Nokia Technologies Oy

Broadcom Corporation

Nokia Corporation

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Renesas Mobile Corporation

Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.

Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited

Xiaomi H.k. Limited

Timo Koskela

Sami-Jukka Hakola

Samuli Heikki Turtinen

Juha Pekka Karjalainen

Jorma Johannes Kaikkonen

Mihai Enescu

Sami Hakola

Vinh Van Phan

Gilles Charbit

Tao Chen

Lars Dalsgaard

Chunli Wu

Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu

Ahmad Awada

Benoist Sebire

Jussi-Pekka Koskinen

Ingo Viering

Jedrzej Stanczak

Jarkko Tuomo Koskela

Seppo Ilmari Vesterinen

Jussi Kustaa Ojala

Esa Tapani Tiirola

Juho Pirskanen

Dawid Koziol

Kari Pekka Pajukoski

Ling Yu

Kari Veikko Horneman

Tero Henttonen

Esa Mikael Malkamäki

Klaus Franz Doppler

Cassio Ribeiro

Kari Juhani Hooli

Ilkka Antero Keskitalo

Frederick W Vook

Daniela Laselva

Emad N Farag

Esa Mikael Malkamaki

Henri Markus Koskinen

Karol Schober

Haifeng Wang

Mikko J Rinne

Li Zhang

Chunyan Gao

Mads Lauridsen

Anna Pantelidou

Juho Mikko Oskari Pirskanen

Antti Tölli

Sanjay Goyal

Panagiotis Spapis

Matti Juhani Pikkarainen

Diomidis Michalopoulos

Mikko Säily

Kaisu Iisakkila

Ali Karimidehkordi

Carlos Morais De Lima

Matha Deghel

Kari Rikkinen

Jari Yrjänä Hulkkonen

Dileep Kumar

Satya Krishna Joshi

Ville Vartiainen

Italo Atzeni

Jari Hulkkonen

Youngsoo Yuk

Karl Marko Juhani Lampinen

Tommi Jokela

Esa Juhani Tuomaala

Umur Karabulut

Eva Perez

Jussi Lemilainen

Antti Arvola

Mikko Saily

Andreas Maeder

Seppo M Alanara

Samantha Caporal Del Barrio

Jukka Tapio Ranta

Zhenhong Li

Jorma Lilleberg

Jari Jaakko Isokangas

Filippo Tosato

Hai Ming Wang

Janne Pekko Kaasalainen

Yanji Zhang

Chun Yan Gao

Halit Murat Gürsu

Sheyam Lal Dhomeja

Qiping Zhu

Riikka Karoliina Dimnik

Alperen Gundogan

Wei Li

Kyoungmin Park

Muhammad Tayyab

Alois Herzog

Esa Malkamäki

Yrjö Olavi Kaipainen

Rustam Pirmagomedov

Jani-Pekka Kainulainen

Ville-Vesa Haikola

Jaakko Kemppainen

Jari Jakko Isokangas

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for beam management (BM) reporting are provided. One method may include determining, at a UE, that reporting configuration(s) need to be activated, and providing, to a network, an indication to activate the reporting configuration(s).

Methods and apparatuses for beam management reporting

In some embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving timing advance acquisition parameters associated with multiple transmit receive points at a target distributed unit, wherein the timing advance acquisition parameters comprise, for the multiple transmit receive points, synchronization signal block indices, random access preamble indices, and physical random access channel mask indices; sending downlink control information to a user equipment, the downlink control information comprising an identifier of the target distributed unit, codepoints for the synchronization signal block indices, the random access preamble indices, and the physical random access channel mask indices; receiving timing advance estimates from the target distributed unit, wherein the timing advance estimates comprise estimates of timing advances associated with multiple transmit receive points at the target distributed unit; and sending the timing advance estimates associated with the multiple transmit receive points at the target distributed unit, to the user equipment.

Multi timing advance acquisition for a candidate cell in L1/2-triggered mobility

There is provided a method for a user equipment. UE, of a wireless communication network, the method comprising: obtaining a first measurement data associated with a determined position of the UE and second measurement data, the first and second measurement data obtained by performing measurements by the UE; obtaining a difference value indicative of a difference between at least one measurement value of the first measurement data and at least one measurement value of the second measurement data; comparing the difference value with at least one repositioning threshold value provided by the wireless communication network to the UE; and if the difference value exceeds the at least one repositioning threshold value, triggering a transmission of a repositioning request to a network node of the wireless communication network.

Enhancing positioning efficiency

According to various examples, there is provided a User Equipment, UE, comprising means for: receiving an indication of a type of parameter to be reported by the UE, wherein the type of parameter characterises one or more receive, Rx, of the UE via which one or more Reference Signals, RSs, are received; determining one or more values of the indicated type of parameter for at least one of the one or more RSs received by at least one of the one or more Rx beams of the UE; and sending information indicative of the determined one or more values of the indicated type of parameter for the at least one of the one or more RSs received by the at least one of the one or more Rx beams of the UE.

Beam management

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

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for control channel monitoring. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, at user equipment, an indication of a codepoint activation, wherein the codepoint activation indicates that a transmission configuration indicator state being activated is associated with a second physical cell identifier different from a first physical cell identifier of a serving cell of the user equipment, and in response to the transmission configuration indicator state being activated in association with the second physical cell identifier, suspending control channel monitoring of at least one set of core resources associated with the first physical cell identifier of the serving cell of the user equipment. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.

Control channel monitoring rules for inter-cell beam management

There are provided measures for beam failure recovery enhancement. Such measures exemplarily comprise, at a terminal, identifying a beam failure with respect to a radio beam provided by a serving cell of said terminal, and deciding, in response to an identified beam failure, to perform beam failure recovery attempts including at least a first beam failure recovery attempt and a second beam failure recovery attempt with respect to said serving cell of said terminal and at least one non-serving cell of said terminal.

Beam failure recovery enhancement

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

There are provided measures for efficient provision of positioning reference signal transmissions. Such measures exemplarily comprise, at of a location service control entity in a mobile network providing positioning reference signals for location determination, deciding to suspend positioning reference signal transmission using a first positioning reference signal resource, and configuring, upon a result of said deciding to suspend said positioning reference signal transmission, an access node supplying at least one location determination target with said positioning reference signal transmission using said first positioning reference signal resource, to suspend said positioning reference signal transmission.

Efficient provision of positioning reference signal transmissions

An apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform: receiving a combined information, where the combined information includes first information regarding inter-cell beam management and second information regarding lower layer mobility; using the second information to initiate a handover of the apparatus from a first cell to a second cell; and using the first information to provide communication of the apparatus with another cell at least partially during the handover to the second cell, where the another cell includes the first cell or a third cell.

Triggering of low layer mobility through inter cell beam management procedure

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

According to an example aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method comprising receiving a message at a user equipment (UE) from a base station (BS) the message including a constraint threshold, receiving a message at the UE from the BS the message including a fallback beam reporting mode, performing by the UE downlink (DL) reference signal (RS) measurements, determining by the UE a difference between DL RS measurements, and in response to determining the difference between DL RS measurements is not less than the constraint threshold switch to the fallback beam reporting mode.

Group based beam reporting

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for the acquisition and provision of channel state information for a target cell early in the process of layer one/layer two inter-cell mobility are provided. For example, a method can include a user equipment receiving a first configuration of layer one measurement and reporting together with a second configuration for channel state information measurement and reporting for a candidate cell. The method can also include reporting layer one measurement according to the first configuration. The method can further include performing channel state information measurements according to the second configuration. The method can additionally include reporting the channel state information measurements to a network element to be forwarded to the candidate cell.

Early channel state information acquisition for target cell in layer one / layer two inter-cell mobility

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for facilitating explicit latency mode determination in beam switching. One method may include receiving, by a user equipment, at least one beam switch command from at least one network entity. The user equipment may further determine at least one latency and switching mode, and perform beam switch based on the at least one latency and switching mode.

Facilitating explicit latency mode determination in beam switching

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