Nokia Technologies Oy

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf Gmbh

Panagiotis Spapis

Ahmad Awada

Chan Zhou

Alexandros Kaloxylos

Timo Koskela

Ingo Viering

Chenghui Peng

Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani

Sanjay Goyal

Alperen Gundogan

Athanasia Alonistioti

Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas

Jedrzej Stanczak

Berthold Panzner

Prajwal Keshavamurthy

Serkan Ayaz

Ranganathan Mavureddi Dhanasekaran

Halit Murat Gürsu

Ali Karimidehkordi

Oemer Bulakci

Umur Karabulut

Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis

Devaki Chandramouli

Srinivasan Selvaganapathy

Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu

Amaanat Ali

Christian Rom

Subramanya Chandrashekar

Lianghai Ji

Daniel Medina

Apostolos Kousaridas

Stefano Paris

Ke Zhang

Laura Luque Sanchez

Teemu Mikael Veijalainen

Sina Khatibi

Fan Wu

Supeng Leng

Halit Murat GÜRSU

Anastasios Kakkavas

Xin Zhang

Rastin Pries

Jose Francisco Monserrat

David García Roger

Sokratis Barmpounakis

Alperen Gündogan

Bin Iqbal Subhyal

David Martín SACRISTÁN

A method includes receiving via a serving cell that is associated with a first distributed unit of the network node, a list of conflicting physical cell identities and a request to provide an indication of whether a measured cell is intra-distributed unit or inter-distributed unit with respect to the serving cell; determining a physical cell group identifier of the serving cell; determining, by the user equipment, a physical cell group identifier of the measured cell; comparing the physical cell group identifier of the measured cell to the physical cell group identifier of the serving cell, to determine whether: the measured cell is intra-distributed unit with respect to the serving cell, or the measured cell is inter-distributed unit with respect to the serving cell; and sending a layer 1 measurement report including information indicating whether the measured cell is intra-distributed unit or inter-distributed unit with respect to the serving cell.

Physical cell identity collision resolution for wireless networks

An apparatus may be configured to: receive two or more filtering configurations, wherein a first configuration is associated with at least one first target cell associated with a first distributed unit, wherein a second configuration is associated with at least one second target cell associated with at least one second distributed unit, wherein the first distributed unit is different from the at least one second distributed unit; select a configuration of the two or more configurations for at least one target cell based, at least partially, on a determination of whether a serving cell and the at least one target cell are controlled with a same distributed unit, wherein the serving cell is controlled with the first distributed unit; and perform filtering of a plurality of layer one measurements associated with the at least one target cell using the selected configuration.

Filtering of layer 1 beam measurements for L1/2 inter-cell mobility

There are provided measures for beam failure recovery enhancement. Such measures exemplarily comprise, at a terminal, identifying a beam failure with respect to a radio beam provided by a serving cell of said terminal, and deciding, in response to an identified beam failure, to perform beam failure recovery attempts including at least a first beam failure recovery attempt and a second beam failure recovery attempt with respect to said serving cell of said terminal and at least one non-serving cell of said terminal.

Beam failure recovery enhancement

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

An apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform: receiving a combined information, where the combined information includes first information regarding inter-cell beam management and second information regarding lower layer mobility; using the second information to initiate a handover of the apparatus from a first cell to a second cell; and using the first information to provide communication of the apparatus with another cell at least partially during the handover to the second cell, where the another cell includes the first cell or a third cell.

Triggering of low layer mobility through inter cell beam management procedure

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for the acquisition and provision of channel state information for a target cell early in the process of layer one/layer two inter-cell mobility are provided. For example, a method can include a user equipment receiving a first configuration of layer one measurement and reporting together with a second configuration for channel state information measurement and reporting for a candidate cell. The method can also include reporting layer one measurement according to the first configuration. The method can further include performing channel state information measurements according to the second configuration. The method can additionally include reporting the channel state information measurements to a network element to be forwarded to the candidate cell.

Early channel state information acquisition for target cell in layer one / layer two inter-cell mobility

Apparatus and method to perform receiving from a network node of a first mobile network of more than one mobile network of a communication network, by a user equipment of the first mobile network, an indication () of an approaching coverage limit for a coverage area associated with a link between the first public land mobile network and the user equipment wherein the user equipment includes a multi subscriber identity module, and wherein a first subscriber identity module of the multi subscriber module is connected to a network node associated with the first mobile network; and based on the receiving, performing pro-active preparation for causing () a second subscriber identity module of the multi subscriber identity module of the user equipment to enable pro-active preparation of switching to a second mobile network of the more than one mobile network in response to an upcoming failure of the link between the user equipment and the first mobile network based on the approaching coverage limit of the coverage area. Further, there is determining, by a network node of a first mobile network of more than one mobile network of a communication network, an approaching coverage limit for a coverage area associated with a link between the first mobile network and a user equipment, wherein the user equipment includes a multi subscriber identity module and wherein a first subscriber identity module of the multi subscriber module is connected to a network node associated with the first public land mobile network; and based on determining, sending towards the user equipment information including an indication to perform pro-active preparation for causing a second subscriber identity module of the multi subscriber identity module of the user equipment to enable pro-active preparation for switching by the second subscriber identity module to a second mobile network of the more than one mobile network in response to an upcoming failure of the link between the user equipment and the first mobile network based on the approaching coverage limit of the coverage area.

Enhanced service continuity utilizing MUSIM

A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide for providing quality of service management during immersive content consumption. In the context of a method, the method includes receiving a first request comprising a positioning error set. The method also includes determining, based at least on the first request, an enhanced quality of service (QOS) indicator representing a QoS for a client device associated with the positioning error set. The method also includes causing transmission of a first response comprising configuration data related to a QoS flow for the client device, the configuration data being based at least on the enhanced QoS indicator.

Method, apparatus and computer program product providing quality of service management for extended reality applications

Apparatus and method for communication are provided. One or more link identifiers used by a first terminal device are obtained. Information on communication of another terminal device with the first terminal device based on the obtained one or more link identifiers is obtained. Based on the obtained information, it is determined, that the first terminal device is active for communication and transmission to the first terminal device performed based on the determination.

Low-latency communication with discontinuous transmission

A method for executing multipath communication at a target communication device includes obtaining, from a source communication device, data packets via two or more different paths, where a header of each data packet includes packet information, which is indicative of an association among the plurality of data packets. The packet information in each data packet at a source communication device is the same as packet information in each data packet at a target communication device irrespective of different radio access technologies, communication protocols, or radio links used in the two or more different paths. The plurality of data packets includes different data packets having different payload or duplicate data packets having a copy of the same payload. The method further includes identifying a first set of data packets received via a first path and a second set of data packets received via a second path based on the packet information.

Executing multipath communication

A control device configured for determining a data format for data to be sent via a V2X communication link between a vehicle and at least one device, wherein the control device is configured for receiving information regarding communication capacity and computation capacity of the vehicle and/or of the at least one device, the control device is configured for analyzing the received information based on the communication capacities and the computation capacities, the control device is configured for selecting, based on the analysis, a data format from a set of data formats for the V2X communication link, wherein the data formats of the set are differentiated with regard to the data volume of the data to be sent, and the control device is configured for sending to the vehicle and/or the at least one device an indication of the data format to be used for the data to be sent.

Control device configured for and method of determining a data format

Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a handover of a coordinated multi-point connection. For example, certain embodiment may transfer a first coordinated multi-point connection (e.g., a further enhanced multiple input multiple output (FeMIMO) connection) to a second coordinated multi-point connection where the network may instruct the UE to not perform at least one random access procedure. The first coordinated multi-point connection may be controlled by a first cell (the serving cell) where the UE is ready to receive from and transmit to a first set of cells that comprises the serving cell and one or more non-serving cells. After handover, the second coordinated multi-point connection may be controlled by a previous non-serving cell, and the UE may be ready to receive from and transmit to a second set of cells that comprises the previous non-serving cell.

Handover of a coordinated multi-point connection

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for improving measurement accuracy for multipanel UEs with a single baseband unit are provided. One method may include receiving, by a user equipment, at least one of at least one layer 3 filter time constant T, or at least one scaling factor, and updating, by the user equipment, at least one current filter time constant according to at least one of the received T, or the at least one scaling factor.

Enhanced multi-panel user equipment measurement for improved mobility robustness

The present disclosure relates to a network entity for a communication network for providing a plurality of communication services to a plurality of mobile communication devices, the network entity comprising: a session manager configured to select a first geographical code from a plurality of geographical codes, wherein each geographical code is associated with a geographical region and wherein the first geographical code is associated with a first geographical region including or close to a current geographical position of at least one of the plurality of mobile communication devices; a encoder configured to encode on a MAC level and/or physical level at least a portion of a message intended for the at least one mobile communication device using the first geographical code; and a communication interface configured to send the message with the portion encoded with the first geographical code to the at least one mobile communication device.

Network entity and mobile communication device for providing communication services based on geographical codes

A user equipment is configured to be connected to a first cellular communication network and a second cellular communication network. The user equipment comprises: a communication interface configured to transmit a first message to the second communication network, when the user equipment is connected to the first communication network and is triggered to connect additionally to the second communication network, wherein the first message comprises information about the first communication network.

User equipment capable of attaching to multiple communication networks

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