Nokia Technologies Oy

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Motorola Corporation

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

Nitin R Mangalvedhe

Rapeepat Ratasuk

Srinivasan Selvaganapathy

Jun Tan

Ryan Keating

David Bhatoolaul

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

Wolfgang Kellerer

Jie Chen

Man Hung Ng

Haitao Li

Jeroen Wigard

Mark Conrad Cudak

Matthew Baker

Elena Virtej

Claudio Rosa

Simon Svendsen

Benny Vejlgaard

Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu

Johannes Harrebek

Istvan Zsolt Kovacs

Mikko Säily

Jari Hulkkonen

Rakash Sivasiva Ganesan

Youngsoo Yuk

Ahlem Khlass

Sassan Iraji

Qiping Zhu

Muhammad Majid Butt

Alba Jano

Samuli Heikki Turtinen

Mihai Enescu

Antti Anton Toskala

Juha Pekka Karjalainen

Amitava Ghosh

Karol Schober

Philippe Godin

Andreas Maeder

Bishwarup Mondal

Yuan Zhang

Antti Piipponen

Hua Chao

Chun Hai Yao

Navin Hathiramani

Yan Zhang

Tzu-Chung Hsieh

Jari Pekka Mustajärvi

Muneender Chiranji

Mikhail Vilgelm

Zhiyi Zhou

Gilsoo Lee

Halit Murat Gürsu

Fred Vook

Luis Guilherme Uzeda Garcia

Xiaomao Mao

Athul Prasad

Murat Guersu

Benedek Schultz

Michel Robert

Tzu-Chung (Frank) Hsieh

Iraji Sassan

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)

A method includes performing, by a terminal device, a sub-bandwidth part based operation. The method includes determining a requirement for radio frequency retuning, and switching from the sub-bandwidth part based operation to a bandwidth part based operation. The method also includes performing the bandwidth part based operation.

Power saving for IoT radio systems

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of extended bandwidth allocation. In example embodiments, a first device receives, from a second device, an indication of a reference bandwidth. The first device receives, from the second device, an indication of a bandwidth extended from the reference bandwidth and receives, from the second device, an indication of at least one frequency offset of a first set of narrowbands with respect to a second set of narrowbands associated with the reference bandwidth. Then, the first device determines, based on the reference bandwidth, the extended bandwidth and the at least one frequency offset, the first set of narrowbands for communication with the second device.

Extended bandwidth allocation

A method and apparatus to perform receiving at least one control signal in one of subframes or symbols of a sub-bandwidth part of signaling from a network node of a communication network; based on the at least one control signal of the sub-bandwidth part, performing timing and frequency synchronization for the communication network; and using the synchronized timing and frequency, maintain a connected state for communication operations with the communication network. Further, to perform configuring signaling including at least one control signal in one of subframes or symbols of a sub-bandwidth part of the signaling configured for a device, wherein the sub-bandwidth part of the signaling is configured for the device; and sending towards the device the signaling including the at least one control signal in the one of subframes or symbols of the sub-bandwidth part.

Enhancements to sub-BWP operation

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Nitin R Mangalvedhe