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

Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu

Jussi Kustaa Ojala

Timo Erkki Lunttila

Jussi-Pekka Koskinen

Frederick W Vook

Emad N Farag

Klaus Franz Doppler

Guillaume Sebire

Cassio Ribeiro

Jari Hulkkonen

Vlora Rexhepi

Frank Frederiksen

Ling Yu

Jarkko Tuomo Koskela

Kari Veikko Horneman

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

Dawid Koziol

Matti Juhani Pikkarainen

Kaisu Iisakkila

Antti Tölli

Kari Rikkinen

Carlos Morais De Lima

Antti Tolli

Ville Vartiainen

Arto Johannes Lehti

Thomas Stadler

Jari Yrjänä Hulkkonen

Satya Krishna Joshi

Jussi Lemilainen

Italo Atzeni

Dileep Kumar

Antti Arvola

Jari Jaakko Isokangas

Matha Deghel

Filippo Tosato

Toni Aleksi Levanen

Hai Ming Wang

Pasi Eino Tapio Kinnunen

Chun Yan Gao

Jari Olavi Lindholm

Man Hung Ng

Juho Mikko Oskari Pirskanen

Jie Chen

David Randall

Paolo Baracca

Mikko Valkama

Qiping Zhu

Oskari Tervo

Ali Karimidehkordi

Kristan Barraclough

Kyoungmin Park

Wei Li

Henrik Christian Liljestrom

Yrjö Olavi Kaipainen

Vitaly Petrov

Jukka Olavi Talvitie

Ville-Vesa Haikola

Markus Wimmer

Margarita Gapeyenko

Jari Jakko Isokangas

Jari Jaako Isokangas

Jukka Valtteri Tormalehto

Onel Alcaraz López

Hisashi Onozawa

Jari Yrjäna Hulkkonen

Markus Klaus Andrea Wimmer

Jaakko Kemppainen

Markus Klaus Andreas Wimmer

Timo Kalevi Koskela

Eeva LÄHETKANGAS

Cassio Barboza Ribeiro

An apparatus comprising means for determining a set of beams for use in transmitting and/or receiving at least one signal in a first frequency range; determining at least one mapped beam, wherein determining the at least one mapped beam comprises mapping at least one beam of the set of beams to at least a second, different frequency range; and causing transmission and/or reception of at least one signal in the second, different frequency range using the at least one mapped beam.

Beam management

According to various examples, there is provided a User Equipment, UE, comprising means for: receiving an indication of a type of parameter to be reported by the UE, wherein the type of parameter characterises one or more receive, Rx, of the UE via which one or more Reference Signals, RSs, are received; determining one or more values of the indicated type of parameter for at least one of the one or more RSs received by at least one of the one or more Rx beams of the UE; and sending information indicative of the determined one or more values of the indicated type of parameter for the at least one of the one or more RSs received by the at least one of the one or more Rx beams of the UE.

One embodiment is directed to a method comprising generating at least one symbol of a subframe for control information based on a first subcarrier spacing; generating at least one data symbol of the subframe based on a second subcarrier spacing; and transmitting the subframe comprising the at least one symbol for control information and at least one data symbol. Another embodiment is directed to a method comprising receiving a subframe comprising at least one symbol for control information and at least one data symbol; decoding the at least one symbol for control information based on a first subcarrier spacing; and obtaining from the decoded at least one symbol information regarding a second subcarrier spacing used on the at least one data symbol.

Apparatus and method for subframe arrangement

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for control channel monitoring. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, at user equipment, an indication of a codepoint activation, wherein the codepoint activation indicates that a transmission configuration indicator state being activated is associated with a second physical cell identifier different from a first physical cell identifier of a serving cell of the user equipment, and in response to the transmission configuration indicator state being activated in association with the second physical cell identifier, suspending control channel monitoring of at least one set of core resources associated with the first physical cell identifier of the serving cell of the user equipment. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.

Control channel monitoring rules for inter-cell beam management

There is provided a user equipment apparatus that includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The memory stores instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the user equipment apparatus at least to perform an initial cell search of one or more cells on a network. A synchronization raster includes a cluster of three raster points positioned every 600 kHz.

Initial cell search procedure

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for beam group-based downlink transmit beam indication. Certain embodiments may provide enhancements related to physical layer design for multiple input multiple output and/or enhancements for a beam indication framework for scenarios with multiple transmission reception points and user equipment equipped with multiple antenna panels. A network node may transmit, and a user equipment may obtain, information indicating that one or more activated transmission configuration indictor states are associated with a set of beam groups.

Beam group-based downlink transmit beam indication

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

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Sami-Jukka Hakola