Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Zhang Zhang

Qingyu Miao

Rui Fan

Marco Belleschi

Jinhua Liu

Qianxi Lu

Johan Rune

Claes Tidestav

Andres Reial

Shehzad Ali Ashraf

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Dennis Hui

Jianfeng Wang

Zhan Zhang

Icaro L J Da Silva

Niklas Johansson

Robert Baldemair

Bengt Lindoff

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Pål Frenger

Stefan Wager

Gen Li

Stefan Parkvall

Gunnar Mildh

Erik Bengt Dahlman

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Erik A Eriksson

Henrik Sahlin

Martin Hessler

Magnus Stattin

Sven Oscar Petersson

Joakim Axmon

Karl Norrman

Johan Torsner

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Gabor Fodor

Fredrik Athley

Janne Peisa

Joachim Sachs

Kumar Balachandran

Ali S Khayrallah

Thorsten Lohmar

Bo Hagerman

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Niclas Wiberg

Lars Lindbom

Johan Furuskog

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Torgny Palenius

Hai Feng Wang

Lars Sundström

Peter Alriksson

Andreas Bergström

Jose Luis Pradas

Pontus Wallentin

Patrik Rugeland

Henrik Asplund

Martin Johansson

Karl Werner

Mikael Coldrey

Patrik Torgny Karlsson

Johan Axnäs

Jonas Kronander

Mårten Ericson

Fredrik Lindqvist

Reza Moosavi

Dennis Sundman

Ning He

Walter Müller

Anders Furuskär

Bo Lincoln

Ricardo Blasco Serrano

Muhammad Ali Kazmi

Mattias Frenne

Stefano Sorrentino

Robert Mark Harrison

Shiwei Gao

Torbjörn Wigren

Siva Dharshan Muruganathan

Fan Wang

Erik G Larsson

Zhe Liu

Zhenfei Tang

Xinghua Song

Shaohua Li

Jan Christoffersson

Johan Nilsson

Jingya Li

Peter Larsson

Zhenshan Zhao

Anders Wallén

Stephen J Grant

Min Wang

Bo Göransson

Andreas Höglund

Hao Tang

Yang Zhou

Per Skillermark

Henrik Enbuske

Chi Zhang

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for exchanging Sidelink (SL) User Equipment (UE) context and configurations between a Master Node (MN) and a Secondary node (SN), e.g., in normal Multi-Radio Dual Connectivity (MR-DC) operations. In some embodiments, the SL UE context and configuration are exchanged between the MN and the SN via inter-node Radio Resource Control (RRC) messages. In this way, the two network nodes (the MN and the SN) are aware of the SL transmission going on under their coverage and can take the necessary actions to guarantee a stable and reliable SL connectivity.

Sidelink transmission continuity

A method includes: obtaining a first sequence, where the first sequence includes T first subsequences; determining T encoding vectors based on the T first subsequences; generating T second subsequences based on one or more codebooks and the T encoding vectors, where each first subsequence corresponds to one column vector group in the one or more codebooks, and a column vector group corresponding to at least one of the T first subsequences includes at least two column vectors; and sending the T second subsequences.

Data transmission method and apparatus

Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a UE () for handling communication in a wireless communication network. The UE () handles one or more data units based on a communication range requirement of one or more services, wherein the one or more data units are associated with the one or more services, by using a mapping of an indication of a communication range requirement and a radio resource for communication.

Method performed by a user equipment for handling communication in a wireless communication network

A method of establishing connections between wireless devices in a multi-hop sidelink communication network. The method comprises, at a wireless device: receiving a communication request message from a source wireless device; relaying the communication request message over a sidelink; receiving, from a target wireless device that received the relayed communication request message, a communication acceptance response message over a sidelink to establish a communication link between the wireless device and target wireless device; and relaying the communication acceptance response message received from the target wireless device to the source wireless device to establish a multi-hop communication link between the source wireless device and the target wireless device.

Connection management in multi-hop networks

Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatus for communicating between devices using sidelinks. There is provided a method performed by a transmitting device for transmitting a packet to a destination device. The method comprises duplicating the packet and adding header information to form duplicated modified packets, each having a respective duplication identifier. Multiple wireless pathways to the destination device are determined, each wireless pathway comprising a sidelink. The duplicated modified packets are transmitted onto respective wireless pathways.

Packet duplication over multiple sidelinks

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.

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

The present application generally relates to wireless communication technology. More particularly, it relates to a method and apparatus for controlling sidelink (SL) Quality of Service (QoS). According to one or more embodiments, a method for controlling sidelink (SL) Quality of Service (QoS) comprising the following steps carried out at a User Equipment (UE): a) generating QoS requirement from characteristics for one or more packets to be transmitted via a sidelink; b) determining bearer configuration corresponding to the QoS requirement; and c) performing SL transmission on the basis of the bearer configuration.

Method and apparatus for controlling sidelink QoS

Example wireless communication methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a relay device receives a first signal sent by a first device, where the first signal carries a plurality of bits. The relay device decodes the first signal to determine first information corresponding to each of a plurality of first bits. The first information corresponding to each first bit is determined based on a probability that the first bit is 1 and a probability that the first bit is 0. The relay device sends the first information in a second signal to a second device, so that the second device can use the first information to decode the first signal.

Wireless communication method and apparatus

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for platoon-based communications. The method which may be performed by a first network node comprises determining, at a radio layer, a group header of a device group which comprises at least a terminal device. The group header comprises at least one of: an application layer group header being responsible for management of the device group at an application layer, and a radio layer group header being responsible for management of the device group at the radio layer. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a radio layer group header may be appointed for a device group so that communication management on the device group can be performed at the radio level.

Method and apparatus for platoon-based communications

Embodiments include methods performed by a wireless device configured to communicate via an uplink (UL) to a network and via a sidelink (SL) to one or more other wireless devices. Such methods include, based on availability of data to be sent via the SL, triggering a SL Scheduling Request (SR) to obtain a first UL grant to facilitate transmission of a Sidelink (SL) Buffer Status Report (BSR) indicating the data available to be sent via the SL. Such methods include, prior to transmitting the SL SR to obtain the first UL grant, transmitting an UL SR to obtain a second UL grant to facilitate transmission of an UL BSR indicating data available to be sent via the UL. Such methods include selectively transmitting the SL BSR using the second UL grant and cancelling the SL SR transmission in response to transmitting the SL BSR using the second UL grant.

Methods for SL SR/BSR handling

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for handling report of channel state information for sidelink. A method performed by a base station comprises receiving, from a first terminal device, at least one report indicating channel state information of at least one sidelink connection associated with the first terminal device.

Method and apparatus for handling sidelink reports

The present disclosure provides a method for a communication system with group service. The method includes: creating an access stratum group including at least one terminal device. The at least one terminal device is included in a same application group for supporting an application relating to the at least one terminal device. It is an advantage that the terminal devices engaged in the same application group could be handled more consistently in an access stratum layer in the communication system. The group service quality may be further improved.

Method for communication system with group service

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for communication technology selection. A method implemented at a first terminal device may comprise obtaining information about one or more candidate communication technologies for at least one service. The method may further comprise determining availability of the one or more candidate communication technologies of the first terminal device. The method may further comprise selecting at least one communication technology from the one or more candidate communication technologies for communication between the first terminal device and at least one second terminal device based on the availability of the one or more candidate communication technologies.

Method and apparatus for communication technology selection

Embodiments of this application provide a communications method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to reduce power consumption of a terminal. The method includes: receiving information about one or more cell groups, where one cell group includes one first cell and at least one second cell; and for the cell group, determining carrier bandwidth part BWP switching or a deactivated state of the at least one second cell in the cell group based on BWP switching or a deactivated state of the first cell in the cell group. The method provided in the embodiments of this application may be applied to a carrier aggregation scenario.

Communications method and apparatus

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.

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