Abstract: An apparatus may be configured to: receive a configuration for physical downlink control channel monitoring: transmit, to a base station, a (small) data transmission: select a physical downlink control channel monitoring pattern based, at least, on the configuration and information of the data transmission; and perform, with a user equipment, physical downlink control channel monitoring based on the selected physical downlink control channel monitoring pattern.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for monitoring LP-WUS quality for determining how to perform cell reselection evaluation. One method may include a user equipment measuring at least one quality of at least one low-power wake-up signal received by a wake-up receiver of the user equipment, and performing cell reselection evaluation based upon the at least one quality.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for early measurement reporting during small data transmission. A method may include receiving, from a network element, an early measurement reporting configuration. The method may also include receiving, from the network element, an indication of whether early measurement reporting during small data transmission is allowed. The method may further include initiating small data transmission to the network element. In addition, the small data transmission may include an early measurement reporting report when early measurement is allowed.

Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to methods and apparatus that support beam management in a small data transmission procedure. A terminal device may comprise at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory includes computer program code stored thereon. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the terminal device to report one or more available beams in a small data transmission procedure, receive a beam switching command to switch a serving beam for the small data transmission procedure, and switch the serving beam for the small data transmission procedure to a target beam indicated in the beam switching command.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to layer interactions for flushed data in HARQ buffer. In an embodiment, an apparatus receives from a network device an indication indicating that one or more RLC entities of the apparatus are not reset or reestablished. The apparatus indicates, from a MAC entity of the apparatus to an RLC entity of the one or more RLC entities of the apparatus, information related to RLC data. The information related to the RLC data is determined based on at least one MAC PDU associated with one or more HARQ buffers that are flushed or to be flushed. In this way, the data flushed from the HARQ buffers upon LTM can be immediately retransmitted by the RLC entity without waiting for RLC status report from the network, the interruption of data communication can be reduced, and LTM is optimized.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: means for receiving a message from a network node on a source cell indicating one or more lower layer mobility candidate cells; means for determining a failure with the source cell; and means for, after the determining of the failure, attempting at least one of cell selection or radio resource control re-establishment on one or more of the one or more candidate cells.

Abstract: Lower layer triggered mobility LTM for a user equipment moving through a communication network with multiple network nodes supporting radio coverage in multiple cells is considered. The user equipment receives a message from a network node indicating a plurality of lower layer mobility candidate cells and in response attempts a switch to a target cell selected from one of the plurality of candidate cells. Where the attempt fails the user equipment attempts completion of a switch to a further target cell selected from the plurality of candidate cells.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to handling data during SDT. A first device in an inactive state performs an initial transmission to a second device during an SDT. The first device receives. from the second device. data subsequent to the initial transmission during the SDT. The first device buffers the data. The first device handles the buffered data in accordance with a determination that security verification is successful.

Abstract: There is provided a user equipment comprising at least one processor and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the user equipment at least to: receive, from a source cell entity, a physical downlink control channel command; and based on the physical downlink control channel command, initiate a random access procedure to one or more target cells.

Abstract: Wake-up signal beacon arrangement for wake-up signal coverage detection is provided. A method for wake-up signal beacon arrangement for wake-up signal coverage detection may include receiving at least one configuration for a first wake-up signal beacon and a second wake-up signal beacon. A power or energy of the second wake-up signal beacon may be lower than a power or energy of the first wake-up signal beacon. The method may also include monitoring a current cell for wake-up signal beacons during a wake-up signal mode using the received at least one configuration, and modifying the monitoring of the current cell based on a detection metric. The detection metric may be determined based on at least the second wake-up signal beacon.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose devices, methods and apparatuses for timing related status update. A terminal device identifies an access attempt for a network timing related status update; and performs an access control on the access attempt for the network timing related status update.

Abstract: There is provided a method, comprising obtaining an evaluation configuration including at least one metric for low power wake-up signal, LP-WUS, trustworthiness evaluation; detecting at least one provided wake-up triggering signal; by use of one metric out of the at least one metric, evaluating the at least one detected wake-up triggering signal based on determining whether or not a condition included in the one metric is fulfilled; and providing a report comprising information indicative of at least a result obtained from the determining of whether or not the condition is fulfilled.

Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to transmission failure reporting in a communication network An apparatus may comprise: means for receiving, from an access node of a communication network, a configuration for a small data transmission procedure; means for detecting an occurrence of a failure associated with the small data transmission procedure; and means for transmitting, to the access node, a failure report comprising information including at least one of the following: a reason for the failure, information relating to the configuration for the small data transmission procedure used during the occurrence of the failure, or information relating to a random access procedure used during the occurrence of the failure.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: monitoring, in an inactive mode, low power wake-up signal, LP-WUS, occasions for detecting a transmission on a LP-WUS occasion, the transmission comprising: a first signature indicating presence of at least one LP-WUS message in the transmission and the at least one LP-WUS message; or a second signature indicating absence of a LP-WUS message in the transmission.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to beam failure detection. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, after a serving cell is activated from a deactivated state, a terminal device monitors a beam failure on a serving beam of the serving cell. If a beam failure instance indication is received within a short period after the activation, the terminal device determines that the beam failure is detected on the serving beam. In this way, a beam failure recovery can be quicker triggered to perform candidate beam search.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a terminal device comprising at least one processor and at least one memory comprising a computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the terminal device to obtain, via a first radio entity in the terminal device, a configuration for receiving a wake-up signal from a wireless network node and monitor, via a second radio entity in the terminal device, the wake-up signal from the wireless network node based on at least one of a configuration or an indication from the first radio entity, wherein the first and second radio entities are different.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to determination of terminal device's identify. A terminal device determines an identity (ID) of the terminal device based on configuration status of extended Discontinuous Reception (eDRX) and current Radio Resource Control (RRC) state of the terminal device; and determines one or both of paging frame (PF) and paging occasion (PO) based on the determined ID of the terminal device. In this way, paging in the eDRX can work well in RRC idle state or RRC inactive state, and the network and the UE may be synchronized with UE's PF and PO for paging in the eDRX.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a terminal device, comprising at least one processor and at least one memory comprising a computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the terminal device to obtain, via a first radio entity in the terminal device, a configuration for a wake-up signal from a wireless network node, monitor, via a second radio entity in the terminal device, the wake-up signal from the wireless network node based at least on the configuration, wherein the first and second radio entities are different and activate the first radio entity based on an indication from the second radio entity.

Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a terminal device for performing the following. The terminal device obtains, when the terminal device is in an inactive state while a small data transmission, SDT, procedure is ongoing, information that indicates transmission of a data unit over a radio bearer to the terminal device. The terminal device checks whether or not the radio bearer is configured for the SDT procedure. The terminal device determines whether or not to avoid further processing and/or decoding of the data unit based at least on the checking.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses, and computer readable medium for small data transmission (SDT). A first device, in response to first data to be transmitted via a SDT corresponding to a first set of resources for a random access procedure and a second set of resources for a configured grant procedure, determine a target resource for at least a part of the first data based on a logical channel restriction on the SDT; and transmit, to a second device, at least the part of the first data on the target resource. In this way, the SDT procedure can be performed with logical channel restrictions, which allows a better isolation of services through specific resource selection. The communication efficiency and network performance can also be improved.