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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: According to an example embodiment, a technique for data acquisition is provided, comprising: receiving, from an intermediate apparatus, a trusted aggregate data object comprising aggregate data object that comprises aggregate data comprising a respective trusted source data object for one or more data source apparatuses mapped to the intermediate apparatus and an intermediate apparatus quote that is descriptive of one or more aspects of a configuration of the intermediate apparatus upon production of the aggregate data, and an intermediate apparatus signature comprising a digital signature derived based on the aggregate data object using a first key assigned to the intermediate apparatus; and verifying, based at least in part on information received in the trusted aggregate data object, integrity of data included in the trusted aggregate data object and integrity of the intermediate apparatus.

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 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: 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: A method and apparatus for dynamically adapting scheduling parameter(s) to achieve power savings. A user equipment may be configured with one or more offsets between scheduled PDCCH and PDSCH transmissions. The user equipment may receive from a network an indication to dynamically change these offsets. If the user equipment sleeps through a first transmission of this indication, upon next receiving the indication the user equipment may update, for example, the offset in a time domain resource allocation table. The indication to dynamically change an offset may be an indication of an offset including fewer slots. A change to the offset, with which downlink transmission is expected by the user equipment, may be disabled. A network node may be configured to transmit downlink traffic to the user equipment according to a configured offset and/or according to an offset the network node indicated to the user equipment.

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: 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: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for user equipment (UE)-based positioning non-line of sight (NLOS) error mitigation. For example, some embodiments described herein may provide for use of a blind-learning-type algorithm for channel bias distribution estimation for UE-based positioning. The UE may perform a calculation of a positioning of the UE using NLOS bias distribution received from a network node, as described elsewhere herein.

Abstract: There is inter alia disclosed an apparatus for spatial audio encoding comprising: means for determining a first spatial audio parameter of a frequency sub band of one or more audio signals and a second spatial audio parameter of the frequency sub band of the one or more audio signals; and means for combining the first spatial audio parameter and the second spatial audio parameter to provide a combined spatial audio parameter for the frequency sub band.

Abstract: Method for measurement gap configuration comprising: sending a first message including a first measurement gap configuration based on a UE(10) new measurement gap capability from a first network device(20) to the UE(10); detecting at the first network device(20) whether a legacy gap assisted measurement is required for the UE(10); responsive to the legacy gap assisted measurement being required, sending a second message including a second measurement gap configuration based on a UE(10) legacy measurement gap capability from the first network device(20) to the UE(10); sending a third message indicating fallback of the UE(10) the legacy measurement gap capability from the first network device(20) to a second network device(30) in communication with the UE(10).

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: Disclosed is a method comprising transmitting one or more requests for charging or discharging batteries of a plurality of base stations, wherein the plurality of base stations comprise at least a first group of base stations associated with a first communications service provider, and a second group of base stations associated with a second communications service provider different to the first communications service provider.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to device, method, device and computer readable storage media of beam-forming scheme in higher rank transmission for massive multiple input multiple output system. The method comprises determining a target beam for carrying a transmission of a reference signal from the base station to the user equipment; determining a target arrangement of the plurality of ports formed at an antenna array of the base station; and transmitting, to the user equipment, different portions of the target beam through a plurality of ports based on the target arrangement. In this way, a new beamforming method when Massive-MIMO choose higher rank transmission in multi ports communication system is proposed. The gNB would only select the best beam with different halves in the same polarization to keep the QCL principles.