Abstract: There is provided a method at a user equipment, comprising: determining a first cell to connect with; determining capabilities of the user equipment in relation to carrier aggregation comprising a carrier of the first cell; performing idle mode radio measurements of those carriers that the user equipment can, based on the determined capabilities, aggregate with the carrier of the first cell; and reporting results of the idle mode radio measurements to a network node of the first cell upon connection establishment with the first cell.

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 a terminal device to signal to a network device a first information indicating whether the terminal device has scheduling restrictions related to intra-frequency measurements.

Abstract: Measurement mode determination for narrowband internet of things devices There are provided measures for measurement mode determination for NB-IoT devices. Such measures exemplarily comprise receiving, by a NB-IoT device and from a serving network node (30), configuration information indicative of a measurement mode (e.g., Inband/Guard-band/Standalone) in relation to a neighbor cell, deriving said measurement mode of said neighbor cell from said configuration information, and measuring a reference signal of said neighbor cell based on said measurement mode.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method comprising receiving a configuration with a first periodicity for at least one of a physical uplink control channel for reporting channel state information or a transmitting of a sounding reference signal, and determining whether to stop or pause at least one of the reporting of the channel state information or the transmitting of the sounding reference signal based on at least one of receiving a command to stop or pause the reporting of the channel state information or the transmitting of the sounding reference signal or determining that at least one second periodicity is active for performing the reporting of the channel state information or the transmitting of the sounding reference signal.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for determining an activation order in multiple secondary cell (SCell) activation. For example, an order of SCell activation may be determined when a user equipment (UE) receives a command activating multiple SCells. When the to-be-activated SCells include both known SCells and unknown SCells, the UE may activate the known SCell (s) first followed by activating the unknown SCells. If the to-be-activated SCells in a given band are all unknown SCells, the UE may operate such that the rest of the unknown SCell (s) in the same band are assumed to be known. The UE may then activate these SCell (s) in the same manner as known SCell activation and according to the same delay limits. If the to-be-activated SCells are in different bands, the UE may first activate the SCells in the band where there is the largest number of unknown SCells.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for protecting critical data receptions by a user equipment (UE) device may include a UE device which is caused to, receive data reception priority configuration information from the serving RAN node, the data reception priority configuration information including designating a scheduling information priority time window, and receive scheduling information from the serving RAN node using a first antenna panel of one or more antenna panels during the scheduling information priority time window based on the data reception priority configuration information and signal quality measurements corresponding to each antenna panel of the one or more antenna panels.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, device and computer readable medium for new radio management measurement. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal device may share partially overlapped time slots between the intra-frequency measurement and the measurement gap. In this way, the priority of intra-frequency measurement and the inter-frequency measurement may be controlled by the network device. The network device may also know the terminal device behaviors and the expected measurement performances related to the behaviors.

Abstract: Inter-alia, a method is disclosed comprising: obtaining measurement configuration information indicative of a measurement configuration for a measurement on at least one target secondary cell of a mobile communication network, executing a handover to a target cell, and, before and/or during executing the handover, starting a measurement on at least one target secondary cell based, at least in part, on the measurement configuration information. Further, a method is disclosed comprising: receiving, from a target node, target secondary cell information indicative of at least one target secondary cell, upon reception of the target secondary cell information, transmitting a measurement configuration information indicative of a measurement configuration for a measurement on at least one target secondary cell based, at least in part, on the target secondary cell information. It is further disclosed an according apparatus, a computer program and a system.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for robust radio resource allocation for uplink radar and other user equipment calibration are provided. For example, a method may include receiving, at a network element, measurements of a set of synchronization signal blocks or channel state information reference signals or both synchronization signal blocks and channel state information reference signals from a user equipment. The method may additionally include sending to the user equipment a direct or indirect indication of a random access opportunity corresponding to a synchronization signal block index value or channel state information reference signal index value, wherein the indication is for usage to perform user equipment calibration.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided, by which a measurement gap sharing scheme is generated by sharing measurement gaps between radio link monitoring measurement, intra-frequency measurement and inter-frequency measurement based on configurations of radio link monitoring reference signals for radio link monitoring and synchronization signal blocks and/or other reference signals used for intra-frequency measurements; measurements including the radio link monitoring measurement, the intra-frequency measurement and inter-frequency measurement are performed according to the measurement gap sharing scheme, and the measurement gap sharing scheme between radio link monitoring measurement, intra-frequency measurement and inter-frequency measurement is changed based on the radio link quality of a serving cell.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhanced beam switching. A method may include informing a network element about a user equipment type and capability in beam switching from a source beam to a target beam. The method may further include receiving a request from the network element to switch from the source beam to the target beam. The method may also include based on the user equipment type and capability, receiving a reference signal for timing adjustment with the target beam. In addition, the method may include switching from the source beam to the target beam. Further, the method may include adjusting the time or frequency tracking of the target beam after the switching based the reference signal.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhanced primary secondary cell (PSCell) activation delay. A method may include activating a cell from a deactivated state based on a cell activation request from a network element. The cell may be configured with a discontinuous reception configuration. The method may also include entering, regardless of the discontinuous reception configuration, a no discontinuous reception mode in the activated cell. The method may further include listening, while in no discontinuous reception mode, for downlink scheduling in the cell for a period of time.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, device and computer readable storage medium of communication. The method implemented at a first device comprises determining, at the first device, first timing of a channel state information reference signal from a target cell. The first device is configured by a second device to measure the channel state information reference signal. The method comprises determining second timing used by the first device to measure the channel state information reference signal. The method further comprises determining a timing difference between the second timing and the first timing. The method further comprises transmitting, to the second device and based on the timing difference, information concerning measurement of the channel state information reference signal.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instruction that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus, which is configured to communicate on a source transmission configuration indication state, to: receive, from a network using the source transmission configuration indication state, a configuration for a state switch from the source transmission configuration indication state to a target transmission configuration indication state; determine that the apparatus is operated in a high speed train frequency range 2 (HST FR2) scenario; determine whether or not the target state is among active transmission configuration indication states; determine a state switch delay based on determining that the apparatus is operated in the HST FR2 scenario and based on determining whether or not the target state is among active transmission configuration indication states.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, device and computer readable medium for new radio management measurement. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal device may share partially overlapped time slots between the intra-frequency measurement and the measurement gap. In this way, the priority of intra-frequency measurement and the inter-frequency measurement may be controlled by the network device. The network device may also know the terminal device behaviors and the expected measurement performances related to the behaviors.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhanced activation of primary secondary cell are provided. For example, a method can include performing, by a user equipment, at least one of beam failure detection or radio link monitoring on a deactivated secondary cell; receiving, from a network node, an activation command for the deactivated secondary cell; determining whether at least one of the deactivated secondary cell or a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state is known based on at least one of a status of the beam failure detection or a status of the radio link monitoring of the deactivated secondary cell; and determining an activation delay for activation of the deactivated secondary cell based on a result of the determination of whether the secondary cell or the TCI state is known.

Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from the appropriate monitoring of communication channels. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from downlink control channel monitoring optimized for discontinuous reception mode and/or narrowband operation. A method can include selecting a search space configuration from a plurality of search space configurations for a user equipment. The method can also include operating the user equipment in the selected search space configuration.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, device and computer readable medium for new radio management measurement. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the network device may transmit collocation information of component carriers to the terminal device. The terminal device may perform communication measurements based on the collocation information. In this way, the measurement effort and burden of the terminal device may be reduced while flexibility of the network deployment is stilled maintained.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to relaxing measurements for failure detection in a cell. In example embodiments, a device performs measurements on one or more reference signals on one or more measurement occasions and determines one or more reference signal received power, RSRP, levels of a cell based on the measurements on the one or more reference signals. Further, the device determines one or more reference RSRP levels reflecting radio link quality or beam quality, one of the reference RSRP levels being associated with one of the determined one or more RSRP levels of the cell. The device evaluates a relaxation criterion based on the one or more reference RSRP levels and the one or more determined RSRP levels of the cell. Moreover, the device relaxes measurements for failure detection in the cell, if it is evaluated that the relaxation criterion has been fulfilled for a time period.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for controlling measurements are disclosed. A message is received from a network element, the message comprising including instructions to perform measurements of given carriers during given measurement gap pattern during next connection setup with the network. Connection setup is started with the network and the measurements of given carriers are performed during the given measurement gap pattern and measurement result reported to the network.