Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Motorola Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Google Inc.

Philippe J Sartori

Vipul Anil Desai

Brian Keith Classon

Anthony C K Soong

Weimin Xiao

Mazin Ali Al-Shalash

Hossein Bagheri

Qian Cheng

Zhongfeng Li

Kevin Lynn Baum

Bingyu Qu

Lukasz Krzymien

Deping Liu

George Calcev

Jialing Liu

Carmela Cozzo

Mark Conrad Cudak

Anthony Soong

Vijay Nangia

Qiang Wu

Qiang Li

Jianghua Liu

Yunsong Yang

Zhengwei Gong

Eugene Visotsky

Yufei W Blankenship

Robert T Love

Yuhan Zhou

Ravi Kuchibhotla

Murali Narasimha

Fredrik Berggren

Timothy A Thomas

David Jean-Marie Mazzarese

Majid Ghanbarinejad

Yakun Sun

Ali Yazdan Panah

Anthony Ck Soong

Ravikiran Nory

Young Hoon Kwon

Kenneth Anderson Stewart

Jung Hyun Bae

Liang Xia

Zhenzhen Cao

Xiangyang Zhuang

Branislav M Popovic

Shyamal Ramachandran

Liang Hu

Anup K Talukdar

Rongting Gu

Sebastien Simoens

Bernard Joseph Burg

Kien Trung Truong

Arvind Krishnamoorthy

Mazin Al-Shalash

Oghenekome Oteri

Yang Tang

Ajit Nimbalker

Michael D Kotzin

Frederick W Vook

Tao Wu

William Neil Robinson

Yi Shi

Shiau-He Tsai

Yishen Sun

Seyed Mohsen Hosseinian

Diana Maamari

Mohammed Karmoose

Dragan Boscovic

Vinayak Tripathi

Mickael D Batariere

Abdelkrim Benamar

Brian Classon

Fei Teng

Binnan Zhuang

Nicolas Dubois

Doru Calin

Francois Goeusse

David T L Bonnefoy Cudraz

Ahmed Alkhateeb

Wan Lei

Yiqun Qian

Weimin Xieo

Eugene Vistosky

Shi-Qiang Deng

Authony Ck Soong

A method implemented by an access node includes sending, by the access node to a user equipment (UE), an indicator indicating use of coverage enhancement technique, the indicator being sent prior to the UE achieving a radio resource control (RRC) connected state with the access node; receiving, by the access node from the UE, an uplink transmission in accordance with the indicator; and sending, by the access node to the UE, a contention resolution message in accordance with the indicator.

Methods and apparatus for coverage enhancement in wireless communication networks

An apparatus and a method are disclosed for wireless communication with an external device. The apparatus may be a user equipment (UE) provided for wireless communication with an external device. The UE includes a transceiver and a processor. The processor is configured to receive, via the transceiver, a radio resource control (RRC) signal; determine a virtual bandwidth part (vBWP) based on the RRC signal, the vBWP including a plurality of narrowband (NB) bandwidth parts (BWPs) in a carrier bandwidth for the UE to perform communication at a given time instance, and determine a bandwidth location in the carrier bandwidth of at least one of the plurality of NB BWPs. If a first relative frequency of the bandwidth location in a first NB BWP is the same as a second relative frequency of a bandwidth location in a second NB BWP, then information included in downlink control information (DCI) is re-used to identify the bandwidth location.

Active bandwidth part configuration for evolved redcap user equipments

A system and methods are disclosed for reducing Rx/Tx timing errors in a wireless network for latency of positioning measurements. Additionally, a system and methods are disclosed for increasing positioning accuracy by mitigating NLOS errors and/or by performing two-stage beam sweeping for DL-AoD. Further, a system and methods are disclosed for performing M-sample positioning measurements to improve latency reporting in connection with positioning reporting.

Accuracy and latency improvements for Rel-17 NR positioning

A method and system for including a base station that configures a first user equipment (UE) that is in a radio resource control connected state with the base station. The UE is configured to be a synchronization source and transmit a first device-to-device synchronization signal (D2DSS) by using a synchronization resource that comprises a time resource, a frequency resource or a time and frequency resource. The base station instructs the first UE to transmit the first D2DSS using the synchronization resource. The base station signals the UE to configure the UE separately from the signal to transmit the D2DSS, and both of the signals are performed with radio resource control signaling from the base station to the UE.

System and method for device-to-device synchronization

A method performed by a first device includes communicating, with a second device, a LOS determination request including a dual polarization procedure indicator indicating a dual polarization procedure is used in LOS characterization of a transmission between the first device and the second device, measuring a first signal on a first resource of a channel, and measuring a second signal on a second resource of the channel, with the first and second signals comprising a single bit sequence with orthogonal polarizations and are multiplexed in a frequency domain or a code domain.

System and method for determining line of sight (LOS)

A method for operating a communications controller includes selecting a search space configuration out of a set of candidate search space configurations for a user equipment served by the communications controller, wherein the search space configuration specifies one or more search spaces to be monitored out of a set of search spaces, and signaling the selected search space configuration to the user equipment.

System and method for common control channels in a communications system

A method includes performing sensing to determine resources for a sidelink transmission between a first device and a second device; obtaining channel information associated with a first subset of the resources; generating resource selection probabilities for a second subset of the resources, the resource selection probabilities being generated in accordance with the channel information and sensing information derived from the sensing; selecting a resource from the resources in accordance with the resource selection probabilities, the resource being used for the sidelink transmission; and transmitting, to the second device, the sidelink transmission over the selected resource.

Methods and apparatus for resource selection

According to embodiments, a first UE receives from a base station a configuration indicator. The configuration indicator indicates to the first UE for the first UE to measure quality of a sidelink connection from a second UE on resources of a resource pool in a wireless network. The first UE transmits a feedback report to the base station. The feedback report includes an identification of the second UE in the wireless network and a measurement result of the sidelink connection from the second UE.

Protection for mode-3 V2X UEs in the ITS band

A method may include generating a receive timing error group (Rx TEG) based on a time delay of a receive (Rx) signal, wherein the time delay is a time measured from an arrival of the Rx signal at a Rx antenna to a time of the Rx signal being digitized and time-stamped at a baseband processor of a user equipment (UE), determining a timing error group (TEG) index corresponding to the generated Rx TEG, determining a positioning measurement associated with the Rx antenna used to generate the Rx TEG, and reporting the positioning measurement associated with the Rx TEG index.

NR positioning enhancement for timing and angle based methods and resource aggregation

A method for random access in a communication network may include detecting a first candidate beam at a UE, detecting a second candidate beam at the UE, transmitting, from the UE, one or more first messages of a random access procedure, and indicating, by the one or more first messages, the first candidate beam and the second candidate beam. Another method for random access in a communication network may include detecting a first candidate beam at a UE, detecting a second candidate beam at the UE, receiving, at the UE, traffic information for the first candidate beam and the second candidate beam, selecting the first candidate beam based on the traffic information, and transmitting, based on the selecting, a first message of a random access procedure using the first candidate beam. The traffic information comprises load information.

Systems, methods, and devices for beam management for random access

System and method embodiments are provided for adaptive pilot allocation. In an embodiment, a method in a communication controller for adaptive pilot allocation includes determining at least one channel condition parameter for a wireless channel between the communications controller and a user equipment (UE). The method includes selecting a microframe pilot pattern to use for subsequent communications on the wireless channel according to the at least one channel condition parameter. Additionally, the method includes signaling an indication of the selected microframe pilot pattern to the user equipment. The method further includes transmitting data to the UE using the selected microframe pilot pattern.

Systems and methods for adaptive pilot allocation

Embodiments are provided herein for determining a synchronizing master for device-to-device (D2D) communication in a cellular network environment. In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) receives a discovery signal comprising a timing reference, and determines a transmitter of the discovery signal. In accordance with the determination of the transmitter of the discovery signal, the UE performs one of synchronizing to the timing reference in the discovery signal and transmitting a second discovery signal. The UE performs the synchronizing to the timing reference if the transmitter of the discovery is a cellular network. Alternatively, the UE transmits the second discovery signal upon determining that the transmitter of the discovery signal is a second UE that is out of coverage of a cellular network.

System and methods for controlling out-of-network D2D communications

A method of performing a timing advance adjustment between a user equipment (UE) and a non-terrestrial network (NTN) includes receiving and decoding a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) including closed loop information; receiving and decoding system information including open loop information; determining a timing advance value based on either the closed loop information or the open loop information; and controlling timing of an uplink transmission signal, transmitted from the UE, based on the timing advance value.

Methods for updating timing advance and beam and bandwidth part switching for non-terrestrial networks

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Philippe J Sartori