In an Advanced Antenna System, a desired power amplifier, PA, load distribution, which counters the mismatch of active impedance load, is achieved by altering the lengths of routing traces connecting PA outputs and corresponding antenna elements/subarrays. The combined output performance in the beam during active impedance load is then restored to the matched condition performance. This can be visualized as distributing the load impedance more evenly—ideally, on a circle—on a Smith chart.
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An authentication server in a home network of a wireless device receives, from a network node, a request for authentication data based on which to authenticate the wireless device. The request indicates a serving network on which the authentication data is to be based. The authentication server checks whether or not the network node is authorized to request authentication data that is based on the indicated serving network.
According to certain embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device (110) for measurement reporting includes sorting a plurality of measurements for a measurement report based on at least one measurement quantity. The method further includes reporting, to a network node (160), measurement information selected from the plurality of measurements sorted based on the at least one measurement quantity.
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
There is provided techniques for using a PDU session to access application services. A method is performed by a subscriber entity. The method includes accessing a primary application service of a primary data network using a PDU session by first requesting the PDU session with the primary data network to be established. The method includes providing a request to an SMF entity for the PDU session to be modified for the subscriber entity to use the PDU session to access a secondary application service with a different access control policy than the primary application service. The method includes, in response thereto, performing a secondary authentication with an EAP server for the already established PDU session for the subscriber entity to access the secondary application service of the secondary data network.
The present disclosure provides methods for managing an event report for a user equipment served by a first NF node. The method is implemented at the first NF node, and comprises in response to receiving, from a second NF node, a UE context transfer request when the UE moves to be served by the second NF node, including in first UE context an indication indicating an event status of the UE for a first subscribed event that is reported last, and transmitting the first UE context to the second NF node. The present disclosure further discloses corresponding NF nodes for implementing the method and corresponding computer readable medium.
Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) configured for positioning in a radio access network (RAN). Such methods include receiving, from a positioning node, a configuration of a plurality of positioning reference signal (PRS) resources. Each PRS resource is associated with one of a plurality of different carrier frequencies or positioning frequency layers (PFLs) transmitted by a RAN node. The configuration includes one or more aggregation identifiers indicating one or more relationships between the plurality of carrier frequencies or PFLs. Such methods include selectively performing positioning measurements jointly and/or coherently on PRS resources associated with two or more of the carrier frequencies or PFLs, based on one or more of the following: the one or more aggregation identifiers, and an arrangement of the UE's plurality of receiver (Rx) chains. Such methods include sending to the positioning node a report including the positioning measurements.
Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatuses for training a first machine learning, ML, model and a second ML model. A computer-implemented method of training a first ML model comprises: receiving a first latent space representation of a first channel state information, CSI, training data set, H1, from a first wireless device; decoding, using first parameters of the first ML model, the first latent space representation to determine a first reconstructed CSI data set; classifying, using second parameters of the first ML model, the first latent space representation to estimate an estimated classification; determining a first loss based on the estimated classification and a true classification; and updating the first parameters and the second parameters based on the determined first loss.
Embodiments include solutions to allocate resources using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). An exemplary method comprises: receiving a service topology to provide a plurality of services that are interdependent; receiving a performance target for each service; and applying a set of MDPs to the service topology and the performance targets to derive resource allocation to achieve the performance targets, each of the set of MDPs being defined by: a state space including a plurality of states, each state represented by a resource allocation of each of the plurality of services, performance of each of the plurality of services at the each state, and a dependency relationship among the plurality of services; an action space represented by a set of actions that change a resource allocation; a reward function that calculates numeric scores for the plurality of services, and a probability space represented by probabilities to transition.
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METHODS FOR MOBILE TERMINATING DATA/SIGNALING HANDLING FOR UES IN RRC INACTIVE STATE, NETWORK NODE AND RADIO NETWORK NODE
Method and apparatus are provided for a network function in a core network (CN) and a Radio Access network (RAN) node in the RAN, where the network function in the CN determines a capability of the CN to support handling of Mobile Terminated (MT) data/signalling for a User Equipment (UE) (e.g., buffering) when in Radio Resource Control (RRC) INACTIVE state with long extended Discontinuous Reception (eDRX) cycle (e.g., more than 10.24 s) and transmitting to the RAN node serving the UE an indication indicating support of the CN for MT data/signalling handling. Based on the received indication, the RAN node determines that MT data/signalling can be handled (e.g., buffered) in the CN for the UE in RRC_INACTIVE state with long eDRX cycle.
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a network node configured to communicate with a wireless device, where the network node configured to: receive an enriched report that has been enriched with enrichment information, where the enrichment information is related to an impact of unlicensed wireless spectrum operation on mobility procedures, and perform at least one action associated with a mobility related procedure, where the at least one action is associated with at least on the enrichment information.
A network (200), a client (210), a server (220), a method, a computer program and a computer program product for providing and receiving information about a first resource hosted at the server is disclosed. The network comprises the client and the server. The network receives at the server from the client, a first CoAP message comprising a confirmable request relating to the first resource, creates a second resource at the server, wherein the second resource indicates a status of the confirmable request, sends to the client from the server, a second CoAP message comprising a response including a path of the second resource, sends to the server from the client, the first CoAP message and receives from the server at the client, the second CoAP message.
H04L 67/51 - Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
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H04L 67/62 - Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
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Authentication and Authorization of Servers and Clients in Edge Computing
Embodiments include methods performed by a client in an edge data network. Such methods include obtaining an initial access token before accessing the edge data network. The initial access token is based on an identifier of the client. Such methods include establishing a first connection with a server of the edge data network based on transport layer security (TLS) and authenticating the server based on a server certificate received from the server via the first connection. Such methods include providing the initial access token to the server, via the first connection, for authentication of the client and subsequently receiving a second access token from the server via the first connection. The second access token is based on the identifier of the client. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a server in an edge data network, as well as apparatus (e.g., user equipment and servers) configured to perform such methods.
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for random access. The method which may be performed by a terminal device comprises determining a resource overhead for transmission of an uplink shared channel of a message. The message includes data on the uplink shared channel and a random access preamble. The method further comprises transmitting the data on the uplink shared channel of the message to a network node, based at least in part on the determined resource overhead. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, the resource overhead for message A physical uplink shared channel transmission may be configured flexibly, and the transport block size for message A physical uplink shared channel transmission can be determined adaptively.
According to an aspect, a UE in an uplink split-bearer configuration is configured to transmit PDUs by a first RLC entity via a first uplink transmission path and/or by a second RLC entity via a second uplink transmission path. The UE determines a total amount of data volume from PDCP data volume and RLC data volume pending for initial transmission in the two RLC entities. The UE decides whether submission of PDCP data volume is allowed to either of the two RLC entities or to only the first RLC entity, based on whether the total amount of data volume meets or exceeds a first threshold. The UE also reports the PDCP data volume to both the first and second uplink transmission paths or only the first uplink transmission path, based on whether the total amount of data volume meets or exceeds a first threshold.
H04W 76/15 - Setup of multiple wireless link connections
G06F 9/455 - EmulationInterpretationSoftware simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines
G06N 7/01 - Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks
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A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. A network node configured to communicate with a wireless device (WD) is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to cause the network node to: indicate a splitting of an initial physical shared channel allocation that crosses a slot boundary into at least a first physical shared channel allocation in a first slot and a second physical shared channel allocation in a second slot; and communicate with the wireless device, WD, according to the at least the first physical shared channel allocation and the second physical shared channel allocation.
The present disclosure describes techniques for scaling the precoder output in an antenna system implementing joint transmission to control the total power emitted by a plurality of antennas distributed among multiple antennas. The scaling factor used for scaling the transmit power at each antenna comprises a parameter, NAP, indicating a number of APs in the antenna system. In introduction of the parameter, NAP, enables the scaling factor to be designed such that the total sum power does not increase when additional APs are added to the antenna system.
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
H04B 7/024 - Co-operative use of antennas at several sites, e.g. in co-ordinated multipoint or co-operative multiple-input multiple-output [MIMO] systems
H04W 52/42 - TPC being performed in particular situations in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity
A phase shifter assembly has two signal conductors, a ground plane, a substrate, a shifting device, and a cover. The signal conductors are located on the front surface and each comprise a delay section. The shifting device comprises an actuation portion and two shifting portions, the shifting portions being located at the front side of the substrate and covering one of the delay sections of the signal conductor at least partly. The shifting device is movable with respect to the substrate. The substrate comprises a slot vertically through the substrate, wherein the slot is located between the delay sections of the at least two signal conductors, and wherein the actuation portion of the shifting device extends through the slot. The cover is located on the front side of the substrate covering the slot and being electrically connected to the ground plane. Further, an antenna is provided.
H01Q 1/24 - SupportsMounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set
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H01Q 19/10 - Combinations of primary active antenna elements and units with secondary devices, e.g. with quasi-optical devices, for giving the antenna a desired directional characteristic using reflecting surfaces
A method to estimate an inter-channel time difference (ITD) in an encoder using a discontinuous transmission (DTX) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a time domain audio input including audio input signals and processing the audio input signals in frames to produce a mono mixdown signal and one or more stereo parameters. The method further includes encoding the mono mixdown signal on a frame-by-frame basis by: encoding of active content of the mono mixdown signal at a first bit rate until a pause period is detected; estimating ITD parameters during the encoding of active content; switching the encoding from the active encoding content to inactive encoding to encode background noise at a second bit rate during the pause period; and estimating ITD parameters during the pause period. The method further includes encoding the ITD estimated parameters and other stereo parameters periodically during the pause period.
G10L 19/008 - Multichannel audio signal coding or decoding using interchannel correlation to reduce redundancy, e.g. joint-stereo, intensity-coding or matrixing
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. A network node is configured to communicate with a wireless device. The network node is configured to configure the wireless device according to a wake-up signal, WUS, scheme, the WUS scheme configured for at least one of: reducing an occurrence of a false wake-up of a main radio of the wireless device; configuring the wireless device with a no-wake-up window, the no-wake-up window having a time period during which a main radio of the wireless device is prevented from waking; and configuring the wireless device with an inactivity timer configured for, after the occurrence of the false wake up, keeping the main radio awake for the duration of the inactivity timer. The network node is configured to communicate with the wireless device based on the WUS scheme.
A method for processing images. The method includes obtaining a first image and a second image. The method also includes dividing the first image into N regions. The method also includes, for a first region of the first image, defining a corresponding first region of the second image, and, for a second region of the first image, defining a corresponding second region of the second image. The method also includes detecting a first feature in the first region of the first image and detecting a second feature in the second region of the first image. The method also includes searching the second image for a feature matching the first feature, wherein the searching of the second image for the feature matching the first feature is limited to searching only the corresponding first region of the second image. The method further includes searching the second image for a feature matching the second feature, wherein the searching of the second image for a feature matching the second feature is limited to searching only the corresponding second region of the second image.
G06V 10/75 - Organisation of the matching processes, e.g. simultaneous or sequential comparisons of image or video featuresCoarse-fine approaches, e.g. multi-scale approachesImage or video pattern matchingProximity measures in feature spaces using context analysisSelection of dictionaries
G06V 10/26 - Segmentation of patterns in the image fieldCutting or merging of image elements to establish the pattern region, e.g. clustering-based techniquesDetection of occlusion
G06V 10/77 - Processing image or video features in feature spacesArrangements for image or video recognition or understanding using pattern recognition or machine learning using data integration or data reduction, e.g. principal component analysis [PCA] or independent component analysis [ICA] or self-organising maps [SOM]Blind source separation
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PRIORITIZATION BETWEEN MULTIPLE RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL PROCEDURES
Embodiments of the present application set forth techniques for operating a user equipment, UE. A method includes determining that a first trigger to initiate a first random access, RA, procedure has been met. The method further includes, subsequent to determining that the first trigger has been met and prior to the first RA occasion, determining that a second trigger to initiate a second RA procedure has been met. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the second trigger has been met, prioritizing one of the first RA procedure or the second RA procedure based on one or more prioritization rules.
Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed to a method performed by a wireless communication device. The method includes receiving, from a network node, information that configures the wireless communication device for a Configured Grant (CG) based Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission with PUSCH repetitions towards two or more transmissions/reception points (TRPs). The method includes performing the CG based PUSCH transmission with PUSCH repetitions towards the multiple TRPs in accordance with the received information.
A method of managing a wireless communication network includes obtaining data regarding performance of a cell of the wireless communication network, and generating, based on the obtained data, predictions of values of a plurality of key performance indicators (KPIs) of the cell of the wireless communication network that are correlated with uplink (UL) throughput. The method includes generating a prediction that the cell will experience degraded UL throughput at a future time based on the predicted values of the KPIs, and determining, from among the plurality of KPIs, a set of candidate root cause KPIs associated with the predicted degraded UL throughput. The method further includes selecting an actuation based on the determined set of candidate KPIs, and applying the actuation to the wireless communication network.
A method performed by a computing manager in a mobile network is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from a job seeker, a request to execute a job in the mobile network, determining an assignment of job portions to one or more job workers based on requirements of the job, information regarding resources that the plurality of job workers are willing to make available for job executions, information regarding a network condition of the mobile network, and information regarding network resources allocated to job workers, changing a network resource allocation for at least one of the one or more job workers, providing job portion assignments to the one or more job workers in accordance with the determined assignment, aggregating partial job execution results received from the one or more job workers to generate a full job execution result, and providing the full job execution result to the job seeker.
The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for predicting Internet of Things (IoT) data inconsistency. The method comprises obtaining labelled IoT data, the IoT data being collected from a plurality of IoT devices by a monitoring system. The method comprises analyzing characteristics of the labelled IoT data and identifying features of IoT data inconsistency. The method comprises training, using the labelled IoT devices data and the features of IoT data inconsistency, a ML model to predict the IoT data inconsistency. The method comprises generating, using the labelled IoT data and the features of IoT data inconsistency, a set of inconsistency rules to be applied to live IoT data predicted as inconsistent by the ML model.
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METHODS FOR ENHANCED LEVEL IN SECURITY IN ACCESS CONTROL PERFORMED BY AN AUTHENTICATION SERVER, AN ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE AND A KEY RESPECTIVELY, USING CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE AND OPTIONALLY INVOLVING MULTIPLE DEVICES
A method (800) for access control. The method includes receiving (s802), at an authorization server (106), an indication that the user (101) has used or intends to use a key (102) in an attempt to gain access to a property (112), wherein access to the property is controlled by an access controller (104). The method also includes, after receiving the indication, the authorization server transmitting (s804) a first challenge to a first device associated with the user. The method also includes the authorization server receiving (s806) from the first device a response to the first challenge. The method also includes using the response to the first challenge, the authorization server determining (s808) whether the user is authorized to access to the property. The method further includes the authorization server sending (s810) a message indicating whether or not the user is authorized to access the property.
H04L 9/32 - Arrangements for secret or secure communicationsNetwork security protocols including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system
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KPI-DRIVEN HARDWARE AND ANTENNA CALIBRATION ALARM THRESHOLD OPTIMIZATION USING MACHINE LEARNING
Systems and methods are disclosed that relate to Key Performance Indicator (KPI)-driven alarm threshold optimization using machine learning. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises obtaining network-level KPI data for a network and radio log data for one or more radio systems in the network. The KPI data comprises KPI values for one or more network-level KPIs, and the radio log data comprises a number of faulty or uncalibrated antenna branches in the radio system and cell or user beamforming weights. The method further comprises pre-processing the KPI data and the radio log data, labeling the pre-processed KPI data as degraded or non-degraded, and training, with the labeled KPI data and the pre-processed radio log data, a fault classifier Machine Learning (ML) model to output a value(s) that represent a probability that the KPI(s) will be degraded for a given input feature set.
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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H04W 28/02 - Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
This disclosure provides a method for handling sensorial information in a communications network. The method comprises transmitting from an application node to a sense device manager sensorial information, an action associated to the sensorial information, and an indication of a target user device for the sensorial information; transmitting from the sense device manager to a user device the sensorial information and the action associated to the sensorial information; and initiating at the user device the action. In some embodiments, the method further comprises transmitting from the user device to the sense device manager capability information on at least one sensorial information supported by the user device; and transmitting from the sense device manager to the user device sensorial information based on the capability information transmitted by the user device.
A method performed by a UE (102) having at least two SIMs for simultaneous communication with two or more networks. The UE provides assistance information to a network node, wherein the assistance information is related to a MCG, and/or SCG; and the assistance information indicates a preference for reduced UE configuration for Multi-SIMs purposes.
H04W 76/16 - Setup of multiple wireless link connections involving different core network technologies, e.g. a packet-switched [PS] bearer in combination with a circuit-switched [CS] bearer
H04W 8/18 - Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profilesTransfer of user or subscriber data
A gearbox for an antenna, an antenna including the gearbox as well as a mobile communication base station including the antenna. The gearbox comprises at least two phase shift adjustment spindles that can be coupled to a respective phase shifter of the antenna and driven for electrically adjusting a radiation beam direction of the antenna. A rotary driving actuator of the gearbox is adapted to rotate a coupling element. A function selector actuator includes a movable function selector element that is fixed to the coupling element and to a coupling mechanism of the gearbox, wherein the function selector element is movable from a first position to a second position thereby actuating the coupling element and the coupling mechanism to either adjust a phase shifter or to select a phase shifter to be adjusted.
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F16H 25/18 - Gearings comprising primarily only cams, cam-followers and screw-and-nut mechanisms for conveying or interconverting oscillating or reciprocating motions
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for precoder generation. The method which may be performed by a communication device comprises: estimating slot-based channel temporal auto-correlation according to a set of channel estimates of reference signals. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, the method further comprises: selecting a precoder for a first slot from a set of precoder candidates according to the slot-based channel temporal auto-correlation. The set of precoder candidates may be calculated by using at least part of the set of the channel estimates of the reference signals.
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. A system including at least one wireless device and a network node configured to communicate with the at least one wireless device is provided. The network node includes an antenna array including a plurality of antennas. The network node is configured to determine at least one precoding matrix based on a Douglas-Rachford splitting convex optimization model between a per-antenna power constraint and a Multi-User Interference (MUI) requirement for evening the output power of the plurality of antennas of the antenna array. The network node is configured to cause transmission to the at least one wireless device using the antenna array based at least in part on the at least one precoding matrix.
A user equipment (“UE”) can handle registrations of the UE in different wireless communication networks. The UE can obtain information indicating whether a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (“USIM”) of the UE supports storing multiple different Non-Access Stratum (“NAS”) security contexts of the UE associated with the different wireless communication networks. The UE can further determine whether the USIM supports storing the multiple different NAS security contexts of the UE associated with the different wireless communication networks based on the obtained information.
A method performed by a wireless device includes receiving ephemeris data from a network node associated with a first cell. The ephemeris data is associated with a satellite serving a second cell, and the ephemeris data is coarse ephemeris data comprising less than full accuracy than full ephemeris data. The wireless device uses the coarse ephemeris data to locate a beam associated with the second cell and synchronizes with the second cell.
A method of operating a user equipment, UE, according to some embodiments includes receiving a handover, HO, command, to perform a handover to a target cell, wherein the HO command includes a mobility configuration for lower layer mobility associated to multiple physical cell identities, PCIs, configured for the target cell, and applying the HO command including the mobility configuration. A method of operating a first network node includes receiving a HO request from a second network node to handover a UE to the first network node, the HO request including measurement information associated to multiple cells or multiple PCIs associated to the first network node, generating a HO command that includes a mobility configuration for lower layer mobility associated to multiple PCIs configured for the target cell, and transmitting the HO command to the second network node for delivery to the UE.
According to an aspect, there is provided a method for execution by a SEAL (Service Enabler Architecture Layer) service server of a network. The method involves determining a communication policy based on at least one KPI (Key Performance Indicator). The method also involves communicating, via the network, with a SEAL client of a communications device, in accordance with the communication policy. In some implementations, the SEAL service server is part of a SEAL layer, and the method also involves receiving feedback from a VASEAL (Vertical Application Service Enabling Architecture Layer) layer which is separate from the SEAL layer, and controlling the VASEAL layer and/or adjusting the communication policy based in part on the feedback. Thus, method can enable control on the network towards a SEAL layer which can allow capabilities of the SEAL layer to be extended to consume VASEAL layer information and provide control to the VASEAL layer.
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According to certain embodiments, a method by a wireless device is provided for performing logical channel prioritization (LCP) by a wireless device. The method includes selecting a set of logical channels based on one or more logical channel restrictions. The method further includes determining at least one logical channel of the set of logical channels to serve.
H04W 72/23 - Control channels or signalling for resource management in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
H04W 72/566 - Allocation or scheduling criteria for wireless resources based on priority criteria of the information or information source or recipient
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METHODS PROVIDING SIDELINK HARQ AT ACCESS STRATUM AND RELATED WIRELESS DEVICES
A method of operating a wireless device providing SL communications may be provided. A plurality of SDUs may be generated, wherein each of the SDUs is associated with a respective service, wherein a first SDU of the plurality of SDUs is associated with a first service and a first SL HARQ configuration, and wherein a second SDU of the plurality of SDUs is associated with a second service and a second SL HARQ configuration. The plurality of SDUs may be multiplexed into a TB so that the TB includes the first and second SDUs. A SL HARQ configuration may be selected for the TB based on at least one of the first SL HARQ configuration and the second SL HARQ configuration. The TB may be transmitted over a sidelink to at least one other wireless device using the SL HARQ configuration selected for the TB.
Provided herein is a unified Quality of Experience (QoE) framework for determining QoE metrics for a plurality of mobile services based, in part, on the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are collected for the services. The QoE metrics are scalar values, fall on a unified scale, and eliminate any dependencies that may exist between the KPIs used in determining the QoE metrics. The unified QoE framework includes a generic QoE calculation module having a loss model component, a KPI coupling calculation component, and a machine learning (ML) parameter optimization component. The QoE calculation module correlates network event information and calculates various resource and/or network KPIs. Additionally, the QoE calculation module calculates service KPIs for a predetermined number of traffic types, and estimates factors due to losses, drops, and soft drops. Additionally, the internal functional parameters of the underlying KPI are determined and/or optimized without requiring external intervention or the initial setting of parameters.
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A method performed by a control node for handling communication with a robot device. The control node determines a time limit for when a maximum tolerable deviation from a trajectory is reached, for at least two control command types. The at least two control command types include a joint-space command and a Cartesian-space command. The control node selects the control command type that reaches the time limit later, based on the determined time limit for the at least two control command types.
An access point (10) of the wireless communication system performs one or more first wireless transmissions to one or more wireless devices (11) associated with the access point (10). The first wireless transmissions are coordinated with one or more second wireless transmissions of at least one other access point (10) of the wireless communication system. For at least one of the one or more first wireless transmissions, the access point (10) receives an acknowledgement message comprising first acknowledgement information indicating whether the first wireless transmission was successfully received. The acknowledgement message is based on a retransmission mechanism which controls retransmission of the first acknowledgement information.
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to some embodiments, a network node is configured to: one of receive from another network node or determine a first level quality of experience, QoE, configuration item for multicast and broadcast service, MBS, and one of receive from the other network node or determine a second level QoE configuration item for the MBS, where the second level QoE configuration is different from the first level QoE configuration item and associated with an application whose data is delivered by the MBS. The network node is configured to indicate, to the wireless device, the first level QoE configuration item and second level QoE configuration item for the wireless device to perform an action based on at least one of the first level QoE configuration item or second level QoE configuration item.
H04W 4/06 - Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]Services to user groupsOne-way selective calling services
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METHODS OF CSI REPORTING WITH TYPE II CODEBOOK FOR HIGH VELOCITY
Systems and methods of Channel State Information (CSI) reporting with Type II codebook for high velocity are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes determining when to apply Doppler domain compression and when to avoid Doppler domain compression when feeding back a CSI report; determining a signaled number of CSI instances, for which the network node requests the User Equipment (UE) to compute CSI; and based on the number of CSI instances, determining whether to apply CSI compression in the Doppler domain or not. Some solutions proposed allow the possibility for the network and the UE to support cases with Doppler domain compression and without Doppler domain compression under a single CSI reporting framework. Based on the signaling received from the network, the solutions allow the UE to determine when to feedback selected Doppler domain bases and when to avoid Doppler domain bases selection in the Type II CSI report.
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
Systems and methods are disclosed for Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) reporting. In one embodiment, a method performed by a User Equipment (UE) comprises receiving, from a network node, first signaling that indicates a precoding matrix duration in time domain and receiving, from the network node, second signaling that indicates a number of precoder matrix durations wherein each precoder matrix duration is associated with a precoder matrix. The method further comprises receiving, from the network node, third signaling that indicates one or more CQI resolutions in time domain for one or more CQIs. The method further comprises reporting, to the network node, Precoding Matric Indicator (PMI) for the number of precoder matrix durations and reporting, to the network node, one or more CQIs according to the indicated one or more CQI resolutions in time domain. In this manner, feedback of CQI is enabled for, e.g., high-velocity UEs.
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An antenna, in particular for a mobile communication cell site, has radiators, a reflector, a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, and at least one phase shifter with at least one delay line and a shifting device. The radiators are mounted at the front side of the first layer, and the reflector for the radiators is provided by one of the layers. The second layer comprises a cutout extending vertically through the second layer, the cutout being closed to the front by the first layer and to the rear by the third layer forming a cavity. The delay line is arranged within a vertical projection of the cavity, and the shifting device comprises a shifting portion arranged in the cavity covering the delay line at least partly.
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Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for random access. The method which may be performed by a terminal device comprises performing a transmission of a message to a network node in a random access procedure. The transmission of the message may comprise transmission of a preamble and transmission of a payload on a shared channel. The method further comprises receiving a response message from the network node. In response to the response message, the terminal device may perform a retransmission of the payload on the shared channel to the network node according to retransmission configuration.
A communication device can be in a communications network that includes a first cell, a second cell, and a third cell provided by one or more network nodes. The communication device determines a radio link failure (“RLF”) associated with the communication device occurred in the second cell. The communication device can, responsive to determining that the RLF occurred, generate a RLF report including information based on at least one of the following: 1) whether a cell selection related timer was running while the communication device entered the second cell; and 2) whether configuration for a last executed handover was received by the communication device while connected to the first cell, the first cell being the previous cell to which the communication device was connected before connecting to the second cell. The communication device can transmit the RLF report to the third cell.
A communication device in a communications network receives a conditional handover configuration (“CHO”) from a first network node. The CHO can include an indication of a second network node. The communication devices stores the CHO. Subsequent to storing the CHO, the communication device determines a radio link failure (“RLF”) associated with the first network node or a handover failure (“HOF”) associated with a handover procedure towards the second network node. Subsequent to determining the RLF or the HOF, the communication device selects a third network node while a timer is running. The communication device transmits an indication to the third network node indicating that the communication device selected a cell hosted by the third network node as part of a cell selection procedure while the timer was running.
A computer-implemented method performed by a client computing device is provided for locating an access point to an edge computing application deployed at a local network or a central cloud to switch to in the event that a first connection between the client computing device and cloud computing device disconnects. The method includes determining (600) that the first connection between the cloud computing device and the client computing device will disconnect. The cloud computing device includes a first broker handling MQTT operations. The method further includes receiving (602) an identification of local computing devices through a mDNS; and determining (604) an identity of a local computing device, which is the access point and includes a second broker to handle the MQTT operations, to switch to responsive to the cloud computing device disconnection. The method further includes switching (608) to a second connection responsive to a disconnection of the first connection.
According to some embodiments, a method is performed by a network node for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) resource allocation. The method includes obtaining a data set representing a plurality of scheduling entities (SEs). Each of the SEs is associated with a signal quality, a priority, and/or a downlink control information (DCI) size. The method further includes determining a number of control channel elements (CCEs) and power allocation for the CCEs for each of the SEs based on the signal quality, the priority, and/or the DCI size associated with each of the SEs and a total power available, a power boosting threshold, and/or a total number of CCEs available. The method further includes generating a machine learning training set for online CCE and power allocation based on the determined number of CCEs and power allocation for the CCEs for each of the SEs.
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Dynamic Application Vulnerable Use Cases Identification in a Cloud Native Environment
A management system (200) configures logging in telecommunication networks executing one or more services (230) in a distributed workflow. To accomplish its function, the management system obtains vulnerability information for one or more services currently deployed in a communications network. The vulnerability information comprises, for each of the one or more services a vulnerability identifier (VID) identifying a vulnerability of the service and a vulnerability score indicating a severity of the vulnerability. So obtained, the management system configures a logging framework (220) to generate trace records (406, 424) for a service currently deployed in the communications network to include the VID and the vulnerability score of the service. The management system configures the logging framework to generate the trace records on a use case basis. Therefore, each of the trace records are generated to identify a particular use case and use case instance associated with the execution of the service.
Embodiments include methods for a consumer network function (NFc) of a communication network. Such methods include sending, to a first NF of the communication network, a first request for a first access token associated with a machine learning (ML) model. The first request includes at least one of the following associated with the ML model: an analytics identifier (ID), and an interoperability ID. Such methods include receiving from the first NF a first response that includes the first access token and sending, to a producer NF (NFp) of the communication network, a second request for the ML model. The second request includes the first access token and at least one of the analytics ID and the interoperability ID. Such methods include receiving from the NFp a second response that includes one or more of the following: the ML model; an identifier of the ML model; and an address of a storage resource associated with a second NF of the communication network, from which the ML model can be obtained.
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Systems and methods for indication of Non-Zero Coefficients (NZCs) in a codebook for User Equipments (UEs) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a UE comprises generating Channel State Information (CSI) comprising NZCs of a set of linear combining coefficients, wherein the set of linear combining coefficients are associated with a number, L, of selected Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) basis vectors in spatial domain (SD), a number, M, of selected DFT basis vectors in frequency domain (FD), and MvDD selected DFT basis vectors in Doppler Domain (DD). The CSI further comprises, for each reported layer, a set of MvDD NZC bitmaps that indicates positions of the NZCs, wherein the set of MvDD NZC bitmaps comprises a separate bitmap for each selected DFT basis vector in DD in the set of MvDD selected DFT basis vectors in DD. The method further comprises reporting the CSI to a network node.
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. A network node is configured to communicate with a wireless device (WD). According to one aspect, a method in a WD includes receiving a wakeup signal (WUS) synchronization sequence from the network node. The method includes synchronizing a wakeup receiver (WUR) of the WD according to the WUS synchronization sequence. The method also includes receiving by the WUR a WUS sequence from the network node.
There is provided techniques for initiating a secondary authentication process for a subscriber entity. A method is performed by a UPF entity. The method includes monitoring user plane traffic of an already established PDU session for the subscriber entity. The user plane traffic is monitored for a request from the subscriber entity to access an application service of a data network. Observing the request triggers the UPF entity to initiate the secondary authentication process for the subscriber entity for allowing the subscriber entity to access the application service. The method includes sending a notification to an SMF entity to initiate the secondary authentication process for the subscriber entity upon having observed the trigger.
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Systems and methods are disclosed that relate management of Service Enabler Architecture Layer for verticals (SEAL) data delivery via a cellular communications system. In one embodiment, a method performed by a system for SEAL data delivery via a telecommunication system comprises, at a Vertical Application Layer (VAL) server of a regulator domain, determining a policy for data delivery from a client in a first business actor domain to a VAL server in a second business actor domain wherein the data delivery is via SEAL data delivery communication over telecommunication system. The method further comprises, at the VAL server of the regular domain, providing the policy to a SEAL data delivery server in the regulator domain for enforcement of the policy comprising establishing a data delivery connection between the first business actor domain (SEAL DD client) and the second actor business domain (VAL server).
According to an aspect, a CSI/HARQ feedback-transmitting node receives control information indicating resources in which data is to be received by the node. The control information includes an ACK/NACK Resource Indicator (ARI) having a value indicating one of a plurality of predetermined sets of control channel resources for transmitting CQI feedback and HARQ feedback. The node determines a feedback payload size parameter, based on a number of bits to be reported for CQI feedback and for HARQ feedback, and selects, from a plurality of control channel resources in the predetermined set of control channel resources indicated by the value of the ARI, one of the control channel resources of the predetermined set, based on the feedback payload size parameter. The node transmits CQI feedback and HARQ feedback in the selected control channel resource.
A method, network node and wireless device (WD) to perform procedures based on a beam identification (ID) update guard interval are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method in a network node includes configuring a beam ID update guard period during which the WD is configured to assume that a same network node spatial filter is used during the beam ID update guard period unless otherwise indicated by the network node. The method also includes transmitting an indication of the configuration to the WD.
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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
H04W 72/044 - Wireless resource allocation based on the type of the allocated resource
Methods for a first network function (NF) configured to operate as a server of a federated learning (FL) group in a communication network. Such methods include registering, in a network repository function (NRF) of the communication network, information associated with the FL group. The FL group includes the first NF and one or more further NFs configured to operations as clients in the FL group. The registered information includes authorization information for additional NFs to join the FL group as clients. Such methods include receiving an indication of a second NF, of the communication network, that is a candidate client for the FL group and obtaining an indication that the second NF is authorized to join the FL group as a client. The indication is based on the registered authorization information. Such methods include, based on the indication, updating the FL group to include the second NF as a client.
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TRANSMISSION MODE SELECTION FOR SERVING A USER EQUIPMENT IN A D-MIMO NETWORK
There is provided techniques for selecting transmission mode for APs to serve a user equipment in a D-MIMO network. Information of calibration status defining whether the radio transceiver chains per each pair of the APs are mutually calibrated or not is obtained. Channel characteristics of a propagation channel between each of the APs and the user equipment are obtained. Reception capability information of the user equipment is obtained. The transmission mode for at least one subset of the APs is selected as a function of the calibration status per each pair of the APs, the channel characteristics, and the reception capability information. Instructions are provided to the subset of the APs of the selected transmission mode to be used when serving the user equipment.
H04B 17/30 - MonitoringTesting of propagation channels
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61.
SENSING ARCHITECTURE AND PROCEDURE IN 3GPP-BASED CELLULAR NETWORKS
In various embodiments disclosed herein, a method and architecture for a Sensing Management Function (SeMF) is provided to enable the network to perform sensing and localization to provide accurate positioning while also efficiently using network resources. The SeMF can configure sensing nodes (e.g., base stations, Transmission Reception Points (TRPs) and User Equipment devices (UEs)) to perform sensing, and based on the sensing data and other information, send a trigger to a Location Management Function (LMF) to initiate localization. Likewise, the LMF can perform localization, and based on the location data, or Quality of Service (QOS) requirements, also send a trigger to the SeMF to initiate sensing. Additionally, disclosed is a method for configuring the sensing nodes to perform sensing.
A scent release system (100) for dispensing scents to a user of an XR device (110). The scent release system (100) comprises a scent device (120) a scent carrier (130). The scent device (120) comprises a signal processing unit (121) configured to communicate data with the XR device (110); a scent positioning unit (122) configured to select, based on data received from the XR device, a scent area (131, 132 . . . 13n) on a scent carrier (130) comprising one or more micro-encapsulated scent areas (131, 132 . . . 13n) distributed on the surface of the scent carrier (130); and a scent release unit (123) configured to release a scent from the selected scent area.
A scent release system (100) for dispensing scents to a user of an XR device (110). The scent release system (100) comprises a scent device (120) a scent carrier (130). The scent device (120) comprises a signal processing unit (121) configured to communicate data with the XR device (110); a scent positioning unit (122) configured to select, based on data received from the XR device, a scent area (131, 132 . . . 13n) on a scent carrier (130) comprising one or more micro-encapsulated scent areas (131, 132 . . . 13n) distributed on the surface of the scent carrier (130); and a scent release unit (123) configured to release a scent from the selected scent area.
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The present disclosure relates to a two-dimensional code (100) comprising: a plurality of positions (110) arranged along a plurality of concentric circles (120), the plurality of concentric circles having a common center (130) and being arranged substantially on a two-dimensional plane, each of said positions (110) indicating presence of a symbol or absence of a symbol, each presence or absence of a symbol at each position being optically readable and representing a data value set to each of the plurality of positions (110); and a first reference pattern portion (140) including a set of the plurality of positions indicating at least the common center (130), wherein the first reference pattern portion (140) comprises all positions along the inner most circle of the plurality of concentric circles (120), wherein all positions along the inner most circle indicate presence of a symbol.
G06K 7/14 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light
G06K 19/06 - Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
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Terminal Device, Application Server, Network Exposure Function Node and Methods Therein
The present disclosure provides a method (100) in a terminal device. The method (100) includes: transmitting (110) to a Network Exposure Function, NEF, node a Quality of Service, QoS, request including an Internet Protocol, IP, address of the terminal device and information enabling the NEF node to determine an identifier of the terminal device.
A method for deblocking at least one boundary of a coding unit, wherein the boundary forms a first side and a second side of the coding unit, wherein a video picture comprises the coding unit, and wherein the first and second sides use a same reference picture. The method includes obtaining a first motion vector component in the first side; obtaining a second motion vector component in the second side; determining whether an absolute difference between the first motion vector component and the second motion vector component is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold that is less than 1 sample; and as a result of determining that the absolute difference between the first motion vector component and the second motion vector component is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold, applying deblocking to the vertical or horizontal boundary between the first side and the second side.
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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
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PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL (PUCCH) FOR SUBBAND FULL DUPLEX OPERATION
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a wireless device is provided. The wireless device is configured to receive control signaling for a physical uplink control channel, PUCCH, transmission. Wireless device is configured to perform the PUCCH transmission based on the control signaling, the PUCCH transmission spanning a plurality of slots, the plurality of slots including at least one slot containing at least one UL-only symbol and at least one slot containing at least one subband full duplex, SBFD, symbol, and the PUCCH transmission spans the at least one UL-only symbol and the at least one SBFD symbol.
A method performed by a first network node operating in a communications network comprising the set of nodes providing a segmented front-haul. The first network node determines, out of a respective first subset of nodes to serve a respective device of one or more devices, a respective second subset of nodes to serve each respective device. The determining is based on information obtained from a second network node. The information comprises respective routing information between a respective source node of respective one or more packets, and the respective device, so that a respective delivery of the respective packets to the respective device is based on an improvement of one or more metrics. The first network node also initiates sending of the respective one or more packets to the respective device via the determined respective second subset of nodes.
Embodiments include methods for a network data analytics function (NWDAF) configured to assist with application detection in a communication network. Such methods include receiving, from a consumer network function (cNF) of the communication network, an analytic request related to assisted application detection and based on the analytic request, sending to a first DNS resolver associated with the communication network an exposure request for events related to fully qualified domain name (FQDN)-to-address mapping for application servers associated with applications. Such methods also include receiving from the first DNS resolver a first FQDN associated with a first application, in accordance with the exposure request, and based on the first FQDN, determining one or more packet flow descriptions (PFDs) associated with the first application. Such methods also include sending to the cNF an analytic result comprising the one or more PFDs, in accordance with the analytic request.
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The present disclosure is related to a UE, a network node, and methods for CE RA signaling and configuring. A method at a UE for performing an RA procedure comprises: receiving, from a network node, one or more parameters; and determining, based on at least the one or more parameters, at least one of: a first number of PRACH transmissions; a second number of PUSCH transmissions scheduled by a RAR associated with the RA procedure; and a third number of MsgA PUSCH transmissions.
A communication network node (100) comprising: an antenna array (104) comprising a plurality of radiating elements (106); a plurality of photodiodes (108) connected to the radiating elements; an optical delay line (110) configured to receive an optical carrier signal modulated with an RF signal; and a plurality of optical splitters (112) provided along the optical delay line, the optical splitters configured to split off portions of the optical carrier signal to form a plurality of optical output signals and to deliver the optical output signals to the photodiodes. The photodiodes are configured to recover respective portions of the RF signal from the optical output signals and to deliver said portions of the RF signal to the radiating elements. The optical delay line is configured to time delay the optical carrier signal between variable optical splitters to phase shift the RF signal.
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Methods and Apparatus for Network Coverage Configuration
Methods and apparatus for network coverage configuration are provided. A computer-implemented method for configuring network coverage using a ML agent hosting a ML model comprises obtaining first training data and second training data relating to an operating environment. The method further comprises training the ML model in a first training stage using the first training data. When the ML model satisfies a first performance criterion, the first training stage ends, and the ML model is trained in a second training stage using the second training data. When the ML model satisfies a second performance criterion, the second training stage ends. The ML model is then used to generate a deployment configuration for configuring the spatial deployment of a plurality of transceivers to provide network connection capability to the operating environment
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
The present invention relates to an RF multi connector unit for multi-band antennas, an antenna system comprising said RF multi connector unit and a base station including at least one such antenna system. The RF multi connector unit comprises multiple RF-plug connectors (111, 112, 113, 114; 121, 122. 123. 124) being arranged in an array (110; 120) defining a common mating direction (A). At least one of the multiple RF-plug connectors (111, 112, 113, 114; 121, 122, 123, 124) is configured to electrically connect an antenna element of a multi-band antenna (10) with a port of a radio unit, when being plugged to the port. Further, at least one of the multiple RF-plug connectors (111, 112, 113, 114; 121. 122. 123. 124) is supported floatingly, at least in a plane being perpendicular to the mating direction (A).
H01R 24/52 - Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure having concentrically or coaxially arranged contacts specially adapted for high frequency mounted in or to a panel or structure
H01R 24/42 - Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure having concentrically or coaxially arranged contacts specially adapted for high frequency comprising impedance matching means or electrical components, e.g. filters or switches
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Network Nodes and Methods in a Radio Access Network for Improving the RRC Resume Procedure
A method performed by a first network node for assisting a second network node in resuming of a User Equipment (UE) in inactive state into connected state in a Radio Access Network (RAN). The first network node obtains (200) a Local RAN Node Identifier associated with a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) RAN Node ID, identifying the first network node. The first network node sends (201) the Local RAN node Identifier and associated PLMN RAN Node ID to be obtainable by the second network node. The first network node suspends (203) the UE from connected state into inactive state and sends an identifier to the UE. The identifier comprises a UE Context ID and the associated Local RAN Node Identifier. The UE Context ID identifies the UE context associated with the UE. The UE Context ID, Local RAN Node Identifier and associated PLMN RAN Node ID will assist the second network node to obtain the UE Context for the resuming of the UE into connected state, wherein a connection is to be provided by the second network node.
Embodiments herein may relate to a method performed by a radio network node for handling communication over a bandwidth interval for one or more UEs, in a wireless communication network. The radio network node determines to change a currently used bandwidth interval based on a current state of usage of resources in the currently used bandwidth interval related to number of UEs served and/or a current state of positions of the number of UEs served. With the proviso that it is determined to change the currently used bandwidth interval, the radio network node calculates a changed bandwidth interval to use. The radio network node then adjusts the currently used bandwidth interval to the calculated bandwidth interval; and uses the adjusted bandwidth interval for communicating with the one or more UEs.
A method for a network data analytics function, NWDAF, configured to assist splitting of artificial intelligence/machine learning, AI/ML, operations between a user equipment, UE, and a processing network that are operably coupled via the communication network, the method comprising receiving, from a network function, NF, or an application function, AF, associated with the communication network, a request for a processing entity, PE, performance analytic associated with the processing network, wherein the processing network comprises a plurality of PEs; for each PE in the processing network, obtaining one or more of the following information: PE resource availability, and communication performance between the PE and each other PE in the processing network; computing the PE performance analytic based on the obtained information; and sending the computed PE performance analytic to the NF or AF, in accordance with the request.
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A method is provided performed by a first network node to identify a network node that initiated a PSCell change that results in generation of a report from a UE. The method includes signaling a request including a request for a PSCell change including a PSCell addition or a SN addition and a first indication related to the PSCell change. The first indication indicates that the PSCell change is related to one of a first or second network node initiating the PSCell change. The method further includes receiving a message including the report; and performing, based on the first indication, one of: (i) if the PSCell change was initiated by the first network node, analyzing the report to improve the PSCell change, and (ii) if the PSCell change was initiated by the second network node, forwarding the report to at least one additional network node.
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving from a network node, a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration. The method further includes transmitting an uplink transmission towards the network node including a SRS across a first physical resource block (PRB) and a phase shifted SRS across at least one additional PRB. A UE and related methods and apparatus are also disclosed.
There is provided techniques for wireless power transfer from APs to UEs. The APs provide network access in a D-MIMO network to the UEs. The D-MIMO network is operated in TDD mode. A method is performed by a centralized node in the D-MIMO network. The method comprises sending UE-configuration destined to the UEs. The UE-configuration instructs the UEs to, during a time interval of a frame, simultaneously transmit uplink pilot signals and perform wireless energy harvesting on energy signals. The method comprises sending AP-configuration to the APs. The AP-configuration instructs the APs to, during the time interval of the frame, simultaneously transmit the energy signals towards the UEs and receive the uplink pilot signals from the UEs.
A method for an energy-efficient service placement in a mobile edge cloud comprising at least one edge site is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a service placement request from a service provider. The method comprises identifying a set of candidate edge site groups and calculating a first energy efficiency value for each identified candidate edge site group. Further, the method comprises calculating a second energy efficiency value for components of the cellular network that are involved in the communication between the user device and the edge site. The method comprises determining for each candidate edge site group, an energy efficiency metric for deploying said service placement request in a traffic path of the cellular network based on the first and second energy efficiency values. The method further comprises determining a service placement policy for the service placement based on the calculated energy efficiency metric and the obtained performance parameters.
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A method performed by an entitlement configuration server (106). The method includes receiving a validation request message comprising a first authorization token, authToken, and a phone number. The method also includes retrieving a second authToken, wherein the retrieving comprises using the phone number to retrieve the second authToken. The method also includes determining whether the first authToken is valid, wherein the determining comprises determining whether the first authToken is identical to the secondauthToken. The method also includes transmitting a validation response message responsive to the validation request message, wherein the validation response message indicates whether or not the first authToken is valid. Further methods, apparatus, computer programs and carriers are also disclosed.
In various embodiments of the present disclosure, provided is a system to perform reduced complexity frequency selective linearization. In an embodiment, multistage digital predistortion (DPD) can linearize different parts of the spectrum differently. The first stage captures the signal across the entire linearization bandwidth where the least stringent linearization requirement and general unwanted emission requirements are targeted. Second stage pre-distorts a down-sampled signal where second least stringent requirements across the linearization bandwidth are aimed for. This “peel-off” process continues until the final stage which pre-distorts the portion of the spectrum with the most stringent linearization requirements. Consequently, earlier stages run at higher rates to linearize wider spectrum while later stages run at lower rates to selectively further linearize portions of spectrum that have already passed through earlier stages.
A method performed by an application function, AF, device. The method includes sending a first message registering a smart contract on a blockchain network, for accessing a service provided by at least one network exposure function, NEF, device. The method includes sending a second message subscribing to notification of an event provided by the at least one NEF device. The method includes receiving at least one first response message notifying about the event, wherein receiving the first response message triggers an execution of the smart contract on the blockchain network.
A method performed by a UE. The method includes the UE decoding an SPS release command transmitted by a base station. The SPS release command is for releasing an active configured SPS in a slot in which the UE expects to receive a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission for the configured SPS and the UE receives the SPS release command before the end of the resource in which the UE expects to receive the PDSCH transmission and the end of the SPS release downlink control information (DCI) comes before or at the end of PDSCH.
A wireless device (WD) is described. The WD is configured to communicate with a network node and to determine one or more beam identifiers (IDs) one or both of are not included in training data of the artificial intelligence model and have not been used for training an artificial intelligence model. If the one or more beam IDs one or both of are not included in the training data of the artificial intelligence model and have not been used for training the artificial intelligence model, a first request is transmitted to the network node requesting assistance information associated with the one or more beam IDs and/or the assistance information is received. In addition, the WD is configured to cause the artificial intelligence model to be trained using the received assistance information and perform one or more actions using the artificial intelligence model.
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a wireless device is configured to receive a beam pair link configuration indicating a plurality of beam pair links, where each beam pair link corresponds to a mapping between a network node beam and a wireless device beam. The wireless device is further configured to perform at least one measurement of at least one of the plurality of beam pair links.
There is provided a method for creating an extended picture area for a current picture comprising a picture boundary block coded with at least a first motion vector and a second motion vector. The method comprises, based on the first motion vector, determining a position of a first reference block, wherein the first reference block is located within a first reference picture. The method comprises determining a first distance, the first distance being a distance from a boundary of the first reference block to a corresponding boundary of the first reference picture. The method comprises, based on the first distance, determining a first candidate dimension for a picture padding block within the extended picture area. The method comprises, based on the second motion vector, determining a position of a second reference block. The method comprises determining a second distance, the second distance being a distance from a boundary of the second reference block to a corresponding boundary of a reference picture in which the second reference block is located. The method comprises, based on the second distance, determining a second candidate dimension for the picture padding block. The method comprises selecting a candidate dimension from a set of two or more candidate dimensions, the set of two or more candidate dimensions including the first candidate dimension and the second candidate dimension. The method comprises, if the selected candidate dimension is greater than zero, determining at least one sample for the picture padding block based on a motion vector associated with the selected candidate dimension.
H04N 19/167 - Position within a video image, e.g. region of interest [ROI]
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 19/172 - 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 picture, frame or field
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
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NETWORK NODES AND METHODS IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a network node for handling communication related to a UE in a communications network. The network node transmits a message to another network node, wherein the message is related to a proxy capability such as requesting or indicating a TURN and/or STUN capability in a communication.
A technique for detecting security attacks in Internet of Senses (IoS) applications is disclosed. A method implementation of the technique is performed by a network node (300) and comprises obtaining (S201B), from a sender node (200), sensory data (101) and at least one of network data (102) or context data (103). The method further comprises determining (S301) anomaly by applying at least one of a payload-based analysis or a packet-based analysis. The payload-based analysis is applied to at least one of the sensory data (101) or to the context data (103). The packet-based analysis is applied to the network data (102). The payload-based analysis analyzes a payload of data packets, while the packet-based analysis analyzes a pattern of data packet traffic. The method further comprises transmitting (S302), to a receiver node (400), a result of the determining step (S301).
The disclosure relates to a microwave communication node and method for detecting and mitigating interference in a microwave network. The microwave communication node comprises a transmitter configured to broadcast a preamble that allows other microwave communication nodes to identify the microwave communication node as the sender, and a receiver configured to detect preambles broadcasted by other microwave communication nodes and determine interference levels of the other nodes by measuring signal strength and identifying the sender of each received preamble.
Systems and methods are disclosed for transmission and reception of backscattering signals using 2K Phase Shift Keying (PSK) (2K-PSK) modulation and/or multiple access techniques.
H04B 5/77 - Near-field transmission systems, e.g. inductive or capacitive transmission systems specially adapted for specific purposes for interrogation
Configuration of measurement requirements on cells and beams in NR is made more efficient by, in a user equipment, UE, receiving, information from a network node, which information indicates: a first number K of beams to be measured by the UE, and a second number L of cells in which the UE is required to measure the first number K of beams. The UE then carries out measurements using the received information; and performs at least one operational task based on a result of the measurements.
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, in a first network function, for providing one or more platoon recommendations for platooning of a plurality of communication devices the method comprising: obtaining mobility information for the plurality of communication devices; determining, based on the mobility information, a platoon recommendation comprising a subset of the plurality of communication devices to be grouped into a platoon and a head communication device of the subset of communication devices to be responsible for reporting reference signal measurements on behalf of the platoon; and transmitting the platoon recommendation to a second network function.
A technique for handling a sidelink, SL, positioning procedure is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, information indicative of a distortion of a radio link of at least one radio device among radio devices involved in the SL positioning procedure is obtained. One or more actions that handle the distortion based on the obtained information are performed.
H04W 64/00 - Locating users or terminals for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
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 first entity in a communications network that includes a second entity can determine a discontinuous reception (“DRX”) cycle start time based on a number of times a frame number (“FN”) has wrapped around. The first entity can further initiate a DRX cycle at the DRX cycle start time.
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for a local protocol data unit session anchor (PSA) selection. A method (300) performed by a first network node comprises: receiving (S302) from a second network node, a first list of data network access identifier, DNAI; and selecting (S304) a user plane function, UPF, based at least on the first list of DNAI. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, by receiving a first list of DNAI, a first network node may select UPF in time when needed. Therefore, the problem that the DNAI might not be available when the network node needs to select a UPF at some time point will be avoided.
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. A method in a wireless device (WD) configured to communicate with a network node of a non-terrestrial network (NTN) using a connection via one or more cells served by the network node is described. The method includes receiving, from the network node, information usable to perform one or more actions associated with maintaining the connection via the one the one or more cells and performing the one or more actions associated with maintaining the connection via the one the one or more cells based at least in part on the received information. The one or more actions include selecting one or more cells in advance of a radio link failure associated with the connection.
Systems and methods for dynamically updating a topology for an application aware multi-path connection to a target wireless communication device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a master topology function to dynamically update a topology for a multi-path connection to a target wireless communication device comprises determining the topology such that the topology satisfies one or more application-level requirements for the particular application. The method further comprises configuring the source wireless node, the target wireless communication device, and the one or more additional wireless communication devices in accordance with the determined topology to provide the multi-path connection. The method further comprises dynamically updating the determined topology based on: (a) information about an actual or predicted degradation of at least one of the active links, (b) a change in a Quality of Service (QoS) for the particular application, or (c) a change in the application-level requirements.
Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) configured to operate in a cell served by a radio access network (RAN) node. Such methods include receiving at least the following information from the RAN node during a first procedure: downlink (DL) data associated with an application hosted by the UE, and a timing advance (TA) command applicable to UE uplink (UL) transmissions to the RAN node. Such methods include initiating a time alignment timer (TAT) in response to receiving the TA command. Such methods include, after completion of the first procedure and based on determining that the TAT has not expired, transmitting to the RAN node one or more messages according to a timing adjusted based on the TA command. Other embodiments include complementary methods for a RAN node, as well as UEs and RAN nodes configured to perform such methods.
A computer-implemented method, performed by a first node. The method is for handling information pertaining to a group of devices. The first node operates in a communications system. The first node receives a first request from a second node to receive first information pertaining to an event for the group of devices. The request includes a first indication indicating that the group of devices is restricted to operate in one or more areas indicated by the second node. The first node also obtains, responsive to the received first request, second information regarding which one or more third nodes serve at least one of the indicated areas. The first node then sends, responsive to the obtained second information, a respective additional request to the one or more third nodes, requesting to receive the first information.
H04W 48/04 - Access restriction performed under specific conditions based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction or speed
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POWER EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION AND SCHEDULING OF COOPERATIVE DEVICES IN THE UPLINK
A user equipment, UE, method, computer program, and computer program product for scheduling a group data transmission in a group of devices referred to as group devices is provided. The method includes transmitting data to the group devices over a sidelink at a first time. The method includes transmitting a minimum radio quality threshold to the group devices with the data for each group device to compare the group device's quality to the minimum radio quality threshold at a coordinated transmission time. The method includes cooperatively transmitting the data towards a network node at the coordinated transmission time based on the group device quality being above the minimum radio quality threshold on either a configured grant or a dynamically scheduled grant. An analogous network node, method, computer program, and computer program product are also provided.
