Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Reza Moosavi

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Icaro L J Da Silva

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Martin Hessler

Claes Tidestav

Erik A Eriksson

Pål Frenger

Bengt Lindoff

Joakim Axmon

Gabor Fodor

Niclas Wiberg

Andreas Bergström

Johan Rune

Andres Reial

Peter Alriksson

Edgar Ramos

Robert Baldemair

Stefan Parkvall

Gunnar Mildh

Jinhua Liu

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Erik Bengt Dahlman

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Henrik Sahlin

Stefan Wager

Dennis Hui

Magnus Stattin

Sven Oscar Petersson

Karl Norrman

Qianxi Lu

Qingyu Miao

Johan Torsner

Fredrik Athley

Kumar Balachandran

Janne Peisa

Joachim Sachs

Ali S Khayrallah

Gen Li

Thorsten Lohmar

Zhang Zhang

Bo Hagerman

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Lars Lindbom

Torgny Palenius

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Johan Furuskog

Niklas Johansson

Jianfeng Wang

Hai Feng Wang

Zhan Zhang

Lars Sundström

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

Ali El Essaili

Niklas Jaldén

Jonas Medbo

Elena Myhre

Jörg Huschke

Emma Wittenmark

Hugo Tullberg

Virgile Garcia

Lars Manholm

Ulf Gustavsson

Thomas Walldeen

Rui Fan

Walter Müller

Anders Furuskär

Håkan Björkegren

Kristina Zetterberg

Erik G Larsson

Henning Wiemann

Johan Nilsson

Nicklas Johansson

Henrik Rydén

Bo Lincoln

Anders Wallén

Jung-Fu Cheng

Mattias Bergström

Marco Belleschi

Helka-Liina Määttanen

Sara Modarres Razavi

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

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

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 computer-implemented method for acquiring new data samples and for maintaining a set of data samples in a database, wherein the set of data samples are configured to form input to a function associated with a predictive performance, the method including obtaining at least one relevance metric (M), where the relevance metric is indicative of an increase in the predictive performance of the function when using a data sample as input together with the set of data samples compared to when not using the data sample, obtaining a relevance criterion (C), where the relevance criterion identifies relevant data samples in a set of data samples based on the at least one relevance metric, signaling the at least one relevance metric (M) and the relevance criterion (C) to a data collecting network node.

Methods for processing data samples in communication networks

According to certain embodiments, a method in a wireless device for measurement reporting comprises: receiving an instruction to perform measurement reporting for a neighbor cell: determining, based at least on a radio access technology (RAT) of the neighbor cell and a frequency range of the neighbor cell, a measurement reporting timer value for performing the measurement reporting; and measuring a radio signal of the neighbor cell during the time specified by the determined measurement reporting timer value.

Measurement reporting timer

A first network node transmits, to a wireless device, a first indication. The first indication indicates to select, out of a plurality of target links simultaneously fulfilling a respective condition to switch from a source link to a target link, a first target link to switch from the source link to the selected first target link. The selecting is based on at least one of: a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) value, a Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) value, a Signal to Interference and noise ratio (SINR) value, a priority, Random Access Channel (RACH) resources, a cell in which latest measurements were made, or a frequency, of the respective target links in the plurality of target links. The first network node then handles the link switch from the source link to the target link, based on the transmitted first indication.

First network node, wireless device and methods performed thereby for handling a link switch

Embodiments include methods performed by a network node, in a radio access network, RAN, that is a target node candidate for a mobility operation of a user equipment, UE. Such methods include receiving, from a source node serving the UE, a request to prepare a mobility procedure for the UE in relation to a candidate target cell associated with the network node. The request can include characteristics associated with a data connection of the UE. Such methods include determining that the UE can be admitted for the requested mobility procedure based on the characteristics, and determining to activate bicasting of the data connection. Different bicasting modes can be selected. Such methods also include transmitting, to the source node, a response that includes a bicasting configuration associated with the UE. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by source nodes, as well as network nodes configured to perform such methods.

Techniques for conditional handover and bi-casting

Among other things, the method and apparatus examples herein provide a solution to the problems that arise regarding the need for a wireless device to achieve source synchronization in a beam-based system, where the wireless communication network does not define 'cells' for connected-mode wireless devices. The problems relate to how a wireless device can re-synchronize with its source access node in a beam-based system that mainly relies on self-contained transmissions from transmission points in the network. As one example advantage, the contemplated methods and apparatus enable wireless devices to perform measurements to support mobility procedures even when no data transmissions are scheduled.

Method and apparatus for wireless device synchronization in a beam-based communication system

In one aspect, network node operates in a wireless communications network that includes two or more beam-based transmission points (), where each of the two or more beam-based transmission points transmits synchronization signals corresponding to beams transmitted by the respective transmission point. The network node configures the two or more beam-based transmission points to use non-conflicting radio resources for their respective transmissions of synchronization signals.

Method and apparatus for network planning and operation of a beam-based communication system

A method, performed by a network node. The method is for handling a switch of a wireless device from a source to a target link. The network node and the device operate in a wireless communications network. Given a configuration of the target link indicating resources to perform random access to the network node during the switch, the network node, transmits, prior to the switch, an indication to the device. The indication indicates an update to the configuration. The network node changes the configuration of the target link, based on the update. The changing is performed only after receiving a confirmation of at least one of: i) from the device, that the device has received the indication, and ii) from a first network node operating in the wireless communications network, that it has transmitted the indication to the device.

First network node, second network node, wireless device and methods performed thereby for handling a link switch

Embodiments include methods for a user equipment to perform measurements on a plurality of target cells in a radio access network. Embodiments include receiving a measurement configuration relating to one or more radio resource operations and comprising first and second sets of conditions related to respective first and second target cells; and performing measurements of radio signals associated with the first target cell and/or the second target cell. Embodiments also include performing a radio resource operation toward the first target cell, based on a first determination that the measurements of the radio signals associated with the first target cell fulfill at least one condition of the first set. Embodiments also include performing the radio resource operation toward the second target cell, based on a second determination that the measurements of the radio signals associated with the second target cell fulfill at least one condition of the second set.

Measurement configuration for unlicensed operations

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