Nokia Technologies Oy

Intel Corporation

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Apple Inc.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas

Benny Vejlgaard

Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani

Ling Yu

Oana-Elena Barbu

Lianghai Ji

Daniel Medina

Frank Frederiksen

Simon Svendsen

Berthold Panzner

Daniela Laselva

Claudio Rosa

Samantha Caporal Del Barrio

Jeroen Wigard

Esa Tapani Tiirola

Samuli Heikki Turtinen

Torsten Wildschek

Prajwal Keshavamurthy

Vinh Van Phan

Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler

Thomas H Jacobsen

Biljana Badic

Sari Nielsen

Laura Luque Sanchez

Carlos Santiago Morejon Garcia

Markus Dominik Mueck

Devaki Chandramouli

Mika Kasslin

Emad N Farag

Karri Markus Ranta-Aho

Christian Drewes

Srinivasan Selvaganapathy

Olli Alanen

Jun Tan

Jan K Ellenbeck

Panagiotis Spapis

Renato Barbosa Abreu

Norman Goris

Ranganathan Mavureddi Dhanasekaran

Jan Torst Hviid

Karsten Petersen

Lars Holst Christensen

Stig Blücher Brink

Erika Portela Lopes De Almeida

Thomas Hans-Joerg Reichelmeir

Rasmus Liborius Bruun

Timo Erkki Lunttila

Kari Juhani Hooli

Klaus Ingemann Pedersen

Zexian Li

Yong Liang Liu

Zhibin Yu

Takayuki Shimizu

Yong Liu

Johannes Harrebek

Tobias Scholand

Cormac S Conroy

Itzik Shahar

Jianguo Liu

Lorenzo Galati Giordano

Jari Olavi Lindholm

Adrian Garcia Rodriguez

Assi Jakoby

Mark Doll

Johannes Brendel

Tommaso Balercia

Naizheng Zheng

Maria Fresia

Stepan Kucera

Carles Navarro Manchon

Giuseppe Patane

Shimon Solodkin

Sambhram Kanavalli

Kishore Krishne Gowda

Nandagopal Peethambaran Nair Rajalakshmi

Lea Castel

Jitendra Kumar Saini

Nanda Kumar

Radoslaw Kotaba

Petar Popovski

Jian Guo Liu

Akshay Jaiswal

Claude Arzelier

Thomas Haaning Jacobsen

Sari Kaarina Nielsen

Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for resource selection for a user equipment (UE) in a first sidelink communication. The method includes: determining, by a first sidelink communication module, a selection window; setting at least one first threshold parameter for a resource exclusion at the first sidelink communication module; initializing a candidate resource set; receiving, from a second sidelink communication module, at least one of: at least one second threshold parameter used for a resource exclusion at the second sidelink communication module, sidelink sensing information obtained by the second sidelink communication module, or resource reservation information collected by the second sidelink communication module; determining one or more final candidate resources in the first sidelink communication using the at least one first threshold parameter and the at least one information received from the second sidelink communication module; and reporting the determined one or more final candidate resources to a higher layer.

Methods and apparatuses for coexistence of sidelink communications

A method, apparatus and computer readable medium are provided for determining position information of a receiver device. The method includes determining a plurality of beams and combining received multipath signals from the plurality of the beams. The received multipath signals are generated by a transmitter device. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the combined received multipath signals, a line of sight signal and determining, based at least in part on the line of sight signal, position information of a receiver device.

Positioning using a line-of-sight signal

An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: receiving control information including a slot format indicator configured to indicate scheduled channel usage for time units, wherein the slot format indicator includes at least one indicator configured to indicate that simultaneous uplink and downlink communications are scheduled to occur on a shared channel in at least one of the time units; and determining a type of channel sensing to use prior to initiating an uplink transmission on at least a portion of the shared channel based, at least in part, on the control information, wherein determining a type of channel sensing to use comprises analysing the scheduled channel usage for, at least, the time unit in which the uplink transmission is scheduled to be initiated and the time unit before the time unit in which the uplink transmission is scheduled to be initiated.

Channel sensing

There is provided an apparatus comprising one or more processors, and one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform: receiving, by a user equipment, directional probability information comprising a plurality of directions with probabilities, wherein a probability of a direction of the plurality of directions indicates how probable it is that another use equipment is in that direction; and determining beam widths and beamforming directions based on the probabilities.

Beamformed discovery

A method performed at a node is described. In response to receipt of a signal in a channel in the unlicensed spectrum, the node initiates a scan on one of the channels in the unlicensed spectrum to determine whether the channel is available for transmitting a response. Based on the channel being available, a response is transmitted that comprises information regarding the quality of the channel and the quality of other channels in the unlicensed spectrum along with an indication as to whether the signal was successfully received and decoded.

Communicating between nodes in the unlicensed spectrum

A user equipment includes 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 user equipment to obtain a message, the message including information identifying a plurality of discontinuous reception configurations, and use one of the plurality of discontinuous reception configurations based on at least one of a location of the user equipment and a current time.

Networks, user equipment and methods for geographic area based discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for selecting a first candidate beam for communication with a first transmitter (Tx) user equipment (UE) and a second candidate beam for communication with a second Tx UE; determining a first radio resource expected to be used by the first Tx UE for a first radio transmission to a receiver UE and a second radio resource expected to be used by the second Tx UE for a second radio transmission to the receiver UE; determining that the first radio resource overlaps in time with the second radio resource, and that the first candidate beam does not match the second candidate beam; and determining whether to: receive the first radio transmission using the first candidate beam, receive the second radio transmission using the second candidate beam, or receive the first radio transmission and the second radio transmission using a third candidate beam.

Enhanced beam selection for NR sidelink communication in FR2

Apparatuses and methods in a communication system are provided. A first radio resource connection, RRC, with a Radio Access Network, RAN, node is established () by a device, the connection having a first Radio Network Temporary Identifier and being associated with a first subscription identity. An RRC setup procedure for establishing a second RRC is performed (), the connection being associated with a second subscription identity. During or after the RRC setup it is indicated to the RAN node that the device has an existing radio resource connection with the node. A second Radio Network Temporary Identifier associated with the second radio resource connection and an additional Radio Network Temporary Identifier common to the first and second radio resource connections are received () and the common Identifier is used () for communication with the RAN node.

Communication of user terminal having multiple subscription identities

An apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform generating assistance information for a network node. The network node provides a grant of resources for sidelink communications between the apparatus and at least one receiving user equipment. The receiving user equipment is configured to operate in a discontinuous reception mode comprising a discontinuous reception cycle with an active time and an inactive time. The assistance information comprises a plurality of elements indicative of characteristics of the sidelink communications and at least one of the plurality of elements comprises an indication of the discontinuous reception mode of the receiving user equipment.

Allocating resources for direct user equipment communication

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for user equipment behavior with respect to hybrid automatic repeat request retransmission in new radio sidelink co-existence scenarios with another technology are provided. For example, a method can include enabling, for a receiving user equipment, hybrid automatic repeat request negative acknowledgement only feedback. The method can also include first determining whether to condition negative feedback on at least one first condition, or second determining whether negative feedback is conditioned on at least one second condition. The method can further include third determining whether to retransmit a message according to hybrid automatic repeat request according to results of the first determining or the second determining. The method can additionally include communicating with the receiving user equipment based on a result of the third determining.

User equipment behavior of hybrid automatic repeat request retransmission in new radio sidelink co-existence scenario with other technology

To facilitate multiple subscription entities in a user device, solutions enabling use of an established wireless signaling connection between a network and a subscription entity to establish further wireless signaling connection(s) between the network and one or more other subscription entities are disclosed.

Multiple subscription entities in a user device

A technique of performing a RACK procedure includes a framework for a two-step RACK in which a first message (MsgA) from the UE to the gNB has data carrying resources (i.e., PUSCH) is organized into a time-frequency array defined by a mapping to a plurality of preambles. Such a two-step RACK has less latency than the four-step RACK due to fewer signaling exchanges. Moreover, this two-step RACK also causes the UE to use less power due to a decreased signaling overhead.

Structure of message from user equipment to base station in two-step random access

A method and an apparatus for a second user equipment, that causes the apparatus to perform: determining whether a synchronization signal has been received during a first set of synchronization resources; and when it is determined the synchronization signal was received, determining that the apparatus is allowed to use communication resources during a second set of synchronization resources for a first sidelink communication; and when it is determined the synchronization was not received, abstaining from using the communication resources during the second set of synchronization resources for a first sidelink communication; and monitoring the second set of synchronization resources for a synchronization signal.

Apparatus and method

Disclosed is a method for efficient signaling of sidelink radio resources. A first terminal device selects a subset of radio resources from a set of candidate radio resources. The first terminal device determines a set of resource indices for the subset of radio resources based at least partly on a pre-defined enumeration order of the set of candidate radio resources in time and frequency. The first terminal device determines a first resource indication value indicating at least the set of resource indices. The first terminal device transmits the first resource indication value to one or more second terminal devices.

Efficient signaling of sidelink radio resources

An apparatus, method, computer program product and system for: receiving information relating to available connections in a wireless network, the wireless network including at least one access node and at least one sidelink device, collecting information relating to a mobility pattern of at least one moveable device within a predetermined area covered by the wireless network, establishing a first data connection to the wireless network for the moveable device, predicting, based on the mobility pattern of the moveable device and the information relating to the wireless network, a second data connection to be established to the wireless network for the moveable device, and sending, in response to determining that at least one criterion related to the first data connection is fulfilled, a request to the at least one access node to activate the at least one sidelink device for providing the second data connection.

Activating a sidelink device for providing a data connection

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