Abstract: A network node may determine a congestion level of a random access channel; and may transmit, to one or more energy constrained user equipments, at least one barring parameter, wherein the at least one barring parameter may be based, at least partially, on the determined congestion level and an energy constraint of the one or more user equipments. An energy constrained user equipment may receive a system information block comprising a barring factor and a back-off time; may determine whether to transmit a preamble for a random access procedure based, at least partially, on the barring factor and a maximum number of preamble transmission attempts; may transmit the preamble based on a determination to do so, or may wait for the back-off time based on a determination to not do so.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a terminal device, a method and a medium for modifying or adapting a measurement configuration for a terminal device. In an aspect, a terminal device determines at least one of at least one scheduling restriction or at least one measurement configuration based on one or more conditions including an energy state of the terminal device. The terminal device transmits, to a network device, a request for modifying a configuration for performing measurements. The request comprises at least one of the at least one scheduling restriction or the at least one measurement configuration. With the embodiments in the present disclosure, the preferred measurement configuration and scheduling restrictions can be dynamically provided based on the priority and the energy state of the UE, and thus the energy consumption of energy harvesting devices can be reduced.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to apparatuses, methods, devices and computer readable storage medium for device measurement based mobility handling in ambient internet of things. The method including at a first apparatus, the first apparatus receives, from a second apparatus, a polling signal at least indicating an identifier of the second apparatus and a period of a polling cycle of the polling signal, wherein the first apparatus enables a communication with the second apparatus by backscattering mechanism; the first apparatus determines a query occasion for a backscattering communication; and the first apparatus initiates, according to the identifier of the second apparatus, an attachment procedure to the second apparatus based on at least one of: a signal strength measurement on the polling signal, or the query occasion of the backscattering communication.

Abstract: Techniques of preserving UE and network resources while performing a paging procedure during cell congestion includes a network node informing a UE if the cell to which the UE is attempting to access is too congested to serve the UE. When a gNB, serving a cell, receives a paging request for the gNB to serve a UE, the gNB first performs a pro-active admission control operation to determine whether there are sufficient resources to serve the UE. When there is too much congestion, the gNB may not admit the UE to the cell and sends RAN raging with a paging flag indicating that the gNB will not serve the UE. The UE in response does not trigger a service request, but rather sends an ACK paging over RRC to the gNB, which in turn notifies the AMF of non-service and that the UE is present.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for mode switching schemes for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted backscatter communications. The method may include connecting with a network node for communication, receiving, from the network node, an indication of activation of backscattering, receiving a backscatter signal together with a signal sent by the network node, and demodulating the backscatter signal and the signal sent by the network node, the backscatter signal including backscatter data.

Abstract: The example embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and apparatus to receive, by a user equipment of a communication network, from a network node information for measurement reporting by the user equipment for beam management in the communication network, and based on the at least one beam reporting configuration, determine beam reporting at least one pair of beams of the more than one beam of the at least one transmission reception point capable for simultaneous reception by the user equipment.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of energy harvesting information supported User Equipment (UE) scheduling. The method includes reporting, to a network device in the radio network, energy harvesting capability of the terminal device indicating a first energy value (?Et) collected during a first time interval (?t) and a second energy value (EAvg) averaged over a second time interval; and communicating with the network device to transmit data according to scheduling information received from the network device and determined based on the energy harvesting capability of the terminal device. In this way, the terminal device may be scheduled by the network based on its energy harvesting capability, to maintain a trade-off between harvested energy utilization and fairness in scheduling from Passive IoT UEs.

Abstract: Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for associating sensing information with a user (e.g., a cellular user) by, for example, determining information from both a sensing node and a communication node, then associating the a sensed object and the communication node based on the information. Additionally, or alternatively, some embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for radar and sensing-based positioning.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform transmitting a data transmission while the apparatus is in a radio resource control idle state or radio resource control inactive state; receiving a monitoring configuration for use by the apparatus subsequent to transmission of the data transmission; and monitoring at least one downlink channel based, at least in part, on the received monitoring configuration.

Abstract: At a UE configured with an idle-mode configuration for using a PUR, determining that data not associated with the PUR is to be transmitted or received via an RRC connection. The UE performs an initial access to a network for the radio resource control connection. The UE transitions from RRC idle mode to RRC connected mode. The UE performs one of suspending the idle-mode configuration or maintaining the idle-mode configuration, for at least a duration of the RRC connected mode. A base station received the initial access, determines the UE is configured with the idle-mode configuration for using a PUR and transitions the UE from RRC idle mode to RRC connected mode. The base station performs communication between the base station and the UE to perform action(s) to modify one or both of the idle-mode configuration or an RRC connection corresponding to the transition into the RRC connected mode.

Abstract: Conditional device-to-device communications for ambient Internet of Things devices is provided. A method for conditional device-to-device communications for ambient Internet of Things devices may include transmitting a first signal to a relay device indicating that a condition has been satisfied, and determining whether a radio link failure with a network entity exists based on whether a second signal is received a specified number of times from the relay device.

Abstract: Various techniques are provided for a method including broadcasting, by a network node, a discontinuous reception (DRX) switch message indicating a user equipment (UE) is to switch from a first DRX cycle to a second DRX cycle and determining, by the network node, whether to send a paging message to the UE using one of the first DRX cycle or the second DRX cycle. The method can further include determining, by the network node, that the network node is in a reduced resource state.

Abstract: A user equipment apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory stores instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the user equipment apparatus at least to: receive, from a network device, an instruction to provide backscattering service to at least one ambient IoT device for a service period of time T; provide, based on the instruction, the backscattering service to at least one device; decide to cease providing the backscattering service prior to an end of the service period of time T; and transmit, to the network device prior to the end of the service period of time T, a notification indicating the decision to cease providing the backscattering service.

Abstract: A user equipment apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory stores instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the user equipment apparatus at least to: receive, from a network device, an instruction to provide backscattering service to at least one ambient IoT device for a service period of time T, the instruction including a configuration for sidelink communication with one or more backup user equipment apparatuses (backup UEs) capable of providing backscattering service to at least one ambient IoT device; and provide, based on the instruction, the backscattering service by transmitting at least one request for tag identification.

Abstract: A network device includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The memory stores instructions which, when executed by the processor(s), cause the network device at least to: access ambient IoT device deployment information for ambient IoT devices and user equipment apparatus (UE) deployment information for user equipment apparatuses (UEs); select, based on the ambient IoT device deployment information and the UE deployment information, candidate user equipment apparatuses (candidate UEs), from among the UEs, for providing backscattering service to ambient IoT devices; and iteratively select a subset of UEs, among the candidate UEs, to provide the backscattering service, where the iterative selecting is based at least on, for each iteration, at least one of: respective availability of the plurality of candidate UEs to provide the backscattering service, or at least one criterion relating to respective information in backscattering signals provided by the plurality of ambient IoT devices.

Abstract: In a system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for implementing DRX extensions for energy harvesting (EH) REDCAP UEs, a UE device may be caused to, obtain CDRX configuration from a RAN node, the CDRX configuration including at least a desired EH CDRX energy threshold value and a short CDRX timer threshold value, determine whether a current stored energy capacity equals or exceeds the desired EH CDRX energy threshold value at a start of an ON duration of a CDRX cycle, determine EH CDRX settings based on results of the determining and the plurality of adaptive EH CDRX configuration settings, and transmit at least one EH CDRX message to the RAN node based on the determined EH CDRX settings.

Abstract: A method including receiving, by the network device from a user equipment (UE), a physical random-access channel (PRACH) message during a random-access channel (RACH) occasion (RO) in a PRACH slot, wherein the RO is associated with two or more Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs) and transmitting, by the network device to the UE, a random access response (RAR) message using two or more beams, wherein the two or more beams are associated with the two or more SSBs.

Abstract: A method may include determining, by a user equipment, a beam alignment reference value and a beam alignment test value; and determining, by the user equipment, based on the beam alignment reference value and the beam alignment test value, that a user equipment receive beam used by the user equipment is not aligned with a transmit beam of the base station.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for improving reliability of mobile-terminated (MT) early data transmission (EDT). The method can include receiving, from a primary transmit receive point (TRP), a message. The method may include transmitting, to the primary TRP, an indication of a capability to receive a multi-TRP transmission of a message 4 of a random access procedure. The indication may be a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble.

Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a user equipment from a base station associated with a cell, control information assigning a subframe as a preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe for the user equipment, the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe including an extended cyclic prefix, the control information indicating resources allocated to the user equipment for uplink transmission within the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe, wherein one or more other subframes for use by the user equipment include a normal cyclic prefix that is shorter in time than the extended cyclic prefix of the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe; and transmitting, by the user equipment, data via the resources allocated to the user equipment within the preconfigured uplink resource (PUR) subframe.