Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Fujitsu Corporation

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sca Ipla Holdings Inc.

Koniklijke Phillips N.v.

Milos Tesanovic

Timothy J Moulsley

Paul Bucknell

Choo Chiap Chiau

Robert James Davies

Matthew Peter John Baker

Soenghun Kim

Matthew P J Baker

Jaehyuk Jang

Sangyeob Jung

Mehrdad Shariat

Matthew Baker

Bernard Hunt

Anil Agiwal

Sungjin Park

Donggun Kim

Matthew William Webb

Yinan Qi

Zhaojun Li

Robert Zakrzewski

Sunil Keshavji Vadgama

Hind Chebbo

Matthew Pj Baker

Yoshiaki Ohta

Sangkyu Baek

Pravjyot Singh Deogun

Mythri Hunukumbure

David Gutierrez Estevez

Yiwei Fang

Maziar Nekovee

Rajni Agarwal

David Snelling

Aisha Naseer Butt

Mick Wilson

Timothy J Moulsely

Balakrishnan Bhaskaran

Jumoke Ogunbekun

The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety related services, on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. The present disclosure relates to a method for a terminal in a communication system and a device for performing same, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a higher layer device, information indicating packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) data recovery; identifying first data associated with transmission for the PDCP data recovery, from data which have been stored in a signaling radio bearer (SRB) before the information is received; and transmitting the first data to a lower layer.

Communication method and device in mobile communication system

A method of operating a first node in a wireless communication network is provided. The method comprises: receiving an ingress data packet; determining routing; and transmitting the ingress data packet. Determining routing may comprise determining a next hop node for the ingress data packet taking account of first level routing information indicating target next hop nodes. Alternatively, determining routing may comprise determining, for a target next hop node, a channel on which to transmit the ingress data packet taking account of second level routing information.

Method and apparatus for transmitting data to a network node in a wireless communication system

Provided is a method for resource scheduling in a network including a first node, a second node and a third node. The method comprises: receiving, from a third node, first information indicating downstream status; identifying an event associated with link quality reduction on a link between the second node and the third node based on the first information indicating downstream status; transmitting, to a first node, second information to report the identified event; receiving, from the first node, third information to handle the link quality reduction on the link between the second node and the third node; and determining an action for mitigating the link quality reduction based on the third information.

Method and apparatus for resource scheduling in multi-hop network

A method for providing a Buffer Status Report (BSR) in a network is provided. The method comprises selecting a format of the BSR from among at least two BSR formats. The format of the BSR is selected based on one or more predetermined criteria. The predetermined criteria may comprise one or more of: a number of configured LCGs; a number of LCGs of a certain minimum priority; and/or a required level of BSR granularity.

Buffer status report with integrated access backhaul

Embodiments herein provide a method for buffer status reporting. The method includes triggering a buffer status report (BSR) in a media access control (MAC) layer, based on a BSR triggering condition; transmitting, to a base station, a scheduling request (SR) for transmitting uplink data; receiving an uplink resource allocation grant (UL grant) from the base station, based on the SR; assembling a media access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU); transmitting the MAC PDU; and determining whether to cancel the triggered BSR, based on a BSR MAC control element (BSR MAC CE) included in the MAC PDU.

Method and device for buffer status reporting

The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network from a first station to a second station, wherein the first station comprises at least one buffer memory for storing data packets to be transmitted, the method comprising the steps of (a) the first station estimating the status of the at least one buffer memory, (b) the first station transmitting at least one buffer status packet representative of the buffer memory status, wherein the method further comprises (c) adapting the value of a first parameter of the buffer status packets on the basis of a data traffic characteristic.

Communicating in a network using an adaptable buffer status report (BSR)

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 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. Described is a method of operating a mobile terminal in a wireless communications network, the mobile terminal being arranged to communicate with a base station, the method comprising: one or more of: determining a cause of the Random Access procedure initiation following initiation of a Random Access procedure; and determining one or more transmission priority factors indicating an operating parameter of the network; and based on one or more of the determined cause of Random Access procedure initiation and the determined one or more transmission priority factors, performing one of: prioritising Random Access signal transmission over signal transmission on the uplink shared channel; prioritising signal transmission on the uplink shared channel over Random Access signal transmission; or making no change to the existing signal transmission protocol. Also described is a method of operating a base station in in a wireless communications network, the base station being arranged to communicate with a mobile terminal, the method comprising determining a prioritisation action for the mobile terminal to perform based on one or more of a determined indication and a received indication from the mobile terminal. Also described is a method and apparatus for signalling for group handover or cell re-selection in non-terrestrial networks.

Handling collisions in wireless networks

A user equipment (UE) for performing communication, the UE including a transceiver; and a processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to: control the transceiver to receive a UE capability enquiry, determine UE capability fields, except a frequency division duplexing (FDD) additional UE capability field, a time division duplexing (TDD) additional UE capability field, a frequency range 1 (FR 1) additional UE capability field and a frequency range 2 (FR 2) additional UE capability field, to include values applicable for all duplex modes and frequency ranges, and control the transceiver to transmit UE capability information based on a result of the determination.

Method and apparatus for performing communication in mobile communication system

A second network node in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver and at least one processor configured to control the transceiver to receive, from a first network node, at least one of a first scheduling request (SR) or a first buffer status report (BSR); control the transceiver to transmit, to a third network node, at least one of a second SR or a second BSR based on the first SR or the first BSR before receiving data to be transmitted corresponding to the first SR or the first BSR from the first network node; control the transceiver to receive, from the third network node, a first uplink (UL) grant corresponding to the second SR or the second BSR; control the transceiver to receive the data from the first network node; and control the transceiver to transmit the data to the third network node.

Method and apparatus for reducing scheduling latency in a wireless communication system

A method performed by a first node for flow control in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes identifying a triggering event for transmitting downlink flow control feedback information, generating the downlink flow control feedback information including an available buffer size based on the identified triggering event, and transmitting, to a second node, a backhaul adaptation protocol (BAP) layer message including the downlink flow control feedback information.

Method and apparatus for flow control in a wireless communication system

There is disclosed a node for a wireless communication system. The node may comprise a receiver for receiving a data packet, a status report and an acknowledgement (ACK), a transmitter for transmitting the packet, the status reports and the ACK and a processor for selectively operating in a first mode and a second mode, for determining a mode switching criterion.

Operation of automatic repeat request

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure includes a method and apparatus for scheduling request in wireless communication system. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system comprises determining a scheduling request (SR) configuration among a plurality of SR configurations based on a network condition, and transmitting an SR associated with the determined SR configuration. Each of the plurality of SR configurations corresponds to at least one logical channel (LCH).

Method and apparatus for scheduling request in wireless communication system

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