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Martin Warwick Beale

Shin Horng Wong

Brian Alexander Martin

Vivek Sharma

Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri

Peter Bruce Darwood

Basuki Endah Priyanto

Darren McNamara

Andrew Lillie

Hideji Wakabayashi

Shinichiro Tsuda

Yuxin Wei

Kazuyuki Shimezawa

Yassin Aden Awad

Anders Berggren

Nicholas William Anderson

Yuichi Morioka

Peter Jonathon Legg

Vishakan Ponnampalam

Chrysovalantis Kosta

Alan Edward Jones

Hiroaki Takano

Nafiseh Mazloum

Phil Young

Rickard Ljung

Basuki Priyanto

Hiromasa Uchiyama

Naoki Kusashima

Stephen John Barrett

Atsushi Yoshizawa

Olof Zander

Lars Nord

Yigal Bitran

Lavi Semel

Steven John Barrett

Hovav Elzas

Ian Robert Johnson

Robert Castle

Timothy Alan Heath Wilkinson

Shin Homg Wong

Peter Jonathan Legg

Darren Mcnamara

Kosta Chrysovalantis

Andrew Lilie

Darren Philip Mcnamara

Darren Phillip Mcnamara

A method of communicating data in a telecommunications system comprising a base station and a plurality of terminals operable to communicate data to and from the base station. The system is configured to transmit downlink signals using downlink resources in a frequency band and in a first time period and the method comprises, upon identification of uplink data to be transmitted by a first terminal of the plurality of terminals, dynamically selecting a set of resources for transmitting the uplink data, wherein selecting the set of resources comprises selecting a subset of the frequency band and a subset of the time period of the downlink resources, the selected set of resources being based on the subset of the frequency band and the subset of the time period.

Wireless telecommunications apparatuses and methods for transmitting uplink data using a selected set of resources

A communications device operating according to a Half Duplex Frequency Division Duplex mode of operation (HD-FDD) is configured to transmit and/or receive data in a wireless communications network. The communications device is configured to receive from the wireless communications network a first allocation of first physical resources of an uplink channel of a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network for transmitting uplink data to the wireless communications network, and to receive from the wireless communications network a second indicator of second physical resources of a downlink channel of the wireless access interface for receiving downlink data from the wireless communications network.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment, and method for determining a use of first physical resources and second physical resources based on a first format indicator and a second format indicator

A communications device is provided. The communications device (which is a receiving communications device) comprises a transceiver configured to receive signals from and/or to transmit signals to one or more of a plurality of other communications devices within sidelink communications resources of a plurality of resource pool instances of a sidelink interface, each of the resource pool instances being arranged in time in accordance with a resource pool periodicity, 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 transceiver to exchange control signaling with a first transmitting communications device of the plurality of other communications devices. Here, the control signaling comprises an indication of a current power saving status of the receiving communications device.

Communications devices and methods

A mobile telecommunications system including mobile terminals of first type and second type configured to transmit uplink data to a network over a radio interface using plural sub-carriers. The mobile terminals of first type configured to transmit uplink data on a first group of the sub-carriers over a first bandwidth and the mobile terminals of second type configured to transmit uplink data on a second group of the sub-carriers within the first group of sub-carrier over a second bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth. The mobile terminals of first type transmit random access request messages to a base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a first random access channel. The mobile terminals of second type transmit random access request messages to the base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a second random access channel on sub-carriers within the second sub-carrier group.

Inserting virtual carrier in conventional OFDM host carrier in communications system

A network element for use in a mobile communications system and a method of using a network element for communicating data to/from mobile communications devices in a mobile communications system. The network element can provide a wireless access interface for communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices, the wireless access interface including: on a downlink a host carrier, the host carrier providing plural resource elements across a first frequency range; transmit data for a first group of mobile communications devices, wherein the data is distributed within the plural resource elements across the first frequency range; a virtual carrier via the wireless access interface, the virtual carrier providing one or more resource elements within a second frequency range which is within and smaller than the first frequency range; and transmit data for a second group of mobile communications devices via the virtual carrier.

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 user equipment (UE) may receive control information including a plurality of bits, wherein the plurality of bits indicates a time interval where physical control channel resources are utilized to signal UE-specific information. The UE may monitor the physical control channel resources in the indicated time intervals and determine whether signaling information for the UE is present. This determination is based on an identification of the UE and in response to the determination that signaling information for the UE is present, process the signaling information.

Communicating on a shared channel in a wireless network

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.

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.

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