Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Convida Wireless, LLC

Sony Europe Limited

Sony Europe B.v.

Yuxin Wei

Hideji Wakabayashi

Vivek Sharma

Shinichiro Tsuda

Brian Alexander Martin

Yassin Aden Awad

Anders Berggren

Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri

Chen Sun

Shin Horng Wong

Martin Warwick Beale

Xin Guo

Jinhui Chen

Lars Nord

Chrysovalantis Kosta

Zhongbin Qin

Kazuyuki Shimezawa

Svante Alnås

Jussi Tapani Kahtava

Zaichen Zhang

Rong Zeng

Chen Qian

Zhaocheng Wang

Qimei Cui

Qinyan Jiang

Penshun Lu

Shiyu Zhang

Yanzhao Hou

Bingshan Hu

Hui Liang

Shiwei Cao

Naoki Kusashima

Sharma Vivek

Kosta Chrysovalantis

A wireless telecommunication system comprising a terminal device, a first network access node and a second network access node, wherein the first and second network access nodes are configured to support a dual connectivity mode of operation for the terminal device in which the first network access node acts as a master network access node and the second network access node acts as a secondary network access node and in which the same data are communicated between the terminal device and the first network access node and between the terminal device and the second network access node.

Telecommunications apparatus and methods

A method of operating a communications device to provide a ranging-based service which uses a proximity between the communications device and at least one other communications device is provided. The method comprises transmitting a discovery signal to the at least one other communications device; receiving a response signal from the at least one other communications device determining an estimate of an angle-of-arrival of the response signal to the communications device and an estimate of a distance between the communications device and the at least one other communications device from the response signal; using the estimate of the angle-of-arrival of the response signal to the communications device and the estimate of the distance between the communications device and the at least one other communications device to initiate the ranging-based service between the communications device and the at least one other communications device.

Communications devices and methods

A method for reaching consensus on published data for a publisher-subscriber network, the publisher-subscriber network including a broker circuitry configured to provide a broker, a publisher device that is registered as a publisher for a data category at the broker, and a plurality of subscriber devices, wherein each of the plurality of subscriber devices is registered as a subscriber for the data category at the broker, wherein the publisher-subscriber network is configured to provide a blockchain, wherein the method includes: performing, by the publisher-subscriber network, a consensus reaching process on the published data for storing the published data in the blockchain.

Method and publisher-subscriber network

A communications device is provided. The communications device comprises transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals to and/or to receive signals from a first cell of a wireless communications network, and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry to determine that the communications device is within a coverage area of a cell of a wireless communications network, to receive a downlink signal from the cell of the wireless communications network, the downlink signal indicating whether or not the communications device can connect to the cell in order to transmit signals to and/or receive signals from the wireless communications network, and to detect, based on the downlink signal, whether the wireless communications network is an on-demand network and/or a temporary network.

Communications devices, infrastructure equipment and methods

A network entity for a mobile telecommunications system, including circuitry configured to perform transmission rate control of data transmissions according to a transmission control protocol, wherein the transmission rate control is performed based on an output of a machine learning algorithm including a prediction of a congestion of the data transmissions.

Network entity and user equipment for transmission rate control

A method of transmitting data by a transmitter to a receiver in a wireless communications network. The method comprises receiving data for transmission to the receiver via a communications channel, dividing the data into portions for transmission, receiving, for each of the portions of data, an indication of channel information from the receiver for use by the transmitter in determining values for one or more communications parameters with which the portion of data should be transmitted, determining the values for the one or more communications parameters based on the received channel information, dynamically generating, for each of the portions of data, a waveform representative of the portion of data, and transmitting each of the portions of data, using the generated waveform representations and in accordance with the values of the one or more communications parameters, to the receiver.

The present technique provides a first terminal device for exchanging signals with a wireless telecommunications network and a plurality of second terminal devices, the first terminal device configured to exchange signals with each of the plurality of second terminal devices, when the first terminal device provides a local cell for providing wireless connectivity for the plurality of second terminal devices, and to exchange signals with one or more infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, and receive, from each of the plurality of second terminal devices served by the first terminal device when providing the local cell, suitability information indicative of the suitability of each of one or more other terminal devices or infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network to exchange signals with that second terminal device to provide for that second terminal devices another local cell.

Wireless telecommunications system, terminal device, infrastructure equipment, integrated circuitry and methods

A method for transmitting data by a communications device in a cell of a wireless communications network, the method comprising receiving an indication of a plurality of configured grants, each of the configured grants allocating a sequence of communications resources for the transmission of the data in the cell by the communications device, receiving an indication of a mapping between each of a plurality of logical channels and one or more of the plurality of configured grants, and transmitting a first portion of the data associated with a first logical channel of the plurality of logical channels using communications resources allocated by one of the plurality of configured grants, in accordance with the mapping.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods

A communications device acting as a relay device receives a request for system information from another communications device via a sidelink interface between the communications device and the other communications device. The communications device acts as a relay device for the other communications device as a remote device, via which relay device the remote device can transmit data to or receive data from a radio network infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network. The infrastructure equipment may be a first infrastructure equipment which forms a first cell of the wireless communications network via which the relay device can transmit the data to or receive the data from the wireless communications network.

A mobile telecommunications system method for transmitting on demand system information to a user equipment includes requesting system information, based on a specific radio resource control connection state, and to transmit system information to the user equipment, based on the system information request.

Mobile telecommunications system method, user equipment and base station for transmitting on demand system information

A method of operating a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: measuring received signals transmitted in a first cell at a first location to generate a measurement result, wherein the communications device is not permitted to access the first cell, and transmitting in a second cell a minimization of drive tests (MDT) report based on the measurement result, the report comprising an indication of the first location.

Communications device, infrastructure equipment, core network element and methods for minimization of drive tests, MDT, report

A method of requesting a handover of a communications device in a source cell by a source infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network, the wireless communications network comprising the source infrastructure equipment and a non public network (NPN) portion comprising a target infrastructure equipment providing a wireless access interface in a target cell, the method comprising: transmitting by the source infrastructure equipment to the target infrastructure equipment, via an interface connecting the source infrastructure equipment and the target infrastructure equipment, a handover request message requesting the handover of the communications device, the handover request comprising an indication of one or more identities associated with non-public cells which the communications device is permitted to access.

Method of requesting a handover of a communications device

A method for transmitting data by a communications device, the method comprising determining that a plurality of communications resources overlap, the communications resources being configured for the transmission of data by the communications device, in response to determining that the plurality of communications resources overlap, selecting communications resources comprising at least a portion of one or more of the plurality of communications resources, selecting data to be transmitted using the selected communications resources, and transmitting the selected data using the selected communications resources.

A method of communicating data by a terminal device in a wireless telecommunication system comprising a first radio access node and a second radio access node, the method comprising establishing an RRC connection with the first radio access node, entering a dual connectivity mode of operation for the terminal device in which the first radio access node acts as a master radio access node and the second radio access node acts as a secondary radio access node, communicating the same first data between the terminal device and the first radio access node and between the terminal device and the second radio access node, determining that radio link failure criteria are satisfied in respect of at least the first radio access node, and communicating second data between the terminal device and the second radio access node.

Terminal device, infrastructure equipment and methods

A method of operating a communications device comprises detecting a plurality of beams of radio signals each being transmitted periodically according to a time divided structure of a wireless access interface provided by a wireless communications network, selecting a first of the plurality of beams of radio signals for detecting a first version of a synchronisation signal transmitted with the first beam of radio signals, selecting a second of the plurality of beams of radio signals for detecting a second version of the synchronisation signal transmitted with the second beam of radio signals, and synchronising with the time divided structure of the wireless access interface from at least one of the first version of the synchronisation signal and the second version of the synchronisation signal.

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