Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf Gmbh

Qing Wei

Riccardo Trivisonno

Clarissa Marquezan

Emmanouil Pateromichelakis

Xiaobo Wu

Yang Xin

Chenghui Peng

Apostolos Kousaridas

Mirko Schramm

Sandip Gangakhedkar

Weiwei Chong

Runze Zhou

Ishan Vaishnavi

Hanwen Cao

Hui Ni

Fenqin Zhu

Yinghao Jin

Henrik Olofsson

Ömer Bulakci

Josef Eichinger

Dario Serafino Tonesi

Osama Abboud

Karthikeyan Ganesan

Qi S Wang

Kazuyuki Kozu

Xueli An

Serkan Ayaz

Wint Yi Poe

Swaroop Nunna

David Perez Caparros

Qi Wang

Mohamed Gharba

Thorsten Biermann

Changsoon Choi

Patrice Michel Christophe Hédé

Patrice Michel Christophe Hede

David Caparros Perez

A first entity for a communication network is provided. The first entity is configured to receive a feature mapping indication from a second entity of the communication network. The feature mapping indication comprises characteristics of a relationship between a set of data samples and properties of data in the data samples of the set of data samples for an analytics model at an analytics stage, wherein the feature mapping indication comprises a request for a feature mapping data structure. The feature mapping data structure includes a second set of data samples based on the relationship between the set of data samples and the properties of the data in the data samples of the set of data samples for use with the analytics model at the analytics stage for an analytics consumer.

Entities and methods for enabling control of a usage of collected data in multiple analytics phases in communication networks

The present disclosure relates to external services provided to a network. One example method includes: obtaining a clone service invocation request from an other network entity, wherein the clone service invocation request includes clone service invocation information of a clone of a service provided by an external network entity, and providing a service invocation request to the external network entity, wherein the service invocation request includes service invocation information.

Entities for providing an external service to a network

An edge computing entity manages an edge computing system. The edge computing entity has processors coupled to a memory, which, alone or in combination, are configured to execute a method. The method includes obtaining topology information of the edge computing system; and exposing the topology information to a network exposure function or a policy control function of a third generation partnership project (3GPP) system. The topology information includes a weight of each of a plurality of edge data centers in the edge computing system. The edge computing system belongs to a non-3GPP system.

Edge computing topology information exposure

A network entity is proposed for controlling the use, by a user equipment, of network slices of a communication network comprising a plurality of slice support areas. Each slice support area comprises at least one cell, and all cells of a given slice support area support the same network slices. A registration area for the registration of the user equipment with the communication network comprises at least one slice support area. The network entity is adapted to transmit, to the user equipment, slice support information for at least one slice support area of the communication network. The slice support information for a given slice support area indicates at least one network slice supported by the given slice support area and/or at least one network slice not supported by the given slice support area.

Network entity, user equipment and method for the control and use of network slices

The present disclosure relates to handover (HO) of a user equipment (UE), which consumes a quality of service (QoS) flow that is associated with multiple QoS profiles. The disclosure proposes a network entity for supporting HO of the UE, and proposes a second network entity that is the target of HO of the UE. The network entity is configured to: obtain multiple QoS profiles associated with a QoS flow; obtain QoS capability information indicating whether the second network entity supports more than one QoS profile and/or whether a first network entity supports more than one QoS profile; and provide at least one message to the second network entity, wherein the at least one message includes at least one QoS profile according to the QoS capability information.

Devices and methods for supporting handover of UE

An entity, particularly a Radio Access Network (RAN) entity, adjusts Quality of Service (QoS) of at least one QoS flow in a RAN. The entity is configured to: obtain assistance information for an adjustment of at least one QoS profile for the at least one QoS flow of at least one wireless communication device, particularly of at least one user equipment (UE); and provide, to a second entity, particularly to a Core Network (CN) entity, a request for an adjustment or QoS information for the adjustment from a first QoS profile to a second QoS profile of a first QoS flow. The request or the QoS information is based on the assistance information.

Method and apparatus for adjusting QoS of a QoS flow based on assistance information

Analytics information is generated in a new generation mobile network. A first network entity generates the analytics information, and a second network entity and a third network entity support the analytics generation. The first network entity is configured to obtain, from the second network entity or from one or more third network entities, past and/or current association information for an area of interest. Further, it is configured to provide analytics information based on the obtained association information for the area of interest. The past and/or current association information indicates one or more other network entities and/or network properties that, respectively, have been and/or are mapped to or serving the area of interest.

Network entities for supporting analytics generation in a mobile network

The present disclosure provides a network entity for a wireless network system. The network entity is configured to obtain an ingress time of a received packet, the ingress time indicating the time at which the packet enters the network system, determine time information regarding the packet based on the ingress time, and provide the time information to another network entity. A further network entity for a wireless network system is configured to obtain time information regarding a received packet from another network entity, and obtain an egress time of the packet, the egress time indicating a time at which the packet leaves the network system, based on the time information. This disclosure also relates to the network entities that are configured to synchronize an internal time valid at the network entities with an external time valid at an external network entity.

Network entities and methods for a wireless network system for determining time information

The present disclosure relates to performing mobile network configurations or changes. A first device is presented for performing the mobile network configuration or change, and a second device is presented for generating feedback for supporting the mobile network configuration or change. The first device is configured to send a support request to the second device, wherein the support request specifies a reusable or specific feedback type and a target information. The second device is configured to send reusable or specific feedback about the target information in response to the support request. The first device is then configured to determine a configuration or change of the mobile network based on the reusable or specific feedback. The reusable feedback includes a value or set of values of the target information and at least one coordination parameter indicating how the reusable feedback is to be used by multiple second devices.

Device and method for user equipment registration assisted by analytics to support intra- and inter-network slice load balancing

The present disclosure relates to time-aware Quality-of-Service (QoS), in particular techniques for providing time-aware QoS in communication systems such as 5G NR (New Radio). In particular the disclosure relates to a device for translating between a first communication network, in particular a deterministic communication network, and a second communication network, in particular a mobile communication network, in particular a 5G communication network, wherein the device comprises: an application function that is configured to translate between Quality-of-Service (QoS) parameters of the first communication network and QoS parameters of the second communication network; a QoS profile comprising the QoS parameters of the first communication network translated by the application function and, optionally, additional QoS parameters originating from the second communication network; and a signaling procedure configured to exchange the translated QoS parameters within the second communication network.

Time-aware quality-of-service in communication systems

Analytics information can be used in a mobile network. Network entities and corresponding methods support the generation of such analytics information. In particular, network entities and methods can facilitate the gathering of information required for the analytics generation. A network entity for analytics generation may be configured to obtain network slice association (NSA) information and/or user plane association (UPA) information from one or more other network entities, where the NSA information indicates a relation between an Access Network (AN) property and a Core Network (CN) property, and the UPA information indicates a network entity configured to transmit data traffic to and/or from a user equipment in the network. Further, the network entity may be configured to provide analytics information, the analytics information being based on the obtained NSA information and/or UPA information.

Network entities for supporting analytics generation

A network entity determines at least one model parameter of a model for digitally analyzing input data depending on the at least one model parameter of a model, the network entity being configured to receive a model request from a requesting entity over the communication network, the model request requesting the at least one model parameter of the model, to obtain the requested at least one model parameter by at least one of the following: executing a machine-learning model training algorithm, the machine-learning model training algorithm being configured to train the model with input data in order to determine at least one of the requested model parameter; searching a local data base for an existing model; or requesting the at least one model parameter from a further network entity; and to send the requested model parameter towards the requesting entity over the communication network.

Network entity for determining a model for digitally analyzing input data

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for determining device information. In one example method, an inference device sends a first request to a service discovery entity. The first request is used to request information about one or more training devices, and the first request includes an algorithm type or an algorithm identifier of a first model requested by the inference device. The inference device receives the information about the one or more training devices from the service discovery entity. The information about the one or more training devices includes capability information. The inference device determines a first training device from the information about the one or more training devices based on a preset condition.

Method and apparatus for determining device information, and system

The disclosure relates to a first entity for a communication network, in particular a mobile communication network, configured to obtain, from a second entity and/or a third entity, information for the second entity comprising a request for analytics information and/or a request for a rule related to analytics information that can be provided by the first entity. The first entity can be further configured to provide to the second entity analytics information according to one or more rules, in particular according to the request for analytics information, and/or the requested rule. Alternatively, the first entity can be further configured to forward the obtained information to a fourth entity according to one or more rules. Moreover, the disclosure relates to a corresponding method.

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