Nokia Technologies Oy

Broadcom Corporation

Nokia Corporation

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Other

Alcatel Lucent

Renesas Mobile Corporation

Karol Schober

Timo Erkki Lunttila

Esa Tapani Tiirola

Kari Juhani Hooli

Mihai Enescu

Tommi Tapani Koivisto

Timo E Roman

Sami-Jukka Hakola

Klaus Hugl

Juha Sakari Korhonen

Claudio Rosa

Volker Braun

Tao Tao

Ankit Bhamri

Ling Yu

Jorma Johannes Kaikkonen

Zexian Li

Karri Markus Ranta-Aho

Tao Yang

Navin Hathiramani

Timo Koskela

Kari Pekka Pajukoski

Vinh Van Phan

Frank Frederiksen

Lars Dalsgaard

Youngsoo Yuk

Mikko Tapio Kokkonen

Jun Wang

Rapeepat Ratasuk

Helka-Liina Määttanen

Daniela Laselva

Emad N Farag

Juha Pekka Karjalainen

Nitin R Mangalvedhe

Sami Hakola

Gang Shen

Mads Lauridsen

Antti Piipponen

David Bhatoolaul

Renato Barbosa Abreu

Jari Pekka Mustajärvi

Antti-Veikko Sakari Piipponen

Zhuo Wu

Timo Lunttila

Jari MUSTAJÄRVI

Mikko Kokkonen

A method of operating a user equipment (UE), the UE being included in a communications network, the communications network further including a base station, includes determining, by the UE, a wide channel; determining, by the UE, at least one sub-channel within the wide channel, a channel bandwidth (BW) of the at least one sub-channel being a first BW (S); receiving a configuration of at least one DL or UL carrier, a channel BW of the at least one carrier being a second BW (S); determining a first and last usable physical resource block (PRB) of the at least one sub-channel based on the first BW and the second BW (S, S); and performing at least one of transmitting data to, or receiving data from, the base station via the at least one DL carrier or UL carrier, using the at least one sub-channel.

Adaptively configuring guard bands of a communications channel of a user equipment

According to an example embodiment, a method may include determining, by a user equipment in a wireless network, a starting physical resource block of a common physical resource block grid that is associated with a wideband channel, wherein a plurality of bandwidth parts are provided within the common physical resource block grid, each bandwidth part having a bandwidth that is less than the bandwidth of the wideband channel; determining, by the user equipment, a wideband channel guard band for the wideband channel, the wideband channel guard band provided between a lowest frequency of the wideband channel and a first usable physical resource block of the common physical resource block grid; and, determining, by the user equipment for at least one bandwidth part of the plurality of bandwidth parts, a bandwidth part-specific physical resource block grid that is a subset of the common physical resource block grid.

Resource configuration for a bandwidth part for a wireless network

A method, apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided for a time domain adaptation of multi-carrier PDDCH monitoring mechanism. A method, apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided for a time domain adaptation of multi-carrier PDDCH monitoring mechanism. In an example implementation, the method may include a user equipment receiving configuration information configuring one or more search space groups for each of a plurality of scheduling carriers, the one or more search space groups including at least a first search space group on a first carrier and at least a second search space group on a second carrier; monitoring, by the user equipment, at least the first search space group. The method may further include detecting whether a condition to switch from the first search space group to the second search space group is satisfied and switching the monitoring from the at least first search space group to the at least second search space group in response to the detecting that the condition is satisfied.

Switching monitoring between search space groups

A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for system information acquisition for reduced capability NR devices may include a UE device which is caused to, determine a plurality of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates from a control resource set (CORESET), monitor a PDCCH from the plurality of PDCCH candidates, determine reduced capability (REDCAP) scheduling information from a downlink control information (DCI) received on the PDCCH, and receive REDCAP system information based on the determined REDCAP scheduling information.

System information acquisition method for reduced capability nr devices

Devices, methods and computer programs for compensation of residual time-frequency error(s) in communications between a network node device and a client device are disclosed. A network node device determines an auxiliary reference signal indication comprising presence information and location information of an auxiliary reference signal in a physical downlink channel transmission. The network node device transmits to the client device the auxiliary reference signal associated with a physical downlink channel in accordance with the determined auxiliary reference signal indication. The client device uses the received auxiliary reference signal for the compensation of the residual time-frequency error(s) in the communications.

Compensation of residual time-frequency errors in communications

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for user equipment (UE) power saving utilizing resource block (RB)-sets are provided.

Frequency-selective light dormancy using resource block sets

In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform at least detecting, by a network device of a communication network, at least one failure of network node channel access during or preceding a wake-up signal occasion, and based on the detecting, performing on-duration monitoring. In addition, there is at least a method and apparatus to perform at least determining, by a network node of a communication network, information comprising a configuration for performing on-duration monitoring if a failure of network node channel access is detected during or preceding a wake-up signal occasion; and sending an indication of the information towards the at least one network device.

Network assistance to resolve wake-up signal conflicts

There is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform: determining synchronization signal block(s) that have been transmitted in a serving cell; receiving group information of tracking reference signals, the group information comprising an indication on the synchronization signal block(s) for which a tracking reference signal has been configured in the serving cell; receiving mapping information comprising an indication on how individual tracking reference signal is mapped to a slot structure; and determining time domain position(s) of tracking reference signal(s) of the apparatus based on the group information and the mapping information.

Allocation of tracking reference signals

In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: determining, by a user equipment of a communication network, information received from a communication network comprising a physical uplink control channel resource set indication and an indication of subcarrier spacing used for a physical uplink control channel; based on the information, determining at least one of a size or allocation of at least one physical uplink control channel resource associated with the physical uplink control channel resource set; and transmitting control information associated with the physical uplink control channel to the communication network using at least the determined at least one of size or allocation of the at least one physical uplink control channel resource.

PUCCH design for unlicensed band operation at MMWAVES

Various communication systems may benefit from an improved resource block group allocation in a cell. A method may include determining at a network entity a common frequency resource allocation grid in a cell. The method may also include configuring at the network entity a frequency location of a bandwidth part of a user equipment within the cell. The frequency location of the bandwidth part may be offset from a reference point of the common frequency resource allocation grid. In addition, the method may include determining a size of one or more of a plurality of resource block groups within the bandwidth part of the user equipment based on the frequency location of the bandwidth part and the reference point. Further, the method may include transmit downlink control information from the network entity to the user equipment.

Determination of resource block groups in a user equipment bandwidth part

According to an aspect, there is provided a terminal device configured to perform the following. Initially, the terminal device monitors physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, transmissions according to a first set of rules. The first set of rules comprises rules for performing monitoring over at least two beam pair links, each beam pair link corresponding to a control resource set, CORESET, with a different active transmission configuration indication, TCI, state. The terminal device receives, using a first CORESET with a first active TCI state from an access node, an indication for limiting monitoring and consequently limits monitoring of PDCCH transmissions associated with CORESETs having a TCI state other than the first active TCI state for a period of time.

PDCCH monitoring in unlicensed spectrum for a terminal device with a single active panel

An apparatus comprising means for: receiving, in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a first slot, first scheduling information for a data channel, wherein the first slot is separated by at least one first period of multiple slots from next first scheduling information; and receiving, in the PDCCH in at least one second slot, second scheduling information for the data channel, wherein the at least one second slot is delayed with respect to the first slot by one or more slots and is received within the first period of multiple slots after the first slot, wherein the first scheduling information in the first slot points to at least the second scheduling information; and wherein the second scheduling information is related to at least one hybrid automatic request (HARQ) process for the data channel.

Multi-stage scheduling

A method may include, by an apparatus, sensing at least one beam; initiating a channel occupancy time based on the sensing; transmitting at least one first downlink transmission on the at least one beam during the channel occupancy time, wherein the at least one first downlink transmission on the at least one beam triggers at least one first uplink transmission on the at least one beam during the channel occupancy time; receiving the at least one first uplink transmission on the at least one beam during the channel occupancy time; determining interference condition on the at least one beam based on the at least one first uplink transmission; and scheduling at least one second downlink transmission or at least one second uplink transmission on the at least one beam with restriction during a rest of the channel occupancy time when the interference condition meets at least one threshold requirement.

Apparatus, method, and computer program for scheduling transmissions

Solutions for determining a resource for transmitting/detecting an uplink (UL) control signal are proposed. For example, a method includes receiving a physical resource configuration and/or an assigned resource indicator for transmitting the UL control signal, wherein the physical resource configuration indicates a plurality of resources in frequency domain. The method also includes determining a resource based on the received physical resource configuration and/or the assigned resource indicator; and adjusting the determined resource for transmitting the UL control signal based on at least one of an outcome of downlink (DL) listen before talk (LBT) performed prior to the transmission of the UL control signal, an outcome of UL LBT performed prior to the transmission of the UL control signal, and a time gap between the UL LBT and the transmission of the UL control signal.

Resource determination for communicating uplink control signal in wide bandwidth deployments

There is provided an apparatus comprising means for receiving, from a full-duplex network node, at least one message comprising at least primary scheduling information comprising at least a primary resource allocation for uplink data transmission, wherein a configuration related to the primary resource allocation indicates that the primary resource allocation is adjustable; sensing reservation signals on a physical resource block group basis, the sensing comprising determining one or more contiguous sets of physical resource block groups on which the apparatus is allowed to transmit; adjusting the primary resource allocation to correspond to at least a subset of the one or more contiguous sets of PRB groups to obtain an adjusted resource allocation; and transmitting, to the full-duplex network node, an adjustment indication on uplink control channel resource corresponding to the primary resource allocation, wherein the uplink control channel resource is received in the at least one message or is pre-configured.

Interference handling in telecommunication systems

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