CN116965133A

CN116965133A - Wireless device, network node and method for processing data transmission

Info

Publication number: CN116965133A
Application number: CN202180094222.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 詹·克里斯托弗里森; 安德烈亚斯·豪格伦德; 图奥马斯·蒂罗宁; 亨里克·恩布斯克; 卢卡·费尔特林
Original assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB
Current assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson AB
Priority date: 2020-12-18
Filing date: 2021-12-17
Publication date: 2023-10-27
Also published as: WO2022132024A1; EP4265037A1

Abstract

A method performed by a wireless device (130). The method is for handling a transmission of data to a network node (110). The wireless device (130) and the network node (110) operate in a wireless communication network (100). The wireless device (130) sends (305) data to the network node (110) during an inactive state of the wireless device (130). The wireless device (130) transmits data on one or more first resources selected from a set of resources configured for use by the wireless device (130) for a transmission opportunity. The set of resources has correspondence with a plurality of beams or reference signals transmitted by the network node (110). The wireless device (130) then sets (306) the unselected remaining resources of the group to inactive.

Description

Wireless device, network node and method for processing data transmission

Technical Field

The present invention relates generally to wireless devices and methods performed thereby for handling transmission of data to a network node. The present disclosure also relates generally to a network node, and a method performed thereby for handling transmission of data from a wireless device.

Background

A wireless device within a wireless communication network may be, for example, a User Equipment (UE), a Station (STA), a mobile terminal, a wireless terminal, a terminal, and/or a Mobile Station (MS). Wireless devices are capable of wireless communication in a cellular communication network or wireless communication network (sometimes also referred to as a cellular radio system, cellular system, or cellular network). The communication may be performed, for example, between two wireless devices, between a wireless device and a conventional telephone, and/or between a wireless device and a server via a Radio Access Network (RAN) and one or more core networks that may be included in the wireless communication network. A wireless device may also be referred to as a mobile phone, cellular phone, laptop, or tablet with wireless capability, to mention a few further examples. A wireless device in this context may be, for example, a portable, pocket-storable, handheld, computer-containing, or vehicle-mounted mobile device capable of voice and/or data communication with another entity (e.g., another terminal or server) via the RAN.

The wireless communication network covers a geographical area which may be divided into cell areas, with each cell area being served by a network node, which may be an access node, such as a radio network node, radio node or base station, e.g. a Radio Base Station (RBS), which may sometimes be referred to as e.g. a gNB, evolved node B ("eNB"), eNodeB, "NodeB", "B node", transmission Point (TP) or BTS (base transceiver station), depending on the technology and terminology used. Based on the transmission power and thus the cell size, the base stations may be of different categories, such as wide area base stations, medium range base stations, local area base stations, home base stations, pico base stations, etc. A cell is a geographical area where radio coverage is provided by a base station or a radio node at a base station site or a radio node site, respectively. A base station located at a base station site may serve one or several cells. In addition, each base station may support one or several communication technologies. The base station communicates with terminals within range of the base station over an air interface operating at radio frequencies. The wireless communication network may also be a non-cellular system including network nodes that may utilize a serving beam to serve a receiving node, such as a wireless device. In third generation partnership project (3 GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE), a base station, which may be referred to as an eNodeB or even an eNB, may be directly connected to one or more core networks. In the context of the present disclosure, the expression Downlink (DL) may be used for the transmission path from the base station to the wireless device. The expression Uplink (UL) may be used for transmission paths in the opposite direction, i.e. from the wireless device to the base station.

The standardization organization 3GPP is currently specifying a new radio interface called NR or 5G-UTRA, and a fifth generation (5G) packet core network, which may be referred to as a Next Generation (NG) core network, abbreviated NG-CN, NGC or 5G CN.

Internet of things (IoT)

The internet of things (IoT) may be understood as an interconnected network of communication devices, such as physical devices, vehicles (which may also be referred to as "connection devices" and "smart devices"), buildings, and other items, embedded with electronic devices, software, sensors, actuators, and network connections, that may enable these objects to collect and exchange data. IoT may allow objects to be sensed and/or controlled remotely over existing network infrastructure.

"thing" in the sense of IoT may refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, motorized clamps along the sea water, automobiles with built-in sensors, DNA analysis devices for environmental/food/pathogen monitoring, or field operation devices that may assist firefighters in search and rescue operations, home automation devices such as lighting, control and automation of heating, e.g. "smart" thermostats, ventilation, air conditioning, and appliances that may be remotely monitored using telecommunications, such as washing machines, dryers, ovens, refrigerators or freezers. These devices can collect data with the aid of various prior art techniques and then automatically transfer the data between other devices.

It is expected that in the near future the number of IoT devices will be very large. There are various predictions where one prediction assumes that there will be >60000 devices per square kilometer and another prediction assumes that there will be 1000000 devices per square kilometer. Most of these devices are intended to be stationary, such as gas and electricity meters, vending machines, and the like.

Machine Type Communication (MTC)

In recent years, machine Type Communication (MTC), especially in the context of internet of things (IoT), has been shown to be an increasing part of cellular technology. MTC devices may be communication devices, typically wireless communication devices or simple user devices, which are self-controlling and/or automatically controlled unattended machines and are typically not associated with an activated human user to generate data traffic. MTC devices are generally simpler than traditional mobile phones or smart phones and are generally associated with more specific applications or purposes. MTC involves communications to and/or from MTC devices in a wireless communication network, which typically have quite different properties and other requirements than those associated with, for example, conventional mobile phones and smartphones. In the context and development of IoT, it is apparent that MTC traffic will increase and thus need to be increasingly supported in wireless communication systems.

Small data transmission

The NR supports a Radio Resource Control (RRC) _inactive state and the network may generally maintain UEs with infrequent (e.g., periodic and/or aperiodic) data transmissions in the rrc_inactive state. The rrc_inactive state does not support data transfer until Rel-16. Thus, the UE must resume the connection, i.e., move to the rrc_connected state for any DL (i.e., mobile Terminated (MT) data) and UL (i.e., mobile Originated (MO) data). No matter how small and infrequent data packets, connection establishment and subsequent release to the INACTIVE state may occur for each data transmission. This results in unnecessary power consumption and signaling overhead.

Specific examples of small and infrequent data traffic may include the following use cases. For smart phone applications: traffic from Instant Messaging (IM) services, such as WhatsApp, QQ, wechat, etc., heartbeat/keep-alive traffic from IM/email clients and other applications, push notifications from various applications. For non-smart phone applications: traffic from wearable devices, such as periodic location information, etc., from sensors, such as industrial wireless sensor networks that transmit temperature, pressure readings, etc., periodically or in an event-triggered manner, smart meters and smart meter networks that transmit periodic meter readings.

As described in 3GPP TS22.891v14.2.0, an NR system may be required: efficient and flexible for low throughput short data bursts, support efficient signaling mechanisms, e.g., signaling may be less than payload, and generally reduce signaling overhead.

Signaling overhead for small data packets from an INACTIVE state UE is a general problem and as more UEs in the NR appear, it will become a critical issue not only for network performance and efficiency, but also for UE battery performance. In general, any device with intermittent small data packets in an INACTIVE state may benefit from enabling small data transmissions in the INACTIVE state.

Key enabling factors for small data transmissions in NR, namely the INACTIVE state, 2-step, 4-step Random Access Channel (RACH) and configured grant type-1 have been designated as part of Rel-15 and Rel-16.

NR frame structure

Similar to LTE, NR may use Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) in the downlink, i.e. from a network node, gNB, eNB or base station to a user equipment or UE. The basic NR physical resources on the antenna ports can thus be seen as a time-frequency grid as shown in fig. 1, where Resource Blocks (RBs) in a 14 symbol slot are shown. A resource block may be understood to correspond to 12 consecutive subcarriers in the frequency domain. The resource blocks may be numbered in the frequency domain starting from 0 at one end of the system bandwidth. Each resource element may be understood to correspond to one OFDM subcarrier during one OFDM symbol interval.

NR may support different subcarrier spacing values. The supported subcarrier spacing values, also referred to as different values, may be given by Δf= (15 x 2 μ (kHz), where μ e (0, 1,2,3, 4) Δf=15 kHz may be understood as the basic or reference subcarrier spacing that may also be used in LTE.

In the time domain, downlink and uplink transmissions in NR may be organized into subframes of equal size, each subframe being 1 millisecond, similar to LTE. The subframe may be further divided into a plurality of equal duration slots. The slot length of the subcarrier spacing Δf= (15 x 2 μ) kHz may be 1/2 μmilliseconds. For Δf=15 kHz, there may be only one slot per subframe, and a slot may consist of 14 OFDM symbols.

Downlink transmissions may be dynamically scheduled, i.e., in each time slot, the gNB may transmit Downlink Control Information (DCI) regarding which UEs may have to be transmitted with data and which resource blocks in the current downlink time slot may have to be transmitted with data. The control information may typically be transmitted in the previous or two OFDM symbols of each slot in the NR. The control information may be carried on a physical control channel (PDCCH) and the data may be carried on a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH). The UE may first detect and decode the PDCCH and if the PDCCH is successfully decoded, it may decode the corresponding PDSCH based on the downlink allocation provided by the control information decoded in the PDCCH.

In addition to the PDCCH and PDSCH, other channels and reference signals may be transmitted in the downlink, including synchronization signals and PBCH blocks (SSBs), channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS), and the like.

Uplink data transmissions carried on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) may also be dynamically scheduled by the gNB by transmitting DCI. The DCI that may be transmitted in the DL region may always indicate a scheduling time offset so that PUSCH may be transmitted in a slot in the UL region.

Beamforming is expected to be widely used for NR operation, at least in the millimeter wave range for transmission and reception. For UL transmissions, the UE and the gNB may need to establish and understand a spatial relationship before transmission in the UL can take place. A spatial relationship may be defined between UL channel/reference signals such as PUSCH, PUCCH, and Sounding Reference Signals (SRS) and DL reference signals such as CSI-RS, SS/PBCH blocks, or another UL reference signal such as SRS. If UL channel/signal a is spatially correlated with reference signal B, it can be understood to mean that the UE may need to beamform a in the same way as it receives/transmits B, that is, by using the same spatial filter for a as it can use to receive B. By establishing a spatial relationship, the UE may know in which direction to beamform its transmit signal toward the target gNB, and the gNB may also know how to tune its Receiver (RX) beam toward the beam or signal transmitted by the UE.

The Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) and the Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) and the Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) may be transmitted in the synchronization signal and the PBCH block (SSB). SSB transmission periods may be configured, but SSBs may also have different time positions within a field in a subframe in which they may be transmitted-SSBs having different time positions within a field may be transmitted in different spatial directions using different beams. See, for example, section 5.2.4 of TS 38.300v16.3.0 and section 4.1 of TS 38.212 v16.3.0.

NR small data transmission in INACTIVE state

New Work Item (WI) RP-200954 "new work item on NR small data transmission in INACTIVE state" has been approved in 3GPP, with the focus of optimizing the transmission of small data payloads by reducing signaling overhead. WI contains the following objectives. The work item can be understood as enabling small data transfer in rrc_inactive state as follows. For UL small data transmissions in rrc_inactive state and Random Access Channel (RACH) based schemes, i.e. 2-step and 4-step RACH, the WI may first enable a general procedure to enable User Plane (UP) data transmission of small data packets from the INACTIVE state, e.g. using MSGA or MSG3, [ RAN2]. Second, WI may enable a flexible payload size larger than the Rel-16 Common Control Channel (CCCH) message size, which is currently possible for the INACTIVE state of MSGA and MSG 3. In order to support UL UP data transmission, the actual payload size may depend on the network configuration, [ RAN2]. Third, for RACH based solutions [ RAN2, RAN3], WI may enable context acquisition and data forwarding in the inactive state, with and without anchor relocation. Incidentally, the security of the above solution may need to be checked by SA 3. For rrc_inactive state and UL data transmission on preconfigured Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resources, the WI may implement reuse configured grant type 1 when Time Alignment (TA) may be active. First, WI may enable a generic procedure for small data transfers from INACTIVE state RAN2 over configured license type 1 resources. Second, the WI may enable configuration of the configured grant type 1 resources for small data transmission, in UL for INACTIVE state [ RAN2].

Similar signaling optimizations for small data have been introduced for narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M through Rel-15 Early Data Transmission (EDT) and Rel-16 pre-configured uplink resources (PUR). Some similar solutions may be expected for NR, except that Rel-17 NR small data only supports RRC INACTIVE states, small data based on 2-step RACH may also be included, and may also be required to include conventional complexity mobile broadband (MBB) UEs. Both can be understood as supporting only Mobile Originated (MO) traffic.

In the context of Small Data Transfer (SDT), the possibility of transferring subsequent data, i.e. transferring more data segments that do not fit in the Msg3 transport block, has been discussed. Such data segments may be transmitted in rrc_connected, as in the legacy after the 4-step RACH procedure has been completed, or they may be transmitted in rrc_inactive before the UE transitions to rrc_connected. In the former case, the transmission may be more efficient because the gNB and UE may be properly configured based on current UE channel conditions, while in the latter case, several optimizations may not be in place yet, especially if the UE has moved while not connected, and the transmission may also collide with transmissions from other UEs because the contention has not been resolved yet.

The work item has started in 3GPP conference RAN2#111-e and has achieved the following related protocol [1]. As a first protocol, small data transmissions with Radio Resource Control (RRC) messages may be supported as a baseline for Random Access (RA) based and configuration admission (CG) based schemes. As a second protocol, the 2-step RACH or the 4-step RACH may need to be applied to RACH-based uplink small data transmission in rrc_inactive. As a third protocol, uplink small data may be transmitted in MSGA of 2-step RACH or msg3 of 4-step RACH. As a fourth protocol, small data transmissions may be configured by the network on a per Data Radio Bearer (DRB) basis. As a fifth protocol, a data amount threshold may be used for the UE to decide whether to SDT. How the data volume was calculated for further study (FFS). As a sixth protocol, FFS may further use an "additional SDT-specific" Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) threshold to determine if the UE should SDT. As a seventh protocol, UL/DL transmission following ULSDT may be supported without switching to rrc_connected. As an eighth protocol, multiple UL and DL packets may be sent as part of the same SDT mechanism when the UE is in rrc_inactive without switching to rrc_connected on dedicated grants. Details of FFS may be required and whether there are any network indications.

It should be noted that some of the mechanisms discussed in this document have been agreed upon and thus they are not representative of the purpose of the embodiments herein. They can be understood to provide a complete working solution.

In RAN2#112-e, the following protocol is achieved. First, the configuration of configuration grant resources for UE uplink small data transmission may be contained in the RRCRelease message. FFS, if there are other dedicated messages, can configure CG in INACTIVE CG. Configuration can be understood as a contention resolution procedure with only type 1CG, no CG. Second, the configuration of the configured licensed resources may include a type 1CG configuration. If there are multiple configured CGs, FFS is allowed. Third, it may be necessary to introduce a new Timing Advance (TA) timer for TA maintenance specified for grant-based small data transmissions configured in rrc_inactive. FFS regards the procedure, the validity of the TA, and how to handle TA timer expiration. The TA timer may be configured with the CG configuration in an RRCRelease message. Fourth, the configuration of the configured grant resources for UE small data transmission may be valid only in the same serving cell. FFS is used for other CG validity criteria such as timer, UL/Supplementary UL (SUL) aspects, etc. Fifth, the UE may use configured license-based small data transmissions if at least the following criteria are met: (1) user data is less than a data amount threshold; (2) the configured licensed resources are configured and valid; and (3) the UE has a valid TA. FFS is used for candidate beam criteria. Sixth, from the perspective of RAN2, CG-based SDTs may require an association between CG resources and SSBs. FFS regards how RAN1 configures the association or provides the association to the UE. LS is sent to RAN1 to begin a discussion of how the association is established. One option to mention RAN2 considerations is explicit configuration with RRC release message. Seventh, a synchronization signal reference signal received power (SS-RSRP) threshold may be selectively configured for SSBs. The UE may select one of the SSBs with SS-RSRP above a threshold and select the associated CG resources for UL data transmission.

In the latest discussion, it has been proposed that a UE may configure a CG with multiple associations, i.e. different CG occasions may be associated with different SSBs.

Since Rel-15, two types of Configuration Grant (CG) UL transmission schemes are supported in NR, referred to in the standard as CG type 1 and CG type 2. The main distinction between these two types of CG transmissions is to be understood that for CG type 1, the uplink grant may be provided and automatically activated by RRC configuration, while in the case of CG type 2, the uplink grant may be provided and activated via L1 signaling, i.e. by ul dci with a Cyclic Redundancy Checksum (CRC) scrambled by a configured scheduling radio network temporary identifier (CS-RNTI). In both cases, the spatial relationship for PUSCH transmissions with configuration grants may be indicated by an uplink grant, either configured by Radio Resource Control (RRC) or provided by UL DCI. The uplink grant may contain a SRS-resource indicator field that points to one of the SRS resources in the SRS resource configuration, which in turn may be configured to have a spatial relationship with the DL Reference Signal (RS), SSB, or CSI-RS, or another SRS resource.

In the case where the SRS resource indicator is included in the uplink grant and the RRC SRS resource configuration, it can be considered that the PUSCH having the configuration grant is transmitted using the same precoder or beamforming weight as that used for transmission of the reference SRS.

Configured scheduling

In NR, the configured scheduling may be used to allocate semi-static periodic allocations or grants for UEs. For the uplink, there may be two types of configured scheduling schemes: type 1 and type 2. For type 1, the permission for configuration may be configured only through RRC signaling. For type 2, a configuration procedure similar to the semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) UL in LTE is defined, i.e. some parameters may be preconfigured by RRC signaling and some physical layer parameters may be configured by a Medium Access Control (MAC) scheduling procedure. Details can be found in clause 3GPP TS 38.321v.16.2.1, 5.8.2[1 ].

As with SPS in LTE, CG periodicity may be configured by RRC, which may be specified in ConfiguredGrantConfig IE (information element IE). Depending on the subcarrier spacing (SCS), NR may support different periodicity values. For example, for SCS of 15 and 30kHz, the following periods expressed in a plurality of OFDM symbols may be supported. For 15khz scs,2,7 and n×14 OFDM symbols, where n e {1,2,4,5,8, 10, 16, 20, 32, 40, 64, 80, 128, 160, 320, 640}. For 30khz scs,2,7 and n×14 OFDM symbols, where n e {1,2,4,5,8, 10, 16, 20, 32, 40, 64, 80, 128, 160, 256, 320, 640, 1280}. For type 1 configured grants, the time domain allocation of PUSCH may be configured purely by RRC signaling, except for periodicity. The time domain offset may provide a slot offset relative to a subframe number (SFN) 0. The time domain allocation may provide an index to a table of 16 possible combinations of PUSCH mapping types (type a or type B), starting symbols S for mapping (s=ofdm symbols 0, 2,4 or 8 within a slot), and mapping length L (l=4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or 14 OFDM symbols).

Details of the configuration of the RRC specification, 3GPP TS 38.331,v.16.2.0,Rel.16) are shown below. Table 1 shows ConfiguredGrantConfig IE in the RRC specification.

TABLE 1

In a serving cell, a plurality of active configuration grants for a given bandwidth part (BWP) may be provided for the UE. The introduction of multiple configuration permissions may be used at least to enhance reliability and reduce latency for critical services.

Repeated configuration of UL

Repetition of Transport Blocks (TBs) may also be supported in NR and the same resource configuration may be used for K repetitions of TBs including initial transmissions. The parameters repK and repK-RV of the higher layer configuration may define K repetitions to be applied to the transmitted transport block, and redundancy version patterns to be applied to the repetitions. For the nth transmission occasion in K repetitions, n=1, 2, …, K, which may be associated with the (mod (n-1, 4) +1) th value in the configured RV sequence. The initial transmission of a transport block may begin with: a) K repeated first transmission occasions if the configured RV sequence may be {0,2,3,1}, b) K repeated any transmission occasions if the configured RV sequence may be {0,3,0,3}, which may be associated with rv=0, or c) K repeated any transmission occasions if the configured RV sequence is {0, 0}, except for the last transmission occasion when k=8.

For any RV sequence, it may be required to terminate the repetition after transmitting K repetitions, or to terminate the repetition at the last transmission occasion of K repetitions within periodicity P, or to terminate the repetition when UL grants for scheduling the same TB may be received within periodicity P, whichever arrives first. It may not be desirable for the UE to be configured to transmit K repetitions for a duration greater than the duration derived from periodicity P.

For type 1 and type 2PUSCH transmissions with configuration grants, when the UE is configured with repK >1, the UE may be required to repeat the TB over repK consecutive slots, with the same symbol allocation applied in each slot. If the UE procedure for determining the slot configuration defined in sub-clause 11.1 of TS 38.213, v.16.3.0 determines the symbol of the slot allocated to PUSCH as a downlink symbol, the transmission on the slot may be omitted for multi-slot PUSCH transmission.

Despite the advantages, existing small data transmission methods may result in wasted resources or lost communication between the transmitter and the receiver.

Disclosure of Invention

As part of the development of the embodiments herein, one or more challenges of the prior art will first be identified and discussed.

Uplink beam misalignment between the gNB and the UE may occur. For configured grants, this may be understood to mean that the UE may be configured with a configured grant that is not valid for the current best beam, so the gNB may not listen for the timing and beam direction of the transmission or grant. The gNB with analog beamforming capability can only listen to UL transmissions in one direction per antenna panel at a time.

For SDT, the UE may be configured with CG of SDT in inactive state, which may be spatially correlated with SSB. However, if the UE moves such that the current SSB RSRP is no longer sufficient to meet acceptable transmission performance, there is currently no solution to deal with this except to stop using CG configuration. Another alternative may be to use a CG configuration for the SDT in inactivity, which may be spatially related to several SSBs, i.e. different CG transmission occasions may be associated with different SSBs, and the UE may select the transmission occasion corresponding to the best SSB (i.e. the SSB that may have the highest RSRP). However, such an alternative may incur a significant overhead since the UE may use only one of the spatial associations, which means that no other CG transmission occasions will be used when the UE is stationary.

It is an object of embodiments herein to improve the handling of transmissions of data to a network node.

According to a first aspect of embodiments herein, the object is achieved by a method performed by a wireless device. The method is for handling transmission of data to a network node. The wireless device operates in a wireless communication network. During an inactive state of the wireless device, the wireless device transmits data to the network node. The wireless device transmits data on one or more first resources. The one or more first resources are selected from a set of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device. The set of resources has correspondence with a plurality of beams or reference signals transmitted by the network node. The wireless device then sets the remaining unselected resources of the group to inactive.

According to a second aspect of embodiments herein, the object is achieved by a method performed by a network node. The method is for processing a transmission of data from a wireless device. The network node operates in a wireless communication network. The network node receives data from the wireless device during an inactive state of the wireless device. The network node receives data on one or more first resources. The network node then determines which one or more of the set of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device is one of: i) One or more first resources selected by the wireless device to transmit data, ii) unused, unselected remaining resources, and iii) set inactive by the wireless device. The set of resources has correspondence with a plurality of beams or reference signals transmitted by the network node.

According to a third aspect of embodiments herein, the object is achieved by a wireless device for handling transmission of data to a network node. The wireless device is configured to operate in a wireless communication network. The wireless device is further configured to transmit data to the network node during an inactive state of the wireless device. The wireless device is configured to transmit data on one or more first resources. The one or more first resources are configured to be selected from the set of resources configured to be used by the wireless device for transmission occasions. The set of resources is configured to have correspondence to a plurality of beams or reference signals configured to be transmitted by the network node. The wireless device is further configured to set the remaining unselected resources of the group to inactive.

According to a fourth aspect of embodiments herein, the object is achieved by a network node for handling transmission of data from a wireless device. The network node is configured to operate in a wireless communication network. The network node is further configured to receive data from the wireless device on one or more first resources during an inactive state of the wireless device. The network node is configured to determine which one or more resources of the set of resources that are configured for use by the wireless device for a transmission occasion is one of: i) One or more first resources configured to be selected by the wireless device to transmit data, ii) unused, unselected remaining resources, and iii) set to inactive by the wireless device. The set of resources is configured to have correspondence to a plurality of beams or reference signals configured to be transmitted by the network node.

By sending data to the network node on the selected one or more first resources and setting the remaining non-selected resources of the group to inactive, the wireless device may cause the network node to avoid having to monitor UL transmissions, e.g. CG-SDT, from the wireless device in the entire resource group configured for transmission occasions, e.g. all configured beams, by the wireless device, which may be understood as processing requirements. For example, the network node can then avoid having to perform blind decoding on these resources.

Further, by setting the remaining unselected resources of the group to inactive, the wireless device may release the resources. Thus, when the transmission environment may change, such as when the optimal beam (e.g., SSB) may change, the wireless device may reduce the resources that may be needed to perform data transmission (e.g., CG transmission) in an inactive state. Thereby, the network node is able to more efficiently use the resources in the wireless communication network.

Determining by the network node which one or more of a set of resources configured for the wireless device transmission occasion has been selected by the wireless device for transmitting data, and which one or more of a set of resources configured for the wireless device transmission occasion has not been used, the remaining resources that have not been selected, or is set to be inactive by the wireless device, may enable the network node to avoid having to monitor UL transmissions (e.g., CG-SDT) from the wireless device throughout a set of resources (e.g., all configured beams) configured for the transmission occasion by the wireless device, which may be understood as processing requirements.

By the network node determining which resources of the set of resources are unused, the remaining resources are not selected, or are set to be inactive by the wireless device, which resources are available for allocation to one or more wireless devices. Thus, the network node is thereby able to more efficiently use resources in the wireless communication network, increase the capacity of the wireless communication network, and reduce its latency.

Drawings

Examples of embodiments herein are described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in accordance with the following description.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an example of an NR physical resource grid according to a prior art method.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of an example of a wireless communication network according to embodiments herein.

Fig. 3 is a flow chart describing a method in a wireless device according to embodiments herein.

Fig. 4 is a flow chart describing a method in a network node according to embodiments herein.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of two options for configuring CG resources according to embodiments herein.

Fig. 6 is a schematic block diagram of two embodiments of a wireless device according to embodiments herein in screen a) and screen b).

Fig. 7 is a schematic block diagram of two embodiments of a network node according to embodiments herein in picture a) and picture b).

Fig. 10 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a telecommunications network connected to a host computer through an intermediate network according to embodiments herein.

Fig. 11 is a general block diagram of a host computer communicating with a user device over a portion of a wireless connection through a base station in accordance with embodiments herein.

Fig. 12 is a flow chart describing an embodiment of a method in a communication system including a host computer, a base station, and a user device according to embodiments herein.

Fig. 13 is a flow chart describing an embodiment of a method in a communication system including a host computer, a base station, and a user device according to embodiments herein.

Fig. 14 is a flow chart describing an embodiment of a method in a communication system including a host computer, a base station, and a user device according to embodiments herein.

Fig. 15 is a flow chart describing an embodiment of a method in a communication system including a host computer, a base station, and a user device according to embodiments herein.

Detailed Description

Particular aspects of the present invention and its embodiments may provide solutions to the above or other challenges. Embodiments herein may be generally understood as involving SSB changes for CG SDT operation in an inactive state.

To overcome the high overhead problem of CG configurations with multiple SSB associations, according to embodiments herein, only the association that a UE can use when it first CG transmission can be kept, while other associations can be released. This may be understood to mean that when the UE may make its first transmission on the CG, it may select the CG transmission occasion that may have the best SSB association, i.e. corresponds to the SSB with the highest SSB-RSRP. The selection of the best SSB association and CG transmission occasions may trigger the UE to treat CG transmission occasions corresponding to other SSBs as invalid, and thus they may be deactivated. In the same way, the gNB may allocate these resources to other UEs.

In case the UE subsequently finds that other SSB associations may be better, it may signal the gNB, which may then reconfigure the resources.

Some embodiments are described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which examples are shown. In this section, the embodiments herein will be described in more detail by way of a number of exemplary embodiments. However, other embodiments are included within the scope of the subject matter disclosed herein. The disclosed subject matter should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided by way of example to convey the scope of the subject matter to those skilled in the art. It should be noted that the exemplary embodiments herein are not mutually exclusive. Components from one embodiment may be present by default in another embodiment, and it will be apparent to one skilled in the art how to use these components in other exemplary embodiments.

Fig. 2 depicts two non-limiting examples of wireless networks or wireless communication networks 100, sometimes also referred to as wireless communication systems, cellular radio systems, or cellular networks, in which embodiments herein may be implemented. The wireless communication network 100 may be a 5G system, a 5G network, or a next generation system or network. In other examples, the wireless communication network 100 may alternatively or additionally support other technologies such as, for example, long Term Evolution (LTE), e.g., LTE-M, LTE Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD), LTE Time Division Duplexing (TDD), LTE half-duplex frequency division duplexing (HD-FDD), LTE operating in unlicensed frequency bands such as LTE LAA, ELAA, feldaa, and/or multewire. In other examples, the wireless communication network 100 may support other technologies such as Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) TDD, global system for mobile communications (GSM) networks, GSM/enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE) radio access networks (GERAN) networks, ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), EDGE networks, networks including any combination of Radio Access Technologies (RATs), such as multi-standard radio (MSR) base stations, multi-RAT base stations, etc., any third generation partnership project (3 GPP) cellular networks, wiFi networks, worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMax), or any cellular network or system, such as a system supporting equivalent functionality of the 5G update. The wireless communication network 100 may generally support MTC, eMTC, ioT and/or NB-IoT. Thus, while terms from 5G/NR and LTE may be used in this disclosure to exemplify embodiments herein, this should not be considered to limit the scope of embodiments herein to only the aforementioned systems.

The wireless communication network 100 may include a plurality of network nodes, with the network node 110 shown in the non-limiting example of fig. 2. The network node 110 is a radio network node. That is, a transmission point such as a radio base station, e.g. gNB, eNB, eNodeB or a home Node B, a home eNodeB or any other network Node with similar characteristics capable of serving user devices in the wireless communication network 100, such as wireless devices or machine type communication devices. In some examples, such as shown in fig. 2b, network node 110 may be a distributed node and may cooperate with virtual nodes 116 in cloud 115 to perform its functions in part.

The wireless communication network 100 may cover a geographical area, which in some embodiments may be divided into a plurality of cell areas, wherein each cell area may be served by a radio network node, although one radio network node may serve one or more cells. In the example of fig. 2, network node 110 serves cell 120. Based on the transmission power and thus the cell size, the network node 110 may belong to different categories such as e.g. macro eNodeB, home eNodeB or pico base station. In some examples, network node 110 may utilize a serving beam to serve a receiving node. The radio network node may support one or several communication technologies and its name may depend on the technology and terminology used. Any radio network node that may be comprised in the communication network 100 may be directly connected to one or more core networks.

A plurality of wireless devices may be located in the wireless communication network 100, with the wireless device 130 and one or more other wireless devices 140 shown in the non-limiting example of fig. 2. Any of the wireless devices 130 and one or more other wireless devices 140 included in the wireless communication network 100 may be a wireless communication device, such as a 5G UE or UE, which may also be referred to as, for example, a mobile terminal, a wireless terminal and/or mobile station, a mobile phone, a cellular phone, or a wireless-enabled laptop, just to mention a few further examples. Any of the wireless devices 130 and one or more other wireless devices 140 included in the wireless communication network 100 may be, for example, portable, pocket-storable, handheld, computer-containing, or vehicle-mounted mobile devices capable of transmitting voice and/or data via the RAN with another entity, such as a server, laptop, personal Digital Assistant (PDA) or tablet, machine-to-machine (M2M) device, sensor, ioT device, NB-IoT device, wireless interface-equipped device, such as a printer or file storage device, modem, or any other radio network unit capable of communicating over a radio link in a communication system. Any one of the wireless device 130 and one or more other wireless devices 140 included in the wireless communication network 100 are capable of wireless communication in the wireless communication network 100. The communication may be performed, for example, via the RAN and one or more core networks that may be included within the wireless communication network 100.

The wireless device 130 may be configured to communicate with the network node 110 within the wireless communication network 100 via a first link 141 (e.g., a radio link). The network node 110 may be configured to communicate with the virtual network node 116 within the wireless communication network 100 via a second link 142 (e.g., a radio link or a wired link). Any one of the one or more other wireless devices 140 may be configured to communicate with the network node 110 within the wireless communication network 100 over a respective first link (e.g., a radio link), which is not shown in fig. 2 for simplicity of the drawing.

In general, all terms used herein should be interpreted according to their ordinary meaning in the relevant art unless explicitly given and/or implied by the context in which they are used. All references to an/the element, device, component, means, step, etc. should be interpreted openly as referring to at least one instance of the element, device, component, means, step, etc., unless explicitly stated otherwise. The steps of any method disclosed herein do not have to be performed in the exact order disclosed, unless explicitly described as being subsequent to or prior to another step, and/or implicitly steps must be subsequent to or prior to another step. Any feature of any embodiment disclosed herein may be applied to any other embodiment, where appropriate. Likewise, any advantages of any embodiment may be applied to any other embodiment, and vice versa. Other objects, features and advantages of the attached embodiments will become apparent from the following description.

In general, the use of "a first" and/or "a second" herein may be understood to mean any manner of representing different elements or entities, and may be understood based on context to not impart a cumulative or chronological feature to the nouns they modify, unless otherwise indicated.

Several embodiments are included herein. It should be noted that the examples herein are not mutually exclusive. Components from one embodiment may be present by default in another embodiment, and it will be apparent to one skilled in the art how to use these components in other exemplary embodiments.

More specifically, the following are embodiments related to a wireless device (such as wireless device 130, e.g., a 5G UE or UE), and embodiments related to a network node (e.g., network node 110, e.g., a gNB or eNB).

Some embodiments herein will now be further described by way of some non-limiting examples.

In the following description, any reference to a UE, or simply "UE", is to be understood as referring also to wireless device 130; any reference to the gNB, NW and/or network is to be understood as being equivalent to the network node 110.

An embodiment of a method performed by wireless device 130 will now be described with reference to the flowchart shown in fig. 3. A method may be understood as a transmission to the network node 110 for handling data. The wireless device 130 operates in the wireless communication network 100.

In some embodiments, the wireless communication network 100 may support at least one of New Radio (NR), long Term Evolution (LTE), machine LTE (LTE-M), enhanced machine type communication (eMTC), and narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT).

The method can be understood as a computer-implemented method.

In some examples, the data may be "small data".

The first method may include the following actions. In some embodiments, all actions may be performed. Components from one embodiment may be present by default in another embodiment, and it will be apparent to one skilled in the art how to use these components in other exemplary embodiments. For simplicity of description, not all possible combinations are described. A non-limiting example of a method performed by wireless device 130 is depicted in fig. 3. In fig. 3, the optional actions are represented by dashed lines. These acts may be performed in a different order than shown in fig. 3.

Act 301

In this act 301, the wireless device 130 may obtain a configuration. The configuration may configure a set of resources to be used by wireless device 130 for transmission opportunities. Each resource may correspond to a configured license, such as a CG. The resource may be a transmission opportunity.

The set of resources may have correspondence to a plurality of beams or reference signals transmitted by the network node 110. The reference signal may be, for example, a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), which may be transmitted by the network node 110.

The retrieval in this act 301 may include retrieving or retrieving from a memory and/or receiving from the network node 110, e.g., via the first link 141.

The configuration may be obtained from the network node 110 in at least one of: a) A first message releasing the connection between the network node 110 and the wireless device 130, and b) a second dedicated message. According to the first option, the configuration may be given in an RRCRelease message, which may be sent to the wireless device 130 when in a CONNECTED state to put the wireless device 130 in an inactive state, or alternatively, according to the second option, the configuration may be given in another dedicated RRC message, for example when the wireless device 130 may be in rrc_connected.

In a first set of examples, the set of configuration resources may be configured for wireless device 130 in accordance with act 301, wherein different CG transmission opportunities may have different SSB associations.

In some embodiments, one of the following options may be applied. According to a first option, the configuration may specify that each of the plurality of transmission occasions may correspond to a respective beam or reference signal. According to a second option, the correspondence between each of the plurality of transmission occasions and a respective beam or reference signal may be specified by a respective configuration. According to this option, the configuration may include a corresponding configuration for all transmission opportunities.

An example of two options for configuring CG resources is given below in fig. 5.

By receiving the configuration in this act 301, the wireless device 130 may associate the configured licensed resource configuration with a single or multiple SSBs of the cell 120.

Act 302

In this act 302, the wireless device 130 may receive a first indication from the network node 110. The first indication may indicate that the second resource of the group is deactivated. For example, according to this act 302, cg resources may be deactivated due to explicit release commands or implicit release commands in the DL, e.g., skipping n occasions, TA timers, etc. This can be understood to be different from a new command such as a conventional RRCRelease.

In some examples, the receiving in this act 302 may be performed via the first link 141.

In an alternative configuration, if each SSB or beam is configured with multiple CG-SDT configurations, one of the configurations may be active and the other may be considered "inactive" depending on the criteria on which the selected configuration is based.

In some embodiments, wireless device 130 may receive the first indication before wireless device 130 may perform act 303, i.e., before wireless device 130 may select on which resources it may perform the transmission. The wireless device 130 may then select which resources to use to transmit data to the network node 130 based on the received first indication. In other embodiments, this act 302 may not necessarily be performed after act 301 and before act 303. For example, it may be performed after act 305 and before act 306, as will be described later.

Act 303

In this act 303, the wireless device 130 may select the set of one or more first resources, i.e., the set of resources configured, based on one or more criteria.

Each of the one or more first resources may correspond to a configured license (CG).

From this act 303, the wireless device 130 may determine whether SDT using CG is applicable by estimating some or all of TA, data volume, and RSRP changes. The main problem to be solved may only occur if the beam that may be configured may not be the best beam, i.e. when the wireless device 130 may be moved to an inactive state. Selection between multiple CG configurations may be made based on, for example, priority configuration, transmission data size, configured RSRP threshold, and/or other criteria.

In some embodiments, one or more first resources may correspond to a beam. The one or more criteria may include one or more first resources corresponding to a beam having a highest SS-RSRP above a minimum threshold.

In some examples, according to this act 303, each time before executing a (CG) SDT, wireless device 130 may determine whether to use CG PUSCH resources configured based on the quality of the relevant SSB.

For example, for the first transmission on the configured CG resource, wireless device 130 may select the best CG resource, i.e., the resource corresponding to the beam on the configured carrier that may have the highest SS-RSRP above the minimum threshold. Alternatively, several CG resources may be selected that may be above a threshold.

By selecting the set of one or more first resources based on one or more criteria in this act 303, wireless device 130 is able to correct any potential uplink beam misalignment that may have occurred between network node 110 and wireless device 130. Thus, wireless device 130 may prevent network node 110 from possibly not listening for transmission grant occasions and beam directions. It is contemplated that in some examples, if the network node 110 has analog beamforming capabilities, the network node 110 can only listen for UL transmissions in one direction per antenna panel at a time.

Further, by selecting the set of one or more first resources based on the one or more criteria in this act 303, the wireless device 130 may then deactivate any unselected resources, such that the network node may avoid having to monitor UL transmissions (e.g., CG-SDT) from the wireless device in the entire set of resources (e.g., all configured beams) configured for transmission opportunities by the wireless device, which may be understood as processing requirements. For example, the network node can then avoid having to perform blind decoding on these resources.

Act 304

In this act 304, wireless device 130 may send a second indication to network node 110. The second indication may indicate the selected one or more first resources. According to this act 304, wireless device 130 may be required to indicate a beam change.

The sending in this act 304 may be performed via, for example, the first link 141.

As an alternative to transmitting the new best SSB indication using CG, the wireless device 130 may perform a random access procedure for this purpose.

In this act 304, by sending a second indication to the network node 110, the wireless device 130 may cause the network node 110 to avoid having to monitor UL transmissions, e.g., CG-SDT, from the wireless device 130 in all configured beams, which may be understood as processing requirements. Thus, wireless device 130 may enable network node 110 to more efficiently use resources in wireless communication network 100.

Act 305

In this act 305, the wireless device 130 transmits data, e.g., first data, to the network node 110 during an inactive state of the wireless device 130. The inactive state may be defined, for example, in 5G or in a newer system with equivalent functionality. The expression during the inactive state may be understood as meaning "when in the inactive state" or "when in the inactive state".

The first data may be user plane data.

The transmitting in act 305 is on one or more first resources selected from the group of resources configured for transmission occasions by wireless device 130.

The set of resources has correspondence with a plurality of beams or reference signals transmitted by the network node 110. The reference signal may be, for example, a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), which may be transmitted by the network node 110. The one or more first resources may be one or more transmission occasions, which may correspond to one or more beams and/or one or more reference signals.

The one or more first resources may be time frequency resources, e.g. radio resources. Each of the one or more first resources may correspond to a configured license.

The transmitting in act 305 may occur if the buffer size of wireless device 130 may be less than a threshold. The buffer may be a buffer for data transmission, which may be referred to herein as a transmission buffer.

The threshold may be the maximum size of the buffer (BS _max ) Such as the maximum transmission buffer size.

The sending in this act 305 may be performed via, for example, the first link 141.

By transmitting data to the network node 110 on the selected one or more first resources, the wireless device 130 may cause the network node 110 to avoid having to monitor UL transmissions (e.g., CG-SDT) from the wireless device 130 throughout the set of resources (e.g., all configured beams) configured for transmission opportunities by the wireless device, which may be understood as processing requirements. Thus, when the transmission environment may change, for example, when the optimal beam (e.g., SSB) may change, the wireless device 130 may reduce the resources that may be required to perform data transmission (e.g., CG transmission) in an inactive state. The network node 110 is thereby able to more efficiently use the resources in the wireless communication network 100.

Act 306

In this act 306, the wireless device 130 sets the remaining unselected resources of the group to inactive. The remaining resources that are not selected may be one or more unselected transmission opportunities, and/or one or more unselected beams. Setting a resource to inactive may be understood to mean that the resource may still be configured but not used. That is, wireless device 130 may not transmit using inactive or deactivated resources, and thus network node 110 may be understood as not having to perform blind decoding on these resources. Later, the configuration (e.g., CG-SDT configuration) on these resources (e.g., beams) may be activated and used.

In some embodiments, the setting 306 of the remaining resources set to inactive may be based on the received first indication. For example, in these embodiments, the first indication may be received after act 305 and before act 306.

When the transmission is completed on the selected CG resources according to act 305, for example, wireless device 130 may need to set any other CG resources associated with other SSBs inactive for the UL carrier and release those CG resources according to act 306.

UL hopping can be used to deactivate unused CG configurations. In the case where several associations may be configured in the CG configuration, unused transmission opportunities in the CG configuration may be deactivated even if UL hopping is not applied to the selected and used beams.

There may be several beams above the threshold, and in one option, the CG resources of these beams may all be used. As described above, CG resources associated with beams below a threshold may not be used and deactivated.

By setting the unselected remaining resources of the group to inactive in this act 306, the wireless device 130 may cause the network node to avoid having to monitor UL transmissions (e.g., CG-SDT) from the wireless device throughout the set of resources (e.g., all configured beams) configured for transmission opportunities by the wireless device, which may be understood as processing requirements. For example, the network node can then avoid having to perform blind decoding on these resources.

Act 307

For DL transmissions, wireless device 130 may monitor a DL beam corresponding to a Receive (RX) beam used in selecting the appropriate SSB.

In this act 307, wireless device 130 may receive a third indication from network node 110. The third indication may indicate to release the unselected remaining resources that are set to inactive. For example, according to this act 307, cg resources may also be deactivated due to explicit release DL commands, or implicit DL commands, or implicitly, e.g., skipping n occasions, TA timers, etc. Releasing resources may be understood to mean that the configurations may be understood to be emptied, that is, if they are to be used later, it may be understood that the signaling to configure them needs to be sent again.

As a second set of examples, wireless device 130 may be configured with CG-SDT configurations associated with beams in which wireless device 130 may be located in a connected mode, and network node 110 may activate and retain CG-SDT configurations mapped to beams adjacent to the beam selected by wireless device 130, according to, for example, act 405, described later. In this case, when the wireless device 130 is at INACTIVE and one of the adjacent beams has a higher RSRP than the beam that the wireless device 130 is currently likely to use, the wireless device 130 may directly begin transmitting in the new beam. According to an action 405, which is described later, for example, the network node 110 may infer that the wireless device 130 has moved, and may update the active CG configuration by removing the configuration mapped to a beam that may no longer be adjacent to the new beam, by DL message, adding a new configuration for the now possibly adjacent beam, and it may update the TA according to this action 307. This may require network node 110 to monitor CG-SDT in all configured beams, which may be processing requirements, and alternatively network node 110 may monitor only one beam, and may require wireless device 130 to indicate a beam change in that beam, for example, according to acts 304 and 404, as described above.

By receiving the third indication in this act 307 to release the non-selected remaining resources set to inactive in act 306, the wireless device 130 can then release the inactive resources on command, thereby enabling the network node 110 to allocate the released resources to one or more other wireless devices 140. The network node 110 is thereby able to more efficiently use the resources in the wireless communication network 100. The improvements in spectral efficiency and resource utilization that may be obtained may be understood as being that wireless device 130 may be understood as not being able to use resources (e.g., CG-SDT resources on different SSBs) simultaneously. Releasing unused resources may be understood to mean that they may be used for other wireless devices and thus not wasted. The third indication is received by the wireless device 130 from the network node 110, which network node 110 may be aware of the load of the cell 120, as the network node 110 may be aware that it may need resources to allocate them to one or more other wireless devices 140, the wireless device 130 may only need to release the resources.

Act 308

In this act 308, the wireless device 130 may release the remaining resources that were not selected that were set to inactive.

The remaining resources set to inactive by release 308 may be based on the transmitted second indication. This may be because, for example, network node 110 may request that wireless device 130 release the remaining resources that were not indicated as having been selected by wireless device 130.

The release in act 308 may be based on the received third indication

If the active/used CG configuration is deactivated, e.g., according to act 306 and/or act 307, based on the above, e.g., SS-RSRP falls below a threshold, wireless device 130 may release the CG configuration according to act 308 and need to perform RACH after the CG configuration may be released to indicate a new best beam. Thus, it may receive a new CG configuration.

By releasing the remaining resources that were not selected that were set to inactive in this act 308, the wireless device 130 may then enable the network node 110 to allocate the released resources to one or more other wireless devices 140. The network node 110 is thereby able to more efficiently use the resources in the wireless communication network 100.

In alternative configurations, the CG-SDT configuration may contain specific several beam configurations, i.e. associated with different SSBs, one of the current best beams may be indicated as "active" and all other beams as inactive. In this case, even though wireless device 130 is not using these resources, these resources may still be reserved even though wireless device 130 may have been configured to release CG resources after multiple skipped transmissions.

Act 309

In this act 309, wireless device 130 may send a fourth indication to network node 110. The fourth indication may indicate that one or more selected first resources are to be changed. This may be because, for example, the wireless device 130 may have detected, for example, by performing measurements, that it may be understood that another beam corresponding to another transmission opportunity is stronger than the currently used beam.

The wireless device 130 may measure the SSB and if some condition is triggered, e.g., another SSB RSRP is higher than the currently selected SSB, the wireless device 130 may send an indication of this using the next CG transmission occasion according to this action 309. The indication may be, for example, a configuration index of the new strongest beam experienced by wireless device 130.

If the reporting criteria is triggered after the first transmission on the selected CG resource, wireless device 130 may send a fourth indication to notify network node 110 of this in accordance with act 309. The trigger condition may be whether the SS-RSRP of the selected CG resource falls below a threshold, or whether the SS-RSRP of another SSB becomes better than the SS-RSRP of the SSB of the selected RSRP resource.

The fourth indication may take the form of a new Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) or otherwise encoded in a MAC Protocol Data Unit (PDU).

The fourth indication may be transmitted on the currently selected CG resource and may then be deactivated.

The sending in this act 309 may be performed via the first link 141.

In one option, the wireless device 130 may beamform the transmission in the direction of the old SSB, and in another option, the wireless device 130 may beamform the transmission in the direction of the new strongest SSB.

In one option, for this purpose, the wireless device 130 may have been configured with contention-free RA resources to indicate a new best SSB by preamble transmission only, according to act 309, for example.

By sending the fourth indication in this act 309, the wireless device 130 may let the network node 110 know which beam to listen to in order to receive the characteristic transmission from the wireless device 130, allowing the network node 110 to learn any changes implemented by the wireless device 130 so that the network node 110 can correctly and efficiently receive the data transmission of the wireless device 130.

Act 310

In this act 310, wireless device 130 may obtain a fifth indication from network node 110. The fifth indication may indicate a change from the selected one or more first resources to the one or more third resources of the group. The acquisition of the fifth indication may be based on the transmitted fourth indication.

The retrieval in this act 310 may include retrieving or retrieving from memory and/or receiving from the network node 110, e.g., via the first link 141.

In one option, for this purpose, the wireless device 130 may have been configured with contention-free RA resources to indicate a new best SSB by preamble transmission only, according to act 309, for example. With this option, the network node 110 may not need to respond with a random access response message containing UL grant. Instead, according to this act 310, the network node 110 may respond with an updated TA and new CG configuration. The response may be addressed to a C-RNTI that the wireless device 130 may have at the time of connection, or to a new RNTI.

Upon receiving the indication of the new best beam, according to this act 310, the network node 110 may reconfigure the wireless apparatus 130 with a new CG configuration having an SSB association that may correspond to the new best SSB. Such reconfiguration may only change the previous configuration, e.g., new time offset and SSB association. The DL message with the new configuration may also include a new TA because it may be assumed that the wireless device 130 has moved. The DL message may be used as an acknowledgement of the indication of the new best SSB sent from the wireless device 130.

In one example, beam reconfiguration may consist of the wireless device 130 from now on needing to treat it as a beam index of an "active" beam, and change the old beam to "inactive". If wireless device 130 has reported a new strongest beam index, as illustrated above, network node 110 may respond directly with the same beam index for reconfiguration in accordance with act 310. In other cases, network node 110 may base the change of beam on other measurements or inputs and there may be no beam reporting from wireless device 130 prior to beam reconfiguration. Network node 110 may indicate in the DL message an index to one of the CG resources configured but not activated as indicated in the last RRCRelease message, or it may provide a new CG configuration. In the latter case, the wireless device 130 may consider all or some of the previous configurations communicated in the RRCRelease message to have been outdated.

By obtaining the fifth indication in this act 310, wireless device 130 may obtain an acknowledgement from network node 110 that network node 110 may be aware of which beam to listen to, or it may receive a command to use a set of resources, e.g., a beam that network node 110 may consider more suitable for wireless device 130 to perform its UL transmission, which may make a set of resources other than those selected by wireless device 130 more suitable for wireless device 130 to use for UL transmission of data in an inactive state due to one or more measurements, e.g., interference measurements, performed by network node 110.

Act 311

In this act 311, the wireless device 130 may select one or more third resources of the group to transmit further data based on the obtained fifth indication.

An embodiment of the method performed by the network node 110 will now be described with reference to the flowchart shown in fig. 4. A method may be understood as processing data transmissions from wireless device 130. The network node 110 and the wireless device 139 operate in a wireless communication network 100.

The method can be understood as a computer-implemented method.

In some examples, the data may be "small data".

The method may include one or more of the following acts.

The method may include the following actions. In some embodiments, all actions may be performed. Where applicable, one or more embodiments may be combined. Components from one embodiment may be present by default in another embodiment, and it will be apparent to one skilled in the art how to use these components in other exemplary embodiments. For simplicity of description, not all possible combinations are described. A non-limiting example of a method performed by the network node 110 is depicted in fig. 4. In fig. 4, the optional actions are represented by dashed lines. These acts may be performed in a different order than shown in fig. 4.

With respect to the actions described for wireless device 130, the detailed description of some of the following corresponds to the same references provided above, and thus, for simplicity of description, will not be repeated here. For example, the one or more first resources may be one or more transmission opportunities, which may correspond to one or more beams and/or one or more reference signals.

Act 401

In this act 401, the network node 110 may send a configuration for configuring the set of resources to be used by the wireless device 130 for transmission opportunities.

The transmission of the configuration may be to the wireless device 130.

In some examples, one of the following may be applied: a) The configuration may specify that each of the plurality of transmission occasions corresponds to a respective beam or reference signal, and b) the correspondence between each of the plurality of transmission occasions and the respective beam or reference signal may be specified by the respective configuration. The configuration may include a corresponding configuration for all transmission occasions.

The configuration may be transmitted to the wireless device 130 in at least one of the following: i) A first message releasing the connection between the network node 110 and the wireless device 130, and ii) a second dedicated message.

The sending in this action 401 may be performed via, for example, the first link 141.

As previously described, in a first set of examples, the set of configuration resources may be configured for wireless device 130 according to, for example, act 301 and act 401, where different CG transmission opportunities may have different SSB associations. This configuration may be given in an RRCRelease message sent to the wireless device 130 when in a CONNECTED state to place the wireless device 130 in an inactive state, or alternatively, in another dedicated RRC message, such as when the wireless device 130 may be in rrc_connected.

Act 402

In this act 402, the network node 110 may send a first indication to the wireless device 130. The first indication may indicate that the second resource of the group is deactivated.

The sending in this action 403 may be performed via the first link 141.

According to this act 402, cg resources may be deactivated by explicit release DL commands or implicit DL commands, e.g., skipping n occasions, TA timers, etc.

Act 403

In this act 403, the network node 110 receives data, e.g., first data, from the wireless device 130 on one or more first resources during an inactive state of the wireless device 130. The inactive state may be defined, for example, in 5G or in a newer system with equivalent functionality.

The receiving in act 403 may be performed on one or more first resources. The first data may be user plane data.

The receiving in act 403 may occur if the size of the buffer of wireless device 130 is less than a threshold. The buffer may be a buffer for data transmission, which may be referred to herein as a transmission buffer.

The receiving in this act 403 may be performed via the first link 141.

The data reception in this act 403 may be based on the transmitted first indication.

Act 404

In this act 404, the network node 110 may receive a second indication from the wireless device 130. The second indication may indicate the selected one or more first resources.

The receiving in this act 404 may be performed via the first link 141.

Act 405

In this act 405, the network node 110 determines which one or more of the set of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device 130 is one of: i) One or more first resources for transmitting data are selected by the wireless device 130, and/or ii) unused, unselected remaining resources, and iii) are set to inactive by the wireless device 130. The set of resources has correspondence with a plurality of beams or reference signals (e.g., synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs)) transmitted by the network node 110.

The determination in act 405 may include, for example, calculation or derivation.

The determination in act 405 may be based on the received data 403, i.e., based on one or more first resources on which data may be received in act 403.

From this act 405, network node 110 may determine which CG configurations wireless device 130 may deactivate and thus be available to other users as a result of using CG resources associated with the SSB. The RX beam of network node 110 may be used to receive the UL transmission and, thus, network node 110 may infer which SSB wireless device 130 may select, or network node 110 may perform the determination in act 405 by using the configured CG transmission occasion-to-SSB mapping.

By the network node 110 determining which one or more of the set of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device 130 has been selected by the wireless device 130 to transmit data, the network node 110 may be prevented from monitoring UL transmissions (e.g., CG-SDT) from the wireless device 130 throughout the set of resources (e.g., all configured beams) configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device 130, which may be understood as a processing requirement.

By the network node 110 determining which one or more of the set of resources of the wireless device 130 configured for the transmission occasion is not used, the remaining resources that are not selected or set to inactive by the wireless device, the network node can know which resources are available for allocation to one or more other wireless devices 140. Thus, the network node 110 is thereby able to more efficiently use resources in the wireless communication network 100, increase the capacity of the wireless communication network 100, and reduce its latency.

Act 406

In this act 406, the network node 110 may send a third indication to the wireless device 130. The third indication may indicate that the remaining resources not selected are released, e.g. set to inactive. For example, according to this act 406, cg resources may also be deactivated due to explicit release commands DL or implicit DL commands (e.g., skip n occasions, TA timers, etc.).

The sending in this act 406 may be based on the determination.

The sending of the third indication in this act 406 may be based on the received second indication.

The sending in this action 406 may be performed via the first link 141.

As explained later, in a second set of examples, wireless device 130 may be configured with CG-SDT configurations associated with beams in which wireless device 130 may be located in connected mode, and network node 110 may activate and retain CG-SDT configurations mapped to beams adjacent to the beam selected by wireless device 130 according to, for example, act 405. In this case, when the wireless device 130 is at INACTIVE and one of the adjacent beams has a higher RSRP than the beam that the wireless device 130 is currently likely to use, the wireless device 130 may directly begin transmitting in the new beam. From, for example, act 405, network node 110 may infer that wireless device 130 has moved and may update the active CG configuration by removing the configuration mapped to a beam that may no longer be adjacent to the new beam, by DL message, adding a new configuration for the now possibly adjacent beam, and it may update the TA, according to this act 406. This may require network node 110 to monitor CG-SDT in all configured beams, which may be processing requirements, and alternatively network node 110 may monitor only one beam, and may require wireless device 130 to indicate a beam change in that beam, for example, according to acts 304 and 404, as described above.

Act 407

In this act 407, the network node 110 may allocate the unselected remaining resources to one or more other wireless devices 140.

Allocation may be understood as, for example, dispatch.

Act 408

In this act 408, the network node 110 may receive a fourth indication from the wireless device 130. The fourth indication may indicate that one or more selected first resources are to be changed.

The receiving in act 408 may be performed via the first link 141.

As previously described, wireless device 130 may measure SSB and if a condition is triggered, such as another SSB RSRP being higher than the currently selected SSB, wireless device 130 may send an indication of this using the next CG transmission occasion in accordance with act 408. The indication may be, for example, a configuration index of the new strongest beam experienced by wireless device 130.

Act 409

In this action 409, the network node 110 may send a fifth indication to the wireless device 130. The fifth indication may indicate a change from the selected one or more first resources to the one or more third resources of the group.

A fifth indication may be sent to the wireless device 130.

The transmission in this act 409 may be performed via the first link 141.

As previously described, in one example, beam reconfiguration may consist of a beam index of the beam, where the wireless device 130 may need to be considered as "active" beam from now on, and change the old beam to "inactive". If the UE has reported a new strongest beam index, as illustrated above, then according to this action 409, the network node 110 may respond directly with the same beam index for reconfiguration. In other cases, network node 110 may base beam changes on other measurements or inputs and there may be no beam reports from wireless device 130 prior to beam reconfiguration. Network node 110 may indicate in the DL message an index to one of the CG resources configured but not activated as indicated in the last RRCRelease message, or it may provide a new CG configuration. In the latter case, the wireless device 130 may consider all or some of the previous configurations communicated in the RRCRelease message to have been outdated.

In one option, wireless device 130 may have been configured with contention-free RA resources for this purpose to indicate a new best SSB by preamble transmission only, according to, for example, acts 309 and 408. With this option, the network node 110 may not need to respond with a random access response message containing UL grant. Instead, network node 110 may respond with an updated TA and new CG configuration, e.g., in accordance with acts 409 and 310. The response may be addressed to a C-RNTI that the wireless device 130 may have at the time of connection, or to a new RNTI.

Upon receiving the indication of the new best beam, as per act 408, for example, network node 110 may reconfigure wireless apparatus 130 using the new CG configuration having an SSB association that may correspond to the new best SSB, as per acts 409 and 310, for example. Such reconfiguration may only change the previous configuration, e.g., new time offset and SSB association. The DL message with the new configuration may also include a new TA because it may be assumed that the wireless device 130 has moved. The DL message may be used as an acknowledgement of the indication of the new best SSB sent from the wireless device 130.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of two options for configuring CG resources according to embodiments herein. In option 1, four different CG configurations are configured for wireless device 130, config#1, config#2, config#3, and config#4, wherein all CG transmission opportunities in the configuration correspond to associations with one beam SSB1-SSB 4. That is, each configuration may correspond to a particular SSB association. In the second option of fig. 5, one CG configuration, denoted "same configuration" in the figure, may contain different associations between CG transmission opportunities and beams SSB1-SSB 4. That is, different transmission opportunities may correspond to different SSB associations. In alternative examples, multiple CG transmission configurations may be configured for each associated SSB or beam.

Particular embodiments disclosed herein may provide one or more of the following technical advantages, which may be summarized as follows. Embodiments herein may be understood to be able to reduce the resources that may be required by the wireless device 130 to perform a data transmission (e.g., CG transmission) in an inactive state, such as when the optimal SSB may change.

Fig. 6 depicts two different examples of arrangements that the wireless device 130 may include in pictures a) and b), respectively, to perform the method acts described above with respect to fig. 3. In some embodiments, wireless device 130 may include the following arrangement depicted in fig. 6 a. Wireless device 130 may be understood as a transmission to network node 110 for processing data. Wireless device 130 and network node 110 are configured to operate in wireless communication network 100.

Several embodiments are included herein. Components from one embodiment may be present by default in another embodiment, and it will be apparent to one skilled in the art how to use these components in other exemplary embodiments. With respect to the actions described for wireless device 130, the detailed description of some below corresponds to the same references provided above, and thus will not be repeated herein. For example, the one or more first resources may be one or more transmission opportunities, which may correspond to one or more beams and/or one or more reference signals.

In fig. 6, the optional unit is indicated using a dashed box.

The wireless device 130 is configured to perform the transmission of the action 305, e.g. by means of a transmission unit 601 within the wireless device 130, the transmission unit 601 being configured to transmit data to the network node 110 on one or more first resources configured to be selected from the set of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device 130 during an inactive state of the wireless device 130. The set of resources is configured to have correspondence to a plurality of beams or reference signals configured to be transmitted by the network node 110.

The wireless device 130 is further configured to perform the setting of the action 306, e.g. by means of a setting unit 602 within the wireless device 130, the setting unit 602 being configured to set the non-selected remaining resources of the group to inactive.

In some embodiments, the size of the buffer of wireless device 130 may be configured to be less than a threshold. The buffer is configured to be a buffer for transmission of data.

The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the release of the action 308, e.g. by means of a release unit 603 within the wireless device 130, the release unit 603 being configured to release the unselected remaining resources configured to be set inactive.

The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the receiving of the action 302, e.g. by means of a receiving unit 604 within the wireless device 130, the receiving unit 604 being configured to receive the first indication from the network node 110. The first indication may be configured to indicate that the second resource of the group is to be deactivated. The setting of the remaining resources set to inactive may be configured based on the first indication configured to be received.

The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the transmission of act 304, e.g. by means of a transmission unit 601 within the wireless device 130, the transmission unit 601 being configured to transmit the second indication to the network node 110. The second indication may be configured to indicate the selected one or more first resources. The release of the remaining resources set to inactive may be configured based on the transmitted second indication.

The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the receiving of act 307, e.g. by means of a receiving unit 604 within the wireless device 130, the receiving unit 604 being configured to receive the third indication from the network node 110. The third indication may be configured to indicate release of the unselected remaining resources, which are configured to be set to inactive. The release may be configured based on a third indication configured to be received.

The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the transmission of the action 309, e.g. by means of a transmission unit 601 within the wireless device 130, the transmission unit 601 being configured to transmit a fourth indication to the network node 110. The fourth indication may be configured to indicate that the one or more first resources configured to be selected are to be changed.

The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the obtaining act 310, e.g. by means of an obtaining unit 605 within the wireless device 130, the obtaining unit 605 being configured to obtain the fifth indication from the network node 110. The fifth indication may be configured to indicate a change from the one or more first resources configured to be selected to the one or more third resources of the group.

The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the selection of the action 311, e.g. by means of a selection unit 606 within the wireless device 130, the selection unit 606 being configured to select the set of one or more third resources to transmit further data based on a fifth indication configured to be obtained.

The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the acquisition of act 301, e.g. by means of an acquisition unit 605 within the wireless device 130, the acquisition unit 605 being configured to acquire a configuration configured to configure the set of resources for transmission opportunities by the wireless device 130.

In some embodiments, one of the following is satisfied: a) The configuration may be configured to specify that each of the plurality of transmission occasions may be configured to correspond to a respective beam or reference signal, and b) the correspondence between each of the plurality of transmission occasions and a respective beam or reference signal may be configured to be specified by a respective configuration, and the configuration may be configured to include the respective configurations of all transmission occasions.

In some embodiments, the configuration may be configured to be obtained from the network node 110 in at least one of: a first message configured to release the connection between the network node 110 and the wireless device 130, and b) a second dedicated message.

The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the selection action 303, for example by means of a selection unit 606 within the wireless device 130, the selection unit 606 being configured to select one or more first resources of the group based on one or more criteria.

In some embodiments, one or more first resources may be configured to correspond to a beam, and one or more criteria may be configured to include one or more first resources configured to correspond to a beam having a highest SS-RSRP above a minimum threshold.

Other units 607 may be included in the wireless device 130.

Embodiments of the wireless device 130 herein may be implemented by one or more processors, such as the processor 608 in the wireless device 130 shown in fig. 6a, and computer program code for performing the functions and acts of the embodiments herein. A processor as used herein may be understood as a hardware component. The program code mentioned above may also be provided as a computer program product, e.g. in the form of a data carrier carrying computer program code for performing the embodiments herein when being loaded into the wireless device 130. One such carrier may be in the form of a CD ROM disc. However, it is also possible to use other data carriers, such as memory sticks. The computer program code may also be provided as pure program code on a server and downloaded to the wireless device 130.

The wireless device 130 may also include a memory 609 that includes one or more memory units. The memory 609 is arranged for storing the obtained information, storing data, configuration, scheduling and applications etc. to perform the methods herein when executed in the wireless device 130.

In some embodiments, wireless device 130 may receive information from, for example, network node 110 through receive port 610. In some embodiments, the receive port 610 may be connected to one or more antennas in the wireless device 130, for example. In other embodiments, the wireless device 130 may receive information from another structure in the wireless communication network 100 through the receive port 610. Since the receive port 610 may be in communication with the processor 608, the receive port 610 may then send the received information to the processor 608. The receiving port 610 may also be configured to be received with other information.

The processor 608 in the wireless device 130 may be further configured to transmit or send information to, for example, the network node 110 or another structure in the wireless communication network 100 through a transmit port 611, which transmit port 611 may be in communication with the processor 608 and the memory 609.

Those skilled in the art will also recognize that the various elements 601-607 described above may refer to a combination of analog and digital modules, and/or one or more processors configured with software and/or firmware, such as software and/or firmware stored in memory, that when executed by one or more processors (such as processor 608) perform the operations described above. One or more of these processors and other digital hardware may be included in a single Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), or several processors and various digital hardware may be distributed among several separate components, whether packaged separately or assembled into a system on a chip (SoC).

Furthermore, in some embodiments, the different units 601-607 described above may be implemented as one or more applications running on one or more processors (such as processor 608).

Thus, methods for wireless device 130 according to embodiments described herein may be implemented by means of a computer program 612 product, respectively, the computer program 612 product comprising instructions, i.e. software code portions, which when executed on at least one processor 608 cause the at least one processor 608 to perform the actions described herein, as performed by wireless device 130. The computer program 612 product may be stored on a computer readable storage medium 613. The computer-readable storage medium 613 storing the computer program 612 may include instructions that, when executed on the at least one processor 608, cause the at least one processor 608 to perform actions described herein as being performed by the wireless device 130. In some embodiments, computer readable storage medium 613 may be a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, such as a CD ROM disk or memory stick. In other embodiments, the computer program 612 product may be stored on a carrier containing the computer program 612 just described, wherein the carrier is one of an electronic signal, an optical signal, a radio signal, or a computer readable storage medium 613 as described above.

The wireless device 130 may include a communication interface configured to enable communication between the wireless device 130 and other nodes or devices (e.g., the network node 110). The interface may, for example, comprise a transceiver configured to transmit and receive radio signals over the air interface in accordance with a suitable standard.

In other embodiments, wireless device 130 may include the following devices shown in fig. 6 b. The wireless device 130 may include a processing circuit 608, such as one or more processors, such as the processor 608, in the wireless device 130 and memory 609. The wireless device 130 may also include a radio circuit 614, and the radio circuit 614 may include, for example, a receive port 610 and a transmit port 611. The processing circuit 614 may be configured or operable to perform the method acts in accordance with fig. 3 in a manner similar to that described with respect to fig. 6 a. The radio circuit 614 may be configured to at least establish and maintain a wireless connection with the network node 110. Circuitry is herein understood to be hardware components.

Accordingly, embodiments herein also relate to a wireless device 130 that includes a processing circuit 608 and a memory 609, the memory 609 including instructions executable by the processing circuit 608 such that the wireless device 130 is operable to perform actions described herein in relation to the wireless device 130, such as in fig. 3.

Fig. 7 depicts in pictures a) and b), respectively, two different examples of arrangements that the network node 110 may comprise to perform the method actions described above with respect to fig. 4. In some embodiments, the network node 110 may comprise the following arrangement depicted in fig. 7 a. Network node 110 may be understood to handle data transmissions from wireless device 130. The network node 110 and the wireless device 130 are configured to operate in the wireless communication network 100.

In fig. 7, the optional unit is indicated by a dashed box.

The network node 110 is configured to perform the receiving of the action 403, e.g. by means of a receiving unit 701 within the network node 110, the receiving unit 701 being configured to receive data from the wireless device 130 on one or more first resources during an inactive state of the wireless device 130.

The network node 110 is further configured to perform the determination of act 405, e.g. by means of a determination unit 702 within the network node 110, which one or more resources of the set of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device 130 is one of: i) One or more first resources configured to be selected by the wireless device 130 to transmit data, ii) unused, unselected remaining resources, and iii) set to inactive by the wireless device 130. The set of resources is configured to have correspondence to a plurality of beams or reference signals configured to be transmitted by the network node 110.

The buffer size of the wireless device 130 may be configured to be less than a threshold. The buffer may be configured to be a buffer for transmission of data.

The network node 110 may be configured to perform the sending of the action 402, e.g. by means of a sending unit 703 within the network node 110, the sending unit 703 being configured to send the first indication to the wireless device 130. The first indication may be configured to indicate that the second resource of the group is to be deactivated. The receiving of the data may be configured based on a first indication configured to be transmitted.

The network node 110 may be configured to perform the sending of the action 406, e.g. by means of a sending unit 703 within the network node 110, the sending unit 703 being configured to send a third indication to the wireless device 130. The third indication may be configured to indicate to release the unselected remaining resources. The transmitting may be configured based on the result of the determining.

The network node 110 may be configured to perform the receiving of the action 404, e.g. by means of a receiving unit 701 within the network node 110, the receiving unit 701 being configured to receive the second indication from the wireless device 130. The second indication may be configured to indicate one or more first resources configured to be selected. The sending of the third indication may be configured based on the second indication being configured to be received.

The network node 110 may be configured to perform the receiving of act 408, e.g. by means of a receiving unit 701 within the network node 110, the receiving unit 701 being configured to receive the fourth indication from the wireless device 130. The fourth indication may be configured to indicate that the one or more first resources configured to be selected are to be changed.

The network node 110 may be configured to perform the transmission of the action 409, e.g. by means of a transmission unit 703 within the network node 110, the transmission unit 703 being configured to transmit a fifth indication to the wireless device 130. The fifth indication may be configured to indicate a change from the one or more first resources configured to be selected to the one or more third resources of the group.

The network node 110 may be configured to perform the sending of the action 401, e.g. by means of a sending unit 703 within the network node 110, the sending unit 703 being configured to be sent a configuration configured to configure the set of resources for transmission occasions by the wireless device 130.

In some embodiments, one of the following is satisfied: a) The configuration may be configured to specify that each of the plurality of transmission occasions may be configured to correspond to a respective beam or reference signal, and b) the correspondence between each of the plurality of transmission occasions and the respective beam or reference signal may be configured to be specified by the respective configuration, and the configuration may be configured to include the respective configuration of all transmission occasions.

In some embodiments, the configuration may be configured to be transmitted to the wireless device 130 in at least one of: a first message configured to release the connection between the network node 110 and the wireless device 130, and b) a second dedicated message.

The network node 110 may be configured to perform the allocation of the action 407, e.g. by means of an allocation unit 705 within the network node 110, the allocation unit 705 being configured to allocate the unselected remaining resources to one or more other wireless devices 140.

Other units 705 may be included in the network node 110.

Embodiments in the network node 110 herein may be implemented by one or more processors, such as the processor 706 in the network node 110 shown in fig. 7a, and computer program code for performing the functions and actions of the embodiments herein. A processor as used herein may be understood as a hardware component. The above-mentioned program code may also be provided as a computer program product, e.g. in the form of a data carrier carrying computer program code for performing the embodiments herein when being loaded into the network node 110. One such carrier may be in the form of a CD ROM disc. However, it is also possible to use other data carriers, such as memory sticks. The computer program code may also be provided as pure program code on a server and downloaded to the network node 110.

The network node 110 may also include a memory 707, the memory 707 including one or more storage units. The memory 707 is arranged for storing the obtained information, storing data, configurations, scheduling and applications etc. to perform the methods herein when executed in the network node 110.

In some embodiments, network node 110 may receive information from, for example, wireless device 130 through receive port 708. In some embodiments, the receive port 708 may be connected to one or more antennas in the network node 110, for example. In other embodiments, the network node 110 may receive information from another structure in the wireless communication network 100 through the receive port 708. Since the receive port 708 may be in communication with the processor 706, the receive port 708 may then send the received information to the processor 706. The receiving port 708 may also be configured to be received with other information.

The processor 706 in the network node 110 may also be configured to transmit or send information to, for example, the wireless device 130 or another structure in the wireless communication network 100 through a transmit port 709, which transmit port 709 may be in communication with the processor 706 and the memory 707.

Those skilled in the art will also recognize that the various elements 701-705 described above may refer to a combination of analog and digital modules, and/or one or more processors configured with software and/or firmware, such as software and/or firmware stored in memory, that when executed by one or more processors (such as processor 706) perform the operations described above. One or more of these processors and other digital hardware may be included in a single Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), or several processors and various digital hardware may be distributed among several separate components, whether packaged separately or assembled into a system on a chip (SoC).

Furthermore, in some embodiments, the various elements 701-705 described above may be implemented as one or more applications running on one or more processors (such as processor 706).

Thus, the methods according to embodiments described herein for the network node 110 may be implemented by a computer program 710 product comprising instructions, i.e. software code portions, respectively, which when executed on the at least one processor 706, cause the at least one processor 706 to perform the actions described herein, as performed by the network node 110. The computer program 710 product may be stored on a computer readable storage medium 711. The computer-readable storage medium 711 storing the computer program 710 may comprise instructions that, when executed on the at least one processor 706, cause the at least one processor 706 to perform actions described herein as being performed by the network node 110. In some embodiments, the computer readable storage medium 711 may be a non-transitory computer readable storage medium such as a CD ROM disk or memory stick. In other embodiments, the computer program 710 product may be stored on a carrier containing the computer program 710 just described, wherein the carrier is one of an electronic signal, an optical signal, a radio signal or a computer readable storage medium 711 as described above.

Network node 110 may include a communication interface configured to enable communication between network node 110 and other nodes or devices (e.g., wireless device 130). The interface may, for example, comprise a transceiver configured to transmit and receive radio signals over the air interface in accordance with a suitable standard.

In other embodiments, the network node 110 may comprise the following arrangement shown in fig. 7 b. The network node 110 may include processing circuitry 706 in the network node 110, for example one or more processors, such as processor 706, and memory 707. The network node 110 may also include a radio circuit 712, the radio circuit 712 may include, for example, a receive port 708 and a transmit port 709. The processing circuit 706 may be configured or operable to perform the method acts in accordance with fig. 4 in a similar manner as described with respect to fig. 7 a. The radio circuit 712 may be configured to establish and maintain at least a wireless connection with the wireless device 130. Circuitry is herein understood to be hardware components.

Accordingly, embodiments herein also relate to a network node 110 comprising a processing circuit 706 and a memory 707, said memory 707 containing instructions executable by said processing circuit 706, whereby the network node 110 is operable to perform the actions described herein in relation to the network node 110, e.g. in fig. 4.

In general, all terms used herein should be interpreted according to their ordinary meaning in the relevant art unless explicitly given and/or implied by different meaning from the context in which they are used. All references to an/the/element, means, component, means, step, etc. should be interpreted openly as referring to at least one instance of the element, means, component, means, step, etc. Unless explicitly stated otherwise. The steps of any method disclosed herein do not have to be performed in the exact order disclosed, unless explicitly described as being subsequent to or prior to another step, and/or implicitly steps must be subsequent to or prior to another step. Any feature of any embodiment disclosed herein may be applied to any other embodiment where appropriate. Likewise, any advantages of any embodiment may apply to any other embodiment and vice versa. Other objects, features and advantages of the attached embodiments will become apparent from the following description.

The expression "at least one" as used herein: "comma separated list of alternatives with the last alternative preceded by the term" and "is to be understood as only one list of alternatives applies, more than one list of alternatives applies or all lists of alternatives apply. The expression may be understood as equivalent to the expression "at least one: "followed by a series of choices separated by commas, and wherein the last choice is preceded by the term" or ".

Examples related to embodiments herein:

more specifically, the following are embodiments related to a wireless device (such as wireless device 130, e.g., a 5G UE or UE), and embodiments related to a network node (such as network node 110, e.g., a gNB or eNB).

The wireless device 130 embodiments relate to fig. 8, 5, 6, and 10-15.

Methods performed by a wireless device, such as wireless device 130, are described herein. The method may be understood as a transmission to a network node (such as network node 110) for processing data. The wireless device 130 and the network node 100 may operate in a wireless communication network, such as the wireless communication network 100.

In some examples, the data may be "small data".

The first method may include one or more of the following actions.

In some embodiments, all actions may be performed. Where applicable, one or more embodiments may be combined. Not all possible combinations are described in order to simplify the description. A non-limiting example of a method performed by wireless device 130 is depicted in fig. 8. In fig. 8, the optional actions are indicated by dashed lines. These actions may be performed in a different order than shown in fig. 8.

Data, e.g. first data, is sent 305 to the network node 110. The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the transmitting act 305, for example by means of a transmitting unit 601 within the wireless device 130 configured to perform the act.

The transmission of data (e.g., first data) in this act 305 may occur during an inactive state of the wireless device 130. The inactive state may be defined, for example, in 5G or in a newer system with equivalent functionality.

The transmission in this act 305 may be on one or more first resources. Each of the one or more resources may correspond to a license for the configuration. The one or more first resources may be time frequency resources, e.g. radio resources.

The one or more first resources may be one or more transmission occasions, which may correspond to one or more beams and/or one or more reference signals.

The one or more first resources may be selected from a set of resources configured for use by the wireless device 130 for transmission opportunities. The set of resources may have correspondence to a plurality of beams or reference signals. The reference signal may be, for example, a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), which may be transmitted by the network node 110.

The first data may be user plane data.

The transmitting in act 305 may be performed if the buffer size of wireless device 130 is less than a threshold. The buffer may be a buffer for transmission, which may be referred to herein as a transmission buffer.

The sending in this act 305 may be performed via the first link 141.

In some embodiments, the method may further comprise one or more of the following acts:

the unselected remaining resources of the group are set 306 to inactive. The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the setting action 306, for example by means of a setting unit 306 within the wireless device 130 configured to perform the action.

The remaining resources that are not selected may be one or more unselected transmission opportunities, and/or one or more unselected beams.

The remaining resources not selected are released 308. The remaining resources that are not selected may have been set to inactive. The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the release action 308, for example by means of a release unit 603 within the wireless device 130 configured to perform the action.

A first indication is received 302. The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the receiving act 302, for example by means of a receiving unit 604 within the wireless device 130 configured to perform the act.

The first indication may be received from the network node 110.

In other examples, the receiving in this act 302 may be performed, for example, via the first link 141.

The first indication may indicate that the second resource of the group is deactivated. The setting 306 of the remaining resources set to inactive may be based on the received first indication.

A second indication is sent 304. The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the transmitting act 304, for example by means of a transmitting unit 601 within the wireless device 130 configured to perform the act.

The transmission in this act 304 may be transmitted to the network node 110.

The second indication may indicate the selected one or more first resources. The remaining resources for which release 308 is set to inactive may be based on the transmitted second indication. This may be because, for example, network node 110 may request that wireless device 130 release the remaining resources that were not indicated as having been selected by wireless device 130.

The sending in this act 304 may be performed via the first link 141.

A third indication is received 307. The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the receiving act 307, for example by means of a receiving unit 604 within the wireless device 130 configured to perform the act.

The first indication may be received from the network node 110.

In other examples, the receiving in this act 302 may be performed via the first link 141.

The third indication may indicate to release the unselected remaining resources that are set to inactive. The release in act 308 may be based on the received third indication.

A fourth indication is sent 309. The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the transmitting act 309, for example by means of a transmitting unit 601 within the wireless device 130 configured to perform the act.

The transmission in this act 309 may be transmitted to the network node 110.

The fourth indication may indicate that one or more selected first resources are to be changed. This may be because, for example, the wireless device 130 may have detected (e.g., may perform measurements) that it may be understood that another beam corresponding to another transmission opportunity is stronger than the currently used beam.

The sending in this act 309 may be performed via the first link 141.

A fifth indication is obtained 310. The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the acquiring act 310, for example by means of an acquiring unit 605 within the wireless device 130 configured to perform the act.

The fifth indication may indicate a change from the one or more selected first resources to the one or more third resources of the group. Obtaining the fifth indication may be based on the transmitted fourth indication.

Based on the obtained fifth indication, one or more third resources of the group are selected 311 for transmitting further data. The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the selection action 311, for example by means of a selection unit 606 within the wireless device 130 configured to perform the action.

The configuration is acquired 301. The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the acquiring act 301, for example by means of an acquiring unit 605 within the wireless device 130 configured to perform the act.

The configuration may be obtained from the network node 110 in at least one of: i) A first message releasing the connection between the network node 110 and the wireless device 130, and ii) a second dedicated message.

One or more first resources of the group are selected 303. The wireless device 130 may be configured to perform the selection action 303, for example by means of a selection unit 606 within the wireless device 130 configured to perform the action.

The selection in this act 303 may be based on one or more criteria.

In some embodiments, the wireless communication network 100 may support at least one of: new Radio (NR), long Term Evolution (LTE), machine LTE (LTE-M), enhanced machine type communication (eMTC), and narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT).

Other units 607 may be included in the wireless device 130.

The wireless device 130 may also be configured to communicate user data with a host application unit in the host computer 1110, for example via another link, such as 1160.

In fig. 6, the optional unit is indicated by a dashed box.

The wireless device 130 may include an interface unit to enable communication between the wireless device 130 and other nodes or devices (e.g., the network node 110, the host computer 1110, or any other node). In some particular examples, the interface may, for example, include a transceiver configured to transmit and receive radio signals over an air interface according to a suitable standard.

The wireless device 130 may include an arrangement as shown in fig. 6 or fig. 11.

The network node 110 embodiments relate to fig. 9, 5, 7 and 10-15.

Methods performed by a network node, such as network node 110, are described herein. The method may be understood as for handling data transmissions from a wireless device, such as wireless device 110. The wireless device 130 and the network node 100 may operate in a wireless communication network, such as the wireless communication network 100.

In some examples, the data may be "small data".

The method may include one or more of the following acts.

In some embodiments, all actions may be performed. Where applicable, one or more embodiments may be combined. For simplicity of description, not all possible combinations are described. A non-limiting example of a method performed by the network node 110 is depicted in fig. 9. In fig. 9, the optional actions are represented by dashed lines.

With respect to the actions described for wireless device 130, the detailed description of some of the following corresponds to the same references provided above, and thus, for simplicity of description, will not be repeated here. These actions may be performed in a different order than shown in fig. 9. For example, the one or more first resources may be one or more transmission opportunities, which may correspond to one or more beams and/or one or more reference signals.

Data, such as first data, is received 403 from the wireless device 130. The network node 110 may be configured to perform the receiving action 403, for example by means of a receiving unit 701 within the network node 110 configured to perform the action.

The receipt of data (e.g., first data) in this act 403 may occur during an inactive state of the wireless device 130. The inactive state may be defined, for example, in 5G or in a newer system with equivalent functionality.

The receiving in act 305 may be performed on one or more first resources. The first data may be user plane data.

The receiving in act 305 may occur if the size of the buffer of wireless device 130 is less than a threshold. The buffer may be a buffer for transmission, which may be referred to herein as a transmission buffer.

The receiving in this act 403 may be performed via the first link 141.

In some embodiments, the method may include, for example, further comprising one or more of the following acts:

determining 405 which one or more resources may be one of: i) Selected by the wireless device 130, e.g., as one or more first resources, ii) unused, unselected remaining resources, and/or iii) set to inactive by the wireless device 130. The network node 110 may be configured to perform this determination action 405, e.g. by means of a determination unit 702 within the network node 110 configured to perform the action.

The one or more resources may be resources of the set of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device 130.

The set of resources may have correspondence to multiple beams or reference signals, such as Synchronization Signal Blocks (SSBs) transmitted by network node 110.

The determination in act 405 may be based on the received data 403, i.e., based on one or more first resources on which data may have been received in act 403.

For example, a first indication is sent 402 to the wireless device 130. The network node 110 may be configured to perform this transmission action 402, for example by means of a transmission unit 703 within the network node 110 configured to perform the action.

The first indication may indicate that the second resource of the group is deactivated. The receiving of the data in act 403 may be based on the transmitted first indication.

The sending in this action 403 may be performed via the first link 141.

A third indication is sent 406. The network node 110 may be configured to perform this transmission action 406, for example by means of a transmission unit 703 within the network node 110 configured to perform this action.

The transmission in this act 406 may be transmitted to the wireless device 130 via the first link 141.

The third indication may indicate that the remaining resources that were not selected are released, e.g. set to inactive. The sending in this act 406 may be based on the result of the determination.

A second indication is received 404. The network node 110 may be configured to perform the receiving action 404, for example by means of a receiving unit 701 within the network node 110 configured to perform the action.

The receipt of the second indication may be from the wireless device 130.

The second indication may indicate the selected one or more first resources. Sending the third indication in this act 406 may be based on the received second indication.

The receiving in this act 404 may be performed via the first link 141.

A fourth indication is received 408. The network node 110 may be configured to perform the receiving action 408, for example by means of a receiving unit 701 within the network node 110 configured to perform the action.

The receipt of the fourth indication may be from the wireless device 130.

The fourth indication may indicate that one or more selected first resources are to be changed.

The receiving in act 408 may be performed via the first link 141.

A fifth indication is sent 409. The network node 110 may be configured to perform the sending action 409, e.g. by means of a sending unit 703 within the network node 110 configured to perform the action.

A fifth indication may be sent to the wireless device 130.

The fifth indication may indicate a change from the one or more selected first resources to the one or more third resources of the group.

The transmission in this act 409 may be performed via the first link 141.

The configuration is sent 401. The network node 110 may be configured to perform the sending action 401, e.g. by means of a sending unit 703 within the network node 110 configured to perform the action.

The configuration may be sent to the wireless device 130.

The configuration may be obtained in at least one of the following for transmission to wireless device 130: i) A first message releasing the connection between the network node 110 and the wireless device 130, and ii) a second dedicated message.

The sending in this act 401 may be performed via the first link 141.

The unselected remaining resources are allocated 407 to one or more other wireless devices 140. The network node 110 may be configured to perform the allocation action 407, for example by means of an allocation unit 705 within the network node 110 configured to perform the action.

Allocation may be understood as, for example, dispatch.

Other units 705 may be included in the network node 110.

The network node 110 may also be configured for user data communication with a host application unit in the host computer 1110, e.g., via another link, such as 1160.

In fig. 7, the optional unit is indicated by a dashed box.

Network node 110 may include interface elements to enable communication between network node 110 and other nodes or devices, such as wireless device 130, host computer 1110, or any other node. In some particular examples, the interface may, for example, include a transceiver configured to transmit and receive radio signals over an air interface according to a suitable standard.

The network node 110 may comprise an apparatus as shown in fig. 7 or fig. 11.

Examples of choices:

example 1. A method performed by a wireless device (130) for handling transmission of data to a network node (110), the wireless device (130) and the network node (110) operating in a wireless communication network (100), the method comprising:

transmitting (305) data to the network node (110) during an inactive state of the wireless device (130) on one or more first resources selected from a group of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device (130), wherein the group of resources has correspondence with a plurality of beams or reference signals (e.g. synchronization signal blocks, SSBs) transmitted by the network node (110), and

the unselected remaining resources of the group are set (306) to inactive.

Example 2. The method of example 1, wherein the data is user plane data, and wherein a size of a buffer of the wireless device (130) is less than a threshold, the buffer being a buffer for data transmission.

Example 3. The method of any of examples 1-2, wherein the method further comprises:

the remaining resources not selected, which were set to inactive, are released (308).

Example 4. The method of example 3, wherein the method further comprises at least one of:

receiving (302) a first indication from the network node (110), the first indication indicating that a second resource of the group is to be deactivated, and wherein the setting (306) of remaining resources set to inactive is based on the received first indication,

transmitting (304) a second indication to the network node (110), the second indication indicating the selected one or more first resources, and wherein releasing (308) the remaining resources set to inactive is based on the transmitted second indication, and

-receiving (307) a third indication from the network node (110), the third indication indicating that the non-selected remaining resources set to be inactive are released, and wherein the releasing (308) is based on the received third indication.

Example 5. The method of any of examples 1-4, wherein the method further comprises:

sending (309) a fourth indication to the network node (110), the fourth indication indicating that the selected one or more first resources are to be changed,

obtaining (310) a fifth indication from the network node (110), the fifth indication indicating a change from the one or more selected first resources to the one or more third resources of the group, and

Based on the obtained fifth indication, one or more third resources of the group are selected (311) for transmitting further data.

Example 6. The method of any of examples 1-5, wherein the method further comprises:

the configuration is obtained (301).

Example 7. The method of example 6, wherein one of:

the configuration specifies that each of a plurality of transmission occasions corresponds to a respective beam or reference signal, an

The correspondence between each of the plurality of transmission occasions and a respective beam or reference signal is specified by a respective configuration, and wherein the configuration includes a respective configuration for all transmission occasions.

Example 8. The method of any of examples 6-7, wherein the configuration is obtained from the network node (110) in at least one of:

a first message releasing the connection between the network node (110) and the wireless device (130), and a second dedicated message.

Example 9. The method of any of examples 1-8, wherein the method further comprises:

one or more first resources of the set are selected (303) based on one or more criteria.

Example 10. A method performed by a network node (110) for handling transmission of data from a wireless device (130), the network node (110) and the wireless device (130) operating in a wireless communication network (100), the method comprising:

During an inactive state of the wireless device (130), receiving (403) data from the wireless device (130) on one or more first resources, and

determining (405) which one or more of a set of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device (130) has been one of one or more first resources and/or unused unselected remaining resources selected by the wireless device (130) to transmit data, or resources set to be inactive by the wireless device (130), wherein the set of resources has correspondence with a plurality of beams or reference signals (e.g. synchronization signal blocks SSBs) transmitted by the network node (110).

Example 11. The method of example 10, wherein the data is user plane data, and wherein a size of a buffer of the wireless device (130) is less than a threshold, the buffer being a buffer for transmitting data.

Example 12. The method of any of examples 10-11, wherein the method further comprises at least one of:

transmitting (402) a first indication to the wireless device (130), the first indication indicating that the second resource of the group is to be deactivated, and wherein the receiving (403) of the data is based on the transmitted first indication,

-transmitting (406) a third indication to the wireless device (130), the third indication indicating that the unselected remaining resources are released, e.g. set to inactive, and wherein the transmitting (406) is based on the result of the determination.

Example 13. The method of example 12, wherein the method further comprises:

a second indication is received (404) from the wireless device (130), the second indication indicating the selected one or more first resources, and wherein the sending (406) of the third indication is based on the received second indication.

Example 14. The method of any of examples 10-13, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving (408) a fourth indication from the wireless device (130), the fourth indication indicating that the selected one or more first resources are to be changed,

a fifth indication is sent (409) to the wireless device (130), the fifth indication indicating a change from the selected one or more first resources to the one or more third resources of the group.

Example 15. The method of any of examples 10-14, wherein the method further comprises:

the configuration is sent (401).

Example 16. The method of example 15, wherein one of:

Example 17. The method of any of examples 15-16, wherein the configuration is transmitted to the wireless device (130) in at least one of:

Example 18. The method of any of examples 10-17, wherein the method further comprises:

the unselected remaining resources are allocated (407) to one or more other wireless devices (140).

Further extensions and variants

Fig. 10: telecommunication network connected to host computer via intermediate network according to some embodiments

Referring to fig. 10, according to an embodiment, the communication system comprises a telecommunication network 1010, such as a wireless communication network 100, e.g. a 3GPP cellular network, comprising an access network 1011, such as a radio access network and a core network 1014. Access network 1011 includes a plurality of network nodes, such as network node 110. For example, base stations 1012a, 1012b, 1012c, such as NB, eNB, gNB or other types of wireless access points, each defining a respective coverage area 1013a, 1013b, 1013c. Each base station 1012a, 1012b, 1012c may be connected to a core network 1014 through a wired or wireless connection 1015. A plurality of user devices, such as wireless device 130, are included in the wireless communication network 100. In fig. 10, a first UE 1091 located in coverage area 1013c is configured to be wirelessly connected to or paged by a corresponding base station 1012 c. The second UE 1092 in coverage area 1013a may be wirelessly connected to a corresponding base station 1012a. Although multiple UEs 1091, 1092 are shown in this example, the disclosed embodiments are equally applicable where a single UE is in a coverage area or where a single UE is connected to a corresponding base station 1012. Any UE 1091, 1092 is an example of a wireless device 130.

The telecommunications network 1010 is itself connected to a host computer 1030, which host computer 1030 may be embodied as a stand-alone server, cloud-implemented server, hardware and/or software of a distributed server, or as processing resources in a server farm. Host computer 1030 may be owned or controlled by a service provider or may be operated by or on behalf of a service provider. The connections 1021 and 1022 between the telecommunications network 1010 and the host computer 1030 may extend directly from the core network 1014 to the host computer 1030, or may be via an optional intermediate network 1020. The intermediate network 1020 may be a combination of one or more of public, private, or hosted networks; intermediate network 1020 (if any) may be a backbone network or the internet; in particular, the intermediate network 1020 may include two or more subnetworks (not shown).

The communication system of fig. 10 as a whole enables a connection between connected UEs 1091, 1092 and a host computer 1030. This connection may be described as an Over The Top (OTT) connection 1050. Host computer 1030 and connected UEs 1091, 1092 are configured to transmit data and/or signaling via OTT connection 1050 using access network 1011, core network 1014, any intermediate network 1020, and possibly other infrastructure (not shown) as intermediaries. OTT connection 1050 may be transparent in the sense that the participating communication devices through which OTT connection 1050 passes are unaware of the routing of uplink and downlink communications. For example, the base station 1012 may not be notified or need to be notified of past routes of incoming downlink communications from the host computer 1030 that data is to be forwarded (e.g., handed off) to the connected UE 1091. Similarly, base station 1012 need not know the future route of outgoing uplink communications initiated from UE 1091 to host computer 1030.

With respect to fig. 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, which are described below, it is to be understood that the UE is an example of a wireless device 130, and any description provided for the UE applies equally to the wireless device 130. It is also understood that a base station is an example of a network node 110, and any description provided for a base station applies equally to a network node 110.

Fig. 11: according to some embodiments, a host computer communicates with a user device over a portion of a wireless connection through a base station.

According to an embodiment, an example implementation of the wireless device 130 (e.g. UE), the network node 110 (e.g. base station and host computer) discussed in the preceding paragraphs will now be described with reference to fig. 11. In a communication system 1100, such as the wireless communication network 100, the host computer 1110 includes hardware 1115, the hardware 1115 including a communication interface 1116, the communication interface 1116 configured to establish and maintain wired or wireless connections with interfaces of different communication devices of the communication system 1100. Host computer 1110 further includes processing circuitry 1118, which may have storage and/or processing capabilities. In particular, processing circuitry 1118 may include one or more programmable processors adapted to execute instructions, application specific integrated circuits, field programmable gate arrays, or combinations thereof (not shown). The host computer 1110 further includes software 1111, which software 1111 is stored in the host computer 1110 or is accessible by the host computer 1110 and executable by the processing circuitry 1118. The software 1111 includes a host application 1112. Host application 1112 may be used to provide services to remote users, such as UE 1130 connected via OTT connection 1150 with UE 1130 and host computer 1110 as endpoints. In providing services to remote users, host application 1112 may provide user data transmitted using OTT connection 1150.

The communication system 1100 further comprises a network node 110, which in fig. 11 is exemplified as a base station 1120 provided in a telecommunication system, and comprises hardware 1125 enabling it to communicate with a host computer 1110 and a UE 1130. The hardware 1125 may include a communication interface 1126 for establishing and maintaining wired or wireless connections with interfaces of different communication devices of the communication system 1100, and a radio interface 1127 for establishing and maintaining at least a wireless connection 1170 with a wireless device 130, the wireless device 130 being illustrated in fig. 11 as a UE 1130 located in a coverage area (not shown in fig. 11) serviced by the base station 1120. The communication interface 1126 may be configured to enable a connection 1160 to the host computer 1110. The connection 1160 may be direct or it may be through a core network of the telecommunications system (not shown in fig. 11) and/or through one or more intermediate networks external to the telecommunications system. In the illustrated embodiment, the hardware 1125 of the base station 1120 further includes processing circuitry 1128, which processing circuitry 1128 may include one or more programmable processors, application specific integrated circuits, field programmable gate arrays, or a combination of these (not shown) adapted for executing instructions. The base station 1120 further has software 1121 stored internally or accessible via an external connection.

The communication system 1100 further includes the already mentioned UE 1130. Its hardware 1135 may include a radio interface 1137, which radio interface 1137 is configured to establish and maintain a wireless connection 1170 with a base station serving the coverage area in which the UE 1130 is currently located. The hardware 1135 of the UE 1130 further includes processing circuitry 1138, which processing circuitry 1138 may include one or more programmable processors adapted to execute instructions, application specific integrated circuits, field programmable gate arrays, or a combination of these (not shown). The UE 1130 further includes software 1131, the software 1131 being stored in the UE 1130 or accessible to the UE 1130 and executable by the processing circuitry 1138. The software 1131 includes a client application 1132. The client application 1132 may provide services to human or non-human users via the UE 1130 under the support of the host computer 1110. In host computer 1110, executing host application 1112 may communicate with executing client application 1132 via OTT connection 1150 that is endpoint to UE 1130 and host computer 1110. In providing services to users, client application 1132 may receive request data from host application 1112 and provide user data in response to the request data. OTT connection 1150 may transmit request data and user data. The client application 1132 may interact with the user to generate user data that it provides.

Note that host computer 1110, base station 1120, and UE 1130 shown in fig. 11 may be similar to or the same as host computer 1030, one of base stations 1012a, 1012b, 1012c, and one of UEs 1091, 1092, respectively, in fig. 10. That is, the internal workings of these entities may be as shown in fig. 11, and independently, the surrounding network topology may be as shown in fig. 10.

In fig. 11, OTT connection 1150 is abstractly drawn to illustrate communications between host computer 1110 and UE 1130 via base station 1120, without explicit mention of any intermediate devices and precise routing of messages through these devices. The network infrastructure may determine a route, which may be configured to be hidden from the UE 1130 or from the service provider operating the host computer 1110, or both. When OTT connection 1150 is active, the network infrastructure may further make decisions by which to dynamically change routes (e.g., based on load balancing considerations or reconfiguration of the network).

The wireless connection 1170 between the UE 1130 and the base station 1120 is consistent with the teachings of the embodiments described in this disclosure. One or more of the various embodiments improve the performance of OTT services provided to UE 1130 using OTT connection 1150, with wireless connection 1170 forming the last segment. More precisely, the teachings of these embodiments may improve latency, signaling overhead, and service interruption, providing advantages such as reduced user latency, better responsiveness, and extended battery life.

A measurement process may be provided for monitoring data rate, latency, and other factors that may improve one or more embodiments. There may also be optional network functions for reconfiguring the OTT connection 1150 between the host computer 1110 and the UE 1130 in response to a change in the measurement results. The measurement procedures and/or network functions for reconfiguring OTT connection 1150 may be implemented in software 1111 and hardware 1115 of host computer 1110, or in software 1131 and hardware 1135 of UE 1130, or in both. In an embodiment, a sensor (not shown) may be deployed in or associated with a communication device through which OTT connection 1150 passes; the sensor may participate in the measurement process by providing a value of the monitored quantity of upper Wen Lishi, or other physical quantity from which software 1111, 1131 may calculate or estimate the monitored quantity. Reconfiguration of OTT connection 1150 may include message format, retransmission settings, preferred routing, etc.; the reconfiguration need not affect the base station 1120 and the base station 1120 may not be known or perceived. In particular embodiments, the measurements may involve proprietary UE signaling that enables the host computer 1110 to measure throughput, propagation time, latency, etc. Measurements may be performed such that software 1111 and 1131 transmit messages, particularly empty or "dummy" messages, using OTT connection 1150 while monitoring for propagation times, errors, etc.

The wireless device 130 embodiments relate to fig. 3, 5, 6, and 10-15.

The wireless device 130 may include an interface unit to enable communication between the wireless device 130 and other nodes or devices (e.g., the network node 110, the host computer 1110, or any other node). In some particular examples, the interface may include, for example, a transceiver configured to transmit and receive radio signals over the air interface according to a suitable standard.

The network node 110 embodiments relate to fig. 4, 5, 7 and 10 and 15.

Network node 110 may include interface elements to enable communication between network node 110 and other nodes or devices, such as wireless device 130, host computer 1110, or any other node. In some particular examples, the interface may include, for example, a transceiver configured to transmit and receive radio signals over the air interface according to a suitable standard.

The network node 110 may comprise an arrangement as shown in fig. 7 or fig. 11.

Fig. 12: according to some embodiments, a method is implemented in a communication system including a host computer, a base station, and a user device.

Fig. 12 is a flow chart illustrating a method implemented in a communication system according to one embodiment. The communication system includes a host computer, a base station, and a UE, which may be those described with reference to fig. 10 and 11. To simplify the present disclosure, this section will include only reference to the drawing of fig. 12. At step 1210, the host computer provides user data. In sub-step 1211 of step 1210 (which may be optional), the host computer provides user data by executing a host application. In step 1220, the host computer initiates a transmission to the UE carrying user data. In step 1230 (which may be optional), the base station transmits user data carried in the host computer initiated transmission to the UE in accordance with the teachings of the embodiments described in the present disclosure. In step 1240 (which may also be optional), the UE executes a client application associated with a host application executed by the host computer.

Fig. 13: according to some embodiments, a method is implemented in a communication system including a host computer, a base station, and a user device.

Fig. 13 is a flow chart illustrating a method implemented in a communication system according to one embodiment. The communication system includes a host computer, a base station, and a UE, which may be those described with reference to fig. 10 and 11. To simplify the present disclosure, this section will include only reference to the drawing of fig. 13. In step 1310 of the method, the host computer provides user data. In an optional sub-step (not shown), the host computer provides user data by executing the host application. In step 1320, the host computer initiates a transmission to the UE carrying user data. Transmissions may be communicated via a base station in accordance with the teachings of the embodiments described in this disclosure. In step 1330 (which may be optional), the UE receives user data carried in the transmission.

Fig. 14: according to some embodiments, a method is implemented in a communication system including a host computer, a base station, and a user device.

Fig. 14 is a flow chart illustrating a method implemented in a communication system according to one embodiment. The communication system includes a host computer, a base station, and a UE, which may be those described with reference to fig. 10 and 11. To simplify the present disclosure, this section will include only reference to the drawing of fig. 14. In step 1410 (which may be optional), the UE receives input data provided by a host computer. Additionally or alternatively, in step 1420, the UE provides user data. In sub-step 1421 of step 1420 (which may be optional), the UE provides user data by executing a client application. In sub-step 1411 of step 1410 (which may be optional), the UE executes a client application that provides user data in response to received input data provided by the host computer. The executed client application may further consider user input received from the user in providing the user data. Regardless of the particular manner in which the user data is provided, in sub-step 1430 (which may be optional), the UE initiates transmission of the user data to the host computer. In step 1440 of the method, the host computer receives user data transmitted from the UE in accordance with the teachings of the embodiments described in the present disclosure.

Fig. 15: according to some embodiments, a method implemented in a communication system comprising a host computer, a base station, and a user device.

Fig. 15 is a flow chart illustrating a method implemented in a communication system according to one embodiment. The communication system includes a host computer, a base station, and a UE, which may be those described with reference to fig. 10 and 11. For simplicity of the present disclosure, this section will include only reference to the drawing of fig. 15. At step 1510 (which may be optional), the base station receives user data from the UE in accordance with the teachings of the embodiments described in the present disclosure. In step 1520 (which may be optional), the base station initiates transmission of the received user data to the host computer. In step 1530 (which may be optional), the host computer receives user data carried in the transmission initiated by the base station.

Any suitable step, method, feature, function, or advantage disclosed herein may be performed by one or more functional units or modules of one or more virtual devices. Each virtual device may include a plurality of such functional units. These functional units may be implemented via processing circuitry, which may include one or more microprocessors or microcontrollers, as well as other digital hardware, which may include a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), dedicated digital logic, or the like. The processing circuitry may be configured to execute program code stored in a memory, which may include one or more types of memory, such as Read Only Memory (ROM), random Access Memory (RAM), cache memory, flash memory devices, optical storage devices, and the like. The program code stored in the memory includes program instructions for performing one or more telecommunications and/or data communication protocols, and instructions for performing one or more of the techniques described herein. In some implementations, processing circuitry may be used to cause respective functional units to perform respective functions in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure.

The term "unit" may have a conventional meaning in the field of electronic devices, electrical devices and/or electronic devices and may include, for example, electrical and/or electronic circuits, devices, modules, processors, memory, logical solid state and/or discrete devices, computer programs or instructions for performing the corresponding tasks, procedures, calculations, output and/or display functions, and the like, such as described herein.

More numbered embodiments

1. A base station configured to communicate with a User Equipment (UE), the base station comprising a radio interface and processing circuitry configured to perform one or more actions described herein as being performed by network node 110.

5. A communication system including a host computer, comprising:

processing circuitry configured to provide user data; and

a communication interface configured to forward user data to a cellular network for transmission to a User Equipment (UE),

wherein the cellular network comprises a base station having a radio interface and processing circuitry configured to perform one or more actions described herein as being performed by the network node 110.

6. The communication system of embodiment 5, further comprising a base station.

7. The communication system of embodiment 6, further comprising a UE, wherein the UE is configured to communicate with the base station.

8. The communication system of embodiment 7, wherein:

the processing circuitry of the host computer is configured to execute the host application to provide user data; and

the UE includes processing circuitry configured to execute a client application associated with a host application.

11. A method implemented in a base station comprising one or more actions described herein as being performed by network node 110.

15. A method implemented in a communication system including a host computer, a base station, and a User Equipment (UE), the method comprising:

providing user data at a host computer; and

transmission of the carried user data to the UE via the cellular network including the base station is initiated at the host computer, wherein the base station performs one or more actions described herein as being performed by the network node 110.

16. The method according to embodiment 15, further comprising:

user data is transmitted at the base station.

17. The method of embodiment 16 wherein the user data is provided on the host computer by executing a host application, the method further comprising:

A client application associated with a host application is executed at a UE.

21. A User Equipment (UE) configured to communicate with a base station, the UE comprising a radio interface and processing circuitry configured to perform one or more actions described herein as being performed by wireless device 130.

25. A communication system including a host computer, comprising:

processing circuitry configured to provide user data; and

wherein the UE includes a radio interface and processing circuitry configured to perform one or more actions described herein as being performed by the wireless device 130.

26. The communication system of embodiment 25, further comprising a UE.

27. The communication system of embodiment 26 wherein the cellular network further comprises a base station configured to communicate with the UE.

28. The communication system according to embodiment 26 or 27, wherein:

the processing circuitry of the UE is configured to execute a client application associated with the host application.

31. A method implemented in a User Equipment (UE) comprising one or more actions described herein as being performed by wireless device 130.

35. A method implemented in a communication system including a host computer, a base station, and a User Equipment (UE), the method comprising:

providing user data at a host computer; and

a transmission carrying user data is initiated at the host computer to the UE via the cellular network including the base station, wherein the UE performs one or more actions described herein as being performed by the wireless device 130.

36. The method of embodiment 35, further comprising:

user data is received at the UE from the base station.

41. A User Equipment (UE) configured to communicate with a base station, the UE comprising a radio interface and processing circuitry configured to perform one or more actions described herein as being performed by wireless device 130.

45. A communication system including a host computer, comprising:

a communication interface configured to be received user data originating from a transmission from a User Equipment (UE) to a base station,

wherein the UE comprises a radio interface and processing circuitry, the processing circuitry of the UE configured to: one or more actions described herein as being performed by the wireless device 130 are performed.

46. The communication system of embodiment 45, further comprising a UE.

47. The communication system of embodiment 46 further comprising a base station, wherein the base station includes a radio interface configured to communicate with the UE and a communication interface configured to forward user data carried by transmissions from the UE to the base station to the host computer.

48. The communication system of embodiment 46 or 47, wherein:

the processing circuitry of the host computer is configured to execute a host application; and

the processing circuitry of the UE is configured to execute a client application associated with the host application to provide user data.

49. The communication system of embodiment 46 or 47, wherein:

the processing circuitry of the host computer is configured to execute the host application to provide the requested data; and

the processing circuitry of the UE is configured to execute a client application associated with the host application to provide user data in response to the request data.

51. A method implemented in a User Equipment (UE) comprising one or more actions described herein as being performed by wireless device 130.

52. The method of embodiment 51, further comprising:

providing user data; and

The user data is forwarded to the host computer via a transmission to the base station.

55. A method implemented in a communication system including a host computer, a base station, and a User Equipment (UE), the method comprising:

user data transmitted from the UE to the base station is received at the host computer, wherein the UE performs one or more actions described herein as being performed by the wireless device 130.

56. The method of embodiment 55, further comprising:

user data is provided to the base station at the UE.

57. The method of embodiment 56, further comprising:

executing a client application at the UE, thereby providing user data to be transmitted; and

a host application associated with a client application is executed at a host computer.

58. The method of embodiment 56, further comprising:

executing the client application at the UE; and

input data for a client application is received at a UE, the input data being provided at a host computer by executing a host application associated with the client application,

wherein the user data to be transmitted is provided by the client application in response to the input data.

61. A base station configured to communicate with a User Equipment (UE), the base station comprising a radio interface and processing circuitry configured to perform one or more actions described herein as being performed by network node 110.

65. A communication system comprising a host computer, the host computer comprising a communication interface configured to be received user data originating from a transmission from a User Equipment (UE) to a base station, wherein the base station comprises a radio interface and processing circuitry configured to perform one or more actions described herein as being performed by the network node 110.

66. The communication system of embodiment 65 further comprising a base station.

67. The communication system of embodiment 66, further comprising a UE, wherein the UE is configured to communicate with the base station.

68. The communication system of embodiment 67, wherein:

the processing circuitry of the host computer is configured to execute a host application;

the UE is configured to execute a client application associated with a host application to provide user data to be received by the host computer.

71. A method implemented in a base station comprising one or more actions described herein as being performed by network node 110.

75. A method implemented in a communication system including a host computer, a base station, and a User Equipment (UE), the method comprising:

user data originating from transmissions that the base station has received from the UE is received at the host computer from the base station, where the UE performs one or more actions described herein as being performed by the wireless device 130.

76. The method of embodiment 75, further comprising:

user data is received from the UE at the base station.

77. The method according to embodiment 76, further comprising:

transmission of the received user data to the host computer is initiated at the base station.

Reference to the literature

3GPP RS 38.321, "3GPP; TSG RAN; NR; media Access Control (MAC) protocol specification ", V16.0.0.

Claims

1. A method performed by a wireless device (130) for processing a transmission of data to a network node (110), the wireless device (130) and the network node (110) operating in a wireless communication network (100), the method comprising:

transmitting (305) data to the network node (110) during an inactive state of the wireless device (130) on one or more first resources selected from a group of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device (130), wherein the group of resources has correspondence with a plurality of beams or reference signals transmitted by the network node (110), and

the unselected remaining resources of the group are set (306) to inactive.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a size of a buffer of the wireless device (130) is less than a threshold, the buffer being a buffer for transmission of the data.

3. The method of any of claims 1-2, wherein the method further comprises:

-releasing (308) said non-selected remaining resources set to be inactive.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the method further comprises at least one of the following steps:

-receiving (302) a first indication from the network node (110), the first indication indicating that a second resource of the group is to be deactivated, and wherein the setting (306) of the remaining resources set to inactive is based on the received first indication,

-transmitting (304) a second indication to the network node (110), the second indication indicating the one or more first resources selected, and wherein the release (308) of remaining resources set to inactive is based on the transmitted second indication, and

-receiving (307) a third indication from the network node (110), the third indication indicating that the non-selected remaining resources set to inactive are released, and wherein the releasing (308) is based on the received third indication.

5. The method of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the method further comprises:

-sending (309) a fourth indication to the network node (110), the fourth indication indicating that the selected one or more first resources are to be changed,

obtaining (310) a fifth indication from the network node (110), the fifth indication indicating a change from the selected one or more first resources to the one or more third resources of the group, and

based on the obtained fifth indication, the one or more third resources of the group are selected (311) for transmitting further data.

6. The method of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the method further comprises:

a configuration is obtained (301) configuring the set of resources for transmission occasions by the wireless device (130).

7. The method of claim 6, wherein one of:

The correspondence between each of the plurality of transmission occasions and a respective beam or reference signal is specified by a respective configuration, and wherein the configuration includes the respective configuration for all transmission occasions.

8. The method according to any of claims 6 to 7, wherein the configuration is obtained from the network node (110) in at least one of:

a first message releasing a connection between the network node (110) and the wireless device (130), and

a second dedicated message.

9. The method of any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the method further comprises:

the one or more first resources in the group are selected (303) based on one or more criteria.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the one or more first resources correspond to beams, and wherein the one or more criteria comprise the one or more first resources corresponding to a beam having a highest SS-RSRP above a minimum threshold.

11. A method performed by a network node (110) for processing a transmission of data from a wireless device (130), the network node (110) and the wireless device (130) operating in a wireless communication network (100), the method comprising:

receiving (403) data from the wireless device (130) on one or more first resources during an inactive state of the wireless device (130), and

Determining (405) which one or more of a set of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device (130) is one of: i) The one or more first resources selected by the wireless device (130) to transmit the data, ii) unused, unselected remaining resources, and iii) set to inactive by the wireless device (130), wherein the set of resources has correspondence with a plurality of beams or reference signals transmitted by the network node (110).

12. The method of claim 11, wherein a size of a buffer of the wireless device (130) is less than a threshold, the buffer being a buffer for transmission of the data.

13. The method according to any one of claims 11 to 12, wherein the method further comprises at least one of the following steps:

-transmitting (402) a first indication to the wireless device (130), the first indication indicating that a second resource of the group is to be deactivated, and wherein the receiving (403) of the data is based on the transmitted first indication,

-transmitting (406) a third indication to the wireless device (130), the third indication indicating to release the non-selected remaining resources, and wherein the transmitting (406) is based on a result of the determination.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises:

-receiving (404) a second indication from the wireless device (130), the second indication indicating the one or more first resources selected, and wherein the sending (406) of the third indication is based on the received second indication.

15. The method of any of claims 11 to 14, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving (408) a fourth indication from the wireless device (130), the fourth indication indicating that the one or more first resources selected are to be changed,

-transmitting (409) a fifth indication to the wireless device (130), the fifth indication indicating a change from the selected one or more first resources to the one or more third resources of the group.

16. The method of any of claims 11 to 15, wherein the method further comprises:

-transmitting (401) a configuration of the set of resources to be used by the wireless device (130) for a configuration of transmission occasions.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein one of:

18. The method of any of claims 16-17, wherein the configuration is transmitted to the wireless device (130) in at least one of:

a second dedicated message.

19. The method of any of claims 11 to 18, wherein the method further comprises:

-allocating (407) said non-selected remaining resources to one or more other wireless devices (140).

20. A wireless device (130) for processing a transmission of data to a network node (110), the wireless device (130) and the network node (110) being configured to operate in a wireless communication network (100), the wireless device (130) being further configured to:

transmitting data to the network node (110) on one or more first resources during an inactive state of the wireless device (130), the one or more first resources configured to be selected from a set of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device (130), wherein the set of resources is configured to have correspondence with a plurality of beams or reference signals configured for transmission by the network node (110), and

The remaining unselected resources of the group are set to inactive.

21. The wireless device (130) of claim 20, wherein a size of a buffer of the wireless device (130) is configured to be less than a threshold, the buffer configured to be a buffer for transmission of the data.

22. The wireless device (130) of any of claims 20-21, wherein the wireless device (130) is further configured to:

releasing the non-selected remaining resources configured to be set to inactive.

23. The wireless device (130) of claim 22, wherein the wireless device (130) is further configured to at least one of:

receiving a first indication from the network node (110), the first indication being configured to indicate that a second resource of the group is to be deactivated, and wherein the setting of the remaining resources set to inactive is configured to be based on the first indication being configured to be received,

transmitting a second indication to the network node (110), the second indication being configured to indicate the one or more first resources selected, and wherein the release of the remaining resources set to inactive is configured to be based on the transmitted second indication, and

A third indication is received from the network node (110), the third indication being configured to indicate to release the non-selected remaining resources configured to be set to inactive, and wherein the release is configured to be based on the third indication configured to be received.

24. The wireless device (130) of any of claims 20-23, further configured to:

transmitting a fourth indication to the network node (110), the fourth indication being configured to indicate that the one or more first resources configured to be selected are to be changed,

obtaining a fifth indication from the network node (110), the fifth indication being configured to indicate a change from the one or more first resources configured to be selected to one or more third resources of the group, and

based on a fifth indication configured to be obtained, the one or more third resources of the group are selected for transmitting further data.

25. The wireless device (130) of any of claims 20-24, wherein the wireless device (130) is further configured to:

a configuration is obtained that is configured to configure the set of resources for transmission occasions by the wireless device (130).

26. The wireless device (130) of claim 25, wherein one of:

the configuration is configured to specify that each of a plurality of transmission occasions is configured to correspond to a respective beam or reference signal, and

the correspondence between each of the plurality of transmission occasions and a respective beam or reference signal is configured to be specified by a respective configuration, and wherein the configuration is configured to include the respective configuration for all transmission occasions.

27. The wireless device (130) of any of claims 25-26, wherein the configuration is configured to be obtained from the network node (110) in at least one of:

a first message configured to release a connection between the network node (110) and the wireless device (130), and

a second dedicated message.

28. The wireless device (130) of any of claims 20-27, wherein the wireless device (130) is further configured to:

the one or more first resources in the set are selected based on one or more criteria.

29. The wireless device (130) of claim 28, wherein the one or more first resources are configured to correspond to a beam, and wherein the one or more criteria are configured to include the one or more first resources configured to correspond to a beam having a highest SS-RSRP above a minimum threshold.

30. A network node (110) for handling transmission of data from a wireless device (130), the network node (110) and the wireless device (130) being configured to operate in a wireless communication network (100), the network node (110) being further configured to:

receiving data from the wireless device (130) on one or more first resources during an inactive state of the wireless device (130), and

determining which one or more of a set of resources configured for transmission occasions by the wireless device (130) is one of: i) The one or more first resources configured to be selected by the wireless device (130) to transmit data, ii) unused, unselected remaining resources, and iii) set to be inactive by the wireless device (130), wherein the set of resources is configured to have correspondence to a plurality of beams or reference signals configured to be transmitted by the network node (110).

31. The network node (110) of claim 30, wherein a size of a buffer of the wireless device (130) is configured to be less than a threshold, the buffer configured to be a buffer for transmission of the data.

32. The network node (110) according to any of claims 30-31, wherein the network node (110) is further configured to at least one of:

transmitting a first indication to the wireless device (130), the first indication configured to indicate that a second resource of the group is to be deactivated, and wherein the receiving of the data is configured to be based on the first indication configured to be transmitted,

-transmitting a third indication to the wireless device (130), the third indication being configured to indicate to release the non-selected remaining resources, and wherein the transmitting is configured to be based on a result of the determining.

33. The network node (110) of claim 32, wherein the network node (110) is further configured to:

a second indication is received from the wireless device (130), the second indication configured to indicate the one or more first resources configured to be selected, and wherein the sending of the third indication is configured based on the second indication configured to be received.

34. The network node (110) according to any of claims 30-33, wherein the network node (110) is further configured to:

Receiving a fourth indication from the wireless device (130), the fourth indication configured to indicate that the one or more first resources configured to be selected are to be changed,

a fifth indication is sent to the wireless device (130), the fifth indication configured to indicate a change from the one or more first resources configured to be selected to one or more third resources of the group.

35. The network node (110) according to any of claims 30-34, wherein the network node (110) is further configured to:

the method further includes transmitting the configuration configured to configure the set of resources for transmission occasions by the wireless device (130).

36. The network node (110) of claim 35, wherein one of:

37. The network node (110) according to any of claims 35-36, wherein the configuration is configured to be transmitted to the wireless device (130) in at least one of:

a second dedicated message.

38. The network node (110) according to any one of claims 30-37, wherein the network node (110) is further configured to:

the unselected remaining resources are allocated to one or more other wireless devices (140).