Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Icaro L J Da Silva

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Reza Moosavi

Pål Frenger

Johan Rune

Erik A Eriksson

Andreas Bergström

Claes Tidestav

Martin Hessler

Janne Peisa

Henrik Sahlin

Rui Fan

Pontus Wallentin

Helka-Liina Määttanen

Mårten Ericson

Andres Reial

Peter Alriksson

Håkan Axelsson

Stefan Wager

Karl Norrman

Fredrik Athley

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Patrik Rugeland

Robert Baldemair

Stefan Parkvall

Bengt Lindoff

Gunnar Mildh

Jinhua Liu

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Dennis Hui

Magnus Stattin

Joakim Axmon

Qianxi Lu

Qingyu Miao

Gabor Fodor

Walter Müller

Joachim Sachs

Kumar Balachandran

Gen Li

Thorsten Lohmar

Zhang Zhang

Bo Hagerman

Lars Lindbom

Niclas Wiberg

Johan Furuskog

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Torgny Palenius

Jianfeng Wang

Zhan Zhang

Lars Sundström

Jose Luis Pradas

Henrik Asplund

Martin Johansson

Karl Werner

Mikael Coldrey

Patrik Torgny Karlsson

Johan Axnäs

Jonas Kronander

Shehzad Ali Ashraf

Fredrik Lindqvist

Dennis Sundman

Ning He

Mikael Prytz

Yngve Selén

Andreas Cedergren

Nadia Brahmi

Niklas Jaldén

Erik Bengt Dahlman

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Sven Oscar Petersson

Johan Torsner

Ali S Khayrallah

Niklas Johansson

Hai Feng Wang

Anders Furuskär

Håkan Björkegren

Edgar Ramos

Henning Wiemann

Oumer Teyeb

Henrik Rydén

Mehdi Amirijoo

Nicklas Johansson

Johan Nilsson

Jens Bergqvist

Bo Lincoln

Stefan Engström

Angelo Centonza

Mattias Bergström

Marco Belleschi

Anders Wallén

Oscar Ohlsson

Harald Kallin

Paul Schliwa-Bertling

Andreas Nilsson

Sebastian Faxér

Yutao Sui

Ali Nader

Panagiotis Saltsidis

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

In accordance with particular embodiments, there is disclosed herein a method performed by a wireless device for measurement reporting. The method includes detecting a first number of beams. The method also includes measuring one or more characteristics of a second number of beams. The second number of beams comprises one or more beams of the first number of beams. The method additionally includes generating a measurement report that includes beam measurement information derived from the measurement of the one or more characteristics of the second number of beams. The method further includes transmitting the measurement report with the beam measurement information to a network node.

Measurement reporting enhancements in beam based systems

A method () performed by a wireless device () includes receiving (), from a network node (), a Minimization of Drive Test, MDT, configuration for a master cell group, MCG, and a secondary cell group, SCG. While the wireless device is in an idle state or an inactive state and operating according to a first Radio Access Technology, RAT, the wireless device logs () MDT measurements for the MCG and the SCG based on the MDT configuration. After transitioning from the idle or inactive state to a connected state and after handover from a source cell associated with the first RAT to a target cell associated with a second RAT, the wireless device transmits () at least one MDT report to a target network node associated with the target cell.

Handling of logged minimization drive test configurations in dual connectivity scenario

Embodiments include methods, performed by a user equipment, UE, for reporting failures related to mobility operations by the UE to a network node in a radio access network, RAN. Such methods include logging () information associated with a plurality of failures during conditional handover, CHO, operations related to a source cell and one or more first target cells. Such methods also include, after a successful mobility operation to a second target cell served by the network node, reporting () the logged information, associated with the plurality of failures, to the network node. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a network node, as well as UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.

Reporting failures of conditional handover mobility operations

The present disclosure relates generally to communications, and more particularly to methods, computer program products, wireless devices and related nodes for Dual Active Protocol Stack (DAPS) handover reports. In one example embodiment, a method is performed by a wireless device. A DAPS handover is performed. Also, a type of handover report is determined. Furthermore, a handover report of the determined type is compiled and optionally stored. Still further, the handover report is transmitted to a network node operating as an access node.

Dual active protocol stack handover reports

Methods and apparatus in a communications network as described herein are suitable for determining a first model for use in predicting conditions on carrier frequencies in the communications network. In a method, network measurements are obtained () of conditions on a plurality of carrier frequencies. A first model is then determined () based on the obtained measurements that takes as input the conditions on a first subset of the plurality of carrier frequencies and outputs a prediction of the conditions on a second subset of the plurality of carrier frequencies, based on the conditions of the first subset of carrier frequencies.

Predicting conditions on carrier frequencies in a communications network

According to certain embodiments, a method is performed by a network node comprising a CU. The method comprises receiving assistance information for mobility robustness optimization and forwarding the assistance information, configuration changes related to mobility robustness optimization, or both to a DU or to a second CU. According to certain embodiments, a method is performed by a network node comprising a DU. The method comprises receiving assistance information for mobility robustness optimization. The assistance information indicates that a failure may have originated in a cell of the DU. The method further comprises performing one or more parameter changes in one or more functions handled by the DU.

Centralized unit-distributed unit communication associated to radio link failure report and beam failure recovery attempts

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Pradeepa Ramachandra