Abstract: According to an aspect, a method is provided of operating a wireless communication device (UE) to provide positioning related data for determining a position estimate of the UE, the UE being connected to a communications network via a radio link, the method comprising: monitoring for a control channel associated with a positioning occasion in which the UE monitors for at least one positioning reference signal, wherein the control channel comprises an allocation configuration of resources for transmitting the positioning related data. According to further aspects, a method of operating a wireless communication device, a wireless communication device and an access node are provided.

Abstract: A communications device is provided, which is configured to transmit or receive signals via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network to or from one or more infrastructure equipment. The communications device is configured, at the time of a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection establishment procedure, to receive a first message from one of the infrastructure equipment comprising an indication that the infrastructure equipment is capable of operating in accordance with a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) in accordance with a first radio access technology, to establish a PDCP entity based on the received indication, and to transmit a second message to the infrastructure equipment comprising an indication that the communications device is capable of operating in accordance with one or both of the PDCP in accordance with the first radio access technology and a PDCP in accordance with a second radio access technology.

Abstract: A method of operating an infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications system to support first and second random access procedures is provided, wherein a number of subcarriers used for an uplink message of the second random access procedure is smaller than a number of subcarriers used for a corresponding uplink message of the first random access procedure. The method comprises transmitting, to at least one communications device, a scheduling message comprising an indication of a first set of radio resources comprising a plurality of subcarriers to be used for a random access procedure message for the first random access procedure, determining a second set of radio resources to be used for a random access procedure message for the second random access procedure, and monitoring for a random access procedure message from the at least one communications device on the second set of radio resources.

Abstract: A method of operating a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications system to support first and second random access procedures, wherein a message size/amount of data for an uplink message of the second random access procedure is different to a message size/amount of data for a corresponding uplink message of the first random access procedure, and wherein the method includes: transmitting a scheduling message comprising an indication of a first set of radio resources to be used for a random access procedure message for the first random access procedure; determining a second set of radio resources for a random access procedure message for the second random access procedure, wherein the second set of radio resources is related to the first set by a predefined relationship; and monitoring for a random access procedure message on both the first and second set of radio resources.

Abstract: A method of transmitting data to a communications device from a wireless communications network comprising one or more infrastructure equipment, the method comprises configuring one or more of the infrastructure equipment for transmitting one or more candidate beams of signals which can be used to transmit the data to the communications device from each of one or more cells of the wireless communications device formed by the infrastructure equipment. Each of the candidate beams is configured with a different directional bias with respect to a location of the one or more cells from which the signals of the candidate beam can be received when transmitted.

Abstract: A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising receiver circuitry and control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to: control the receiver circuitry to receive a first signal indicating that a warning notification message is to be transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the network using a multicast or broadcast transmission; in response to the reception of the first signal, control the receiver circuitry to receive a second signal transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the network using predetermined communication resources, the second signal comprising information for the terminal device to use to determine communication resources for the multicast or broadcast transmission of the warning notification message; determine the communication resources for the multicast or broadcast transmission of the warning notification message using the information comprised in the second signal; control the receiver circuitry to receive the warnin

Abstract: A method of operating an infrastructure equipment configured for communicating with one or more communications devices via a wireless access interface. The wireless access interface comprises resource elements for carrying sub-carriers of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols. Forming a downlink signal comprises selecting a plurality of component-signals from a set of component-signals, each of the component-signals from the set of component-signals being formed from a sequence of signal samples for transmission in one of the blocks of resource elements and in one of the time units by the number of OFDM symbols, each of the component-signals being detectable by a narrow bandwidth receiver, and selecting for each of the plurality of component-signals one or more of the plurality of the blocks of resource elements and one or more of the time units to transmit the component-signal.

Abstract: A communications device includes receiver circuitry, transmitter circuitry, and controller circuitry controlling the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry to receive data in accordance with an automatic repeat request (ARQ) type protocol in which the data is received as a plurality of encoded data packets encoded with an error correction code and the transmitter circuitry transmits a feedback signal depending on whether each of the data encoded packets is estimated as having been decoded successfully by the receiver circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured to evaluate a quality measure of each encoded data packet and in response to the evaluated quality measure to transmit an early indication of the feedback signal to the wireless communications network, before the encoded data packet has been decoded by the error correction decoder.

Abstract: A method for acknowledging transmissions in a telecommunications network comprising a network node arranged to communicate with a mobile device via a wireless interface.

Abstract: Infrastructure equipment for transmitting data to and receiving data from a mobile device on a communications network is described. The infrastructure equipment comprising: transmitter circuitry configured to transmit the data to the mobile device; and controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry to transmit a first position reference signal in a first subframe and a second position reference signal in a second subframe, wherein the second position reference signal is a time adjusted version of the first position reference signal, the amount of time adjustment being determined by the sample time at which the mobile device samples the position reference signal.

Abstract: A method of operating a device in a wireless network is provided. The device operates in accordance with a Half Duplex Frequency Division Duplex, HD-FDD, mode of operation. The method comprises determining that the device is to transmit an uplink signal to the wireless network in a set of uplink resources, determining that the device is to receive a downlink control signal in a set of downlink resources, determining that the set of uplink resources at least partially overlaps in time with the set of downlink resources, and, depending on a characteristic of the uplink signal and/or a characteristic of the downlink signal, either transmitting the uplink signal in the set of uplink resources and not receiving the downlink signal in the set of downlink resources, or receiving the downlink signal in the set of downlink resources and not transmitting the uplink signal in the set of uplink resources.

Abstract: A method of conveying an allocation of radio resources on a radio channel for communicating data between a base station and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system, wherein the radio channel spans a channel frequency bandwidth divided into frequency resource units which may be selectively allocated for communicating data between the base station and the terminal device, and wherein the method comprises, at the base station, selecting a combination of resource units for communicating the data between the base station and the terminal device from among a predefined set of allowable combinations of resource units, wherein the allowable combinations of resource units include non-contiguous combinations of resource units and wherein the number of allowable combinations of resource units is smaller than the total number of combinations of resource units, and conveying, to the terminal device, an indication of the selected combination of resource units.

Abstract: A retransmission method for use in a telecommunications system, the method comprising: transmitting, to a terminal, first data in a set of identified resources allocated for the transmission of the first data; identifying that a portion of the identified resources has been used to transmit data other than the first data; and retransmitting a subset of the first data, the subset of the first data comprising the portion of the first data that was previously scheduled to be transmitted in the portion of the identified resources.

Abstract: A method of operating a communications device, the method comprising determining that first and second resources are allocated for one of transmission and reception of signals by the device, the second resources being different from the first resources, determining that a time period separating the first and second resources is below a predetermined maximum switching time threshold, determining a first priority associated with the first resources, determining a second priority associated with the second resources, determining a start of a switching time gap based on the first priority and the second priority, controlling a receiver of the device to refrain from receiving signals during the switching time gap, controlling a transmitter of the device to refrain from transmitting signals during the switching time gap, and transmitting or receiving first data using at least a portion of one of the first and second resources.

Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device comprising: a transmitter; a receiver configured to receive a measurement radio signal from each of one or more potential relay nodes of the wireless telecommunications system, each measurement radio signal being transmitted using the same predetermined radio frequency band and identifying the one of the potential relay nodes from which it is transmitted; and a controller configured: to measure a characteristic of each received measurement radio signal, and based on each received measurement radio signal and its measured characteristic, to determine a suitable one of the one or more potential relay nodes for acting as a relay node for relaying the further radio signal between the terminal device and the infrastructure equipment.

Abstract: A method of operating a communications device comprises: determining to transmit a first uplink signal comprising a first set of feedback indications in a first set of uplink resources; determining to transmit a second uplink signal comprising a second set of feedback indications in a second set of uplink resources; determining that the first set of uplink resources and the second set of uplink resources are located within a same time slot; transmitting only the second uplink signal instead of both of the first uplink signal and the second uplink signal, the second uplink signal comprising an indication of one or more of the first set of feedback indications; and determining that a downlink assignment index associated with the first set of feedback indications is reduced when the one or more of the first set of feedback indications are indicated within the second uplink signal.

Abstract: There is provided a method of transmitting downlink control-related information to a terminal in a wireless telecommunications system. The method comprises allocating downlink resources in a first set of resources for sending the downlink control-related information; determining that a further downlink transmission will be transmitted using at least part of the allocated downlink resources thereby identifying a collision between the downlink control-related information transmission and the further downlink transmission; upon identifying a collision, allocating a second set of resources for sending the downlink control-related information; and transmitting the downlink control-related information using at least the second set of resources.

Abstract: A user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry configured to communicate with at least one base station, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: interrupt processing of a lower priority data transmission when a higher priority data transmission has to be processed, when it is determined that an available processing power is below a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A method of operating a wireless telecommunications system for communicating higher layer data from network infrastructure comprises establishing an allocation of radio resources for the network infrastructure equipment to use for transmitting higher layer data to the terminal device during a higher layer data transmission period; transmitting an indication of the allocated radio resources to the terminal device; beginning transmission of the higher layer data to the terminal device at the beginning of the higher layer data transmission period; and subsequently identifying during the higher layer data transmission period whether any of the allocated radio resources which have not yet been used are needed by the network infrastructure equipment for transmitting other data in the wireless telecommunications system.

Abstract: An infrastructure equipment that transmits signals representing data via a wireless access interface to a communications device and receives signals representing data via the wireless access interface from the communications device in accordance with a time divided structure in which the wireless access interface is divided into a plurality of repeating time units. The infrastructure equipment provides, in each of a first plurality of the time units, one of a plurality of control channels each configured to schedule one of a plurality of data channels, and provides, in each of a second plurality of time units of the signal transmitted to the communications device, one of the plurality of data channels, the plurality of data channels being formed of one or more bundles of data channels, wherein the infrastructure equipment transmits a bundle status indicator in one or more of the plurality of control channels.