Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Optis Wireless Technology, LLC

Idtp Holdings, Inc.

Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd.

Optis Cellular Technology, LLC

Unwired Planet, LLC

Unwired Planet International Limited

Robert Baldemair

Stefan Parkvall

Daniel Chen Larsson

Erik Bengt Dahlman

Jung-Fu Cheng

Sorour Falahati

Dirk Gerstenberger

Mattias Frenne

Bengt Lindoff

Dennis Hui

Henrik Sahlin

Martin Hessler

Lars Lindbom

Muhammad Ali Kazmi

David Astely

Havish Koorapaty

Kumar Balachandran

Andres Reial

Pål Frenger

Erik A Eriksson

Henning Wiemann

Ali Behravan

Torgny Palenius

Jinhua Liu

Claes Tidestav

Lars Sundström

Ajit Nimbalker

Magnus Stattin

Niclas Wiberg

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Joachim Sachs

Zhan Zhang

Xingqin Lin

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Icaro L J Da Silva

Bo Hagerman

Gunnar Mildh

Yufei W Blankenship

Qianxi Lu

Johan Torsner

Gabor Fodor

Johan Furuskog

Niklas Johansson

Johan Rune

Rui Fan

Sven Oscar Petersson

Qingyu Miao

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Ali S Khayrallah

Gen Li

Zhang Zhang

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Jianfeng Wang

Jose Luis Pradas

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Stefan Wager

Walter Müller

Joakim Axmon

Karl Norrman

Fredrik Athley

Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen

Janne Peisa

Thorsten Lohmar

Hai Feng Wang

Andreas Bergström

Peter Alriksson

Pontus Wallentin

Ravikiran Nory

Johan Mikael Bergman

Anders Wallén

Iana Siomina

Konstantinos Dimou

Niklas Andgart

Leif Wilhelmsson

Magnus Åström

Stefano Sorrentino

Robert Mark Harrison

Shiwei Gao

Sebastian Faxér

Min Wang

Torbjörn Wigren

Siva Dharshan Muruganathan

Jan Christoffersson

Olof Liberg

Gustav Wikström

George Jöngren

Stephen J Grant

Mattias Bergström

Cong Shi

Shaohua Li

Paul Schliwa-Bertling

John Walter Diachina

Bo Göransson

Miguel Lopez

Andreas Höglund

Michael Meyer

Torsten Dudda

Helka-Liina Määttanen

There is disclosed a method of operating a wireless device in a radio access network, the method including transmitting first acknowledgement signaling according to a first HARQ codebook, and transmitting second acknowledgement signaling according to a second HARQ codebook, the first HARQ codebook indicating a first acknowledgement information structure, and the second HARQ codebook indicating a second acknowledgement information structure, wherein the first HARQ codebook and the second HARQ codebook are based on a reception allocation configuration pertaining a first transmission timing interval and decoding timing information indicating a decoding timing capability of the wireless device. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Acknowledgement signaling for radio access networks

A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. A network node configured to communicate with a wireless device (WD) is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to cause the network node to: indicate a splitting of an initial physical shared channel allocation that crosses a slot boundary into at least a first physical shared channel allocation in a first slot and a second physical shared channel allocation in a second slot; and communicate with the wireless device, WD, according to the at least the first physical shared channel allocation and the second physical shared channel allocation.

Physical shared channel splitting at slot boundaries

A wireless device () and a method for enabling access to a radio network node () as well as a radio network node () and a method for enabling the wireless device () to enable access to the radio network node () are disclosed. The wireless device () supports a first transmission bandwidth. The radio network node () operates a carrier on a second transmission bandwidth. The first transmission bandwidth is narrower than the second transmission band width. The wireless device () obtains () information about the carrier. The wireless device () determines () a mapping scheme for mapping a set of enumerable elements, e.g. resource blocks or sequence elements, to frequency ranges based on the information about the carrier.

Network nodes and methods for enabling access to a radio network node

There is described a method of operating a user equipment in a radio access network. The method comprises transmitting signaling based on a sounding reference signaling schedule, the sounding reference signaling schedule scheduling transmission of sounding reference signaling in a first time interval, wherein the first time interval overlaps, in an overlap time interval, with a second time interval, for which physical channel signaling is scheduled, wherein transmitting signaling comprises transmitting, in the overlap time interval, the physical channel signaling omitting the scheduled sounding reference signaling. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Handling sounding reference signaling

According to certain embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device includes receiving, from a network node, downlink control information (DCI). The method also includes determining, based on the DCI, a first group of downlink channel sub-slots for downlink channel transmissions. The first group of downlink channel sub-slots corresponds to a group of uplink channel sub-slots and is associated with one or more uplink resources in the corresponding group of uplink channel sub-slots. The method additionally includes constructing a first HARQ codebook comprising acknowledgment (ACK) and/or negative acknowledgement (NACK) feedback for the downlink channel transmissions scheduled in the first group of downlink channel sub-slots. The method further includes transmitting the ACK and/or NACK feedback, using the one or more uplink resources, according to the first HARQ codebook.

Methods of HARQ codebook determination for low latency communications

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

There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitting radio node for a wireless communication network. The method includes transmitting synchronisation signaling in a synchronisation time interval, the synchronisation signaling comprising secondary synchronisation signaling, the secondary synchronisation signaling spanning two or more allocation units of the synchronisation time interval. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Synchronisation signaling for wireless communication network

Radio communication systems, devices and methods for enabling variable subband configuration of one or more search spaces. In a first time interval, a UE attempts to decode one or more control channels on downlink or sidelink resources of a first sub band configuration. In a second time interval, the UE attempts to decode one or more control channels on downlink or sidelink resources of a second sub band configuration. The first subband configuration spans a first frequency range and the second subband configuration spans a second frequency range different from the first frequency range.

Variable subband configuration of search space

There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes communicating utilising data signaling according to a signaling structure, the signaling structure including a signaling time interval covering a plurality of subsequent allocation units, wherein to each of the allocation units of the signaling time interval, there is associated reference signaling, or a part of one of one or more data blocks, wherein to two allocation units separated by a separation interval there is associated reference signaling. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Data signaling for 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

According to certain embodiments, a method for use in a wireless device for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) on grant-free resources comprises reserving a subset of time/frequency resources of a grant-free uplink channel for transmitting UCI, and upon determining the wireless device has UCI to transmit on the grant-free uplink channel, transmitting the UCI to a network node in the reserved subset of time/frequency resources.

UCI on grant-free PUSCH

A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. A network node configured to communicate with a wireless device is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to indicate, in downlink control information, DCI, a first modulation and coding scheme, MCS, associated with first transport block, TB, indicate, in the DCI, a second MCS associated with a second TB where the first MCS is indicated by a first MCS field size and the second MCS is indicated by a second MCS field size less than the first MCS field size, and communicate with the wireless device based on the first MCS and the second MCS.

Modulation and coding scheme (MCS) signalling for multi-carrier scheduling

Methods and apparatuses disclosed herein enable the use of Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) sequences that are numbered relative to an overall system bandwidth, while simultaneously enabling wireless communication devices to determine the DRMS sequence elements mapped to their scheduled bandwidths within the system bandwidth. Advantageously, the wireless communication devices need not know the system bandwidth, or even be aware of where their scheduled bandwidths reside within the system bandwidth.

Methods and apparatuses for signaling and determining reference signal offsets

The present disclosure described systems and methods for providing OTT services to a UE. An exemplary OTT-providing host computer includes a transceiver, a processor, and memory collective configured to provide the OTT service by initiating transmission of user data to the UE. To transmit the user data from the host computer to the wireless device, a network node sends a first control message for assigning a PDSCH, the first control message comprising a first MCS indication as described. The network node sends to the wireless device a second control message for assigning a PDSCH, the second control message comprising a second MCS indication as described. The network node transmits the user data thereafter.

Methods and systems for performance enhancement of downlink shared channels

Devices, systems, and methods described herein may improve aperiodic CSI-RS handling in mixed numerology environments. An exemplary method includes operations of receiving a downlink control information (DCI) message carried by a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) on a second carrier, wherein the second carrier uses a second OFDM numerology, obtaining an aperiodic CSI-RS slot offset from the DCI message, determining a reference slot in the first numerology, determining the slot of the aperiodic CSI-RS based on the reference slot and the aperiodic CSI-RS slot offset, and receiving or transmitting the aperiodic CSI-RS in the determined slot.

Triggering of Aperiodic channel state information reference signals with mixed numerology

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