Abstract: A communications device is configured to receive in a wireless communications systems using discontinuous reception. The communications device is configured to receive by determining a valid number of search spaces from which a wake-up signal, WUS, can be validly received during a power saving monitoring period. The valid number of search spaces is one or more of a plurality of search spaces of a downlink physical control channel of a wireless access interface provided by a wireless communications network for a WUS. The power saving monitoring period can be monitored by a receiver of the communications device in a low power state, the WUS being decodable with more relaxed processing requirements, and the WUS indicating that the receiver of the communications device should be powered up to a higher power state to receive signals in a discontinuous receiving on, DRX_ON, period.

Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device and a plurality of network access nodes, wherein the method comprises: establishing first wake-up signalling configuration information for a first network access node; establishing second wake-up signalling configuration information for a second network access node; and monitoring for signalling transmitted by the first network access node in accordance with the first wake-up signalling fomiat and monitoring for signalling transmitted by the second network access node in accordance with the second wake-up signalling format, and seeking to decode a subsequent paging message in response to detecting wake-up signalling in accordance with either the first wake-up signalling format or the second wake-up signalling format.

Abstract: A communications device for use in a wireless communications network providing a wireless access interface within a system bandwidth, the system bandwidth comprising a plurality of bandwidth parts, the communications device comprising a transmitter configured to transmit signals using a plurality of activated bandwidth parts, a receiver configured to receive signals using the plurality of activated bandwidth parts, the received signals being signals transmitted using a plurality of activated beams, and a controller configured to control the transmitter and the receiver so that the communications device is operable: to determine that an activated beam associated with a first bandwidth part satisfies beam failure criteria; to select from the plurality of activated bandwidth parts a second bandwidth part; and to transmit using communications resources associated with the selected second bandwidth part a beam failure indication indicating that the activated beam associated with the first bandwidth part satisfies

Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network includes a transceiver configured to receive information indicative of one or more access classes of terminal devices which are permitted to exchange signals with the wireless telecommunications network, and a controller configured to update the received information to modify the one or more access classes of terminal devices which are permitted to exchange signals with the mobile telecommunications network, the received information being updated by the controller according to a predetermined function of time.

Abstract: A method of operating a communications device in a wireless communications system that supports a random access procedure. The method comprises receiving, from an infrastructure equipment, a scheduling message comprising an indication of an allocation of radio resources to be used for a random access procedure message, selecting a transport block size (TBS) from a plurality of permitted TBS values for the transmission of the random access procedure message, and determining whether the selected TBS is lower than a maximum TBS of the plurality of permitted TBS values. If it is determined that the selected TBS is lower than the maximum TBS, the method comprises selecting a time for starting the transmission of the random access procedure message from a plurality of permitted starting transmission times, and transmitting the random access procedure message to the infrastructure equipment in the allocated communications resources using the selected TBS.

Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device including a transceiver, and a controller configured to control the transceiver to begin receiving, during one of a plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device, a scheduling signal scheduling a paging message for paging one or more terminal devices of the wireless telecommunications network, and determine whether a value of a characteristic of the received scheduling signal matches a value of a characteristic of a scheduling signal associated with the one of the plurality of periodic paging occasions associated with the terminal device.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data by an infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network to a communications device, the method comprising transmitting by the infrastructure equipment a paging message; receiving by the infrastructure equipment a random access request, the random access request transmitted by the communications device in response to the paging message; in response to receiving the random access request, transmitting by the infrastructure equipment an indication of communications resources allocated for a transmission by the infrastructure equipment and transmitting by the infrastructure equipment an indication that the transmission by the infrastructure equipment comprises data to be transmitted while no radio connection is established between the communications device and the infrastructure equipment: and transmitting by the infrastructure equipment the data using the allocated communications resources.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may receive a broadcast channel that includes a bits indicating possible resources for a downlink shared channel being utilized for a signaling channel. The UE may monitor, based on the indicated possible resources, the signaling channel for signaling information for the UE.

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 method of transmitting data by a transmitter to a receiver in a wireless communications network. The method comprises receiving data for transmission to the receiver via a communications channel, dividing the data into portions for transmission, receiving, for each of the portions of data, an indication of channel information from the receiver for use by the transmitter in determining values for one or more communications parameters with which the portion of data should be transmitted, determining the values for the one or more communications parameters based on the received channel information, dynamically generating, for each of the portions of data, a waveform representative of the portion of data, and transmitting each of the portions of data, using the generated waveform representations and in accordance with the values of the one or more communications parameters, to the receiver.

Abstract: A method comprising controlling a receiver of a communications device to reduce a power consumption in accordance with a discontinuous reception, DRX, off period in which no signals representing scheduling information are received via a physical downlink control channel when in a connected mode and in which the communications device can reduce a power to the receiver, controlling the receiver of the communications device to increase the power consumption so as to detect whether or not signals from a group control channel have been received by the receiver either during the DRX off period or during a first time slot of a DRX on period in which signals representing scheduling information may be transmitted by the wireless communications network via the physical downlink control channel and in which the communications device may increase the power to the receiver.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to perform a transport channel processing chain, the transport channel processing chain comprising a sub-carrier puncturing function, the sub-carrier puncturing function comprising puncturing, in each subframe of a composite transmission time interval, a set of subcarriers from at least one mapped physical resource block.

Abstract: A communications device (UE1) configured for D2D communications receives on a control channel of a D2D wireless interface an indication of communications parameters from another communications device (UE2) for that other communications device (UE2) to transmit signals representing data to the communications device (UE1) via a shared channel of the D2D wireless interface. The D2D wireless interface provides physical resources for the control channel and the physical resources of the shared channel. The communications device (UE1) receives the signals representing the data via the physical resources of the shared channel of the D2D wireless interface based on the received communications parameters. The physical resources of the shared channel of the D2D wireless interface are formed from one or both of a default bandwidth part and a non-default bandwidth part of the D2D wireless interface between the communications device (UE1) and the other communications device (UE2).

Abstract: A communications device is configured to receive a plurality of downlink control information DCI messages each of the DCI messages providing an indication of communications parameters for the communications device to receive a plurality of transport blocks in communications resources of the downlink according to a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request-type, HARQ, processes. The communications device receives, after each received DCI message, one or more of the plurality of transport blocks from the communications resources of the downlink and determines whether data carried by the received one or more transport blocks has been decoded correctly. The communications device then transmits for each of the one or more received transport blocks a HARQ feedback message providing one of an acknowledgement, ACK, or a negative acknowledgement NACK, on an uplink of the wireless access interface according to a corresponding one of the HARQ processes.

Abstract: A communications device configured to transmit data or receive data is provided. The communications device comprises transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals and receive signals via a wireless access interface, and controller circuitry configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry to monitor a first set of radio resources of the wireless access interface for reception of a potential paging instruction, the first set of radio resources forming a preconfigured uplink resource, PUR, search space, SS, associated with a PUR in which the communications device may optionally transmit uplink data and comprising, when the communications device transmits the uplink data, a feedback signal indicating whether or not the uplink data has been successfully received.

Abstract: A method of transmitting data by a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising determining that first data having a first priority is available for transmission, selecting first uplink communications resources for transmission associated with the first data, determining second uplink communications resources allocated for transmitting second data associated with a second priority and one or more parameters for the transmission of the second data using the second uplink communications resources, after the determining that the first data is available for transmission and the selecting the first uplink communications resources, determining based on the first uplink communications resources that the second uplink communications resources cannot be used for the transmission of the second data, storing the one or more parameters, transmitting the transmission associated with the first data using the first uplink communications resources and refraining from transmitting the seco

Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network comprising the terminal device and a base station. The wireless telecommunications network supports a random access procedure comprising an exchange of random access procedure messages between the terminal device and the base station. At least one of the random access procedure messages is a variable size uplink message. The method comprises: receiving from the base station an instruction to perform the random access procedure, wherein the instruction to perform the random access procedure comprises an indication of a message size to be used by the terminal device for the variable size uplink message during the random access procedure; and performing the random access procedure by exchanging random access procedure messages with the base station, including transmitting the uplink message of variable size with a size corresponding to the indicated message size received from the base station.

Abstract: A communications device including a receiver configured to receive a plurality of sub-units of an encoded transport block of data in a plurality of time-divided units within frequency resources of a wireless access interface allocated to the mobile terminal, each of the sub-units being received a repeated number of times within a repetition cycle; and circuitry configured to combine a same sub-unit received the repeated number of times to form a composite sub-unit to recover the transport block.

Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system is disclosed. The terminal device is configured to selectively switch between an active operating mode and a reduced-power operating mode. The method comprises communicating with a network entity to exchange a block of data between the terminal device and the network entity while the terminal device is in the active operating mode. The method further comprises determining when communications associated with the exchange of the block of data are complete, and in response to determining communications associated with the exchange of the block of data are complete, switching from the active operating mode to the reduced-power operating mode.

Abstract: A communications device configured to detect one or more beams of signals transmitted by each of a plurality of infrastructure equipment forming a plurality of cells of the wireless communications network, each of the beams being separately identifiable and forming a directional bias with respect to a location of the infrastructure equipment. The communications device is configured to perform measurements for evaluating a quality of the plurality of cells including one or more beams on signals received from each of the detected beams, to determine from the evaluation of each of the cells, and if one or more of the cells satisfies predetermined conditions to perform a process for identifying one or more of the cells which should be used by the communications device for transmitting data.