Abstract: A cell search and synchronization method in a wireless communication system providing at least one cell having a frequency span in the frequency domain, the method includes: defining, for a said cell, a plurality of resources within the frequency span and within a defined time frame for transmitting a synchronization signal wherein a resource is characterised by a location in the frequency domain and a location in the time domain; and transmitting the synchronization signal in more than one of the plurality of resources.

Abstract: A method in a telecommunications system including a User Equipment, UE, at which a local part of an application producing application data executes and a base station, at which a remote part of the application executes, the method includes when the local part of the application at the UE starts to execute, the UE sending a connection message to the base station to initiate a connection with the base station, the connection message including an application parameter generated by the local part of the application; and the base station passing the application parameter to the remote part of the application.

Abstract: Wireless communication where a wireless network transmits a control channel message to a terminal. A receiver to receive the control channel message located in one or more control channel elements within a plurality of search spaces, each of the plurality of search spaces being configured from a plurality of control channel elements within a time interval for scheduling decision by using a pseudorandom function. A decoder to decode the control channel message by making a selection of locations for blind decoding the plurality of search spaces within the sub-frame, using the pseudorandom function, wherein, the pseudo-random function is a function based on a sum of a first value and a second value, wherein the first value is a pseudo-random factor, and the second value is based on an aggregation level and a total of control channel elements in a sub-frame.

Abstract: A method in a telecommunications system including a Data Network, DN, a base station, a connection via the base station from the DN to a User Equipment, UE, executing a UE application producing application data, and an algorithm entity on the DN, wherein the base station transmits network configuration information to a DN application executing on the algorithm entity, the DN application produces and transmits a filtering configuration based on the network configuration information to the UE for use in filtering the application data before transmission to the algorithm entity, allowing the UE to produce application data filtered according to the filtering configuration, and the connection transmits the filtered application data to the algorithm entity.

Abstract: A cell search and synchronization method in a wireless communication system providing at least one cell having a frequency span in the frequency domain, the method includes: defining, for a said cell, a plurality of resources within the frequency span and within a defined time frame for transmitting a synchronization signal wherein a resource is characterised by a location in the frequency domain and a location in the time domain; and transmitting the synchronization signal in more than one of the plurality of resources.

Abstract: A cell search and synchronization method in a wireless communication system providing at least one cell having a frequency span in the frequency domain, the method includes: defining, for a said cell, a plurality of resources within the frequency span and within a defined time frame for transmitting a synchronization signal wherein a resource is characterised by a location in the frequency domain and a location in the time domain; and transmitting the synchronization signal in more than one of the plurality of resources.

Abstract: A wireless communication system, including: a device configured to: store a access parameter; transit a Radio Resource Control (RRC) CONNECTED mode to an RRC IDLE mode; and transmit a first message for the access request when in the IDLE mode and storing the access parameter; and a base station configured to: receive the first message; and after receiving the first message, transmit to the terminal a second message indicating that the access parameter is valid or third message indicating the access request is rejected.

Abstract: A 5G wireless communication system to transmit a beam ID or part of a beam ID by joint design of a secondary synchronization sequence (SSS) and Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH). In 5G during the initial access procedure a terminal will try to obtain fundamental system information/identifiers which are required for future signal transmission/reception activities. Due to the extensive usage of beamforming techniques in 5G, besides identifying a cell ID and obtaining time/frequency synchronization, the terminal may identify a beam ID during the initial access procedure. Therefore, a beam ID is transmitted as part of synchronization signals (SS) broadcast by a gNB, more particularly as part of SSS or as part of PBCH. The synchronization signals may be transmitted as a set of SS blocks, each having an index, which may be a time index, for facilitating identification.

Abstract: A wireless communication system, including: a device configured to: store a access parameter; transit a Radio Resource Control (RRC) CONNECTED mode to an RRC IDLE mode; and transmit a first message for the access request when in the IDLE mode and storing the access parameter; and a base station configured to: receive the first message; and after receiving the first message, transmit to the terminal a second message indicating that the access parameter is valid or third message indicating the access request is rejected.

Abstract: Inter-RAT cell selection allowing a terminal such as an IoT device, under longer term network control, to access a cell on another RAT. A multi-RAT cellular communication system includes a first base station providing a first cell using a first RAT (RAT1), and a second base station providing a second cell using a second RAT (RAT2). A terminal camped on the first cell may perform a cell selection/reselection procedure to connect to the second cell achieved by the first base station transmitting a trigger condition control message including at least one parameter for deciding whether to trigger the cell selection/reselection procedure. The terminal decides whether to trigger the cell selection/reselection procedure by executing trigger condition checking algorithms, which combine the at least one parameter from the trigger condition control message with at least one property of the terminal. The second base station grants a connection to the second cell.

Abstract: Wireless communication where a wireless network transmits a control channel message to a terminal. A receiver to receive the control channel message located in one or more control channel elements within a plurality of search spaces, each of the plurality of search spaces being configured from a plurality of control channel elements within a time interval for scheduling decision by using a pseudorandom function. A decoder to decode the control channel message by making a selection of locations for blind decoding the plurality of search spaces within the sub-frame, using the pseudorandom function, wherein, the pseudo-random function is a function based on a sum of a first value and a second value, wherein the first value is a pseudo-random factor, and the second value is based on an aggregation level and a total of control channel elements in a sub-frame.

Abstract: A buffer status reporting scheme for a terminal (10) wishing to transmit data simultaneously in multiple RATs of a wireless communication network, which enables the co-ordination of multiple base stations (12, 14) of different RATs (e.g. LTE eNB, UMTS base station, WiFi access point, etc.) with the assistance of the terminal (10) in order to achieve efficient radio resource scheduling for multi-RAT multi-flow aggregation in uplink. A radio bearer is configured for multi-RAT multi-flow aggregation by the network, and multiple logical channel IDs are assigned to this RB that may be associated with different RATs. Logical channels associated with a certain RAT (or a given set of RATs) may be grouped into one logical channel group for radio resource scheduling reason. The terminal (10) performs buffer status reporting, according to the configuration, on all involved RATs and sends reports/indications to one or more involved base stations (12.14).

Abstract: Wireless communication method where a wireless network transmits a control channel message to a terminal. At the wireless network side: configuring a plurality of search spaces, each of the plurality are configured from a plurality of control channel elements within a sub-frame by using a pseudorandom function; determining one or more control channel elements to use for transmission of the control channel message from the plurality of search spaces; and transmitting the control channel message. At the terminal side: decoding the control channel message by making a selection of locations for blind decoding the search space within the sub-frame, using the pseudorandom function. The pseudo-random function is a function based on a sum of a first value and a second value. The first value is a pseudo-random factor, and the second value is based on an aggregation level and a total of control channel elements in the sub-frame.

Abstract: A wireless communication system, including: a device configured to: store a access parameter; transit a Radio Resource Control (RRC) CONNECTED mode to an RRC IDLE mode; and transmit a first message for the access request when in the IDLE mode and storing the access parameter; and a base station configured to: receive the first message; and after receiving the first message, transmit to the terminal a second message indicating that the access parameter is valid or third message indicating the access request is rejected.

Abstract: An access method of a device (10) such as an MTC device to a network (20, 30, 40) which allows the transmission of small data packets without the need to read all the System Information normally required to make an initial network access. The device (10) may notify the network that an access request is occurring from a device that was either specifically allowed to use a stored access configuration or is accessing the cell using modified system information being broadcast by the cell. Such notification may be implicit in the characteristics (choice of preamble, timing, frequency and/or repetition) of the access request. The network, preferably having knowledge of the method being used by the device to access the network, can either reject this access or accept it depending on whether the access was from a stored configuration or read from System Information.

Abstract: A cell search and synchronization method in a wireless communication system providing at least one cell having a frequency span in the frequency domain, the method includes: defining, for a said cell, a plurality of resources within the frequency span and within a defined time frame for transmitting a synchronization signal wherein a resource is characterised by a location in the frequency domain and a location in the time domain; and transmitting the synchronization signal in more than one of the plurality of resources.

Abstract: A method in a 5G wireless communication system to transmit a beam ID or part of a beam ID by joint design of a secondary synchronization sequence (SSS) and Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH). In 5G during the initial access procedure a terminal (10) will try to obtain fundamental system information/identifiers which are required for future signal transmission/reception activities. Due to the extensive usage of beamforming techniques in 5G, besides identifying a cell ID and obtaining time/frequency synchronization, the terminal (10) may be required to identify a beam ID during the initial access procedure. Therefore, a beam ID is transmitted as part of synchronization signals (SS) broadcast by a gNB (20), more particularly as part of SSS or as part of PBCH. The synchronization signals may be transmitted as a set of SS blocks, each having an index, which may be a time index, for facilitating identification.

Abstract: A wireless communication method wherein: a terminal (1) transmits first and second data streams to a network; wherein the first data stream is associated with both a first cell and a second cell of a plurality of cells (10, 20, 22, 24) serving the terminal, and the second data stream is associated with the second cell; and the terminal (1) transmits at least one signalling message including first information relating to data to be sent in the first data stream and/or second information relating to data to be sent in the second data stream to at least one of the first cell and the second cell based on predetermined rules corresponding to association between cells and data streams.

Abstract: In a wireless communication system, two cells (cell 1, cell 2) co-exist in the same time/frequency resources with the same Cell ID. The two cells are differentiated by one being a legacy cell and the other being a cell in which coverage extension by means of signal repetition is applied. There is a corresponding difference in broadcast control channels transmitted by a base station (11) providing the two cells, for example a difference in one or more of the contents of the PBCH, or the repetition factor on the PBCH, and/or a difference in a higher-level ID. The second cell is intended for machine type communication where coverage enhancement is required.

Abstract: A 5G wireless communication system will have very wide bandwidth in the extremely high carrier frequency region, more than one channel raster value is employed for wide bandwidth configurations. With this method a terminal can have a coarse initial scan for first synchronisation signals of cells over the whole available bandwidth as a first synchronization step, and obtain necessary information for a finer resolution scan to detect a second synchronization signal of a cell in the second synchronization step. Based on the second detection, the terminal can find system information needed to connect to the cell. Additionally, different synchronization sequences can be used for different carrier frequencies, hence the design and application of the synchronization sequences can take into account the properties of the carrier frequency such as delay spread and path loss. Frequency division multiplexing can be applied to synchronization sequences of neighbouring cells to avoid interference.