Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Ab

Teliasonera Ab

Convida Wireless, LLC

Sony Network Communications Europe B.v.

Sirocco Mgmt., L.l.c.

Rickard Ljung

Peter C Karlsson

Basuki Endah Priyanto

Anders Berggren

Erik L Bengtsson

Vanja Plicanic Samuelsson

Lars Nord

Nafiseh Mazloum

Zhinong Ying

Kåre Agardh

Olof Zander

Linh Trang

Brian Alexander Martin

Jussi Tapani Kahtava

Bo Hakan Larsson

Dimitris Koulakiotis

Daniel Lönnblad

Martin Danielsson

Fredrik Rusek

Kun Zhao

Thomas Bolin

Peter Isberg

Daniel Lonnblad

Saif Alnashi

Martin Warwick Beale

Yuichi Morioka

Shin Horng Wong

Anders Isberg

Carl-Johan Weiderstrand

Anders Mellqvist

Samir Drincic

Kare Agardh

Henrik Sundstrom

Paul Szucs

Eduard Popkov

Svante Alnås

Magnus Persson

Anders Dahlen

Mitsuru Goto

David Berthet

Shuai Zhang

Claes Nilsson

Sailing He

Rui Nunes

Svante Alnas

Magdalena Akke

Adnan Prlja

Ola Cedell

Torbjörn Grahm

A method includes communicating, from an access node () of a network () and to a terminal (), a wake-up signal () on a first carrier (-) occupying a first frequency band (); and in response to communicating the wake-up signal (): communicating at least one further signal () on a second carrier (-) occupying a second frequency band (). The first frequency band () is offset in frequency domain from the second frequency band ().

Wake-up transmission on a separate carrier

Method, carried out in a radio terminal, for configuring uplink output power of radio transmission from the radio terminal, comprising determining a demand power reduction (P-MPR) based on a maximum power level associated with a first uplink duty cycle (UDC); transmitting, to a radio network node, an indication of the demand power reduction; receiving, from the network node, an indication of a target power reduction (P-MPR) associated with an actual uplink duty cycle (UDC); and configuring the output power based on the target power reduction.

Control of terminal-requested power reduction

The present disclosure provides a method, performed in a wireless device, for enabling controlled communication of non-real time data while the wireless device is registered with a radio network node for communicating real-time data. The method comprises receiving a network data indicator indicative of one or more suitable data transfer occasions to communicate the non-real time data over the radio network node. The method comprises determining based on the network data indicator whether any non-real time data is to be communicated in the one or more data transfer occasions. The method comprises, upon determining that non-real time data is to be communicated, communicating non-real time data over the radio network node to an external node at the one or more data transfer occasions.

Methods for enabling controlled communication of non-real time data, related wireless devices, and related radio network nodes

A method carried out in a User Equipment, UE, for controlling uplink transmission of data to a base station of a wireless network, includes: transmitting, to the base station, a buffer status report, BSR, indicative of a buffer data level value; transmitting, to the base station, information indicative of packet arrival rate of data entering the transmit buffer; receiving uplink resource information from the base station, in response to the BSR and said information; and transmitting data from the buffer using the received resource information.

Enhanced buffer status report (BSR) procedure based on packet arrival rate of data entering the buffer

A method, performed at a first wireless node, for determining a channel occupancy time, COT, of the first wireless node on a radio channel is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a radio condition parameter indicative of a condition of the radio channel; and determining the channel occupancy time based on the radio condition parameter.

Methods for determining a channel occupancy time and related wireless nodes

A terminal () configured for communication with a wireless network (), the terminal comprising: —a transceiver () for communicating with the wireless network; —logic () configured to control the transceiver to transmit (), to the wireless network, a power class capability indication identifying communication capability of the terminal in the wireless network under at least a first power class (PC-A) and a second power class (PC-B); control the transceiver to receive (), from the wireless network, resource configuration to execute wireless communication using an identified one, or both, of said first and second power class; and control the transceiver to operate () with the received resource configuration using the first and/or second power class.

Multiple power class operation

A method for controlling operation of a mobile first Edge Computing, EC, server () configured to provide compute resources to User Equipment, UE, (), wherein the first EC server is connected to an EC management entity () configured to manage a plurality of EC servers (-), the method being carried out in the first EC server and comprising receiving () status information associated with the first EC server from an external entity; receiving () control information from the EC management entity, said control information identifying a power state control instruction; determining () a power state triggering event in accordance with the power state control instruction, based on the received status information; controlling () the power state of the first EC server responsive to the determined power state triggering event.

Power management of movable edge computing servers

A method of operating a wireless communication device () connectable to a communications network (), the method comprising: communicating, using at least one communication protocol, first data () between the wireless communication device and the communications network, and transmitting, to the communications network, second data indicative of an aggregated processing load used by the wireless communication device to operate a predetermined section of at least one multi-layer communication protocol stack of the at least one communication protocol when communicating the first data.

UE processing load indication

A Framework for Live Uplink Streaming (PLUS) session between a PLUS source () and a PLUS sink () is initiated and controlled by the PLUS sink. The PLUS source registers with the PLUS sink and indicates its capabilities. The PLUS sink requests establishment of the session and further controls the session once established. The PLUS sink sends control requests that include control information to the PLUS source, thereby controlling media streaming at the PLUS source remotely.

Methods and devices for establishing a streaming session in a framework for live uplink streaming

The present application relates to methods of operating a UE (-) and operating access nodes (-) of a cellular network (). A method comprises receiving control information from a cellular network (). The cellular network () comprises a dynamic cell. The control information is indicative of one or more availability parameters of the dynamic cell. The method furthermore comprises configuring the communication between the UE (-) and the cellular network () based on the control information.

Communication in cellular networks comprising dynamic cells

An application server may access a wireless communications device via an exposure function of a wireless communications network. The wireless communications network may generate suitable information to identify, access, and/or utilize the exposure function to manage the wireless communications device. The information may include a device identifier that identifies the wireless communications device, a node identifier that identifies a network node associated with the exposure function, and/or security information utilized to authenticate access to the exposure function. The wireless communications device may provide some or all of the information to an application server. The application server, in turn, may utilize the information received from the wireless community cations device to access the exposure function and manage the wireless communications device.

Methods and devices for utilizing an exposure function of a wireless communications network

A method for personalized monitoring of a user's health, e.g. on a personal electronic device, optionally in combination with a computing device. The method obtains () sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the user and generates (), based on the sensor data, measurement values of a primary parameter. The method further identifies (), among a default set of secondary parameters, one or more selected secondary parameters which, for the user, are found to correlate with the primary parameter. The method may further generate (), based on the sensor data, measurement values of the selected secondary parameter(s) so as to selectively provide measurement values that are relevant for the health of the user as monitored by the primary parameter. Alternatively or additionally, the method may present the selected secondary parameter(s) to the user to inform the user about relevant secondary parameter(s).

Personal health monitoring

A method of operating a terminal device () includes configuring a data connection () on a wireless link () between the terminal device () and a network () based on a first control signal (-) native to a first layer () of a transmission protocol stack () associated with the wireless link (). The method also includes participating in a data communication via the data connection (). The method also includes receiving a second control signal () native to a second layer () of the transmission protocol stack (), the second layer () being arranged lower in hierarchy of the transmission protocol stack () than the first layer (). The method also includes in response to receiving the second control signal (): activating a discontinuous reception () for the data communication.

Early activation of discontinuous reception

A user equipment includes a wireless interface for communication with a cellular communication network. The user equipment is operative to receive, via the wireless interface, network assistance information for a media streaming session, and to transmit media streaming session related information to the cellular communication network.

User equipment and media streaming network assistance node

A network node () dynamically configures and controls assistance information transmissions by wireless communications devices () in a wireless communications system (). The assistance information facilitates performance of power saving adaptations for the wireless communications device (). The network node () configures what information to indicate in assistance information messages, how the message is sent by wireless communications devices (), and/or when the message should be signaled. The wireless communications devices () transmit assistance information messages in accordance with configuration parameters signaled by the network node ().

Method and apparatus for network management of assistance information signaling

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Rickard Ljung