Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Pablo Soldati

George Koudouridis

Branislav M Popovic

Alberto Giuseppe Perotti

Weijun Sun

Fredrik Berggren

Yinggang Du

Peter Legg

Jaap Van De Beek

Panagiotis Fotiadis

Fan Wang

Anahid Robert Safavi

Henrik Lundqvist

Johan Christer Qvarfordt

Gunnar Peters

Francesco Davide Calabrese

Euhanna Ghadimi

Sun Weijun

Agent node and method therein, for configuring a radio resource parameter of a radio cell of a communication system. The agent node is configured to obtain a control policy; determine a feature representing a state of at least a part of the communication system, at a first time period; determine a control action to be performed for control in the radio cell at the first time period, out of a set of available control actions associated with the radio cell, based on the obtained control policy and the determined at least one feature; and configure an of the radio cell based on the determined control action.

Method and unit for radio resource management using reinforcement learning

A network node and a user device are provided. The network node comprises a processor to determine for each of the plurality of user devices a corresponding check element position of a corresponding check element in a control information message addressed to the user device; a transmitter to transmit a first control signal (CS) to each of the plurality of user devices, the CSindicating the determined corresponding check element position. The user device comprising: a receiver to receive a CSindicating a corresponding check element position of a check element associated with the user device in a control information message (M), the control information message (M) comprising control information (d) and at least two check elements, a processor to derive the corresponding check element position of the check element associated with the user device from the CS

Network node, user device and methods thereof

A data transmission and signaling method in a transmitter device configured for concurrent transmission of non-orthogonal independent downlink data streams to receiver devices in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises sending to all receiver devices control information that includes indices of receiver devices selected for transmission, code rates of selected receiver devices, a label bit-to-receiver device allocation, an index of an expanded constellation, and a number of resource elements used for transmission.

Method and apparatus for data transmission in a multiuser downlink cellular system

A gateway comprises a transceiver configured to receive a sequence of data packets on a Radio Access Bearer, RAB, from a core network, a processor configured to obtain a first distribution of the received sequence of data packets into a first sub-sequence of data packets and at least a second sub-sequence of data packets, wherein the transceiver is configured to forward the first sub-sequence of data packets on the RAB to a master access node, forward the second sub-sequence of data packets on the RAB to a secondary access node. The master access node comprises a processor, a transceiver configured to receive a first sub-sequence of data packets of a sequence of data packets carried by a RAB from a gateway, wherein the RAB is associated with a user device, and to forward at least one part of the first sub-sequence of data packets on the RAB to the user device.

Gateway, master access node and methods thereof

A network node for a wireless communication system is provided. The first network node comprises a processor configured to obtain channel quality information for a user device, obtain a load information for first radio access resources, determine a first association of the first radio access resources to the user device based on the channel quality information and the load information, the first association being valid during a first validity time period, compute first user data rates for the first radio access resources based on the channel quality information, determine a utilization of the first radio access resources based on the first association and the first user data rates. A corresponding method, a wireless communication system, a computer program, and a computer program product are also provided.

Network node and method thereof

The invention relates to a first network node and a second network node. The first network node being configured to communicate with a user device over at least two radio channels and comprising: a transceiver configured to receive a first sequence of data packets of a data flow addressed to the user device from a second network node; a processor configured to split the first sequence of data packets into at least one first sub-sequence of data packets and one second sub-sequence of data packets; wherein the transceiver further is configured to transmit the first sub-sequence of data packets in a first set of frequency resources over a first radio channel and the second sub-sequence of data packets in a second set of frequency resources over a second radio channel to the user device, wherein the first set of frequency resources and the second set of frequency resources are non-overlapping.

Network nodes, wireless communication system and methods thereof

The present invention relates to a method for muting transmission from at least one network node in a wireless communication system, said wireless communication system comprising a plurality of network nodes (n=1, . . . , N) for providing access to user nodes. The method comprises, when transmission from a first network node (n) of said wireless communication system is to be muted:

Method and system for muting radio resources in a wireless communication system

The present disclosure relates to a first network node. The first network node comprises a transceiver configured to receive a network information message from a second network node configured to use a shared communication channel for wireless communication, the network information message indicating a set of third network nodes configurable (or contending) to use the shared communication channel for wireless communication; a processor configured to determine, for the second network node, at least one first channel access time interval for accessing the shared communication channel based on the network information message; wherein the transceiver further is configured to transmit a first network control message to the second network node, the first network control message indicating the first channel access time interval for accessing the shared communication channel. Furthermore, the present disclosure also relates to corresponding method, a wireless communication system, a computer program, and a computer program product.

Network nodes and methods thereof

Methods and nodes for transmission of downlink control channel signals in a downlink frequency carrier of a wireless communication system, wherein at least two PRB pairs, configurable for the transmission of a downlink control channel have different numbers of time-frequency resource elements available for the transmission of said downlink control channel. The method comprises allocating at least one set S of PRB pairs; arranging time-frequency resource elements from said set S into an aggregation comprising at least one level; determining a set LS of aggregation levels supported for the transmission of a downlink control channel within the allocated set of PRB pairs, based on the number of time-frequency resource elements available for the transmission of a downlink control channel in PRB pairs of the set S; and transmitting the downlink control channel within said set S of PRB pairs.

Methods and nodes in a wireless communication system

A network node and a user device are provided. The network node comprising: a processor configured to: generate a check element for each user device in a group of user devices; a transmitter configured to: transmit the control information message to the group of user devices. The user device comprising: a receiver configured to: receive a control information message addressed for a group of user devices; a processor configured to: perform a redundancy check on the control information message; derive the control information from the control information message and discard check elements of other user devices upon a positive redundancy check; communicate in the wireless communication system based on the derived control information. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to corresponding methods, a computer program, and a computer program product.

The present disclosure relates to a first network node and a second network node. The first network node comprises: a processor and a transceiver, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a first signal comprising a network information message indicating network information associated with a region (R) or with at least one sub-region (SR) of the region (R); wherein the processor is configured to determine a density of network nodes for operation &#x3bb;in the region (R) or in the sub-region (SR) based on the network information. Furthermore, the present disclosure also relates to corresponding methods, a computer program, and a computer program product.

First and second network nodes and methods thereof

The present invention relates to a Method for scheduling and/or muting radio resources in a wireless communication system, said wireless communication system comprising a plurality of network nodes and a plurality of user nodes; the method comprising the steps of: measuring, by at least one user node, received signal strength of radio signals transmitted from one or more network nodes so as to obtain received signal quality and/or interference associated with said one or more network nodes; arranging, by said user node, the received signal quality and/or interference associated with said one or more network nodes in an order or a ranking with respect to at least one radio signal criterion; signalling, by said user node, said order or ranking to at least one network node; and scheduling and/or muting radio resources based on said signalled order or ranking.

Method for scheduling and/or muting of radio resources in a wireless communication system

An apparatus for receiving non-orthogonal transmissions in a wireless communication system includes a processor configured to determine a first superposed symbol from a plurality of superposed symbols, based on superposition information and a first set of decoding information, wherein the first superposed symbol is corresponding to a first user equipment. The processor generates a residual signal based on the first superposed symbol and the superposition information, and determines a second superposed symbol based on the residual signal and a second set of decoding information, wherein the second superposed symbol is corresponding to a second user equipment. The superposition information comprises a quantity of the plurality of superposed symbols and an ordering of the plurality of superposed symbols.

Apparatus and method for signalling of non-orthogonal transmissions

The present disclosure relates to a user device and a network node. The user device comprises a transceiver configured to broadcast an access signal Swhen not being connected to any radio communication networks, receive an access response signal Sin response to broadcasting the access signal S, communicate with at least one network node of the radio communication network. The network node comprises a transceiver and a processor; wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a broadcasted access signal S, wherein the broadcasted access signal Scomprises identity information of the user device; wherein the processor is configured to assign at least one frequency spectrum segment for communication for the user device; and wherein the transceiver is further configured to transmit an access response signal Sto the user device.

Network device and user device and methods thereof

Mobile station and method for saving energy in the mobile station. The method includes generating energy saving information associated with said mobile station, and which indicates an energy status of said mobile station. The method further includes transmitting the energy saving information to at least one first network node, and receiving, from said at least one first network node, an instruction for energy saving, based on the energy saving information.

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