Abstract: A method for performing over the air (OTA) testing of a UE in a testing chamber including at least one probe antenna includes generating a first emulated downlink (DL) signal of a first virtual transmission/reception point (TRP) located at a first virtual location and a second emulated DL signal of a second virtual TRP located at a second virtual location in accordance with a first signal alternation profile and a second signal alternation profile, respectively, the first signal alternation profile including one or more first alternation characteristics that vary over time with simulated movement of the UE relative to the first virtual location, the second signal alternation profile including one or more second alternation characteristics that vary over time with simulated movement of the UE relative to the second virtual location; and transmitting signals for testing the UE based on the first and second emulated DL signals.

Abstract: Aspects and embodiments relate generally to mechanisms to support power saving in a wireless communication network and more particularly to supporting discontinuous reception of a wake-up signal receiver at an apparatus comprising a wake-up signal receiver and a main radio receiver. One aspect provides an apparatus, comprising: a main radio receiver; a wake-up signal receiver; and a timer. The wake-up signal receiver comprises: circuitry configured to receive at least a portion of a broadcast message; circuitry configured to evaluate the received portion of the broadcast message to determine a time marker; and circuitry configured to provide the time marker to the timer. The apparatus may comprise a UE and may therefore be configured to align internal time keeping with the time keeping of a network, thus allowing discontinuous reception and associated energy savings, without transmission of additional specific synchronisation messaging by a network.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising: means for determining (1100), by a sidelink manager, a first resource allocation used by a first module for performing sidelink communications via a first radio access technology; means for determining (1102), by the sidelink manager, a second resource allocation used by a second module for performing sidelink communications via a second radio access technology; means for determining (1104), by the sidelink manager, a resource allocation conflict based on the first resource allocation and the second resource allocation; means for converting (1106), by the sidelink manager, the first resource allocation into a converted first resource allocation compatible with the second radio access technology or the second resource allocation into a converted second resource allocation compatible with the first radio access technology; and means for sending (1108), by the sidelink manager, the converted first resource allocation to the second module or the converted second

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising, determining a beam failure detection reference signal configuration for a dormant bandwidth part based on a beam failure detection reference signal configuration of another bandwidth part and performing beam failure detection on the dormant bandwidth part according to the determined beam failure detection reference signal configuration.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for providing a request to an application client from a server for the application, or receiving a request from the application client at the server, for uplink transmission of cooperative awareness messages from the application client to a network, determining requirements associated with the application for cooperative awareness messages, based on the requirements, providing a request from the server to the network for resources and QoS parameters for uplink transmission of the cooperative awareness messages from the application client to the network, receiving at the server an indication of the availability of resources from the network; determining, based on the application requirements and the availability of resources, criteria for use in determining which of the cooperative awareness messages to provide to the network and providing the criteria to the application client from the server.

Abstract: There is disclosed methods, apparatuses and computer program products for an authentication procedure in a unicast device to device communication. In accordance with an embodiment the method comprises receiving from an initiating device a request to establish a unicast device to device communication between the initiating device and a target device; sending from the target device an authentication request to the initiating device for authenticating the initiating device; receiving from the initiating device an authentication response to the authentication request including one or more parameters related to the authentication; providing information of the one or more parameters to the application; examining by an application in the target device whether the one or more parameters can be accepted; and if the examining reveals that at least one of the one or more parameters cannot be accepted, sending an authentication failure message to the initiating device.

Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a user device in a wireless network, an uplink grant, the uplink grant indicating granted resources having a priority level; determining, by the user device, whether or not information to be transmitted has a priority level that matches the priority level of the granted resources; and transmitting, by the user device, the information via at least a portion of the granted resources, and an indication of whether or not a priority level of the information matches a priority level of the granted resources.

Abstract: A method includes: receiving, at a user equipment, a first information of a first gap for a first reference signal to be measured and a second information of a second gap for a second reference signal to be measured, wherein the first gap and the second gap overlap at least partially; and, determining at least one of: a first duration of a gap length based on a union of the first gap and the second gap, and a second duration of a gap length based on a selection of the first gap or the second gap corresponding to one of the first reference signal and the second reference signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising determining a first time period during which radio mobility of one or more terminal devices is not expected, determining a second time period during which radio mobility of the one or more terminal devices is expected, determining a first synchronization signal block, SSB, transmission mode that is to be applied during the first time period, and determining a second synchronization signal block, SSB, transmission mode that is to be applied during the second time period.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for data transmission are presented.

Abstract: According to a first embodiment, a method may include determining, by the user equipment, that a number of beam failure instances is greater than or equal to at least one threshold. The method may further include initiating, by the user equipment, at least one measurement on at least one beam candidate set. The method may further include suspending, by the user equipment, non-beam candidate measurements performed by the user equipment.

Abstract: There are provided measures for time slot control for radio power boosting. Such measures exemplarily comprise transmitting, to a terminal, a configuration indicative of uplink slots to be used by said terminal when a first modulation and coding scheme is activated, and controlling a transmission, to said terminal, of information indicative of that said first modulation and coding scheme is to be activated.

Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from suitable coding schemes. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from using low density parity check and other reliability mechanisms. A method can include communicating at least one transport block for ultra-reliable low-latency communications between a sending device and a receiving device. The transport block can be coded using a base graph according to one of the following three options: using only low density parity check base graph #2; using only low density parity check base graph #2 and truncated low density parity check base graph #1; or using low density parity check base graph #2, truncated low density parity check base graph #1, and low density parity check base graph #3.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for supporting precision timing protocol (PTP) based time sensitive network (TSN) applications are provided. One method includes configuring, by a network node, a user equipment connection and user contexts for an industrial automation and control (IAC) system or configuring at least one time synchronized radio bearer for a user equipment. The method may also include determining synchronization configuration on the at least one time synchronized radio bearer for the industrial automation and control (IAC) system, and distributing the synchronization configuration periodically or on a need basis to one or more serving network nodes for the industrial automation and control (IAC) system.

Abstract: An example embodiment relates to a method comprising: receiving (700), by a client device, information about a scene associated with a 3D presentation for initiating viewport rendering by an application, wherein said scene is hosted by a server as one or more encoded 2D patches, said 2D patches being projections of the 3D representation of the scene; providing (702) the server with information for selecting 2D patches required to reconstruct at least one segment of the 3D scene as visible in a given viewport; obtaining (704), from the server, one or more video bitstreams generated based on the selected 2D patches and related metadata for extracting said 2D patches from said one or more video bitstreams; and rendering (706), by the client device, the given viewport as a sub-segment of the 3D representation of the scene based on said one or more 2D patches and the related metadata.

Abstract: A method comprising: detecting at a device associated with a first public land mobile network, a cell; receiving, for each of a plurality of public land mobile networks supported by the cell, an indication as to whether or not the cell is available for standalone access for that public land mobile network; and determining, in dependence upon the indications and based on the first public land mobile network, whether to request standalone access of the cell.

Abstract: Aspects related to application based routing of data packets is described. In an example, a method for enabling application based routing of data packets includes retrieving, by a client device, a prioritized list of client application parameters to process data packets from at least one client application. The prioritized list is generated based on application support capabilities of the client device. The method includes transmitting client parameters to a network server to create at least one multi-path proxy (MPP) instance. Each MPP instance of the at least one MPP instance is configured to aggregate and route data packets to a pre-defined core network link. The method further includes receiving identification information pertaining to the at least one MPP instance from the network server. Based on the identification information, the prioritized list is assigned to the at least one MPP instance to process data packets from at least one client application.

Abstract: There are provided measures for enabling/realizing stationarity-based UE power saving, specifically network-assisted power saving at a terminal entity based on local stationarity monitoring and autonomous power saving mode switching. Such measures exemplarily include that a terminal entity operates in a normal power mode, including performing normal radio environment related measurements (such as regular radio resource management measurements and/or cell search measurements) and monitoring a stationarity condition with a local procedure and/or equipment, switches from the normal power mode to a power saving mode, if the locally monitored stationarity condition is satisfied, and operates in the power saving mode, including performing relaxed radio environment related measurements (such as relaxed radio resource management measurements and/or cell search measurements).

Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from the appropriate selection of aspects of operation of the communication system. For example, certain wireless communication systems, such as fifth generation (5G), long term evolution advanced (LTE-A), and wireless local area network (WLAN) communication systems, may benefit from appropriate random access preamble selection. A method can include determining that a user equipment should consider at least one beam-specific parameter. The method can also include indicating to the user equipment to consider the at least one beam-specific parameter.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for receiving, at a user equipment, a scheduling grant for a first number, M, of transport blocks, wherein the scheduling grant comprises an indication of a second number, N, of transport blocks to be transmitted or received before a time delay, wherein M is greater than 1 and N is less than or equal to M, causing transmission or reception of a first group of N transport blocks and, if N is less than M, after the time delay, causing transmission or reception of a further group of up to N transport blocks followed by the time delay, until M transport blocks are caused to be transmitted or received.