Nokia Technologies

Described herein are apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for low latency STAs to select the backoff counters in such a way that can reduce collisions during the P-EDCA contention. An adaptive contention technique is employed that reduces the probability of collisions, while maintaining fair access to the channel and limiting overhead. Each low latency STA may initially obtain a distinct probability distribution for the backoff counter selection with a contention slot selected based on the probability distribution. The selected slot may be transformed, such as by being permutated, to produce the backoff counter to be used by a low latency STAs.

Examples of the disclosure relate to measurement reporting. An apparatus receives a configuration comprising at least one reporting condition for reporting measurement results. The reporting condition is to be used upon transitions of the apparatus to a connected mode. The apparatus determines whether the at least one reporting condition has been satisfied. Determining whether the at least one reporting condition has been satisfied comprises determining a probability that carrier aggregation (CA) or dual connectivity (DC) are to be setup after transition to a connected mode. The apparatus reports measurement results based on the determination.

A user equipment and associated method are provided for performing, respective pre-compensation to one or more uplink transmission parameters on two or more reference points of a plurality of reference points, based on a respective geographical position of the two or more reference points; transmitting, to at least one network node, respective plurality of uplink signals for the two or more respective reference points, via respective transmission resources, based on the respective pre-compensation; and receiving, from the at least one network node, at least one message indicating a position of the user equipment. A corresponding network node and associated are also provided.

A user equipment and associated method are provided for performing, respective pre-compensation to one or more uplink transmission parameters on two or more reference points of a plurality of reference points, based on a respective geographical position of the two or more reference points; transmitting, to at least one network node, respective plurality of uplink signals for the two or more respective reference points, via respective transmission resources, based on the respective pre-compensation; receiving, from the at least one network node, at least one message providing information representative of plurality of errors associated with the plurality of reference points; and determining a position of the user equipment based on the plurality of errors. A corresponding network node and associated are also provided.

Example embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to paging monitoring for low power operation. A method comprises a user device receives, from a network device, information that the lower power signal is supported; responsive to receiving the information, the user device enables skipping of at least one paging occasion; and the user device monitors, based on the skipping of the at least one paging, a first number of consecutive paging occasions among a greater second number of consecutive paging occasions.

Examples of the disclosure relate to measurement reporting. An apparatus receives a configuration comprising at least one reporting condition for reporting measurement results. The reporting condition is to be used upon transitions of the apparatus to a connected mode. The apparatus determines whether the at least one reporting condition has been satisfied by determining a probability that handover is to be triggered. The apparatus reports measurement results based on the determination.

An apparatus configured to: receive, from a network node, a configuration for carrier aggregation, wherein the configuration comprises, at least, an indication of at least one secondary cell; and configure reception from the at least one secondary cell based, at least partially, on: whether a first band comprising at least one component carrier of a serving cell, and a second band comprising at least one component carrier of the at least one secondary cell, are a same band, and whether use of the single receiver chain is estimated to negatively impact reception performance of the apparatus, wherein the apparatus is capable of receiving at least two non-adjacent component carriers using a single receiver chain.

Examples of the disclosure relate to management of reference signal resources. Performance measurements are performed for a model that is used for reference signal resource predictions. The measurements are performed based on configured reference signals. The performance measurements are performed over a monitoring period. At least one output of the performance measurements is reported. The output is reported within the monitoring period. The output of the performance measurements provides at least an indication of the accuracy of the model that is used for reference signal resource predictions.

Examples of the disclosure relate to measurements for reference signal resource prediction. A first message associated with measurements for reference signal resource prediction is received and measurements for reference signal resource prediction are performed in accordance with the first message. A second message associated with measurements for reference signal resource prediction is received and at least one of, measurements for reference signal resource prediction, or reference signal resource predictions are reported in accordance with the second message.

There is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform determining the occurrence of at least two events of a plurality of events, wherein the plurality of events are related to beam quality, determining, based on at least one first condition, an order in which a beam report comprising measurements related to one event of the at least two events and at least one further beam report related to an other event of the at least two events are sent to the network and providing the beam reports related to each of the at least two events to the network in different occasions on an uplink channel in the determined order.