Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for emergency communications (e.g., voice calls and/or SMS messages) for UE's without cellular coverage (e.g., in non-cellular coverage). A UE may establish, while out of range of cellular service, a peer-to-peer communication session with a relay UE using a channel in an unlicensed frequency band. The UE may transmit, using the peer-to-peer communication session, an emergency notification to the relay UE. The emergency notification may include an approximate location of the UE. Further the UE may communicate with a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), where the communications may be relayed between the UE and the PSAP by the relay UE. The approximate location of the UE may be based, at least in part, on a location of the relay UE and determining the approximate location of the UE may include performing a ranging procedure with the relay UE.

Abstract: Computer-readable media, methods and apparatus for allocating radio resources for a geographic region are disclosed. In some aspects, the apparatus may be an arrangement including a determiner that determines first radio resource utilization information for a first duration of a first geographic region. The arrangement may also include an estimator that estimates second radio resource utilization information for a second duration of a second geographic region, based on the first radio resource utilization information and based on movement information about a plurality of communication terminals that affected the first radio resource utilization information in the first geographic region. The arrangement may further include an allocator that allocates radio resources for the second geographic region based on the estimation of the second radio resource utilization information. The first duration may precede the second duration, and the first geographic region may neighbor the second geographic region.

Abstract: A device-to-device (D2D) communication application is stored in a memory of a first device, and has an application identifier (ApplicationID) configured to enable D2D communication between two or more devices in proximity. The first device is configured with a user identifier (UserID). A group associated with the D2D communication application can then be established, which includes the first device and one or more second devices, each having the D2D communication capability and an associated UserID, each of the devices exchanging their ApplicationID and UserID with other devices to establish the group. A role in the group is assigned to each device of the first device and one or more second devices, which defines functions for each device to establish the D2D communications. Based on the role of each device, a set of resources from the network are allocated to enable the D2D communication on the D2D communication channel.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can operate to configure an application service to a network slice instance while preserving an application identity (ID) privacy. The UE receives network slice customer (NSC) Service ID from an NSC. A UE route selection policy (URSP) from a network slice provider (NSP), or network operator, includes the NSC Service ID in a traffic descriptor that associates a single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) with the NSC Service ID. The UE associates the application service to the network slice instance based on the NSC Service ID and the S-NSSAI.

Abstract: A network device or component such as an access node (AN) can operate to provide a request to obtain a network slice of a network slice as a service (NSaaS) to provide a communication service on the network slice for an end-user device. In response to obtaining the network slice, a network slice customer (NSC) Service identity (ID) associated with the network slice can be determined and provided for a communication service for an application by the end-user device or user equipment (UE). The request can be processed at a network slice provider (NSP) component, in which the network slice can be assigned to the NSC in response to the request by the NSC. The NSP further provides a user equipment (UE) route selection policy (URSP) comprising a traffic descriptor that includes the NSC Service ID to the NSC.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a New Radio (NR) core network system comprises a set of network functions to: receive a request from a user equipment (UE) device comprising a virtual local area network data network name (VLAN DNN); determine whether the UE device is authorized to access a particular VLAN implemented on the core network and associated with the VLAN DNN; and cause a message comprising a VLAN identifier (VLAN ID) to be transmitted to the UE device based on a determination that the UE device is authorized to access the particular VLAN, wherein the VLAN ID corresponds to the particular VLAN.

Abstract: A communication device is provided comprising a receiver configured to detect whether it can receive emergency notification information of a radio cell and, if it cannot receive the emergency notification information of the radio cell, search for another radio cell based on the possibility to receive emergency notification information of the other radio cell. Further, the communication device comprises a controller configured to, if the receiver has found another radio cell based on the possibility to receive emergency notification information of the other radio cell, initiate a reselection of the other radio cell.

Abstract: Computer-readable media, methods and apparatus for allocating radio resources for a geographic region are disclosed. In some aspects, the apparatus may be an arrangement including a determiner that determines first radio resource utilization information for a first duration of a first geographic region. The arrangement may also include an estimator that estimates second radio resource utilization information for a second duration of a second geographic region, based on the first radio resource utilization information and based on movement information about a plurality of communication terminals that affected the first radio resource utilization information in the first geographic region. The arrangement may further include an allocator that allocates radio resources for the second geographic region based on the estimation of the second radio resource utilization information. The first duration may precede the second duration, and the first geographic region may neighbor the second geographic region.

Abstract: According to various examples, a communication terminal is described comprising a transceiver configured to perform a first attempt for selection of or reselection to a target radio cell, a measurement circuit, configured to measure, if the first attempt fails, a reception quality of the target cell, a memory configured to store an indication of the measured reception quality and a controller configured to determine a time for a second attempt for selection of or reselection to the target radio cell based on the stored indication and to control the transceiver to perform the second attempt at the determined time.

Abstract: A server application executing on the public Internet may establish or re-establish a packet data network (PDN) connection with a client application executing on mobile device over a cellular network by initiating a telephone call to the mobile device via a cellular access network node according to a telephone number associated with the client application. The mobile device may receive a paging for the telephone call from the cellular access network node. In response to the paging, the mobile device may determine a PDN communication channel associated with the server application, the PDN including the cellular access network node, and send a set of data to the server application via the determined PDN communication channel. The server application may, in response to receiving the set of data, send a second data set of data to the client application over a PDN communication channel associated with the client application.

Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to encode a unique UE identifier to be transmitted to an Access and Mobility Function (AMF) of a Fifth Generation (5G) network, wherein the unique identifier identifies UE capabilities to be stored in a UE capabilities database. An apparatus of Access and Mobility Function (AMF) of a Fifth Generation (5G) network comprises one or more processors to receive a user equipment (UE) Capabilities update from a remote server to update a UE capability database that stores UE capability information corresponding to one or more UEs identified with a unique identifier, and to process the UE Capabilities update via one or more Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Abstract: A server application executing on the public Internet may establish or re-establish a packet data network (PDN) connection with a client application executing on mobile device over a cellular network by initiating a telephone call to the mobile device via a cellular access network node according to a telephone number associated with the client application. The mobile device may receive a paging for the telephone call from the cellular access network node. In response to the paging, the mobile device may determine a PDN communication channel associated with the server application, the PDN including the cellular access network node, and send a set of data to the server application via the determined. PDN communication channel. The server application may, in response to receiving the set of data, send a second data set of data to the client application over a PDN communication channel associated with the client application.

Abstract: Embodiments of a user equipment (UE) and Node-B to operate in a wireless communication network using extended evolved absolute radio frequency channel numbers (EARFCN) and evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) frequency bands are disclosed herein. The UE may comprise transceiver and processing circuitry to receive a multiple frequency band indicators (MFBI) list that includes list elements corresponding to E-UTRA frequency bands on which neighboring LTE cells are operated. The MFBI list corresponds to an entry in the E-UTRA frequency and priority list or the E-UTRA frequency and priority extension list. The number of list elements for E-UTRA frequency and priority information corresponds to a sum of the number of entries in an E-UTRA frequency and priority list and a number of entries in an E-UTRA frequency and priority extension list. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Embodiments of a user equipment (UE) and Node-B to operate in a wireless communication network using extended evolved absolute radio frequency channel numbers (EARFCN) and evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) frequency bands are disclosed herein. The UE may comprise transceiver and processing circuitry to receive a multiple frequency band indicators (MFBI) list that includes list elements corresponding to E-UTRA frequency bands on which neighboring LTE cells are operated. The MFBI list corresponds to an entry in the E-UTRA frequency and priority list or the E-UTRA frequency and priority extension list. The number of list elements for E-UTRA frequency and priority information corresponds to a sum of the number of entries in an E-UTRA frequency and priority list and a number of entries in an E-UTRA frequency and priority extension list. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A communication terminal is described comprising a memory storing, for each radio cell of a plurality of radio cells, an information specifying whether the radio cell supports simultaneous operation in a plurality of different and overlapping frequency bands and a controller configured to initiate a cell reselection to one of the plurality of radio cells based on at least a part of the information.

Abstract: Embodiments of a user equipment (UE) and Node-B to operate in a wireless communication network using extended evolved absolute radio frequency channel numbers (EARFCN) and evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) frequency bands are disclosed herein. The UE may comprise transceiver and processing circuitry to receive a multiple frequency band indicators (MFBI) list that includes list elements corresponding to E-UTRA frequency bands on which neighboring LTE cells are operated. The MFBI list corresponds to an entry in the E-UTRA frequency and priority list or the E-UTRA frequency and priority extension list. The number of list elements for E-UTRA frequency and priority information corresponds to a sum of the number of entries in an E-UTRA frequency and priority list and a number of entries in an E-UTRA frequency and priority extension list. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A communication device is provided comprising a receiver configured to detect whether it can receive emergency notification information of a radio cell and, if it cannot receive the emergency notification information of the radio cell, search for another radio cell based on the possibility to receive emergency notification information of the other radio cell. Further, the communication device comprises a controller configured to, if the receiver has found another radio cell based on the possibility to receive emergency notification information of the other radio cell, initiate a reselection of the other radio cell.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, user equipment (UE), evolved node B (eNB), mobility management entities (MME), and methods are described for UE capability information setting. One example embodiment operates to set first UE capability information in an initial attach procedure; identify a temporary operating mode for the first UE associated with a second set of UE capability information; and change the capability information to a second set of UE capability information associated with the temporary operating mode. Various embodiments may signal between a UE, an eNB, and a MME to enable use of different sets of UE capability information for different temporary operating modes.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, user equipment (UE), evolved node B (eNB), mobility management entities (MME), and methods are described for UE capability information setting. One example embodiment operates to set first UE capability information in an initial attach procedure; identify a temporary operating mode for the first UE associated with a second set of UE capability information; and change the capability information to a second set of UE capability information associated with the temporary operating mode. Various embodiments may signal between a UE, an eNB, and a MME to enable use of different sets of UE capability information for different temporary operating modes.

Abstract: Embodiments of a user equipment (UE) and Node-B to operate in a wireless communication network using extended evolved absolute radio frequency channel numbers (EARFCN) and evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) frequency bands are disclosed herein. The UE may comprise transceiver and processing circuitry to receive a multiple frequency band indicators (MFBI) list that includes list elements corresponding to E-UTRA frequency bands on which neighboring LTE cells are operated. The MFBI list corresponds to an entry in the E-UTRA frequency and priority list or the E-UTRA frequency and priority extension list. The number of list elements for E-UTRA frequency and priority information corresponds to a sum of the number of entries in an E-UTRA frequency and priority list and a number of entries in an E-UTRA frequency and priority extension list. Other embodiments are disclosed.