Nokia Technologies Oy

Broadcom Corporation

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Renesas Mobile Corporation

Avago Technologies General IP (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Nokia Corporation

Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited

Xiaomi H.k. Limited

Samuli Heikki Turtinen

Timo Koskela

Chunli Wu

Sami-Jukka Hakola

Benoist Sebire

Jussi-Pekka Koskinen

Jorma Johannes Kaikkonen

Sami Hakola

Juha Pekka Karjalainen

Mihai Enescu

Vinh Van Phan

Jarkko Tuomo Koskela

Tero Henttonen

Esa Mikael Malkamäki

Ahmad Awada

Claudio Rosa

Lars Dalsgaard

Philippe Godin

Jedrzej Stanczak

Esa Tapani Tiirola

Brian Alexander Martin

Rapeepat Ratasuk

Wei Bai

Zexian Li

Emad N Farag

Antti Anton Toskala

Esa Mikael Malkamaki

Lei Du

Keiichi Kubota

Guillaume Sebire

Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu

Timo Erkki Lunttila

Kari Juhani Hooli

Frank Frederiksen

Ling Yu

John McFarland Harris

Henri Markus Koskinen

Ilkka Antero Keskitalo

Ingo Viering

Haitao Li

Daniela Laselva

Jeroen Wigard

Gilles Charbit

Nitin R Mangalvedhe

Elena Virtej

Srinivasan Selvaganapathy

Suresh P Nair

Anand Bedekar

Alessio Casati

Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas

Anna Pantelidou

Juho Mikko Oskari Pirskanen

Matti Einari Laitila

Dawid Koziol

Ping-Heng Kuo

Kaisu Iisakkila

Jussi Kustaa Ojala

Jari Jaakko Isokangas

Guillaume Decarreau

Malgorzata Tomala

Juho Pirskanen

Kari Rikkinen

Ahlem Khlass

Ville Vartiainen

Andreas Maeder

Tao Tao

Vlora Rexhepi

Karl Marko Juhani Lampinen

Matti Juhani Pikkarainen

Jussi Lemilainen

Seppo Ilmari Vesterinen

Chunyan Gao

Xiang Xu

Amaanat Ali

Jukka Tapio Ranta

Seppo M Alanara

Hannu Petri Hietalahti

Jorma Lilleberg

Istvan Zsolt Kovacs

Matha Deghel

Hua Chao

Pingping Wen

Yanji Zhang

Hai Ming Wang

Janne Pekko Kaasalainen

Ping Yuan

Chun Yan Gao

István Zsolt Kovács

Benoist Sébire

Peter Schneider

Nuno Pratas

György Tamás Wolfner

Thomas Höhne

Sheyam Lal Dhomeja

Esa Malkamäki

Wei Li

Luis Guilherme Uzeda Garcia

Alois Herzog

Tero Heikki Matti Henttonen

A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for system information acquisition for reduced capability NR devices may include a UE device which is caused to, acquire first system information from a first cell, the first system information being applicable to a system information area; enter a sleep state of an extended sleep cycle mode for a desired time period in accordance with extended sleep cycle configuration information; enter an active state of the extended sleep cycle mode in response to expiration of the desired time period; select a second cell distinct from the first cell; determine whether to acquire second system information from the second cell, the second system information being applicable to the system information area; and acquire the second system information from the second cell based on the determining

System information acquisition for reduced capability NR devices

A method is provided where handover information about one or more target beams of a target cell is provided. The beam quality of those target beams is determined along with beam quality of one or more other beams of the target cell. Dedicated uplink resources associated with the target beams and shared uplink resources are associated with the other beams. It is determined based on the beam quality which of the target and other beams is to be used to initiate a connection to the target cell.

Method, computer program and apparatus for selecting a beam for handover

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to for skipping monitoring of downlink control channel in random access. A first device receives from a second device a command indicating the first device to skip monitoring a downlink control channel between the second device and the first device for a time period. In response to the random access procedure being triggered by a first trigger condition, the first device determines whether the time period overlaps with a time window associated with a random access procedure. The first device ignores or performs the command based on the determination.

Skipping monitoring of downlink control channel during random access procedure

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to selecting random access (RA) mode. In example embodiments. The method comprises obtaining an impact factor associated with RA of a terminal device to a network device, the impact factor indicating at least one of the following: a synchronization status between the terminal device and the network device, a status of a channel between the terminal device and the network device for performing RA, a capability of the terminal device for supporting early data transmission (EDT), a predefined access category of the terminal device, or a RA mode-related indication received from the network device; selecting a RA mode at least in part based on obtained impact factor; and performing RA to the network device with the selected RA mode. In this way, the terminal device may select different RA mode according to different scenario.

Selection of random access mode

Disclosed is a method comprising detecting a beam failure on at least one transmission reception point of a plurality of transmission reception points. One or more beam failure indication data is included into a first medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), wherein the one or more beam failure indication data indicates the beam failure detected on the at least one transmission reception point. The one or more beam failure indication data comprises at least a first bit that comprises a first value and a second value, wherein the first value of the first bit indicates a first transmission reception point at least on which the beam failure is detected. The first MAC CE comprising the one or more beam failure indication data is transmitted to an access point.

Indicating beam failure in multiple transmission reception point operation

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

A method, apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided for enhanced early measurement reporting procedures at a user equipment. In an example implementation, the method may include a user equipment determining that the user equipment is configured for enhanced early measurement reporting, determining whether to initiate early measurement reporting measurements based on an indication when the user equipment is configured for enhanced early measurement reporting, and initiating the early measurement reporting measurements in response to determining to initiate the early measurement reporting measurements. In an additional example implementation, the method may include a network node transmitting enhanced early measurement reporting configuration to a user equipment and receiving early measurement reporting measurements from the user equipment. The early measurement reporting measurements performed at the user equipment based at least on the enhanced early measurement reporting configuration.

Enhanced early measurement reporting

There are provided measures for enabling/realizing higher-layer beam management, e.g., beam failure detection or beam candidate detection in a higher layer such as a MAC entity. Such measures exemplarily comprise that a beam management timer is started when a (first) beam management instance indication from a lower layer is obtained, beam management is executed, wherein a beam management instance counter is incremented whenever a beam management instance indication from the lower layer is obtained and a beam management event is detected when the beam management instance counter reaches a beam management instance threshold before expiry of the beam management timer, and the beam management instance counter is reset upon expiry of the beam management timer.

Higher-layer beam management

The disclosure relates a method comprising: determining that buffered data is available for transmission and cannot be transmitted over allocated resources; and causing information indicating that buffered data is available for transmission and cannot be transmitted over allocated resources to be transmitted over the allocated resources.

Method, apparatus, computer program product and computer program

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to partial integrity protection in telecommunication systems. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a solution for implementing partial integrity protection. The terminal device receives configuration of the partial integrity protection and applies the integrity protection on a portion of data packets which are communicated between communication devices. In this way, the communication devices can always provide integrity protection for services, regardless of their bit rate. Thus, security of communication can be improved. It also allows to provide integrity protection with limited impacts to power consumption and overheating.

Partial integrity protection in telecommunication systems

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to for conditionally skipping monitoring of downlink control channel in random access. A first apparatus receives, from a second apparatus, a command indicating the first apparatus to skip monitoring a downlink control channel between the second apparatus and the first apparatus for a time period. The first apparatus initiates an RA procedure towards the second apparatus. The time period at least partially overlaps with a time window associated with the RA procedure and an end of the time period is after an end of the time window. The first apparatus determines whether the RA procedure is successfully completed or contention resolution for the RA procedure is successful. Based on the determination, the first apparatus ignores or performs the command after the end of the time window.

Conditional skipping monitoring of downlink control channel

According to embodiments of the present disclosure, service-based retransmission scheme for uplink in NTN has been proposed, which can support multiple retransmission schemes based on service type for uplink. The network device determines different retransmission schemes based on the QoS requirements of the services. The terminal device selects the retransmission scheme for the service. In this way, the QoS of different service and reliability of MAC CE can be guaranteed.

Service based uplink retransmission

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

Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium of scheduling request (SR) and random access (RA) triggering for small data transmission (SDT). In example embodiments, a terminal device receives, from a network device, a configuration of one or more configured grant (CG) resources for a SDT procedure and a list of one or more data radio bearers (DRBs) associated with respective logical channels (LCHs) allowed for SDT over at least one of the one or more CG resources. After the terminal device initiates the SDT procedure in an inactive mode, if the terminal determines that a buffer status report (BSR) is triggered, the terminal device determines whether a configuration of a SR mask is to be applied for a LCH configured for SDT.

Scheduling request and random access triggering for sdt

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of blind user equipment (UE) specific timing advance group (TAG) indication. The method comprises: determining, at a first apparatus, whether an association between at least one TAG associated with a SpCell of the first apparatus and respective one or more indices in an RAR is obtained from a second apparatus; and determining, based on the determination of the association, an applicability of the RAR for a random access procedure of the first apparatus.

Timing advance group indication

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