. The starting message may disclose whether the remaining access barring information need to be read.

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Jianke Fan