Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ)

Thomas Rimhagen

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Pål Frenger

Niclas Wiberg

Ke Wang Helmersson

Robert Baldemair

Stefan Parkvall

Bengt Lindoff

Gunnar Mildh

Icaro L J Da Silva

Johan Rune

Jinhua Liu

Erik Bengt Dahlman

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Andres Reial

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Erik A Eriksson

Henrik Sahlin

Stefan Wager

Dennis Hui

Martin Hessler

Magnus Stattin

Sven Oscar Petersson

Walter Müller

Joakim Axmon

Karl Norrman

Qianxi Lu

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Qingyu Miao

Johan Torsner

Fredrik Athley

Gabor Fodor

Janne Peisa

Kumar Balachandran

Joachim Sachs

Ali S Khayrallah

Gen Li

Claes Tidestav

Zhang Zhang

Thorsten Lohmar

Bo Hagerman

Lars Sundström

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Lars Lindbom

Torgny Palenius

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Johan Furuskog

Niklas Johansson

Jianfeng Wang

Hai Feng Wang

Andreas Bergström

Zhan Zhang

Peter Alriksson

Jose Luis Pradas

Pontus Wallentin

Patrik Rugeland

Mårten Ericson

Henrik Asplund

Martin Johansson

Karl Werner

Johan Axnäs

Mikael Coldrey

Patrik Torgny Karlsson

Shehzad Ali Ashraf

Jonas Kronander

Fredrik Lindqvist

Reza Moosavi

Dennis Sundman

Yngve Selén

Ning He

Mikael Prytz

Håkan Axelsson

Nadia Brahmi

Andreas Cedergren

Ali El Essaili

Niklas Jaldén

Jörg Huschke

Jonas Medbo

Elena Myhre

Emma Wittenmark

Hugo Tullberg

Lars Manholm

Virgile Garcia

Ulf Gustavsson

Thomas Walldeen

Peter Von Wrycza

Junaid Ansari

Rui Fan

Anders Furuskär

Håkan Björkegren

Per Skillermark

Edgar Ramos

Anders Wallén

Johan Nilsson

Bo Lincoln

Cong Shi

Leif Wilhelmsson

Riikka Susitaival

Henrik Sjöland

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes receiving a downlink signal comprising an uplink access configuration index, using the uplink access configuration index to identify an uplink access configuration from among a predetermined plurality of uplink access configurations, and transmitting to the wireless communications network according to the identified uplink access configuration. The example method further includes, in the same wireless device, receiving, in a first subframe, a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission formatted according to a first numerology and receiving, in a second subframe, a second OFDM transmission formatted according to a second numerology, the second numerology differing from the first numerology. Variants of this method, corresponding apparatuses, and corresponding network-side methods and apparatuses are also disclosed.

Network architecture, methods, and devices for a wireless communications network

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications network, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes determining a reporting quality threshold for a parameter related to channel state information (CSI); performing a measurement for each of a plurality of beams from a first predetermined set of beams for evaluation; evaluating the measurement for each of the plurality of beams against the reporting quality threshold; discontinuing the performing and evaluating of measurements in response to determining that the reporting quality threshold is met for one of the beams, such that one or more beams in the first predetermined set of beams are not measured and evaluated; and reporting, to the wireless communications network, CSI for the one of the beams.

A method of establishing connection between a first node in a wireless network and a second node in said wireless network, wherein each of said first and second nodes comprise a primary radio receiver and a wake up receiver, each of said nodes comprising a Radio Frequency, RF, switch, arranged to connect one of said primary or secondary radios to a radio antenna, said method comprising the steps of transmitting, by said first node, to a wake-up receiver of a second radio node, a wake-up signal that indicates a frequency channel on which the second radio node is to transmit a response, receiving, by said first node, in response to transmitting said wake-up signal, response from said second radio node on the frequency channel indicated, and establishing, by said first node, a connection between said first and second nodes in order to transfer data between said first and second nodes. The present disclosure also relates to corresponding mesh nodes and a computer program product.

Use of wake-up receiver with Bluetooth low energy

A method and apparatus for device establishing redundant relay nodes in a mesh network.

Method for adding redundant relay nodes during path discovery procedure of a mesh network

Embodiments include methods for a gateway device to selectively forward messages in a wireless mesh network. Such methods include receiving, over one of a plurality of network interfaces of the gateway device, a message published to a group address or a virtual address and retrieving, from a database accessible by the gateway device, unicast addresses of all communication devices identified by the group address or the virtual address. Such methods include, based on determining that all communication devices addressed by the retrieved unicast addresses are serviced by the gateway device, sending the received message on all network interfaces that correspond to the communication devices addressed by the retrieved unicast addresses; and based on determining that not all communication devices addressed by the retrieved unicast addresses are serviced by the gateway device, sending the received message on all network interfaces except for the network interface over which the message was received.

Method of and devices for supporting selective forwarding of messages in a network of communicatively coupled communication devices

A gateway (), arranged for providing cloud connectivity to a network of communicatively interconnected network nodes. The gateway () comprises a backend function ()and a plurality of physical frontend devices (), for deployment in the network. The frontend devices () communicatively connect()to the backend function () for exchanging messages between a network node and the backend function (). The backend function () is common to the plurality of frontend devices () and arranged in a at least one server of a plurality of operatively connected servers, that may form part of the cloud, thereby providing for 'cloud processing' or 'virtual processing' of the messages for exchange thereof with the cloud. The physical frontend devices () may be designed to comprise transceiver functionality.

Gateway, a frontend device, a method and a computer readable storage medium for providing cloud connectivity to a network of communicatively interconnected network nodes

Embodiments herein relate to e.g. a method performed by a network node () for handling communication of data in a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mesh network (). The network node obtains a neighbor table, wherein the neighbor table is based on messages received from different network nodes; and selects an association between network nodes in the BLE mesh network () taking the neighbor table into account.

Handling communication of data in a bluetooth low energy (BLE), mesh network

A gateway device and a configuration client for supporting selective forwarding of messages published to a group address or a virtual address in a wireless mesh network of communicatively coupled communication devices, such as a Bluetooth Mesh system. The configuration client maintains a mapping between unicast addresses of communication devices and group and virtual addresses in the network. The gateway device receives, from the configuration client, unicast addresses of those communication devices collectively identified by the group or virtual address in a received message. When the retrieved unicast addresses are all serviced by the gateway device, the message is transmitted by the gateway device on all interfaces corresponding to the communication devices addressed by the retrieved unicast addresses. When the retrieved unicast addresses are not all serviced by the gateway device, the message is transmitted by the gateway device on all except one of the interfaces.

Embodiments support obtaining of information regarding a Bluetooth mesh network () operating according to a set of rules, e.g. flooding or routing, for propagating messages in the network (). It is transmitted (), from said test originator node () in accordance with said set of rules, a sequence of test messages towards said test target node (). Each of said test messages includes: parameters comprising a test message identifier being an identifier of the test message in the sequence, and a type identifier identifying the test message as a certain type associated with said parameters.

Methods and nodes for obtaining information regarding a bluetooth mesh network

A gateway device and a configuration client for supporting selective forwarding of messages published to a group address or a virtual address in a wireless mesh network of communicatively coupled communication devices, such as a Bluetooth Mesh system. The configuration client maintains a mapping between unicast addresses of communication devices and group and virtual addresses in the network. At receipt of a message including a group or virtual address, the gateway device retrieves, from the configuration client, the unicast addresses of those communication devices collectively identified by the group or virtual address in the received message. If the retrieved unicast addresses are all serviced by the gateway device, the message is transmitted by the gateway device on all interfaces corresponding to the communication devices addressed by the retrieved unicast addresses.

A method for deactivating a relay feature of a relay node in a mesh network comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein said relay node formulates a connectivity report comprising routing information to a beacon node in said mesh network, said routing information being based on connectivity control messages received from said beacon node. The method comprises the steps of transmitting, by said relay node, said connectivity report to neighbouring nodes, transmitting, by said relay node, a query message to said neighbouring nodes for querying whether said relay feature of said relay node may be deactivated receiving, by said relay node, response messages from said neighbouring nodes, in response to said query message, wherein each of said response messages indicates that said relay feature of said relay node may be deactivated, and deactivating, by said relay node, said relay feature of said relay node based on said response messages from all of said neighbouring nodes. Complementary methods and devices for performing a method according to the present disclosure are also presented herein.

Methods of and device for autonomous configuration of a relay node device in mesh network

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Thomas Rimhagen