Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Peter Alriksson

Joakim Axmon

Bengt Lindoff

Torgny Palenius

Gen Li

Johan Rune

Andres Reial

Stephen J Grant

Reem Karaki

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Andreas Bergström

Erik A Eriksson

Pål Frenger

Reza Moosavi

Robert Baldemair

Stefan Parkvall

Gunnar Mildh

Icaro L J Da Silva

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Jinhua Liu

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Erik Bengt Dahlman

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Henrik Sahlin

Stefan Wager

Dennis Hui

Martin Hessler

Magnus Stattin

Sven Oscar Petersson

Karl Norrman

Qianxi Lu

Qingyu Miao

Johan Torsner

Fredrik Athley

Gabor Fodor

Kumar Balachandran

Janne Peisa

Joachim Sachs

Ali S Khayrallah

Claes Tidestav

Thorsten Lohmar

Zhang Zhang

Bo Hagerman

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Lars Lindbom

Niclas Wiberg

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Johan Furuskog

Niklas Johansson

Jianfeng Wang

Hai Feng Wang

Lars Sundström

Zhan Zhang

Jose Luis Pradas

Pontus Wallentin

Patrik Rugeland

Henrik Asplund

Martin Johansson

Karl Werner

Mårten Ericson

Johan Axnäs

Mikael Coldrey

Patrik Torgny Karlsson

Jonas Kronander

Shehzad Ali Ashraf

Fredrik Lindqvist

Dennis Sundman

Ning He

Håkan Axelsson

Mikael Prytz

Nadia Brahmi

Yngve Selén

Andreas Cedergren

Jung-Fu Cheng

Rui Fan

Walter Müller

Niklas Andgart

Anders Furuskär

Håkan Björkegren

Amitav Mukherjee

Thomas Nilsson

Havish Koorapaty

Johan Nilsson

Christopher Peter Callender

Yu Yang

Bo Lincoln

Muhammad Ali Kazmi

Iana Siomina

Min Wang

Henning Wiemann

Marco Belleschi

Anders Wallén

Chunhui Zhang

Leif Wilhelmsson

George Jöngren

Mattias Bergström

Jan Christoffersson

Magnus Åström

Christian Bergljung

Tomas Hedberg

Systems and methods for collection and reporting of Channel Occupancy (CO) statistics for network tuning are provided. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for tuning one or more parameters of a network comprises obtaining a configuration for CO measurement and reporting. The method also includes obtaining a plurality of CO measurements based on the obtained configuration for CO measurement and reporting. One or more of the plurality of CO measurements are obtained when a Radio Resource Control (RRC) state of the wireless device is RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE. One or more of the plurality of CO measurements are obtained when the RRC state is RRC_CONNECTED. The method also includes reporting a result of one or more of the plurality of CO measurements to a network node. This might allow improved tuning of networks such as tuning of mechanisms that are used to compensate for potential CCA/LBT failures.

Collection and reporting of channel occupancy statistics for network tuning

A method, network node and wireless device (WD) for adapting periodic configurations based on spatial relations are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes configuring multiple transmission resources or multiple sets of transmission occasions for a radio resource control configured periodic uplink transmission. The method further includes associating each configured uplink transmission received from the WD by the network node with a downlink reference signal, the downlink reference signal provided as a direct or indirect spatial relation reference for the uplink transmission.

Adapting periodic configurations based on spatial relations

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes receiving a downlink signal comprising an uplink access configuration index, using the uplink access configuration index to identify an uplink access configuration from among a predetermined plurality of uplink access configurations, and transmitting to the wireless communications network according to the identified uplink access configuration. The example method further includes, in the same wireless device, receiving, in a first subframe, a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission formatted according to a first numerology and receiving, in a second subframe, a second OFDM transmission formatted according to a second numerology, the second numerology differing from the first numerology. Variants of this method, corresponding apparatuses, and corresponding network-side methods and apparatuses are also disclosed.

Network architecture, methods, and devices for a wireless communications network

A first group embodiments provide a method performed by a network node (NN) in a wireless network comprising responsive to a DL data intended for a user equipment (UE), transmitting a first short signal burst to the UE over a channel using a directional beam, and based on detecting a first response to the first short signal burst from the UE indicating that the channel is available, transmitting at least a portion of the DL data to the UE over the channel using the directional beam. A second group embodiments provide a method performed by a NN comprising determining availability of a channel between the network node and the UE using a directional beam, based on determining that the channel is available, transmitting a first resource grant for transmission of a UL data by the UE, and receiving the UL data from the UE over the channel using the directional beam.

Receiver assisted directional channel sensing for NR-U

A method is provided for use in a network node in wireless communications network. The method includes determining, a plurality of transmission opportunities, TXOPs, in which to attempt to transmit a paging signal in a plurality of beams. The plurality of beams have a beam order. The method further includes assigning a predetermined number of the plurality of TXOPs to each beam of the plurality of beams, wherein none of the TXOPs is assigned to more than one beam. The method further includes performing at least one clear channel assessment, CCA, before transmitting the paging signal in one of the TXOPs. The method further includes transmitting the paging signal in a first beam of the plurality of beams using one of the plurality of TXOPs assigned to the first beam based on a first successful CCA covering the used TXOP.

Handling multiple transmission opportunities in a paging occasion

Embodiments include methods implemented in a wireless device for reporting of a cell global identifier (CGI) in a wireless network. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block from a network node; locating a control resource set (CORESET) configured by the network node through determining a frequency position of the CORESET based on a value received from the network node through radio resource control signaling; and determining and reporting the CGI to the network node based on the located CORESET. In another embodiment, the CORESET is located through testing a set of one or more reference frequency candidates from which a frequency position of the CORESET is determined.

Enhanced cell global identifier reporting

Synchronization signal and Physical Broadcast Channel, SS/PBCH, block management. A network node determines whether a network condition is met, signals to a communication terminal to apply a first detection method for SS/PBCH block detection when the network condition is determined to be met, signals to the communication terminal to apply a second detection method for SS/PBCH block detection when the network condition is determined as not met, and transmits SS/PBCH blocks according to the first or the second SS/PBCH block detection method, based on whether the network condition is met. The communication terminal receives the signalling from the network node associated with the communication network, determines whether the indicated SS/PBCH block detection method is a first or a second SS/PBCH block detection method based on the received signalling, and applies, based on the determination, the first or the second SS/PBCH block detection method for SS/PBCH block detection.

Synchronization signal / physical broadcast channel block method detection and management

Systems and methods for efficient use of unlicensed spectrum are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a transmitter comprises performing a Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) procedure for a channels within a transmit bandwidth of the transmit node, where the transmit bandwidth is divided into a bandwidth parts that correspond to the channels. The method further comprises transmitting a transmission in a subset of the bandwidth parts that correspond to a subset of the channels determined, based on a result of the LBT procedure, to be available. Transmitting the transmission comprises transmitting the transmission in accordance with a transmit scheme that uses carrier aggregation and/or carrier merging to transmit the transmission on the subset of the bandwidth parts and uses resources in one or more guard bands between two or more adjacent bandwidth parts from among the subset of the bandwidth parts.

Methods for efficient use of unlicensed spectrum

A method is implemented in a wireless transceiver device arranged to operate in a cellular wireless communication network and capable of operating in an unlicensed spectrum where listen-before-talk is employed. The method includes determining a first parameter, for the unlicensed operation, indicative on provision of synchronisation signal blocks, and determining quasi-co-location, QCL, relationship between one or more synchronisation signal and physical broadcast channel, SS/PBCH, blocks each having a first index, by determining a second index for the one or more SS/PBCH blocks by applying a modulo operation on the first index, respectively, based on the first parameter, where the QCL relationship is determined to occur if the second indices coincide. A computer program for implementing the method in a wireless transceiver and such a transceiver are also disclosed.

SSB transmissions in unlicensed spectrum

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications network, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes determining a reporting quality threshold for a parameter related to channel state information (CSI); performing a measurement for each of a plurality of beams from a first predetermined set of beams for evaluation; evaluating the measurement for each of the plurality of beams against the reporting quality threshold; discontinuing the performing and evaluating of measurements in response to determining that the reporting quality threshold is met for one of the beams, such that one or more beams in the first predetermined set of beams are not measured and evaluated; and reporting, to the wireless communications network, CSI for the one of the beams.

A method of an access network node of a carrier aggregation enabled cellular wireless communication system, and a method of a wireless terminal device of a carrier aggregation enabled cellular wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for the network node comprises identifying a need for an inter-band handover where a same physical frequency on which the access network node interacts with a wireless terminal device has more than one logical reference, wherein the wireless terminal device currently operates using a first logical reference, assigning a target frequency for the inter-band handover as a second logical reference for the physical frequency, and performing handover signalling with the wireless terminal device including the assigned target frequency. The method of the wireless terminal device comprises performing operation where a need for an inter-band handover occurs where a same physical frequency on which the wireless terminal device interacts with an access network node of the cellular wireless communication system has more than one logical reference, wherein the wireless terminal device currently operates using a first logical reference, and performing handover signalling with the access network node including receiving an assigned target frequency which is a second logical reference for the physical frequency. A network node, a wireless terminal device and computer programs for these for implementing the methods are also disclosed.

Inter-band handover of the same physical frequency

A method, network node and wireless device for flexible configuration of channel occupancy measurements in New Radio (NR) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a wireless device configured to communicate with a network node is provided. The wireless device includes processing circuitry configured to: determine a time-domain configuration for a channel occupancy measurement based on at least one configuration parameter where the time-domain configuration is independent of subcarrier spacing of at least one carrier on which the channel occupancy measurement is performed; and optionally perform the channel occupancy measurement based at least on the determined time-domain configuration.

Flexible configurations of channel occupancy measurements

An example method is performed by a wireless device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises receiving, from a base station, a control message allocating resources in a bandwidth part for a downlink transmission, the bandwidth part including unlicensed spectrum and being divided into a plurality of bandwidth pieces corresponding to bandwidth units over which listen-before-talk (LBT) is performed. The radio resources used for the downlink transmissions exclude (e.g., by puncturing or rate-matching around) one or more guard bands of a bandwidth piece that is sensed as free for transmission.

Rate matching for wideband carrier operation in NR-U

Methods and systems for dynamically adapting an Energy Detection (ED) threshold for use in an unlicensed network are provided. According to one aspect, a method for dynamically adapting ED threshold for use in an unlicensed network comprises determining an ED threshold based on a current state of an unlicensed network and using the determined ED threshold for channel sensing and/or signaling the ED threshold to another entity for use during channel sensing.

Adaptive sensing mechanism for unlicensed networks

A method for use in a User Equipment configured to operate according to the New Radio (5G) standard, said method comprising: monitoring a control region for mini-slots for a transmission; detecting a start of the transmission; monitoring a control region of said transmission for regular slots; detecting that the transmission has ended; and in response thereto monitoring the control region for mini-slots again.

Control channel monitoring

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