Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf Gmbh

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Nokia Technologies Oy

Konstantinos Manolakis

Wen Xu

Daniel Medina

Frank Frederiksen

Zhongfeng Li

Jeroen Wigard

Richard Stirling-Gallacher

Chan Zhou

Jian Luo

Tzu-Chung Hsieh

Serkan Ayaz

Samer Bazzi

Mario Castaneda

Rafhael Medeiros De Amorim

Mario Hernán Castañeda Garcia

Aspects and embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for evaluating location of a terrestrial network node in a non-terrestrial network. In particular, one aspect provides an apparatus, comprising means for receiving an indication of propagation delay between a terrestrial network node and a non-terrestrial node in a non-terrestrial wireless communication network; means for receiving an indication of location of the non-terrestrial node; and means for evaluating location of the terrestrial network node in dependence upon the received indication of propagation delay between the terrestrial network node and the non-terrestrial node, and the indication of location of the non-terrestrial node. A further aspect provides a method of evaluating location of a terrestrial network node, and a computer program product operable, when executed on a computer, to perform that method. Aspects and embodiments recognise that having a knowledge of gNB and NTN-GW location in a non-terrestrial network can allow UE to simplify procedures in relation to the updating and tracking of forward link delay. Since it has been agreed that a network will not directly provide the gNB and/or NTN-GW location to UE, due to security and privacy reasons in some countries, apparatus can be configured to perform methods according to which a UE is operable to calculate or obtain information which can assist its ongoing operation and reduce an ongoing need to decode SIB in support of calculation of an appropriate Uplink timing advance (TA) to apply in relation to communications exchanged with a network.

Location calculation

The present application relates to wireless communications suitable for smart manufacturing and industrial automation. In particular, the application proposes a wireless communication device (UE) and a network device (BS), in particular suitable for cyclic communication. The BS is configured to provide a first information defining a hopping sequence to a UE, and to provide a second information to the UE defining when the hopping sequence should be repeated, in particular periodically repeated. The UE is accordingly configured to receive the first information from the BS, and to receive the second information from the BS. The hopping sequence specifies at least two spatial resources and/or at least two radio resources, which the UE is configured to use for transmissions to and/or from the BS.

Network device and wireless communication device for cyclic communication

The invention relates to a sidelink communication device that includes a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver includes a plurality of antennas and is configured to communicate, using one or more of the plurality of antennas, with at least one neighboring sidelink communication device using one or more sidelink radio resources of a plurality of sidelink radio resources allocated by a network entity. The processor is configured to determine a measure of the ability of the sidelink communication device to suppress interference to and/or from at least one other neighboring sidelink communication device using one or more of the plurality of antennas. The transceiver is further configured to transmit, to the network entity, information about the measure for the ability of the sidelink communication device to suppress the interference for allocation of the one or more sidelink radio resources by the network entity.

Devices and methods for multi-antenna sidelink scheduling

A first user equipment (UE) comprising a processor adapted to execute the following operations to assist a handover of a second UE from a source network apparatus to a target network apparatus: maintain a sidelink connection with the second UE, maintain and/or establish a cellular connection, in particular with the target network apparatus, report to the target network apparatus a link state information, based on the link state information received from the second UE through the sidelink connection, receive from the target network apparatus a first control information calculated based on the link state information and send to the second UE through the sidelink connection a second control information, based on the first control information, to assist the handover of the second UE to the target network apparatus.

Sidelink-assisted handover in cellular networks

A transmitting device includes a plurality of antenna ports. Each antenna port is configured to transmit signals and is arranged at a different location, and each antenna port is assigned, depending on its location, a unique resource from a set of resources for signal transmission. Further, a receiving device, preferably on a vehicle, includes at least one antenna element configured to receive signals, and at least one processor configured to determine position and/or orientation information of the transmitting device of a received signal based on a resource from the set of resources for signal transmission.

Transmitting and receiving devices for V2V communication

A network apparatus of a cellular network for synchronizing at least one user equipment (UE) for a sidelink, comprising a processor adapted to receive from a first UE which is connected to the cellular network a request to establish a sidelink with at least a second UE, receive from the first UE a connectivity state information, in particular on channel quality, connectivity and/or timing, of the first UE and/or of at least the second UE and instruct the first UE to establish or decline the sidelink after synchronizing according to an action selected by the network apparatus from a plurality of action based on at least one of: the connectivity state and at least one operational condition of the cellular network.

Time synchronization for multi-link D2D and cellular communication

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Munich, Germany

Konstantinos Manolakis