Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from the appropriate selection of aspects of operation of the communication system. For example, certain wireless communication systems, such as fifth generation (5G), long term evolution advanced (LTE-A), and wireless local area network (WLAN) communication systems, may benefit from appropriate random access preamble selection. A method can include determining that a user equipment should consider at least one beam-specific parameter. The method can also include indicating to the user equipment to consider the at least one beam-specific parameter.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for supporting massive random access An access device configures resources for a proxy-based random access operation to the network and transmits an indication of the configured resources and of at least one identified support device and of a plurality of identified terminal devices to use the proxy-based random access operation, wherein the at least one support device is instructed by the indication to act as a proxy for the proxy-based random access operation. Then, the proxy-based random access operation can be enabled for the identified plurality of terminal devices via the at least one support device.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for receiving, at a user equipment, a scheduling grant for a first number, M, of transport blocks, wherein the scheduling grant comprises an indication of a second number, N, of transport blocks to be transmitted or received before a time delay, wherein M is greater than 1 and N is less than or equal to M, causing transmission or reception of a first group of N transport blocks and, if N is less than M, after the time delay, causing transmission or reception of a further group of up to N transport blocks followed by the time delay, until M transport blocks are caused to be transmitted or received.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium for scheduling serving cells with a signaling message. In example embodiments, a terminal device receives, in a Layer 1 (L1) signaling message, a resource indication to schedule resources on a plurality of bandwidth parts in a plurality of serving cells. The terminal device determines a reference size of a reference bandwidth part. The terminal device determines a reference resource based on the received resource indication and the reference size of the reference bandwidth part. The terminal device further determines alignment between the reference bandwidth part and a scheduled bandwidth part of the plurality of bandwidth parts. The terminal device determines, based on the reference resource and the alignment, a scheduled resource on the scheduled bandwidth part.

Abstract: There are provided measures for enabling/realizing stationarity-based UE power saving, specifically network-assisted power saving at a terminal entity based on local stationarity monitoring and autonomous power saving mode switching. Such measures exemplarily include that a terminal entity operates in a normal power mode, including performing normal radio environment related measurements (such as regular radio resource management measurements and/or cell search measurements) and monitoring a stationarity condition with a local procedure and/or equipment, switches from the normal power mode to a power saving mode, if the locally monitored stationarity condition is satisfied, and operates in the power saving mode, including performing relaxed radio environment related measurements (such as relaxed radio resource management measurements and/or cell search measurements).

Abstract: There is provided a method comprising: performing, by a user equipment, UE, of a wireless communication network, one or more early measurements on at least one carrier according to at least one determined measurement periodicity, wherein a measurement periodicity for a carrier of the at least one carrier is determined to be a first periodicity or a second different periodicity if a first condition regarding one or more serving cell thresholds is met and the first periodicity if a second condition regarding the one or more cell serving cell is met; and in response to a request from a network element of the wireless communication network, transmitting an early measurement report comprising one or more measurement results obtained by performing the one or more early measurements.

Abstract: Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for facilitating downlink control information (DCI) repetition on linked physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates of different search space sets. For example, certain embodiments may provide a procedure for a network node or a user equipment (UE) to determine a set of PDCCH candidates for determining starting time and ending time instances for the PDCCH transmission utilizing the repetition of the DCI.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for physical layer security by pseudo-random layer mapping.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for coordinating actions, such as handovers. In some example embodiment, there may be provided a method to control an action at a group including a first user equipment being served by a first base station and a second user equipment being served by a second base station, each of the first user equipment and the second user equipment configured with a protocol data unit session to carry redundant time sensitive streams, wherein the control includes providing a token to enable at a time the action at a single one of the first user equipment or the second user equipment.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus including at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to obtain an uplink transmission configuration including information on at least one secondary cell candidate frequency, transmit a signal in the uplink in accordance with the uplink transmission configuration on the at least one secondary cell candidate frequency, during a connection establishment procedure which transitions the apparatus from an idle mode to a connected mode, and receive a resource aggregation configuration from a network.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: 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: send (800) a registration request comprising a range of addresses and/or ports managed by a network address and/or port translation service and an identifier of the network address and/or port translation service; and receive (804) an address and/or port translation information request comprising an address and/or port used by an application to communicate with a terminal, wherein the address and/or port used by the application to communicate with a terminal is within the range of addresses and/or ports managed by the network address and/or port translation service.

Abstract: To enable spectrum shaping also when excess band is used, at least one set of spectral flatness requirements amongst two or more sets comprises at least at least a first parameter value for a first in-band range, at least a second parameter value for a second in-band range and at least a third parameter value for the excess band range, and a set to be used is selected at least based on information on the use of the excess band.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a first reception path comprising a first low noise amplifier; a first feedback path comprising a second low noise amplifier; first downstream receiver circuitry; a switching arrangement configured to, in a first state, couple the first reception path to the first downstream receiver circuitry and configured to, in a second state, couple the first feedback path to the first downstream receiver circuitry; and a controller configured to place the switching arrangement in the first state during a reception time slot and in the second state during a transmission time slot.

Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to receiver apparatus and corresponding transmitter apparatus that can be configured in different operational states at different times. An example receiver apparatus comprises a plurality of downconverting means for downconverting separate antenna signals, one or more analog to digital converters, and one or more multiplexing means configurable in at least a first configuration and a second configuration. When the multiplexing means is configured in the first configuration the plurality of downconverting means and the one or more analog to digital converters are configured to enable separate antenna signals to be combined to provide hybrid beamforming or analog beamforming. The hybrid beamforming or analog beamforming can be provided across the bandwidth of the apparatus.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and software for selecting a network slice for User Equipment (UE) based on a use case specified by the UE. In one embodiment, a slicing policy manager is implemented in a network that is partitioned into a plurality of network slices. The slicing policy manager receives a policy request for the UE, identifies a use case identifier in the policy request that indicates a use case specified by the UE, generates a use case slice selection policy configured to select a network slice from the plurality of network slices based on the use case specified by the UE, and initiates transmission of the use case slice selection policy to a slice selection manager. The slice selection manager may then select a network slice for the UE based on the policy.

Abstract: An apparatus for audio signal processing audio objects within at least one audio scene, the apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to: define for at least one time period at least one contextual grouping comprising at least two of a plurality of audio objects and at least one further audio object of the plurality of audio objects outside of the at least one contextual grouping, the plurality of audio objects within at least one audio scene; and define with respect to the at least one contextual grouping at least one first parameter and/or parameter rule type which is configured to be applied with respect to a common element associated with the at least two of the plurality of audio objects and wherein the at least one first parameter and/or parameter rule type is configured to be applied with respect to individual element associated with the at least one further audio object outside of the at least one contextual grouping, the at least one first parameter and/or parameter rule type being appli

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to mechanism for interactions for entering into the sleep mode. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the network device transmits the information of go-to-sleep, GTS, to the terminal device on a lower layer (for example, the physical layer). The lower protocol layer informs the higher protocol layer (for example, the MAC layer) of the information of GTS. The terminal device determines how to monitor the physical downlink channel based on the information of GTS. Further, the terminal device may switch bandwidth part based on the information of GTS. In this way, the GTS is able to significantly save power.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable mediums for beam failure recovery. The method includes detecting a beam failure on a serving cell of the terminal device, the serving cell including at least one of a primary cell and a secondary cell serving the terminal device. The method further includes in response to detecting the beam failure on the serving cell, generating a medium access control, MAC, control element, CE, the MAC CE including a field associated with the serving cell, wherein the field is set to be a predefined value indicating the beam failure. The method further includes transmitting the MAC CE to a network device associated with the serving cell.

Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a method for processing a multi-channel input audio signal representing a sound field into a multi-channel output audio signal representing said sound field in accordance with a predefined loudspeaker layout is provided, the method comprising the following for at least one frequency band: obtaining spatial audio parameters that are descriptive of spatial characteristics of said sound field; estimating a signal energy of the sound field represented by the multi-channel input audio signal; estimating, based on said signal energy and the obtained spatial audio parameters, respective output signal energies for channels of the multi-channel output audio signal according to said predefined loudspeaker layout; determining a maximum output energy as the largest of the output signal energies across channels of said multi-channel output audio signal; and deriving, on basis of said maximum output energy, a gain value for adjusting sound reproduction gain in at least one of said channe

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: receiving downlink positioning signals from each of a plurality of communication nodes of a mobile communication system at a user device of the mobile communication system, wherein each downlink positioning signal is received from a downlink beam direction for the respective communication node; determining an angle of arrival and/or a time of arrival for each of the received downlink positioning signals; and determining an uplink positioning signal beam configuration based, at least in part, on the determined angle of arrival and/or the determined time of arrival for said received downlink positioning signals.