Abstract: A method and apparatus to perform receiving, by the apparatus from a communication network, information includes an indication to configure enhanced channel quality indicator configuration reporting; based on the information, formulating calculations of channel quality indicator configurations to determine a level of an error probability condition for at least one code block group of a plurality of code block groups of a plurality of channel quality indicator indexes from the communication network; and based on the formulated calculations, determining a level of an error probability condition for at least one code block group at different channel quality indicator indexes of the plurality of channel quality indicator indexes based on how much an N failed code block group out of M code block group failures associated with a channel quality indicator index is exceeding or not exceeding a parameter P predetermined threshold.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for feedback per code block group (CBG). A method may include receiving from a network element, at least one transport block including at least one coding block group. The method may also include determining which of the at least one transport block and the at least one coding block group was correctly or incorrectly received. The method may further include transmitting, based on the determination, a first report which identifies transport blocks of the at least one transport block that was correctly received and incorrectly received. In addition, the method may include, upon determining that at least one of the transport blocks was received incorrectly, transmitting a second report identifying coding block groups of the at least one coding block group that was incorrectly received from the transport blocks that were incorrectly received.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising using a machine learning algorithm to select an antenna panel from a plurality of antenna panels. A first long-term reward value associated with the selected antenna panel is determined based at least partly on one or more first signals received on the selected antenna panel. A second signal is then transmitted or received via the selected antenna panel, if the first long-term reward value exceeds one or more second long-term reward values associated with at least a subset of the plurality of antenna panels.

Abstract: For a network node in wireless communication with a UE, filling a TB such that at least two data with different reliability requirements are mapped to separate CBs. The network node applies different MCSs to at least the separate CBs comprising the data with different reliability requirements within the transport block. The network node transmits the TB toward the UE after the different MCSs have been applied. The UE can use a similar technique in UL in order to transmit. The UE may also receive the TB from the network node. The UE decodes and performs error checking of the CBs based on the corresponding MCSs that were applied.

Abstract: An apparatus, comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions, the at least one memory and the instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause a terminal device to signal to a network device a first information indicating whether the terminal device has scheduling restrictions related to intra-frequency measurements.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for protecting critical data receptions by a user equipment (UE) device may include a UE device which is caused to, receive data reception priority configuration information from the serving RAN node, the data reception priority configuration information including designating a scheduling information priority time window, and receive scheduling information from the serving RAN node using a first antenna panel of one or more antenna panels during the scheduling information priority time window based on the data reception priority configuration information and signal quality measurements corresponding to each antenna panel of the one or more antenna panels.

Abstract: Described herein are methods, apparatuses, and computer program products configured to synchronize radio bearers carrying data flows and/or control flows from a network entity or node within a communication system (e.g., a 5G network), towards user equipment, in order to achieve a desired Quality of Experience (QoE) for applications with multiple data streams and multiple quality of service (QoS) flows whose QoS requirements depend on each other. In some embodiments, two or more data radio bearers (DRBs) for carrying data from a single application, such as extended reality, virtual reality, augmented reality, or the like, e.g. online game streaming, may be synchronized in order to ensure desired QoE for an application with multiple QoS flows.

Abstract: An apparatus performs classifying received data frames into a plurality of classes based on parameters of the received data frames, and determining a class from the plurality of classes for a next data frame based on the parameters of the previously received data frames. The determination is performed before the next data frame has arrived. A scheduling configuration is determined from a plurality of scheduling configurations based on the determined class of the next data frame. Each of the plurality of scheduling configurations comprises at least one parameter. The at least one parameter of the selected scheduling configuration is adjusted based on i) the determined class of the next data frame, and ii) information about previous communications of data frames by the network entity. The selected scheduling configuration is activated in the terminal with the at least one adjusted parameter.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for a base station including at least one processing core, configured to cause the apparatus at least to define a first cluster of time-division duplex user equipments at least partly by including in the first cluster user equipments whose uplink signals may be received using a single first directional beamforming beam, determine a ratio of received signal strengths of a pair of user equipments in the first cluster, the pair including a first user equipment associated with the apparatus and a second user equipment associated with a neighbouring base station device, and responsive to the ratio fulfilling a predetermined condition, inform the neighbouring base station device of a scheduling plan of the first user equipment.

Abstract: A network node allocates primary frequency resources and at least one secondary frequency resource to a user equipment (UE) within a dynamically changing bandwidth (BW) of a cell served by the network node. The network node further configures the UE to use the primary frequency resources for an UL transmission when the primary frequency resources fall within an UL part of the BW, and to use the secondary frequency resource for the UL transmission when the primary frequency resources fall, at least partly, within a downlink (DL) part and/or a Guard Band (GB) of the BW, and/or fall, at least partly, outside the BW. The UE may dynamically, based on such configuration from the network node, adapt its resource allocation to perform the UL transmission even if the primary frequency resources are not fully within the UL part of the BW in a current time resource.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: receiving antenna panel switching rate configuration parameters; determining an antenna panel switching rate at a user device of a communication system, wherein the antenna panel switching rate is based on a number of antenna panel switching events within a moving averaging window, wherein the window has a size defined by said configuration parameters; and providing a panel switching rate report to a network node of the communication system, wherein the panel switching rate report includes the determined antenna panel switching rate.

Abstract: According to one example embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a user equipment, at least one buffer status report configuration from a network entity. The method may further include measuring, by the user equipment, at least one uplink packet arrival time according to the received at least one buffer status report configuration. The method may further include selecting, by the user equipment, at least one buffer status report format. The method may further include transmitting, by the user equipment, at least one uplink time-stamped buffer status report to the network entity according to the selected at least one buffer status report format.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for adaptively controlling and optimizing radio configuration parameters by using a dual control algorithm. The dual control algorithm includes first and second control algorithms, each of which is executed independently whenever certain one or more trigger events occur. The first control algorithm is used for obtaining one or more User Equipment (UE) clusters and a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) requirement for each UE cluster based on UE information, while the second control algorithm is used for obtaining optimized radio configuration parameters for each UE cluster in accordance with the KPI requirement. The second control algorithm is also configured to monitor its performance and, if its performance degrades, send an associated signal to the first control algorithm. The occurrence of such a signal is among the trigger events that cause the execution of the first control algorithm.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: generating a local outage time database for a first cell of a mobile communication system, wherein the local outage time database stores first latency data for each of a plurality of devices served by the first cell, wherein each first latency data comprises time left to outage data for the respective device; sending selected parts of the local outage time database to one or more other cells of the mobile communication network; receiving second latency data from at least one of the one or more other cells of the mobile communication system, wherein said second latency data includes time left to outage data for one or more devices served by said other cells; and generating a multi-cell outage time database including some or all of the shared selected parts of the local outage time database and some or all of the received second latency data.

Abstract: A user equipment may receive a configuration message comprising at least one of: a configured grant configuration, or a semi-persistent scheduling configuration, wherein configuration may be associated with a cross-division duplexing slot format, wherein the cross-division duplexing slot format may comprise at least one of: a cross-division duplexing time slot for concurrent transmission in a plurality of communication directions, or a cross-division duplexing time slot for transmission in one communication direction; receive an information indicating at least one resource of the configuration; determine whether the at least one resource is valid, based on a comparison between a corresponding cross-division duplexing slot format of the at least one resource and the cross-division duplexing slot format associated with the configuration; and perform communication with the network device on the at least one resource based, at least partially, on a determination that the at least one resource is valid.

Abstract: Techniques for determining a discontinuous reception configuration are disclosed. A user equipment may receive a discontinuous reception configuration from a network entity. The user equipment may select one or more discontinuous reception parameters to modify based at least in part on the received indication of a particular data burst class to be transmitted. The user equipment may receive a data burst and a selection command from the network entity. The user equipment selects one or more discontinuous reception parameters to modify based at least in part on the received indication of whether to apply the one or more adaptive parameters after the transmission of a current data burst is complete.

Abstract: Techniques for determining a discontinuous reception configuration are disclosed. A user equipment may receive a discontinuous reception configuration from a network entity. The user equipment may select one or more discontinuous reception parameters to modify based at least in part on the received indication of a particular data burst class to be transmitted. The user equipment may receive a data burst and a selection command from the network entity. The user equipment selects one or more discontinuous reception parameters to modify based at least in part on the received indication of whether to apply the one or more adaptive parameters after the transmission of a current data burst is complete.

Abstract: The present invention introduces a method and a system for base station cross-channel measurement control and configuration. A centralized unit (CU) (301, 601) of a base station configures (304, 305) at least two distributed units (DU) (302, 303, 602, 604) with DU sounding signaling transmission objects and DU cross-link measurement objects. The first DU (302) transmits (306) a sounding signal through an air interface (308) which the second DU (303) measures (307). The second DU (303) reports (309) this to the CU (301). Then the second DU (303) transmits (311) a sounding signal through an air interface (312) which the first DU (302) measures (310). The first DU (302) reports (313) this to the CU (301). Beam-forming can be applied as well. Also neighboring operators can be found by inter-frequency measurements of the sounding signals or Synchronization Signals. The CU (301, 601) can control the DUs (302, 303, 602, 604) with appropriate TDD switching patterns based on the found cross-link interference levels.

Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from improved transmissions. For example, a network transmission may benefit from improved throughput and efficiency in non-schedule multiple access communications. A method includes selecting at a user equipment operating in a non-scheduled access scheme at least one of a first codeword or a second codeword based on an amount of data. The data in the non-scheduled access scheme can be spread according to a spreading sequence. The method also includes determining a transport block size for at least one of the first codeword or the second codeword. In addition, the method includes transmitting the data from the user equipment to a network node using at least one of the first codeword or the second codeword.

Abstract: According to a first example embodiment, a method may include transmitting, by a network entity, at least one radio resource control (RRC)-based cross link interference (CLI) measurement framework object configured for at least one user equipment (UE) CLI measurement. The method may further include receiving, by the network entity, at least one reporting message. The method may further include resolving at least one inter-UE CLI problem on a semi-dynamic time scale based upon reporting rates associated with RRC measurements and/or pre-defined behavior.