Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Sandeep Narayanan Kadan Veedu

Andreas Höglund

Gerardo Agni Medina Acosta

Emre Yavuz

Johan Mikael Bergman

Tuomas Tirronen

Hazhir Shokri Razaghi

Muhammad Ali Kazmi

Santhan Thangarasa

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Olof Liberg

Yutao Sui

Henrik Enbuske

Kittipong Kittichokechai

Dung Pham Van

Yi-Ju Chen

Andreas Hoglund

Systems and methods for determining timing advance (TA) validity are disclosed. In some embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed herein in which a wireless device implicitly considers a TA to be valid in a full cell when no TA validation mechanisms are explicitly configured. In other embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed herein in which a timer serves a dual purpose. If the timer is set to infinity, a wireless device will always consider a TA to be valid within a given cell, and at the same time will disable other TA validation mechanisms. Otherwise, the wireless device will interpret the timer as indicating for how long the TA value that the wireless device possesses is considered to be valid. Benefits of the solutions described herein include reducing signaling bits in the configuration and avoiding the possibility of conflicting configurations.

Preconfigured uplink resources—configuration for TA validity in entire cell

Techniques for facilitating dedicated transmissions over preconfigured uplink resources. Embodiments include techniques to configure subsequent PUR resource utilization (e.g., one-at-a-time basis or on a periodic basis), changes to EDT signaling to allow functioning with PUR, etc. An example method performed by a wireless device configured for use in a wireless communication network includes transmitting (), in an uplink message, a request for a configuration of preconfigured uplink resources. The method further includes receiving (), during a connected mode in which the wireless device has a connection with the wireless communication network, control signaling indicating a first preconfigured resource configuration that configures a first preconfigured resource. The method also includes transmitting or receiving () user data using the first preconfigured resource.

Support for transmission in preconfigured UL resources

A wireless device determines whether to provide a reduced capability, RedCap, indication via a message 1 of a random access procedure. The wireless device transmits the message 1 based on the determination, and transmits a message 3 of the random access procedure. A RedCap indication is provided via the message 3 at least if a RedCap indication is not provided via the message 1. According to some embodiments, the wireless device receives an indication whether the wireless device is to provide a RedCap indication via the message 1, and the determination is based on the received indication. According to some embodiments, the indication whether the wireless device is to provide a RedCap indication via the message 1 is provided by whether a physical random access channel, PRACH, partition between RedCap wireless devices and other wireless devices is configured.

Early indication for reduced capability devices

Systems and methods for handling transmissions and retransmissions on a periodic preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) are provided. Respective resources for transmission and retransmission can be determined and configured for a wireless device to prevent blocking of a new data transmission on a PUR opportunity by a retransmission attempt. Responsive to determining that a first transmission on the PUR was unsuccessful, a second resource can be configured for the retransmission.

Retransmission handling for preconfigured uplink resources

In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises: obtaining a timing advance (TA) value for uplink transmissions; receiving a grant for a radio resource control (RRC) inactive mode uplink transmission; measuring a reference signal associated with each beam of a plurality of beams at a first time; selecting a first beam based on the measured reference signals; measuring a reference signal associated with each beam of a plurality of beams at a second time in preparation for the RRC inactive mode uplink transmission; selecting a second beam for which the measuring was performed at the second time; and when the first selected beam is the same as the second selected beam and the reference signal for the first selected beam is within a threshold value of the reference signal for the second selected beam, transmitting the RRC inactive mode uplink transmission using the obtained TA.

NR timing advance change detection

Methods of operating a network node in a communication network are provided. Operations according to such methods include receiving a transmission that is sent by a user equipment, UE, and that is received over a preconfigured uplink resource, PUR and selecting one or more transmission types for indicating feedback corresponding to the received transmission conditioned to having been successfully received.

Methods and devices for managing transmissions in a wireless communications network

A wireless device performs an uplink transmission, such as an idle-mode uplink transmission using preconfigured uplink resources (PUR). The wireless device determines whether a serving-cell signal measurement M2 was completed within a predetermined range of time before a reference time T2, the reference time T2 corresponding to an uplink transmission opportunity. Responsive to determining that the serving-cell signal measurement M2 was not completed within the predetermined range of time, the wireless device either defers transmission to a subsequent transmission opportunity, or drops the uplink transmission, or collects an additional serving-cell measurement M2' that falls within the predetermined range of time, for use in validating a TA for transmitting at the transmission uplink opportunity and/or for estimating a PL for power control of a transmission at the uplink transmission opportunity.

Methods for validating measurements for reliable PUR transmissions

A method, network nodes and wireless devices for scheduling transmissions over preconfigured uplink resources (PUR) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method is performed by a network node for scheduling a plurality of wireless devices with periodic preconfigured uplink shared channel resources. The method includes configuring a wireless device of the plurality of wireless devices with preconfigured uplink resources, PURs, the PURs having a transmission length and a periodicity, the PURs being configured based at least in part on one or more multiplexing criteria for multiplexing the plurality of wireless devices for PUR transmission.

Scheduling transmissions over preconfigured uplink resources

A method, network node and wireless device for determining wake up signal (WUS) repetitions are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method implemented in a wireless device, WD, includes determining information about a transmit antenna configuration of a network node; determining information about an activity level of the WD; determining a number of wake up signal, WUS, repetitions based on the transmit antenna configuration and the activity level; and receiving a WUS signal, the WUS signal having at least the determined number of WUS repetitions. A method implemented in a network node includes obtaining information about an activity level of a wireless device, WD; selecting a transmit antenna configuration; determining a number of wake up signal, WUS, repetitions based on the transmit antenna configuration and the activity level; and transmitting a WUS signal, the WUS signal having at least the determined number of WUS repetitions.

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