Various embodiments provide methods and apparatus for security in a distributed NAS connection terminations architecture. In an embodiment, a method performed by a terminal device comprises: receiving an initialization key set identifier from the first network function entity; and generating a set of allowed assigned key set identifiers, based on the initialization key set identifier.
A network device determines localization constraint(s) for an expected vertical range over which a UE may be positioned. The network device estimates vertical position of the UE. The network device compares the estimated vertical position with the localization constraint(s). The network device performs different actions depending on whether the estimated vertical position is within or outside the localization constraint(s). The network device may be the UE 110, a location server (e.g., LMF), or an LMC as implemented by the RAN node.
Described herein is a UE, configured to support connecting via a PCell towards a first network node supporting a first RAT, and connecting via a first MRSS SCell to a second network node supporting the first RAT, and via a second MRSS SCell to a third network node supporting a second RAT, wherein the UE receives from the PCell configuration information for layer 1, L1, measurements considering a dormant and a non-dormant state of the first MRSS Scell and in case of determining the dormant state of the first MRSS SCell, perform L1 measurements of signals of the second MRSS SCell, generate an adapted L1 measurement report for the first RAT based on the performed L1 measurements of the second RAT by mapping and/or encoding information into a format supported by the first RAT and transmit the adapted L1 measurement report towards the first network node via the PCell.
An apparatus configured to : receive, from a BS, a configuration for a downlink control information comprising an indication of whether at least one further DCI is available in a slot; decode the downlink control information in a monitoring occasion of the slot; and in response to a determinatio that the indication comprises an indication that the at least one further DCI is available, perform blind decoding of the at least one further DCI. An apparatus configured to : determine a DCI format in which to include an indication of whether at least one further downlink control information is available in a slot; transmit, to a UE, a configuration for a downlink control information with the determined DCI format, wherein the downlink control information comprises the indication of whether the at least one further DCI is available in the slot; and transmit, to the UE, the downlink control information.
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 at least to: divide a frequency domain resource into frequency domain regions; determine a plurality of processing profiles for the frequency domain regions; and transmit a configuration to at least one user equipment, wherein the configuration comprises the plurality of processing profiles for the frequency domain regions.
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 at least to: transmit an indication of a synchronization signal pattern; wherein the indication of the synchronization signal pattern indicates at least one of: a number of parts of a synchronization signal burst, wherein each part occupies a number of consecutive slots, the number of consecutive slots in each part of the synchronization signal burst, or the slots between the adjacent parts of the synchronization signal burst that are not used for transmitting any synchronization signals of the synchronization signal burst; and transmit the synchronization signals on synchronization signal positions indicated by the synchronization signal pattern.
An apparatus may be configured to : determine to perform phase noise pre-compensation of at least one signal to be transmitted to a second apparatus; receive, from the second apparatus, at least one signal; and perform the phase noise pre-compensation of the at least one signal to be transmitted to the second apparatus based, at least partially, on the at least one received signal. An apparatus may be configured to : transmit, to a second apparatus, at least one signal; and receive, from the second apparatus, at least one signal, wherein the at least one signal is phase noise pre-compensated based, at least partially, on the at least one transmitted signal.
In accordance with example embodiments of the present disclosure there is at least a method and apparatus configured to receive, from a source distributed unit, a configuration comprising a timing advance of a cell; receive, from the source distributed unit, an indication to perform a cell change; and apply the timing advance within the configuration for random access channel-less layer 1 or layer 2 triggered mobility, when at least one of the indication includes an instruction to use the timing advance provided within the configuration, or the indication does not contain a timing advance value.
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided. In the context of a method, the method receives, from one or more radio access network (RAN) nodes, one or more paging indications that define an availability of the one or more RAN nodes for at least one user equipment paging. The method transmits, based at least on the one or more paging indications, at least one user equipment paging message to at least one of the one or more RAN nodes that is available for the at least one user equipment paging.
Controlling received power at reception points is provided. A method for controlling received power at reception points may include receiving reception information including a location of each of one or more reception points. The method may also include controlling, by a network entity, received power or received power density received from a user equipment. The received power or the received power density may be controlled to be less than or equal to a target reference threshold at the one or more reception points. The received power or the received power density may be controlled by adjusting one or more beam characteristics.
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
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SUB-CODEBLOCK GROUP BASED OPERATION FOR SINGLE CODEWORD SCHEDULING
Sub-codeblock group based operation for single codeword scheduling is provided. A method for sub-codeblock group based operation for single codeword scheduling may include determining, by a user equipment, that the user equipment is scheduled with a single codeword or transport block for a shared data channel, and generating, by the user equipment, a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement feedback for the shared data channel based on assigning a plurality of codeblocks to a plurality of sub-groups of a plurality of codeblock groups based on a maximum number of codewords available for shared data channel operation. The method may also include providing, by the user equipment to a network entity, the hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement indicating the feedback to the network entity.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for network-controlled user equipment-initiated (UE-initiated) cell activation. A method may include receiving, from a network element, configuration for user equipment-initiated cell activation, wherein the configuration comprises at least one triggering condition. The method may also include, upon one of the at least one trigger condition being satisfied, triggering transmission of a buffer status report, a power headroom report, or a user equipment-initiated cell activation message, and performing cell activation based on the configuration. The method may further include transmitting a cell activation confirmation message on the activated cell to the network element when the cell is activated and ready for use.
Techniques are provided for facilitating the switching of a radio resource control (RRC) state of a user equipment (UE) with a source base station and at least one target base stations. In the context of a method performed by the source base station, the method determines that a RRC state of a UE should be changed. The method also includes causing a context of the UE and a security key to be transmitted to at least one database. The method also includes receiving an inactive UE identifier from the database. The method also includes instructing the UE to change the RRC state to an inactive state. Corresponding methods, apparatuses and computer-readable storage mediums are also provided for a UE, a database, and a target base station.
Disclosed is a method comprising receiving (601) first fronthaul data associated with a first radio access technology, the first fronthaul data comprising first user-plane data and first control-plane data, wherein the first control-plane data indicates a first set of radio resources intended for transmitting the first user-plane data over an air interface; determining (602), based on the first set of radio resources, a second set of radio resources intended for transmitting second user-plane data over the air interface, wherein the second user-plane data is associated with a second radio access technology; and transmitting (603), to a radio unit, at least second fronthaul data comprising the second user-plane data and second control-plane data, wherein the second control-plane data indicates the second set of radio resources intended for transmitting the second user-plane data over the air interface.
Dynamic random access channel resource allocation is provided. A method for dynamic random access channel resource allocation may include receiving (610) a configuration from a network entity of at least one of a plurality of semi-static and dynamic physical random access channel resources for network access. The plurality of semi-static physical random access channel resources are available without separate activation and the plurality of dynamic physical random access channel resources are available with separate activation. The method may also include determining (620) an availability of at least one of the plurality of dynamic physical random access channel resources, and selecting (630) at least one resource for preamble transmission from the at least one dynamic physical random access channel resource or from a combined set of semi-static and dynamic physical random access channel resources, when the at least one dynamic physical random access channel resource is determined to be available.
A network device may be caused to determine at least one control parameter for at least one task to be performed by at least one wirelessly controlled device, send a communications service initiation signal to a wireless communication scheduler, the communications service initiation signal including the at least one control parameter, obtain at least one assigned communication parameter from the wireless communication scheduler in response to the communications service initial signal, and send at least one task command corresponding to the at least one task to the at least one wirelessly controlled device based on the at least one assigned communication parameter.
Techniques include, during a configuration exchange, after a critical neighbor gNB is identified by a source gNB, the source gNB identifying a key performance indicator (KPI) and an interpretation of a bitstring indicator as a quantized variation in that KPI. The bitstring indicator is sent to the source gNB by the critical neighbor gNB to reflect a variation in the cell KPI due to source gNB's previous action, measures the KPI in the source cell to generate its own bitstring, generates a combined bitstring based on the received bitstring and the generated bitstring, and takes an action based on the combined bitstring.
A NN converts sensory information of a physical area into image(s). One or more other NNs perform at least object detection on the image(s) to determine an output indicating at least whether or not object(s) were detected. A GAN is trained for reconstruction of images of a physical area by creating generated depth maps by a generator NN based at least on corresponding sensory information of a physical area, the generated depth maps including images of the physical area. Classifications of fake or real are determined by a discriminator NN based on the generated depth maps and real scene depth map(s). The creating and classification are performed until criteria are met. Information is output that defines a trained generator NN able to reconstruct images of the physical area based at least on corresponding sensory information of the physical area.
In example embodiments of the invention there is at least a methos and apparatus to perform detecting, by a user equipment of a communication network, a set of semi-persistent physical downlink shared channel and physical uplink shared channel resources; determining a random-access preamble for a random-access procedure for transmitting on a random-access occasion; identifying that a random-access response signal to the random-access preamble carries a pointer to a semi-persistent configuration associated with at least one semi-persistent physical downlink shared channel or physical uplink shared channel resources of the detected set; and based on the identifying, selecting a semi-persistent configuration of the at least one semi-persistent configuration indicated by the random-access response for data communication with the communication network. Further, to perform determining, by a network node of a communication network, receiving a random-access preamble for a random-access procedure from a user equipment, wherein the determining comprises determining the use of a semi-persistent configuration indicated in a random-access response signal from the network node for the random-access procedure; and based on the determining, performing data communication with the user equipment using semi-persistent physical downlink shared channel and physical uplink shared channel resources based on the semi-persistent configuration.
Example embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and apparatus to perform identifying based on determined information, by a user equipment of a communication network, a pre-determined linkage of at least one physical random access channel occasion of a random access channel procedure for at least one random access response physical downlink shared channel candidate; based on the identifying, determining at least one random access response physical downlink shared channel candidate with different time or frequency configurations; based on the determining, blindly decoding the at least one random access response physical downlink shared channel candidate; and determining for the at least one random access response physical downlink shared channel candidate resources for a random access response to a random access channel transmission, wherein determining resources of the at least one random access response physical downlink shared channel candidate is performed without decoding a physical downlink control channel associated with the random access response physical downlink shared channel candidate. Further, to perform sending, towards a user equipment by a network node of a communication network, information comprising a configuration mapping of mappings between at least one random access response occasion and one physical random access channel occasion, wherein the information is identifying a pre-determined linkage of at least one physical random access channel occasion of a random access channel procedure for at least one random access response physical downlink shared channel candidate; based on the information, receiving a preamble index for a random access procedure on a random access channel occasion; and based on the receiving, sending a random access response for the preamble index indicating that the random access procedure is successful.
Example embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and apparatus to determine by a network node of target cell receiving handover requests there is a least one group of user equipment within the handover requests; determine a unique dedicated random access channel preamble to assign to each user equipment of the at least one group of user equipment, wherein each dedicated random access channel preamble is for initiating a random access channel procedure for a handover request of the handover requests; and provide to the user equipment information comprising the dedicated random access channel preamble and a handover command for a handover of the handover requests, and also to receive, by a user equipment, from a source cell of a communication network equipment information on a handover command to a target cell comprising an assigned dedicated random access channel preamble and an indication of a group handover for initiating a random access channel procedure for a handover; and based on the information on the handover command, perform a handover.
High performance pilot assignment for massive multiple input multiple output networks is provided. The method may include calculating a channel correlation between at least one pair of user equipment. The method may also include executing a greedy algorithm based on the calculated channel correlation to determine one or more pilots that maximize a signal to interference noise ratio of at least one user equipment. The determined one or more pilots may be assigned to the at least one pair of user equipment.
H04B 7/04 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas
H04B 17/309 - Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters
An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: generate a set of two or more pipelines, wherein a pipeline within the set of pipelines comprises a set of one or more steps used to learn a machine learning model;, select a pipeline from the set of pipelines, determine at least one accuracy from processing a dataset with at least one step of the selected pipeline, determine whether the at least one accuracy is greater than at least one threshold, terminate an evaluation of the selected pipeline, based on the at least one accuracy being less than the at least one threshold, and select, from the set of pipelines, a winner pipeline to use for learning the machine learning model, the winner pipeline having an overall performance accuracy larger than another overall performance accuracy associated with at least one other pipeline of the set of pipelines.
G05B 13/04 - Adaptive control systems, i.e. systems automatically adjusting themselves to have a performance which is optimum according to some preassigned criterion electric involving the use of models or simulators
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A CAUSAL REASONING SYSTEM FOR OPERATIONAL TWIN (CAROT) FOR DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF 5G CNFS
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 at least to: operate a replicate of one or more cloud native network functions; generate observational data of the replicate of the one or more cloud native network functions, the observational data generated based on a plurality of operating conditions of the one or more cloud native network functions; and apply a causal reasoning function using the observational data to analyze causality between at least one observed cause of at least one observed effect of the one or more cloud native network functions and the at least one observed effect of the one or more cloud native network functions.
H04L 41/0631 - Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications using root cause analysisManagement of faults, events, alarms or notifications using analysis of correlation between notifications, alarms or events based on decision criteria, e.g. hierarchy, tree or time analysis
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
G06F 11/34 - Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for providing scheduling flexibility between transmission configuration indicator states for data reception and RRM measurements for multi-Rx chain UE. One method may include transmitting, to a network entity, a measurement timing configuration; and receiving a sharing factor associated with the measurement timing configuration. The sharing factor indicates a sharing pattern associated with a first spatial receive element performing radio resource management measurements, and a second spatial receive element configured to receive data without scheduling restrictions.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for early feedback in multi-channel scheduling. A method may include receiving a downlink control information scheduling multi-transport block transmission. The method may also include determining, based on the downlink control information, transport blocks that are scheduled for transmission. The method may further include determining a first timing of when to provide a first feedback message for a first set of transport blocks scheduled with the downlink control information. In addition, the method may include determining at least one second timing of when to provide a second feedback message for a second set of transport blocks scheduled with the downlink control information. Further, the method may include transmitting the first feedback message and the at least one second feedback message to the network element based on the determination of the first timing and the second timing.
An apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory 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 perform: receiving a signal comprising information configured to be used for partially or entirely changing a changeable buffer status report table; and changing the changeable buffer status report table based upon the received information.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for indicating changes of transmitting parameters for multi-PxSCH transmission. One method may include receiving, from a network entity, a configuration for at least one of multi-PxSCH transmission or PxSCH indicating at least one transmitting parameter to be adjusted, and receiving DCI scheduling at least one of the multi-PxSCH transmissions comprising at least one activation indication.
H04L 5/00 - Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path
H04W 72/232 - 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 physical layer, e.g. DCI signalling
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for mobility setting preconfiguration, activation, and execution for conditional handover. One method may include transmitting, to a user equipment, a control message comprising at least one preconfigured conditional handover; detecting at least one setting associated with activation of at least one of the preconfigured conditional handovers; and transmitting, to the user equipment, in response to the detection, an indication configured to activate conditional handover according to at least one of the preconfigured conditional handovers.
Systems, methods, and software of adapting an application service. In one embodiment, a Radio Access Network (RAN) controller (404) of a RAN (102) is configured to provide radio service to User Equipment (UE) (106). The RAN controller receives a request from an application service (410) for performance metrics (702) of an application service flow (512) between the application service and an application client hosted by the UE. The RAN controller receives an identification token (701) from the application service that identifies one or more data radio bearers (504) of the RAN serving the application service flow, receives a report message from one or more RAN nodes (402) of the RAN containing the performance metrics for the data radio bearers, and provides the performance metrics to the application service indexed by the identification token. The application service may then be adapted based on the performance metrics.
An apparatus comprising: at least one processing element configured to process a data flow in at least one direction of a plurality of directions; a configuration register comprising at least one setting that determines the processing of the data flow with the at least one processing element; and a shift register configured to select data of the at least one processing element from the at least one direction, and to provide at least one shifted data sample to a plurality of slices configured to perform at least one arithmetic operation with the data flow; wherein at least one slice of the plurality of slices is configured with the at least one setting of the configuration register.
G06F 15/76 - Architectures of general purpose stored program computers
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H03K 19/177 - Logic circuits, i.e. having at least two inputs acting on one outputInverting circuits using specified components using elementary logic circuits as components arranged in matrix form
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METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCK TRANSMISSION
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a NCR transmitting SSBs. One method may include obtaining a synchronization signal block configuration including at least a set of synchronization signal block identifiers.to be transmitted over an access link. The method may further include transmitting at least one synchronization signal block over an access link according to the synchronization signal block configuration.
Disclosed is a method comprising obtaining a machine learning model for positioning, wherein the machine learning model is trained based on first training data related to one or more first network nodes; transmitting information including at least one of the following: the machine learning model, a request for updating the machine learning model based on second training data, or a request for providing the second training data for updating the machine learning model at the apparatus; receiving at least one of the following: a message indicative of an updated machine learning model, or the second training data; and transmitting the updated machine learning model at least to one or more second network nodes.
A network node able to communicate with a UE in a wireless network determines dynamic resource allocation. A single message for the allocation schedules resources on multiple periodic shared channels for the UE to use. The network node transmits the dynamic resource allocation toward the UE. The network node transmits or receives the resources on the multiple periodic shared channels according to the dynamic resource allocation. A UE receives, from a network node in a wireless network, a single message comprising a dynamic resource allocation that schedules multiple periodic shared channels for the UE to use. The UE transmits or receives the multiple periodic shared channels according to the dynamic resource allocation.
In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and an apparatus to perform sending, by a first network entity towards a second network entity of a communication network, or receiving by a second network entity from a first network entity, first information for determining a cluster of correlated channel taps, and second information for characterizing a propagation path to which a cluster of channel taps corresponds; receiving, from the second network entity, or sending by the first network entity, positioning measurement information characterizing a number of propagation paths to which a respective number of clusters of channel taps correspond, wherein the number of clusters are determined in accordance with the first information, and wherein the number of propagation paths are characterized in accordance with the second information.
H04B 17/30 - MonitoringTesting of propagation channels
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
G06K 9/62 - Methods or arrangements for recognition using electronic means
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for pre- compensation of phase center offset (PCO) on uplink (UL) carrier phase (CP) positioning. A method may include receiving pre-compensation assistance data from a first network element. The method may also include determining pre-compensating phase center offset applied for transmission of reference signals per second network element based on at least the pre-compensation assistance data. The method may further include transmitting, to the first network element, an indication indicating a mapping of the signal transmission that has been pre-compensated.
Various embodiments provide methods and apparatus for security in a distributed NAS terminations architecture. In an embodiment, a method performed by a terminal device comprises: generating an anchor key; receiving an anchor key identifier for the anchor key; deriving a set of non-access stratum, NAS, parent keys based on the anchor key, a subscription identifier and NAS indicators indicating different NAS procedures; and obtaining, for each of the set of NAS parent keys, a NAS parent key identifier.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Telecommunications network equipment, namely silicon chips
for use in telecommunications routers to provide IP routing
services over telecommunications networks; none of the
aforesaid goods in relation to biometric sensors,
processors, modules, software and algorithms and the
industry of personal identification.
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ENHANCED ENERGY EFFICIENCY INFORMATION FOR NETWORK ENERGY SAVING
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhanced energy efficiency information and the distribution and reception thereof for network energy saving are provided. For example, a method can include identifying multiple own cell capabilities that include an own cell capability to carry extra load with no extra energy consumption, an own cell capability to carry extra load with extra energy consumption, and an own cell capability to reduce load with an energy saving gain. The method can also include indicating to a neighboring radio access network node or an operations and maintenance function energy cost for extra load and energy saving for removed load based on the own cell capabilities. The method can further include receiving onloading of cell traffic or offloading of cell traffic, based on the indication of the energy cost for extra load and the energy saving for removed load.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for intelligent mobility setting change in a fast changing environment. A method may include receiving, from a network element, configuration of at least one mobility setting and at least one parameter specifying at least one setting threshold for applying the at least one mobility setting. The method may also include applying the at least one mobility setting. The method may further include evaluating at least one of a first timing advance value, a received time interval variation, or a frequency offset between a user equipment and the network element against the at least one parameter. In addition, the method may include switching from the at least one mobility setting to a second mobility setting based on the evaluation
For a network node serving a UE in a wireless system, the network node identifies that a set of resources is potentially subject to cross-link-interference affecting the UE. The network node sends, toward the UE, information indicating the set of resources is potentially subject to cross-link-interference affecting the UE. For a UE being served by a network node in a wireless system, the UE receives information from the network node indicating a set of resources is potentially subject to cross-link-interference affecting the UE. For the set of resources, the UE does not perform radio link quality monitoring in those resources.
An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to connect to a user equipment; initialize an inference model for beam selection using past reference signal received power measurements of a set of available beams used with a network node, the past reference signal received power measurements performed with a plurality of user equipment; infer, using the inference model during a time slot, a probability distribution of reference signal received power for at least one beam within the set of available beams, the probability distribution describing a likelihood of a reference signal received power value for the at least one beam among a plurality of reference signal received power values; wherein the probability distribution is inferred given at least one of the past reference signal received power measurements; and transmit data to the user equipment using one of the beams within the set of available beams, based at least partially on the probability distribution.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for support for sidelink user equipment in co-channel coexistence environments are provided. For example, a method can include configuring a user equipment with a shared resource pool and a sub-resource-pool comprising resources of at least one selected subframe of the shared resource pool for sidelink transmissions according to a first radio access technology in a co-channel coexistence with sidelink transmissions according to a second radio access technology. The method can also include configuring the user equipment with a network configuration for adaptation and use of the sub- resource-pool depending on type of the user equipment.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for discontinuation rest for predictable traffic. One method may include receiving, by a user equipment, a discontinuous rest configuration, and starting, by the user equipment, a discontinuous rest timer indicated by the discontinuous rest configuration upon an end of an active time and if a number of packets transmitted and a number of packets received before the expiration of the active time is smaller than a corresponding threshold indicated in the discontinuous rest configuration. The discontinuous rest timer is associated with a discontinuous reception group.
An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine whether to report a power headroom report value to a network node, the power headroom report value being applicable to a mixed slot where simultaneous transmissions in downlink and uplink are scheduled in non-overlapping sub-bands of the same carrier; wherein the power headroom report value is based on a difference between an uplink transmit power given an expected cross link interference for a user equipment, and an uplink transmit power at the mixed slot; and determine whether to reduce the uplink transmit power at the mixed slot, based on information received from the network node.
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 52/14 - Separate analysis of uplink or downlink
H04W 52/24 - TPC being performed according to specific parameters using SIR [Signal to Interference Ratio] or other wireless path parameters
H04W 52/38 - TPC being performed in particular situations
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CONTROL RESOURCE SET CONFIGURATION AND SELECTION BASED ON SLOT TYPE INDICATION IN SUBBAND NON-OVERLAPPING FULL DUPLEX
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhancing dynamic CORESET adaptation with limited or no control channel overhead. One method may include receiving, by a UE, a plurality of PDCCH CORESET configurations associated with at least one SS; determining, by the UE, at least one of the PDCCH CORESET configurations is associated with a symbol or slot format from a corresponding set of symbols; and performing, by the UE, PDCCH monitoring on an active control resource set configuration associated with the set of determined slots or symbols.
An apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: receive as input to a machine learning model a sequence of past serving locations of a user equipment; determine, using the machine learning model, a vector of confidences for predicted next locations of the user equipment; create at least one fork for at least one predicted next location of the predicted next locations having a confidence that exceeds a forking threshold; and determine iteratively a plurality of next locations of the user equipment, using as input the at least one predicted next location having the confidence that exceeds the forking threshold.
There is herein in accordance with example embodiments of the invention at least a method and apparatus to determining, that a user equipment is to access a cell for triggering random access to the cell using an initial access configuration communicated by a network node of the communication network to perform operations such as a data shower coverage for the user equipment, wherein the initial access configuration is sequentially using more than one pattern of at least one of a synchronization signal, a beacon, or a channel state information reference signal for at least one of acquiring synchronization, beam refinement, and beam maintenance for access to the cell.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for counting user equipment (UE) for transmission mode selection. A method may include indicating an interest in a given multicast broadcast service. The indication may be performed by receiving a configuration for indicating an interest in the given multicast broadcast service, by selecting an uplink channel resource out of a set of uplink channel resources associated with the multicast broadcast service, and by transmitting a signal on the selected uplink channel resource.
H04W 4/06 - Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]Services to user groupsOne-way selective calling services
H04W 72/02 - Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic ad hoc group configuration and handling are provided. One method may include receiving, at a group management node, group attributes associated with an ad hoc group of user equipment (UEs) from an application function, and translating, by the group management node, the group attributes provided by the application function into at least one of internal ad hoc group information or internal requirements for the ad hoc group of UEs. The method may also include providing the at least one of the ad hoc group information and internal requirements to a group enforcement node.
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 to: determine a first value of a first epoch of training a neural network based on a relation applied to at least one weight of the neural network from the first epoch and a base model; determine a second value of a second epoch of training the neural network based on the relation applied to the at least one weight of the neural network from the second epoch and the base model; wherein the second epoch occurs later than the first epoch; and determine whether to communicate a weight update to the at least one weight of the neural network between the second epoch of training and the first epoch of training, based at least on the first value and the second value.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for over-the-air test for uplink transmit timing adjustment in wireless systems. A method may receiving, from a testing device, a configuration with or without a flag indicating that an uplink timing adjustment is enabled. The method may also include detecting a first path of a synchronization signal block with a delay corresponding to the target beam. The method may further include adjusting an uplink transmission timing based on the detection of the first path of the synchronization signal block.
Method, apparatuses, and computer program products provide means for determining user equipment impacted by a network timing synchronization status and providing timing resiliency solutions. An example method includes: receiving, at a network entity, a network timing synchronization status request, wherein the network timing synchronization status request includes an indication of one or more user equipment (UE) to provide a time synchronization report to; determining, for each UE, one or more network entities to request a time synchronization status from; in response to receiving an indication of a primary source event, generating a time synchronization report indicative of the primary source event; and causing the time synchronization report to be provided to one or more impacted UEs.
In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform preparing a conditional cell change in a cellular communication network supporting dual connectivity, comprising: sending, by a master node of the cellular communication network, towards a first target secondary node a message comprising an indication of at least one primary cell of a secondary cell group cell of at least a second target secondary node prepared or to be prepared for a conditional primary cell of a secondary cell group change for a user equipment from a primary cell of a secondary cell group of a secondary node to a primary cell of a secondary cell group of at least a second target secondary node, wherein the message enables, at the first target secondary node, configuration of conditional primary cell of a secondary cell group change execution condition for at least one of the prepared primary cells of a secondary cell group of the at least one second target secondary node for conditional primary cell of a secondary cell group change for the user equipment from a primary cell of a secondary cell group of a first target secondary node to a primary cell of a secondary cell group of at least a second target secondary node.
There is a first node handling CP operations in an ORAN, a second node handling near-real-time control operations in the ORAN, a third node providing WLAN termination for AP(s), and a fourth node providing SMO in the ORAN. The first and second node can be configured (e.g., by the fourth node) in multiple multiple-access modes for multi-access operation, which changes from which node or both nodes control operations are provided in the ORAN. Control interfaces may be changed too. The third node may register with the second node and may report AP(s) discovered and accessible by the third node. The first, second, and third nodes can participate in AP handovers between original and other third nodes.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for machine learning based generalized equivalent isotropically radiated power control are provided. For example, a method may include receiving a plurality of input parameters. The input parameters can describe a directional portion of a radiation pattern of an antenna array and a weighting to be applied to the antenna array. The method may further include processing the plurality of input parameters using a trained neural network. The method may also include providing an output representative of equivalent isotropically radiated power associated with the plurality of input parameters.
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H01Q 3/26 - 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
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for user equipment autonomous resource detection for calibration are provided. For example, a method may include detecting and measuring, by a user equipment, received power during at least one synchronization signal block or channel state information reference signal. The method may also include selecting, by the user equipment, at least one random access channel occasion based on the detected and measured received power. The method may further include determining, by the user equipment, at least one random access channel occasion corresponding to the selected at least one synchronization signal block. The method may additionally include performing, by the user equipment, a user equipment calibration during the determined at least one random access channel occasion.
An apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: train a machine learning model to learn a configuration matrix that defines a reconfigurable intelligent surface; configure the reconfigurable intelligent surface for channel estimation during runtime, using the learned configuration matrix; perform channel estimation on an uplink channel using the reconfigurable intelligent surface; and reconfigure the reconfigurable intelligent surface after the channel estimation to improve coverage within the uplink channel.
Disclosed is a method comprising comparing, by a terminal device in a radio access network, a change in reference timing with a threshold value; and 5 applying or stopping, by the terminal device, relaxed measurement on one or more cells of the radio access network based at least partly on the comparison.
The method includes obtaining, by at least one processor of at least one first network node within a communication network, at least one first key performance metrics (KPM) data type, from a plurality of KPM data types, the plurality of KPM data types including current KPM data, predicted KPM data and predicted guaranteed KPM data, transmitting, by the at least one processor, at least one first parameter to an application function, the at least one first parameter identifying the at least one first KPM data type; and controlling, by the at least one processor, an operation of the application function based on the at least one first parameter.
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Telecommunications network equipment, namely silicon chips for use in telecommunications routers to provide IP routing services over telecommunications networks; none of the aforesaid goods in relation to biometric sensors, processors, modules, software and algorithms and the industry of personal identification.
Message(s) are created to be transmitted over a geostationary system. The message(s) include coverage information for non-geo stationary satellite(s) in an NTN from PLMN(s). The message(s) are transmitted over the geostationary system. A UE searches for a PLMN. The UE, in response to finding a PLMN transmitting, using a geostationary system, message(s) including coverage information for non-geo stationary satellite(s) in an NTN, receives the message(s). The UE updates preferences used for a list used for PLMN selection to make PLMN(s) corresponding to the coverage information as higher priority than other PLMN(s) in the list. The UE performs cell search(es) for cells from the non-geo stationary satellite(s) using the updated list.
Systems, methods, and software for a Radio Access Network (RAN). In one embodiment, a system identifies a plurality of cells within the RAN, and groups the cells into cell groups. The system performs a training process to train group Machine-Learning (ML) models for the cell groups based on training data for the cell groups, and evaluates a performance of the group ML models for the cell groups based on evaluation data for the cell groups. The system provides the group ML models for the cell groups to a RAN management system or the like when the performance of the group ML models satisfies a performance threshold.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for complexity reduction for an open radio access network radio unit uplink receiver are provided. For example, a method can include processing an uplink signal from a user equipment by performing a first digital reception beamforming on the uplink signal. The method can further include providing, by the first device, the processed uplink signal with additional information to a second device supporting the first device. The additional information can be configured to enable a second digital reception beamforming on the processed uplink signal in the second device.
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
An method includes determining, by a user device, a configuration for a plurality of beam failure detection reference signal (BFD-RS) sets, and a candidate beam set associated with each of the plurality of (BFD-RS) sets; determining, by the user device, a beam failure status of the plurality of (BFD-RS) sets, including determining a beam failure for at least one of the (BFD-RS) sets; adjusting at least one of the following based on the beam failure status of the plurality of (BFD-RS) sets: a candidate beam evaluation period to evaluate candidate beams of an associated candidate beam set after a beam failure of one of the (BFD-RS) sets; a beam failure detection evaluation period for the user device to detect a failure of one of the (BFD-RS) sets; and scheduling restrictions that restrict or not restrict occasions in which the user device is required to monitor a downlink control 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
Method, apparatuses, and computer program products provide cross-domain resource coordination using predictions of user equipment (UE) episodic mobility routes. Various embodiments described herein can be applied to establish and/or migrate data sessions for low- latency applications with edge cloud resources. An example method performed by network functions of a network domain includes predicting an episodic mobility route for a UE and obtaining candidate edge application server instances identified based on their respective locations in relation to the episodic mobility route. The method further includes determining quality metrics for the candidate server instances in combination with anchor points, the quality metrics including data network latency. The method further includes selecting an edge server instance and/or an anchor point, and either establishing a new data session with the selected server instance via the selected anchor point, or migrating an existing data session to the selected server instance via the selected anchor point.
H04L 47/283 - Flow controlCongestion control in relation to timing considerations in response to processing delays, e.g. caused by jitter or round trip time [RTT]
H04L 67/00 - Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
H04L 67/289 - Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
A network node may determine a congestion level of a random access channel; and may transmit, to one or more energy constrained user equipments, at least one barring parameter, wherein the at least one barring parameter may be based, at least partially, on the determined congestion level and an energy constraint of the one or more user equipments. An energy constrained user equipment may receive a system information block comprising a barring factor and a back-off time; may determine whether to transmit a preamble for a random access procedure based, at least partially, on the barring factor and a maximum number of preamble transmission attempts; may transmit the preamble based on a determination to do so, or may wait for the back-off time based on a determination to not do so.
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A network device determines localization constraint(s) for an expected vertical range over which a UE may be positioned. The network device estimates vertical position of the UE. The network device compares the estimated vertical position with the localization constraint(s). The network device performs different actions depending on whether the estimated vertical position is within or outside the localization constraint(s). The network device may be the UE 110, a location server (e.g., LMF), or an LMC as implemented by the RAN node.
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H04W 4/029 - Location-based management or tracking services
Disclosed is a method comprising receiving, from a second cell, a paging message associated with a network slice supported by a first cell, wherein the paging message comprises at least an indication indicating to wait for a command indicative of performing a re-direction or a handover from the second cell to the first cell before transmitting a service request to a network associated with the first cell and the second cell; performing, by the terminal device, the re-direction or the handover from the second cell to the first cell upon receiving the command; and transmitting, through the first cell, the service request upon completing the re-direction or the handover from the second cell to the first cell, wherein the service request indicates a request for establishing a protocol data unit session associated with the network slice.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for sidelink edge services with session continuity during mobility are provided. For example, a method can include method may include identifying, at a remote user equipment, offloading capability or edge service hosting capability of a user equipment. The method may also include selecting, by the remote user equipment, the user equipment to be used as a relay between the remote user equipment and a network element based on the identified offloading or service hosting capability.
Techniques for enhancing multimodal service flow communications within communication networks are discussed. In an example embodiment, an apparatus is configured to receive one or more connection messages for one or more user devices. The apparatus is further configured to manage one or more data traffic flows associated with the one or more user devices based at least in part on a received service correlation identifier.
Techniques for providing distributed NAS layer termination points within a communication network. A network entity assigns a non-access stratum temporary identifier to a user device. The non-access stratum temporary identifier is associated with a non-access stratum termination point, and wherein a type of non-access stratum termination point is based at least in part on an apparatus type configured to handle one or more non-access stratum messages. The network entity causes the user device to be provided with the non-access stratum temporary identifiers.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for initiating or providing application specific protocol data unit (PDU) sessions are provided. One method may include receiving, from an application server or application function having a co-located or integrated micro-user plane function (UPF), a request to use the micro-user plane function (UPF) for an application. The method may include, based on information included in the request, determining an application specific data network name (AS-DNN) and provisioning a session management node with the micro-user plane function (UPF) information associated with the application specific data network name (AS-DNN).
A method including receiving, by the network device from a user equipment (UE), a physical random-access channel (PRACH) message during a random-access channel (RACH) occasion (RO) in a PRACH slot, wherein the RO is associated with two or more Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs) and transmitting, by the network device to the UE, a random access response (RAR) message using two or more beams, wherein the two or more beams are associated with the two or more SSBs.
Techniques of relaying signals include modifying an IAB node to have a built-in mode to support signal repetition, wherein a portion of the time-frequency resources of the IAB are dynamically allocated in the repeater mode for delay-sensitive data.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for coordinating and/or controlling multiple application functions (AFs) are provided. One method may include obtaining a sharing policy configured to define preferences for handling application function (AF) requests, receiving, from an application function (AF), a sharing option request that explicitly indicates a sharing option desired by the application function (AF), and determining whether the sharing option request by the application function (AF) is authorized for a user equipment (UE) and protocol data unit (PDU) session.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for contention-based positioning without requiring device authentication are provided. For example, a method can include sending, by a user equipment, a positioning message to a serving network element in a network that includes multiple network elements including both the serving network element itself and at least one other network element. The positioning message can be sent as a contention-based message. The method can also include receiving, by the user equipment, a positioning response from the serving network element. Content of the positioning response can be contingent on a collision result of the contention-based message.
Disclosed is a method comprising communicating, during a positioning session for positioning of a terminal device, at least one positioning signal in a first positioning state of at least two positioning states configured for the positioning session; switching from the first positioning state to a second positioning state of the at least two positioning states, wherein the first and second positioning states correspond to different reference signal configurations used for communicating of the at least one positioning signal; and communicating the at least one positioning signal in the second positioning state during the positioning session.
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G01S 3/02 - Direction-finders for determining the direction from which infrasonic, sonic, ultrasonic, or electromagnetic waves, or particle emission, not having a directional significance, are being received using radio waves
G01S 19/06 - Cooperating elementsInteraction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers providing aiding data employing an initial estimate of the location of the receiver as aiding data or in generating aiding data
Certain examples of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus (110) comprising means for: receiving Ultra-Wideband, UWB, Reference Signal, RS, configuration information (503), wherein the UWB RS configuration information comprises information for configuring a transmission or a reception of a UWB RS 508 by the apparatus (110) to or from at least one node of a Radio Access Network, RAN 120; and based at least in part on the received UWB RS configuration information (503), causing transmission or reception of the UWB RS 508 to or from the at least one node of the RAN 120.
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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
A method comprising: transmitting UE capability information, indicating that the UE is capable of operating with a low/high dynamic range for at least one of ADC or DAC, and that the UE is capable of measuring received signal dynamic range; receiving from the gNB a configuration to start periodic measurements and measurement reporting of dynamic range (e.g. wanted signal and total received power) or, alternatively, receiving from the gNB a request to send a single measurement report of dynamic range; performing configured measurement (s) and reporting to gNB; receiving a configuration from the gNB to switch to operating according to a low dynamic range and transmitting and/or receiving signals according to low dynamic range characteristics; or, alternatively, receiving a configuration from the gNB to switch to operating according to a high dynamic range and transmitting and/or receiving signals according to high and/or low dynamic range characteristics without specific restrictions.
A method comprising: performing initial access using a first DL BWP associated with a low dynamic range for ADC and/or a first UL BWP associated with a low dynamic range for DAC; indicating UE capability to the gNB, the UE capability indicating that the UE is capable of operating with a high dynamic range for at least one of ADC and DAC; receiving an indication from the gNB, the indication instructing the UE to start operating with a second DL BWP associated with a high dynamic range for ADC and/or a second UL BWP associated with a high dynamic range for DAC; and receiving at least one PDSCH via the second DL BWP and/or transmit at least PUSCH via the second UL BWP.
There is provided an apparatus comprising means configured to: determine for one or more integrated access and backhaul nodes one or more respective actions to be taken by that integrated access and backhaul node in response to a radio link failure in a network of integrated access and backhaul nodes, said determining being dependent on one or more of: loading associated with one or more integrated access and backhaul nodes; and a status of one or more links between two or more of the integrated access and backhaul nodes.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for cell re-selection are provided. One method may include obtaining, by a near-real- time radio access node intelligent controller (near RT-RIC), at least one tier 1 policy. The near-RT RIC may obtain layer 2 (L2) metadata from at least one E2 node, and application types run by user equipment served by the at least one E2 node. The near-RT RIC may compute at least one optimized per user equipment guidance policy. The near-RT RIC may transmit the at least one computed optimized per user equipment guidance policy to the at least one E2 node.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for sidelink positioning with on-demand reconfiguration of sidelink positioning reference signal. A method may include transmitting or receiving a sidelink positioning reference signal to or from a target user equipment, wherein the target user equipment corresponds to a user equipment to be positioned. The method may further include determining a new sidelink positioning reference signal configuration, or transmitting a sidelink positioning reference signal reconfiguration request message to a network element triggering the network element to initiate the new sidelink positioning reference signal configuration. In addition, the method may include transmitting or receiving one or more new sidelink positioning reference signals according to the new sidelink positioning reference signal configuration.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for handling measurement gaps for frame based equipment (FBE) operation are provided. One method may include receiving at a user equipment, from a serving cell, assistance information that includes at least one of a fixed frame period (FFP) configuration of the serving cell, a reference signal timing configuration for at least one neighbor cell and system frame number (SFN) and frame timing difference reporting information for the at least one neighbor cell. The method may also include determining whether there is transmission from the serving cell during a period of time and, in accordance with a determination that there is no transmission from the serving cell during the period of time, based at least on the assistance information, performing measurement of the at least one neighbor cell during the period of time.
According to the disclosure there is provided an apparatus comprising means for performing: hosting an application function for running an application in a communication system; communicating a request with the communication system, the request comprising one or more required reliability parameters of the communication system for the application function; receiving a response from the communication system, the response indicating that a reliability configuration has been configured in the communication system to meet the one or more reliability parameters; and operating the application function in accordance with the reliability configuration.
An apparatus comprising one processor and one memory including computer program code to : generate at least one sample corresponding to at least one radar/non-radar signal; form at least one spectrogram using time and frequency domain domain characteristics of the sample; wherein the spectrogram is formed via subdividing an observation window of the sample into time slots of a given duration, computing a power spectral density for a subset of the time slots having a higher determined energy relative to other time slots, and combining one or more computed power spectral densities of the subset; pass the spectrogram to a model to detect a presence of the radar signal and classify the radar signal as either interference/noise or radar present, and estimate a bandwidth of the detected radar signal; and determine the radar signal to be in-band or out-of-band relative to a shared spectrum hand, based on the estimated bandwidth.
A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide for improving performance of autonomous robots through waypoint reduction for path planning. In the context of a method, the method obtains a path set comprising a plurality of paths to be traversed by a plurality of autonomous robots. The method determines a path set solution based at least on the path set. In some examples, the path set solution provides for conflict-free traversal of the plurality of paths by the plurality of autonomous robots, and determining the path set solution comprises removing at least one waypoint from the path set while ensuring that the path set solution from which the at least one waypoint has been removed provides for conflict-free traversal. In some embodiments, the method also causes transmission of the path set solution to at least one autonomous robot of the plurality of autonomous robots.
In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method which can be performed by an apparatus to estimate, a coverage area of a high altitude platform station of a communication network, wherein the estimating is based at least on an antenna gain pattern and transmit power associated with the high altitude platform station; determine an impacted at least one terrestrial network cell of the communication network impacted based on the estimated coverage area and on terrestrial network base station locations in the communication network; and coordinate with the impacted at least one terrestrial network cell at least one resource allocation to minimize interference caused by the estimated coverage area.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for beam failure detection and/or beam failure recovery procedures, for instance, for multi-panel user equipment (UEs) are provided. One method may include transmitting, by a UE, a beam report to a network to indicate an association between at least two downlink reference signals and at least two antenna panels at the user equipment or to indicate a selection of at least two downlink reference signals that will be used for downlink reception at the user equipment simultaneously. The method may also include activating the antenna panels corresponding to one or more of the at least two downlink reference signals, based on transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states updated by the network or based on the selection of the at least two downlink reference signals, and detecting beam failure based on at least two sets of beam failure detection resources for the active antenna panels.
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
H04B 7/0404 - Diversity systemsMulti-antenna systems, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas the mobile station comprising multiple antennas, e.g. to provide uplink diversity
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus configured to define a set of devices for a device management action, store a location of each one of the devices, each location being defined in terms of network hierarchy, each location comprising a network identifier of the device in at least three levels of the network hierarchy, and perform the device management action on each device in the set in an order selected based on the location such that consecutive ones of the devices in the order are separated at as high a level of the network hierarchy as possible. The devices may comprise Internet of Things devices or 5G user equipments, for example.
G06F 15/16 - Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs
H04L 41/00 - Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
It is provided a method comprising: preparing a set of plural input values based on a received first actual value of a quantity; calculating, for each of the plural input values, a respective inference by a respective machine learning instance, wherein the calculating for at least two of the plural input values is performed fully or partly in parallel; selecting one of the plural input values, wherein the selected one of the plural input values is closest to a second actual value of the quantity, and the second actual value is received after the first actual value; determining an estimated inference based on the inference calculated for the selected one of the plural input values.
G06F 15/18 - in which a program is changed according to experience gained by the computer itself during a complete run; Learning machines (adaptive control systems G05B 13/00;artificial intelligence G06N)
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ADAPTIVE LEARNING IN DISTRIBUTION SHIFT FOR RAN AI/ML MODELS
An apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive a request from a radio access network algorithm to determine whether there is a distribution shift related to a temporal characteristic of a cell of a communication network; request data from a radio access network node or a controller platform related to the temporal characteristic; receive the requested data related to the cell from the radio access network node or the controller platform; determine whether there is a distribution shift related to the temporal characteristic; in response to determining that there is a distribution shift, select a learning type for an update to a model; and update the model such that, when the model is provided to an inference server, causes the radio access network algorithm to use the updated model to perform at least one action to optimize the performance of the radio access network node or other radio access network node.
One method may include receiving parameters for rules at a user equipment from a first network node. The method may include determining a split of a block error rate target based on the received parameters for each transmission leg, and a block error rate offset for each transmission leg serving a data radio bearer of the user equipment. The method may include determining, according to the received parameters, how a downlink transmission should be taking place from the first network node and a second network node in each transmission leg. In addition, the method may include proposing a block error rate offset to one or more of the first network node and the second network node, and determining that the first network node should transmit in the downlink transmission. The method may include informing the first network node that it is recommended to transmit in the downlink transmission.
A method includes receiving at least one network performance indicator of a communication network from at least one cell in the network; determining a reward for the at least one cell in the network based on the at least one network performance indicator; and determining whether to modify at least one self-organizing network parameter of the at least one cell in the network to change the at least one network performance indicator or an average value of the reward, based in part on the determined reward.
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for testing user equipment (UE) machine learning-assisted radio resource management (RRM) functionalities are provided. One method may include selecting a radio resource management (RRM) functionality to be tested for a user equipment (UE) having advertised machine learning (ML)-assistance capabilities, initializing a machine learning (ML)-assistance model in the user equipment based on the advertised machine learning (ML)-assistance capabilities, generating one or more input test signals and corresponding reference output test conditions depending on the machine learning (ML)-assisted radio resource management (RRM) functionality under test, and activating UE machine learning (ML)-assistance functionality and provisioning, to the user equipment, a test sequence with the generated input test signals and corresponding reference output conditions.
An improved NR-U framework allows a gNB to repeat RLM-RS with the same index over each sub-band of an unlicensed spectrum. For example, a RLM-RS with the same indices are repeated by the gNB over the sub-bands of a wideband channel in an unlicensed spectrum. By monitoring the different sub-bands, a UE may find one or more sub-bands in which the RLM-RS having a particular index is successfully transmitted at a subsequent time.
