The disclosure inter alia relates to a first terminal device configured for sidelink communication in a first sidelink resource pool, the first terminal device comprising means for—receiving resource pool information related to a second sidelink resource pool configured for a second terminal device; —transmitting, via sidelink communication, a request to the second terminal device to reserve resources in the second sidelink resource pool for transmission, by the first terminal device, of a sidelink positioning reference signal:—receiving, via sidelink communication, a response to the request from the second terminal device; and—based on the response, transmitting a sidelink positioning reference signal using resources in the first sidelink resource pool and resources in the second sidelink resource pool.
An apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: determine a channel bandwidth; and based upon the determined channel bandwidth, determine a maximum power reduction for the channel bandwidth using a value of the channel bandwidth as a value in an equation.
H04W 52/36 - Transmission power control [TPC] using constraints in the total amount of available transmission power with a discrete range or set of values, e.g. step size, ramping or offsets
H04W 52/42 - TPC being performed in particular situations in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity
H04W 72/0457 - Variable allocation of band or rate
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COMPENSATING FOR DYNAMIC ANTENNA ARRAY PHASE DEVIATION
A method comprising receiving a positioning reference signal request, determining positioning requirements associated with the received positioning reference signal request, determining capabilities of a terminal device, determining an antenna array radiation pattern beam width for a position reference signal based, at least partly on the determined positioning requirements and the determined capabilities of the terminal device, obtaining a value for a compensation parameter based on the determined antenna array radiation pattern beam width, performing beam steering towards a target access node, and performing a timing compensation using the compensation parameter with the obtained value.
G01S 5/02 - Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position-line determinationsPosition-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations using radio waves
H01Q 3/36 - Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system varying the relative phase or relative amplitude of energisation between two or more active radiating elementsArrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system varying the distribution of energy across a radiating aperture varying the phase by electrical means with variable phase-shifters
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REPORTING OF RELAXATION STATUS OF SIGNAL MEASUREMENT
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to reporting of relaxation status of signal measurement. A first device performs a first evaluation to determine whether a relaxation criterion of signal measurement is met and performs a second evaluation to determine whether a transition between DRX and non-DRX occurs. Then the first device determines, based on at least one of the first evaluation or the second evaluation, whether a report regarding a change of a relaxation status of the signal measurement is initiated to be transmitted to a second device. In this way, a report for a relaxation status of signal measurement may be sent properly and unnecessary signaling overhead and additional power consumption may be avoided.
Techniques of reporting UL DC location involve excluding UL DC locations when they are outside the area network is interested in (e.g., outside a configured frequency range or outside frequency range of current serving cells). That is, the network may indicate to UE in a request to only provide UL DC locations if they are 1) inside a specific frequency range or 2) outside a specific frequency range. The request may identify a criterion by which the UL DC locations are to be excluded from reporting.
There is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus, that is capable to perform sidelink, SL, transmissions according to a second radio access technology, RAT, over resources shared with SL transmissions according to a first RAT, at least to determine whether to perform SL sensing according to the first RAT over at least said shared resources prior to resource selection from said shared resources for SL transmissions according to the second RAT, the SL sensing according to the first RAT comprising decoding SL control information, SCI according to the first RAT.
H04W 4/44 - Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P] for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
H04W 72/044 - Wireless resource allocation based on the type of the allocated resource
H04W 72/25 - Control channels or signalling for resource management between terminals via a wireless link, e.g. sidelink
H04W 92/18 - Interfaces between hierarchically similar devices between terminal devices
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TRUSTLESS SUBSCRIBER REIDENTIFICATION AND SIM FRAUD PREVENTION USING BIOMETRICS AND BLOCKCHAINS
According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for performing the following. The apparatus receives a smart contract template from a network node of a mobile network operator connected to a blockchain. A subscriber identity module of the apparatus has a subscription to a service of the mobile network operator. The apparatus creates, based on one or more biometric user inputs, a secure sketch. The apparatus generates a random seed and, based on the secure sketch and one or more further biometric user inputs, a first cryptographic key. The apparatus encrypts the random seed using the first cryptographic key to form ciphertext. The apparatus creates a transfer condition for a transfer of the subscription when an input matches the ciphertext. The apparatus appends the secure sketch, random seed, ciphertext and transfer condition to the smart contract template. The apparatus transmits the smart contract template to the network node.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for UE power saving. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a terminal device determines whether to monitor physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from at least one serving cell based on a characteristic of the at least one serving cell associated with an uplink of the at least one serving cell if a scheduling request is triggered or a scheduling request is transmitted. In this way, there is no need to monitor PDCCH from all serving cells and thus the UE power saving can be achieved.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to determining sub-network frequency bands. In an aspect, a terminal device determines a first list of common frequency bands and a second list of candidate frequency bands to be used for creating a sub-network. The terminal device transmits, to a network node, first information indicating the first list of common frequency bands, the second list of candidate frequency bands, and the priorities. The terminal device determines second information for communication with the network node based on receiving, from the network node, a request for the second information on supported intra-band carrier aggregation capabilities of the terminal device. The terminal device transmits the second information to the network node. As such, a grant and/or an assignment of a sub-network can be made by a network node based on additional capability information of a terminal device and sub-network devices.
H04W 72/0453 - Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
H04W 52/36 - Transmission power control [TPC] using constraints in the total amount of available transmission power with a discrete range or set of values, e.g. step size, ramping or offsets
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MANAGING UE CONFIGURATION IN A SERVING PLMN IN THE PRESENCE OF A DEFAULT CONFIGURATION FOR THE UE FOR ALL PLMNS
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for managing user equipment configuration. In some example embodiment, there may be provided an apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least: detect a network for registration; and send, to the network, an indication that the apparatus is using a default configuration for at least one service available at the network, when the apparatus is configured with the default configuration but does not include a network specific configuration for the network. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide solutions for adaptive adjustment of a small gap configuration. In an example method, a terminal device determines, from a plurality of small gap configurations, a small gap configuration corresponding to a measurement object (MO), and transmits, to a network device, a request for activation of the small gap configuration. The network device receive the request for activation of a small gap configuration corresponding to the MO, and evaluates feasibility of activation of the requested small gap configuration. In this way, UE may indicate an optimal small gap configuration to the network for measuring with small gaps for UE power saving and improving measurement throughput.
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided. In the context of a method, the method determines that at least partial skipping of at least one measurement occasion of a measurement period is enabled. The method, in an instance in which at least partial skipping of at least one measurement occasion of the measurement period is enabled, determines a scaling factor associated with the measurement period. The method scales the measurement period such that the measurement period is extended based on the scaling factor. The method obtains one or more radio resource management measurements during one or more measurement occasions within the measurement period, as extended.
Various example embodiments relate to encoding or decoding of data A method may comprise: obtaining a message for encoding, the message belonging to a message space; encoding the message based on a Hamming code to obtain a codeword belonging to a codeword space, wherein the Hamming code is configured to map adjacent messages of the message space to adjacent codewords of the codeword space; and transmitting a signal comprising the codeword.
H03M 13/19 - Single error correction without using particular properties of the cyclic codes, e.g. Hamming codes, extended or generalised Hamming codes
H03M 13/00 - Coding, decoding or code conversion, for error detection or error correctionCoding theory basic assumptionsCoding boundsError probability evaluation methodsChannel modelsSimulation or testing of codes
H04L 9/00 - Arrangements for secret or secure communicationsNetwork security protocols
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DYNAMIC INTERNET OF THINGS DEVICE PROVISIONING USING AN OUT OF BAND MECHANISM
Dynamic internet of things device provisioning using an out of band mechanism is provided. A method for dynamic internet of things device provisioning using the out of band mechanism may include receiving an out-of-band request message from a connected device and transmitting the out-of-band request message as a secured packet to a network entity. The method may also include transmitting a received response message from the network entity to the connected device. The response message may trigger the connected device to complete a completion exchange procedure.
Described are test cases for idle/inactive mode measurement reporting for user equipment (UE) considering the UE validity check for the reported measurements. To meet the validity conditions, signal level thresholds during different measurement periods can be established. This way the test equipment can verify if the UE (also called the device under testing during measurement validity testing) reports accurate idle/inactive mode CA/DC measurements that are performed within the last X seconds before msg1 of RRC connection setup, defined during the test setup as a certain measurement period.
Examples are presented for PDU Set QoS based MA handling for data traffic. Rules are enabled to use PSLR, PSD thresholds to split and steer PDUs for PDU Sets for MA data traffic across multiple accesses for n3GPP and 3GPP accesses. These rules allow a UE and UPF to (re)distribute UL and DL flows (e.g., UL and DL data traffic) over these accesses. Alternatively, rules are used to indicate that, if PDU set handling is not supported by both accesses, then normal PDU handling and rules are to be used. If PDU set handling is supported by both accesses, then PDU Set handling and rules are to be used. The UE and UPF use such handling and rules to (re)distribute UL and DL flows over these accesses.
There are provided measures for secure avatar registration and management. Such measures exemplarily comprise receiving, from a first network entity, an avatar registration request for registering an avatar for a user, wherein said avatar registration request includes information on said avatar, associating a user identification feature with an avatar identifier of said avatar, storing said user identification feature, said avatar identifier, and said information on said avatar, and transmitting, towards said first network entity, an avatar registration response including information indicative of said avatar identifier.
There is provided an apparatus comprising: means for initiating a registration with a serving network in order to establish a session between the apparatus and the serving network, means for receiving, from a network entity, a first public key of first key material that is associated with a home network, wherein the first public key is associated with a post-quantum cryptography key encapsulation mechanism, means for performing an encapsulation for the first public key to derive: a shared secret key, SS, and ciphertext associated with the encapsulation, means for deriving a hybrid shared key, Ks, based on the shared secret key, SS, and a further shared secret key, means for providing, to the network entity, the ciphertext associated with the encapsulation, and means for deriving a master key for the session based on the hybrid shared key, Ks.
A method comprising: at a first apparatus, select a first beam from a codebook obtained by oversampling a set of beams in two dimensions with an oversampling factor for each dimension; select at least one second beam from a set of orthogonal beams of the first beam, at least one orthogonal beam of the set of orthogonal beams has an index in a dimension with an offset to an index of the first beam which is not zero or multiple of the oversampling factor for the dimension; and transmit, to the second apparatus, channel state information indicating the first beam and the at least one second beam.
H04B 7/0456 - Selection of precoding matrices or codebooks, e.g. using matrices for antenna weighting
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
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METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR AUTHENTICATION OF A SERVICE REQUEST
An apparatus comprising: means for receiving a service request comprising a first token signed by a Network Function service consumer, wherein the apparatus and the Network Function service consumer are in a first network; means for validating the first token using a public key of the Network Function service consumer; means for generating a second token based on content in the validated first token; means for signing the second token using a private key of the apparatus and providing a public key of the apparatus in the signed second token; means for sending a second service request comprising the signed second token to a network entity in a second network, the second network comprising a Network Function provider for the service request.
Example embodiments of the disclosure relate to methods, apparatuses, and a computer readable storage medium for dynamic transmission configuration indicator (TCI) activation In a method, a first apparatus receives a first indication and a second indication. The first indication indicates a first switch from a first TCI state to a first target TCI state is to be performed, and the second indication indicates a second switch from a second source TCI state to a second target TCI state is to be performed. The first source TCI state has been activated for a first network device, and the second source TCI state has been activated for a second network device. Reference signals associated with the first target TCI state and the second target TCI state are adjacent. The first apparatus determines an order for performing the first switch and the second switch.
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
An apparatus comprising: means for controlling an application to send application data over an encrypted channel to a user equipment; means for sending Application Metadata that can be understood by an intermediate proxy, wherein the Application Metadata can be used to manage the application data sent over the encrypted channel; means for generating a message comprising at least one of an Application Access Rule and Application Metadata semantics information for reading the Application Metadata; means for sending the message to a core network entity.
Inter-alia, an apparatus is disclosed, the apparatus comprising: means for receiving a channel state information, CSI, reporting configuration indicating a first set of downlink reference signals, DL-RSs, to monitor for CSI reporting, the first set of DL-RSs being configured as source RSs of a first set of transmission configuration indicator, TCI, states; means for monitoring the first set of DL-RSs; means for receiving a UE-initiated reporting configuration indicating a second set of DL-RSs to monitor for UE-initiated reporting, the second set of DL-RSs being configured as source RSs of a second set of TCI states, and having at least one element not belonging to the first set of DL-RSs; means for monitoring the second set of DL-RSs in addition to the first set of DL-RSs; and means for autonomously reporting information related to one or more preferred DL-RSs selected from the second set of monitored DL-RSs Further apparatuses as well as corresponding methods, computer programs and computer-readable storage media are disclosed.
H04L 5/00 - Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
Various example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to device test in reporting a measurement report. A method comprises: at a first apparatus, transmitting a reference signal to a second apparatus under a plurality of reference measurement conditions; receiving, from the second apparatus, a first number of measurement reports related to the reference signal; performing classification of the first number of measurement reports into a second number of categories; for each of the first number of measurement reports, determining whether a reference measurement condition corresponding to the measurement report matches an estimated measurement condition corresponding to a category into which the measurement report is classified; and determining, based on the determination of the matching, a test result for the second apparatus.
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided. In the context of a method, the method determines that at least partial skipping of at least one measurement occasion of a measurement period is enabled. The method, in an instance in which at least partial skipping of at least one measurement occasion of the measurement period is enabled, determines a scaling factor associated with the measurement period. The method scales the measurement period such that the measurement period is extended based on the scaling factor. The method obtains one or more radio resource management measurements during one or more measurement occasions within the measurement period, as extended.
An apparatus includes means for determining at least two sets of active transmission configuration indicator, TCI, states; means for receiving, from a network entity, an indication of an active TCI state to use, wherein the active TCI state belongs to one of the at least two sets of active TCI states; means for determining a beam based on the received indication of the active TCI state; and means for applying the determined beam for receiving a downlink channel, or applying the determined beam for transmitting an uplink channel.
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
H04B 7/08 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the receiving station
H04L 5/00 - Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path
H04W 72/044 - Wireless resource allocation based on the type of the allocated resource
H04W 72/23 - Control channels or signalling for resource management in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS INVESTMENT (CHINA) CO., LTD. (China)
Inventor
Zhang, Heng
Khare, Saurabh
Wang, Xin
Zhao, Wei
Wang, Xin Xin
Abstract
A method comprising: receiving, from an application function, an application key request comprising an authentication and key management for application (AKMA) key identifier and device information indicating a terminal device; determining a first device identifier of the terminal device based on the device information; validating the terminal device based on the first device identifier and the AKMA key identifier; and transmitting, to the application function, an application key response based on a result of the validation of the terminal device.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of NRF policy control for different PLMNs. The method comprises in accordance with a determination that a request for a service associated a second device is received from a third device, determining a target network function profile associated with the second device dedicated for the third device at least based on the profile configuration template, reference network function profile and a target network associated with the third device; and transmitting, to the third device, the target network function profile associated with the second device dedicated for the third device. With the solution of the present disclosure, a flexible NRF control policy can be achieved.
Techniques for configuring an RRC connection including two RRC entities are provided. For example, a method of controlling a user device in a communications network is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving a message from a network node and configuring, at the user device, an RRC connection to the network node including selecting and/or determining either an RRC entity at a central unit control plane of the network node or an RRC entity at a local control plane of the network node for communication with or from the network node.
H04W 12/04 - Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]
H04W 72/231 - Control channels or signalling for resource management in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal the control data signalling from the layers above the physical layer, e.g. RRC or MAC-CE signalling
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MESSAGE TRANSMISSION BASED ON BANDWIDTH SUPPORTED BY USER DEVICE
Disclosed is a method comprising receiving information indicating a bandwidth supported by a user device; and transmitting, to the user device, a message based on the bandwidth supported by the user device.
An apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine information related to a usability of at least one image with an artificial intelligence model; and signal the information related to the usability of the at least one image with an artificial intelligence model.
H04N 19/70 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals characterised by syntax aspects related to video coding, e.g. related to compression standards
H04N 19/42 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals characterised by implementation details or hardware specially adapted for video compression or decompression, e.g. dedicated software implementation
An apparatus comprising
means for providing upper medium access control (MAC) access point (AP) functionality means for coupling the upper medium access control (MAC) access point (AP) functionality to a first lower MAC AP functionality provided at a first apparatus via first radio link;
means for coupling the upper medium access control (MAC) access point (AP) functionality to a second lower MAC AP functionality provided at a second apparatus, locatable at a different location than the first apparatus, via a second radio link;
a point to multipoint radio transceiver means configured to provide contemporaneous multipoint links comprising the first radio link and the second radio link at least some radio frequencies between 52.6 GHz and 1 THz.
An optical apparatus includes a light guide, which includes at least a first diffractive in-coupler, a first diffractive expander and a second diffractive expander, a second diffractive in-coupler, and one or more diffractive out-couplers. The first diffractive in-coupler is configured to in-couple input beams of light into the light guide. The first and second diffractive expanders are configured to expand the input beams of light wherein the first diffractive expander is provided on a first side of the first diffractive in-coupler and the second diffractive expander is provided on a second side of the first diffractive in-coupler. The second diffractive in-coupler is configured to in-couple input beams of light into the light guide. The diffractive out-couplers are configured to out-couple light from the first and second diffractive expanders and the second diffractive in-coupler.
An apparatus, comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions, the at least one memory and the instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause an illuminator for illuminating at least one tag with a radio frequency signal to transmit an illuminator signal to the at least one tag based on a dedicated random access channel preamble associated with the illuminator.
The disclosure relates to a method comprising: receiving a request to authenticate a user; determining a pulse time based on a timestamp associated with a feature within a first photoplethysmography waveform sensed by a first wearable device on a first region of the user and a timestamp associated with the feature within a second photoplethysmography waveform sensed by a second wearable device on a second region of the user; and authenticating the user based on the pulse time.
An apparatus comprising means for:
determining whether a user of a headset is looking towards a reserved region; and causing adaptation of an external visual indication produced by the headset in dependence upon the determination.
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose devices, methods and apparatuses for coordination of sensing and communication in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. In the embodiments, a device obtains information indicating an interference-related requirement for sensing signals. Based on determining that a quality of receiving sensing signal does not meet the interference-related requirement, the device transmits, to a terminal device configured to transmit and/or receive communication signals, a request to adjust transmission of a communication signal. In this way, the performance of the ISAC system can be improved.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution to support inactive state user equipments (UEs) in communication networks. In an example method, a first network element updates, based on a new security key derived, the security context included in UE context of at least one UE in an inactive state in a cell, and transmits, to a second network element which is to serve the cell after satellite switch, the UE context including the updated security context with the new security key, before the satellite switch. The second network element receives and stores the UE context including the updated security context with the new security key, before satellite switch. In this way, the proactive transfer of the UE context including the updated security context with new security key for UEs in the inactive state is enabled, for facilitating the connection resume.
An apparatus is configured to transmit orthogonal cover code (OCC) encoded data, wherein the OCC encoded data includes a plurality of segments, each of the plurality of segments includes a plurality of OCC units, and each of the plurality of OCC units includes a plurality of resource elements. The apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: drop at least a portion of a plurality of resource elements of at least a first OCC unit, from among the plurality of OCC units, wherein at least the portion of the plurality of resource elements overlaps with a transmission gap between segments, from among the plurality of segments; and transmit remaining resource elements of the plurality of OCC units.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a solution for security of data routing. In the solution, a terminal device, transmits a request for a random identifier for a session associated with the terminal device, to at least one of a central application server or a core network; receives a response for the request, from the at least one of the central application server or the core network; and sends, to an edge application server, first data belonging to the session.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to inter-transmit-receive point (TRP) calibration. In an aspect, a terminal device determines, from a plurality of RS resource sets, one or more of a first reference RS resource set and a second reference RS resource set. Moreover, the terminal device transmits, to at least one network device of a plurality of network devices associated with the plurality of RS resource sets, one or more of: time misalignment information for a first RS resource set of the plurality of RS resource sets relative to the first reference RS resource set; or frequency offset information for a second RS resource set of the plurality of RS resource sets relative to the second reference RS resource set.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a model framework, especially a model adaptation framework for channel state information (CSI) feedback enhancement. In an example method, an apparatus trains a main module and a plurality of sub-modules parallel connectable to the main module for channel state information (CSI) feedback, wherein the plurality of sub-modules are associated with a plurality of sites of different wireless environments. Then, the apparatus performs, based on the main module parallel connected with a selected sub-module among the plurality of sub-modules, inference for CSI feedback. In this way, a model adaptation framework for CSI feedback enhancement can be obtained. With the model adaptation framework, better performance and parameter efficiency can be obtained. Besides, no additional inference latency is introduced.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a model framework, especially a model adaptation framework for channel state information (CSI) feedback enhancement. In an example method, a terminal device receives, from a network device, an index of a first sub-module among first one or more sub-modules at the network device. Here, the first sub-module is to be parallel connected to a main decoder at the network device. Then, the terminal device connects, based on the index, a second sub-module among second one or more sub-modules at the terminal device parallel to a main encoder at the terminal device. Here, the second sub-module is associated with the first sub-module. In this way, better performance and parameter efficiency can be obtained. Besides, no additional inference latency is introduced.
Dynamic internet of things device provisioning using an out of band mechanism is provided. A method for dynamic internet of things device provisioning using the out of band mechanism may include receiving an out- of-band request message from a connected device and transmitting the out-of- band request message as a secured packet to a network entity. The method may also include transmitting a received response message from the network entity to the connected device. The response message may trigger the connected device to complete a completion exchange procedure.
There is herein disclosed an apparatus, comprising means for receiving, by a user equipment, a radio resource control (RRC) configuration message associated with a Layer 1 / Layer 2 (L1/L2) triggered mobility (LTM) procedure. The apparatus further comprises means for determining that the user equipment is able to process at least an LTM related part of the RRC configuration message prior to applying the configuration associated with the received cell switch command for performing a cell switch. The apparatus further comprises means for determining that a trigger for the user equipment to perform the processing of the LTM related part of the RRC configuration message has been activated and means for performing, upon the determination that the trigger for the user equipment to commence processing has been activated, the processing of the LTM related part of the received RRC configuration message within a predefined time.
A method performed at a source network node distributed unit (S-DU) is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a terminal device, information related to its position; transmitting, to a network node central unit (CU), said information; receiving, from the network node CU, a configuration including one or more position-related conditions, and information related to one or more candidate target cells; receiving, from the network node CU, a current position of the terminal device; and evaluating the one or more position-related conditions against a position of the terminal device. Upon evaluating that at least one of the one or more position-related conditions is fulfilled, transmitting, to the terminal device, a message indicating the terminal device to activate L1 measurement and reporting; receiving, from the terminal device, an L1 measurement report including updated position-related information; and determining, based on the L1 measurement report, a target cell and configuring the terminal device to initiate a handover (HO) to the determined target cell.
NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS INVESTMENT (CHINA) CO., LTD. (China)
Inventor
Liu, Shi Wen
Liebhart, Rainer
Bian, Jian Jun
Abstract
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage medium for data channel (DC) for application in Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). In a method, a first apparatus sends, to a second apparatus, a call event notification of a call event associated with a call between a first terminal device and a second terminal device. The first apparatus receives, from the second apparatus, an indication that a data channel (DC) application is required for a call session between the first and second terminal devices.
Described are test cases for idle/inactive mode measurement reporting for user equipment (UE) considering the UE validity check for the reported measurements. To meet the validity conditions, signal level thresholds during different measurement periods can be established. This way the test equipment can verify if the UE (also called the device under testing during measurement validity testing) reports accurate idle/inactive mode CA/DC measurements that are performed within the last X seconds before msg1 of RRC connection setup, defined during the test setup as a certain measurement period.
Described are test cases for idle/inactive mode measurement reporting for user equipment (UE) considering the UE validity check for the reported measurements. To meet the validity conditions, signal level thresholds during different measurement periods can be established. This way the test equipment can verify if the UE (also called the device under testing during measurement validity testing) reports accurate idle/inactive mode CA/DC measurements that are performed within the last X seconds before msg1 of RRC connection setup, defined during the test setup as a certain measurement period.
There are provided measures for secure avatar registration and management. Such measures exemplarily comprise receiving, from a first network entity, an avatar registration request for registering an avatar for a user, wherein said avatar registration request includes information on said avatar, wherein said avatar registration request includes a device identifier of a device requesting said registering said avatar, and wherein said avatar registration request is encrypted utilizing a first key, associating a user identification feature with an avatar identifier of said avatar, storing said user identification feature, said avatar identifier, and said information on said avatar, and transmitting, towards said first network entity, an avatar registration response including information indicative of said avatar identifier.
Method comprising requesting to provide, for each first prediction beam among a set A of prediction beams, respective at least K measurement samples, wherein each of the measurement samples indicates a measurement result of a received reference signal strength on a respective transmit beam from among a set B of plural transmit beams and an index of a best beam among the set A; receiving, for each of the prediction beams, the respective at least K measurement samples; adapting a meta machine learning model using the received measurement samples to obtain a variant of the meta machine learning model, predicting Top-N predicted best beams among the prediction beams for a data communication between a terminal and a base by inputting actual measurement results of the received reference signal strength on the first transmit beams into the variant of the meta machine learning model; performing the data communication between the terminal and the base station using one of the Top-N predicted best beams.
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
H04B 7/08 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the receiving station
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LATENCY REQUIREMENT AND TESTING FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/MACHINE LEARNING BASED BEAM MANAGEMENT
Example embodiments of the present disclosure are related to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage medium for latency requirement and testing for 1cm procedures in AI/ML based beam management. In a method, a first apparatus transmits, to a second apparatus, an indication of an action for switching from a first functionality or model for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-based beam management to a second functionality or model. The first apparatus monitors a report about completion of the action within a time duration associated with a latency requirement for the action. The first apparatus determines a result of a test for the action based on a result of the monitoring.
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
A method comprising: sending, to a user plane function, a request to establish or modify a second packet forwarding control protocol session, said request to establish or modify the second packet forwarding control protocol session comprising second dual steer information, said dual steer information comprising dual steer information providing a link to a first packet forwarding control protocol session for a first packet data unit session, the second packet forwarding control protocol session being for a second packet data unit session, said first and second packet data unit sessions supporting dual steering; and receiving, from the user plane function, the same address for the second packet data unit session as for the first packet data unit session, in response to the request to establish or modify the second packet forwarding control protocol session.
A method is provided that includes sending a machine learning (ML) model retrieval request to a server supporting a source vertical application layer (VAL) domain. The method includes receiving a ML model retrieval response from the server based on the ML model retrieval request, the ML model retrieval response including at least one candidate ML model built using training data from the source VAL domain. And the method includes performing a transfer learning operation in which a source ML model selected from the at least one candidate ML model is tuned using training data from a target VAL domain to build a target ML model.
Implementations are described for PDU Set specific steering rules for MA handling of data traffic. When PDU Set QoS is used in a PCC rule, rules are derived with PDU Set Importance. The PDU set importance is used by a UE in UL and a UPF in downlink to (re)distribute flows using the PDU set importance. Alternatively, rules are derived so that PDU Set PDUs are to be sent on one access and normal PDUs to be sent on a different access. The rules are used by a UE in UL and a UPF in downlink to (re)distribute flows.
H04W 28/02 - Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
H04W 76/15 - Setup of multiple wireless link connections
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MEASUREMENT REPORTING EVENT SELECTED AMONGST A PLURALITY BASED ON CAPABILITY OF A USER EQUIPMENT TERMINAL TO DETERMINE ITS SPEED OR A SPEED OF THE USER EQUIPMENT
The disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising: means for receiving, from a base station, at least one reference signal transmitted on at least one transmission beam; means for measuring the at least one reference signal transmitted on the at least one transmission beam; means for detecting a measurement reporting event, wherein the measurement reporting event is selected amongst a plurality of measurement reporting events based on at least one of a capability of the apparatus to determine a speed of the apparatus or a speed of the apparatus; and means for transmitting, to the base station, a measurement report, in response to the detected measurement reporting event.
Example embodiments of the disclosure relate to methods, apparatuses, and a computer readable storage medium for transmission configuration indicator (TCI) activation In a method, a first apparatus receives a first indication indicating a first switch from a first source TCI state to a first target TCI state is to be performed, and a second indication indicating a second switch from a second source TCI state to a second target TCI state is to be performed. The first apparatus determines an order for performing the first switch and the second switch, the order being associated with at least one of first information about a first transmission between the first network device and the first apparatus or second information about a second transmission between the second network device and the first apparatus.
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
H04B 7/08 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the receiving station
Various example embodiments relate to encoding or decoding of data A method may comprise: obtaining, by an encoder device, a first message for encoding, the first message belonging to a message space; communicating, with a decoder device, information indicative of a first Hamming code being configured for encoding the first message; encoding the first message based on the first Hamming code to obtain a first codeword belonging to a codeword space, wherein the first Hamming code is configured to map adjacent messages of the message space to adjacent codewords of the codeword space; and transmitting a signal comprising the first codeword to the decoder device.
H03M 13/19 - Single error correction without using particular properties of the cyclic codes, e.g. Hamming codes, extended or generalised Hamming codes
H03M 13/35 - Unequal or adaptive error protection, e.g. by providing a different level of protection according to significance of source information or by adapting the coding according to the change of transmission channel characteristics
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to satellite switch with resynchronization. In an aspect, a terminal device receives, from a network device, an indication for determining time for at least one operation associated with switching from a first satellite to a second satellite. The at least one operation comprises at least one of (i) initiating a resynchronization procedure to the network device via the second satellite or (ii) performing an uplink transmission via the second satellite. The terminal device performs the at least one operation based on the received indication. The embodiments of the present disclosure can avoid scheduling request (SR) bursts at the t-Service and NW overloading due to scheduling a large number of PUSCH transmissions. Therefore, UEs may suffer less risk of long interruptions, and the NW may schedule first UL transmissions of UEs through the target satellite in a distributed manner.
An apparatus comprising: means for determining one or more uplink direct current (DC) carriers needed for a radio band combination (BC); means for determining locations of each DC carrier of the radio band combination, wherein said means comprise means for determining a location of at least one DC carrier of the radio band combination according to locations of bandwidth part (BWP) carriers; means for including an indicator about the location of the at least one DC carrier in an extended DC location reporting in a UE capability indication; and means for signalling indicators about the determined location of each DC carrier in a UE capability indication.
A method implemented at a network function service producer (NFp) is provided. The method includes receiving a service request from a network function service consumer (NFc) for access to a service provided by the NFp. The request includes an access token that asserts one or more claims and represents an access authorization issued to the NFc. The method includes performing a validation of the access token in which a determination is made that at least one claim is missing from the one or more claims asserted by the access token. And based on the validation, the method includes sending an error response to the NFc that indicates the service request is rejected, and that indicates the at least one missing claim. A corresponding method implemented at the NFC is also provided.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to enhanced pathloss reference signal (PL-RS) measurement. In an aspect, a terminal device receives, from a network device via a first cell, an activation command for activating at least one second cell. The terminal device receives, from the network device via the at least one second cell, at least one synchronized signal block (SSB) associated with the activation of the at least one second cell. The terminal device performs time and frequency synchronization based on the at least one SSB, and determines a first PL-RS based on the at least one SSB during the time and frequency synchronization. By implementing the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first PL-RS could be determined in parallel with/during the time and frequency synchronization process and the terminal device is able to perform the PL-RS measurement before receiving the TCI activation command, thereby reducing SCell activation delay.
H04B 17/309 - Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to cross-link interference (CLI) reporting. In an aspect, a terminal device receives, from a network device, a CLI measurement configuration indicating that a threshold for CLI reporting is adjustable. The terminal device further adjusts the threshold based on downlink (DL) channel quality, and transmits, to the network device, a CLI report based on a CLI measurement and the adjusted threshold. In this way, the CLI reporting can be triggered based on the adaptive threshold efficiently, thus transmissions of the unnecessary CLI reporting can be reduced.
Various example embodiments relate to microphone signal attenuation. An example method may comprise receiving one or more microphone signals from respective microphones for capturing first and second audio signals output by respective first and second loudspeakers and correlating a first combination of the first and second audio signals with the one or more microphone signals. The method may also comprise determining a time delay at which the first combination of the first and second audio signals is most similar to the one or more microphone signals. The method may also comprise aligning, or causing alignment of, the first and second audio signals to the one or more microphone signals based on the time delay, and attenuating, or causing attenuation of, the one or more microphone signals by an attenuation amount determined based at least in part on a second combination of the aligned first and second audio signals.
The disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising: an energy storage; an antenna; a modulator connected to the antenna; an amplifier; means for selectively connecting the amplifier to the energy storage or disconnecting the amplifier from the energy storage; and means for selectively connecting the modulator to the amplifier or disconnecting the modulator from the amplifier.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage medium of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for co-scheduled device. In a method, a first apparatus receives, from a second apparatus, an indication of a time period within which at least one co-scheduled terminal device of the first apparatus is present and a set of DMRS ports allocated for the first apparatus and the at least one co-scheduled terminal device are constant. The first apparatus decodes one or more downlink data transmission in consecutive downlink slots within the time period at least based on the indication.
There is herein disclosed an apparatus, comprising means for receiving, by a user equipment, a radio resource control (RRC) configuration message associated with a Layer 1/Layer 2 (L1/L2) triggered mobility (LTM) procedure. The apparatus further comprises means for determining that the user equipment is able to process at least an LTM related part of the RRC configuration message prior to applying the configuration associated with the received cell switch command for performing a cell switch. The apparatus further comprises means for determining that a trigger for the user equipment to perform the processing of the LTM related part of the RRC configuration message has been activated and means for performing, upon the determination that the trigger for the user equipment to commence processing has been activated, the processing of the LTM related part of the received RRC configuration message within a predefined time.
Example embodiments of the disclosure relate to methods, apparatuses, and a computer readable storage medium for dynamic transmission configuration indicator (TCI) activation. In a method, a first apparatus receives a first indication and a second indication. The first indication indicates a first switch from a first TCI state to a first target TCI state is to be performed, and the second indication indicates a second switch from a second source TCI state to a second target TCI state is to be performed. The first source TCI state has been activated for a first network device, and the second source TCI state has been activated for a second network device. Reference signals associated with the first target TCI state and the second target TCI state are adjacent. The first apparatus determines an order for performing the first switch and the second switch.
H04L 5/00 - Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path
H04W 72/231 - Control channels or signalling for resource management in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal the control data signalling from the layers above the physical layer, e.g. RRC or MAC-CE signalling
H04W 72/563 - Allocation or scheduling criteria for wireless resources based on priority criteria of the wireless resources
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FREQUENCY DOMAIN RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
A method including receiving, by a user device from a network node, a configuration including at least an indication to perform spectrum extension; determining a target extension factor for excess band frequency resources for a target spectrum extension; receiving information indicating a set of inband frequency resources allocated to the user device for uplink transmission; determining, by the user device based on the set of inband frequency resources and the target extension factor, the excess band frequency resources for the spectrum extension and/or a total allocation of frequency resources for uplink transmission, wherein the total allocation of frequency resources includes the inband frequency resources and the excess band frequency resources; performing, by the user device, a spectrum extension based on the excess band frequency resources for a set of frequency domain values, to obtain a spectrum extended signal; and transmitting the spectrum extended signal.
The present embodiments relate to a method for encoding and a technical equipment for implementing the method. The method comprises determining (1610) a motion vector and a reference frame for a current block; determining (1620) when the motion vector points to an area outside of the reference frame; generating (1630) an extended reference frame by filling areas outside of the reference frame by one or more of the following: directional intra prediction using boundary samples of the reference frame according to a direction of the motion vector, intra prediction methods using decoded samples inside a current frame, intra predicted samples of the current block; predicting (1640) the current block by using motion compensation from the extended reference frame; and encoding (1650) the current block into a bitstream.
H04N 19/137 - Motion inside a coding unit, e.g. average field, frame or block difference
H04N 19/105 - Selection of the reference unit for prediction within a chosen coding or prediction mode, e.g. adaptive choice of position and number of pixels used for prediction
H04N 19/176 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using adaptive coding characterised by the coding unit, i.e. the structural portion or semantic portion of the video signal being the object or the subject of the adaptive coding the unit being an image region, e.g. an object the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock
Various example embodiments provide a system for transmission of low power signals based on using transmission time as one coding parameter. A code table may be used at a transmitter and receiver to map different data to different transmission times and/or other parameters. Advantageously, large amount of information may be transmitted with short and power efficient signals, for example to report status of a sensor every now and then. A receiver may use the same code table to decode the signals. Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs are disclosed.
H04B 7/0408 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas using two or more beams, i.e. beam diversity
An apparatus for rendering communication audio signal within an immersive audio scene, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least one spatial audio signal for rendering within the immersive audio scene; obtain the communication audio signal and positional information associated with the communication audio signal; obtain a rendering processing parameter associated with the communication audio signal; determine a rendering method based on the rendering processing parameter; determine an insertion point in a rendering processing for the determined rendering method and/or a selection of rendering elements for the determined rendering method based on the rendering processing parameter.
A method, e.g. performed by a first apparatus, is disclosed, the method comprising: transmitting a request message requesting to use at least part of one or more first resources that are designated for transmission of one or more first sidelink positioning reference signals for transmitting a second sidelink positioning reference signal; and observing a reaction to the request message; and determining, based on the observed reaction, whether use of the at least part of the one or more first resources is accepted for transmitting the second sidelink positioning reference signal. A corresponding first apparatus and computer program are disclosed. Further, a corresponding method for a second apparatus, a second apparatus, a second computer program and a system are disclosed.
An apparatus comprising means for transmitting an indication regarding capability of beam prediction in a spatial domain of the apparatus; means for receiving an indication of likelihood of the beams for at least one mode of beam prediction in spatial domain; means for measuring one or more reference signals from the beams to obtain a set of measurement results; means for using the measurement results as an input to a machine learning model and using likelihood of the beams, wherein the machine learning model is configured to use the input to produce an ordered list of the beams of the at least measured one or more reference signals; means for generating a channel state information report based on the ordered list of beams; and means for sending the report comprising indices of the beams of the ordered list.
H04B 7/06 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
H04L 41/16 - Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks using machine learning or artificial intelligence
H04W 72/044 - Wireless resource allocation based on the type of the allocated resource
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PREEMPTIVE MEASUREMENT REPORTS ON DOPPLER OFFSETS FOR PROACTIVE ACTIONS
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for preemptive measurement reports are provided. One method may include detecting, by a user equipment, a potential for creating interference to at least one network node. Based on the detection of the potential for creating the interference, the method may include transmitting an alert report, to a serving node of the user equipment, to indicate the potential for creating the interference to the at least one network node.
There is provided a method comprising receiving, from a network node of a cell, a random access configuration comprising a common number of random access occasions (ROs) mapped to each synchronization signal block (SSB) of the cell and a plurality of adjustment factors, wherein each of the adjustment factors indicates an SSB-specific adjustment for a mapping between the ROs and the SSBs; deter-mining the mapping between the ROs and the SSBs at least partially based on the common number and the adjustment factors.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage medium of cross-link interference (CLI) measurement. In a method, a first apparatus receive, from a second apparatus, a configuration of a reference signal resource. The first apparatus receives, from the second apparatus, an indication for using the reference signal resource overlapping with a first subband for a transmission from the first apparatus to the second apparatus, for performing a measurement of a device-to-device CLI. Based on the indication, the first apparatus performs the measurement of the CLI on the reference signal resource that overlaps with the first subband for the transmission from the first apparatus to the second apparatus.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to enhanced pathloss reference signal (PL-RS) measurement. In an aspect, a terminal device receives, from a network device via a first cell, an activation command for activating at least one second cell. The terminal device receives, from the network device via the at least one second cell, at least one synchronized signal block (SSB) associated with the activation of the at least one second cell. The terminal device performs time and frequency synchronization based on the at least one SSB, and determines a first PL-RS based on the at least one SSB during the time and frequency synchronization. By implementing the embodiments of the present disclosure, the first PL-RS could be determined in parallel with/during the process of time and frequency synchronization and the terminal device is able to perform the PL-RS measurement before receiving the TCI activation command, thereby reducing SCell activation delay.
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for data storage service related to internet of things (IoT) devices provided in communication network. A method (200) performed by a first network node may comprise: transmitting (S202), to a second network node, a first request for a data storage service related to Internet of Things, IoT, devices; and receiving (S204), from the second network node, a response for the first request. The response for the first request includes an indication about whether the first network node is authorized.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to satellite switch with resynchronization. In an aspect, a terminal device receives, from a network device, an indication for determining time for at least one operation associated with switching from a first satellite to a second satellite. The at least one operation comprises at least one of (i) initiating a resynchronization procedure to the network device via the second satellite or (ii) performing an uplink transmission via the second satellite. The terminal device performs the at least one operation based on the received indication. The embodiments of the present disclosure can avoid scheduling request (SR) bursts at the t-Service and NW overloading due to scheduling a large number of PUSCH transmissions. Therefore, UEs may suffer less risk of long interruptions, and the NW may schedule first UL transmissions of UEs through the target satellite in a distributed manner.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to apparatuses, methods, and computer readable storage media for on-demand synchronization signal based secondary cell activation. In the methods, a first apparatus receives, from a second apparatus, a cell activation command on a first cell serving the first apparatus to indicate an activation of a second cell. Furthermore, the first apparatus receives a reference signal on the second cell. In addition, the first apparatus determines transmission information about a measurement report associated with the reference signal, for initiating or stopping a transmission of a synchronization signal from the second cell. Thereby, the proposed method can advantageously enable a more energy-efficient cell activation process while ensure the success of cell activation in aid of on-demand transmission of the synchronization signal.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to elimination of activation signal interference in a network, for example, an ambient Internet-of-Things (AIoT) network. In an aspect, a first device receives, from a second device, first configuration information comprising at least a reference signal (RS) pattern. The RS pattern indicates at least RS time positions in a first signal from a third device, during which the first signal will not be backscattered by a fourth device. In response to receiving one of the first signal or a combined signal, the first device extracts a second signal from the combined signal based on the first configuration information. The combined signal comprises a combination of the first signal and the second signal. By implementing the present disclosure, the interference caused by the activation signal to the backscattered signal could be efficiently reduced and useful data modulated on the backscattered signal could be obtained.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to operations in elimination of activation signal interference in a network, for example, an ambient Internet-of-Things (AIoT) network. In an aspect, a network device determines occurrence of a transmission for a first device, a signal of the transmission of the first device is to be used as a first signal; and determines a second device to be activated by the first signal to transmit a second signal. In another aspect, a network device determines occurrence of a need of a data report of a second device; and determines a transmission of a first device is to be used for activating the second device, a signal of the transmission of the first device is to be used as a first signal for activating the second device to transmit a second signal. As such, the determination of the activator device and AIoT device could be facilitated.
Embodiments of the present disclosure describes artificial intelligence (AI) /machine learning (ML) based channel state information (CSI) feedback. In an aspect, a network device determines, a categorization rule for grouping CSI. The network device transmits, to a terminal device, information of the categorization rule. The network device receives, from the terminal device, at least one monitoring measurement for AI/ML based CSI feedback, and the at least one monitoring measurement is generated based on the categorization rule. In this way, the monitoring measurement is generated based on the categorization rule, thereby the solution has low monitoring overhead and low computational complexity while maintaining high LCM efficiency.
Certain examples provide an apparatus (10, 110) comprising: means (11, 15) for receiving, via physical layer signaling from an access node (120), configuration information (502) for configuring the apparatus to: perform at least one crosslink interference, CLI, measurement on at least one first resource (503), and report the at least one CLI measurement via at least one second resource (504); means for performing (11) the at least one CLI measurement based at least in part on the configuration information; and means for reporting (11, 15) the at least one CLI measurement based at least in part on the configuration information.
Examples of the disclosure relate to enabling a user equipment (UE) to acquire the information needed to make On-Demand-System Information Block 1 (OD-SIB1) requests. The UE can receive an indication of a switch by a network node from a periodic SIB1 mode to an OD-SIB1 mode and determine if OD-SIB1 configuration information has been received from the network node. The UE determines, based at least in part, on the received indication, to apply the received OD-SIB1 configuration; and then applies the OD-SIB1 configuration.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to quality of service (QoS) measurement. In an aspect, a first network device triggers at least one QoS measurement over at least one data network user plane interface of a communication network and at least one network node of a data network. The first network device further transmits, to at least one second network device, a configuration comprising one or more measurement parameters for the at least one QoS measurement over the at least one data network user plane interface. As such, a solution for triggering and measuring the QoS metrics over at least N6 interface can be provided, and thus the QoS metrics can be better monitored and used for controlled or assisted (edge) application servers (AS or EAS) discovery or rediscovery.
Various embodiments provide a radio network node with wireless access backhaul and a method therein. In an embodiment, the method performed by a radio network node with wireless access backhaul comprises including wireless access backhaul (WAB) related information of the radio network node with wireless access backhaul in a message sent to a core network node, wherein the WAB related information comprises at least a first indication indicating that the radio network node is a radio network node with wireless access backhaul.
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to cell activation. In an aspect, a terminal device determines a cell activation delay for each of to-be-activated cells in a first frequency range and a second frequency range, based on parallel cell activation of the terminal device for the first frequency range and the second frequency range. The terminal device activates the to-be-activated cell within the cell activation delay. As such, the terminal device can determine a time period to be used for cell activation based on parallel cell activation of the terminal device.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage medium for uplink data channel scheduling via downlink control information (DCI) for downlink data channel scheduling. The method comprises: receiving, at a first apparatus from the second apparatus via DCI for downlink data channel scheduling, an indication of an aperiodic triggering state, wherein the indication of the aperiodic triggering state indicates one of a plurality of aperiodic triggering states for an uplink data channel, wherein the plurality of aperiodic triggering states represent different pre-configured uplink scheduling information; selecting the aperiodic triggering state among the plurality of aperiodic triggering states according to the received indication of the aperiodic triggering state; determining scheduling information for a transmission on the uplink data channel based on the selected aperiodic triggering state; and performing the transmission on the uplink data channel by using the determined scheduling information.
Various example embodiments of this disclosure relate to location based service management. In an aspect, a first network device receives first coarse location information of a terminal device during a service attempt procedure for the terminal device. Then, based on an event that the terminal device is not located within an area where the terminal device is allowed to be served, the first network device initiates a detach procedure for the terminal device, wherein determination of the event is based on the first coarse location information.
An apparatus comprising: means for receiving synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB) in a cell; and means for receiving from a base station serving a cell, while operating in an SSB-less mode, an indication of an on-demand SSB period, during which SSB will be transmitted, that terminates upon expiry of a counter at the apparatus or terminates on reception at the apparatus of layer one (L1) signaling from the base station.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a terminal device, a network device, methods, apparatuses and a computer readable storage medium for resource mapping in the context of SBFD. A terminal device receives a configuration from a network device, where the configuration indicates discontinuous first and second downlink subbands. The terminal device receives a DCI which includes an indication indicating a symmetric FDRA mapping rule, then a downlink resource for downlink data may be determined. As such, the overhead can be reduced and the downlink resources may be used more efficiently.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to transmission mechanisms for devices, such as, ambient IoT devices. In an example method, a first device receives a first transmission from a second device. The first transmission is based on an identifier (ID), and the ID is associated with a plurality of devices in a communication link. Then, the first device determines that the ID related to the first transmission is associated with the first device, and performs a second transmission to a third device. In this way, by introducing the ID, only one ID (i.e., the ID) needs to be stored at the first device which is, for example, an ambient internet of things (AIoT) device, and thus AIoT complexity can be reduced.
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a solution for determining available slots for uplink repetitions. In the solution, the first apparatus, determines whether an uplink channel resource in a sub-band non-overlapping full-duplex, SBFD, slot is available for an uplink channel transmission based on at least one attribute of the uplink channel resource; performs, based on the determination, at least one uplink channel transmission on at least one uplink sub-bands of one or more SBFD slots.
Example embodiments of the disclosure relate to apparatuses, methods and computer readable storage medium for sensing coherent processing. In a method, a first apparatus receives at least one measurement report from a second apparatus. The at least one measurement report indicates signal quality and channel stability associated with a sensing signal, for coherent processing of measurement results of the sensing signal. Based at least in part on the signal quality and the channel stability, the first apparatus determines at least one configuration for sensing an object using the sensing signal.
NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS INVESTMENT (CHINA) CO., LTD. (China)
Inventor
Wu, Huanzhuo
Liu, Shi Wen
Leis, Peter
Paul, Bhaskar
Liebhart, Rainer
Abstract
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to selection of a target network function for an event subscription or exposure. In an aspect, the first network device transmits, to a second network device, a first request message for selecting a network function for an event subscription. The first request message comprises event information to be subscribed. The first network device receives, from the second network device, a first response message comprising an identity of a selected network function among a plurality of network functions. In this way, a specific network function can be allocated for the first network device which request an event subscription, based on the event to be subscribed, thereby improving performance of communication networks.
NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS INVESTMENT (CHINA) CO., LTD. (China)
Inventor
Thiébaut, Laurent
Xie, Hong
Milinski, Alexander
Chen, Xu
Abstract
There are provided measures for (e. g. enabling/facilitating/realizing enhancements and/or improvements for) management of UE-satellite-UE communication, i.e. a satellite communication between a first user equipment and a second user equipment. Such measures may, for example, comprise that a network function, element or entity, such as e.g. a P-CSCF, obtains first information regarding user equipment connectivity via satellite access for a first user equipment involved in a call, obtains second information regarding user equipment connectivity via satellite access for a second user equipment involved in the call, and detects, based on the first information and the second information, whether a satellite communication between the first user equipment and the second user equipment is feasible.
The present disclosure relates to capturing additional conditions. The method includes at a first apparatus, receiving, from a second apparatus, model feature information comprising a plurality of first training configurations identified by respective first configuration identifiers, wherein the plurality of first training configurations is 5 associated with communication condition; determining, for each first training configuration, a plurality of second training configurations identified by respective second configuration identifiers; obtaining, for each second training configuration, a plurality of datasets associated with communication condition based on the plurality of first training configurations, wherein one dataset is obtained based on one first training configuration 0 from the plurality of first training configuration; and transmitting, to the second apparatus, data collection information comprising the plurality of second training configurations identified by respective second configuration identifiers.
H04L 41/0823 - Configuration setting characterised by the purposes of a change of settings, e.g. optimising configuration for enhancing reliability
H04L 41/084 - Configuration by using pre-existing information, e.g. using templates or copying from other elements
H04L 41/16 - Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks using machine learning or artificial intelligence
H04W 24/02 - Arrangements for optimising operational condition
