公开(公告)号：US11895549B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-06

申请号：US17424464

申请日：2020-01-21

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Ahmad Awada ,  Jedrzej Stanczak ,  Muhammad Naseer-Ul-Islam ,  Ingo Viering

IPC: H04W36/22 ,  H04W36/00

CPC classification number: H04W36/22 ,  H04W36/0055 ,  H04W36/0083

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for source cell to provide a service/slice indication to the target cell in the handover preparation. The source cell provides to a target cell a list of one or more service/slice specific indications for individual ones of one or more network slices in a request for enhanced handover from the source cell to the target cell in a handover preparation phase. The source cell receives from the target cell, indications in a handover request acknowledgement of one or more selected network slices to be handed over from the source cell to the target cell using enhanced handovers. Performs make-before-break handovers to hand over these selected network slices from the source cell to the target cell and performs normal handovers for the one or more other network slices.

公开(公告)号：US11849358B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-19

申请号：US17119185

申请日：2020-12-11

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Ingo Viering ,  Panagiotis Spapis ,  Alperen Gündogan ,  Ahmad Awada ,  Jedrzej Stanczak ,  Timo Koskela

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W56/00

CPC classification number: H04W36/0066 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W56/001 ,  H04W56/0045 ,  H04W76/27

Abstract: Certain example embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a handover of a coordinated multi-point connection. For example, certain embodiment may transfer a first coordinated multi-point connection (e.g., a further enhanced multiple input multiple output (FeMIMO) connection) to a second coordinated multi-point connection where the network may instruct the UE to not perform at least one random access procedure. The first coordinated multi-point connection may be controlled by a first cell (the serving cell) where the UE is ready to receive from and transmit to a first set of cells that comprises the serving cell and one or more non-serving cells. After handover, the second coordinated multi-point connection may be controlled by a previous non-serving cell, and the UE may be ready to receive from and transmit to a second set of cells that comprises the previous non-serving cell.

公开(公告)号：US11838804B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-05

申请号：US17280254

申请日：2019-07-26

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Jean-Michel Pugeat ,  Jürgen Mayer ,  Michael Schopp ,  Ingo Viering ,  Ahmad Awada ,  Jedrzej Stanczak

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W28/26

CPC classification number: H04W36/0016 ,  H04W28/26 ,  H04W36/0058 ,  H04W36/00837

Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method may include transmitting, by a source network entity, at least one handover prepare request comprising at least one extension indication to a target network entity. The method may further include receiving, by the source network entity, in response to the at least one handover prepare request, at least one handover request response from the target network entity. The method may further include transmitting, by the source network entity, at least one handover command acknowledgement to at least one user equipment based upon the at least one handover request response.

公开(公告)号：US11785512B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-10

申请号：US17391370

申请日：2021-08-02

Applicant: Nokia Technologies OY

Inventor： Ahmad Awada ,  Christian Rom ,  Samantha Caporal Del Barrio ,  Ingo Viering ,  Jedrzej Stanczak

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W56/00

CPC classification number: H04W36/00837 ,  H04W36/0016 ,  H04W36/0058 ,  H04W56/001

Abstract: In a system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for implementing fallback to conditional handover using a SSB reference signal, a UE device may be caused to, receive RRC reconfiguration information from a source RAN node, the RRC reconfiguration information including a SSB RS based CHO execution condition associated with at least one target cell controlled by a target RAN node, and a CSI-RS based CHO execution condition associated with the target cell(s), perform signal measurements of at least one SSB RS and at least one CSI-RS associated with the target cell(s), the at least one CSI-RS associated with a contention-free random access resource, and perform the CHO with the target cell(s) based on the signal measurement results of the at least one SSB RS, the at least one CSI-RS, the SSB based CHO execution condition, and the CSI-RS based CHO execution condition.

公开(公告)号：US20230239753A1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-27

申请号：US18158429

申请日：2023-01-23

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Srinivasan Selvaganapathy ,  Jedrzej Stanczak ,  Ahmad Awada

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W48/20

CPC classification number: H04W36/00837 ,  H04W36/0061 ,  H04W48/20

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising means for: receiving, from a network node, at least one conditional primary secondary cell change and addition reconfiguration and at least one execution condition associated with at least one candidate primary secondary cell, wherein the reconfiguration comprises at least a new configuration for a master cell group; evaluating the at least one execution condition; determining that an execution condition associated with one of the at least one candidate primary secondary cell is satisfied; selecting the one of the at least one candidate primary secondary cell as a selected candidate cell; transmitting information on the selected candidate cell to the network node using a current master cell group configuration; failing to apply the conditional primary secondary cell change and addition associated with the selected candidate cell and detecting a reconfiguration failure; transmitting a message to trigger a re-establishment procedure, wherein the message comprises an explicit or implicit indication about the conditional primary secondary cell change and addition reconfiguration failure.

公开(公告)号：US11595854B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-28

申请号：US16624701

申请日：2018-05-23

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Samuli Heikki Turtinen ,  Ahmad Awada

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04W28/18 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04W48/14 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04M3/487 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L65/612

Abstract: According to an example implementation, a method may include transmitting, by a user device to a base station in a wireless network, a system information request for on-demand system information during a random access procedure, where the system information request is a request for one or more parameters that enable the user device to communicate in the wireless network, receiving, by the user device from the base station, an indication of a wait period in which the user device waits before obtaining the on-demand system information, waiting, by the user device, a time duration during the wait period, and monitoring, by the user device after expiration of the wait period, a system information window in which a system information message having the on-demand system information is broadcasted by the base station.

公开(公告)号：US11388634B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US16879417

申请日：2020-05-20

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Christian Rom ,  Samantha Caporal Barrio ,  Ahmad Awada ,  Ingo Viering

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium are provided for selecting a target cell based on channel impulse response (CIR) measurements, which may include receiving measurement configuration information including a CIR parameter from a first network node and may further include generating one or more measurement reports based on the CIR parameter, the one or more measurement reports including CIR measurements of one or more beams of one or more neighbor cells associated with the first network node and/or second network nodes and transmitting the one or more measurement reports to the first network node.
The selecting a target cell based on CIR measurements may include transmitting measurement configuration information including a CIR parameter and receiving one or more measurement reports, including CIR measurements of one or more beams of one or more network nodes and selecting a target cell for handover using the measurements.

公开(公告)号：US11363506B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US16763510

申请日：2018-12-28

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Ahmad Awada ,  Jedrzej Stanczak ,  Timo Koskela ,  Mikko Säily ,  Ingo Viering

IPC: H04W8/22 ,  H04W16/28 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/24 ,  H04W36/30 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W72/06 ,  H04W84/02 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W92/02 ,  H04W92/10

Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment, there is disclosed a method comprising: measuring, by a user equipment, more than one communication beam established at the user equipment in a communication network; acquiring information associated with measurements of more than one communication beam established at the user equipment in the communication network; based on the information, deriving a cell measurement quantity as a function of the performed measurements of more than one communication beam.

公开(公告)号：US20210400549A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-23

申请号：US17309158

申请日：2018-11-02

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Ahmad Awada ,  Ingo Viering ,  Jedrzej Stanczak

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W60/06

Abstract: A source network apparatus (10) which provides access for a user equipment (30) to a communication network transmits (S102) a handover command to the user equipment (30), the handover command indicating a target network apparatus (20) for providing access for the user equipment (30) to the communication network, and a detach condition on when the user equipment (30) is to detach from the source network apparatus (10) after having accessed the target network apparatus (20) (S204) and received user plane data packets from the target network apparatus (20) (S205), wherein the source network apparatus (10) continues exchanging user plane data packets with the user equipment (30) (S101, S103) until the user equipment (30) detaches (S306) from the source network apparatus (10).

公开(公告)号：US20210160754A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-27

申请号：US17053478

申请日：2019-05-15

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Ahmad Awada ,  Timo Koskela ,  Jorma Kaikkonen ,  Jedrzej Stanczak ,  Ingo Viering

IPC: H04W36/32 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W16/28 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W72/00

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for configuring Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resources of neighboring cells for inter-cell mobility are provided. One method may include providing, by a network node, at least one reporting configuration to one or more user equipment. The reporting configuration is based on at least one of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) or synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks. The method may also include receiving at least one measurement report comprising measurement results when and as specified by the at least one reporting configuration.