Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Icaro L J Da Silva

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Pål Frenger

Johan Rune

Erik A Eriksson

Andreas Bergström

Claes Tidestav

Martin Hessler

Janne Peisa

Henrik Sahlin

Pontus Wallentin

Rui Fan

Helka-Liina Määttanen

Mårten Ericson

Andres Reial

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Peter Alriksson

Robert Baldemair

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Stefan Wager

Karl Norrman

Fredrik Athley

Kumar Balachandran

Joachim Sachs

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Jose Luis Pradas

Patrik Rugeland

Patrik Torgny Karlsson

Stefan Parkvall

Bengt Lindoff

Gunnar Mildh

Jinhua Liu

Erik Bengt Dahlman

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Dennis Hui

Magnus Stattin

Sven Oscar Petersson

Walter Müller

Joakim Axmon

Qianxi Lu

Qingyu Miao

Johan Torsner

Gabor Fodor

Ali S Khayrallah

Gen Li

Zhang Zhang

Thorsten Lohmar

Bo Hagerman

Lars Sundström

Lars Lindbom

Niclas Wiberg

Torgny Palenius

Johan Furuskog

Niklas Johansson

Jianfeng Wang

Hai Feng Wang

Zhan Zhang

Henrik Asplund

Johan Axnäs

Martin Johansson

Karl Werner

Mikael Coldrey

Anders Furuskär

Henning Wiemann

Oumer Teyeb

Henrik Rydén

Paul Schliwa-Bertling

Nicklas Johansson

Johan Nilsson

Jens Bergqvist

Angelo Centonza

Mattias Bergström

Marco Belleschi

Anders Wallén

Muhammad Ali Kazmi

Iana Siomina

Yufei W Blankenship

John Walter Diachina

Andreas Nilsson

Sorour Falahati

Sebastian Faxér

Miguel Lopez

Andreas Höglund

Torsten Dudda

Yutao Sui

Riikka Susitaival

Niklas Andgart

Mattias Andersson

Ali Nader

Panagiotis Saltsidis

Sándor Rácz

János Farkas

Ying Sun

Christopher Peter Callender

Dinand Roeland

Henrik Enbuske

György Miklós

Patrik Salmela

Stefano Ruffini

A method of operating a user equipment, UE, according to some embodiments includes receiving a handover, HO, command, to perform a handover to a target cell, wherein the HO command includes a mobility configuration for lower layer mobility associated to multiple physical cell identities, PCIs, configured for the target cell, and applying the HO command including the mobility configuration. A method of operating a first network node includes receiving a HO request from a second network node to handover a UE to the first network node, the HO request including measurement information associated to multiple cells or multiple PCIs associated to the first network node, generating a HO command that includes a mobility configuration for lower layer mobility associated to multiple PCIs configured for the target cell, and transmitting the HO command to the second network node for delivery to the UE.

Methods for mobility related handover in NR

A method, network node and wireless device for network guided wireless device (WD) cell reselection are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes obtaining an indication of a set of parameters of a plurality of sets of parameters, the parameters in a set including at least one index and at least one priority, the index used to configure the WD to select a frequency priority based at least in part on the index. The method further includes selecting one of a network slice, frequency and service, based at least in part on the index and included in the set of parameters.

Method for network-guided WD cell reselection

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for logging of measurement results performed while a wireless communication device is in an inactive or idle state such that the logged information includes information that indicates a status of the respective carrier when logging the measurement results. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device comprises receiving a measurement configuration(s) for performing early measurement on a carrier and performing the early measurement on the carrier in accordance with the measurement configuration(s) to provide measurement results. The method further comprises logging the measurement results along with information that indicates a status of the carrier when logging the measurement results. By logging the information that indicates the status of the carrier when logging the measurement results, operations performed based on the measurement results can be more reliable.

Methods of logging early measurement carrier status

Techniques for enhancing performance in Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) scenarios, including techniques for time-sensitive networking (TSN) and 5G wireless network integration. An example method, performed by a wireless device, comprises receiving system information (SI) from a radio base station (RBS) of a radio access network (RAN), the SI being indicative of support for TSN through the RBS, and establishing at least one TSN stream with an external data network, through the RBS. The example method further includes receiving a first timing signal from the wireless communications network, via the RBS, receiving a second timing signal from the external TSN data network to which the wireless device is connected, comparing the first timing signal to the second timing signal to determine an offset, and transmitting the offset to the wireless communications network.

Industrial automation with 5G and beyond

A method performed by a target network node includes receiving, from a source network node, a handover request associated with a wireless device. The target network node transmits, via a core network node, a handover reject message to the source network node. The handover reject message comprises a cause value for rejecting the handover request.

Next generation handover failure due to unsupported user equipment capabilities

A method performed by a source access node for performing data forwarding at handover of a UE from a source cell to a target cell in a wireless communications network is provided. When a criterion for data forwarding is fulfilled, the source access node obtains a trigger for downlink data forwarding. When receiving the trigger, the source access node initiates downlink data forwarding to the UE via the target access node.

Access node, user equipment and methods in a wireless communications network

Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a network node for handling communication in a wireless communication network comprising a first radio network node and a second radio network node providing dual connectivity to a UE (). The network node calculates an average delay of a packet transmission, wherein weighting is applied to a number of packets respectively sent via the first radio network node and the second radio network node when no packet duplication is applied, and wherein weighting is further applied for a respective delay calculation for one or more periods or packets with duplication, and the periods or packets without duplication.

Radio network node, network node, and methods performed in a wireless communication network

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

The invention refers to a wireless device and to operating the wireless terminal, UE, connected to a serving network node associated to a serving cell of a radio access network, RAN, the method comprising: receiving system information from a neighbour cell of the serving cell, determining from the system information if the neighbour cell does or does not broadcast a global cell identifier, CGI, of the neighbour cell; and if the neighbour cell does not broadcast the CGI, transmitting a global cell identifier, CGI, report to the serving network node, wherein the CGI report includes an indication that the neighbour cell does not broadcast the CGI of the neighbour cell. The invention further refers to a corresponding network node and to a method performed in the network node.

Cell global identity reporting

Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) configured to operate in a cellular radio access network (RAN). Such methods include receiving, from the cellular RAN, a measurement reporting configuration comprising identification of non-cellular signals, of one or more types, for which measurements are requested from the UE. Such methods include measuring at least the identified non-cellular signals and transmitting, to the cellular RAN, a measurement report including one or more of the following for each particular type of identified non-cellular signal: a first indication of whether the UE's corresponding non-cellular receiver was enabled during a measurement duration, and a second indication of whether the UE was out-of-coverage during the measurement duration in relation to all identified non-cellular signals of the particular type. Other embodiments include complementary methods for a network node, as well as UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.

User equipment (UE) reporting of non-cellular receiver status

Systems and methods related to balancing random access resources between 2-step Random Access Channel (RACH) and 4-step RACH. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first network node comprises obtaining information related to 2-step RACH and/or 4-step RACH, for cell(s) and/or beam(s) controlled by the first network node. The method further comprises determining, based on the obtained information, first assistance information for 2-step and/or 4-step RACH configuration, for the cell(s) and/or the beam(s) controlled by the first network node. The method further comprises transmitting, to a second network node, second assistance information for the 2-step and/or 4-step RACH configuration, for the cell(s) and/or the beam(s) controlled by the first network node. The second assistance information comprises the first assistance information or information that indicates one or more parts of the first assistance information.

Balancing RA resources between 2-step RACH and 4-step RACH

A method () for reporting radio link failure, RLF, information. The method includes a user equipment, UE, detecting (s) an RLF with respect to a master cell group, MCG. The method also includes, in response to detecting the RLF with respect to the MCG, the UE storing (s) RLF information. The method also includes the UE sending (s) a first message comprising MCG failure information, e.g., the RLF information, and activating a timer. The method also includes the UE receiving (s) a second message after sending the first message and activating the timer. The method also includes the UE, in response to receiving the second message, determining (s) that a condition is satisfied, wherein determining that the condition is satisfied comprises at least determining that the timer is still running. The method also includes, as a result of determining that the condition is satisfied, the UE deleting (s) the RLF information.

Method, product and apparatus for treating master cell group, MCG, failure and radio link failure, RLF, reporting

Embodiments include methods for failure reporting by a user equipment (UE) operating in a cell of a first network. Such methods include sending, to a network node serving the cell, a message that includes a first indication of availability of one or more failure reports. Each available failure report corresponds to a failure that occurred while the UE was operating in the first network, a network different than the first network, or a network of a different type than the first network. Such methods also include receiving, from the network node, a request for at least a portion of the failure reports indicated as available by the first indication; and sending at least one of the available failure reports to the network node in accordance with the request. Other embodiments include complementary methods for a network node as well as UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.

Failure reporting for non-public networks in 5G

A method performed by a first network node. The first network node operates in a communications network. The method is for handling a measurement configuration. The first network node sends an indication to a second network node operating in the communications network. The indication indicates a transmission status of one or more Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) configurations of the first network node. The second network node receives the indication. The third network node receives another indication from the second network node. The third network node is managed by the second network node. The another indication indicates a transmission status of the one or more CSI-RS configurations of the first network node and configures the wireless device based on the received other indication.

First network node, second network node, third network node and methods performed thereby, for handling a measurement configuration

A radio network node, a wireless device and methods performed therein for handling communication in a wireless communication network are provided. The method performed by the wireless device comprises obtaining an indication indicating which beams to be included in a cell quality derivation of a cell; and performing one or more measurements on one or more beams, which one or more beams are selected based on the obtained indication. Furthermore, a computer program product and a computer readable storage medium are also provided herein.

Radio network node, wireless device and methods performed therein

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Pradeepa Ramachandra