603 results about "Radio networks" patented technology

A method performed by a first network node for uplink congestion control in a radio network is provided. The first network node is operable to handle one or more first layers of a protocol stack for an uplink connection between a wireless device and the radio network and is communicatively coupled to a second network node handling one or more second, lower layers of the protocol stack. The method comprises obtaining an indication of a proportion of packets within an uplink user plane flow that are to be marked with a congestion indicator, in which the proportion is based on a delay experienced by packets of the uplink user plane flow sent by the wireless device to the second network node. The method further comprises marking the proportion of packets with the congestion indicator and transmitting packets for the uplink user plane flow towards a core network of the radio network.

A method performed by a first network node for downlink congestion control in a radio network. The first network node handles one or more first layers of a protocol stack for a downlink connection between the radio network and a wireless device, and is communicatively coupled to a second network node handling one or more second layers of the protocol stack for the downlink connection. The one or more second layers are lower than the one or more first layers. The method comprises: obtaining an indication of a proportion of packets within a downlink user plane flow over the downlink connection that are to be marked with a congestion indicator, wherein the proportion is based on a delay experienced by packets of the downlink user plane flow sent by the second network node to the wireless device; marking the proportion of packets with the congestion indicator; and transmitting packets for the downlink user plane flow to the second network node for onward transmission to the wireless device.

A method performed by a radio node includes configuring a plurality of measurement gap patterns for performing measurements by a user equipment during measurement gaps, grouping the plurality of measurement gap patterns into a plurality of measurement gap pattern sets, determining that an overlap exists between two or more measurement gap occasions belonging to different measurement gap pattern sets, and adapting at least one of the measurement gap pattern sets in response to determining that the overlap exists. The radio node may be a radio network node or a user equipment.

A user equipment (UE) configured for operation in a fifth-generation new radio (5G NR) network may decode resource configuration information received from a generation Node B (gNB) for Non-Overlapping Sub-Band Full Duplex (NOSB-FD) communication. The resource configuration information may indicate downlink symbols within a carrier bandwidth for downlink communication, uplink symbols within the carrier bandwidth for uplink communication, and NOSB-FD symbols within the carrier bandwidth. Each NOSB-FD symbol may be configurable for both uplink and downlink communication. For any one of the NOSB-FD symbols, one or more uplink subbands within the carrier bandwidth may be configurable to be allocated for uplink communication and one or more downlink subbands of the carrier bandwidth may be configurable to be allocated for downlink communication. The resource configuration information may be determined from a mapping of physical resource blocks (PRBs) to a common resource block (CRB) grid.

A wireless terminal which communicates over a radio interface with a radio network. The wireless terminal comprises processor circuitry and interface circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to determine an event which pertains to a wireless terminal performance condition which is affected / influenced at least in part by an active Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI / ML) model or functionality and to implement a terminal-proposed remedial action configured to implement the wireless terminal performance condition. The processor circuitry is also optionally configured to generate a resolution report message which reports that implementation of the remedial action has resolved the wireless terminal performance condition. The interface circuitry is configured to optionally transmit the report message over the radio interface to the radio network.

Disclosed are various embodiments for automated deployment and management of distributed units (DUs) in a radio-based network. In one embodiment, it is determined to deploy a radio-based network at least partially using infrastructure of a cloud provider network. A radio access network (RAN)-enabled edge server of the cloud provider network is deployed to a physical location of the radio-based network. The RAN-enabled edge server is configured to perform a set of distributed unit (DU) functions for the radio-based network.

Devices, methods, and systems for coverage extension. A bundle of repeated transmissions of a preamble are transmitted responsive to a reference signal received power (RSRP) being less than a threshold and a random access (RA) procedure being initiated. A random access response (RAR) window is monitored for a random access radio network temporary identity (RA-RNTI) corresponding to the repeated transmissions of the preamble. In some implementations, each of the repeated transmissions of the preamble is transmitted based on a spatial filter that is different from others of the repeated transmissions of the preamble. In some implementations, each of the repeated transmissions of the preamble comprises a preamble index that is different from preamble indices of others of the repeated transmissions of the preamble. In some implementations, the spatial filter comprises a transmission (Tx) beam. In some implementations, the bundle of repeated transmissions of the preamble comprises retransmissions of a msg1.

The invention relates to the technical field of 5G-R network detection and monitoring, discloses a 5G-R network situation awareness method based on distributed monitoring and multi-source information fusion, and aims at solving the problems that a 5G-R network is large in scale, high in dynamic performance and complex in data isomerism. Multi-source data of a core network, a wireless network, special equipment, interface monitoring, detection equipment, a GIS and the like are collected in real time; according to the method, technologies such as Pearson's correlation coefficients, FP-Growth, Bayesian analysis, a time sequence point process, a Hookes theory, a Gaussian mixture model, a decision tree, S-ARIMA, Boxplot, N-sigma, iForest, regression analysis, a neural network and KL divergence are combined to realize multi-source data fusion, intelligent analysis and visual perception, including network alarm, application quality, operation and maintenance and resource management. According to the method, the comprehensiveness, the real-time performance, the fault diagnosis accuracy and the operation and maintenance efficiency of the 5G-R network are improved, and the requirements of low delay and high reliability of a railway scene are met.

A terrestrial radio network node, currently facilitating delivery of traffic with respect to a user equipment, may receive non-terrestrial capability information from the user equipment indicating a capability corresponding to the user equipment to transmit or receive traffic via a non-terrestrial node. The terrestrial node may receive from the user equipment measured parameter values indicative of performance with respect to the non-terrestrial node that may satisfy a quality-of-service criterion corresponding to traffic currently being delivered by the terrestrial node. The terrestrial node, based on the measured parameter values, may determine that the quality-of-service criterion may be satisfied by delivery of the traffic via the non-terrestrial node, and the terrestrial node may schedule non-terrestrial resources corresponding to the non-terrestrial node. The terrestrial node may indicate to the user equipment the scheduled non-terrestrial resources. The non-terrestrial node may deliver traffic with respect to the user equipment according to the scheduled non-terrestrial resources.

Embodiments include methods for a first radio network node (RNN) in a wireless network to configure quality of experience (QoE) measurements by user equipment (UEs). Such methods include receiving, from a measurement function in the wireless network, a QoE measurement configuration (QMC associated with one or more service types; and configuring one or more UEs with the QMC. Such methods also include sending to a second RNN in the wireless network, a first request for handover of a particular one of the UEs from a first cell served by the first RNN via a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second cell served by the second RNN via a second RAT. The first request includes the QMC. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a second RNN or by a UE, as well as first RNNs, second RNNs, and UEs configured to perform such methods.

Aspects relate to communication via multiple network slice services. A user equipment may support multiple network slice services (e.g., defined sets of network services and / or resources). At some point in time, the user equipment may communicate using a first network slice service provided by a first radio network entity (e.g., a first distributed unit, a first cell, a first base station, etc.). In addition, at some point in time, the user equipment may elect to use a second network slice service. In the event the first radio network entity is not available for the second network slice service, the user equipment may switch to a second radio network entity (e.g., a second distributed unit, a second cell, a second base station, etc.) to communicate using the second network slice service.

Embodiments herein relate to, for example, a method performed by a user equipment, UE, (10) for handling communication in a wireless communications network. The UE (10) receives from an upper layer an indication relating to a quality of experience, QoE, process; and applies the indication in one or more messages and / or for one or more bearers. The UE (10) applies the indication by selecting a message type and / or a bearer type to send the indication to a radio network node depending on a type of a QoE measurement and / or a criticality of the QoE measurement of the indication.

The apparatus may be a wireless device or user equipment (UE) configured to obtain a first plurality of generated packets including information related to the L4S service and process, based on the information related to the L4S service, the first plurality of generated packets for transmission by the UE. The apparatus may be a network device configured to some examples, a network device may be configured to include, in each received UL packet of a first plurality of received uplink (UL) packets, explicit congestion notification (ECN) information related to radio network delays and output, for a core network, the first plurality of received UL packets including the ECN information related to the L4S service.

A system, method and apparatus for mobile communications is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives one or more messages that include configuration parameters indicating that one or more multicast broadcast services are associated illustratively with a first control resource set (CORESET) and a first bandwidth part (BWP). The messages also include one or more first radio network temporary identifiers (RNTIs) associated with the one or more multicast broadcast services. The UE then receives via the first CORESET or the first BWP downlink control information associated with the one or more first RNTIs. The UE then received one or more transport blocks associated with the one or more multicast broadcast services.

A user equipment may use a learning model to predict user behavior, or traffic corresponding thereto, and may transmit, to a radio network node, a prediction report indicative of the predicted behavior / traffic. Based on the prediction report the node may proactively schedule predicted downlink resources to facilitate delivery, to the user equipment, of predicted downlink traffic that may correspond to the indicated predicted behavior / traffic. The user equipment may indicate that successfully decoded downlink traffic, received from the node according to the scheduled predicted downlink resources, is invalid, or not usable, by avoiding transmission of HARQ feedback corresponding to the received traffic or by transmitting an invalid scheduled resource indication. The user equipment may analyze a confidence level corresponding to the learning model with respect to a confidence level threshold, which may be dynamically increased by the node in response to invalid traffic, to determine whether to transmit a prediction report.

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques including APIs, subscription services, and controllers to enable one or more fifth generation new radio (5G-NR) networks to share information. For example, a processor comprising one or more circuits can perform an API or subscription service to cause a device in a radio access network (RAN) to share its analytic data with a device in a transport network, and said device in said transport network can use said analytic data to adjust its network settings to improve performance.

An approach is described for a user equipment (UE) to provide vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in a 5G new radio (NR) network. The UE includes processor circuitry that mode switches between two modes of resource allocation for the V2X communication, the two modes being a first mode and a second mode, wherein the first mode is a network scheduled resource allocation mode, and the second mode is a UE autonomous resource allocation mode. The UE also includes radio front end circuitry that communicates with a second UE using a V2X sidelink in the first mode or the second mode.

A method of optimizing synchronization signal block (SSB) beam configuration for 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) New Radio (NR) network includes: using at least one of an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) engine in one of service management and orchestration (SMO) module, non-real time radio access network intelligent controller (Non-RT RIC), and near-real time radio access network intelligent controller (Near-RT RIC), to derive at least one optimal SSB beam configuration for the 3GPP NR network; and communicating, by the at least one of the AI and ML engine, the derived at least one optimal SSB beam configuration to a network node of the 3GPP NR network. Both the training and deployment of the at least one of the AI and ML engine are executed in the Non-RT RIC, and a static mapping between SSB beam identifiers (IDs) and beamforming weights (BFWs) is predefined.

In some examples, a method, performed in a target master node of a radio network, for preparing handover of user equipment, UE, in dual connectivity, DC, where the handover is between respective primary cells, PCells, of a source master node and a target master node, and respective primary secondary cells, PSCells, of a source secondary node and a target secondary node, comprises receiving, from the source master node, a conditional handover, CHO, request message comprising a unique identifier for the UE defined between the source master node and the target secondary node, and an identifier for the target secondary node, transmitting the unique identifier for the UE to the target secondary node as part of an secondary node addition request for CHO with DC preparation; and receiving, from the target secondary node. first and second delta secondary cell group, SCG, configurations, each one of the first and second delta SCG configurations generated whereby to accommodate different CPC execution states.

A user equipment (UE) configured for operation in a 5th Generation New Radio (5G NR) network may decode signaling to configure the UE with one or more orthogonal cover code (OCC) sequences. The UE may apply one of the OCC sequences to physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition of a PUSCH transmission. For inter-slot OCC PUSCH repetition, values of an OCC sequence are applied across slots of the PUSCH repetition. The UE may apply a first value of an OCC sequence of length two to a first repetition of a PUSCH transmission in a first slot and apply a second value of the OCC sequence of length two to a second repetition of the PUSCH transmission in a second slot.

Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a radio network node for handling communication in a wireless communication network. The radio network node transmits to a UE or an IAB node system information comprising an indication of a cell, controlled by the radio network node, wherein the radio network node is an IAB node, and the indication indicates whether the cell is a mobile cell or not.

Wireless communication is performed by: receiving downlink control information including by a user equipment in an inactive state, a cyclic redundancy check scrambled by a radio network with at least one base-station with paging-Radio Network Temporary Identifier at least one user equipment, user equipment monitors paging message in inactive state and uses paging-Radio Network Temporary Identifier to decode reception of paging message, wherein the user equipment receives more than one random-access channel resources from the network and the indication of Small Data transmission and user equipment selects the random-access channel resources.

The apparatus may be a wireless device or user equipment (UE) configured to obtain a first plurality of generated packets including information related to the L4S service and process, based on the information related to the L4S service, the first plurality of generated packets for transmission by the UE. The apparatus may be a network device configured to some examples, a network device may be configured to include, in each received UL packet of a first plurality of received uplink (UL) packets, explicit congestion notification (ECN) information related to radio network delays and output, for a core network, the first plurality of received UL packets including the ECN information related to the L4S service.

A user equipment with a communication session existing with terrestrial radio network node may receive from the terrestrial node a link recovery configuration comprising a context identifier indicative of context information corresponding to the communication session. Based on poor radio link conditions or radio link failure, the user equipment may determine to transmit to a non-terrestrial node, identified in the link recovery configuration, a session transfer request that includes the context identifier. The session transfer request may be transmitted according to a timing advance or according to a non-terrestrial resource, associated with a non-terrestrial node identifier corresponding to the non-terrestrial node in the link recovery configuration. The session transfer request may request transfer of the existing communication session from the terrestrial node to the non-terrestrial node. Based on the context identifier, the non-terrestrial node may retrieve, from the terrestrial node, session context information usable to facilitate the existing communication session.

Embodiments of this application disclose a relay communication method and a communications apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a problem that communications system performance is unable to be met because remote UE selects relay UE to forward data in existing relay communication. The method includes a network device obtains a measurement report that includes signal quality of a sidelink (sidelink, SL) between first user equipment and at least one second user equipment and a radio network identifier of the at least one second user equipment. The network device selects target relay user equipment, of the first user equipment, from the at least one second user equipment based on the measurement report and selection assistance information associated with each second user equipment.

A method carried out in a network node of a cellular radio network for configuring a User Equipment, UE, to monitor wake-up signal, WUS, reception in non-connected mode, wherein the method comprises: obtaining (500) information related to the UE, said information being indicative of a wake-up receiver, WUR, being comprised in the UE, and indicative of associated timing performance of the WUR; configuring (502) the UE with WUR configuration, based on the obtained information, said WUR configuration identifying resources for monitoring WUS reception at WUR Active times repeated with a WUR cycle, wherein the WUR cycle is configured without being restricted to a paging occasion, PO, cycle.

A method is provided that includes providing a radio network service to at least one user equipment (UE) by a mobile wireless access backhaul (MWAB) node having context information associated with the UE(s). The method includes sending a release message from the MWAB node to the UE(s) to trigger the UE(s) to transition to an inactive state. The method includes making a determination at the MWAB node to release a network interface connection with one or more radio access nodes. And based on the determination, the method includes forwarding the context information associated with the UE(s) triggered to transition to the inactive state by the MWAB node to the one or more radio access nodes or a shared database at which the context information is stored to enable a continued radio network service to the UE(s).

Method, carried out in a radio terminal, for configuring uplink output power of radio transmission from the radio terminal, comprising determining a demand power reduction (P-MPR1) based on a maximum power level associated with a first uplink duty cycle (UDC1); transmitting, to a radio network node, an indication of the demand power reduction; receiving, from the network node, an indication of a target power reduction (P-MPR2) associated with an actual uplink duty cycle (UDC2); and configuring the output power based on the target power reduction.