Qualcomm Incorporated

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Giesecke+devrient Mobile Security America, Inc.

Srinivasan Balasubramanian

Aziz Gholmieh

Arvind Swaminathan

Shailesh Maheshwari

Gavin Bernard Horn

Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam

Manoj Madhukar Deshpande

Kuo-Chun Lee

Leena Zacharias

Reza Shahidi

Young Cheul Yoon

Jen Mei Chen

Shyamal Ramachandran

Suli Zhao

Thomas Klingenbrunn

Jun Wang

Mehmet Yavuz

Sanjiv Nanda

Ajith Tom Payyappilly

Uppinder Singh Babbar

Arnaud Meylan

Kirankumar Bhoja Anchan

George Cherian

Rath Vannithamby

Ramachandran Subramanian

Masato Kitazoe

Rohit Kapoor

Parthasarathy Krishnamoorthy

Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi

Yu-Ting Yu

Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap

Parag Arun Agashe

Anand Palanigounder

Min Wang

Sivaramakrishna Veerepalli

Bao Vinh Nguyen

Xipeng Zhu

Anthony C K Soong

Osok Song

Muthukumaran Dhanapal

Arungundram C Mahendran

Daniel Amerga

Vanitha Aravamudhan Kumar

Yongsheng Shi

Gang Xiao

Peter S Gaal

Umesh Phuyal

Rajarshi Gupta

Fatih Ulupinar

Prasad Reddy Kadiri

Liangchi Hsu

Thawatt Gopal

Ravindra Manohar Patwardhan

Vikram Singh

Wanshi Chen

Xiaoxia Zhang

Hao Xu

Alberto Rico Alvarino

Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov

Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian

Rajat Prakash

Haris Zisimopoulos

Keiichi Kubota

Amir Aminzadeh Gohari

Parvathanathan Subrahmanya

Kirk Allan Burroughs

Ralph Akram Gholmieh

Gerardo Giaretta

Raymond Tah-Sheng Hsu

David Comstock

Arash Mirbagheri

Gowrisankar Somichetty

Prashanth Hosabettu Mohan

Chetan Chakravarthy

Aleksandar Damnjanovic

Huilin Xu

Peter Pui Lok Ang

Stephen William Edge

Nathan Edward Tenny

Gordon Kent Walker

Peng Cheng

Akash Kumar

Ravi Agarwal

Tao Wu

Daniel Fred Filipovic

Giridhar Dhati Mandyam

Marcello Vincenzo Lioy

Nikolai Konrad Leung

Ming Yang

Juan Zhang

Georgios Tsirtsis

Supratik Bhattacharjee

Bhupesh Manoharlal Umatt

Roland Reinhard Rick

Nagaraju Naik

Ie-Hong Lin

Francesco Pica

Cheol Hee Park

Andrea Garavaglia

Haipeng Jin

Communications are transferred from being including a connection between User Equipment (UE) and a source node to including a connection between the UE and a target node, without requiring use of an X2 gateway. The method includes (1) ceasing to send messages from a source node, along the communications path, to User Equipment (UE), (2) then waiting a period of time, and (3) after the waiting, beginning to send messages along a new communication path from the target to the UE. The period of time is chosen to be adequate for flushing messages from a queue associated with the first communication path.

On-premise mobility for enterprises without requiring an X2 gateway

A first referred to as Approach A has three 40 MHz BWPs. The first BWP of the BWP configuration 2, approach A referred to as 'BWP #1' resides in the top of the 100 MHz bandwidth. A second approach referred to as “BWP #2” resides in the middle portion of the 100 MHz band. A third approach referred to as “BWP #3” resides in the bottom portion of the 100 MHz band. BWP configuration 2, approach A allows overlaps between the BWP #1 and BWP #2 and also between BWP #2 and BWP #3. These overlaps can be leveraged to allow a diversity of users to be scheduled across BWPs #1 and #2 and between BWPs #2 and #3. In some embodiments, BWP #2 aligns with BWP Configuration 1 users.

Method and apparatus for wider bandwidth gNodeB operation with user equipment bandwidth restrictions

Methods and apparatus for Neutral Host Enhanced Features are disclosed. One of the features that are addressed by the presently disclosed methods and apparatus is used when receiving eMBMS broadcasts. Another enhanced feature provided to the Neutral Host and enabled by the presently disclosed methods and apparatus regards the Preferential Treatment of Enterprise Network Employees.

Neutral host enhanced features

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for storing geofencing information within a SIM card. The geofencing information within the SIM (subscriber identity module) card is updated using an OTA (over the air) Update Server. Such geofencing information for a particular enterprise network is pushed to the SIM within a UE (user equipment) upon detecting that the UE is near, or within, the campus of an enterprise network. In some embodiments, the UE requests an update from the OTA Update Server.

Geofencing provisioning server

A method and apparatus is disclosed that provides a means by which user equipment (UE) having an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) that has a Shared Home Network Identity (SHNI) can gain access to a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) to access authentication information when the UE is not currently within its home network.

Outbound roaming into MNO and enterprise networks with SHNI based subscription

A method and apparatus for defining, configuring, operating, monitoring, and modifying microslices in an enterprise network is described. Microslices provide an end-to-end logical network through multiple networks, which allows efficient arrangement of data flows in the enterprise network with a defined Quality of Service (QoS). Various embodiments of a system for creating and implementing microslice instances in a wireless communications network are disclosed. A microslice instance can connect a UE in the enterprise network with an external server. In some embodiments, the enterprise network administrator can define Service Level Objectives (SLOs), device groups, service types, and user application groups, and associate them with one or more microslices. An orchestrator can configure the microslice with an appropriate amount of network resources to be allocated to the microslice, and then set-up, operate, monitor, and modify the microslice instance to adapt to current network conditions.

Method and apparatus for microslicing wireless enterprise communication networks using microslice profiles

A system and method are provided in which a first MTU (maximum transmission unit) size is determined messages traveling in a first direction along a path. A second MTU size is determined for messages traveling in a second direction along the same path. Messages are sent in the first and second directions based on the first and second MTU size, respectively. In some embodiments, different sizes are chosen for the DL MTU and the UL MTU. In some embodiments, triggers are used to proactively change the MTU size with network conditions. In some embodiments, packet segmentation may be performed at the eNB/gNB. In some embodiments, mobility support is provided with packet segmentation. In some embodiments, dedicated bearers are pre-established that support specific MTU sizes. In some embodiments, the SDAP (service data adaptation protocol) may announce the MTU size to use for a given flow on the UL.

Directional flow based MTU management

Methods and apparatus for managing user subscription credentials provisioned to user equipment (UEs) and to be released at some future time for reuse and repurposing are disclosed. The methods and apparatus allow previously provisioned UE credentials to be deleted from both the UEs and from the wireless network components that manage and maintain the UE credentials. Four specific methods and apparatus for provisioning UEs with SIM credentials and reclaiming of provisioned credentials are described in detail: (1) a validity timer-based approach to provisioning UEs with SIM credentials and reclaiming of provisioned credentials; (2) a release command-based approach to provisioning UEs with SIM credentials and reclaiming of provisioned credentials; (3) a user-initiated release of previously provisioned SIM credentials; and (4) a Mobile Device Management (MDM) methodology-based approach to provisioning UEs with SIM credentials and reclaiming of provisioned credentials.

Reclaiming of a provisioned credential on user equipment

Time Division Duplex (TDD) Configuration Selection for CBRS operation with TDD Configuration Mismatch methods and apparatus are disclosed. The methods and apparatus allocate CBRS bandwidth and select TDD configurations in a manner that allows maximum cooperation between GAA and PAL CBSDs, and includes procedures that avoid forcing the procedures into a fallback mode whenever a TDD configuration mismatch occurs. The methods and apparatus allocate an appropriate TDD configuration across all of the CBSDs (BS/APs) in the CBRS network so that there is minimal interreference between the CBSDs and so that there is uniform usage of the bandwidth in terms of use cases across all of the CBSDs in a given CBRS network. The disclosed methods and apparatus determine how to select the correct TDD configurations for the CBSDs (or BS/APs) based on the constitution of the CBSDs, and taking the GAA and PAL CBSD requirements into account.

Time division duplex configuration selection for citizen band radio service operation with TDD configuration mismatch

A dynamic Packet Data Network (PDN) context without requiring Access Point Name (APN) configuration on a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The disclosed method and apparatus eliminate the need for a manual configuration of a UE in the field when different traffic forwarding or routing paths are required. The disclosed method and apparatus also provide for the proper Internet Protocol (IP) address assignment and the management of the Quality of Service (QOS) treatments applied to specific flows based on determined characteristics of the flows.

Packet routing enhancements in microslices

A method and apparatus for enhancing load balancing within wireless networks and, in particular, within wireless networks operating within Enterprise Networks is disclosed. The method and apparatus efficiently balance the load that is shouldered by each BS/AP within the wireless network. This is particularly advantageous within wireless networks operating within an Enterprise Network. Improved BS/AP deployments in Enterprise Networks that maintain high system throughput in the EN while optimizing the performance of UEs (with regard to battery utilization and service) are disclosed. Improved EN deployments for UE mobility that reduces measurement scans required of and performed by the UEs are disclosed.

Load balancing for enterprise deployments

In an aspect, while a mobile device is operating in a RRC_Idle State, an RRC_Suspended State, an RLF State and/or an RLF Recovery Procedure State, the mobile device may transmit a connection establishment message to a base station of a plurality of base stations. In an aspect, the connection establishment message includes information that indicates whether the mobile device has information associated with signals transmitted by one or more base stations of the plurality of base stations. The mobile device may initiate transmission of the information associated with the signals to the base station subsequent to establishing a security context for the connection between the mobile device and the base station.

Methods to optimize scell configuration and activation through UE idle mode scell measurements and quick reporting

A method and apparatus for seamless real-time transitions across LTE and Wi-Fi networks are disclosed. The disclosed method and apparatus relate to determining which communications networks to use when communicating between a UE and a network within an Enterprise Network (EN). In some embodiments, a Communications Client Application (CCA) operates within a selected UE and a Communications Server Application (CSA) operates on the network side of the Enterprise Network. Both the CCA and the CSA act together in concert to coordinate the transmission of packets between the UE and the network using either LTE or Wi-Fi networks. For seamless communications, some embodiments use a single VPN tunnel through which to transmit data packets. In other embodiments, for seamless communications, two VPN tunnels are used, one for LTE packet transfers, and one for Wi-Fi packet transfers.

Apparatus for seamless realtime transitions across LTE/WI-FI

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless communications system may establish radio bearers for certain data transmissions between a user equipment (UE) and a base station. A radio bearer may be associated with one or more quality of services (QoS) parameters, such as a bit rate. The base station may indicate to the UE a time window over which to average the bit rate. In some examples, a radio bearer may include multiple data flows. The base station may provide information regarding QoS parameters for each data flow in control signaling, such as a grant.

Quality of service configurations for radio bearers with multiple data flows

A method and apparatus is disclosed that provides improved techniques and metrics used to improve the 'Quality of Experience Delivered' (“QED”) for use in Private Enterprise networks. The method and apparatus provides normalized metrics used for assessing all service types for performance. Focus is placed on latent scores and allowing for a range of acceptable operational scores. Observation points are identified and metrics collection is performed at the ingress and egress points for functional/application/node/service levels. Assessment based on packet sizes groups is enabled, rather than as an aggregate for better understanding of the tunability of the application layer for improved service. Burstiness of the traffic is gauged to allow for improved scheduling in the RAN. Individual deployments are adapted to assess ΔG and assess ΔS and ΔV for end-to-end performance management.

Method and apparatus for QED for private enterprise networks

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Srinivasan Balasubramanian