Abstract: Method and device(s) for supporting charging relating to a group transmission in a wireless communication network, said group transmission involving a group of wireless devices configured to, via one or more direct communication links between each other, participate in data transmission between a source wireless device and the wireless communication network. Data is transmitted on a device specific group bearer in a core network of the wireless communication network, which second data relates to the group transmission and to a wireless device of the group. Said device specific group bearer being configured specifically for data transmission usage relating to the wireless device when the data transmission is part of the group transmission.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to an active antenna system. The active antenna system comprises an antenna array wherein the antenna array comprises a plurality of sub-arrays; a plurality of feed networks configured to couple respective signals from the plurality of sub-arrays to respective radio chains; and at least one coupling path configured to provide coupling between a first feed network and a second feed network, wherein the first feed network is coupled to a first sub-array and the second feed network is coupled to a second sub-array, wherein the coupling is of a higher magnitude than a lowest magnitude of mutual aperture couplings occurring between antenna elements in the first sub-array and the second sub-array.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus comprises an additively manufactured body having a back surface with one or more flat regions and a substantially convex front surface opposite the back surface, as well as one or more of any of the following: a radiative antenna element attached to the front surface; a radiative antenna element integrated into or near the front surface via additive manufacturing; a passive electrical filter component integrated into the body via additive manufacturing; and an electrically conductive trace integrated into the body via additive manufacturing and arranged to provide an electrical connection from the back surface of the body to the front surface of the body or to a passive electrical filter component integrated into the body.

Abstract: A method provides route information to a connected vehicle in a brokered information prediction system. The method includes determining available mobile communication networks that can provide real-time mobile communication network data, querying a first available mobile communication network to provide key performance indicators for a route for a connected vehicle, determining service level indicators for the route based on received key performance indicators for the route where the key performance indicators meet defined thresholds, and sending predicted service level indicators for the route to the connected vehicle.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for spatial resource selection from a plurality of spatial resources. The method comprises—for each spatial resource of the plurality of spatial resources—receiving a plurality of reference signal blocks using the spatial resource (wherein at least some of the reference signal blocks are received in different frequency intervals and during different time intervals), determining (for each received reference signal block) whether or not a signal quality metric of the received reference signal block meets a quality criterion, and determining whether the spatial resource is to be considered for spatial resource selection based on the quality criterion determinations of the received reference signal blocks. The spatial resources may be beams of a beam-forming application, or antennas of a multi-antenna arrangement, or multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) streams.

Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for OTA testing of an AAS of an EUT. A method is performed by a network node. The method includes obtaining definition of a test signal to be transmitted or received by the EUT in accordance with a time/frequency resource grid. The method includes applying first beamforming weights to first selected resource elements of the time/frequency resource grid that give first beam directions according to a first type of configuration for first OTA testing of the AAS. The method includes applying second beamforming weights to second selected resource elements of the time/frequency resource grid that give second beam directions according to a second type of configuration for second OTA testing of the AAS. The method includes initiating transmission or reception of the test signal over the AAS using the time/frequency resource grid.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a node (AP2, U11) in a wireless communication system (1), where the node (AP2, U11) is adapted to communicate with at least two other nodes (AP1, AP0) in the wireless communication system (1), and where the other nodes (AP1, AP0) are first type nodes (AP1, AP0) which are adapted to communicate with each other by means of backhaul communication. The node (AP2, U11) is adapted to receive a signal (xA) transmitted from an adjacent first type node (AP1), where the (xA) has been forwarded from at least one farther first type node (AP0). In case of unsuccessful decoding of the signal (xA), the node (AP2, U11) is adapted to request re-transmission (NACK) of the signal (xA), and to receive a re-transmission of the signal (xA) directly from a farther first type node (AP0).

Abstract: A computer implemented method performed by a network node in a non-public communication network is provided. The method includes predicting a subsequent position of a first communication device served by a public communication network, wherein the first communication device is causing an interference level on the non-public communication network. The method further includes estimating a level of subsequent interference from the first communication device for the subsequent position. The method further includes initiating control of radio resources to reduce the estimated interference level from the first communication device.

Abstract: A method of operating a radio node in a wireless communication network includes communicating utilising signaling. The communication of the utilising signaling is based on performing pulse-shaping pertaining to the signaling. The pulse-shaping is based on a first pulse-shaping parameter beta. Other related devices and methods are disclosed.

Abstract: Radio network nodes, wireless devices, and related methods are provided in which a pseudo-random sequence initialization value, which is used during the generation of pseudo-random and/or scrambling sequences, is based, at least in part, on a first identifier, wherein the first identifier is equal to a first parameter if the first parameter has been configured and if a second identifier corresponds to a wireless-device-specific identifier.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for aggregating and exposing infrastructure capability information is provided. The method includes extracting infrastructure capability information, wherein the infrastructure capability information includes available resource types and, for each available resource type, first attribute information including a first attribute name and a first attribute value. The method further includes, for each available resource type: determining whether the first attribute value is a literal type attribute value or a numerical type attribute value; for an attribute value determined to be the literal type, aggregating the first attribute information to generate aggregated literal attributes information; and for an attribute value determined to be the numerical type, aggregating the first attribute information to generate aggregated numerical attributes information.

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one aspect of the disclosure, a network node configured to communicate with a wireless device is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to: cause a first physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, transmission starting at a first symbol and cause a second PDCCH transmission starting at a second symbol where the first PDCCH transmission is configured to schedule a first physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, transmission ending at a third symbol for a transport block and the second PDCCH transmission configured to schedule a second PUSCH transmission starting at a fourth symbol for the transport block, where the second symbol occurs before the third symbol, the third symbol occurs later in time than the first symbol and the fourth symbol occurs later in time than that second symbol.

Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a target network node for communicating with a user equipment (UE) that was previously in communication with a source network node, comprises an interface operably coupled to processing circuitry. The interface is configured to receive a connection resume request from the user equipment, wherein the connection resume request comprises a resume identification associated with the source network node. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that the UE was previously in communication with the source network node. The interface is further configured to transmit the connection resume request to the source network node, receive a radio resource control (RRC) response from the source network node, and forward the RRC response to the UE.

Abstract: Embodiments include methods, performed by a mobile terminal (MT) of an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node in a radio access network (RAN), for reporting capabilities of cells in the RAN. Such methods include detecting one or more cells in the RAN and determining whether the one or more cells support IAB (e.g., by receiving information broadcast by the respective cells). Such methods also include sending, to a centralized unit (CU, e.g., of abase station) in the RAN, a measurement report including an indication of whether the one or more cells support IAB. Various techniques can be used to indicated IAB support. In some embodiments, the MT can receive a reconfiguration message, from the CU, for a handover to one of the cells that supports IAB. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by CUs, as well as MTs and CUs configured to perform such methods.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided. In an example aspect, a method (300, 400, 500) of estimating a location of a User Equipment (UE) is provided. The method comprises determining (302) whether a signal transmitted between the UE and a first network node has a line-of-sight (LoS) path between the UE and the first network node, and estimating (304) the location of the UE based on the signal received at the first network node and based on whether the signal has a LoS path.

Abstract: Training a neural network and embedding a watermark in the network to prove ownership. The network includes a plurality of trainable parameters associated with network nodes in which the plurality of trainable parameters is split into a first set of trainable parameters and a second set of trainable parameters. A first set of training samples is input to the network and the network is trained by iterating the first set of samples through the network to update the first set of parameters and hindering the second set of parameters to be updated during iteration of the first set of samples. A second set of samples is input and the watermark is embedded by iterating the second set of samples through the network to update the second set of parameters and hindering the first set of parameters to be updated during iteration of the second set of samples.

Abstract: Embodiments include methods for a first radio network node (RNN) in a wireless network to configure quality of experience (QoE) measurements by user equipment (UEs). Such methods include receiving, from a measurement function in the wireless network, a QoE measurement configuration (QMC associated with one or more service types; and configuring one or more UEs with the QMC. Such methods also include sending to a second RNN in the wireless network, a first request for handover of a particular one of the UEs from a first cell served by the first RNN via a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second cell served by the second RNN via a second RAT. The first request includes the QMC. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a second RNN or by a UE, as well as first RNNs, second RNNs, and UEs configured to perform such methods.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed techniques include methods, apparatus, and instructions for split-horizon filtering in an Ethernet virtual private network (EVPN), where an EVPN instance includes a plurality of provider edges (PEs) that forward traffic for a plurality of customer edges (CEs). In one embodiment, a method includes advertising a set of single Broadcast, Unknown unicast, or Multicast (BUM) identifiers, each in an Inclusive Multicast Ethernet tag (IMET) route from a PE of the EVPN instance to one other PE within the plurality of PEs, where each PE that shares an Ethernet segment with the PE is advertised with one unique BUM identifier to distinguish BUM packets from that PE with BUM packets from other PEs of the EVPN instance; and forwarding by the PE, BUM packets from another PE of the EVPN instance to one or more CEs coupled to the PE based on a single BUM identifier encapsulated within the BUM packets.

Abstract: A method of configuration in a communications network includes: obtaining operational data relating to operation of at least one network node, the operational data including, for each of a plurality of time periods, data relating to at least one configuration parameter of the network node and data relating to at least one performance indicator of the network node; defining a plurality of actions, wherein each action corresponds to a specific set of values of the at least one configuration parameter in two successive time periods; and defining a plurality of states, wherein each state corresponds to one specific set of values of the operational data. A probabilistic graph is constructed from the operational data, the probabilistic graph indicating, for a plurality of the defined states, a probability that an action will lead to a transition to a respective other state.

Abstract: A method performed by a Radio Access Network (RAN) node for handling a service request from a User Equipment, UE, in a wireless communications network. The RAN node supports a first network slice in a first Area, A1. The RAN node connects (902) to the UE via A1. The RAN node sends (903) to a Core Network (CN) node, a service request from the UE. The service request relates to one or more network slices that the UE requests in a certain Area. The RAN node receives (904) an indication from the CN node. The indication indicates the one or more network slices requested by the UE together with any one or more out of: —A list of network slices that are allowed to be accessed by the UE in the current A1, and—an indication of a new area priority policy associated to the one or more network slices that are requested by the UE. The RAN node decides (905) how to handle the service request from the UE based on the indication received from the CN node.