Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product for: receiving (305) information relating to a power level of a radio beam received by an antenna array, analysing (310) a radio beam power profile associated with the antenna array, determining (315), based on the radio beam power profile, a characteristic of a radio channel, calculating (320), based on the characteristic, an optimum radio beam gain of the antenna array, and estimating (325) a link budget based on the optimum radio beam gain of the antenna array and the information relating to the power level of the radio beam received by the antenna array.

Abstract: A device receiving a transmission is configured to provide its feedback in a unique resource pattern within a set of resources (a resource pool). The resource pattern used by the device overlaps partially with one or more resource patterns used for feedback transmissions by other devices in the group. The transmitting device is able to identify the device by identifying an activation pattern matching the unique resource pattern of the device in the overall feedback that it receives from the devices of the group.

Abstract: Methods and Computer Programs for Monitoring a User's Pulse An apparatus, method and computer program, the apparatus comprising; a pulse monitoring module; the pulse monitoring module comprising detecting means for detecting a user's pulse and feedback means for providing haptic feedback to the user indicative of the detected pulse; and controlling circuitry arranged to control the pulse monitoring module so that during a first time period the detecting means is arranged to detect a user's pulse and during a second time period the feedback means is arranged to provide haptic feedback indicative of the detected pulse.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising: creating a first structure graph whose nodes represent points of a first structure map, the nodes being associated with state vectors obtained using feature vectors of the points of the first structure map; creating a first RF graph having nodes representing points of a respective first RF map; creating a first input graph from the first structure graph and the first RF graph; updating state vectors of the nodes of the first input graph; creating an output graph whose nodes represent target spatial points of the environment; connecting the output graph with at least the first input graph; updating the state vectors of the output graph; inputting the state vectors of the output graph to a trained machine learning model to obtain a prediction of a signal propagation characteristic at the target points.

Abstract: An apparatus including: a base plate; a guide rail being disposed on the base plate; a sliding bar with a first side being disposed on the guide rail, wherein the sliding rail includes a wedge on a second side of the sliding bar opposite the first side; and a heat sink, wherein the base plate and the heat sink form a slot for insertion of a pluggable module at a front of the slot.

Abstract: According to a first embodiment, an apparatus may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code can be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least determine at least one reference value configured to evaluate at least one beam change condition based on at least one measurement. The at least one memory and the computer program code can be further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least determine whether at least one beam has changed. The at least one memory and the computer program code can be further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least, upon determining that the at least one timer T has expired, determine that the at least one beam change condition has been fulfilled.

Abstract: A method for collecting data, the method comprising, at an ONU of an optical distribution network, receiving downstream data packets in a downstream frame, each downstream data packet including a layer-2 header comprising at least upstream transmission opportunities and corresponding Alloc-ID's, wherein each Alloc-ID identifies a T-CONT of an ONU of the optical distribution network, wherein the upstream transmission opportunities define upstream bandwidth allocation for the T-CONT of the ONU; extracting at least part of the upstream transmission opportunities and their corresponding Alloc-IDs from the layer-2 headers; and collecting the at least part of the upstream transmission opportunities and the corresponding Alloc-ID for transmission as a layer-3 output payload.

Abstract: Devices, methods and computer programs for machine learning-based generation of beamforming coefficients by utilizing prior radio channel related information are disclosed. At least some example embodiments may allow reducing the amount of historical information to be fed to a neural beamformer or machine learning-based beamformer to reduce computational complexity and memory requirements.

Abstract: A scheduling method for use in a radio access network to allocate frequency resources to a user device for the transmission of data units organized in a set of data units is disclosed. The sets of data units are assigned an initial transmission delay budget which decreases over time. The scheduling method includes, at a given transmission time, prioritizing scheduling the user device with the largest portion of data units already successfully transmitted within the set of data units, and prioritizing scheduling the user device which set of data units has the smallest remaining transmission delay budget.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising generating a preamble matrix comprising a plurality of entries, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of entries indicate random-access preambles; obtaining a sequence encoded with the preamble matrix; and transmitting the sequence to one or more user devices.

Abstract: An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain an object track and an ambience track; obtain a control value configured to control the relative levels of the object track and the ambience track; estimate a leakage between the object track and the ambience track; determine at least one leakage level gain control value based on the control value and the leakage; and apply the at least one leakage level gain value to at least one of: the object track; and the ambience track, the application of the at least one leakage level gain value is such that a rendered audio signal is based on the application of the at least one leakage level gain control value to at least one of: the object track; and the ambience track.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described including: detecting a tracking tag in proximity of a user device (the tracking tag not being pre-associated with the user device); responsive to the detection (and while the tracking tag remains in proximity of the user device): identifying one or more contextual parameters associated with the tracking tag; and responsive to determining that the identified one or more contextual parameters meet a predetermined criterion or criteria, issuing or causing issuance of an alert to the user device and/or to the tracking tag.

Abstract: An antenna is provided for operation across multiple frequency bands. The antenna includes, in order, a ground plane and a first conductive member separated from the ground plane. The antenna also includes a pair of second conductive members forming, with the first conductive member, a resonant structure sized to resonate at a higher frequency band of the multiple frequency bands. The antenna further includes a pair of third conductive members forming a resonant structure sized to resonate at a higher frequency band of the multiple frequency bands. The first conductive member is sized to resonate at a lower frequency band of the multiple frequency bands.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, devices and computer readable media for communication. In an aspect, a method for communication comprises receiving, at a terminal device, from a network device an indication for the terminal device to establish a connection with a target cell. The method also comprises determining a condition as to whether the target cell and a transmit beam of the target cell for the terminal device are known to the terminal device. The method also comprises determining, based on the condition, a delay for the terminal device to establish the connection. The method further comprises establishing the connection within the delay. The embodiments of the present disclosure can improve communication performance of a terminal device.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for the management of heartbeat notifications, for instance, in a service based management architecture are provided. One method may include receiving, from a first entity, information comprising one or more attributes relating to management of an emission of heartbeat notifications at a second entity. The method may also include associating, by the second entity, the attributes with a subscription, associating the attributes with a communication channel between the second entity and a third entity relating to the subscription, and starting the emission of the heartbeat notifications according to the information received by the second entity from the first entity.

Abstract: This specification relates to systems and methods for determining eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a covariance matrix, for example for use in eigen-beamforming in MIMO systems. According to a first aspect of this specification, there is describes a method comprising: receiving an input covariance matrix; and determining one or more eigenvalues and/or eigenvectors of the matrix iteratively using gradient ascent, wherein each iteration of the gradient ascent has a step size, ?, that maximises a Rayleigh quotient along the gradient.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to: obtain at least one spatial audio signal, the at least one spatial audio signal comprising at least one audio signal and at least one spatial parameter; determine at least one first audio signal based, at least partially, on the at least one spatial audio signal and the at least one of the user position or orientation; obtain at least one augmentation audio signal, wherein the at least one augmentation audio signal has a different audio format than an audio format of the at least one spatial audio signal, wherein the at least one augmentation audio signal provides a different type of media content; determine at least one second audio signal based, at least partially, on at least a part of the at least one augmentation audio signal; and mix the at least one first audio signal and the at least one second audio signal.

Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is a method and apparatus to perform at least: receiving from a serving cell of a communication network information comprising a first contention based random access channel configuration and a second random access channel configuration associated with at least a first service, wherein the second random access channel configuration is inactive and whose activation is associated with at least one activation timer; transmitting a first physical random access channel message using a resource of the first contention based random access channel configuration; determining a condition holds after reception of a network message and activating a resource of the second random access channel configuration based on the at least one activation timer; and based on the determining, transmitting a second physical random access channel message using a resource of the second random access channel configuration.

Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus. The apparatus comprises means for performing: initiating establishment of an N32-c transport layer security connection with an entity, the apparatus located in a first public land mobile network and the entity located in a second public land mobile network; sending from the apparatus to the entity on the N32-c transport layer security connection an N32-c handshake signalling message comprising domain name information of the apparatus to be used by the entity for establishing an N32-f transport layer security connection towards the apparatus; receiving a reply from the entity, the reply comprising domain name information of the entity to be used by the apparatus for establishing the N32-f transport layer security connection towards the entity; and using the domain name information received in the reply to establish the N32-f transport layer security connection towards the entity.

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: identify a plurality of allowed network slices of a terminal; and select at least one network slice among the plurality of allowed network slices of the terminal to be used for at least one signalling connection.