Abstract:
First and second level discovery messages for device-to-device discovery are determined to be going to be transmitted, resource(s) are requested for transmission of at least the second level discovery message, and allocated resource(s) of a second type are received. The first level discovery message is transmitted on either a selected resource of the first type or a selected one of the allocated resource(s). The second level discovery message is transmitted on a selected one of the more allocated resource(s) of the second type, A first level discovery message is received on a resource of either a first type or a second type. It is determined whether the received message is of interest or not and if the message is of interest, then it is determined whether a second level discovery message is available and if so, the second level discovery message is received on a resource of the second type.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for providing a preference to a user equipment to indicate how the user equipment should respond to a paging message and the like. The method may include receiving, at a user equipment, an indication representative of whether the user equipment should respond to a base station or respond to an access point; and accessing, based on the received indication, at least one of the base station or the access point to enable offloading to the access point. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
Abstract:
Various communication systems may benefit from load control. For example, systems that employ device-to-device discovery signal transmissions may benefit from such load control. A method can include determining a first classification of a user equipment according to desired or allowed transmission probability. The method can also include configuring a transmission probability based on the first classification. The method can further include operating the user equipment based on the transmission probability.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for D2D synchronization in, for example, partial coverage scenarios are provided. One method includes sending, by a network node, information to at least one user equipment in a network. The information may be used by the at least one user equipment to determine whether the at least one user equipment is a full-coverage idle mode user equipment or a downlink-only idle mode user equipment. When, for instance at least one of a pair of device-to-device (D2D) user equipment is outside of the network coverage area, the method includes indicating via a cellular broadcasting message to the downlink-only idle mode and the full-coverage idle mode user equipment to send at least one synchronization signal. The method may then include configuring a RRC_Connected mode user equipment at cell-edge to monitor whether there are user equipment sending synchronization signals.
Abstract:
Systems and techniques for managing the use of discovery resources in device to device communication-capable devices. A message is configured for transmission to one or more user devices by a base station to indicate permission or denial of discovery resources, and based on the message, one or more of the user devices receiving the message uses, or is inhibited from using, the resource. Indication of permission or denial may, in various embodiments designate all discovery resources in general, specific resources assigned to groups and allocated to a specific user device, or groups of resources, with permission or denial relating to all members of a group.
Abstract:
As an aspect, there is provided an apparatus configured to: obtain, by an access node from a network control entity, at least one service flow configuration for a plurality of terminal devices in an industrial automation system, the configuration indicating an association between downlink and uplink message transmissions and a cycle time requirement with regard to communication between the network control entity and the plurality of terminal devices; allocate resources as a group of shared resources for the uplink message transmission for each of the plurality of terminal devices based on the association and according to the cycle time requirement, and transmit information on the allocation to the plurality of terminal devices, the information comprising a terminal device-specific resource indicator for each of the plurality of terminal devices for avoiding collision in the uplink message transmission.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include detecting, at a first node, an event; generating, at the first node, a message in response to the detected event; and sending, at the first node, the message to at least a second node to enable the second node to determine at least one of a reliability or an importance of the message. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
Abstract:
In accordance with an example embodiment of the apparatus there is at least a method and apparatus to perform determining a grant for data to be communicated, comprising identifying logical channels to be multiplexed into a medium access control protocol data unit for the data to be communicated, wherein at least one of a logical channel identifier for at least one logical channel of the multiplexed logical channels and length of at least one logical channel service data unit is configured to be omitted from the medium access control protocol data unit. Further in accordance with an example embodiment of the apparatus there is at least a method and apparatus to perform receiving a grant for the data to be communicated, comprising logical channels multiplexed into a medium access control protocol data unit for the data to be communicated, wherein at least one of a logical channel identifier for at least one logical channel of the multiplexed logical channels and length of at least one logical channel service data unit is configured to be omitted from the medium access control protocol data unit.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for the determination of PUSCH power control are provided. One method may include receiving, at a UE, at least one dedicated subset of power control parameters and corresponding values to be used for PUSCH power control in a case where a high priority UCI is multiplexed on a low priority PUSCH, and determining one subset from the at least one dedicated subset of power control parameters, or determining one subset from the at least one dedicated subset of power control parameters and determining at least one parameter from the determined subset. The method may also include applying, by the UE, the determined dedicated subset of power control parameters or the determined at least one power control parameter from the determined dedicated subset of power control parameters for determining the PUSCH transmission power when the high-priority UCI is multiplexed on the low-priority PUSCH.
Abstract:
Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhanced traffic co-existence with multi-panel user equipment (UE). For example, certain embodiments may avoid excess dropping and/or cancellation. Taking inter-UE uplink (UL) prioritization as one example, whenever a network node has to accommodate higher-priority traffic on resources overlapping with ongoing and/or incoming lower-priority transmissions, certain embodiments may instruct a UE to transmit on spare antenna panel(s).