Methods, apparatus and machine-readable mediums related to wireless communication in communication networks

Abstract

Methods, apparatus and non-transitory machine-readable mediums are provided for wireless communication in communication networks comprising a wireless device, a radio access network node and a wireless light communication network node. In one embodiment, a method is performed by a node () of a wireless communication network (), the wireless communication network comprising a wireless device (), a radio access network node () and one or more wireless light communication (LC) network nodes (). At least one of the wireless device and the radio access network node comprise a plurality of antenna elements configurable to provide a transmit or receive beam () for communication with the other of the wireless device and the radio access network node. The method comprises obtaining () an indication of a wireless LC network node with which the wireless device has established a wireless LC connection; obtaining () one or more signal metrics for one or more transmit or receive beams which are directed towards a coverage area of the indicated wireless LC network node, or which are directed to receive transmissions from the coverage area of the indicated wireless LC network node; and determining whether or not a transmit or receive beam of the one or more transmit or receive beams corresponds to a line-of-sight (LoS) between the radio access network node and the wireless device based on a comparison () between the signal metric for the transmit or receive beam and a first threshold.