Abstract: An apparatus for use by a packet duplication control element or function, the apparatus including processing circuitry, and memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry, wherein the memory and the instructions are configured to, with the processing circuitry, cause the apparatus at least: to receive assistance information indicating communication conditions of at least one communication link between a communication element and at least two communication network access points, to process the assistance information for preparing a packet duplication control, to generate transmission control information on the basis of the result of the processing of the assistance information, the transmission control information indicating settings for a packet duplication process in the established multi-connectivity communication, and to send the transmission control information to at least one transmission control element or function being involved in the packet duplication process in the estab

Abstract: There is disclosed methods, apparatuses and computer program products for configuring a discontinuous reception pattern for a receiver of a wireless communication device. In accordance with an embodiment, the method corn rises obtaining two or more discontinuous reception patterns for a wireless communication device to be used in sidelink communication with one or more user devices; selecting at least one discontinuous reception pattern from the two or more discontinuous reception patterns liar the wireless communication device; and receiving signals from the one or more other devices and/or transmitting signals to the one or more other devices for the sidelink communication according to the selected at least one discontinuous reception pattern.

Abstract: A method and apparatus may include receiving, by a user equipment from a first access point which supports a first radio access technology, a radio-resource-control (RRC) reconfiguration message including an RRC configuration information of a second access point, after an initiation of a slave RRC at the second access point has been determined. The second access point supports a second radio access technology, and performing, by the user equipment, a random access procedure with the second access point based on the RRC reconfiguration message. The user equipment is configured to have an RRC connection with the first access point and the first access point is a master node.

Abstract: There is provided a method comprising receiving, at a user device, control information usable for determining whether at least one uplink logical channel is to be transmitted using at least one of a first uplink transport channel and a second uplink transport channel, determining, in dependence on said information, a mapping between the at least one uplink logical channel and at least one of the first uplink transport channel and second uplink transport channel and causing the at least one uplink logical channel to be transmitted using the at least one uplink transport channel to which the at least one uplink logical channel is mapped.

Abstract: There is provided a method at a first user equipment, the method comprising: deciding to set up a unicast sidelink, SL, connection with a second user equipment; determining whether or not a radio access network serving the first user equipment or a radio access network serving the second user equipment is able to assist in setting up the unicast SL connection; performing one of the following: upon determining the positive, applying a L1 unicast-based SL connection for setting up the unicast SL connection, upon determining the negative, applying a L1 broadcast-based SL connection for setting up the unicast SL connection; and communicating with the second user equipment over the unicast SL.

Abstract: There is provided a method, comprising: configuring, by a network node controlling a macro cell of a cellular communication system, at least one handover trigger related signalling configuration for at least one terminal device of the cellular communication system; receiving, by the network node controlling the macro cell, as a result of said signalling configuration, an uplink message broadcasted by the at least one terminal device via a local area access node; recognizing the local area access node as an edge node located at an edge of a coverage area of the macro cell; and initiating a handover of the terminal device between the macro cell and a neighbouring macro cell.

Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform determining, by a network node, context information of a group of more than one user equipment, wherein the context information is based on at least service related information associated with the more than one user equipment; sending information comprising the context information towards at least one base station of a communication network; and based on the context information, negotiating with the at least one base station timing synchronization requirements for distribution to each user equipment of the group.

Abstract: The use of PUCCH resources can be more efficient such as by sharing PUCCH resources between URLLC UEs and non-URLLC UEs in a controllable way enhanced with a smart deterministic downlink polling when needed. A method comprises receiving, by a user equipment from a network node of a communication network, information comprising a given physical uplink control channel resource instance allocated to the user equipment, wherein the physical uplink control channel resource instance is allocated to more than one user equipment including the user equipment; signaling the network node using an allocated physical uplink control channel resource instance in a given sub-frame; and, receiving polling form the network node, wherein the polling comprises an uplink grant.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for supporting precision timing protocol (PTP) based time sensitive network (TSN) applications are provided. One method includes configuring, by a network node, a user equipment connection and user contexts for an industrial automation and control (IAC) system or configuring at least one time synchronized radio bearer for a user equipment. The method may also include determining synchronization configuration on the at least one time synchronized radio bearer for the industrial automation and control (IAC) system, and distributing the synchronization configuration periodically or on a need basis to one or more serving network nodes for the industrial automation and control (IAC) system.

Abstract: This document discloses a solution for assisting transmissions in a wireless network. According to an aspect, a method comprises: monitoring, by a wireless device, a radio resource for a data packet transmitted by a source device to a sink device and capturing the data packet from the radio resource; decoding the data packet by the wireless device; determining, by the wireless device, that the sink device failed in decoding the data packet and that the wireless device is an assisting transmitter for retransmission of the data packet; and upon said determining, determining by the wireless device a radio resource for the retransmission and performing the retransmission of the data packet in the determined radio resource and together with the source device.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a memory configured to store allocation information, and at least one processing core configured to process resource allocation information received from a network, the resource allocation information defining a multi-cell scheduling allocation, and cause communication of information using the multi-cell scheduling allocation in a first cell and in a second cell.

Abstract: A network apparatus, such as a road side unit, measures signalling transmitted from vehicle devices, to obtain the status of road traffic in the proximity of the road side unit. If a pre-defined triggering event is detected in the status of the road traffic in the proximity of the road side unit, the road side unit transmits to a serving network node, a status report in order to report the obtained road traffic status to the serving network node. The road side unit receives from the serving network node, control signalling indicating at least one road side unit operation mode selected for communication, and sets the operation mode of the road side unit to correspond to the at least one selected road side unit operation mode for the communication.

Abstract: This document discloses a solution for providing a terminal device with a multi-connectivity service. According to an aspect, a method comprises: determining, autonomously by a terminal device of a wireless communication system, to request for establishment of parallel connections with multiple access nodes; transmitting, by the terminal device, at least one access request to a plurality of access nodes; and receiving, by the terminal device at least one response to the at least one access request from at least one radio access node, wherein the response contains information related to establishment of the parallel connections.

Abstract: There is provided a method, comprising: at least partially controlling, by a network node, transmissions in a plural of radio access technologies, RATs, each RAT being capable of providing at least one communication link to a same user equipment; deciding to transmit a packet to the user equipment at least via a first RAT; requesting a transmission of the packet additionally via at least one other RAT; determining capability information corresponding to the requested transmission of the packet via the at least one other RAT; determining transmission setup for the packet to be transmitted via the first RAT based on the capability information, wherein the transmission set-up defines at least the number of transmissions to be performed for the packet by the first RAT; and instructing the transmission of the packet via the first RAT according to the determined transmission level.

Abstract: A technique includes receiving, by a user device, a plurality of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configurations, each SPS configuration including an SPS identifier and an interval for each of the plurality of SPS configurations; receiving, by the user device, an SPS activation corresponding to each of the plurality of SPS configurations, each SPS activation indicating a set of resources and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) to be used for transmission of data for the corresponding SPS configuration; determining, by the user device, that a collision will occur for the plurality of SPS configurations during a transmission time interval (TTI); selecting a MCS corresponding to one of the plurality of SPS configurations that have been determined to collide during the TTI; and transmitting, by the user device during the TTI, data using the selected MCS via an aggregated set of SPS resources that includes at least a portion of each of the sets of resources for the plurality of SPS configurations that have been d

Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from efficient communication. For example, various wireless systems may benefit from appropriate handling of user equipment identifiers over a PC5 interface in a PCS-based user equipment to network relay. A method can include assigning to a user equipment an identifier. The identifier can be configured to avoid a layer one identifier collision between the user equipment and other nearby user equipment.

Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising measuring a measured performance level of a downlink carrier of a cell based on a received monitoring configuration; deciding if the downlink carrier fulfills a received decision criterion based on the measured performance level; initiating a handshake with the cell if the downlink carrier fulfills the received decision criterion.

Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from improved network management. A method may include receiving an indication of a subset of a cluster of local cells at an ultra-reliable, low latency communications user equipment using multi-connectivity. The method may also include receiving rules for radio performance monitoring, wherein the rules include a packet error rate threshold for individual radio links of the multi-connectivity. In addition, the method may include determining based on the rules and the radio performance monitoring whether to skip the monitoring of one or more cells of the subset of local cells. The skip may be short-term or long term. Further, the method may include communicating to the subset a report based on the radio performance monitoring and whether to skip the monitoring of one or more cells of the subset of local cells.

Abstract: A method includes coordinating one or more pools of resources for discovery signal transmission between a plurality of devices, at least one of said pools of resources being shared by at least one larger cell and at least one smaller cell at least partially in a coverage area of the said larger cell.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for NR sidelink (SL) buffer status reporting are provided. One method may include configuring, to one or more UE(s), at least one SL BSR format to include different information to be reported for requesting SL resource allocation. For example, the different information may include one or more of buffer size, the amount of resources, the desired MCS, the CSI, etc.