Abstract: A communications device configured to communicate in a wireless system having a wireless access interface providing communications resources arranged in time divided units of a host radio access technology, RAT, frequency bandwidth, the time divided units and the host RAT interface frequency bandwidth being arranged into one or more virtual RAT interfaces. The communications device configured to receive the signals transmitted via one of the virtual RAT interfaces in accordance with different communications parameters from the host RAT interface providing different characteristics for communicating data represented by the signals with respect to a characteristic of signals transmitted according to communications parameters in the communications resources of the host RAT interface.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system method for transmitting on demand system information to a user equipment includes requesting system information, based on a specific radio resource control connection state, and to transmit system information to the user equipment, based on the system information request.

Abstract: A method of evaluating whether to handover a terminal device from communicating with a first network infrastructure element associated with a first communication cell to communicating with a second network infrastructure element associated with a second communication cell in a wireless telecommunications system. The method includes establishing an indication of radio conditions associated with a path between the terminal device and the first network infrastructure element; and establishing an indication of a second measurement of radio conditions associated with a communication path between the terminal device and the second network infrastructure element; and determining whether to handover the terminal device from communicating with the first network infrastructure element to the second network infrastructure element based on a comparison of the indication of the first measurement of radio conditions and the indication of the second measurement of radio conditions.

Abstract: A method of transmitting data to a communications device from a wireless communications network comprising one or more infrastructure equipment, the method comprises configuring one or more of the infrastructure equipment for transmitting one or more candidate beams of signals which can be used to transmit the data to the communications device from each of one or more cells of the wireless communications device formed by the infrastructure equipment. Each of the candidate beams is configured with a different directional bias with respect to a location of the one or more cells from which the signals of the candidate beam can be received when transmitted.

Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device configured to attempt to receive or to transmit a first signal during one or more of a plurality of predetermined time periods in response to determining that one or more second signals indicating, respectively, that the one or more of the plurality of predetermined time periods should be used for the attempted reception or transmission of a first signal have been received by the transceiver; determine a characteristic associated with the one or more second signals; and to control the transceiver to receive a third signal from the infrastructure equipment or to transmit a third signal to the infrastructure equipment, the third signal comprising information on the basis of which it is determinable whether or not a predetermined condition associated with the characteristic associated with the one or more second signals has been met.

Abstract: A wireless telecommunication system comprises a base station and a terminal device (UE). The UE is configured to determine its mobility status and an associated reliability, e.g. an indication of the extent to which the UE is moving and the confidence in this determination. In some cases the reliability may be based on how the UE determined its mobility status. For example, if the UE determined itself to be of relatively low mobility because it has an internal configuration setting indicating it is deployed in a fixed position, the reliability of this mobility status may be considered to be greater than if the UE determined itself to be of relatively low mobility because it has not recently undergone many base station handovers. The UE is configured to convey an indication of the mobility status and the reliability to the base station.

Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system method is described. A property of a first received reference signal from a first base station operating in a first mobile telecommunications system and a property of a second received reference signal from a second base station or a user equipment operating in a second mobile telecommunications system are measured. It is switched from the first base station to the second base station as a serving base station based on the property of the first received reference signal and on the property of the second received reference signal.

Abstract: A first network access node for use with a handover procedure for a terminal device involving the first network access node and a second network access node. The first network access is configured to receive a block of uplink data from the terminal device and establish whether the block of data has been ciphered by the terminal device using a cipher key corresponding to a first cipher key or to a second cipher key. In response to establishing the block of data has been ciphered using a cipher key corresponding to the first cipher key, decipher the block of data using the first cipher key. In response to establishing the block of data has been ciphered using a cipher key corresponding to the second cipher key, forward the block of data to the second network access node.

Abstract: A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising receiver circuitry and control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to: control the receiver circuitry to receive a first signal indicating that a warning notification message is to be transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the network using a multicast or broadcast transmission; in response to the reception of the first signal, control the receiver circuitry to receive a second signal transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the network using predetermined communication resources, the second signal comprising information for the terminal device to use to determine communication resources for the multicast or broadcast transmission of the warning notification message; determine the communication resources for the multicast or broadcast transmission of the warning notification message using the information comprised in the second signal; control the receiver circuitry to receive the warnin

Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to generate a user equipment identifier which is unique on Anchor cell level or which is unique in RAN notified area level.

Abstract: A method of communicating data between a radio network infrastructure and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises establishing at a radio network infrastructure element there is data available for communication between the radio network infrastructure and the terminal device and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device from the radio network infrastructure element. The paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of a network allocated resource for use in subsequently communicating the data between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device. In response to receiving the paging message the terminal device transmits to the radio network infrastructure element a paging response indicating the terminal device received the paging message, after which the data is communicated between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device using the network allocated resource.

Abstract: A user equipment for a mobile telecommunications network has a circuitry which is configured to: receive a signal from an entity of a mobile telecommunications network, thereby determining identity information about the determined entity; and transmit the identity information to the mobile telecommunications network for interferences analysis.

Abstract: A method of communicating data in a telecommunications system comprising a base station and a plurality of terminals operable to communicate data to and from the base station. The system is configured to transmit downlink signals using downlink resources in a frequency band and in a first time period and the method comprises, upon identification of uplink data to be transmitted by a first terminal of the plurality of terminals, dynamically selecting a set of resources for transmitting the uplink data, wherein selecting the set of resources comprises selecting a subset of the frequency band and a subset of the time period of the downlink resources, the selected set of resources being based on the subset of the frequency band and the subset of the time period.

Abstract: A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry, which is configured to communicate with at least one user equipment and at least another base station. The circuitry is further configured to configure a radio resource control message for radio resource control diversity, and transmit the configured radio resource control message to the user equipment or to receive a configured radio resource control message from the user equipment and the at least another base station.

Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: storage configured to store ancillary information not essential to every connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network; a controller configured to produce data indicative of the stored ancillary information; a transmitter configured to transmit the produced data to the wireless telecommunication network; and a receiver configured to receive an indication from the wireless telecommunication network to transmit the ancillary information to the wireless telecommunication network, wherein in response to the indication, the transmitter is configured to transmit the ancillary information.

Abstract: A communications device acting as a relay device is configured to communicate with a transmitting node and a receiving node. The communications device acting as the relay is configured to receive signals representing protocol data units formed from one or more service data units via a first wireless access interface from the transmitting node according to a first automatic repeat request process for transmission to the receiving node, transmit signals representing the received protocol data units via a second wireless access interface to the receiving node according to a second automatic repeat request process, and store the protocol data units received by the receiver circuitry for transmission to the receiving node according to the second automatic repeat request process.

Abstract: A communications device for use in a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network comprising one or more other infrastructure equipment, the infrastructure equipment and other infrastructure equipment each providing wireless connectivity within at least one cell, wherein the communications device includes transmitter circuitry configured to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment, receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from the infrastructure equipment, and controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry.

Abstract: A communications device configured to transmit signals representing data to one or more in-coverage communications devices forming with the communications device a group, one of the in-coverage communications devices acting as an active relay node for the communications device, so that the in-coverage communications device can transmit signals representing the data to the infrastructure equipment of the mobile communications network, and to receive signals representing the data from the in-coverage communications device acting as the active relay node. The signals transmitted to the in-coverage communications device are received according to a device-to-device communications protocol, wherein the signals transmitted by the communications device or received by the communications device include an identifier which identifies the signals to the in-coverage communications device. One of the other in-coverage communications device can be selected by the infrastructure equipment to act as the active relay node.

Abstract: An infrastructure equipment that transmits a radio network identifier to a communications device for identifying the communications device when allocating communications resources of the wireless access interface for transmitting downlink data to the communications device. After the communications device has entered an inactive connected state, the infrastructure equipment transmits control signals including the radio network identifier for allocating communications resources of the wireless access interface for the communications device to receive downlink data, determine whether the communications device is still within a radio coverage area of the infrastructure equipment, and if the communications device has left the coverage area, transmit an indication to the one or more other infrastructure equipment via the inter-connecting interface to trigger a process for transmitting downlink data to the communications device from the one or more other infrastructure equipment.

Abstract: A handover procedure for a terminal device in a system comprising the terminal device, a source network access node to which the terminal device is initially connected, and one or more candidate target network access nodes. The method includes determining that a first measurement for radio channel conditions for a first candidate target access node satisfies a first predefined criterion; receiving at the terminal device connection information for use by the terminal device for connecting to the first candidate target network access node; establishing a second measurement for radio channel conditions between the terminal device and one of the one or more candidate target network access nodes; determining that the second measurement of radio channel conditions satisfies a second predefined criterion; and transmitting from the terminal device an indication that the second measurement of radio channel conditions for the first candidate target network access node satisfies the second predefined criterion.