A method is provided. The method includes receiving a request to conduct a transaction with a merchant, requesting approval of the request, receiving approval of the request, verifying the transaction, receiving a first data, receiving a second data, determining a first distance between the first computing device and the second computing device based on the first and second data, determining that the first distance between the first computing device and second computing device satisfies a first predetermined distance threshold, receiving a third data, the third computing device being associated with the second user, determining a second distance between the third computing device and the second computing device based on the third and second data, determining that the second distance between the third computing device and the second computing device satisfies a second predetermined distance threshold, and approving the transaction.

A method is provided for enabling a User Equipment (102) to access services provided by a Radio Access Network by configuring the User Equipment (UE) with configuration information which comprises rules for selecting one or more of a plurality of access procedures to be used by the UE for accessing services provided by the Radio Access Network which may be a New Radio/5G network (101). Access procedures may include a grant-based procedure; a grant-free procedure and a fallback procedure to be used in cases of failure of an initial access attempt. The rules may be based on the type of service required by the UE such as; transmission and/or reception of data, transmission and/or reception of a voice call, a request for System Information.

A method is provided for enabling a User Equipment (102) to access services provided by a Radio Access Network by configuring the User Equipment (UE) with configuration information which comprises rules for selecting one or more of a plurality of access procedures to be used by the UE for accessing services provided by the Radio Access Network which may be a New Radio/5G network (101). Access procedures may include a grant-based procedure; a grant-free procedure and a fallback procedure to be used in cases of failure of an initial access attempt. The rules may be based on the type of service required by the UE such as; transmission and/or reception of data, transmission and/or reception of a voice call, a request for System Information.

The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for random access in a wireless communication system, as well as a user terminal. The method includes: receiving indication information transmitted from a radio base station, the indication information instructing a user terminal to initiate a random access; determining a target Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) resource from available resources based on a current coverage level and resource information carried in the indication information, the target PRACH resource being used for transmitting a PRACH signal for initiating the random access; and re-determining, in response to a failure to initiate the random access over the target PRACH resource, the target PRACH resource from the available resources based on an updated coverage level and the resource information, and transmitting the PRACH signal over the re-determined target PRACH resource. The present disclosure can solve the technical problem in the related art associated with low success rate of random accesses initiated by radio base stations.

The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for random access in a wireless communication system, as well as a user terminal. The method includes: receiving indication information transmitted from a radio base station, the indication information instructing a user terminal to initiate a random access; determining a target Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) resource from available resources based on a current coverage level and resource information carried in the indication information, the target PRACH resource being used for transmitting a PRACH signal for initiating the random access; and re-determining, in response to a failure to initiate the random access over the target PRACH resource, the target PRACH resource from the available resources based on an updated coverage level and the resource information, and transmitting the PRACH signal over the re-determined target PRACH resource. The present disclosure can solve the technical problem in the related art associated with low success rate of random accesses initiated by radio base stations.

Wireless communications systems and methods related to communications in a network are provided. A UE receives a listen-before-talk (LBT) failure detection configuration associated with at least one of a dormant mode or a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle in a first cell of a wireless communication network. The UE performs, based on the LBT failure detection configuration, an LBT failure detection in the first cell while operating in the dormant mode for the first cell or during an inactive DRX configured-on duration of the DRX cycle. The UE transmits an LBT failure detection report based on the LBT failure detection.

Wireless communications systems and methods related to communications in a network are provided. A UE receives a listen-before-talk (LBT) failure detection configuration associated with at least one of a dormant mode or a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle in a first cell of a wireless communication network. The UE performs, based on the LBT failure detection configuration, an LBT failure detection in the first cell while operating in the dormant mode for the first cell or during an inactive DRX configured-on duration of the DRX cycle. The UE transmits an LBT failure detection report based on the LBT failure detection.

A first base station (BS) transmitting a secondary node (SN) Addition Request message to a second BS for a communication device; receiving a SN Addition Request Acknowledge message from the second BS, wherein the SN Addition Request Acknowledge message comprises a first plurality of configurations which configure the communication device to communicate with the second BS and configure a data radio bearer (DRB) which is a SCG split bearer; transmitting a first message comprising the first plurality of configurations to the communication device, wherein the second BS communicates with the communication device according to the first plurality of configurations; receiving a second message indicating the SCG failure from the communication device; initiating a SN Modification procedure with the second BS to recover the SCG failure, or transmitting a third message configuring the DRB to be a master cell group bearer or a MCG split bearer to the communication device.

A communications device and method of communicating using a communications device is disclosed for performing device-to-device communications. The communications device is configured to determine in accordance with predetermined conditions whether the communications device is within a coverage area of a mobile communications network, and if the communications device is determined to be within the coverage area of the mobile communications network, to transmit or to receive signals via the wireless access interface to one or more other communications devices in accordance with device to device communications using communications resources of the wireless access interface allocated according to a first mode in which the mobile communications network performs resource allocation.

An information reporting method includes: determining that a random access problem occurs; and reporting, to a base station, a bandwidth part (BWP) on which the random access problem occurs. By determining that the random access problem occurs and reporting the BWP on which the random access problem occurs to the base station, the base station may determine the BWP on which the random access problem occurs.