Telecommunications apparatus and methods
    11.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10674412B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-02

    申请号:US16303146

    申请日:2017-04-12

    Abstract: A method of evaluating whether to handover a terminal device from communicating with a first network infrastructure element associated with a first communication cell to communicating with a second network infrastructure element associated with a second communication cell in a wireless telecommunications system. The method includes establishing an indication of radio conditions associated with a path between the terminal device and the first network infrastructure element; and establishing an indication of a second measurement of radio conditions associated with a communication path between the terminal device and the second network infrastructure element; and determining whether to handover the terminal device from communicating with the first network infrastructure element to the second network infrastructure element based on a comparison of the indication of the first measurement of radio conditions and the indication of the second measurement of radio conditions.

    TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHODS
    12.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190306767A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-03

    申请号:US16303146

    申请日:2017-04-12

    Abstract: A method of evaluating whether to handover a terminal device from communicating with a first network infrastructure element associated with a first communication cell to communicating with a second network infrastructure element associated with a second communication cell in a wireless telecommunications system. The method includes establishing an indication of radio conditions associated with a path between the terminal device and the first network infrastructure element; and establishing an indication of a second measurement of radio conditions associated with a communication path between the terminal device and the second network infrastructure element; and determining whether to handover the terminal device from communicating with the first network infrastructure element to the second network infrastructure element based on a comparison of the indication of the first measurement of radio conditions and the indication of the second measurement of radio conditions.

    INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20190090237A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-21

    申请号:US16195337

    申请日:2018-11-19

    Abstract: An infrastructure equipment for a mobile communications network includes plural antennas, and is configured in a first mode of operation to transmit, from each of the plural antennas, reference signals in communications resource elements of the wireless access signals allocated to the plural antennas. The reference signals are transmitted in different communications resource elements of the wireless access interface for each antenna, so that a receiver can estimate a communications channel for each of the antennas, from the antennas to the receiver, from the transmitted reference signals. The infrastructure equipment is configured to switch between transmitting signals representing different data segments between subsets of the plural antennas to a second communications device, the signals being transmitted from each antenna subset representing different data segments for transmission to the second communications device, the transmitted signals being switched in at least one of time or frequency in accordance with a mapping.

    Apparatuses and methods for using ARQ processes in a relay device

    公开(公告)号:US10819416B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-27

    申请号:US16300657

    申请日:2017-04-27

    Abstract: A communications device acting as a relay device configured to communicate with an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network and a receiving communications device operating with the mobile communications network. The communications device acting as the relay device comprises receives signals representing protocol data units formed from one or more service data units via a first wireless access interface from the infrastructure equipment according to a first automatic repeat request protocol for transmission to the receiving communications device, transmits signals representing the received protocol data units via a second wireless access interface to the receiving communications device according to a second automatic repeat request protocol, and stores, in a buffer, the protocol data units received from the infrastructure equipment according to the first automatic repeat request protocol.

    Anchor base station, slave cell and user equipment

    公开(公告)号:US10791501B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-29

    申请号:US16312580

    申请日:2017-05-09

    Abstract: A communications device acting as a relay device including a controller configured in combination with a transmitter and a receiver to receive from a remote communications device a first random access preamble message, the first random access preamble message comprising an identifier of the remote communications device, to transmit, in response to the first random access preamble message, a random access response message to the remote communications device, the random access response message comprising an indication of communications resources allocated to the remote communications device, to receive, from the remote communications device and using the communications resources indicated in the random access response message, a scheduled transmission comprising a connection request message and a first contention resolution identifier, and to transmit to the remote communications device a second contention resolution identifier.

    COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20190123814A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-25

    申请号:US16090217

    申请日:2017-03-13

    Abstract: A communications device is configured to communicate with an infrastructure equipment forming part of a mobile communications network, and to communicate with one or more relay nodes of the mobile communications network. The communications device comprises a receiver configured to receive signals on the downlink from the one or more relay nodes via a first wireless interface, and to receive signals on the downlink from the infrastructure equipment via a second wireless access interface, a transmitter configured to transmit signals on the uplink to the one or more relay nodes via the first wireless access interface, and to transmit signals on the uplink to the infrastructure equipment via the second wireless access interface, and a controller configured to control the receiver to receive the signals and to control the transmitter to transmit the signals.

    Infrastructure equipment, communications device and methods

    公开(公告)号:US10136432B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-20

    申请号:US15554747

    申请日:2016-03-14

    Abstract: An infrastructure equipment for a mobile communications network includes plural antennas, and is configured in a first mode of operation to transmit, from each of the plural antennas, reference signals in communications resource elements of the wireless access signals allocated to the plural antennas. The reference signals are transmitted in different communications resource elements of the wireless access interface for each antenna, so that a receiver can estimate a communications channel for each of the antennas, from the antennas to the receiver, from the transmitted reference signals. The infrastructure equipment is configured to switch between transmitting signals representing different data segments between subsets of the plural antennas to a second communications device, the signals being transmitted from each antenna subset representing different data segments for transmission to the second communications device, the transmitted signals being switched in at least one of time or frequency in accordance with a mapping.

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