Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Mehrdad Shariat

Milos Tesanovic

Maziar Nekovee

Sunghoon Kim

Jungshin Park

Mahmoud Watfa

David Gutierrez Estevez

Andrew Bennett

Yue Wang

Hoyeon Lee

Yinan Qi

Mythri Hunukumbure

The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Specifically, the disclosure relates to a method of conducting localisation based on ProSe for a set of UEs in a 5G network comprising the set of UEs, an AMF, LMF, and a ProSe AS by initiating a 5G ProSe direct communication between UEs of the set of UEs and a reference UE, to relay location information from a remote UE, included in the set of UEs, via the reference UE and a 5G core, 5GC, entity for example the LMF. The method includes registering, by the set of UEs, ProSe capabilities thereof with the AMF, wherein the role of the reference UE is fulfilled by a PRU. Further, the method includes starting, by the LMF, localisation procedures.

Method and apparatus for improvements in and relating to localisation in a wireless communication system

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, various methods by which the 5G system is able to dynamically determine the appropriate UP path to exchange interactive service data either via the ProSe Communication path (direct) or via the 5GC path are provided. Also, according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of addressing shortcomings in a discovery procedure related to the formation and management of such NCIS groups is provided.

Dynamic path switching

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Disclosed is a method of path selection in a system where a first User Equipment, UE, is operable to communicate with a second UE via either a first direct path or a second path via a telecommunication network and wherein the active path is selected to be the first path or second path in response to a trigger derived from: a) either one of the first and second UEs; b) the telecommunication network; or c) an application function in the network miming in coordination with one of the first or second UEs.

Dynamic path selection

The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a first network data analytics function (NWDAF) is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a NWDAF service consumer, a first request for first analytics information, the first request including first time information on a first time duration when the first analytics information is needed for the NWDAF service consumer; transmitting, to a second NWDAF, a second request for second analytics information, the second request including second time information on a second time duration when the second analytics information is needed for the first NWDAF; receiving, from the second NWDAF, a second response including the second analytics information; and transmitting, to the NWDAF service consumer, a first response including the first analytics information generated based on second analytics information received from the at least one second NWDAF.

Method and apparatus for providing network analytics in a wireless communication system

A method performed by a user equipment (UE)-to-network relay in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes, in case that PC5 quality of service (QoS) flows setup is initiated by a remote UE, identifying whether QoS requirements associated with the remote UE and the UE-to-network relay are supported, in case that the QoS requirements are not supported, identifying one or more QoS parameters that satisfy the QoS requirements, and based on the one or more QoS parameters, updating a PC5 QoS flow.

Method and apparatus for quality of service handling in wireless communication system

A method for supporting end-to-end (e2e) Quality of Service (QoS) for uplink (UL) communication between a User Equipment (UE) and a network via a relay node, the method performed by the relay node, are provided. The method includes receiving, from the network, a downlink (DL) packet for the UE, wherein the DL packet includes a value of a first indicator of a QoS flow on a first link between the relay node and the network, and creating or updating a QoS rule, wherein the QoS rule is derived based on the value of the first indicator, and optionally wherein the created or updated QoS rule corresponds to the UE or to a QoS flow on a second link with the UE.

Method and apparatus for relay operation in wireless communication system

The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Disclosed is a method of providing processed analytics data from a plurality of analytics data suppliers to an analytics data consumer, wherein the analytics data consumer takes action on the basis of the processed analytics data only when the processed analytics data from all of the plurality of analytics data suppliers has been received or until a defined period has elapsed.

Data analytics in a telecommunication network

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method of managing analytics data in a telecommunication network is provided. The method includes a consumer Network Function, (NF), determines how analytics data from a plurality of individual sources is collected and analyzed in one of a) a distributed manner from a plurality of Network Data Analytics Functions (NWDAF), b) a centralized manner by aggregating analytics data from the plurality of NWDAFs, before analyzing it at an Aggregator NWDAF, or c) a mixture of a) and b) above.

Method and apparatus for data analytics in telecommunication network

The present application provides a method of normalising data, which includes the following. The AI engine receives data of different domains of an assisted system, normalises the data of the different domains into a unified format, based on at least one normalisation method corresponding the each of the different domains and provides the normalised data to an other functional block in the AI engine.

Method and apparatus for normalising data in artificial intelligence system

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT). A method, by a network data analytics function (NWDAF), for a user equipment (UE) data collection is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving, from a service consumer network function (NF), a request for requiring the UE data collection via an application function (AF) for analytics; discovering the AF that provides the UE data collection based on AF profiles of the AF; transmitting, to the AF, a request for a subscription to the AF for the UE data collection for the analytics including at least one event identifier (ID), at least one event filter related to the at least one event ID, and a target of event reporting; and receiving, from the AF, a notification on a processed data collected according to the subscription.

Method and apparatus for improvements in application discovery and event exposure

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Disclosed is a method of fault recovery in a multi-hop network having a plurality of nodes, defining a route, comprising the steps of: determining that a fault exists between two of the plurality of nodes (B, C); performing a hierarchical fault recovery process.

Failure modes in multi-hop networks

The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Methods and apparatuses for supporting a plurality of PDU sessions are provided.

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Mehrdad Shariat