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Junaid Ansari

Gen Li

Shehzad Ali Ashraf

Robert Baldemair

Bengt Lindoff

Stefan Parkvall

Gunnar Mildh

Icaro L J Da Silva

Johan Rune

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Jinhua Liu

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Erik Bengt Dahlman

Andres Reial

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Erik A Eriksson

Pål Frenger

Henrik Sahlin

Stefan Wager

Dennis Hui

Martin Hessler

Magnus Stattin

Sven Oscar Petersson

Joakim Axmon

Karl Norrman

Qianxi Lu

Qingyu Miao

Johan Torsner

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Gabor Fodor

Fredrik Athley

Janne Peisa

Kumar Balachandran

Joachim Sachs

Ali S Khayrallah

Claes Tidestav

Thorsten Lohmar

Zhang Zhang

Bo Hagerman

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Niclas Wiberg

Lars Lindbom

Johan Furuskog

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Niklas Johansson

Torgny Palenius

Jianfeng Wang

Hai Feng Wang

Zhan Zhang

Lars Sundström

Peter Alriksson

Andreas Bergström

Jose Luis Pradas

Pontus Wallentin

Patrik Rugeland

Henrik Asplund

Anders Furuskär

Martin Johansson

Karl Werner

Mikael Coldrey

Patrik Torgny Karlsson

Johan Axnäs

Mårten Ericson

Jonas Kronander

Fredrik Lindqvist

Reza Moosavi

Ning He

Dennis Sundman

Mikael Prytz

Håkan Axelsson

Yngve Selén

Andreas Cedergren

Nadia Brahmi

Niklas Jaldén

Ali El Essaili

Elena Myhre

Jonas Medbo

Jörg Huschke

Hugo Tullberg

Emma Wittenmark

Virgile Garcia

Lars Manholm

Ulf Gustavsson

Ke Wang Helmersson

Peter Von Wrycza

Bengt-Erik Olsson

Thomas Walldeen

Eleftherios Karipidis

Rui Fan

Walter Müller

Håkan Björkegren

Edgar Ramos

Johan Nilsson

Bo Lincoln

Cong Shi

Reem Karaki

Anders Wallén

Jung-Fu Cheng

Havish Koorapaty

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications network, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes determining a reporting quality threshold for a parameter related to channel state information (CSI); performing a measurement for each of a plurality of beams from a first predetermined set of beams for evaluation; evaluating the measurement for each of the plurality of beams against the reporting quality threshold; discontinuing the performing and evaluating of measurements in response to determining that the reporting quality threshold is met for one of the beams, such that one or more beams in the first predetermined set of beams are not measured and evaluated; and reporting, to the wireless communications network, CSI for the one of the beams.

Network architecture, methods, and devices for a wireless communications network

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes receiving a downlink signal comprising an uplink access configuration index, using the uplink access configuration index to identify an uplink access configuration from among a predetermined plurality of uplink access configurations, and transmitting to the wireless communications network according to the identified uplink access configuration. The example method further includes, in the same wireless device, receiving, in a first subframe, a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission formatted according to a first numerology and receiving, in a second subframe, a second OFDM transmission formatted according to a second numerology, the second numerology differing from the first numerology. Variants of this method, corresponding apparatuses, and corresponding network-side methods and apparatuses are also disclosed.

The present disclosure presents a method for a first receiver in a first communication link, the first communication link sharing a communication channel with a second communication link in a wireless network, the first communication link corresponding to a first set of beam directions, the second communication link corresponding to a second set of beam directions, and the method comprises determining whether a communication quality satisfies a predefined criterion; and selecting a first beam direction from the first set of beam directions in response to determining the communication quality satisfying the predefined criterion. The present disclosure also presents a further method for a second transmitter and the further method comprising receiving a beam direction selection signaling and selecting a second beam direction from the second set of beam directions in the second communication link. The first receiver and the second transmitter in respective communication links are also disclosed.

Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data

A technique for transmitting and receiving data () on shared radio spectrum according to a listen after talk, LAT, procedure is described. As to a transmitting aspect of the technique, one or more parameters of the LAT procedure are set. At least one of the one or more parameters () is set depending on at least one of a Quality of Service, QoS, requirement of the data and a state of the shared radio spectrum. The data () is transmitted on the shared radio spectrum according to the LAT procedure using the one or more parameters.

Technique for listening after talk

A method of transmission scheduling for one or more process devices in an industrial application, such as a sensor, an actuator and/or a process controller, capable of wireless communication, implemented by a radio control unit, is proposed, the method comprising: determining with respect to the industrial application whether a licensed shared access spectrum is available and assigning to the one or more process devices, based on a traffic type of the data to be transmitted by the one or more process devices, an access spectrum within the licensed shared access spectrum.

Access spectrum assignment

In one aspect, a transmitter, for a first time interval, allocates first and second portions of a frequency band to first and second multicarrier modulation schemes with first and second subcarrier spacings that differ from one another. The data is transmitted to wireless devices in the first time interval using the first and second multicarrier modulation schemes in the first and second portions of the frequency band. For a second time interval, third and fourth non-overlapping portions of a frequency band are allocated to third and fourth multicarrier modulation schemes that have third and fourth subcarrier spacings that differ from one another. The third and fourth portions and/or schemes differ from the first and second portions and/or schemes. The data is transmitted in the second time interval using the third and fourth multicarrier modulation schemes in the third and fourth portions of the frequency band.

Dynamic selection of multicarrier mode based on QoS parameters

A method to operate an access node of a wireless communication network is provided. A first frame may be provided including a first header and a first data block with first data for a first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal. The header may include a first control field indicating a first idle period resource and a second control field indicating a second idle period resource, and the first and second idle period resources may be different. Transmission of the first frame to the first and second wireless terminals may be initiated. Responsive to receiving a notification message using the first idle period resource, a second frame may be provided including a second header and a second data block with second data for the second wireless terminal. Transmission of the second frame to the second wireless terminal may be initiated while deferring transmission to the first wireless terminal.

Methods supporting multicast/multiuser transmission using listen after talk and related network nodes

A technique for communicating protocol data units, PDUs, in a radio communication from a transmitter () to a receiver () is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, one or more control messages indicative of Quality of Service, QoS, requirements for the radio communication are received. The QoS requirements include a control command for a reliability of the radio communication and a control command for a latency of the radio communication. A batch of redundant PDUs is transmitted from the transmitter () to the receiver (). A number of the redundant PDUs per batch depends on the control command for the reliability and a temporal spread of the redundant PDUs per batch depends on the control command for the latency.

Radio communication of critical packet data units

Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling a listen-after-talk (LAT) procedure in a wireless communication network comprising at least a source node (SN) and a destination node (DN). Such methods or apparatuses may obtain information indicating an operational context of the LAT procedure, adapt at least one parameter of the LAT procedure according to the obtained information, and control at least the SN or the DN to communicate according to the LAT procedure having the adapted at least one parameter.

Reconfiguration of listen-after-talk procedure

A communication device controls directional communication equipment. In one embodiment, the communication device determines a distance for directionally sensing spectral conditions, and jointly selects an antenna beamwidth and sensing sensitivity with which to directionally sense the spectral conditions based on the distance.

Controlling directional communication equipment

A technique for transmitting on multiple frequency carriers in a radio access network (RAN) in potential coexistence with an interferer using at least one of the multiple frequency carriers is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, when there is a transmission on at least one first frequency carrier among the multiple frequency carriers in a transmit opportunity interval, a clear channel assessment (CCA) on at least one second frequency carrier among the multiple frequency carriers is performed before expiry of the transmit opportunity interval. If the at least one second frequency carrier is available according to the CCA, the transmission uses the at least one second 10 frequency carrier in the transmit opportunity interval.

Technique for multi-carrier transmission in a transmit opportunity interval

A technique for accessing a wireless channel by a station using an access technology in coexistence with the same or another access technology on the wireless channel is described. As to a method aspect, resources () on the wireless channel are allocated or an allocation () therefor is received at the station. The allocation is not uniquely associated with data to be transmitted by the station on the wireless channel. If data to be transmitted by the station on the wireless channel is available, a listen before talk (LBT) process is performed on the wireless channel or transmission is deferred to satisfy a time-averaged transmit constraint. The data is transmitted by the station using at least one of the allocated resources () on the wireless channel, if the LBT process indicates that the wireless channel is clear for the at least one allocated resource () or if the time-averaged transmit constraint is satisfied for the at least one allocated resource ().

Technique for accessing a wireless channel in coexistence scnarios

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Junaid Ansari