Abstract: Location of an electronic device is determined using signals received from a first set of reference radios. The first set of reference radios include at least one secondary reference radio, each secondary reference radio established as a secondary reference radio by registering a corresponding location with a server. The corresponding location of the secondary reference radio is determined as a function of signals received by the secondary reference radio from a second set of reference radios. The second set of reference radios include radios qualified as reference radios in a database of primary se reference radios and secondary reference radios, each primary reference radio being a fixed-location radio device.

Abstract: A communication device includes a receiver, a transmitter and a control circuit. The receiver is configured to receive, from an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network, downlink signals on a downlink via a wireless access interface of the mobile communications network. The transmitter is configured to transmit, to the infrastructure equipment, uplink signals on an uplink via the wireless access interface. The control circuit is configured to control the receiver to receive the downlink signals and control the transmitter to transmit the uplink signals. The control circuit is further configured to delay a reception period for the receiver to receive the downlink signals after a transmission period in which the transmitter transmits the uplink signals when a duration of the transmission period exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to communicate with a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications system using radio resources comprising a narrowband carrier supported within a wider system frequency bandwidth of the wireless telecommunications system, wherein the method comprises: establishing initial frequencies for radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; receiving configuration signalling from the network infrastructure equipment providing an indication of a frequency shift to apply to the initial frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; establishing shifted frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier by applying the indicated frequency shift to the initial frequencies; and communicating with the network infrastructure equipment using the radio resources for the narrowband carrier with the shifted frequencies

Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: transceiver circuitry configured to receive data from the wireless telecommunications network, and a controller configured: to control the transceiver circuitry to receive control information, a control channel and a data channel wherein, the control information defines the period of time between the control channel and the data channel, and to ignore a subsequent control channel received during the period of time following the control channel.

Abstract: Paging for a base station (12) operating in a wireless communication system and using multiple transmit beams includes transmitting a synchronization signal burst set by a beam sweep according to a first beam pattern. The base station determines an allocation of paging resources for a second beam pattern for a paging operation according to a predetermined mapping based on the first beam pattern. The base station transmits a paging message according to the second beam pattern using paging resources determined with the predetermined mapping.

Abstract: A method for beam sweeping in a wireless communication system is described. Beam sweeping includes performing a reduced beam sweep corresponding to a reduced set of beams that are a subset of a full set of beams available for transmitting and/or receiving from an antenna module, without sweeping beams that are not members of the reduced set of beams. The method includes selecting a beam out of the reduced set of beams for transmitting and/or receiving from the antenna module based on the reduced beam sweep without sweeping beams that are not members of the reduced set of beams. Related devices are disclosed.

Abstract: A radio access network (RAN) node (130) of a first wireless access network (106) of a wireless communication network (102), the RAN node having a first radio link with a user equipment (100). The RAN node is configured to receive, from a core network (104) of the wireless communications network, radio link information related to a second radio link established between the user equipment and a second wireless access network (134) different than the first wireless access network, the radio link information including at least one of availability of the second radio link to the user equipment or quality of the second radio link.

Abstract: A base station for transmitting system related information in a mobile telecommunications network. The base station is configured to transmit system information for the cell provided by the base station and to broadcast a version synchronisation signal, wherein the version synchronisation signal provides version information regarding the current version of the system information for the cell.

Abstract: A system is disclosed that includes a base station having a plurality of antennas a control unit which analyses pilot signals received from the terminal device at the plurality of antennas to obtain information about a wireless channel property of the wireless channel between the terminal device and the plurality of antennas. According to a method, a plurality of pilot signals is transmitted from the terminal device to the base station, and information about the wireless channel property of the wireless channel between the terminal device and the plurality of antennas of the base station is determined based on a predefined number of last recently transmitted pilot signals of the plurality of pilot signals from the terminal device. Based on the information about the wireless channel property, at least one parameter of the plurality of antennas is configured by the base station.

Abstract: Multi-beam multiplexing in mobile radio communication networks, specifically for initial network access transmissions, such as Random Access Channel (RACH) transmissions and other initial network access signals that affect the operation of the Random Access operation. A network node is configured to distribute, simultaneously, a plurality of beams across a predetermined coverage area. Each of the beams are associated with a different coverage area. In addition, a plurality of sub-carriers are precoded in an OFDM modulated signal, which includes control information, for the purpose of shaping (i.e., beamforming) each of the plurality of beams. In this regard, one or more sub-carriers are mapped to a beam.

Abstract: A method includes receiving scheduling information (4001) for a transmission (5991, 5992) on a plurality of resource blocks (600-649). The method also includes, based on control information on at least one forbidden resource block (680) included in the plurality of resource blocks (600-649), blocking the transmission (5991, 5992) on the at least one forbidden resource block (680).

Abstract: A terminal, and a method for operating a terminal in idle mode to detect signaling from an access node of a wireless network, comprising receiving configuration from the access node, identifying paging occasions and wake-up signal occasions associated with a discontinuous reception DRX period, receiving information from the access node, identifying a time advance duration; and activating a wireless signal receiver in the terminal for a period of said time advance duration prior to each paging occasion.

Abstract: A method for paging in a wireless communication system, including a network node (10) configured to send and receive data in a plurality of beams for communication with a terminal (1), comprising transmitting first paging data (20) including a paging indicator from the network node (10) in multiple beams, wherein the paging indicator includes terminal ID or group ID information and a feedback request indicator and; receiving a response signal (22) in the network node from the terminal, wherein, dependent on said feedback request indicator, the response signal includes a beam indicator associated with a detected beam in which the terminal has received data from the network node.

Abstract: A method (10) is provided for providing location information of a group of mobile devices (20A-20C) of a wireless network (21-23) to a network node (40) of the wireless network (21-23), the method (10) comprising: repetitively transmitting, by at least one mobile device (20A-20C) of the group of mobile devices (20A-20C), a location information (11, 11 A) of the respective mobile device (20A-20C) at a respective reporting frequency (fA-fC), which depends on an energy balance of the respective mobile device (20A-20C). A corresponding method (30) of operating a network node (40), a mobile device (20A-20C) and a network node (40) are also provided.

Abstract: A method of operating an access node (112) of a sub-area (161) of a communication network (100) includes transmitting configuration data (4001) for wake-up signal (700, 711, 712, 4003) transmission in the sub-area (161) and in at least one further sub-area (162-168) of the communication network (100).

Abstract: A beam sweep configuration of at least one beam sweep is exchanged between nodes of a network. The beam sweep configuration may be indicative of a time-duplex configuration of a plurality of beams of the at least one beam sweep. A beam configuration may be determined based on a receive property of pilot signals transmitted and/or received in the beam sweep.

Abstract: A method for distributed computation in a hierarchical system having a compute deployment including a plurality of compute nodes, comprising providing a control function communicatively connected to said compute nodes; determining a cost function for the system, which cost function includes at least one first parameter associated with carrying out a compute task and at least one second parameter associated with escalating a compute task; employing a machine learning mechanism in the control function to optimize said cost function; and configuring said compute deployment based on the optimization of the cost function by the machine learning mechanism.

Abstract: Multi-beam multiplexing in mobile radio communication networks, specifically for initial network access transmissions, such as Random Access Channel (RACH) transmissions and other initial network access signals that affect the operation of the Random Access operation. A network node is configured to distribute, simultaneously, a plurality of beams across a predetermined coverage area. Each of the beams are associated with a different coverage area. In addition, a plurality of sub-carriers are precoded in an OFDM modulated signal, which includes control information, for the purpose of shaping (i.e., beamforming) each of the plurality of beams. In this regard, one or more sub-carriers are mapped to a beam.

Abstract: A wake-up signal (700-706) is associated with a plurality of paging occasions (4901-4904) for a plurality of terminals (102, 102-1-102-8). Each one of the plurality of paging occasions (4901-4904) is associated with one or more of the plurality of terminals (102, 102-1-102-8).

Abstract: A method comprises communicating, between a terminal (102) and a base station (101), an uplink control message (6001, 6003) of a random access procedure, the uplink control message (6001, 6003) comprising an indicator indicative of uplink payload data (6005, 6007) queued for transmission during the random access procedure. The method also comprises configuring the random access procedure depending on the indicator and communicating, in the random access procedure configured in accordance with the indicator, the uplink payload data (6005, 6007).