Apple Inc.

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Srirang Ashok Lovlekar

Sethuraman Gurumoorthy

Fangli Xu

Yuqin Chen

Dawei Zhang

Srinivasan Nimmala

Murtaza A Shikari

Longda Xing

Haijing Hu

Sree Ram Kodali

Zhibin Wu

Vijay Venkataraman

Xu Ou

Sarma V Vangala

Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata

Muthukumaran Dhanapal

Wei Zeng

Ralf Rossbach

Yuchul Kim

Jianxiong Shi

Lakshmi N Kavuri

Zhiwei Wang

Birgit Breining

Haitong Sun

Srinivas Burugupalli

Yaoqi Yan

Adesh Kumar

Venkateswara Rao Manepalli

Li Su

Chunhai Yao

Madhusudan Chaudhary

Ajoy K Singh

Hong He

Yushu Zhang

Huarui Liang

Yifan Zhu

Clive Edward Rodgers

Xiangpeng Jing

Pankaj Subhash Vasandani

Johnson O Sebeni

Beibei Wang

Sami M Almalfouh

Sudeep Manithara Vamanan

Vijay Gadde

Sridhar Prakasam

Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi

Tarakkumar G Dhanani

Lele Cui

Chunxuan Ye

Sigen Ye

Sharad Deepak Sambhwani

Wei Zhang

Krisztian Kiss

Kiran Kumar Edara

Cahya Adiansyah Masputra

Sanjeevi Balasubramanian

Sriram Subramanian

Shiva Krishna Narra

Sai Sravan Bharadwaj Karri

Viswanath Nagarajan

Sharad Garg

Madhukar K Shanbhag

Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju

Dirk Nickisch

Sandeep K Sunkesala

Amr Mostafa

Oghenekome Oteri

Yang Tang

Weidong Yang

Jie Cui

Alexander Sasha Sirotkin

Xin Ru Wang

Zhu Ji

Rafael L Rivera-Barreto

Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar

Rohan C Malthankar

Thanigaivelu Elangovan

Samy Touati

Wanping Zhang

Franco Travostino

Juergen H Kreuchauf

Utkarsh Kumar

Shu Guo

Rohit R Matolia

Faraz Faheem

Karthik Anantharaman

Shivani Suresh Babu

Teck Yang Lee

Hariharan Sukumar

Sang Ho Baek

Pavan Nuggehalli

John Y Su

Sunny Arora

Samuel J Miller

Shashikant Tiwari

Jesus A Gutierrez Gomez

Jinghua Ling

Rohit Thareja

Karthik Chockalingam

Devices and associated methods for operating a dual-subscriber identity module (SIM) dual-standby (DSDS) user equipment device (UE) configured with a first SIM and a second SIM. The UE performs communications with a first cellular network using the first SIM and a first radio resource control (RRC) connection, and receives a request to perform a higher priority communication using the second SIM. In response to the request to perform the higher priority communication, the UE transmits a request to the first network to suspend the first RRC connection. After transmission of the request to suspend the first RRC connection, the UE receives a message from the first network to place the first RRC connection in an inactive state, and initiates a timer, wherein the timer is used to determine whether the first RRC connection remains in the inactive state or transitions to an idle state.

User equipment having multiple subscriber identity modules with improved suspend / resume operation

A user equipment (UE) is configured to enter a radio resource control (RRC) CONNECTED state on a first network using a first subscriber identification module (SIM) and an RRC INACTIVE or RRC IDLE state on a second network using a second SIM, transmit, to the first network, a request for a scheduling gap (SG) configuration, wherein, during a duration of the SG, the first network avoids scheduling resources for the UE, receive, from the first network, an indication of the SG configuration to be used, during the duration of the SG, tune away from the first network to perform operations on the second network and after the duration of the SG, tune back to the first network, wherein the RRC CONNECTED state is maintained on the first network during the duration of the SG.

Multi-SIM scheduling gaps

Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The UE generates a first information for the UE for transmission to a network device. The first information is associated with a small data transmission (SDT) procedure in an inactive state of the UE. The UE obtains a first configuration information from the network device. The first configuration information is determined with reference to the first information. The UE determines whether to perform the SDT procedure in the inactive state according to the first configuration information. The UE, in response to determining to perform the SDT procedure in the inactive state, performs the SDT procedure in the inactive state according to the first configuration information.

Power saving for SDT procedure

To accommodate a mix of high frequency carriers and lower frequency carriers, a protocol stack may include a radio link control (RLC) entity that allows configuration of status reporting control parameters on per carrier, or per subcarrier spacing. Alternatively, a protocol stack may include two RLC entities, one for handling high frequency carriers, and another for handling lower frequency carriers. (High frequency carriers and lower frequency carriers may be distinguished based on a frequency threshold.) Furthermore, a user equipment may transmit (to the network) an indication of its L2 buffer size. The network may configure the UE and/or control scheduling, to ensure the UE's L2 buffer does not overrun. Alternatively, the UE may indicate that it can support a percentage of a maximum buffer size. The network may configure the UE and/or control scheduling so that the UE's buffer occupancy does not exceed the percentage.

Handling high data rates in protocol stack when using high frequency spectrum

A user equipment (UE) includes a first subscriber identification module (SIM) and a second SIM. The UE is configured to establish a first cellular network connection based on, at least, the first SIM and a second cellular network connection based on, at least, the second SIM. The UE sends, by the first SIM, a first registration request to the network, wherein the first registration request comprises an identification indicating the multi-SIM device is a type of multi-SIM device, receives, by the first SIM, a first registration accept message indicating the first registration request has been accepted, wherein the first registration accept message comprises a first temporary identification for the first SIM and sends, by the second SIM, an access network message comprising one of the first temporary identification or a further temporary identification based on, at least, the first temporary identification.

Control plane for multi-SIM devices

A remote user equipment (UE) configured to access a network via one of a direct link with a base station or a relay link with a relay UE performs a method including receiving link selection criteria, the link selection criteria configured by the network, identifying that the relay UE is available for camping, selecting the relay UE based on the link selection criteria, camping on the relay link corresponding to the relay UE and initiating a network access procedure via the relay link.

Link selection for an idle or inactive user equipment

Some embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product for managing power consumption of a user equipment (UE) supporting sidelink discontinuous reception (SL-DRX) in a 5G wireless communications system. A UE determines a candidate slot for sending a signal based on data sensed in various periods over a history window. Some embodiments include a processor that can determine set of candidate slots that are sufficiently sensed based on sensed periods over a history window, and determine a subset of candidate slots of the set of candidate slots based at least on an occupancy threshold over the history window. The processor can select a candidate slot from the subset of candidate slots, and transmit via the transceiver, a first signal via the selected candidate slot.

Sensing for user equipment (UE) supporting sidelink discontinuous reception (SL-DRX)

Techniques discussed herein can facilitate enhancements to measurement for a User Equipment (UE) in Radio Resource Control (RRC) Connected mode for configuration of Carrier Aggregation (CA) and/or Dual Connectivity (DC). One example embodiment comprises a UE device comprising a processor configured to perform operations comprising: transmitting a UE Assistance Information message comprising a measurement request; receiving a first RRCReconfiguration message comprising a measConfig information element (IE); performing one or more measurements on each of on one or more frequencies based at least on the RRC measConfig IE, wherein the one or more frequencies comprise at least one non-serving frequency associated with a neighboring cell; transmitting a MeasurementReport message that indicates the one or more measurements for at least one of the one or more frequencies; and receiving a second RRCReconfiguration message that configures the UE with the at least one of the one or more frequencies.

Measurement enhancement in radio resource control (RRC) connected for user equipment (UE)

This disclosure relates to techniques for performing radio resource control procedures for remote wireless devices in a wireless communication system. A remote wireless device may transmit a radio resource control message that includes information configured to be relayed to a cellular base station to a relay wireless device, which may relay the information to the cellular base station. The cellular base station may also transmit a radio resource control message that includes information configured to be relayed to the remote wireless device to the relay wireless device, which may relay the information to the remote wireless device.

Radio resource control connection procedures for remote wireless devices

A base station is configured to transmit wake-up signals to a user equipment to wake-up the UE to receive a page from the base station. The base station transmits one or more synchronization signals, wherein the synchronization signals correspond to a wake-up signal (WUS) that is to be transmitted to a user equipment (UE) operating in a paging discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, wherein the paging DRX cycle includes a paging occasion (PO) and transmits the WUS to the UE during a WUS occasion, wherein the WUS indicates whether the UE is to utilize an active mode or a sleep mode during the PO.

Transmitting wake-up signals for paging operations

A user equipment (UE) device may reside in a state of dual connectivity with a master cell group (MCG) and a secondary cell group (SCG), wherein the radio access technologies of the MCG and the SCG are different. While in the dual connectivity state, the UE device may transition to a mode of reduced activity (e.g., processing and/or RF activity) relative to the secondary cell group (SCG) in order to save power, e.g., when traffic flow via the SCG is below a threshold, or when scheduling activity on the SCG is low. Various mechanisms may be employed to reduce activity, e.g., mechanisms such as reduction of beam monitoring, deactivation of secondary cells of the SCG, reduction of number of active antenna elements, employment of longer periods for periodic measurement and reporting processes, etc.

Traffic-rate based branch deactivation for UE power efficiency in a dual-connectivity mode

A user equipment (UE) configured as a relay UE between a remote UE and a base station is disclosed. The UE comprises one or more processors configured to receive a RRC signaling to request for establishing or resuming RRC connection from the remote UE, determine whether to perform an access control check prior to forwarding the RRC Signaling of the remote UE to the base station, and forward the RRC Signaling to the base station based on the determination.

Unified access control (UAC) enhancement for sidelink relay

Methods and systems are disclosed for a UE of a wireless communication network to recover from MCG radio link failures in a MR-DC system when the SCG is deactivated or otherwise not enabled. When a MCG link failure is detected and the SCG is deactivated, the UE may activate the SCG for the UE to use the SCG link to transmit and receive signaling messages or data as part of the MCG failure recovery procedure. When the MCG link failure is detected and the UE is configured to add the SCG upon the satisfaction of certain condition, but the condition has not occurred, the UE may check to determine whether one condition is MCG failure and whether the radio link quality of the SCG exceeds a threshold. If the radio link quality of the SCG exceeds the threshold, the UE may apply the SCG configuration to add the SCG.

MCG failure recovery enhancement in DC mode

A user equipment (UE) is configured to join a standalone non-public network (SNPN). The receives SNPN information from one or more broadcast messages transmitted from a base station serving as an onboarding base station for the SNPN, determines whether the onboarding base station may be used for onboarding by the UE based on the SNPN information and UE SNPN information stored at the UE and onboards the UE to the SNPN when it is determined that the onboarding base station may be used for onboarding by the UE.

User equipment onboarding and network congestion control in standalone non-public network deployments

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Srirang Ashok Lovlekar