Nokia Technologies Oy

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Motorola Corporation

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

Nitin R Mangalvedhe

Rapeepat Ratasuk

Srinivasan Selvaganapathy

David Bhatoolaul

Jun Tan

Ryan Keating

Nathan J Smith

George Calcev

Jeffrey D Bonta

Mikko Aleksi Uusitalo

Frederick W Vook

Michael H Baker

James P Michels

Antti Sorri

William J Hillery

Chunhai Yao

Amitabha Ghosh

Esa Tapani Tiirola

Kari Pekka Pajukoski

Jussi-Pekka Koskinen

Eugene Visotsky

Benedito J Fonseca, Jr

Man Hung Ng

Jie Chen

Wolfgang Kellerer

Haitao Li

Jeroen Wigard

Matthew Baker

Claudio Rosa

Elena Virtej

Mark Conrad Cudak

Benny Vejlgaard

Simon Svendsen

Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu

Johannes Harrebek

Istvan Zsolt Kovacs

Mikko Säily

Rakash Sivasiva Ganesan

Jari Hulkkonen

Youngsoo Yuk

Ahlem Khlass

Gilsoo Lee

Sassan Iraji

Qiping Zhu

Xiaomao Mao

Muhammad Majid Butt

Michel Robert

Alba Jano

Samuli Heikki Turtinen

Mihai Enescu

Antti Anton Toskala

Juha Pekka Karjalainen

Philippe Godin

Amitava Ghosh

Karol Schober

Andreas Maeder

Bishwarup Mondal

Yuan Zhang

Antti Piipponen

Chun Hai Yao

Hua Chao

Navin Hathiramani

Yan Zhang

Tzu-Chung Hsieh

Halit Murat Gürsu

Muneender Chiranji

Jari Pekka Mustajärvi

Jari Yrjänä Hulkkonen

Athul Prasad

Mikhail Vilgelm

Zhiyi Zhou

Luis Guilherme Uzeda Garcia

Fred Vook

Benedek Schultz

Murat Guersu

Iraji Sassan

ManHung Ng

Tzu-Chung (Frank) Hsieh

Jr Fonseca Benedito J

Halit Murat GÜRSU

According to an example aspect of the present invention there is provided apparatus including means for monitoring a physical downlink control channel of a cell for downlink control information; and means for, in response to detecting the downlink control information, determining whether a field of the downlink control information indicates that a reduced capability user equipment is supported in the cell.

Method to indicate cell support for reduced capability UE

According to a first embodiment, a method may include transmitting to at least one user equipment at least one configuration of channel quality indication comprising at least one indication of whether downlink transmissions associated with 16-quadrature amplitude modulation is supported. The method may further include receiving, based upon at least one condition being satisfied, from the at least one user equipment, at least one extended channel quality indication report.

Extended channel quality report for 16-quadrature amplitude modulation in narrowband Internet of Things

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for physical broadcast channel (PBCH) extension to manage extended master information block (MIB) are provided. A user equipment (UE) may determine whether an MIB extension exists. If the MIB extension exists, then the UE may determine an extended PBCH time-frequency location.

Physical broadcast channel (PBCH) extension to manage extended master information block (MIB)

A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for system information acquisition for reduced capability NR devices may include a UE device which is caused to, determine a plurality of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates from a control resource set (CORESET), monitor a PDCCH from the plurality of PDCCH candidates, determine reduced capability (REDCAP) scheduling information from a downlink control information (DCI) received on the PDCCH, and receive REDCAP system information based on the determined REDCAP scheduling information.

System information acquisition method for reduced capability nr devices

A method may include monitoring, by a user equipment, a first wake up signal prior to a paging occasion during a discontinuous reception cycle. The method may also include decoding a physical downlink control channel based on the paging occasion in response to detecting the first wake up signal. The method may also include determining that the decoding failed. The method may further include switching to a common paging occasion to decode the physical downlink control channel after determining that the decoding failed.

Enhancements for warning/alert system notification with wake up signal

An apparatus is provided comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform transmitting a data transmission while the apparatus is in a radio resource control idle state or radio resource control inactive state; receiving a monitoring configuration for use by the apparatus subsequent to transmission of the data transmission; and monitoring at least one downlink channel based, at least in part, on the received monitoring configuration.

Downlink channel monitoring

An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform: determining at least one condition; and based on the at least one condition, transmitting a data packet to a first access node using one of a first early data transmission type in a first mode of operation and a second early data transmission type in a second mode of operation of the apparatus.

Method and apparatus for switching of data transmission between radio access technologies for early data transmission

Techniques of preserving UE and network resources while performing a paging procedure during cell congestion includes a network node informing a UE if the cell to which the UE is attempting to access is too congested to serve the UE. When a gNB, serving a cell, receives a paging request for the gNB to serve a UE, the gNB first performs a pro-active admission control operation to determine whether there are sufficient resources to serve the UE. When there is too much congestion, the gNB may not admit the UE to the cell and sends RAN raging with a paging flag indicating that the gNB will not serve the UE. The UE in response does not trigger a service request, but rather sends an ACK paging over RRC to the gNB, which in turn notifies the AMF of non-service and that the UE is present.

Energy-efficient and RRC state aware radio resource allocation

The example embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and apparatus to receive, by a user equipment of a communication network, from a network node information for measurement reporting by the user equipment for beam management in the communication network, and based on the at least one beam reporting configuration, determine beam reporting at least one pair of beams of the more than one beam of the at least one transmission reception point capable for simultaneous reception by the user equipment. Further to determine, by a network node of a communication network, information for measurement reporting by user equipment for beam management in the communication network, and based on the determining, send the information towards the user equipment for use in determining beam reporting of a pair of beams of the more than one beam of the at least one transmission reception point capable for the simultaneous reception by the user equipment, wherein the information comprises an indication of at least one beam reporting configuration for more than one beam of at least one transmission reception point capable for simultaneous reception by the user equipment to be measured by the user equipment.

Group-based beam reporting for multi-TRP operation

Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for associating sensing information with a user (e.g., a cellular user) by, for example, determining information from both a sensing node and a communication node, then associating the a sensed object and the communication node based on the information. Additionally, or alternatively, some embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for radar and sensing-based positioning.

Associating sensing information with a user

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of energy harvesting information supported User Equipment (UE) scheduling. The method includes reporting, to a network device in the radio network, energy harvesting capability of the terminal device indicating a first energy value (ΔE) collected during a first time interval (Δt) and a second energy value (E) averaged over a second time interval; and communicating with the network device to transmit data according to scheduling information received from the network device and determined based on the energy harvesting capability of the terminal device. In this way, the terminal device may be scheduled by the network based on its energy harvesting capability, to maintain a trade-off between harvested energy utilization and fairness in scheduling from Passive IoT UEs.

Energy harvesting information supported user equipment scheduling

At a UE configured with an idle-mode configuration for using a PUR, determining that data not associated with the PUR is to be transmitted or received via an RRC connection. The UE performs an initial access to a network for the radio resource control connection. The UE transitions from RRC idle mode to RRC connected mode. The UE performs one of suspending the idle-mode configuration or maintaining the idle-mode configuration, for at least a duration of the RRC connected mode. A base station received the initial access, determines the UE is configured with the idle-mode configuration for using a PUR and transitions the UE from RRC idle mode to RRC connected mode. The base station performs communication between the base station and the UE to perform action(s) to modify one or both of the idle-mode configuration or an RRC connection corresponding to the transition into the RRC connected mode.

Maintaining, suspending, or modifying existing PUR configuration in response to a UE entering into RRC connected mode

A method may include determining, by a user equipment, a beam alignment reference value and a beam alignment test value; and determining, by the user equipment, based on the beam alignment reference value and the beam alignment test value, that a user equipment receive beam used by the user equipment is not aligned with a transmit beam of the base station.

Beam alignment verification for wireless networks

According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a user equipment from a base station associated with a cell, control information assigning a subframe as a preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe for the user equipment, the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe including an extended cyclic prefix, the control information indicating resources allocated to the user equipment for uplink transmission within the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe, wherein one or more other subframes for use by the user equipment include a normal cyclic prefix that is shorter in time than the extended cyclic prefix of the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe; and transmitting, by the user equipment, data via the resources allocated to the user equipment within the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe.

Enhancing timing advance validity in preconfigured uplink resource for wireless networks

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for improving reliability of mobile-terminated (MT) early data transmission (EDT). The method can include receiving, from a primary transmit receive point (TRP), a message. The method may include transmitting, to the primary TRP, an indication of a capability to receive a multi-TRP transmission of a messageof a random access procedure. The indication may be a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble.

Improving reliability of mobile-terminated (MT) early data transmission (EDT)

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Streamwood, IL, United States of America

Nitin R Mangalvedhe