Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for allocating an uplink resource, which may schedule the NB-IoT terminal and the eMTC terminal to commonly use the uplink physical resource block configured to the NB-IoT terminal and the uplink physical resource block configured to the eMTC terminal, such that the utilization of the uplink frequency is enhanced and an uplink capacity of the cell is also improved, while guaranteeing normal operation of the cell network.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for intra-cell frequency reuse for an indoor wireless network and a baseband unit. The method includes: at the BBU, establishing a coverage relationship between one or more mRRHs and multiple UEs (510); determining a correspondence relationship between UEs and beam directions covered by each mRRH of the one or more mRRHs (520); determining a location distribution of the multiple UEs based on the coverage relationship between the mRRHs and the UEs and the correspondence relationship between the UEs and the beam directions covered by the mRRH (530); and performing a power allocation for each mRRH based on the location distribution of the multiple UEs (540).

Abstract: An illustrative method of estimating a temperature for at least one of a plurality of sites based on temperature information from at least one of a plurality of temperature measurement stations includes several steps. The sites are clustered into a plurality of clusters. Respective centroids for the clusters are determined. The centroids are associated with respective measurement stations. One of a preselected plurality of estimating techniques is respectively assigned to the measurement stations. The assigned estimating technique provides a temperature estimate at the measurement station that is more accurate than others of the preselected plurality of estimating techniques. A temperature at the at least one of the plurality of sites is estimated using the estimating technique assigned to the measurement station associated with the centroid of the cluster that includes the site of interest.

Abstract: In an embodiment, there is provided a method for the transport of multihoming service related information between User Equipement UE and 3GPP Evolved Packet Core EPC through untrusted non 3GPP Access Network, said method comprising a step of: transporting multihoming service related information using signaling exchanged for security procedures between UE and an evolved Packet Data Gateway ePDG of said untrusted non 3GPP Access Network.

Abstract: A method of configuring a graphical user interface in a computing device, the device comprising a collection of applications (14), wherein the computing device is connected to a network, the method comprising: determining (16) for each application a list of services required by the application to be executed, determining (18) a collection of available resources as the resources able to be accessed by the computing device through the network, a resources being able to provide a service, comparing (15) the list of services required by each application with the services provided by the collection of available resources so as to find a match for each required service of the list of the said application within the collection of available resources, and generating (24) a list of operational applications, an operational application being an application for which each required service has a match provided by the available resources.

Abstract: The network system includes a network node and an end device. The network node is required to send a confirmation to the end device upon reception of a data packet of a first type and is not required to send a confirmation to the end device upon reception of a data packet of a second type. The method includes transmitting, by the end device, data packets of the first type in accordance with a duty cycle that is smaller than or equal to the first upper limit indicated by a first command packet received from the network node. The application further relates to a network node and an end device for use in a network system.

Abstract: A configuration method, equipment, system and computer readable medium for determining a new configuration of calculation resources associated to a function and to at least one future time slot, the calculation resources being defined as different calculation capacities allocated to the function during a time slot and included within at least one computer, the configuration method comprising a first step of determining an old demand, a second step of determining a plurality of conditional probabilities associated to the old demand and to a plurality of new demands, a third step of determining a plurality of reconfiguration costs associated to a plurality available configurations, a step of selecting the new configuration as being the available configuration associated to the minimal reconfiguration cost.

Abstract: A system and method for protecting a universal serial bus device from being used in an attack during communication between a communication device and an accessory device is disclosed. A protection device inserted between them through a USB link performs steps of receiving a message from the accessory device, including fields of characteristics of the accessory device; generating a random identifier; sending it to the communication device that creates a registration rule based on the generated random identifier; modifying an intercepted response from the accessory device to a request from the communication device, the request being dedicated to get a value associated with a serial number of the accessory device, by including the generated random identifier; and sending the modified response to the communication device, the modified response triggering a query for registration of the accessory device by means of the modified response and the created registration rule.

Abstract: The invention provides a method and apparatus for downstream flow control in an (x)GPON system. First, ONU sends a DS_FlowControl_Request message to OLT, wherein the DS_FlowControl_Request message includes information of transmission inhibiting period and is used for requesting OLT to inhibit downstream transmission for a transmission inhibiting period corresponding to the information of transmission inhibiting period. After receiving the DS_FlowControl_Request message from ONU, OLT inhibits the downstream transmission for the transmission inhibiting period corresponding to the information of transmission inhibiting period based on the information of transmission inhibiting period included in the DS_FlowControl_Request message. After inhibiting the downstream transmission for the transmission inhibiting period corresponding to the information of transmission inhibiting period, OLT resumes the downstream transmission to ONU.

Abstract: An optical transceiver capable of optimizing the performance of the corresponding optical channel by dynamically adjusting the optical power of the output signal in response to the FEC-performance data received from the corresponding remote transceiver. In an example embodiment, the FEC-performance data can be exchanged by the two optical transceivers using a dedicated field in the overhead of the transmitted data frames. The power-adjustment process is configured to be relatively slow to prevent the occurrence of transients on other optical channels and ensure stable operation of the corresponding WDM system as a whole, while different transceivers thereof are allowed to adjust their respective output powers in an autonomous way and independent of each other.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally discloses improvements in computer performance in communication networks, which may include improvements in computer performance in supporting discovery of ingress provider edge (PE) devices in a communication network using egress peer engineering (EPE) and software defined networking (SDN). The ingress PE devices of a network may have peering relationships with an egress peer link of an egress peer node of the network. The ingress PE devices may be discovered by identifying a set of traffic flows on an egress peer link of an egress peer node, identifying a set of ingress PE devices that have peering relationships with the egress peer node, determining bandwidth usage information, selecting, from the set of ingress PE devices based on the bandwidth usage information, a set of selected ingress PE devices, and initiating a management action for at least one of the selected ingress PE devices.

Abstract: A method, in a radio communication system, for setup or modification of data flows between user equipment in dual connectivity with a primary node and a secondary node of the system, comprising 1 receiving a bearer request for a data flow from a mobility management entity of the system; determining, at a core network or radio access network node of the system or at a network management node for the system located outside of the core network, if the data flow is to be transmitted to the user equipment (UE) via the primary or secondary nodes; selecting the primary or secondary node for transmitting the data flow to the user equipment; and transmitting the data flow to the user equipment via the selected node.

Abstract: In an embodiment, there is provided a method for overload control in a packet mobile communication system, said method comprising a step of: in case of overload, throttling downlink traffic received for mobile terminals in idle mode when this traffic belongs to a mobile terminal or to a mobile terminal connection declared as candidate for throttling.

Abstract: A client device for controlling playback of media content that is streamed through a network to the client device, comprising: an obtaining module configured for obtaining network prediction information representing network conditions of the network predicted for a future prediction time period; and a playback control module configured for controlling playback of said content based on the network prediction information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for data processing in a communication system. For example, the method comprises: generating, based on an intended performance, an error detection code to be used; distributing bits of the error detection code in information bits to be coded; and perform polar encoding on the information bits together with the error detection code distributed in the information bits. The embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a communication device capable of implementing the method.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a multi-mode optical fiber having a selected plurality of optical propagating modes. The selected plurality may include only a proper subset of or may include all of the optical propagating modes of the multi-mode optical fiber. Each optical propagating mode of the selected plurality has a group velocity that varies over a corresponding range for light in, at least, one of the optical telecommunications C-band, the optical telecommunications L-band, and the optical telecommunications S-band. The ranges corresponding to different ones of the modes of the selected plurality are non-overlapping. The ranges of a group velocity-adjacent pair of the ranges are separated by a nonzero gap of less than about 10,000 meters per second.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally discloses improvements in computer performance for supporting a multipath transport throughput capability that is configured to improve throughout of a multipath transport connection of a multipath transport protocol. The multipath transport throughput capability is configured to improve the throughput of the multipath transport connection by improving delivery of acknowledgment packets acknowledging successful delivery of data packets sent from a data transmitting side to a data receiving side.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining delay between random access channel and downlink control channel in random access procedures. The method comprises receiving from a base station, by a user equipment, information related to one or more delay(s) between a random access channel and one or more repetition period(s) of a downlink control channel for the user equipment; sending to the base station, by the user equipment, the random access channel transmitted in a repetitive form; receiving, by the user equipment, the one or more repetition period(s) of the downlink control channel, wherein each of the one or more repetition period(s) of the downlink control channel is transmitted according to a corresponding one of the delay(s); and determining, by the user equipment, the one or more delay(s) based at least on the information related to the delay(s).

Abstract: The invention proposes a method of and apparatus for a pre-coded physical downlink control channel reference signal and blind decoding. In a design of the reference signal, the demodulation reference signal is used for demodulating physical downlink control channel signaling, wherein the physical downlink control channel signaling is embedded in a physical downlink shared channel, an the demodulation reference signal is included in a control channel element.

Abstract: An apparatus, such as a base station or a user equipment, includes a transceiver configured to receive a first signal that is a superposition of symbols transmitted concurrently by users in shared resources of an air interface. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to iteratively cancel, for the users, interference produced by the symbols transmitted by other users on the basis of log likelihood ratios (LLRs) that represent likelihoods that previous estimates of the symbols transmitted by the other users are correct. The processor is also configured to iteratively decode the symbols transmitted by the users after canceling the interference produced by the symbols transmitted by the other users.