Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Marco Belleschi

Stefano Sorrentino

Zhang Zhang

Ricardo Blasco Serrano

Shehzad Ali Ashraf

Qianxi Lu

Mattias Bergström

Congchi Zhang

Gabor Fodor

Hieu Do

Mats Folke

Liang Hu

Jingya Li

Mattias Tan Bergström

Yunxi Li

Björn Nordström

Hongwei Wang

Muhammad Ali Kazmi

Min Wang

Yu Yang

Riikka Susitaival

Pontus Wallentin

Ying Sun

Johnny Karout

Wanlu Sun

Johan Rune

Jan Christoffersson

Reem Karaki

Stefan Wänstedt

Henrik Enbuske

Gino Masini

Jung-Fu Cheng

Iana Siomina

Leif Wilhelmsson

Johan Mikael Bergman

Magnus Stattin

Tomas Nylander

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Per Synnergren

Mai-Anh Phan

Lisa Boström

Erik Westerberg

Robert Karlsson

Angelo Centonza

Stefan Runeson

Filip Barac

Massimo Condoluci

Eric Andersson

Bengt Lindoff

Konstantinos Dimou

Xinghua Song

Thorsten Lohmar

Peter Alriksson

Jose Luis Pradas

Panagiotis Saltsidis

Emre Yavuz

Santhan Thangarasa

Chunhui Zhang

Reza Moosavi

Ivo Sedlacek

Per-Erik Eriksson

Christian Skärby

Oumer Teyeb

Gunnar Bergquist

Mikael Wittberg

Jawad Manssour

Ajmal Muhammad

Alexander Langereis

Christer Gustafsson

Ali Parichehrehteroujeni

Anders Ohlsson

Pablo Soldati

Mohammed Yazid Lyazidi

Bjorn Nordstrom

Li Jingya

Luca Lunardi

Oumer Teyab

Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a network node for handling communication in a wireless communication network comprising a first radio network node and a second radio network node providing dual connectivity to a UE (). The network node calculates an average delay of a packet transmission, wherein weighting is applied to a number of packets respectively sent via the first radio network node and the second radio network node when no packet duplication is applied, and wherein weighting is further applied for a respective delay calculation for one or more periods or packets with duplication, and the periods or packets without duplication.

Radio network node, network node, and methods performed in a wireless communication network

A wireless device is configured for use in a wireless communication network. The wireless device obtains a configuration that governs how the wireless device is to monitor for and/or attempt to recover from consistent uplink listen-before-talk (LBT) failure that occurs during a mobility procedure triggered by the wireless device. According to the obtained configuration, the wireless device monitors for and/or attempts to recover from consistent uplink LBT failure occurring during the mobility procedure.

Listen-before-talk failure in a wireless communication network

Embodiments herein relate to a method implemented by a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device transmits data to a radio node of a wireless communication network. The wireless communication device monitors for a positive acknowledgement or a negative acknowledgement of the data from the radio node. The wireless communication device retransmits the data to the radio node when said monitoring indicates reception of a negative acknowledgement of the data. The wireless communication device refrains from retransmitting the data to the radio node when said monitoring indicates reception of a positive acknowledgement of the data. The wireless communication device also refrains from retransmitting the data to the radio node when said monitoring indicates neither reception of a positive acknowledgement of the data nor reception of a negative acknowledgement of the data.

Wireless communication device, network node and methods for handling data transmissions

Systems and methods related to balancing random access resources between 2-step Random Access Channel (RACH) and 4-step RACH. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first network node comprises obtaining information related to 2-step RACH and/or 4-step RACH, for cell(s) and/or beam(s) controlled by the first network node. The method further comprises determining, based on the obtained information, first assistance information for 2-step and/or 4-step RACH configuration, for the cell(s) and/or the beam(s) controlled by the first network node. The method further comprises transmitting, to a second network node, second assistance information for the 2-step and/or 4-step RACH configuration, for the cell(s) and/or the beam(s) controlled by the first network node. The second assistance information comprises the first assistance information or information that indicates one or more parts of the first assistance information.

Balancing RA resources between 2-step RACH and 4-step RACH

Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a UE () for handling communication in a wireless communication network. The UE () handles one or more data units based on a communication range requirement of one or more services, wherein the one or more data units are associated with the one or more services, by using a mapping of an indication of a communication range requirement and a radio resource for communication.

Method performed by a user equipment for handling communication in a wireless communication network

Embodiments include methods for an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node in a wireless network to migrate from a first centralized unit (CU) to a second CU. Such methods include receiving a handover command from the first CU via a source parent IAB node. The handover command includes an identifier of a target cell for the handover. Such methods include determining that the handover command is for an inter-CU migration of the IAB node to the second CU and, based on determining that the handover command is for an inter-CU migration, performing modified handling of uplink and/or downlink data buffered at the IAB node until execution of the handover command. Embodiments also include complementary methods for handling migration of a child IAB node from a first CU to a second CU, as well as IAB nodes configured to perform such methods.

Handling of buffered traffic during inter-CU migration of an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node

The invention relates to a method in a user equipment, UE, for performing handover to a target cell in a wireless network, the method comprising performing () a first random-access, RA, procedure in first RA resources of the target cell, in response to failure of the first RA procedure, refraining () from declaring a radio link failure, RLF, for the target cell and performing a second RA procedure in second RA resources of the target cell that are different from the first RA resources; and declaring () a RLF for the target cell based on failure of the first RA procedure and a failure of the second RA procedure, or an expiration of a timer before successful completion of the second RA procedure; the invention further relates to a UE implementing the method, to a corresponding method in a network node and a network node implementing the method.

Handling of uplink listen-before-talk failures for handover

A method by a wireless device () includes sending, to a network node () having an associated coverage area, a request for a sidelink (SL) resource pool configuration for a V2X application associated with the wireless device (). The request includes one or more geographical area identifiers associated with one or more respective SL resource pool configurations. The method further includes receiving, in response to the request, a SL resource pool configuration from the network node ().

Sidelink resource allocation for enhanced mobility

Methods may be provided to operate radio access network RAN nodes in a wireless communication network. For example, resource coordination information may be transmitted from a first RAN node to a second RAN node, wherein the resource coordination information defines at least one communication resource that is available for a wireless terminal to use for sidelink communication. According to some other embodiments, resource coordination information may be received at a first RAN node from a second RAN node, wherein the resource coordination information defines at least one communication resource that is available for a wireless terminal to use for sidelink communication. Related RAN nodes, computer programs, and computer program products are also discussed.

Methods providing resource coordination information between ran nodes for sidelink communications and related network nodes

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus and computer program products for network selection. A method implemented at a terminal device comprises obtaining an indication of a first carrier that provides cross-carrier configuration of a second carrier for device to device, D2D, communication; and selecting, from a list of authorized networks, a serving network based on the second carrier and the obtained indication. With embodiments of the disclosure, support for device to device communication can be improved.

Methods and apparatuses for network selection

The present application generally relates to wireless communication technology. More particularly, it relates to a method and apparatus for controlling sidelink (SL) Quality of Service (QoS). According to one or more embodiments, a method for controlling sidelink (SL) Quality of Service (QoS) comprising the following steps carried out at a User Equipment (UE): a) generating QoS requirement from characteristics for one or more packets to be transmitted via a sidelink; b) determining bearer configuration corresponding to the QoS requirement; and c) performing SL transmission on the basis of the bearer configuration.

Method and apparatus for controlling sidelink QoS

A method performed by a first node. The first node operates in a communications network. The first node determines, based on a header of a packet, a first number of hops. The first number of hops are the hops the packet has to traverse in the communications network to reach a second node in the communications network. The header of the packet indicates a second number of hops between the second node and a third node in the communications network in a first path. The first node obtains a wired backhaul connection to a core network of the communications network from the third node. The first node then initiates routing the packet towards the second node based on the determined first number of hops.

First node, second node, fourth node and methods performed thereby in a communications network

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for platoon-based communications. The method which may be performed by a first network node comprises determining, at a radio layer, a group header of a device group which comprises at least a terminal device. The group header comprises at least one of: an application layer group header being responsible for management of the device group at an application layer, and a radio layer group header being responsible for management of the device group at the radio layer. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a radio layer group header may be appointed for a device group so that communication management on the device group can be performed at the radio level.

Method and apparatus for platoon-based communications

Embodiments include methods performed by a wireless device configured to communicate via an uplink (UL) to a network and via a sidelink (SL) to one or more other wireless devices. Such methods include, based on availability of data to be sent via the SL, triggering a SL Scheduling Request (SR) to obtain a first UL grant to facilitate transmission of a Sidelink (SL) Buffer Status Report (BSR) indicating the data available to be sent via the SL. Such methods include, prior to transmitting the SL SR to obtain the first UL grant, transmitting an UL SR to obtain a second UL grant to facilitate transmission of an UL BSR indicating data available to be sent via the UL. Such methods include selectively transmitting the SL BSR using the second UL grant and cancelling the SL SR transmission in response to transmitting the SL BSR using the second UL grant.

Methods for SL SR/BSR handling

A method is disclosed for operating a user equipment (UE) for device-to-device (D2D) communications. The method includes receiving booking information from another UE. The booking information identifying a resource that the other UE is booking to use for transmission by the other UE and further including priority information. The method further includes selectively transmitting preemption signaling based on whether the received priority information indicates lower priority than local priority information that is associated with a transmission to be scheduled by the UE. The preemption signaling indicates preemption of the UE to use the resource identified by the booking information. The method further includes scheduling the UE to transmit using the resource identified by the booking information.

Sidelink quality of service management in autonomous mode of wireless communications systems and related methods and apparatuses

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