Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Nokia Technologies Oy

Joseph Thaliath

Prasanna Km

Anand Bedekar

Umamaheswar Achari Kakinada

Vaibhav Singh

Deepanshu Gautam

Avinash Bhat

Sukhdeep Singh

Dipu Karuthedathu

Sagar Kiritkumar Parmar

Gayatri Ve

Rahul Ramachandran

Prasanna Kamaganahalli Mudlappa

Vishnu O V Ram

The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by an operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) controller for facilitating continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI-CD) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a network slice management service (NSMS) consumer, a request to trigger a test upgraded technique for a network function (NF), wherein the request to trigger the test upgraded technique comprises at least one parameter indicated as part of a test network slice information object class (IOC); receiving, from the NSMS consumer, a trigger test response based on the request to trigger the test upgraded technique; and configuring at least one user equipment (UE) with at least one test slice identifier based on the trigger test response.

Methods and systems for enabling CI-CD in wireless network

An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: executing, in a first mode of operation, a MIMO for one or more user devices eligible to transmit data in a slot of a packet scheduler, to generate MIMO operation outputs; obtaining, in a second mode of operation, estimated MIMO operation outputs for said one or more user devices from a lookup table; and determining whether to operate in the first mode of operation or the second mode operation.

Packet scheduler

In case a first set of N user equipments attached to a radio access network via an apparatus does not exceed a maximum number M, the apparatus performs (S) real-time and non-real-time processing for the N user equipments. In case N exceeds M, the apparatus performs (S) real-time and non-real-time processing for a second set of M user equipments contained within the first set and forwards non-real-time processing of a third set of N-M user equipments contained within the first set but not contained within the second set to a central unit which stores (S) context information of the user equipments of the first set and performs (S) non-real-time processing of the user equipments of the third set.

Increasing number of connected user equipments on radio access network apparatus

Embodiments relate to an apparatus () comprising means configured for:

Method and apparatus for configuring a communication network

A method includes receiving from a core network entity a paging message including a permanent user identity of a user for a specific user equipment, and determining, using the permanent user identity, a set of small cells to which the paging message should be sent based on a small cell last visited by the specific user equipment and small cells that are neighbors to the last-visited small cell. The paging message, without the permanent user identity, is sent to the determined set of small cells. Another method includes, responsive to determining a paging message for a specific user equipment is to be communicated toward the specific user equipment, determining whether a gateway can receive paging messages comprising a permanent user identity and a temporary user identity, and responsive thereto, sending the paging message for the specific user equipment to the gateway. Apparatus and computer program products are also disclosed.

Paging optimization in small cell networks using gateways

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Bengaluru, India

Joseph Thaliath