Abstract: A cellular communication system is disclosed in which a base station operates a cell which has a supplementary uplink portion (e.g. on a different frequency and/or using a different technology). The base station broadcasts an offset for user equipment (UE) in its coverage area to assist the UE performing cell selection. Specifically, the UE determines, based on measurements for the cell, the offset, and capability of the UE to communicate using the supplementary uplink portion, whether the cell of the base station is an appropriate candidate for cell selection such that: if the UE is capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE performs cell (re)selection based on the offset; and if the UE is not capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE disregards the offset in its cell (re)selection.

Abstract: An apparatus including means for receiving, from a network entity, one or more channel state information reference signals and an initial configuration for performing a channel state information feedback process; determining one or more predicted channel state information values based on the initial configuration and measurements on the received one or more channel state information reference signals; determining, based on the measurements of the received one or more channel state information reference signals and/or the determined one or more predicted channel state information values, one or more indications for reconfiguring one or more characteristics of the channel state information feedback process; and sending, to the network entity, the one or more determined indications for reconfiguring one or more characteristics of a channel state information feedback process.

Abstract: An apparatus or network entity may be configured to: determine at least one quantization parameter for controlling at least one characteristic of a quantization of at least one channel state information quantity, wherein the at least one quantization parameter comprises at least one of: a quantization step size, a quantization step shift, a minimum quantization range value, a maximum quantization range value, a quantization range interval, or a size of a selected set of quantization levels; indicate, to a user equipment, the at least one quantization parameter; and receive, from the user equipment, one or more reports of at least one channel state information quantity based on the at least one quantization parameter indicated by the network entity to the user equipment.

Abstract: A method, performed by a communication device, including a) measuring a respective beam quality for each of a plurality of beams of a cell, b) identifying, within said plurality of beams, a first group of beams comprising a number, N, of beams, c) selecting, from within said first group of beams, a second group of beams comprising a number, M, of beams, and d) deriving a cell quality for the cell based on the measured beam qualities for the M beams of the second group.

Abstract: The invention relates to generating compressed channel state information and restoring the channel state information from the compressed channel state information. A computation device for compressing channel state information, CSI, representing a channel transfer function H having a spatial dimension and a frequency dimension comprises a transforming unit configured to perform a spatial transformation and a frequency-to-time transformation subsequently and in any order on the channel transfer function H to obtain a transformed channel transfer function HT, and a compressing unit configured to select values of the transformed channel transfer function HT and to generate compressed channel state information, CCSI, based on the selected values.

Abstract: A cellular communication system is disclosed in which a base station operates a cell which has a supplementary uplink portion (e.g. on a different frequency and/or using a different technology). The base station broadcasts an offset for user equipment (UE) in its coverage area to assist the UE performing cell selection. Specifically, the UE determines, based on measurements for the cell, the offset, and capability of the UE to communicate using the supplementary uplink portion, whether the cell of the base station is an appropriate candidate for cell selection such that: if the UE is capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE performs cell (re)selection based on the offset; and if the UE is not capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE disregards the offset in its cell (re)selection.

Abstract: A cellular communication system is disclosed in which a base station operates a cell which has a supplementary uplink portion (e.g. on a different frequency and/or using a different technology). The base station broadcasts an offset for user equipment (UE) in its coverage area to assist the UE performing cell selection. Specifically, the UE determines, based on measurements for the cell, the offset, and capability of the UE to communicate using the supplementary uplink portion, whether the cell of the base station is an appropriate candidate for cell selection such that: if the UE is capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE performs cell (re)selection based on the offset; and if the UE is not capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE disregards the offset in its cell (re)selection.

Abstract: The invention relates to generating compressed channel state information and restoring the channel state information from the compressed channel state information. A computation device for compressing channel state information, CSI, representing a channel transfer function H having a spatial dimension and a frequency dimension comprises a transforming unit configured to perform a spatial transformation and a frequency-to-time transformation subsequently and in any order on the channel transfer function H to obtain a transformed channel transfer function HT, and a compressing unit configured to select values of the transformed channel transfer function HT and to generate compressed channel state information, CCSI, based on the selected values.

Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which communication resources are dynamically partitioned into a plurality of slices, each slice having at least one associated network-level performance requirement. A network-level performance requirement is translated into cell-level resource requirement(s) for determining, based on the cell-level resource requirement(s), whether to admit a slice instance. When the slice instance is admitted, information identifying the cell-level resource requirement(s) for the slice instance is provided to a scheduler function. The cell-level resource requirement(s) for a given slice instance may be used to determine an associated packet delivery deadline and entitled resource amount before deadline. The scheduler function allocates communication resources to each admitted slice based on an earliest-deadline-first method.

Abstract: A method, performed by a communication device, including a) measuring a respective beam quality for each of a plurality of beams of a cell, b) identifying, within said plurality of beams, a first group of beams comprising a number, N, of beams, c) selecting, from within said first group of beams, a second group of beams comprising a number, M, of beams, and d) deriving a cell quality for the cell based on the measured beam qualities for the M beams of the second group.

Abstract: A method, performed by a communication device, including a) measuring a respective beam quality for each of a plurality of beams of a cell, b) identifying, within said plurality of beams, a first group of beams comprising a number, N, of beams, c) selecting, from within said first group of beams, a second group of beams comprising a number, M, of beams, and d) deriving a cell quality for the cell based on the measured beam qualities for the M beams of the second group.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to generating compressed channel state information and restoring the channel state information from the compressed channel state information. A computation device for compressing channel state information, CSI, representing a channel transfer function H having a spatial dimension and a frequency dimension comprises a transforming unit configured to perform a spatial transformation and a frequency-to-time transformation subsequently and in any order on the channel transfer function H to obtain a transformed channel transfer function HT, and a compressing unit configured to select values of the transformed channel transfer function HT and to generate compressed channel state information, CCSI, based on the selected values.

Abstract: We apply the techniques of deep reinforcement learning (RL) to the problem of coverage and capacity optimisation (CCO) in wireless networks. This is motivated by the idea that the type of combinatorial optimisation problems encountered in wireless networks are somewhat analogous to strategy games, for which deep RL has already proven to be an effective approach. We use a computer simulation of a small wireless network to generate synthetic data to train a deep Q network (DQN), and evaluate the performance of the DQN with further simulations. We compare the performance of the DQN with a conventional model-based approach. The results show that the DQN achieves slightly better performance than the conventional method, without the need for an explicit model of the environment. The performance is shown to be further improved by using the DQN within a search algorithm.

Abstract: A cellular communication system is disclosed in which a base station operates a cell which has a supplementary uplink portion (e.g. on a different frequency and/or using a different technology). The base station broadcasts an offset for user equipment (UE) in its coverage area to assist the UE performing cell selection. Specifically, the UE determines, based on measurements for the cell, the offset, and capability of the UE to communicate using the supplementary uplink portion, whether the cell of the base station is an appropriate candidate for cell selection such that: if the UE is capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE performs cell (re)selection based on the offset; and if the UE is not capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE disregards the offset in its cell (re)selection.

Abstract: A cellular communication system is disclosed in which a base station operates a cell which has a supplementary uplink portion (e.g. on a different frequency and/or using a different technology). The base station broadcasts an offset for user equipment (UE) in its coverage area to assist the UE performing cell selection. Specifically, the UE determines; based on measurements for the cell, the offset, and capability of the UE to communicate using the supplementary uplink portion, whether the cell of the base station is an appropriate candidate for cell selection such that: if the UE is capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE performs cell (re)selection based on the offset; and if the UE is not capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE disregards the offset in its cell (re)selection.

Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which communication resources are dynamically partitioned into a plurality of slices, each slice having at least one associated network-level performance requirement. A network-level performance requirement is translated into cell-level resource requirement(s) for determining, based on the cell-level resource requirement(s), whether to admit a slice instance. When the slice instance is admitted, information identifying the cell-level resource requirement(s) for the slice instance is provided to a scheduler function. The cell-level resource requirement(s) for a given slice instance may be used to determine an associated packet delivery deadline and entitled resource amount before deadline. The scheduler function allocates communication resources to each admitted slice based on an earliest-deadline-first method.

Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment in a communication system is disclosed in which the user equipment communicates data with a base station using at least one data radio bearer (DRB). The data is communicated using a plurality of data flows that are mapped to a single DRB. Each data flow is configured to have a respective set of quality of service (QoS) characteristics specific to that data flow. The user equipment measures quality of experience (QoE) parameters for the data flows and reports QoE information to the base station based on the measurement of the QoE parameters.

Abstract: A cellular communication system is disclosed in which a base station operates a cell which has a supplementary uplink portion (e.g. on a different frequency and/or using a different technology). The base station broadcasts an offset for user equipment (UE) in its coverage area to assist the UE performing cell selection. Specifically, the UE determines; based on measurements for the cell, the offset, and capability of the UE to communicate using the supplementary uplink portion, whether the cell of the base station is an appropriate candidate for cell selection such that: if the UE is capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE performs cell (re)selection based on the offset; and if the UE is not capable of communicating using the supplementary uplink portion then the UE disregards the offset in its cell (re)selection.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to generating compressed channel state information and restoring the channel state information from the compressed channel state information. A computation device for compressing channel state information, CSI, representing a channel transfer function H having a spatial dimension and a frequency dimension comprises a transforming unit configured to perform a spatial transformation and a frequency-to-time transformation subsequently and in any order on the channel transfer function H to obtain a transformed channel transfer function HT, and a compressing unit configured to select values of the transformed channel transfer function HT and to generate compressed channel state information, CCSI, based on the selected values.

Abstract: A method, performed by a communication device, comprising a) measuring a respective beam quality for each of a plurality of beams of a cell, b) identifying, within said plurality of beams, a first group of beams comprising a number, N, of beams, c) selecting, from within said first group of beams, a second group of beams comprising a number, M, of beams, and d) deriving a cell quality for the cell based on the measured beam qualities for the M beams of the second group.