TERMINAL DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20200280951A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-03

    申请号:US16763985

    申请日:2018-11-08

    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: sensor circuitry configured to detect a value of a parameter which is variable in response to a variation in vertical position of the terminal device; receiver circuitry configured to receive, from infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, a reference value of the parameter and a reference value of the vertical position at which the reference value of the parameter is associated; processing circuitry configured to determine a value of the vertical position of the terminal device defined relative to a second reference vertical position, wherein the determining comprises: determining the second reference vertical position based on a geographical position of the terminal device; determining a value of the vertical position of the terminal device defined relative to the first reference vertical position based on the detected value of the parameter; determining the value of the vertical position of the terminal device defined relative to the second reference vertical position based on a difference between the determined value of the vertical position of the terminal device defined relative to the first reference vertical position and the second reference vertical position.

    TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUSES AND METHODS
    84.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200221543A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-09

    申请号:US16822037

    申请日:2020-03-18

    Abstract: A method of allocating resources in a mobile telecommunications system, the resources being for a relay node to operate as a terminal-to-terminal relay for a device-to-device communication between a first terminal and a second terminal. The method includes: allocating first resources for the first terminal to communicate via the relay node for the device-to-device communication; allocating second resources for the second terminal to communicate via the relay node for the device-to-device communication; notifying the first terminal of the allocated first resources; notifying the second terminal of the allocated second resources; and the first and second terminals exchanging messages for the device-to-device communication via the relay node and using the first and second resources, respectively.

    COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200154332A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-14

    申请号:US16741745

    申请日:2020-01-14

    Abstract: There is provided a communication control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a result of measurement by a terminal device, and a control unit configured to control switching of an operation mode of a base station of a small cell overlapping with a macro cell partially or wholly based on the result of the measurement. The switching is switching of the operation mode from one of a first mode and a second mode to the other. The first mode is a mode in which the base station can perform wireless communication with a device in the small cell, and the second mode is a mode that consumes less power than the first mode.

    COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20190357114A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-21

    申请号:US16531147

    申请日:2019-08-05

    Abstract: A communications device configured to transmit signals representing data to one or more in-coverage communications devices forming with the communications device a group, one of the in-coverage communications devices acting as an active relay node for the communications device, so that the in-coverage communications device can transmit signals representing the data to the infrastructure equipment of the mobile communications network, and to receive signals representing the data from the in-coverage communications device acting as the active relay node. The signals transmitted to the in-coverage communications device are received according to a device-to-device communications protocol, wherein the signals transmitted by the communications device or received by the communications device include an identifier which identifies the signals to the in-coverage communications device. One of the other in-coverage communications device can be selected by the infrastructure equipment to act as the active relay node.

    TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHODS
    87.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190319884A9

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-17

    申请号:US16231698

    申请日:2018-12-24

    Abstract: A method of operating first and second terminal devices for transmitting data in a device-to-device communication mode in a wireless telecommunications system supporting communications on a first carrier operating over a first frequency band and a second carrier operating over a second frequency band. The first terminal device transmits control signalling on the first carrier and this is received by the second terminal device. The control signalling comprises an indication of an allocation of radio resource blocks on the second carrier to be used for transmitting user-plane data from the first terminal device to the second terminal device. The first terminal device then proceeds to transmit the user-plane data to the second terminal device on the second carrier using the radio resource blocks on the second carrier identified by the control signalling. The control signalling may also provide an indication of an allocation of radio resource blocks on the first carrier to be used for transmitting user-plane data to the second terminal device.

    APPARATUS AND METHOD
    89.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190082299A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-14

    申请号:US16169559

    申请日:2018-10-24

    Abstract: A system that acquires at least position information, height information and first priority information corresponding to a first wireless communication system, and second priority information corresponding to a second wireless communication system; determines a use condition for a shared frequency band shared between the first and second wireless communication systems based on the position information, the height information, the first priority information and the second priority information; and outputs a notification based on the determined use condition.

    TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHODS
    90.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180376452A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-27

    申请号:US16060193

    申请日:2016-12-12

    Abstract: A method for use in a mobile telecommunications network that includes a core network, a base station providing wireless connectivity within a base station cell, a mobile node in the base station cell providing wireless connectivity within a local cell and configured to communicate wirelessly with the base station, and a terminal configured to communicate wirelessly with the base station and with the mobile node; includes defining a virtual cell tracking area that encompasses the local cell and has a unique virtual cell tracking area identifier; notifying the core network of an association of the terminal with the mobile node and the base station; sending a paging message for the terminal from the core network to the base station using the association, the paging message including the virtual cell tracking area identifier; forwarding the paging message from the base station to the terminal using the virtual cell tracking area identifier.

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