WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20210176795A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-10

    申请号:US17179442

    申请日:2021-02-19

    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network comprising the terminal device and a base station. The wireless telecommunications network supports a random access procedure comprising an exchange of random access procedure messages between the terminal device and the base station. At least one of the random access procedure messages is a variable size uplink message. The method comprises: receiving from the base station an instruction to perform the random access procedure, wherein the instruction to perform the random access procedure comprises an indication of a message size to be used by the terminal device for the variable size uplink message during the random access procedure; and performing the random access procedure by exchanging random access procedure messages with the base station, including transmitting the uplink message of variable size with a size corresponding to the indicated message size received from the base station.

    INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20210168747A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-03

    申请号:US17047394

    申请日:2019-04-12

    Abstract: A method of operating a communications device to transmit data to or to receive data from a wireless communications network comprises detecting a first synchronisation signal at the communications device received via a wireless access interface of a cell of the wireless communications network, the first synchronisation signal being transmitted with a first periodicity with respect to a time divided structure of the wireless access interface, the first synchronisation signal being configured to carry an indication of an identifier of the cell, generating a first estimate of the cell identifier carried by the first synchronisation signal, and configuring a transmitter of the communications device to transmit data to the wireless communications network and configuring a receiver of the communications device to receive data from the wireless communications network based on the first estimated cell identifier.

    COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20210143967A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-13

    申请号:US17262746

    申请日:2019-07-18

    Abstract: A communications device for communicating with an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network, the communications device comprising a transceiver configured to transmit signals and to receive signals on a wireless access interface of the wireless communications network using a plurality of activated bandwidth parts, each being formed from communications resources of a carrier within a carrier bandwidth, and a processor configured to control the transceiver to transmit the signals and to receive the signals, wherein the processor is configured in combination with the transceiver to transmit signals or to receive signals using a first of the plurality of activated bandwidth parts, to receive, via the first activated bandwidth part, an indication of one or more bandwidth parts to be activated, to select one or more bandwidth parts to be de-activated in accordance with a maximum number of activated bandwidth parts permitted for the communications device.

    TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20210105772A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-08

    申请号:US16969990

    申请日:2019-02-14

    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device to communicate with a network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications system using radio resources comprising a narrowband carrier supported within a wider system frequency bandwidth of the wireless telecommunications system, wherein the method comprises: establishing initial frequencies for radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; receiving configuration signalling from the network infrastructure equipment providing an indication of a frequency shift to apply to the initial frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier; establishing shifted frequencies for the radio resources comprising the narrowband carrier by applying the indicated frequency shift to the initial frequencies; and communicating with the network infrastructure equipment using the radio resources for the narrowband carrier with the shifted frequencies

    COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20210100063A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-01

    申请号:US16634166

    申请日:2018-08-01

    Abstract: A communications device is provided, which is configured to transmit or receive signals via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network to or from one or more infrastructure equipment. The communications device is configured, at the time of a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection establishment procedure, to receive a first message from one of the infrastructure equipment comprising an indication that the infrastructure equipment is capable of operating in accordance with a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) in accordance with a first radio access technology, to establish a PDCP entity based on the received indication, and to transmit a second message to the infrastructure equipment comprising an indication that the communications device is capable of operating in accordance with one or both of the PDCP in accordance with the first radio access technology and a PDCP in accordance with a second radio access technology.

    TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHODS INCLUDING SELECTING A TBS BASED ON AN INDICATED MAXIMUM TBS

    公开(公告)号:US20210076383A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-11

    申请号:US17044341

    申请日:2019-03-29

    Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device for transmitting a first amount of data, the method comprising receiving an indication of an allocation of communications resources, the allocated communications resources sufficient for transmitting a second amount of data, the second amount of data greater than or equal to the first amount of the data, selecting from a plurality of permitted TBS values a transport block size, TBS, for the transmission of the first amount of data, based on the first amount, determining communications resources for transmitting the first amount of the data based on the selected TBS and the allocated communications resources, and transmitting the first amount of the data using the determined communications resources.

    INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20210076305A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-11

    申请号:US17101916

    申请日:2020-11-23

    Abstract: An infrastructure equipment (eNodeB) is configured to transmit a paging notification which indicates that configuration information which is broadcast in a cell to all communications devices which are configured to operate in accordance with a network controlled function has changed. Communications devices which are configured to perform the network controlled function are provided with an indication that they should receive the configuration information which is broadcast in order to reconfigure the network controlled function. A communications device which is not configured to perform the network controlled function may not recognise the paging notification or at least may detect that it does not need to receive the updated configuration information for the network controlled service. Such communications devices may therefore remain in an idle mode thereby saving power.

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