Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Telia Ab

Kim Laraqui

Ioanna Pappa

Ala Nazari

Johan Rune

Dinand Roeland

Hans Oskar Eriksson

Stefan Dahlfort

Gunnar Mildh

Börje Ohlman

Neiva Lindqvist

Patrik Sellstedt

Chenguang Lu

Peter Öhlén

Henrik Almeida

Sándor Albrecht

Elmar Trojer

Suresh Krishnan

Boris Dortschy

David Hood

Ming Xia

Zere Ghebretensaé

Karl Norrman

Pontus Wallentin

Fabio Cavaliere

Panagiotis Saltsidis

Per-Erik Eriksson

Tomas Thyni

Athanasios Karapantelakis

Vlasios Tsiatsis

Leonid Mokrushin

Patryk Urban

Hongxin Liang

Keven Wang

Eduardo Lins De Medeiros

Björn Skubic

Roberto Sabella

Gemma Vall-Llosera

Nail Kavak

Hans Mickelsson

Gemma Vall-Ilosera

Neiva Linder

Christopher Price

Erik Rickard Söderqvist

Kàre Gustafsson

Kåre Gustafsson

Patrick Sellstedt

Magnus Lengdell

Sajjadul Latif

The invention relates to a multi-carrier base station and a method performed at the multi-carrier base station configured to enable wireless access to wireless communication terminals. In an aspect, a device is provided configured to provide wireless communication access to wireless communication terminals. The device comprises a Base Transceiver Station (BTS), configured to be connectable to a core network, a tethering access point, and at least one antenna. The BTS is configured to provide at least a first carrier via the at least one antenna for Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) wireless access, and further to provide the tethering access point via a wired connection with at least a second carrier exclusively used by the tethering access point for 3GPP access. Moreover, the tethering access point is configured to provide non-3GPP wireless access via the at least one antenna.

Method and device for enabling wireless access to wireless communication terminals

A first network node, a client device and methods therein, for enabling acquisition and delivery of a resource to the client device in a communications network. When receiving from the client device a meta interest request indicating an interest for a wanted resource, the first network node extracts from the meta interest request one or more filter parameters related to desirable characteristics of the wanted resource. The first network node then obtains identifiers of resources available in the communications network, based on the one or more filter parameters, and sends the obtained identifiers of resources to the client device in response to the received meta interest request. Thereby, a user of the client device can see which resources with the desirable characteristics are available in the network and acquire one of the resources identified in this way, without having to specify the supplier nor the resource in the initial request.

Methods, network node and client device for acquisition and delivery of resources in a communications network

An access node of the cellular network determines a correlation of an identifier of a user equipment with an entry of a Pending Interest Table maintained by an Information Centric Networking node. The Pending Interest Table comprises an entry for each data object having a pending Information Centric Networking request at the Information Centric Networking node. Based on the correlation, the access node controls a connection of the user equipment with the cellular network. This may involve deciding whether to release the user equipment to idle mode or paging of the user equipment.

Correlation of user equipment identity to information centric networking request

An access node () of the cellular network determines a correlation of an identifier of a user equipment () with an entry of a Pending Interest Table maintained by an Information Centric Networking node (). The Pending Interest Table comprises an entry for each data object having a pending Information Centric Networking request () at the Information Centric Networking node (). Based on the correlation, the access node () controls a connection of the user equipment () with the cellular network. This may involve deciding whether to release the user equipment () to idle mode or paging of the user equipment ().

The invention relates to methods, a wireless communication device and a network node for enabling establishment of at least one Packet Data Network (PDN) connection between a wireless communication device and a communication network. In a first aspect of the invention, a method performed by a wireless communication device of enabling establishment of at least one Packet Data Network (PDN) connection&#x2014;with a communication network is provided. The method comprises submitting, to a node of the communication network, a request to establish the PDN connection, the request being configured to comprise an indication that the request pertains to establishing a PDN connection for transporting Information Centric Networking (ICN) data.

Distinguishing ICN from non-ICN traffic in a mobile network

The invention relates to methods and devices for distributing data content in an Information Centric Networking (ICN) network. In an aspect of the invention, there is provided a method performed at a wireless communication device of distributing data content in an ICN network. The method comprises submitting a request to distribute the data content to an agent device in the ICN network assigned to distribute the data content on behalf of the wireless communication device, the request comprising an identifier associated with the wireless communication device, an identifier of the request configured to enable delivery of the request to the agent device via intermediate ICN nodes of the ICN network, and the content to be distributed.

Agent-based publisher mobility for ICN

Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards an indoor base station and an indoor service node, as well as corresponding methods therein, for providing Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) based communications for at least one wireless device in an indoor environment. The example embodiments presented herein provide a merged system with centralized control featuring wired and wireless access for 3GPP based communications in an indoor environment.

System and method for providing 3GPP based communications in an indoor environment

A method performed by a first Information Centric Networking (ICN) network node for generating a number of data contents to a number of respective communication devices is provided. The first ICN network node operates in an ICN network. The first ICN network node aggregates () a number of requests received from a second ICN network node, based on that each request according to a common part of the request is associated with the same theme of the data content being requested by each of the respective communication device. Each aggregated request further comprises a respective customized part associated with the data content. The customized part is requesting the data content to be customized for being consumed in the respective communication device. The first ICN network node locates () a set of components corresponding to the requested data content according to the common part, and then generates () a number of transformed data contents based on the aggregated requests and the located set of components. Each respective transformed data content fulfils the requested common part and the requested customized part of each respective request and is customized for being consumed in the respective communication device.

First and second ICN network nodes and method therein for generating data content

An access node () of a cellular network receives an information centric networking request of a user equipment () for a data object. The access node forwards the information centric networking request to a local gateway () associated with the access node (). The local gateway () maintains a pending interest table including an entry for each data object having a pending information centric networking request at the local gateway (). In response to the user equipment () moving from a coverage area of the access node () to a coverage area of a further access node (), the access node () and the further access node () perform a handover procedure. The further access node () is associated with a further local gateway () maintaining a further pending interest table. The further pending interest table includes an entry for each data object having a pending information centric networking request at the further local gateway (). The handover procedure initiates alignment of the pending interest table and the further pending interest table with respect to at least one entry associated with the user equipment ().

Handover initiated alignment of pending interest tables

A User Equipment (UE) a method performed at the UE of acquiring content, a Radio Base Station (RBS), and a method performed at the RBS of supplying Information Centric Networking (ICN) content to at least one UE. In a first aspect, a method is performed at a UE of acquiring content. The method comprises submitting a request for content to an RBS, receiving, in reply to the request, the requested content from the RBS, the content being acquired by the RBS from an ICN node and provided to the UE from the RBS upon the RBS receiving the ICN content, storing the received ICN content in a local storage at the UE, and acquiring, when a piece of content is to be rendered at the UE, the piece of content from the received ICN content in the local storage.

Information centric popular content broadcasting

A head-end system and radio head apparatuses are connected to a cable network for wired transmission of radio signals. The head-end system obtains information identifying available IFs, and receives, from a RAN, information identifying communication RFs. The head-end system sends, to the radio head apparatuses, configuration instructions. The head-end system communicates data between the RAN and said radio head apparatuses, via broadcast of one or more radio signals in the cable network, located within the one or more communication IF bands. The radio head apparatuses communicate the data between the head-end system and wireless devices, via the cable network and wirelessly to/from the wireless devices using the communication RFs.

Methods and arrangements relating to communication between a radio access network and wireless devices

Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a Connected Vehicle Small Cell Gateway (CVSC GW) and a backhaul user equipment, as well as corresponding methods therein, for providing a multiple operator radio access in-vehicle split femtocell in a wireless communications network.

Node and method for secure connected vehicle small cells

A method for enabling establishment of at least one Packet Data Network (PDN) connection between a wireless communication device and a communication network, and a wireless communication device performing the method of enabling establishment of at least one PDN connection with a communication network. The method comprises detecting whether connectivity to an Information Centric Networking (ICN) network is available via the at least one PDN connection for transporting ICN data.

ICN connectivity awareness

The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for establishing and maintaining backhaul connections between small cell radio base stations and a core network. In particular it relates to methods using a client to manage the backhaul connection. According to one aspect, the method relates to receiving, from the small cell RBS, at least one message triggering the establishment of the wireless backhaul connection between the small cell RBS and the core network. The method further comprises deriving, from the at least one message, base station property information of the small cell RBS. The method further comprises sending, to a core network node, a connectivity request message, including the derived base station property information thereby enabling a selection of a packet gateway and/or a configuration for the small cell RBS in the establishment of the wireless backhaul connection. The disclosure also relates to a method performed in a core network node and to a corresponding client and core network node.

Establishment of a wireless backhaul connection from a small cell RBS

A method and management node for deciding ports suitable to be communicatively connected to each other in a communications network. The communications network comprises an available port communicatively connected to the communications network, and a discovered port that is discovered as being communicatively connected to the communications network. The management node obtains Information associating at least the available port and the discovered port with respective one or more attributes and with a respective attribute identifier identifying the respective one or more attributes. The management node receives, from a port discovering network node, a message comprising the attribute identifier associated with the discovered port. The management node decides that the available port is suitable to be communicatively connected with the discovered port based on that the respective one or more attributes are considered matching.

Method and management node for deciding ports suitable to be communicatively connected to each other in a communications network

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