Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Luca Feltrin

Andreas Höglund

Yutao Sui

Johan Mikael Bergman

Ritesh Shreevastav

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Xingqin Lin

Jan Christoffersson

Dung Pham Van

Emre Yavuz

Kazuyoshi Uesaka

Olof Liberg

Stefan Wänstedt

Zhipeng Lin

Santhan Thangarasa

Henrik Enbuske

Tuomas Tirronen

Oscar Ohlsson

Mohammad Mozaffari

Jonas Kronander

Kittipong Kittichokechai

Tahmineh Torabian Esfahani

Mattias BERGSTRÖM

Yi-Ju Chen

Istiak Hossain

Jonas Sedin

A method is disclosed herein for reducing energy consumption in a wireless device. A wireless device (e.g., a user equipment) can provide an indication to a network node (e.g., a base station) to indicate that the wireless device will prioritize energy consumption reduction over some network requirements (e.g., latency and/or scheduling flexibility requirements). Accordingly, the wireless device can perform certain power-saving actions to reduce energy consumption. The network node, upon receiving the indication from the wireless device, can perform certain network-related actions to assist the wireless device in reducing energy consumption. As a result, it is possible for the wireless device to reduce energy consumption and complexity, thus helping to prolong battery life in the wireless device.

Methods and devices for reducing UE energy consumption

A method for cell reselection by a non-Bandwidth reduced Low complexity (non-BL) wireless device camped in a standalone-cell providing enhanced coverage to the wireless device. The method includes determining, based on a respective signal strength of each of a plurality of cells, a first ranking of the plurality of cells. The plurality of cells include at least the standalone cell and a target cell. While the non-BL wireless device is camped in the standalone cell with enhanced coverage, the non-BL wireless device determines that at least one criteria is met for a cell reselection from the standalone cell to the target cell offering normal coverage to the non-BL wireless device. The non-BL wireless device selects the target cell to camp in whether or not the target cell ranks higher than the standalone cell in the first ranking.

Cell reselection in LTE-M standalone cells

A method by a reduced capability wireless device includes receiving system information from a network node. The system information comprising information specific to the reduced capability wireless device. The reduced capability wireless device performs an operation using at least the information specific to the reduced capability wireless device received in the system information.

Methods for enabling a low bandwidth wireless device to access a new radio cell via a wideband control resource set

There is provided a method performed by a wireless device for communicating with a network node in a wireless communication network. The method includes using a field in a Master Information Block (MIB) received by the wireless device, as an indication of a presence of an extended MIB (eMIB) and identifying which candidate resource of at least one candidate resource that contains the eMIB based on the indication of the presence of the eMIB. There is also provided a corresponding wireless device for communicating with a network node, a method perform by a network node, and a network node.

Master information block extension in a New Radio cell

Systems and methods for specifying content of carrier measurement reports in a cellular communication system are disclosed. Embodiments of a method performed by a wireless device are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method performed by the wireless device includes transmitting a random access preamble, receiving, from a base station, a random access response, and transmitting, to the base station, a Msg3 comprising one or more quality reports for one or more carriers or narrowbands, each of the one or more quality reports comprising at least one of a value that is indicative of a number of repetitions to be used for physical downlink control channel transmissions to the wireless device on the one or more carriers or narrowbands and an aggregation level. Some embodiments include transmitting, to a base station, an uplink message including the one or more quality reports for the one or more carriers or narrowbands.

Specifying content of quality report in Msg3

According to some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device operating in connected mode for reporting channel quality comprise: determining that aperiodic channel quality reporting has been triggered for the wireless device and transmitting a downlink channel quality report to a network node. A channel quality in the report is represented by a number of repetitions used to receive a channel. In particular embodiments, the number of repetitions comprises a number of repetitions used to receive a machine type communication (MTC) physical downlink control channel (MPDCCH) or a narrowband Internet-of-things (NB-IoT) physical downlink control channel (NPDCCH).

Channel quality reporting in LTE-M and NB-IoT

Systems and methods for narrowband measurements and reporting in a cellular communications system are disclosed. Embodiments of a method performed by a wireless device are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method performed by the wireless device comprises determining a set of narrowbands on which to perform measurements, wherein the set of narrowbands on which to perform measurements is a subset of all narrowbands within a respective system bandwidth. The method further comprises performing measurements on the set of narrowbands during one or more time periods associated with a random access procedure, and reporting the measurements or information derived from the measurements to a base station within a message sent from the wireless device to the base station during the random access procedure. In some embodiments, the message sent from the wireless device to the base station during the random access procedure is a Msg3.

Measured narrowbands for MSG3-based reporting

A UE operating in a wireless network receives a paging message from the wireless network and performs a random access procedure in response to the paging message, where performing the random access procedure includes sending an indication of whether the UE will transmit a reply to an early data transmission from the wireless network to the UE. The network receives, as part of a random access procedure performed by the UE in response to the paging message, an indication of whether the UE will transmit a reply to an early data transmission from the wireless network to the UE.

Indication of user equipment reply to early data transmission

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