公开(公告)号：US20240314847A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-19

申请号：US18578091

申请日：2021-08-04

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Halit Murat GÜRSU ,  Malgorzata TOMALA ,  Ömer BULAKCI ,  Muhammad NASEER-UL-ISLAM

IPC: H04W74/0833 ,  H04W24/10

CPC classification number: H04W74/0833 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a technique for steering a Random Access Channel (RACH) a wireless communication network supporting a set of network slices. More specifically, the technique involves generating, at a RAN node, RACH steering information for the set of network slices. The RACH steering information comprises an indication for a UE to select one of available RACH configurations with a RACH configuration-specific probability. In one embodiment, the RACH steering information may be defined based on at least one network slice-specific RACH policy or at least one network slice-specific resource sharing quota provided from a network management entity to the RAN node. In another embodiment, the RAN node may generate RACH steering information based on locally available information about the set of network slices. Once the RACH steering information is generated, the RAN node transmits it to the UE. By using the RACH steering information, it is possible to dynamically adjust a RACH load among multiple network slice-specific RACH configurations and common RACH configurations, thereby efficiently balancing the RACH load (i.e., RACH utilization rate) across the set of network slices.

公开(公告)号：US20240276236A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-15

申请号：US18416725

申请日：2024-01-18

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Arled PAPA ,  Muhammad NASEER-UL-ISLAM ,  Halit Murat GURSU ,  Ugur Baran ELMALI ,  Irina-Mihaela BALAN ,  Ahmad AWADA ,  Krzysztof KORDYBACH

IPC: H04W16/24 ,  H04W76/20

CPC classification number: H04W16/24 ,  H04W76/20

Abstract: This specification describes a terminal device configured to transmit a message relating to a change or addition of a primary cell of a secondary cell group, the message including (i) information indicative of a first user plane interruption time experienced by the terminal device and associated with the change or addition of the primary cell, and (ii) an indication of a first data radio bearer type to which the first user plane interruption time relates. It also describes a radio access node which receives the message.

公开(公告)号：US20240107399A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-28

申请号：US18263070

申请日：2022-01-27

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Muhammad NASEER-UL-ISLAM ,  Ömer BULAKCI ,  Ahmad AWADA ,  Jedrzej STANCZAK ,  Srinivasan SELVAGANAPATHY ,  Amaanat ALI ,  Rakash SIVASIVA GANESAN ,  Janne ALI-TOLPPA

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/08

CPC classification number: H04W36/00837 ,  H04W36/08

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for survival time dependent flexible handover execution are provided. One method may include providing, by a network node, at least one handover execution condition to at least one user equipment. The at least one handover execution condition may include one or more delta values with respect to one or more actual handover execution conditions to allow for early and/or late execution of a handover by the at least one user equipment. The method may also include indicating, to the at least one user equipment, a transfer interval and/or a survival time information for which the at least one handover execution condition is taken into account.

公开(公告)号：US20220279408A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-01

申请号：US17632515

申请日：2019-08-14

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Ahmad AWADA ,  Muhammad NASEER-UL-ISLAM ,  Andreas LOBINGER

IPC: H04W36/08 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/02 ,  H04W76/30

Abstract: There are provided measures for network-assisted fallback to contention-based random access. Such measures exemplarily comprise, at a target access point being a target of a handover of a terminal connected to at least one net-receiving work slice from a source access point, receiving a handover request including information on said at least one network slice, selecting, from a plurality of pools of random access channel resources to be used for contention-based random access processing, a first pool of random access channel resources to be used by said terminal upon fallback to contention-based random access during a handover processing, wherein said selecting is based on at least one of network slice related information on terminals in radio resource control idle mode, on terminals in radio resource control inactive mode, and/or on terminals in radio resource control connected mode, and of available random access channel resources, and transmitting a handover request acknowledgement message including handover assistance information indicative of said first pool of random access channel resources.

公开(公告)号：US20210337437A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-28

申请号：US17264658

申请日：2018-08-01

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Muhammad NASEER-UL-ISLAM ,  Ingo VIERING ,  Håkon HELMERS

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/24 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W36/18

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are described by which, upon preparing a handover of a terminal device in a source cell, mobility information and at least one connected slice network slice identifier identifying at least one network slice used by the terminal device is added to a terminal device history of the terminal device, and the terminal device history is sent to a target cell for the handover.

公开(公告)号：US20250048199A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-06

申请号：US18790497

申请日：2024-07-31

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Ugur Baran ELMALI ,  Muhammad NASEER-UL-ISLAM ,  Krzysztof KORDYBACH ,  Arled PAPA ,  Ömer BULAKCI ,  Ahmad AWADA

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W28/20 ,  H04W76/15

Abstract: A master node is provided for a user equipment operating in dual-connectivity with the master node and a secondary node. The master node may be configured to receive information that indicates supported network slices of one or more further nodes. The master node may be configured to transmit slice support information for the one or more further nodes, based on the information. The slice support information may indicate one or more of the supported network slices, at least one non-supported network slice of the one or more further nodes, or at least one communication session of the user equipment that is associated with at least one non-supported network slice. The secondary node may receive the slice support information, and make a secondary node change determination at the secondary node, based on the slice support information.

公开(公告)号：US20240365271A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-31

申请号：US18577519

申请日：2022-06-23

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Philippe GODIN ,  Anna SILLANPAA ,  Alessio CASATI ,  Srinivas BANDI ,  Rajesh Babu NATARAJAN ,  Ömer BULAKCI ,  Muhammad NASEER-UL-ISLAM ,  György Tamás WOLFNER

IPC: H04W60/04 ,  H04W48/20

CPC classification number: H04W60/04 ,  H04W48/20

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for use in a user equipment, wherein the user equipment is operable to be registered in a registration area, the apparatus comprising means configured to perform: providing, to a first network entity, a first message, wherein the first message comprises an indication that the user equipment supports non-uniformly supported network slices in the registration area. The means further configured to perform receiving, from a second network entity, a second message, wherein the second message comprises group mapping information for a tracking area of the registration area, wherein the group mapping information maps the tracking area to at least one group, the at least one group comprising a list of network slices that are non-uniformly supported in the tracking area.

公开(公告)号：US20240292279A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-29

申请号：US18566267

申请日：2021-07-01

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Philippe GODIN ,  Halit Murat GÜRSU ,  Alessio CASATI ,  Ömer BULAKCI ,  György Tamás WOLFNER ,  Muhammad NASEER-UL-ISLAM

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W76/27

CPC classification number: H04W36/0011 ,  H04W76/27

Abstract: An apparatus, comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions, the at least one memory and the instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause a network node to transmit a first information, which characterizes one or more slices onto which a network allows slices of existing PDU sessions to be re-mapped, to a user equipment.

公开(公告)号：US20240195710A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-13

申请号：US18555312

申请日：2021-05-25

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Stephen MWANJE ,  Muhammad NASEER-UL-ISLAM ,  Uwe RAUSCHENBACH

IPC: H04L41/5025 ,  H04L41/5009 ,  H04W24/08

CPC classification number: H04L41/5025 ,  H04L41/5009 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: Various example embodiments relate to cooperative analytics across multiple network management domains. An apparatus may request management domain analytics from a plurality of management domains of a communication network. The apparatus may receive management domain analytics results from the plurality of management domains and cause reconfiguration of the communication network based on the management domain analytics results. Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs are disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US20240188024A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-06

申请号：US18554119

申请日：2022-04-05

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Sung Hwan WON ,  Martin MCGRATH ,  Ömer BULAKCI ,  Muhammad NASEER-UL-ISLAM ,  Devaki CHANDRAMOULI

IPC: H04W60/04 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W88/08

CPC classification number: H04W60/04 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described that support non-uniform network slice deployment across a service area of a registration area or tracking area covered by at least a radio access network. A network function transmits a plurality of tracking area codes associated with a network to user equipment to indicate primary and secondary tracking area codes to the user equipment. Selection of a tracking area code may be completed by the user equipment based on the primary and secondary tracking area codes and a forbidden tracking area identities list. The user equipment may be blocked from receiving services from a network slice based on the service area in which the user equipment attempts to access the network slice. Network functions may limit reporting of tracking area codes to user equipment based on a serving cell identity. Network slices may be restricted to private networks.