Nokia Technologies Oy

Broadcom Corporation

Nokia Corporation

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Avago Technologies General IP (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Renesas Mobile Corporation

Nokia Siemens Networks Oy

Sami-Jukka Hakola

Timo Koskela

Samuli Heikki Turtinen

Juha Pekka Karjalainen

Jorma Johannes Kaikkonen

Mihai Enescu

Esa Tapani Tiirola

Kari Pekka Pajukoski

Anna Pantelidou

Vinh Van Phan

Gilles Charbit

Tao Chen

Kari Juhani Hooli

Lars Dalsgaard

Karol Schober

Eeva Lahetkangas

Karri Markus Ranta-Aho

Matti Juhani Pikkarainen

Jussi Kustaa Ojala

Kaisu Iisakkila

Timo Erkki Lunttila

Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu

Antti Tölli

Kari Rikkinen

Antti Tolli

Carlos Morais De Lima

Ville Vartiainen

Jussi-Pekka Koskinen

Emad N Farag

Klaus Franz Doppler

Guillaume Sebire

Cassio Ribeiro

Jari Hulkkonen

Vlora Rexhepi

Arto Johannes Lehti

Thomas Stadler

Jari Yrjänä Hulkkonen

Satya Krishna Joshi

Antti Arvola

Jussi Lemilainen

Dileep Kumar

Italo Atzeni

Frank Frederiksen

Ling Yu

Jarkko Tuomo Koskela

Kari Veikko Horneman

Frederick W Vook

Tero Henttonen

Daniela Laselva

Henri Markus Koskinen

Haifeng Wang

Mikko J Rinne

Jun Tan

Jukka Tapio Ranta

Thomas Chapman

Zhenhong Li

Samantha Caporal Del Barrio

Jorma Lilleberg

Jari Jaakko Isokangas

Filippo Tosato

Matha Deghel

Pasi Eino Tapio Kinnunen

Hai Ming Wang

Chun Yan Gao

Jari Olavi Lindholm

Juho Mikko Oskari Pirskanen

David Randall

Jie Chen

Kristan Barraclough

Qiping Zhu

Wei Li

Kyoungmin Park

Ali Karimidehkordi

Yrjö Olavi Kaipainen

Henrik Christian Liljestrom

Vitaly Petrov

Ville-Vesa Haikola

Jaakko Kemppainen

Onel Alcaraz López

Markus Klaus Andrea Wimmer

Margarita Gapeyenko

Markus Klaus Andreas Wimmer

Jukka Valtteri Tormalehto

Markus Wimmer

Jari Jaako Isokangas

Jari Jakko Isokangas

Various techniques are provided for a method including triggering, by a user equipment (UE), a resource block (RB) offset allocation determination, detecting, by the UE, at least one of a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) in a received synchronization signal (SS) block (SSB), reading, by the UE, a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) parameter and a signaled offset from a master information block of a PBCH of the SSB, determining, by the UE, an RB offset based on the PBCH parameter and the signaled offset, and determining, by the UE, a control resource set frequency location based on the RB offset.

Coreset arrangement for narrowband New Radio

According to an example embodiment, a method may include determining, by a user equipment in a wireless network, a starting physical resource block of a common physical resource block grid that is associated with a wideband channel, wherein a plurality of bandwidth parts are provided within the common physical resource block grid, each bandwidth part having a bandwidth that is less than the bandwidth of the wideband channel; determining, by the user equipment, a wideband channel guard band for the wideband channel, the wideband channel guard band provided between a lowest frequency of the wideband channel and a first usable physical resource block of the common physical resource block grid; and, determining, by the user equipment for at least one bandwidth part of the plurality of bandwidth parts, a bandwidth part-specific physical resource block grid that is a subset of the common physical resource block grid.

Resource configuration for a bandwidth part for a wireless network

According to an example aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method comprising receiving a message at a user equipment (UE) from a base station (BS) the message including a constraint threshold, receiving a message at the UE from the BS the message including a fallback beam reporting mode, performing by the UE downlink (DL) reference signal (RS) measurements, determining by the UE a difference between DL RS measurements, and in response to determining the difference between DL RS measurements is not less than the constraint threshold switch to the fallback beam reporting mode.

Group based beam reporting

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose devices, methods and apparatuses of coherent joint transmission. A terminal device may receive a QCL source configuration from a network device. The QCL source configuration may indicate at least two transmission configuration indication (TCI) states that indicate reference signals from valid QCL sources for a coherent joint transmission (CJT) of tracking reference signals (TRSs). The terminal device may perform a QCL property estimation on received TRSs based on the QCL source configuration.

Devices, methods, and apparatuses of coherent joint transmission

There is provided an apparatus, a method and a computer program product. In accordance with an embodiment the method comprises obtaining one or more measurement parameters; measuring signals from a radio channel; evaluating one or more measurement relaxation conditions related to the obtained one or more measurement parameters for measuring signals; and adjusting the measurement of the signals on the basis of the evaluation result.

Measurement adjustment in low mobility

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising, determining at least one anchor control resource set among a plurality of control resource sets, wherein each of the at least one anchor control resource set defines a spatial source for multiple signal types, said multiple signal types comprising different downlink and uplink signals and channels, determining whether or not a given signal type is to inherit a spatial source of one of the at least one anchor control resource set and applying, in case of a positive determination, the spatial source of the at least one anchor control resource set for at least one signal of the given signal type.

Beam management in cellular communication networks

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method which includes detecting a failure. After detecting the failure, determining an association in response to identifying a new candidate beam for beam failure recovery, wherein the association is between a control resource set and at least one of a particular index and a beam failure recovery request. The method may also include transmitting a failure recovery request based on the association.

Failure recovery in cellular communication networks

Devices, methods and computer programs for compensation of residual time-frequency error(s) in communications between a network node device and a client device are disclosed. A network node device determines an auxiliary reference signal indication comprising presence information and location information of an auxiliary reference signal in a physical downlink channel transmission. The network node device transmits to the client device the auxiliary reference signal associated with a physical downlink channel in accordance with the determined auxiliary reference signal indication. The client device uses the received auxiliary reference signal for the compensation of the residual time-frequency error(s) in the communications.

Compensation of residual time-frequency errors in communications

There is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform: determining synchronization signal block(s) that have been transmitted in a serving cell; receiving group information of tracking reference signals, the group information comprising an indication on the synchronization signal block(s) for which a tracking reference signal has been configured in the serving cell; receiving mapping information comprising an indication on how individual tracking reference signal is mapped to a slot structure; and determining time domain position(s) of tracking reference signal(s) of the apparatus based on the group information and the mapping information.

Allocation of tracking reference signals

An example method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium are provided for enabling beam based discovery and direct connectivity using network assisted beam discovery and corresponding signaling to at least reduce sweep time and beam acquisition for D2D discovery operations. In an example implementation, the method may include determining, by a network device of a communication network, information including an indication of at least one of data, a control element, or a relative reference point for identifying a beam sweeping angular spread for device-to-device discovery operations for device-to-device communication. The example method may further include sending towards a set of network nodes the information for the device-to-device discovery in the communication network.

Facilitating network assisted overhead reduction in D2D discovery procedure

An apparatus for a terminal has means for storing a first configuration for measurement reporting on downlink reference signals, wherein one or more downlink reference signals correspond to one of a plurality of states for a first channel. The apparatus also has means for receiving an activation of a first state of the plurality of states for the first channel, and determining a second configuration for measurement reporting based on the first configuration for measurement reporting and the received activation of the first state, wherein the second configuration for measurement reporting configures the terminal to report measurements on a first downlink reference signal corresponding to the first state.

Wireless communication system

Various example embodiments relate to positioning of a target node. A positioning report may comprise positioning assistance measurements from the target node and at least one anchor node, wherein the positioning assistance measurements are associated with angular differences between a pair of uplink and/or downlink transmission and/or reception beam directions. Apparatuses, methods, and computer pro-grams are disclosed.

Spatial domain measurements for beam based positioning

The method includes performing at least one first monitoring of a power savings channel of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for control information, the PDCCH being associated with at least one base station, the control information including a power saving downlink control information (PS-DCI) format, the control information providing an indication to start a timer for an ON duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle for a user equipment (UE) to monitor the PDCCH. The method further includes performing a random-access channel (RACH) procedure with the at least one base station based on the control information. The network node performs the method.

Method for determining an initiation of random access procedure for a user equipment configured with power savings, and network node thereof

A method and apparatus for dynamically adapting scheduling parameter(s) to achieve power savings. A user equipment may be configured with one or more offsets between scheduled PDCCH and PDSCH transmissions. The user equipment may receive from a network an indication to dynamically change these offsets. If the user equipment sleeps through a first transmission of this indication, upon next receiving the indication the user equipment may update, for example, the offset in a time domain resource allocation table. The indication to dynamically change an offset may be an indication of an offset including fewer slots. A change to the offset, with which downlink transmission is expected by the user equipment, may be disabled. A network node may be configured to transmit downlink traffic to the user equipment according to a configured offset and/or according to an offset the network node indicated to the user equipment.

Dynamic scheduling offset adaptation in UE power saving

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for beam failure detection and/or beam failure recovery procedures, for instance, for multi-panel user equipment (UEs) are provided. One method may include transmitting, by a UE, a beam report to a network to indicate an association between at least two downlink reference signals and at least two antenna panels at the user equipment or to indicate a selection of at least two downlink reference signals that will be used for downlink reception at the user equipment simultaneously. The method may also include activating the antenna panels corresponding to one or more of the at least two downlink reference signals, based on transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states updated by the network or based on the selection of the at least two downlink reference signals, and detecting beam failure based on at least two sets of beam failure detection resources for the active antenna panels.

Beam failure detection and/or beam failure recovery procedures

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Sami-Jukka Hakola