Abstract: A method for reaching consensus on published data for a publisher-subscriber network, the publisher-subscriber network including a broker circuitry configured to provide a broker, a publisher device that is registered as a publisher for a data category at the broker, and a plurality of subscriber devices, wherein each of the plurality of subscriber devices is registered as a subscriber for the data category at the broker, wherein the publisher-subscriber network is configured to provide a blockchain, wherein the method includes: performing, by the publisher-subscriber network, a consensus reaching process on the published data for storing the published data in the blockchain.

Abstract: A method including receiving an indication of a first pattern for one of a plurality of time-divided portions of a wireless radio interface from a wireless communications network, the first pattern defining one or more uplink resource units for transmitting uplink data to the wireless communications network and/or one or more downlink resource units for receiving downlink data from the wireless communications network, receiving an overwrite indicator from the wireless communications network indicating that the communications device is able to use at least one of the downlink resource units for transmitting uplink data to the wireless communications network and/or at least one of the uplink resource units for receiving downlink data from the wireless communications network, and determining a second pattern for the time-divided portion of the wireless radio interface to replace the first pattern by overwriting at least a portion of the first pattern based on the overwrite indicator.

Abstract: A communications system is described that has a base station and a number of user devices, including legacy user devices and non-legacy user devices. The base station generates control data for transmission to the user devices, the control data including common control data for reception and decoding by a plurality of user devices and user specific control data for reception and decoding by a specific user device. The common control data is for reception and decoding by the non-legacy user devices and cannot be decoded by the legacy user devices. The common control data is repeated within multiple subframes for reception and decoding by non-legacy user devices. The non-legacy user devices are typically Machine Type Communications (MTC) user devices.

Abstract: An infrastructure equipment for providing a wireless interface to a communications node in a wireless communications network, the infrastructure equipment configured to support a wireless backhaul configuration for the communications node, wherein in the wireless backhaul configuration the communications node is configured to provide a wireless backhaul between one or more communications devices and the infrastructure equipment, the infrastructure equipment configured to: transmit one or more handover requests including first node configuration information for the communications node and first device configuration information for each of the one or more communications devices; receive one or more handover request acknowledgements; determine second device configuration information based on the one or more handover request acknowledgements; and transmit, to the first communications device, the second device configuration information for the first communications device.

Abstract: Communications devices for communicating via a wireless access interface are provided. In one embodiment, a communications device comprises transceiver circuitry and controller circuitry configured in combination to receive signals using at least two of a plurality of bandwidth parts of the wireless access interface, each of the bandwidth parts being smaller than and within a carrier bandwidth of the wireless access interface, wherein the at least two of the bandwidth parts at least partially overlap in frequency resources of the carrier bandwidth and time resources of the wireless access interface, to receive the signals via both of the at least two bandwidth parts, and to decode the signals received via each of the at least two bandwidth parts separately.

Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which minimum system information associated with a cell of a radio access network (RAN) is transmitted by a base station. The minimum system information comprises parameters for accessing a cell of the base station, divided into an initial part and a remaining part of the minimum system information. The base station transmits the initial part of the system information via a broadcast channel using a first set of communication resources; transmits information identifying an allocation of at least one further communication resource in a shared channel; and transmits the remaining part of 10 the minimum system information using the at least one further communication resource identified by the allocation.

Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which minimum system information associated with a cell of a radio access network (RAN) is transmitted by a base station. The minimum system information comprises parameters for accessing a cell of the base station, divided into an initial part and a remaining part of the minimum system information. The base station transmits the initial part of the system information via a broadcast channel using a first set of communication resources; transmits information identifying an allocation of at least one further communication resource in a shared channel; and transmits the remaining part of the minimum system information using the at least one further communication resource identified by the allocation.

Abstract: A communications device for transmitting data to a wireless communications network is configured to transmit a random access preamble, and to transmit uplink data in an uplink shared physical channel associated with the preamble according to a 2-step random access procedure, the association between the preamble and the uplink shared channel being known to the wireless communications network. The communications device is configured to detect, in response to transmitting the preamble and the uplink data, a random access response message providing timing advance information and uplink grant of resources of the uplink shared channel according to a 4-step random access procedure.

Abstract: A method of operating a communications device for transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises determining that the communications device has uplink data to transmit to the wireless communications network, transmitting to a first cell of the wireless communications network, while the communications device is located within a coverage region of the first cell, one or more of a plurality of portions of the uplink data, determining, as a result of a change in a relative position of the communications device with respect to the coverage region of the first cell, that the communications device should select a different cell to continue the transmission of the uplink data, selecting a second cell of the wireless communications network, and receiving, from the second cell, a reconfiguration message.

Abstract: A communication system is disclosed in which minimum system information associated with a cell of a radio access network (RAN) is transmitted by a base station. The minimum system information comprises parameters for accessing a cell of the base station, divided into an initial part and a remaining part of the minimum system information. The base station transmits the initial part of the system information via a broadcast channel using a first set of communication resources; transmits information identifying an allocation of at least one further communication resource in a shared channel; and transmits the remaining part of the minimum system information using the at least one further communication resource identified by the allocation.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data by a communications device in a wireless communications network, the method comprising assigning one of a plurality of logical channel priorities to the data in accordance with a plurality of service types, the logical channel priorities providing at least an indication of high priority data and lower priority data, forming a transport block of the data for transmission at a medium access control protocol layer in accordance with the logical channel priorities, and passing the transport block from the medium access control protocol layer to a physical layer for transmission and providing an indication to the physical layer based on the logical channel priority of the data in the transport block.

Abstract: A system is disclosed in which a base station defines a search space, in which a communication device can search for control information. The search space is characterised by at least first information which is related to a starting subframes of a plurality of portions of the search space and second information which is related to a periodicity between respective starting subframes, each portion representing a different candidate for the transmission of control information. The base station obtains a parameter indicating both the initial starting subframe and the periodicity and transmits the generated parameter to the communication device.

Abstract: An infrastructure equipment forms a wireless access point of a wireless communications network and executes program code that performs a plurality of processes which form a protocol stack for providing, in combination with a radio equipment, a wireless access interface of the wireless communications network for transmitting data to or receiving data from one or more communications devices. The plurality of processes provide at least a physical, PHY, layer, a medium access control, MAC, layer, a radio link control, RLC layer, a scheduler and radio resource management for the wireless access interface which together form baseband functions. The infrastructure equipment is configured to transmit/encrypt and receive/decrypt packet data. An infrastructure equipment can be shared between two wireless communications networks, which may be controlled by different operators. One or more of the plurality of processes may also be encrypted.

Abstract: A communications device receives downlink data units according to the one or more Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) type processes, via a plurality of instances of downlink resources forming a group. The communications device receives a plurality of downlink data units according to the one or more HARQ processes transmitted via the group of downlink resource instances, divides the group of the plurality of downlink resource instances into a plurality of subsets of downlink resource instances from the group, generates for the group of downlink resource instances a plurality of indications of an acknowledgement, ACK, or negative acknowledgement, NACK, indicating whether each of the plurality of received downlink data units was correctly received or not according to the one or more HARQ processes, and combines the plurality of the ACK or NACK indications for at least one of the subsets to form a bundled indication for the group.

Abstract: A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: provide, to the at least one user equipment, control channel candidates at different repetition levels, wherein at least a first control channel candidate of a repetition level overlaps in time with at least a second control channel candidate of the same repetition level.

Abstract: Methods and communications nodes for communications between communications devices, various communications nodes in a wireless backhaul network and a core network.

Abstract: A method of operating a communications device to perform cell reselection in a wireless communications network, the method comprising establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection, suspending the RRC connection, transmitting a first message in a first cell, the message comprising a request that the RRC connection be resumed, before the RRC connection is resumed in the first cell, selecting as a serving cell a second cell different from the first cell, and transmitting a second message in the second cell, the second message comprising a request that the RRC connection be resumed.

Abstract: A method of operating a communications device for transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from an infrastructure equipment of wireless communications network and transmitting signals to and/or receiving signals from one or more other communications devices in accordance with Device-to-Device, D2D, communications is provided. The method comprises determining that the communications device is to transmit one or more reference signals in accordance with one or more reference signal characteristics, transmitting the reference signals to the infrastructure equipment and/or one or more of the other communications devices in accordance with the determined reference signal characteristics, and performing measurements on the basis of signals received in response to the transmitted reference signals and/or other reference signals received from one or more of the other communications devices.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data by a communications device in a cell of a wireless communications network, the method comprising receiving an indication of a plurality of configured grants, each of the configured grants allocating a sequence of communications resources for the transmission of the data in the cell by the communications device, receiving an indication of a mapping between each of a plurality of logical channels and one or more of the plurality of configured grants, and transmitting a first portion of the data associated with a first logical channel of the plurality of logical channels using communications resources allocated by one of the plurality of configured grants, in accordance with the mapping.

Abstract: A method of operating a first infrastructure equipment is provided. The method comprises communicating, signals representing data with a second infrastructure equipment over a first communications path optionally via one or more others of the infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, detecting that one or more of the beams used for communicating signals with a third infrastructure equipment satisfy a beam failure condition, determining, in response to detecting that the one or more of the beams satisfy the beam failure condition, that a beam failure notification is to be transmitted, the beam failure notification indicating that the one or more of the beams satisfy the beam failure condition, and transmitting the beam failure notification.