Methods and apparatuses for activating a vehicular-capable terminal to connect to a base station and/or road side unit. Accordingly a vehicular-capable terminal which would otherwise be in idle mode can then participate in vehicular communications, if appropriate.

Methods and apparatuses for activating a vehicular-capable terminal to connect to a base station and/or road side unit. Accordingly a vehicular-capable terminal which would otherwise be in idle mode can then participate in vehicular communications, if appropriate.

A method for transmitting in a communication network uplink data from an application module in a user terminal. The method includes: determining, by said user terminal, if a correspondence exists between an application module providing at least one uplink packet and at least one rule designating a network slice instantiation to be used for transmitting uplink packets in the communication network; and in response to a determination by said user terminal that the application module providing at least one uplink packet corresponds to a rule designating a network slice instantiation to be used for transmitting the uplink packet in the communication network, transmitting said at least one uplink packet from the user terminal to an entity for access to a user plane of the designated network slice instantiation.

This disclosure handles a registration procedure in a UE supporting registration to 5GC via untrusted non-3GPP access network and 3GPP access network. More specifically this disclosure defines a UE behavior when a registration procedure is not successful to 5GC via first access network type (e.g. untrusted non-3GPP network access) after transmitting maximum number of registration request message via the first access network type to the 5GC and the UE is registered to 5GC via other access network type (e.g. 3GPP access network (NG-RAN)).

There is provided mechanisms for enabling discovery of a service-providing NF in a 3GPP communication network. A method is performed by a Network Repository Function. The method comprises registering locality information of service-providing NFs according to locality attribute of each service-providing NF. Each locality attribute comprises structured values of location information of its service-providing NF. The method comprises obtaining a request from a service-requesting NF for one of the service-providing NFs. The request specifies a preferred locality of the requested service-providing NF. The preferred locality indicates, in terms of structured values of location information, geographical location where the service-requesting NF is deployed. The method comprises identifying, out of the service-providing NFs, that service-providing NF which has a locality attribute that best matches the preferred locality, whereby the service-providing NF closest to the geographical location where the service-requesting NF is deployed is identified. The method comprises providing a response to the service-requesting NF. The response comprises the locality attribute of the identified service-providing NF, thereby enabling discovery of the service-providing NF.

Implemented is a mechanism in which in a case where a communication device is leased from a certain operator to another operator, a permission for priority utilization of a frequency band does not need to be newly re-obtained.

A communication control device of the present disclosure includes: a first reception unit that receives a registration update request to update operator information about an operator who operates a communication device permitted to perform priority utilization of a frequency band, from a first operator to a second operator; and a management unit that, on the basis of the registration update request, updates the operator information about an operator who operates the communication device, from the first operator to the second operator, and maintains the permission for priority utilization of the frequency band by the communication device.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a relay user equipment (UE) may initiate a connection with a network entity. The relay UE may receive a layer 2 relay initial configuration based at least in part on initiating the connection. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a relay user equipment (UE) may initiate a connection with a network entity. The relay UE may receive a layer 2 relay initial configuration based at least in part on initiating the connection. Numerous other aspects are provided.

The implementations of the present application provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The network device may configure an index list of S-NSSAI comprising index information of some or all of S-NSSAIs of a service network, and indicate the index list of S-NSSAI to the terminal device, so that the terminal device learns a network slice supported by a base station. The wireless communication method comprises: a terminal device receiving first information, wherein the first information comprises an index list of S-NSSAI, and the index list of S-NSSAI comprises index information of some or all of S-NSSAIs of a service network.

The implementations of the present application provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The network device may configure an index list of S-NSSAI comprising index information of some or all of S-NSSAIs of a service network, and indicate the index list of S-NSSAI to the terminal device, so that the terminal device learns a network slice supported by a base station. The wireless communication method comprises: a terminal device receiving first information, wherein the first information comprises an index list of S-NSSAI, and the index list of S-NSSAI comprises index information of some or all of S-NSSAIs of a service network.