Abstract: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 19R244B3XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 19R244B3XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 19R244B3XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 19R244B3XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.

Abstract: The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 19R107B3XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 19R107B3XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 19R107B3XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 19R107B3XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.

Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to receive user plane data from a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications network when the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode, the method comprising: receiving paging message signalling from the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the paging message signalling comprises an indication the network infrastructure equipment has user plane data for transmission to the terminal device while the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode; determining from the paging message signalling a set of radio resources on which the user plane data is to be transmitted by the network infrastructure equipment to the terminal device; and receiving the user plane data from the network infrastructure equipment using the determined set of radio resources while the terminal device is not in an active radio resource connected mode.

Abstract: A user equipment for an unmanned aerial vehicle for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry which is configured to communicate with at least one base station. The circuitry is further configured to transmit an indication of a change from an airborne mode to a terrestrial mode.

Abstract: A method of requesting a handover of a communications device in a source cell by a source infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network, the wireless communications network comprising the source infrastructure equipment and a non public network (NPN) portion comprising a target infrastructure equipment providing a wireless access interface in a target cell, the method comprising: transmitting by the source infrastructure equipment to the target infrastructure equipment, via an interface connecting the source infrastructure equipment and the target infrastructure equipment, a handover request message requesting the handover of the communications device, the handover request comprising an indication of one or more identities associated with non-public cells which the communications device is permitted to access.

Abstract: A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: first receiver circuitry configured to receive a first signal from each of one or more signal emitting devices located at respective spatial positions; transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a second signal to infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network; second receiver circuitry configured to receive a third signal from the infrastructure equipment, the third signal being transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in response to the infrastructure equipment receiving the second signal, the third signal being for determining, in combination with the first signal received from each of the one or more signal emitting devices, the spatial position of the terminal device, and the third signal being comprised within a predetermined system information block (SIB); and control circuitry configured to determine a spatial position of the terminal device based on the received first and thir

Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, at a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of a wireless communications network, signals representing data from a second of the infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, receiving, at the first infrastructure equipment, assistance information from at least one of the second infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes, and determining, by one of the first infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes in the case that the assistance information satisfies a trigger condition, that the second infrastructure equipment should communicate with the first infrastructure equipment over a second communications path.

Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises determining, by a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of the wireless communications network, that a plurality of different communications paths exist from a second infrastructure equipment to the first infrastructure equipment via one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, transmitting, by the first infrastructure equipment, an indication at least part of each of one or more of the plurality of different communications paths to the second infrastructure equipment, and selecting, by the second infrastructure equipment based on the indication received from the first infrastructure equipment, at least one of the plurality of different communications paths for communicating with the first infrastructure equipment.

Abstract: A method of selecting a cell by a communications device in a wireless communications network comprises receiving from the wireless communications network an indication of a range of physical cell identifiers associated with one or more cells belonging to one or more non-public networks which form part of the wireless communications network which also includes public network cells, detecting signals received from a serving cell and signals received from one or more candidate cells in order to determine whether to remain attached to a currently serving cell or to reselect one of the candidate cells according to a cell reselection procedure when in an idle mode in which the communications device is not transmitting data to or receiving data from the wireless communications network.

Abstract: A method comprising receiving, at a first infrastructure equipment of a wireless network, a command from a second infrastructure equipment comprising an indication that a downlink message for a communications device to decode should be transmitted by the first infrastructure equipment and that a wake-up signal should be transmitted by the first infrastructure equipment to the communications device in advance of transmitting the downlink message, and transmitting the wake-up signal to the communications device in advance of transmitting the downlink message to provide the communications device with an indication that the downlink message for the communications device to decode will be transmitted. The wake-up signal comprises a preamble formed by a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed, OFDM, symbols, each of the OFDM symbols being modulated with a reference sequence.

Abstract: An infrastructure equipment for providing a wireless backhaul for another infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network comprises a receiver configured to receive, from the other infrastructure equipment acting as a relay, uplink data transmitted by a communications device, a transmitter configured to transmit to the infrastructure equipment acting as a node via the wireless access interface, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the transmitter and receiver to establish a connection with the other infrastructure equipment, the connection providing the wireless backhaul for the transmission of data from the communications device to a core network of the wireless communications network via the other infrastructure equipment, and to transmit in a message on the downlink of the wireless access interface an indication of whether the other infrastructure equipment is permitted to transmit a request while in the connected mode.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to distribute an area-specific system information update.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data by a communications device to an infrastructure equipment in a cell of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving an indication of a plurality of configured grants, each of the configured grants allocating a set of communications resources for the transmission of the data by the communications device within one of a plurality of bandwidth parts defining a frequency range within a system bandwidth of the cell, determining that one or more of the plurality of configured grants should be activated and/or determining that one or more of the plurality of configured grants should be deactivated, and transmitting, to the infrastructure equipment, one or both of an activation signal if the communications device determines that one or more configured grants should be activated and a deactivation signal if the communications device determines that one or more configured grants should be deactivated.

Abstract: A communications device configured to receive data from an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network is provided. The communications device comprises transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals and to receive signals via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network, and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured to control the transceiver circuitry to receive an explicit uplink hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement indicator, e-HARQ indicator, from the infrastructure equipment, and to determine, in accordance with the received e-HARQ indicator, whether or not the communications device should monitor for a first HARQ acknowledgement, HARQ-ACK, in a specific time slot and in a specific frequency resource of the wireless access interface, the first HARQ-ACK being transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in response to an uplink transmission from the communications device to the infrastructure equipment.

Abstract: A method for controlling a connection procedure for a terminal device requesting a radio connection to a cell supported by network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunication system, the method comprising: determining, at the terminal device, that a request to connect to the cell supported by the network infrastructure equipment is to be made, establishing, at the terminal device, application information relating to an operating context for the terminal device: transmitting a connection request message from the terminal device to the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the connection request message comprises a request for the terminal device to connect to the cell and an indication of the application information; and determining, at the network infrastructure equipment, whether to allow the request for the terminal device to connect to the cell based, at least in part, on the application information received by the network infrastructure equipment from the terminal device.

Abstract: A method of receiving downlink data associated with an end-to-end connection between a communications device and an endpoint by an access stratum infrastructure equipment in a wireless communications network, the wireless communications network comprising a core network, the access stratum infrastructure equipment and another access stratum infrastructure equipment, the access stratum infrastructure equipment connected to the core network and to the other access stratum infrastructure equipment, the other access stratum infrastructure equipment providing a wireless access interface, wherein the wireless access interface is for the transmission of data to and the reception of data from the communications device and the downlink data is for transmission to the communications device.

Abstract: A method of transmitting data to a communications device from a wireless communications network comprising one or more infrastructure equipment, the method comprises configuring one or more of the infrastructure equipment for transmitting one or more candidate beams of signals which can be used to transmit the data to the communications device from each of one or more cells of the wireless communications device formed by the infrastructure equipment. Each of the candidate beams is configured with a different directional bias with respect to a location of the one or more cells from which the signals of the candidate beam can be received when transmitted.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to generate a user equipment identifier which is unique on Anchor cell level or which is unique in RAN notified area level.

Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications system comprising the 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 covering a current location for the terminal device, wherein the first wake-up signalling configuration information comprises an indication of a first wake-up signalling format to be transmitted by the first network access node in advance of transmitting a paging message to indicate the terminal device should seek to decode the paging message, and an indication of an associated first wake-up signalling validity period for the first wake-up signalling format.

Abstract: A terminal device and a method of operating a terminal device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises establishing, by the terminal device, a first radio connection with a first network access node for transmission of data via a first bearer and a second radio connection with the first network access node for transmission of data via a second bearer. Based on a difference between quality of service for the data transmission via the first bearer and the second bearer, a third radio connection is established between the terminal device and a second network access node for transmission of the data via the first bearer; and the third radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node, a fourth radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node for transmission of the data via the second bearer.