295 results about "Radio access" patented technology

Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing multicast handover are disclosed. In one example aspect, the method includes receiving, by a target radio access node (T-RAN) from a source radio access node (S-RAN) or from an access and mobility management function (AMF), a handover request including a multicast or broadcast context for a handover of a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) to the T-RAN. The method further includes binding a shared tunnel for the MBS and a flow in a unicast protocol data unit (PDU) session in a case that an MBS session identified in the multicast or broadcast context has already been established at the T-RAN, and sending, to an AMF, a message including a handover request acknowledgment or a path switch.

Radio access nodes may receive from a core network a configuration comprising a criterion to be used to determined to activate a network energy saving mode. The nodes share network energy saving information. A node activates a network energy saving mode upon the criterion being satisfied. A user equipment may establish a connection with a node that has not activated a network energy saving mode via a provisioning beam. Based on the connection being established via the provisioning beam, the node that has not activated a network energy saving mode may request that the node that activated the network energy saving mode transmit a synchronization signal block signal and that the user equipment monitor the synchronization signal block signal and determine whether to establish a connection with the node that is operating in an active network energy saving mode based on a signal strength of the synchronization signal block signal.

User equipment in close proximity may transfer data and control information. For example, the user equipment may exchange data or data sets between each other. Each user equipment can receive and transmit data using radio access technologies. A group of user equipments may include active user equipment and passive user equipment. Active user equipment connects with one or more base stations and transfers data on a wireless communication network via the base station. The active user equipment may communicate with other active user equipment and passive user equipment. Passive user equipment may not connect to any base station and / or the wireless communication network and may communicate with other passive user equipment and active user equipment (e.g., via a sidelink, peer-to-peer, or device-to-device channel).

The invention relates to a deployment recommendation method and device of wireless access equipment and computer equipment. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring deployment demand information of a user and physical deployment conditions of wireless access equipment in a target deployment area; according to the deployment demand information, screening out a candidate deployment scheme containing a network service package and matched wireless access equipment from a pre-constructed information base; the information base comprises a plurality of network service packages and equipment information of a plurality of wireless access equipment; for each candidate deployment scheme, determining a deployment position and a communication quality index value of each wireless access device under the candidate deployment scheme according to the physical deployment condition; and displaying each candidate deployment scheme, the deployment position corresponding to each candidate deployment scheme and the communication quality index value to the user. By adopting the method, the deployment efficiency can be improved, and collaborative optimization between the network communication quality and the economic cost is realized.

The present disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates and satisfying various service requirements. A method performed by a terminal in a communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a network function related to mobility management, a first NAS message including capability information that indicates whether the terminal supports an access technology utilization control; receiving, from the network function, a second NAS message including information on the access technology utilization control, the information on the access technology utilization control indicating restricted access technology associated with a current PLMN; storing the information on the access technology utilization control; and applying the information on the access technology utilization control for a cell selection and a cell reselection in the current PLMN to restrict an access to the restricted access technology.

A technique for controlling a robotic swarm in an area (502) comprising a plurality of radio units (504, 506) for providing radio access to the robotic swarm is described. The robotic swarm comprises a plurality of swarm members (200; 1600; 1791; 1792; 1830). As to a method aspect of the technique, a vector field map (510) is determined (302). The vector field map (510) comprises velocity vectors indicative of a speed and a direction for navigating the swarm members (200; 1600; 1791; 1792; 1830) through the area (502). A deflection field (512) is determined (304). The deflection field (512) is indicative of a deflection for deflecting the swarm members (200; 1600; 1791; 1792; 1830) relative to the vector field map (510). The vector field map (510) and the deflection field (512) are transmitted (306) through the radio units (504, 506) to at least one of the swarm members (200; 1600; 1791; 1792; 1830) for controlling the motion of the at least one of the swarm members (200; 1600; 1791; 1792; 1830) in the area (502).

Example embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to user equipment (UE) prioritization of different radio access technologies (RATs) on shared band A method comprises: in accordance with a determination that a first RAT and a second RAT are available for the first apparatus and there is an overlapped frequency range between the first and the second RATs, determining a service type and / or a usage condition required by the first apparatus related to a radio access; and using one of the first and the second RATs on the overlapped frequency range based on the determination.

Over-coverage mitigation in an open radio access network is enabled (e.g., using computerized tools). For example, a system may include a processor and a memory storing executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate execution of operations that include: selecting a source cell data applicable to a source cell and a neighbor cell data applicable to a neighbor cell, based on the source cell data applicable to the source cell and based on the neighbor cell data applicable to the neighbor cell; using an over-coverage classifier model to determine whether over-coverage from the source cell to the neighboring cell has occurred; in response to determining that over-coverage has occurred, determining a recommended cellular transmission distance applicable to the source cell using a distance recommendation model; and causing an over-coverage mitigation action to be performed based on the recommended cellular transmission distance, the over-coverage mitigation action determined to cause a cellular transmission distance applicable to the source cell to conform to the recommended cellular transmission distance.

A wireless terminal of a telecommunications system comprises wireless terminal processor circuitry and wireless terminal interface circuitry. The wireless terminal processor circuitry is configured to generate a rate adaptation eligibility message to indicate whether a resource of the wireless terminal is eligible for codec rate adaptation. The wireless terminal interface circuitry is configured to transmit the rate adaptation eligibility message across a radio interface to a network node.

A system for providing connectivity of a user equipment, UE, to a telecommunications network, the system comprising an aerial micro node for providing a communication pathway between the UE and the macro node via the aerial micro node, wherein the aerial micro node comprises a radio access node mounted to an unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV. Also described is a macro node configured to estimate a pathloss offset to be used by the UE for communications via an aerial micro node having a flight path represented by a specified set of flight path characteristics, the estimated pathloss offset based on at least a first and second pathloss offset and a first and a second set of flight path characteristics.

A computer-implemented method is disclosed for telemetry-driven orchestration in a next-generation cellular network. The method includes instantiating, via one or more processors, a message bus logically associated with a telemetry producer comprising a plurality of individually managed sub-producers. Each sub-producer generates telemetry data, a subset of which is forwarded to a radio access network intelligent controller (RIC) based on data type classification. The method further includes transmitting first and second telemetry data of the same type from respective sub-producers to the RIC via the message bus. Based on the received telemetry, the RIC generates a recommendation for altering components of the system. The method then generates configuration instructions defining one or more operational parameters and applies those instructions to transition at least one operational parameter from an initial state to a revised state. This enables adaptive, data-driven network optimization through automated configuration updates informed by real-time telemetry analysis.

Disclosed is a method for handover control for a user apparatus 10 that is communicating with two nodes 20, 22 using different radio access technologies (RATs). When the apparatus receives conditiona

A user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication network is configured to operate with wireless communication system Radio Access Networks (RANs) using dynamic base station antenna port adaptation and is configurable to operate under one or more of settings for: i) a plurality of active transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states; ii) a COntrol REsource SET (CORESET) index pool with a plurality of CORESET indexes; iii) channel state information (CSI) enhancement including at least one of channel measurement resource (CMR) pairs for a non-coherent joint transmission (NCJT) measurement hypothesis, and CSI report enhancement; iv) codebooks for computing CSI for reduced base station antenna configurations. The UE is configured to operate under one or more of the settings with at least one restriction, and then operated under the configured settings.

A method of operating a communications device to communicate with infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network via a radio access interface between the communications device and the infrastructure equipment is provided. The method comprises selecting a synchronisation signal block (SSB) of a plurality of SSBs for performing a random access procedure with the infrastructure equipment. The method comprises selecting a physical random access channel (PRACH) occasion (RO) of a plurality of ROs in which to transmit a particular PRACH preamble, wherein the plurality of ROs comprise a plurality of sets of ROs, each of the plurality of sets of ROs being associated at least one of the plurality of SSBs, each of the plurality of sets of ROs comprising ROs of a plurality of different types including one or more ROs of a first RO type and one or more ROs of a second RO type. The selecting the RO comprises identifying a set of ROs of the plurality of sets of ROs that is associated with the selected SSB. The selecting the RO comprises selecting a type of RO of the plurality of types of RO based on a selection probability for selecting each of the plurality of types of RO or RO type mapping information indicating a mapping of a transmission order of the particular PRACH preamble to at least one of the plurality of types of RO. The selecting the RO comprises selecting an RO of the selected type of RO from the identified set of ROs on which to transmit the PRACH preamble. The method comprises transmitting the particular PRACH preamble to the infrastructure equipment in the selected RO as part of the random access procedure.

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for effectively using channel resources, by a radio access node of Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) system with carrier aggregation, by adaptively selecting a set of trigger states based on sets of parameters. In one example, a method includes selecting trigger states from candidate trigger states, configuring the selected trigger states, and triggering Channel State Information (CSI) reports for the trigger states. In one example, the selected trigger states include trigger states that are less than or equal to a maximum number of trigger states supported by the wireless communication device. The candidate trigger states include trigger state 0 for a first CSI report for a mixed interference scenario, trigger state 1 for a second CSI report for a non-mixed interference scenario, and trigger state 2 for the first and the second CSI reports.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for handling user equipment (UE) mobility for cross-node artificial intelligence (AI) and / or machine learning (ML) sessions in a radio access network (RAN). A method of wireless communication by a first network entity includes obtaining an indication of handover for a UE from a second network entity; obtaining, from a third network entity, an indication of first cross-node machine learning information associated with a cross-node machine learning session between the UE and the third network entity; providing an indication of acknowledgement of handover to a second network entity; and relaying communications between the UE and the third network entity for the cross-node machine learning session.

The application provides a wireless access method and device. The method is applied to any radio frequency unit on an AP, and the radio frequency unit supports a new version of Wi-Fi protocol. In the method, when the working mode of the AP is set as a compatible mode, the radio frequency unit broadcasts a Beacon message carrying parameter information of all Wi-Fi protocols supported by the radio frequency unit and a Beacon message carrying parameter information of a specified old version of Wi-Fi protocol, or sends a probe response message carrying parameter information of all Wi-Fi protocols supported by the radio frequency unit and a probe response message carrying parameter information of a specified old version of Wi-Fi protocol, so that a wireless terminal supporting the specified old version of Wi-Fi protocol and having poor compatibility can smoothly access the radio frequency unit without upgrading related software or hardware, thereby saving network management cost.

An aspect of this disclosure includes a method for a radio terminal comprising　receiving, from a first radio station related to a first satellite, at least one of Non-Terrestrial Network Radio Access Type (NTN RAT type) information, Satellite Service provider information, Satellite Service name information, Satellite identifier, information indicating support for communication with multiple-orbit satellites, first Tracking Area Code (TAC) information, Satellite Service operator information; and receiving, from a second radio station related to a second satellite, at least one of the Non-Terrestrial Network Radio Access Type (NTN RAT type) information, the Satellite Service provider information, the Satellite Service name information, the Satellite identifier, the information indicating support for communication with multiple-orbit satellites, second Tracking Area Code (TAC) information.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to handover in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) with radio frequency (RF) repeater assistance. A method is provided that includes performing a handover of one or more user equipments (UEs) and at least one RF repeater serving the UEs from a source node to a target node. The method includes receiving, at the target node, assistance information related to the handover of the UE(s) or the RF repeater(s). The method includes making a determination, based on the assistance information, regarding: use of the RF repeater(s) to serve the UE(s), and at least one beam of the RF repeater(s) to serve each of the at least one UE. And based on the determination, the method includes providing, by the target node, radio access services to the UE(s), with the RF repeater(s) used to serve the UE(s) at least one UE for radio transmissions from / to the target node.

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to cell selection using a low power processor. A user equipment (UE) includes one or more primary radios corresponding to one or more radio access technologies (RATs) or frequencies, and also includes a low power radio (LR). The LR uses various information to perform cell measurements and cell selection or reselection procedures (e.g., according to a priority list provided by network equipment). After performing cell selection or reselection, the LR can wake up one or both of the corresponding RAT or primary radio of the selected cell, allowing other RATs or primary radios in the UE to remain in a low power mode (e.g., powered off or in a sleep state).

Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products for network access in a wireless communications system using common signaling, such as synchronization signals, for multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs). A wireless transmit / receive unit, WTRU, performs a cell search in the system, obtains first information indicative of whether spectrum sharing is configured in a cell discovered in the cell search and of available radio access technologies, RATs, in the discovered cell, in case the first information indicates that spectrum sharing is configured in the discovered cell, determines which of the of available RATs to access, obtains access configuration parameters for the determined RAT to access, and performs, using the access configuration parameters, a random-access procedure to access the RAT.

Waveguide effect mitigation in an open wireless access network (e.g., using computerized tools) is supported. For example, a system may include a processor and a memory storing executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate execution of operations including: determining whether or not a cell configuration is appropriate for a cellular node based on cell configuration data representative of a cell configuration appropriate for the cellular node and based on weather data representative of weather measurements appropriate for the cellular node; determining, using the waveguide effect prediction model, whether the cellular node is a threshold at which it is likely to experience a waveguide effect; and in response to determining that the cellular node is likely to experience the waveguide effect, determining, using a waveguide effect mitigation model, a waveguide effect mitigation action to be performed, the waveguide effect mitigation action to be performed having been determined to mitigate the waveguide effect.

A user equipment (UE) employing different radio access technologies (RATs) concurrently or successively provides the UE the opportunity to select a particular RAT to support an access service used by one or more software applications of the UE. A RAT operational control scheme provides for opportunistic enablement and disablement of a RAT and / or intra-RAT configuration so as to provide sufficient uplink and downlink throughput for supported software applications while reducing unnecessary power consumption by the UE, which often is battery powered.

A method of operating an infrastructure equipment is provided, the infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network and configured to transmit signals to and / or to receive signals from a communications device via a radio interface between the communications device and the infrastructure equipment, the radio access interface comprising a plurality of resource elements arranged in time and frequency and each configured either for uplink transmission or downlink transmission, the method comprising: transmitting, to the communications device, configuration information of a set of uplink muting patterns, the configuration information indicating an association between a downlink reference signal (DL RS) and one or more uplink muting pattern of the set of uplink muting patterns, wherein each uplink muting pattern requires that one or more of allocated resource elements are to be muted and not used for transmitting the uplink transmission; receiving, from the communications device, an uplink transmission, to which an uplink muting pattern has been applied based on the configuration information. Methods, communications devices and infrastructure equipment are also provided.

A communication system (400), a network node (420) and a method performed by the network node. The method (500) is for enabling a restriction of a sensor of a wireless communication device (430, 430A, 430B, 430C), WD. The method comprising receiving (510) a first request for a sensor restriction service wherein the first request comprises information indicative of a geographic location (001) wherein the sensor restriction service is to be performed, determining (520) a radio access node (425, 425A, 425B, 425C) which provides wireless communication in the geographical location (001); and sending (560), to the radio access node, information comprising any one or more of: configuration information (543) for the WD, configuration information (547) for the sensor of the WD, configuration information (553) for the radio access node. Computer programs and computer program products are also disclosed.

A wireless communication method and a user equipment (UE) are provided. The method includes: when attaching to a first radio access network, sending a first indication of whether the UE supports multi-access feature; receiving a second indication of whether the first radio access network supports the multi-access feature; when attaching to a second radio access network in addition to the first radio access network, sending a third indication of whether the UE supports the multi-access feature; receiving a fourth indication of whether the second radio access network supports the multi-access feature; and performing multi-access operation if the UE, the first radio access network and the second radio access network support the multi-access feature. The method can implement multi-access functionality for a user equipment connecting to multiple radio access networks.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques may enable a network to indicate control information related to enabling or disabling a user equipment (UE) to access one or more radio access networks (RAN) simultaneously using dual stack (DS) access. For example, a UE may receive a configuration message indicating access information related to accessing a first network using a first protocol stack and accessing a second network using a second protocol stack. The control information may enable or disable the UE to access both of the first network and second network. The UE may accordingly access one or both of the first network and the second network using one or both of the first protocol stack and the second protocol stack, respectively, according to the control information.

A method performed by a radio access node providing a lower-layer triggered mobility (LTM) candidate cell is provided. The method includes receiving a random access preamble from a user equipment (UE) in connection with an early uplink synchronization of the UE with the LTM candidate cell. The method includes estimating a timing advance (TA) value for the LTM candidate cell, and reporting the TA value to a serving cell of the UE. The method includes sending a random access response (RAR) one or more times to the UE, the RAR including the TA value. And the method includes carrying out a LTM cell switch of the UE to the LTM candidate cell as a target cell in which the target cell is accessed by the UE using the TA value from the RAR to complete the LTM cell switch.

The present disclosure automatically allows a user to make voice call on a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network when a User Equipment (UE) (104, 310, 410, 510) is not capable to make voice call on a 5G Standalone (SA) network via redirection or via Handover. The present disclosure allows the user to release the 5G SA network and redirect to measured Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (EARFCN) of LTE band to proceed an Evolved Packet System Fallback (EPSFB) call successfully, if there is unprecedented failure during the handover procedure. The present disclosure allows the user to redirect to LTE Radio Access Technology (RAT) on default frequency band configured in gNodeB (gNB) ((320, 420, 520) during an emergency voice call or when B1 measurement delayed or not received, or while the UE (104, 310, 410, 510) is active with other procedure or stuck in race conditions.

A method for cell selection or reselection is implemented in a user equipment (UE). The method comprises receiving (504), in a serving cell and in a first system information block (SIB), non-terrestrial (NTN) carrier frequency information for an NTN radio access technology (RAT); receiving (508), in the serving cell and in a second SIB, satellite information for the NTN RAT; and selecting (514) an NTN cell associated with the NTN RAT.