The disclosure concerns a method for selecting an antenna of a communication device for exchanging data with a radio access node. In order to select which one of the antennas connected to the communication device should be used to communicate with the radio access node, detection mechanisms based on resistivity measurements are run by the communication devices. However, such detection mechanisms are not reliable for detecting the connection of capacitive antennas. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an antenna is selected for exchanging data with the radio access node upon detection of the establishment of a radio connection between said antenna and said radio access node, said detection being triggered when it is determined that the said antenna provides a better reception of the radio signals than other antennas.

A method for automatically switching an LBS-based wireless data network and a mobile terminal may include recording based on LBS, when the mobile terminal enables wireless data, login information and logins of the wireless data network in the current location, updating a network information list, establishing, based on logins, a wireless data network connection priority, searching a corresponding high-priority network when the location is changed, and sending a prompt to switch a network and log into a high-priority wireless data network.

Systems, apparatus, user equipment (UE), evolved node B(eNB), and methods are described for machine-type communications (MTC) with narrowband deployment comprising including MTC Physical Control Format Indicator (M-PCFICH). One embodiment includes control circuitry configured to determine a super-frame structure, wherein the super-frame structure is set, at least in part, on a bandwidth of the narrowband deployment. The embodiment further comprises circuitry to determine configuration information for a UE in communication with the eNB, generate a configuration for an MTC Control Format Indicator (M-CFI) for the UE to indicate the determined configuration information, and transmit the M-CFI through a narrowband M-PCFICH within the super-frame structure.

Systems, apparatus, user equipment (UE), evolved node B(eNB), and methods are described for machine-type communications (MTC) with narrowband deployment comprising including MTC Physical Control Format Indicator (M-PCFICH). One embodiment includes control circuitry configured to determine a super-frame structure, wherein the super-frame structure is set, at least in part, on a bandwidth of the narrowband deployment. The embodiment further comprises circuitry to determine configuration information for a UE in communication with the eNB, generate a configuration for an MTC Control Format Indicator (M-CFI) for the UE to indicate the determined configuration information, and transmit the M-CFI through a narrowband M-PCFICH within the super-frame structure.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for transmitting device-to-device (D2D) data by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method for transmitting the D2D data comprising the steps of: determining a sub-frame indicating bitmap corresponding o information indicating a time resource pattern (TRP); determining a bitmap to be applied to a sub-frame pool for transmitting data from the sub-frame indication bitmap; determining a set of sub-frames required to transmit D2D data using the bitmap to the sub-frame pool for transmitting the data; and transmitting D2D data in a sub-frame included in the set of the sub-frames.

A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving, by a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF), a request to send data to a user equipment (UE), wherein a context for the UE is not available at the SCEF when the request is received; querying a subscriber database to determine whether the context for the UE is available at the subscriber database; and sending the data for the UE to a Mobility Management Entity (MME) by the SCEF using an interface directly interconnecting the MME and the SCEF based on a determination that the context for the UE is available at the subscriber database.

A method (80) of performing transfer of data packets requiring a specified Quality of Service, QoS, by a User Equipment, UE, in an end-to-end, E2E, multi-hop sidelink radio communication (81). The UE comprises a processor operated protocol stack arranged for providing Physical, PHY, layer functionality, Media Access Control, MAC, layer functionality, Radio Link Control, RLC, layer functionality, and Adaptation, Adapt, layer functionality. The RLC layer functionality providing a plurality of ingress and egress RLC channels for transferring data packets. The method comprising receiving (83), by the RLC layer functionality, data packets a tan ingress RLC channel, mapping (84), by the Adapt layer functionality, data packets received at the ingress RLC channel to an egress RLC channel in accordance with a mapping rule for destining the data packets while maintaining the specified QoS, and transferring (86), by the RLC layer functionality, the mapped data packets at the egress RLC channel.

A first network node 104 and a method therein for establishing a neighbour relation with a second network node 106,106. The first network node 104 and the second network node are operating in a wireless communications network 100, The first network node receives an uplink synchronisation signal from a communications device 110 operating in the wireless communications network. For neighbour node determination, the first network node transmits, to a third network node 108 operating in the wireless communications network, a first information, which first information relates to the identity of the received signal and to a first reception time of the signal. The first network node establishes a neighbour relation with at least one of a second network node and one or more of one or more further second network nodes based on a neighbour node determination performed by the third network node based on the first information.

A first network node 204 and method therein for establishing a neighbour relation with a second network node 206 is disclosed. The first and second network nodes are operating in a wireless communications network 200. The first network node receives a random access request from a communications device 210 operating in the wireless communications network. For neighbour node determination, the first network node transmits, to a third network node 208, a first information relating to an identity of a preamble comprised in the received random access request and to a first reception time of the random access request. The first network node establishes a neighbour relation with the second network node based on a neighbour node determination performed based on the first information by the third network node.

A communication device may, in response to a wireless link via the first wireless interface being established with a terminal device while the communication device is a parent station state, receive a predetermined signal from the terminal device via the second wireless interface, if the predetermined signal is received from the terminal device, shift the communication device from the parent station state to a specific state where the communication device does not operate as a parent station, wherein the communication device is maintained in the parent station state if the predetermined signal is not received from the terminal device even if the wireless link via the first wireless interface has been established with the terminal device and establish a first wireless connection via the second wireless interface with the terminal device so as to participate in a second wireless network as a child station.