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A method includes determining an operating mode of a first terminal of the one or more terminals; selecting, based on the operating mode, a first frame configuration from a plurality of frame configurations for the first terminal, each of the plurality of frame configurations configuring one or more of: an offset parameter determining the start of a frame, a Channel Occupancy Time 'COT' duration in a frame, an idle duration in a frame, a frame duration, a frame period and a gap duration between two subsequent frames; and communicating between the first terminal and the base station and via the first frequency band, using contention-based access and based on the first frame configuration.

Terminals, base stations, systems, methods, circuitry and computer program products

A method of receiving data at a communications device from a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, by a receiver of the communications device, downlink data during an initial access phase of a communications session of the communications device from a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, and receiving, by the receiver of the communications device, other downlink data during a connected phase of the communications session the communications device transmitted to the communications device via the wireless access interface, the wireless access interface providing communications resources comprising a predetermined number of OFDM symbols in each of a plurality of time slots, the OFDM symbols in the initial access phase having a greater number of sub-carriers available to carry the downlink data within greater frequency domain physical resources than the OFDM symbols in the connected phase.

Communications devices, network infrastructure equipment, wireless communications networks and methods

A method of configuring transmissions in a mobile telecommunications network based on a target error rate for the transmissions, the transmissions being between a first mobile node of the mobile telecommunications network and a second mobile node of the mobile telecommunications network. The method comprises, in an initialisation phase, the first and second mobile nodes communicating (S) in accordance with a first error rate and a first communication configuration, wherein the first error rate is greater than the target error rate; measuring (S) an initial transmission quality associated with transmissions in the initialisation phase; based on the initial transmission quality associated with the first communication configuration, determining (S) a second communication configuration corresponding to the target error rate; and in a stable phase, the first and second mobile nodes communicating (S) in accordance with the target error rate and the second communication configuration.

Method, systems, mobile nodes and circuitry for link adaptation

A method of operating a communications device for transmitting data to or receiving data from an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network. The method comprises determining uplink communications resources of a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network to be used for the transmission of data by the communications device to the infrastructure equipment, receiving, from the infrastructure equipment via the wireless radio interface, an uplink pre-emption indicator that indicates that at least a portion of the uplink communications resources are allocated for the transmission of signals by another communications device, the at least the portion of the uplink communications resources being located within communications resources of a reference region associated with the uplink pre-emption indicator, and adjusting one or more communications parameters for the transmission of signals representing the data in the uplink communications resources in response to receiving the uplink pre-emption indicator.

Methods, communications device and infrastructure equipment

A method of transmitting acknowledgement information, includes receiving from an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network an indication of a plurality of instances of downlink communications resources associated with a semi-persistent resource allocation, the plurality of instances of downlink communications resources allocated for the transmission of data by the infrastructure equipment to the communications device via a wireless access interface, determining that one or more uplink communication resources allocated for the transmission of a portion of acknowledgement information indicating an acknowledgement status of a respective instance of the downlink communication resources is invalid and cannot be used for the transmission of the acknowledgement information, selecting, from a plurality of outstanding portions of acknowledgement information which have not been transmitted, a subset of portions of acknowledgement information, and transmitting to the infrastructure equipment the selected subset of portions of acknowledgement information using a single instance of uplink communication resources.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods

A retransmission method for use in a telecommunications system, the method comprising: transmitting, to a terminal, first data in a set of identified resources allocated for the transmission of the first data; identifying that a portion of the identified resources has been used to transmit data other than the first data; and retransmitting a subset of the first data, the subset of the first data comprising the portion of the first data that was previously scheduled to be transmitted in the portion of the identified resources.

Wireless telecommunications apparatus and methods for retransmission of a subset of data

A method of operating a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: selecting first uplink communication resources for transmitting uplink data, selecting second downlink communication resources for receiving downlink data, detecting a collision whereby, in accordance with the capabilities of the communications device, the communications device cannot both transmit signals using the first uplink communication resources and receive and decode signals transmitted using the second downlink communication resources, in response to detecting the collision, determining whether the second downlink communication resources are associated with a priority which is higher than a priority associated with the first uplink communication resources, and if the second downlink communication resources are associated with a priority which is higher than the priority associated with the first uplink communication resources, receiving the downlink data using the second downlink communication resources, and refraining from transmitting the uplink data using the first uplink communication resources.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods for handling uplink collisions

A communications device including a receiver configured to receive signals from one or more of a plurality of other communications devices within sidelink communications resources of a plurality of instances of a resource pool of a sidelink interface, the resource pool being formed of a plurality of time-divided slots and a plurality of frequency-divided regions, and a controller. The controller is configured in combination with the receiver to monitor for one or more first current signals transmitted by at least a first transmitting communications device in a first subset of the time-divided slots and the frequency-divided regions of the resource pool during a first of the resource pool instances.

Communications devices and methods

A communications device is configured to receive in a wireless communications systems using discontinuous reception. The communications device is configured to receive by determining a valid number of search spaces from which a wake-up signal, WUS, can be validly received during a power saving monitoring period. The valid number of search spaces is one or more of a plurality of search spaces of a downlink physical control channel of a wireless access interface provided by a wireless communications network for a WUS. The power saving monitoring period can be monitored by a receiver of the communications device in a low power state, the WUS being decodable with more relaxed processing requirements, and the WUS indicating that the receiver of the communications device should be powered up to a higher power state to receive signals in a discontinuous receiving on, DRX_ON, period.

Communications devices, infrastructure equipment and methods

A communications device configured to receive a first re-synchronisation signal, RSS, to receive an indication of a position in time and frequency of an RSS of each of one or more first neighbouring cells, to determine that a number of cell-specific reference signal, CRS, ports of one of the first neighbouring cells is not known by the communications device, to carry out a measurement on the first cell, to carry out a measurement using the RSS of the one of the neighbouring cells, wherein the measurement is carried out using the RSS of the one of the neighbouring cells in accordance with a default number of CRS ports, and to determine, if a trigger condition has not been met, that the one of the first neighbouring cells is not a suitable candidate cell for reselection by the communications device.

RSS measurement in case of unknown number of CRS ports

An infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network comprises transceiver circuitry and controller circuitry configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry to transmit, to a communications device, a first control signal providing an indication of a set of downlink communications resources of the wireless access interface in which the infrastructure equipment is going to transmit a plurality of transport blocks to the communications device, wherein the plurality of transport blocks comprises a first plurality of transport blocks that are to be transmitted in a first set of downlink communications resources and a second plurality of transport blocks that are to be transmitted in a second set of downlink communications resources, the first set of downlink communications resources and the second set of downlink communications resources being separated in time by a scheduling gap formed by a third set of downlink communications resources of the wireless access interface.

Infrastructure equipment, communications devices, and methods

Infrastructure equipment for use in a telecommunications system, the infrastructure equipment comprising: transceiver circuitry and control circuitry, whereby the transceiver circuitry, under control of the control circuitry, is configured to: transmit first data to a first mobile device and second data to a second mobile device, wherein the transmission period of the second data is shorter than the transmission period of the first data and the second data is transmitted after the start of the first data, and uses transmission resources allocated to, the first data; and transmit to the first mobile device, indication data that contains information identifying the resources allocated to the second data, wherein the granularity of the resources is determined in accordance with the first data.

Infrastructure equipment, mobile terminal, computer software and methods

A communications device configured to communicate in a wireless system having a wireless access interface providing communications resources arranged in time divided units of a host radio access technology, RAT, frequency bandwidth, the time divided units and the host RAT interface frequency bandwidth being arranged into one or more virtual RAT interfaces. The communications device configured to receive the signals transmitted via one of the virtual RAT interfaces in accordance with different communications parameters from the host RAT interface providing different characteristics for communicating data represented by the signals with respect to a characteristic of signals transmitted according to communications parameters in the communications resources of the host RAT interface.

Flexible multiplexing of users with difference requirements in a 5G frame structure

A method of performing cell reselection by a wireless communications device comprises measuring a signal strength of radio signals received from a serving cell, determining whether the signal strength of the signals received from the serving cell is lower than a first predetermined signal strength threshold, if the signal strength is lower than the first predetermined signal strength threshold measuring a signal strength of a neighbor cell operating on the same frequency as the serving cell to generate signal strength measurements at a first rate, and in accordance with the signal strength measurements of the neighbor cell generated at the first rate determining whether to reselect to the neighbor cell.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment, wireless communications network and methods

A method of conveying an allocation of radio resources on a radio channel for communicating data between a base station and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system, wherein the radio channel spans a channel frequency bandwidth divided into frequency resource units which may be selectively allocated for communicating data between the base station and the terminal device, and wherein the method comprises, at the base station, selecting a combination of resource units for communicating the data between the base station and the terminal device from among a predefined set of allowable combinations of resource units, wherein the allowable combinations of resource units include non-contiguous combinations of resource units and wherein the number of allowable combinations of resource units is smaller than the total number of combinations of resource units, and conveying, to the terminal device, an indication of the selected combination of resource units.

Telecommunications apparatus and methods

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