Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided. In an example aspect, a method in a first base station control plane function of performing control plane functions for one or more User Equipments (UEs) is provided. The method comprises determining that a second base station control plane function associated with one or more UEs is unavailable, determining one or more UE contexts for the one or more UEs, and performing control plane functions for the one or more UEs.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are provided. In an example aspect, a method in a User Equipment (UE) of providing data in a PDCP message to a layer above a PDCP layer is provided. The method comprises receiving an indication that a PDCP message received at the UE should bypass a PDCP reordering process, and providing data in the PDCP message to a layer above a PDCP layer without using the PDCP reordering process.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to methods and devices of connecting a wireless communication device (110) to a communication network (100). In an aspect, a method performed by a network node (125) providing radio access network (RAN) control plane functionality in a wireless communication network (100) is provided, the network node (125) being configured to connect a wireless communication device (110) to a control plane of the wireless communication network (100). The method comprises instructing at least one network node providing RAN user plane functionality in the wireless communication network to maintain User Equipment (UE) user plane context upon the wireless communication device (110) entering a power-saving state, and releasing (S310) UE control plane context at said network node (125) providing RAN control plane functionality upon the wireless communication device (110) entering the power-saving state.
Abstract:
The method comprises receiving (S101 ) an indication that data is to be transmitted in downlink to the wireless communication device ( 210 ), identifying (S 102 ), in response to the received downlink data indication, a radio access network control plane function ( 225 ), and sending (S 103 ), to the identified radio access network control plane function ( 225 ). a downlink data notification comprising an identifier of the wireless communication device ( 210 ) and of a core network control plane function ( 221 ) configured to provide mobility management where the wireless communication device ( 210 ) currently is registered, thereby enabling for the identified radio access network control plane function ( 225 ) to forward the download data notification to the identified core network control plane function ( 221 ) configured to provide mobility management to enable the identified core network control plane function ( 221 ) configured to provide mobility management to page the wireless communication device ( 210 ).
Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for dead Network Function (NF) Service Producer detection in a cellular communications system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a network node to detect a dead NF Service Producer in a core network of a cellular communications system comprises communicating with a first NF Service Producer to consume a NF Service of the first NF Service Producer. The method further comprises detecting that the first NF Service Producer has died while communicating with the first NF Service Producer to consume the NF Service of the first NF Service Producer, and notifying another NF that the first NF Service Producer has died. In this manner, dead NF Service Producer detection is provided quickly without adding much load to the cellular communications system.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates a method performed in a first Radio network node, serving a first service area, of notifying a Core Network node, CN, of a change of service area for a User Equipment, UE. The method comprises detecting that the UE has changed location between the first service area and a second service area served by at least a second Radio network node, wherein the first and second service areas are being associated with a respective service charge, and providing a notification to the Core Network Node informing about the change of service area for the UE, the indication enabling a CN function to change the service charge for the UE.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes receiving a downlink signal comprising an uplink access configuration index, using the uplink access configuration index to identify an uplink access configuration from among a predetermined plurality of uplink access configurations, and transmitting to the wireless communications network according to the identified uplink access configuration. The example method further includes, in the same wireless device, receiving, in a first downlink subframe, a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission formatted according to a first numerology and receiving, in a second downlink subframe, a second OFDM transmission formatted according to a second numerology, the second numerology differing from the first numerology, where the first numerology has a first subcarrier spacing and the second numerology has a second subcarrier spacing, the first subcarrier spacing differing from the second subcarrier spacing. Variants of this method, corresponding apparatuses, and corresponding network-side methods and apparatuses are also disclosed.
Abstract:
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a radio network node (12) for handling mobility of a wireless device (10) in a communication network (1), which communication network (1) comprises partitioned sets of functionalities wherein each set of functionalities belongs to a network slice, and wherein a set of functionalities is separated from other sets of functionalities out of a total set of functionalities in the communication network (1). The radio network node (12, 15) transmits, to the wireless device (10), a message comprising information indicating at least one frequency band supported by the communication network (1), and which information further indicates one or more network slices supported by respective frequency band of the at least one frequency band.
Abstract:
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a wireless device (10), for handling a mobility procedure in a communication network (1). The communication network (1) comprises a first network, which first network is associated with a core network node (19). The first network is associated with a set of RAN nodes (12, 13, 14), each RAN node (12, 13, 14) supporting a set of cells. The first network comprises partitioned sets of functionalities, wherein a first set of functionalities belongs to a first network slice supporting the wireless device (10). The first set of functionalities is separated from another set of functionalities out of a total set of functionalities in the first network. The wireless device (10) is associated with the first network and the first network slice. The wireless device (10) receives a message comprising an indication of one or more network slices supported by each cell of the RAN nodes (12, 13, 14) from a network node. The wireless device (10) further selects a cell for camping on, based on the indication received from the network node, wherein the indication indicates that the cell supports the first slice associated with the wireless device (10).
Abstract:
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a core network node (13,14) for handling communication for a wireless device (10) in a communication network (1), wherein the communication network (1) comprises partitioned sets of functionalities wherein a first set of functionalities belongs to a first network slice supporting the wireless device (10), and a second set of functionalities belongs to a second network slice supporting the wireless device (10), and which first and second sets of functionalities are separated from one another and other sets of functionalities out of a total set of functionalities in the communication network. The core network node obtains a common identity for defining paging occasion for the wireless device (10) for paging from the first network slice and the second network slice. The core network node receives a paging request for the wireless device (10) from the first network slice when the wireless device is in idle mode, and the core network node initiates a paging procedure of the wireless device (10) by using the obtained common identity to define when to page the wireless device (10).