Abstract: An apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: generate a configuration and/or a command for performing control channel monitoring skipping on multiple radio frequency resources; and provide the configuration and/or command for performing control channel monitoring skipping on the multiple radio frequency resources to the terminal.

Abstract: In example an embodiment, according to the method, a timer is started to monitor selection of a RA resource in response to a RA procedure for accessing a network device being initiated. The timer is configured with expiration time. The timer is stopped in response to a RA resource being selected for transmitting a RA preamble to the network device. A preamble transmission counter is incremented in response to the timer expiring. The preamble transmission counter records the number of transmitted RA preambles. A failure of the RA procedure is indicated in response to the incremented preamble transmission counter exceeding a threshold. The embodiment enables completion of the RA procedure regardless of an out of coverage situation where no beam is available to be selected for transmitting a RA preamble.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided in a communications device. The apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs. The at least one memory and the computer code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to determine that at least one of a plurality of logical channels configured for packet duplication is to be deactivated; and determine an allocation of one or more cells associated with the at least one deactivated logical channel to one or more active logical channels of said plurality of logical channels configured for packet duplication.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to random access in a communication system. A first device determines whether a contention-free random access resource is allocated from a second device for a first random access type. In accordance with a determination that the contention-free random access resource is allocated, the first device compares a target transport block size corresponding to the contention-free random access resource with a first transport block size configured for a first group of preambles available for the first random access type, and performs random access to the second device based on a result of the comparison.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus including circuitry configured for receiving an indication, at a user equipment from a network, to operate in an inactive state, receiving a criteria related to the inactive state, and in response to the criteria being met, performing one or more actions.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to reporting preconfigured up-link transmission failure. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal device logs failures associated with transmission on the preconfigured resources and failure causes. The terminal device transmits the logged information to the network device. In this way, the network device is aware of the failure occurrences and their reasons. The network device is able to use the information for configuring uplink resources more efficiently and the resources can be efficiently allocated for other purpose or other terminal devices.

Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the apparatus there is at least a method and apparatus to perform determining a grant for data to be communicated, comprising identifying logical channels to be multiplexed into a medium access control protocol data unit for the data to be communicated, wherein at least one of a logical channel identifier for at least one logical channel of the multiplexed logical channels and length of at least one logical channel service data unit is configured to be omitted from the medium access control protocol data unit.

Abstract: There is provided a method comprising: determining that a random access procedure is to be applied in response to initiating a beam failure recovery, BFR, procedure; selecting a beam with which the random access procedure is to be attempted; determining whether or not the selected beam is allocated with a contention free preamble; and performing one of the following: 1) upon determining the positive, applying a contention free random access, CFRA, procedure based on a first limit for an access attempt counter; and 2) upon determining the negative, applying a contention based random access, CBRA, procedure based on a second limit for the access attempt counter, wherein the first and second limits are different.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for beam failure recovery are provided. Beam failure recovery may include detecting and/or declaring, by a user equipment, UE, secondary cell, Scell, beam failure at MAC layer and e.g. determining and/or selecting CSI-RS and/or SSB indexes for transmission to a network node.

Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is a method and apparatus to perform at least detecting, by a network device of a communication network, a wake-up signal related message format comprising control information, wherein the network device is in a radio resource control inactive state; and based on the detected message format, performing operations to initiate a connection resume procedure in the communication network. Further, in accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is a method and apparatus to perform at least determining, by a network node of a communication network, a wake-up signal related message format comprising control information for at least one network device in a radio resource control inactive state; and based on the determining, sending towards the at least one network device the message format to cause the at least one network device to perform operations to initiate a connection resume procedure in the communication network.

Abstract: A method comprising configuring a user equipment in a low activity state to operate within a radio access network wherein a radio access network notification area for the user equipment is defined based on a list of logically associated radio access network paging areas, wherein each of the logically associated radio access network paging areas is a subset of a core network tracking area identified by a paging area code value which is unique within the core network associated tracking area.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to failure recovery for serving cell. A terminal device detects a failure on a serving cell of the terminal device. If the beam failure is detected, the terminal device transmits information concerning the detected failure to a network device. The network device is associated with the serving cell. The terminal device disables further transmission of the information to the network device.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided in a communications device. The apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs. The at least one memory and the computer code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to determine that at least one of a plurality of logical channels configured for packet duplication is to be deactivated; and determine an allocation of one or more cells associated with the at least one deactivated logical channel to one or more active logical channels of said plurality of logical channels configured for packet duplication.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for a signaling procedure. An example method may include transmitting a first portion of a signaling message in a first sub-band and transmitting a second portion of the signaling message in a second sub-band, the second portion including an indication to the first portion transmitted in the first sub-band. Related apparatuses and computer readable medium are also disclosed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of channel access procedure based on the channel access priority class (CAPC). The method comprises receiving scheduling information from a second device, the scheduling information at least indicating resources allocated for a transmission from the first device to the second device, a channel access type for the transmission and an expected access priority for the transmission. The method further comprises comparing the expected access priority with an access priority of data in a buffer of the first device and determining use of the resources based on the comparison. In this way, the Channel Occupancy Time (COT) sharing can be used only for the data with higher or equal priority to avoid unintended usage of the grant on unlicensed band and coexistence fairness among nodes with different types of traffic to be transmitted may be achieved.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to contention resolution in random access procedure. A first device transmits to a second device a random access request comprising a first identification of the first device. The first device receives a response to the random access request from the second device. The response comprises a second identification from the second device for the first device and control information indicating a resource for communication between the first device and the second device. The first device compares the second identification with the first identification to determine data to be transmitted by using the indicated resource.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a memory configured to store an indication that the apparatus requires reliable and/or low-latency access to a network, and at least one processing core configured to process an access opportunity pattern, received in the apparatus from a network node, the access opportunity pattern comprising access opportunities provided by a subset of a cluster of cells, detectable by the apparatus, and to trigger for the apparatus reliable and/or low-latency access to the network by selecting from the pattern an access opportunity according to the received access opportunity pattern.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method that includes receiving at a user equipment configuration for M active transmission configuration indication states; selecting, according to one or more pre-defined rules, based on the configured M active transmission configuration indication states, a subset of N of the set of M transmission configuration indication states, where N<M; and determining by the user equipment beam failure detection resources based on the selected N transmission configuration indication states.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to contention resolution in random access procedure. An apparatus transmits a random access request to a further apparatus, and the random access request comprises a random access preamble and an identifier of the apparatus for a random access procedure. The apparatus then receives, from the further apparatus, control information on a control channel addressed to the identifier, and the control information indicates at least one of a resource and timing information for communication between the apparatus and the further apparatus. Next, the apparatus determines a result of the random access procedure based at least in part on the control information.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to reporting beam failure. A terminal device performs beam failure detection on a first number of serving cells configured for the terminal device. The terminal device determines information to at least indicate respective results of the beam failure detection on a second number of serving cells among the first number of serving cells, where the second number is smaller than the first number. The determined information is transmitted by the terminal device to a network device serving the terminal device using a resource allocated for the terminal device. Based on the information, the network device determines an overall result of the beam failure detection performed on the first number of serving cells.