A wireless telecommunication system comprises base stations for communicating with terminal devices. One or more base stations support a power boost operating mode in which a base station's available transmission power is concentrated in a subset of its available transmission resources to provide enhanced transmission powers as compared to transmission powers on these transmission resources when the base station is not operating in the power boost mode. A base station establishes an extent to which one or more base stations in the wireless telecommunications system support the power boost operating mode conveys an indication of this to a terminal device. The terminal device receives the indication and uses the corresponding information to control its acquisition of a base station of the wireless telecommunication system, for example by taking account of which base stations support power boosting and/or when power boosting is supported during a cell attach procedure.

Telecommunications apparatus and methods

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes receiving a downlink signal comprising an uplink access configuration index, using the uplink access configuration index to identify an uplink access configuration from among a predetermined plurality of uplink access configurations, and transmitting to the wireless communications network according to the identified uplink access configuration. The example method further includes, in the same wireless device, receiving, in a first subframe, a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission formatted according to a first numerology and receiving, in a second subframe, a second OFDM transmission formatted according to a second numerology, the second numerology differing from the first numerology. Variants of this method, corresponding apparatuses, and corresponding network-side methods and apparatuses are also disclosed.

Network architecture, methods, and devices for a wireless communications network

Performing load balancing by a wireless transmit/receive unit, WTRU, includes evaluating by the WTRU autonomously a current cell load value and, on a condition that the current cell load value is greater than a predetermined threshold, performing load balancing by barring the current cell (i.e. by adding the current cell to a barred cell list for a predetermined period of time). The current cell load value may be the number of consecutive failed RACH access attempts. Other embodiments teach a method to identify a machine type communication, MTC, device, a method to restrict access to a group (set) of MTC devices, a method to restrict access to a particular MTC device, a method to control congestion, and a method for MTC device prioritization.

Access control and congestion control in machine-to-machine communication

The present invention provides: a base station for repeatedly transmitting a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) during a first subframe bundle comprising a plurality of subframes, and transmitting a PDSCH related to the PDCCH; and user equipment for receiving the PDCCH and the PDSCH. The PDSCH can be transmitted to the user equipment starting from subframe n+k, which is the k th subframe after the last subframe n-1 in the first subframe bundle, wherein k is an integer bigger than 0. The first subframe bundle may begin from a predetermined or fixed position.

Method and user equipment for receiving downlink signal and method and base station for transmitting downlink signal

Method and apparatus for controlling connectivity to a network for intermittent data services are disclosed. A new dormant mode is defined such that a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may transition from a connected state or an idle state to the dormant mode based on triggering conditions. The WTRU may transition from a connected state or an idle state to a dormant mode if the characteristic or the priority of the data matches a characteristics or a priority for the dormant mode and operate using configuration which is different from configuration used for the connected state or the idle state. The WTRU in the dormant mode may perform a WTRU-controlled mobility procedure. The WTRU in the dormant mode may maintain a dedicated resource, such as a cell radio network temporary identity (C-RNTI), for receiving a unicast traffic from the network.

Method and apparatus for controlling connectivity to a network

The present invention relates to a method for a base station to control a proximity service (ProSe) in a wireless communication system including the steps of: tracking at least two or more terminals which camp on the base station and have a ProSe relationship with each other on a direct data path; and determining whether to switch the direct data path in the case where one or more terminals from among the two or more terminals try to perform a handover or in the case where the distance between the two or more terminals is equal to or greater than a preset value.

Method and apparatus for providing proximity service in wireless communication system

The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and more particularly relates to a method for transmitting a small-sized control signal (also known as “small data”) using a control plane in a MTC (machine-type communication) service in a mobile communication system. In the present invention, MTC data is encapsulated in an existing control procedure or control message or the like, on a control signal, without performing packet data bearer setup, and the control signal having the encapsulated MTC data is sent between a network and a terminal, thereby optimizing network resource efficiency and reducing the wireless channel load.

Method for transmitting mtc data in a mobile communication system

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing NAS signaling request in wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for processing a NAS signaling request. The method for performing a non-access stratum (NAS) signaling process by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of receiving a first message that includes information indicating a network failure from a network node of a first network; a step of starting a timer relating to a network selection; and a step of selecting a second network from among network candidates excluding the first network during the operation of the timer relating to a network selection.

Method and apparatus for processing NAS signaling request in wireless communication system

Disclosed is a method of controlling connection establishment in a server in charge of the control plane within a mobile communication network. The method of controlling connection establishment may include receiving a connection request message including a parameter indicating an identifier of a local gateway from a base station. The connection request message may include an access request message by the UE. The method of controlling connection establishment may further include determining whether a bearer for the UE is set to a path through nodes within the mobile communication network or set to a path through nodes within another wired network accessible by the local gateway by considering at least one of QoS, subscriber information for the UE, operator policy if the connection request message is received. If it is set to a path through nodes within the another wired network, the method of controlling connection establishment may further include transmitting a connection response message including a parameter indicating whether the bearer has been set or should be set to a path through nodes within the another wired network and an address of the local gateway to the base station.

Server for control plane at mobile communication network and method for controlling establishment of connection thereof

A method and apparatus for retransmitting an MTC group message in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A method for performing retransmission of a Machine Type Communication (MTC) group message by an MTC-InterWorking Function (MTC-IWF) in a mobile communication system includes: receiving an MTC group message response from a network node; and determining whether to perform retransmission of the MTC group message on the basis of information contained in the MTC group message response, wherein the MTC group message response includes zero or more region information of a predetermined unit, related to completion of the MTC group message transmission.

Laeyoung Kim

Papers

Method and apparatus for providing proximity service in wireless communication system

Method for transmitting mtc data in a mobile communication system

Method and apparatus for processing NAS signaling request in wireless communication system

Server for control plane at mobile communication network and method for controlling establishment of connection thereof

Method and apparatus for retransmitting MTC group message in wireless communication system