Abstract: Method, apparatus, and device for communicating with an extended range. The apparatus is a network apparatus communicating with an ambient internet of things device having an energy storage and capability to transmitting data by backscattering a radio transmission. The apparatus detects that the device has failed to transfer data by backscattering and responsively sends to the device a first radio transmission having instructions to decrease a radio reflection coefficient to increase wireless energy harvesting. The device decreases the radio reflection coefficient accordingly. The device detects sufficient wireless charging of its energy storage with the decreased radio reflection coefficient and increases the radio reflection coefficient accordingly.

Abstract: A fiber sensing control device (FSCD) is provided for protecting a network infrastructure in an optical fiber network against intrusive fiber sensing. The FSCD resides on an optical fiber cable at a boundary between the first network segment containing the network infrastructure that is to be protected and a neighboring network segment. The FSCD comprises at least one blocking element that can block sensing of backscattered light on at least one optical fiber of the optical fiber cable.

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: An apparatus comprising: means for configuring a first device with one or more power levels for transmitting an activation signal to at least one tag; means for sending, to a second device, the one or more power levels and a tag identifier for each of the at least one tag; means for receiving, from the second device, an indication of which tag identifier provides a response to the second device at each power level of the one or more power levels of the activation signal from the first device; means for creating a map comprising an indication of which tag identifier provides a response to the second device at each power level of the one or more power levels of the activation signal from the first device.

Abstract: There is provided an activator device comprising means for determining a first transmit power for a signal from the activator device to arrive at at least one reader device, determining a second transmit power for a response signal from a tag device to the at least one reader device based at least on the first transmit power and providing, by the activator device to the tag device, a configuration of the second transmit power for the response signal from the tag device to the at least one reader device.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus configured to: receive (700), from a network node, an indication of a first resource to transmit an activation signal, wherein the first resource is part of a set of resources allocated by the network node comprising the first resource to transmit the activation signal, a second resource to transmit a reply signal and a third resource to transmit a report signal; and transmit (702), to a device, the activation signal over the first resource.

Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured to: enable a conversational service between a first user of the apparatus and a second user of a remote apparatus wherein the conversational service is a duplex service including simultaneous voice communication from the first user to the second user and voice communication from the second user to the first user; and enable synchronization of a switch to using an active noise cancellation mode at the apparatus for the conversational service and at the remote apparatus for the conversational service, wherein the switch to using the noise cancellation mode is synchronized between the first and second users.

Abstract: An apparatus, comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions, the at least one memory and the instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to sample an angular response of a uniform antenna array uniformly in a normalized angular frequency range to obtain a set of angular samples, and to reconstruct an angular response of the uniform antenna array based on the set of angular samples and at least one Dirichlet kernel.

Abstract: A method for network isolation management is described. The method includes assigning or creating one or more isolation groups for at least one service, wherein resources of services assigned in an isolation group are shared with or without isolation; wherein an isolation group is defined for at least one resource in each layer and each domain to gather the at least one resource of the at least one service; linking an isolation profile for each of the one or more isolation groups, wherein the isolation profile comprises at least one policy to protect the at least one resource of the one or more isolation groups, and wherein the isolation profile comprises at least an isolation level to define a type of isolation; and allocating or reallocating the at least one resource to the at least one service based on the isolation profile linked to the one or more isolation groups.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, comprising: receiving user information provided by a user equipment, associating spatiotemporal information with the user information on the basis of location of at least one wireless access network device in communication with the user equipment, generating a proof of location indication transaction associated with the user information on the basis of the spatiotemporal information, and providing the proof of location indication transaction to a distributed ledger.

Abstract: There is inter alia disclosed an apparatus for spatial audio encoding comprising: means for determining at least two of a type of spatial audio parameter for one or more audio signals, wherein a first of the type of spatial audio parameter is associated with a first group of samples in a domain of the one or more audio signals and a second of the type of spatial audio parameter is associated with a second group of samples in the domain of the one or more audio signals; and means for merging the first of the type of spatial audio parameter and the second of the type of spatial audio parameter into a merged spatial audio parameter.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for semi-static pattern for change of cell for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) are provided. One method may include configuring at least one user equipment (UE) with a configuration for more than one serving cell for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission within at least one physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) cell group, and configuring the at least one user equipment (UE) with a configuration for a time-domain pattern of an applicable physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) cell within the at least one physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) cell group.

Abstract: An optical line terminal (OLT) in flexible passive optical network (PON) transmits a downstream signal with two or more modulation formats, wherein at least one of the modulation formats is a modified PAMx modulation format and wherein x is greater than 2. The modified PAMx modulation encodes data bits such that the probability of at least one predetermined transition between amplitude levels is modified. Furthermore, an optical network unit (ONU) in the flexible PON is assigned to one of the plurality of modulation formats based on one or more parameters, such as configuration of the ONU and line conditions.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to, apparatuses methods and computer readable medium for Message 3 enhancement. In a method, a first apparatus transmits, to a second apparatus, a random access request in at least one of a non-subband non-overlapping full duplex (non-SBFD) resource or a subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) resource. The first apparatus receives, from the second apparatus, information indicating a part of at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource, wherein the part of the at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource is to be used for an additional Message 3 transmission. The first apparatus performs the additional Message 3 transmission to the second apparatus in the part of the at least one of the SBFD resource or the non-SBFD resource.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: receiving, in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a first slot, first scheduling information for a data channel, wherein the first slot is separated by at least one first period of multiple slots from next first scheduling information; and receiving, in the PDCCH in at least one second slot, second scheduling information for the data channel, wherein the at least one second slot is delayed with respect to the first slot by one or more slots and is received within the first period of multiple slots after the first slot, wherein the first scheduling information in the first slot points to at least the second scheduling information; and wherein the second scheduling information is related to at least one hybrid automatic request (HARQ) process for the data channel.

Abstract: A method comprises determining in a medium access control MAC apparatus that data from a different logical channel is to be transmitted onto a shared channel. The method comprises causing an indication to be provided to a physical PHY apparatus that the data from the different logical channel is to be transmitted on the shared channel before packet data units associated with that different logical channel are provided to the physical apparatus.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and apparatus to perform at least identifying, by a user equipment of a communication network, a beam failure occurred over at least one dormant bandwidth part for communication with at least one secondary cell of the communication network; and based on the identifying, determining to report the beam failure to the communication network for beam failure recovery by the communication network.

Abstract: An apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to receive, from a serving access node, a downlink radio resource control message including reference time information for a clock provided by the serving access node and traceability information for enabling traceability of the clock to a reference time standard. The traceability information includes at least information on a clock class indicative of a current status of the clock provided by the serving access node.

Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: estimate an importance of parameters of a neural network based on a graph diffusion process over at least one layer of the neural network; determine the parameters of the neural network that are suitable for pruning or sparsification; remove neurons of the neural network to prune or sparsify the neural network; and provide at least one syntax element for signaling the pruned or sparsified neural network over a communication channel, wherein the at least one syntax element comprises at least one neural network representation syntax element.

Abstract: A method comprises: determining, at a user equipment, user equipment current operating conditions; identifying whether an antenna configuration for maintaining correspondence between user equipment transmission and reception beams is stored by the user equipment for the user equipment current operating conditions; and when the antenna configuration is identified, applying the antenna configuration for maintaining correspondence between the user equipment transmission and reception beams.