Abstract: A method for controlling earphone switching and an earphone are provided. The method includes the following. A first earphone acquires a first remaining power and a first operating parameter of the first earphone and a second remaining power and a second operating parameter of a second earphone. The second earphone serves as a slave earphone. The first earphone predicts a first battery life of the first earphone according to the first remaining power and the first operating parameter and a second battery life of the second earphone according to the second remaining power and the second operating parameter. The first earphone predicts switches the second earphone to serve as a master earphone and the first earphone to serve as a slave earphone, when a difference between the second battery life and the first battery life is greater than a first preset threshold.

Abstract: A method includes determining that data out of a peripheral device has been interrupted. In response, control signals are transmitted that cause power to not be supplied to the peripheral device and then cause power to be supplied to the peripheral device. If the peripheral device is determined to not be outputting data, whether data into the peripheral device has been restored is determined. If it is not, control signals are transmitted that cause power to not be supplied to a router and then cause power to be supplied to the router. If the router is determined to be outputting data, control signals are transmitted that cause power to not be supplied to a wireless access point that is coupled to the modem and then cause power to be supplied to the wireless access point. Whether the wireless access point is outputting data is determined.

Abstract: A method and a device for accessing a network by a User Equipment, and a User Equipment are provided. The method includes obtaining a second network identifier of a second network in which a second cell is and an identifier of a second service provider selected by the UE from service providers supported by the second network, when the UE moves from a first cell to the second cell; sending an access request carrying a Globally Unique Temporary Identifier of the UE to the second network to access the second network, when the second network identifier is different from a first network identifier of a first network in which the first cell is, or when the identifier of the second service provider is different from an identifier of a first service provider with which the UE registers, in service providers supported by the first network.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control information (DCI) message that includes a frequency domain resource allocation field to indicate allocated resource blocks (RBs) across multiple transmission configuration indication (TCI) states. The UE may identify, based at least in part on the DCI message and/or a radio resource control configuration, at least one parameter that indicates a unit of contiguous RBs over which the same precoding is used and/or a resource allocation type. The UE may assign the allocated RBs to individual TCI states among the multiple TCI states based at least in part on the unit of contiguous RBs over which the same precoding is used and/or the resource allocation type. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Adjusting the power of an uplink transmission based on duty cycle and proximity sensor information is disclosed. The duty cycle represents the ratio of uplink transmission time slots to downlink transmission time slots in a defined period of time. Thus, if during a time period the percentage of uplink transmission is low, then not as much of a power reduction is implemented. If the percentage of uplink transmission is high, then an increased power reduction can be implemented to ensure that the MPE is not exceeded. This duty cycle information can be paired with proximity sensor data to determine whether a person is present. If no person is present, then no power reductions need to be implemented, and if a person is present, then various levels of power reduction can be implemented based on the duty cycle.

Abstract: A method includes configuring serving cells for UE, the serving cells including at least six serving cells configurable for the UE; receiving PUCCH format configuration information for transmitting uplink control information associated with the configured serving cells, the PUCCH format configuration information including configuration information of PUCCH format 4; determining a total number of HARQ-ACK bits, SR bits, and periodic CSI bits to be transmitted in a subframe; selecting, at least based on the determined total number, a PUCCH format to transmit at least one of HARQ-ACK, SR, and periodic CSI, the selected PUCCH format being one of PUCCH formats including the PUCCH format 4 and PUCCH format 3; and transmitting the uplink control information associated with the configured serving cells in the subframe using the selected PUCCH format, the uplink control information associated with the configured serving cells including the at least one of HARQ-ACK, SR, and periodic CSI.

Abstract: A wireless device receives one or more messages comprising configuration parameters for a plurality of cells comprising a secondary cell. A deactivation timer may be disabled for the secondary cell in response to the configuration parameters comprising periodic resource allocation configuration parameters for configuring a periodic resource allocation of the secondary cell. A downlink control information (DCI) indicating activation of the periodic resource allocation may be received. The DCI may comprise a radio resource assignment. One or more transport blocks (TBs) employing the radio resource assignment may be transmitted.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mechanism to help control which of multiple carriers a base station will serve a UE on—perhaps which carrier should be the UE's primary component carrier for carrier-aggregation service. The disclosed mechanism can apply in a scenario where a base station is configured to provide service on multiple carriers including at least a first carrier and a second carrier, and when the base station is serving one or more relays respectively on each carrier. In that scenario, the selection of a carrier on which the base station should serve a UE could be made based at least on a consideration of how many UEs are served in total by the one or more relays that the base station serves respectively on each carrier, such as by selecting the carrier having the fewest such relay-served UEs.

Abstract: A processing system of a cellular network having a processor may receive, from an endpoint device via one of a first radio access infrastructure or a second radio access infrastructure of the cellular network, a request to establish a connection to a packet data network via the cellular network. The processing system may establish, in response to the request, a first session for the endpoint device via the first radio access infrastructure, and a second session for the endpoint device via the second radio access infrastructure of the cellular network, where the connection to the packet data network includes the first session and the second session. The processing system may further configure the first session or the second session for control plane signaling for the connection, and configure the first session, the second session, or both the first session and the second session for user plane communications for the connection.

Abstract: In a transmission control method of connection confirmation data packets and a terminal, the terminal can optionally adjust time intervals of the connection confirmation data packets in re-transmissions to a wireless network device for keeping the data link between the wireless network device and the terminal, such that the time intervals are not kept at a fixed time interval but at adjustable time intervals.

Abstract: Overlay apparatus for an ad-hoc/MESH communication network, the network having nodes, at least some of which are mobile with respect to other nodes. The nodes establish and abandon connections as they move with respect to one another and generally requiring relatively small bandwidth communications in order to generate and maintain an ad-hoc/MESH physical network of the nodes and the overlay apparatus, but very occasionally a large bandwidth communication is made. The overlay apparatus may reserve at least one assured protected communication path between a source node of such a relatively large bandwidth communication and at least one destination node of the relatively large bandwidth communication via one or more intervening nodes according to a current topology configuration of the connections of the ad hoc/MESH network.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for selecting a beam mode and/or beam for communicating with one or more devices are described. The beam mode selection maybe and sometimes is between a broad beam mode of operation and a narrow beam mode of operation with respect to a particular device. Communication with one or more device may happen at a given time with the preferred beam mode and/or choice for an individual device sometimes being replaced with a beam mode and/or beam choice which is preferable from an overall system perspective, e.g., because it allows data transmission and/QoS requirements to multiple devices to be supported better than would be achieved if the preferred beam mode and/or beam selection made with respect to an individual device was used. The beam mode and/or beam selected for traffic data communication sometimes is different from the beam mode and/or beam used for communicating control channel information.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and apparatuses for narrow-band communication. In some aspects, a base station determines a quantity of resource elements to allocate to a user device for wireless communication based on a state of the user device. The base station selects, from a resource block, resource elements for the user device that include the determined quantity of resource elements and a portion of subcarriers of the resource block. The base station then communicates, to the user device, an identification of the selected resource elements that includes respective frequencies and time locations of the selected resource elements within the resource block.

Abstract: Facilitating uplink control channel decoding for advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise determining a channel estimate for an uplink control transmission received from a user equipment device via an uplink control channel, wherein the determining is based on a reference signal received from the user equipment device. The operations also can comprise determining a status of an acknowledgement that a data transmission was received by the user equipment device based on the channel estimate and a maximum likelihood estimation function.

Abstract: A station (STA), which supports multiple spatial streams, can, and sometimes does, re-advertise the station as supporting less spatial stream (SS) than the actual number of spatial streams that the device does actually support. In some embodiments, a station's maximum advertised maximum number of spatial streams is proactively reduced based on the station's throughput being below one or more thresholds. In some embodiments, the analysis and level of spatial stream value to be reported in a re-advertisement is determined by the access point. In some other embodiments, the analysis and level of spatial stream value to be reported in a re-advertisement is determined by the station. The access point allocating its limited supported spatial streams among stations is able to more efficiently allocate the air link resources.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system is provided.

Abstract: A network service configuration method and a network management device, where the method includes obtaining, by a network management device, a terminal access port and an access parameter that is configured for the terminal access port and that is of a network service, determining a to-be-configured port according to the access parameter that is configured for the terminal access port and that is of the network service; generating a configuration instruction of the to-be-configured port, and sending the configuration instruction of the to-be-configured port to a to-be-configured network device. Hence, intervention from an administrator is not required, an error probability of network operation and maintenance may be reduced, efficiency of configuring a parameter of the network service is improved, and administrator time is saved.

Abstract: An IP telephony system allows a user to register a telephony device that receives its native telephony service from a different telephony service provider as an extension telephone. The user can then place calls through the IP telephony system using the extension telephone. Such calls may or may not be established using the extension telephone's native telephony service provider.

Abstract: In a 6G network, microservices can be utilized in the absence of a core network. For example, after a mobile device has authenticated, through its carrier network, with a transport service layer, microservices can be allocated to the mobile device without having to be transmitted via the core network. Thus, removing the core network from the process can generate a direct line of microservices from the transport layer to the end-user. Furthermore, additional microservices and/or resources can be access through a microservices library. Consequently, packets can be securely transmitted be a wireless network facilitating sending packet profile data from one to many node devices in anticipation of the packet traversing the various node devices.

Abstract: For converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system and supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT), a channel state information (CSI) acquisition method includes transmitting CSI configuration information to a terminal, selecting a beam for transmitting a beamformed CSI reference signal (BF-CSI-RS) to the terminal, transmitting the BF-CSI-RS to the terminal using the selected beam, and notifying the terminal of a beamforming update. A base station for acquiring CSI in a mobile communication system includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals, and a controller configured to control the transceiver to transmit CSI configuration information to a terminal, to select a beam for transmitting a BF-CSI-RS to the terminal, to transmit the BF-CSI-RS to the terminal using the selected beam, and to notify the terminal of a beamforming update.