Abstract: The present disclosure relates to management and distribution of an artificial intelligence models. There is provided a method performed by a network device, comprising: determining an artificial intelligence model for a user equipment, i.e. UE, from a plurality of artificial intelligence models for beam prediction based on a beam measurement result reported by the UE; and sending, to the UE, indication information associated with the determined artificial intelligence model.

Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, which is configured to determine, at least on the basis of the processing capabilities of wireless communication terminals within the coverage range of a wireless transceiving node and a wireless communication environment, wireless communication terminals which are about to participate in federated reinforcement learning; and acquire respective local learning models from wireless communication terminals which participate in federated reinforcement learning, and obtain an updated global model on the basis of the local learning models.

Abstract: A method for selecting one or more secondary cells, SCells for supporting communication with a user equipment, UE, by carrier aggregation, CA. The one or more SCells is/are selected from a set of SCell candidates available for an access node. The method includes estimating a probability that the UE connected to a primary cell, PCell, of the access node is in coverage of an SCell in the set of candidates, predicting available resources for the SCell, calculating a CA value for the SCell based on the estimated probability, an estimated spectral efficiency and the predicted available resources, and calculating a CA value for each SCell of the set of SCell candidates, ranking the SCells of the set of SCell candidates based on their calculated CA values, and selecting one or more SCells for providing CA with the UE based on the ranking.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic device and method in a wireless communication system. There is provided a terminal-side electronic device in a wireless communication system includes a processing circuit, which is configured to acquire information about an internal state of a terminal-side device associated with the terminal-side electronic device, and transmit the information about the internal state of the terminal-side device to another device in the wireless communication system periodically or in a trigger mode, wherein, once information about an abnormal internal state of the terminal-side device is acquired, the information about the abnormal internal state of the terminal-side device is actively broadcasted to a surrounding communicable terminal-side electronic device.

Abstract: An apparatus in a wireless communication system comprises a processing circuit configured to: determine a channel detection mode for an unlicensed frequency band on the basis of at least a wireless communication service type and/or a cell load condition; and generate configuration information comprising a channel detection mode, the configuration information needing to be sent to user equipment so as to indicate the channel detection mode to the user equipment. According to at least one aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, a channel detection mode suitable for a current application scenario is configured for a large-bandwidth unlicensed frequency band in a 5G new radio (NR) on the basis of at least a wireless communication service type and/or a cell load condition, which may reduce the workload of a base station and user equipment and increase system working efficiency while improving bandwidth allocation efficiency and resource utilization.

Abstract: An electronic device at a network side serves as a first user equipment and a second user equipment. The electronic device includes a processing circuit and is configured to: determine the second user equipment to share a channel occupy time (COT) of the first user equipment on a time domain, wherein the first user equipment and the second user equipment send uplink information to the electronic device in the COT of the first user equipment using orthogonal frequency domain resources; and generate frequency domain resource indication information of the second user equipment to indicate a frequency domain resource for the second user equipment.

Abstract: System and method are disclosed for multi-phase process of automated data capture for photogrammetry and 3D model building of an unknown object (311) in an unknown environment. Planner module (152) generates a flight plan (413) for a camera drone (110) to fly autonomously on a flight path along a virtual polygon grid (302) defined above the target object (311) during a survey phase. Model builder computer (153) receives a point cloud dataset (321) captured by LiDAR sensor on camera drone (301) during survey flight and constructs low resolution 3D mesh (331) of the target object (311). Planner module (152) generates a flight path (413) for camera drone inspection phase with virtual waypoints surrounding the target object (311) at a marginal distance from the surface defined by the low resolution 3D mesh (331).

Abstract: A switch device includes local connection ports, cascade connection ports configured to be connected to external switch devices, a buffer memory and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to determine a source connection port of an input packet transmitted to the switch device. The processing unit is configured to obtain input counts corresponding to the local connection ports, the cascade connection ports, the switch device and the external switch devices. The processing unit is configured to determine whether an input congestion occurs according to the input counts. In response to the input congestion not occurring, the processing unit is configured to store the input packet into the buffer memory and update the input counts. In response to the input congestion occurring, the processing unit is configured to send a pause notification to the source connection port or drop the input packet.

Abstract: A method for user equipment, UE, configuration determination for a UE connected in a radio communication network is presented. The method is performed in a base station, BS, and comprises determining a minimum candidate user equipment configuration, CUEC, wherein the CUEC comprises a special cell, SpCell, the SpCell providing connection with the UE, validating the determined minimum CUEC against capabilities of the UE, selecting a successfully validated determined minimum CUEC as a current CUEC, generating a next CUEC and comparing the generated next CUEC with the current CUEC, validating the next CUEC against the capabilities of the UE when the next CUEC has a higher weight than the current CUEC, selecting a successfully validated next CUEC as the current CUEC, and configuring the UE in accordance with the current CUEC. A BS, a distributed unit, a computer program and a computer program product for UE configuration determination are also presented.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a radio communication method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device of the present disclosure for use in a vehicle is configured to: receive a message, the message comprising a validity time of the message and a validity range of the message; and determine, on the basis of the validity time of the message and of the validity range of the message, whether to forward the message. The use of the electronic device, the radio communication method, and the computer-readable storage medium of the present disclosure optimizes an exchange process for vehicle-related information, thus reducing overhead and delays to the greatest extent, and thereby increasing communication efficiency.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to electronic devices, methods, and storage media for radio link measurements. Various embodiments are described with respect to radio link measurements. In one embodiment, an electronic device for a base station providing a serving cell for a plurality of terminal devices is provided, the electronic device including a processing circuit configured to: instruct at least one of the plurality of terminal devices to perform radio resource management measurements with a first cycle; and configure a measurement cycle relaxation mechanism for the at least one terminal device through a radio resource control signaling. In a case that the measurement cycle relaxation mechanism is enabled, the at least one terminal device performs radio resource management measurements with a measurement cycle greater than the first cycle.

Abstract: A method by a gNB-DU node is provided where the method includes receiving a UE context setup request from a gNB-CU node, the UE context setup request comprising an identification of frequency bands and measurement objects for the frequency bands. The method includes selecting frequency bands to optimize performance throughput. The method includes sending a UE context setup response to the gNB-CU node, the UE context setup response comprising a list of measurement object IDs associated to the frequency bands selected.

Abstract: Embodiments herein relates to for example a method performed by a first network node (12) for handling communication in a communication network (1). The first network node (12) transmits an indication to a second network node (13), wherein the indication indicates activating or deactivating packet duplication at the second network node (13).

Abstract: A system for processing data in an industrial environment includes a sensor that communicates sensor data acquired from a factory floor as a multicast data stream where each frame is tagged with a sequence identifier indicative of a position of that frame in the data stream. A network switch distributes the data stream to a group of multicast endpoints. The system includes a controller with a plurality of modularly connected processing units. Each processing unit is further connected to the network switch and configured as a respective endpoint of the group of multicast endpoints. Each processing unit selectively processes frames of the data stream in dependence of the sequence identifier of individual frames by executing a data processing module, to produce an output result associated with each processed frame. The controller assembles the output result and the sequence identifier of each processed frame from the plurality of processing units.

Abstract: An apparatus in a wireless communication system comprises a processing circuit configured to: determine a channel detection mode for an unlicensed frequency band on the basis of at least a wireless communication service type and/or a cell load condition; and generate configuration information comprising a channel detection mode, the configuration information needing to be sent to user equipment so as to indicate the channel detection mode to the user equipment. According to at least one aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, a channel detection mode suitable for a current application scenario is configured for a large-bandwidth unlicensed frequency band in a 5G new radio (NR) on the basis of at least a wireless communication service type and/or a cell load condition, which may reduce the workload of a base station and user equipment and increase system working efficiency while improving bandwidth allocation efficiency and resource utilization.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a radio communication method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device of the present disclosure for use in a vehicle is configured to: receive a message, the message comprising a validity time of the message and a validity range of the message; and determine, on the basis of the validity time of the message and of the validity range of the message, whether to forward the message. The use of the electronic device, the radio communication method, and the computer-readable storage medium of the present disclosure optimizes an exchange process for vehicle-related information, thus reducing overhead and delays to the greatest extent, and thereby increasing communication efficiency.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a processing circuit configured to: based on received first information, determine that a first user equipment is a relay device between a base station and a second user equipment, wherein the first user equipment can establish a Uu connection with the base station and can establish a PC5 connection with the second user equipment, and a Uu communication between a third user equipment and base station and a PC5 communication between the third user equipment and the second user equipment will be switched; and providing base station or second user equipment with context information of communication before switching, and information of a QoS mapping relationship between the communication before switching and communication after switching, the communication before switching is one of the Uu communication and the PC5 communication, and the communication after switching is the other one of the Uu communication and the PC5 communication.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a processing circuit configured to: perform repeated transmission of transmission blocks from among first to (repK)th transmission blocks starting from an nth time domain position when a base station that is due to provide services for an electronic device performs repeated transmission of the first to (repK)th transmission blocks and when it is detected that the nth time domain position is available when the first n?1 consecutive time domain positions from among predetermined consecutive time domain positions configured by the base station and used for repeated transmission are not available; and determine, on the basis of a first redundancy version mode received from the base station, a redundancy version number corresponding to each transmitted transmission block, wherein repK is the first number of repeated transmissions received from the base station, and n is an integer at least one and less than or equal to repK.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE), which is operable in EUTRA networks and in NR networks, can perform a capability transfer procedure. The UE can compile EUTRA capabilities of the UE. The UE can further compile NR capabilities of the UE. The UE can transmit one or more UE capability information messages with the compiled EUTRA capabilities and NR capabilities to a base station in an EUTRA network, characterized in that the NR capabilities are compiled subject to a capability size limit, which corresponds to a supported size of a container in a handover message sent on an inter-RAT interface between Evolved Packet Core and 5G Core.

Abstract: Provided are an electronic device, a wireless communication method and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit, and the processing circuit is configured: to perform a first uplink data transmission to a first transmission point within a channel occupation time after the electronic device successfully accesses an unlicensed frequency band; and to perform a second uplink data transmission to a second transmission point on the basis of an acknowledgement message from the second transmission point in the vicinity of the first transmission point within the remaining time after the first uplink data transmission is completed in the channel occupation time, wherein the acknowledgement message is transmitted to the electronic device by the second transmission point in response to an additional transmission request transmitted to the second transmission point by the first transmission point after completion of the first uplink data transmission.