Abstract: A method, system and related devices are provided for identifying, for a user, a virtual child object of a virtual parent object of virtual parent objects based on a determined distance between a gazed virtual child object of a virtual parent object of said virtual parent objects and a gaze distance origin, based on captured gaze information. The captured gaze information comprising gaze coordinates representing a position on a display at which said user is looking. The display being configured to display a virtual scene representation of a virtual scene. The virtual scene representation comprising virtual object representations of virtual parent objects. Each virtual parent object of said virtual parent objects comprising at least one virtual child object. The method comprises identifying, for said user, said virtual child object of said virtual parent object of said virtual parent objects based on said determined distance.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of providing a nomadic service, the method including: i. sending, by a user, a nomadic service request to an Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) server to determine whether the nomadic service request is allowed; ii. if the nomadic service request is allowed, then instantiating a service module for the nomadic service in a corresponding virtual Residential Gateway (vRG) platform, or selecting a corresponding service module in a residential gateway of the user, based upon the nomadic service, by a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller; and iii. determining and configuring, by the SDN controller, a network delivery path between the user and the service module based upon the path establishment request and a position of the service module. With the technical solution according to the invention, even a user who is not at home can be provided rapidly with a service subscribed through a residential gateway.

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: A base station provides, a first number of probe packets to an access point for transmission to a user equipment over an access network path. The base station receives information indicating a bandwidth of the access network path estimated by the user equipment. The base station determines which of the base station or the access point to use for communication with the user equipment based on the bandwidth. The user equipment receives a second number of packets over an air interface and determines inter-arrival packet delays for the second number of probe packets. The user equipment estimates the bandwidth of the air interface based on the inter-arrival packet delays, the first number, and a time interval for transmission of the first number of probe packets. The user equipment transmits information indicating the bandwidth.

Abstract: First user equipment transmits information identifying first interfaces supported by the first user equipment and first channel capacities associated with the first interfaces. The first user equipment receives information identifying a subset of the first interfaces. The subset is selected based on the first channel capacities and second channel capacities of second interfaces associated with at least one second user equipment. The first user equipment is then configured to aggregate the subset of the first interfaces. A policy server selects a subset of first interfaces supported by a first user equipment based on information indicating first channel capacities of the first interfaces and second channel capacities of second interfaces associated with at least one second user equipment. The policy server transmits instructions to the first user equipment to aggregate the subset.

Abstract: A hybrid access gateway (HAG) apparatus for native bridged communication in a communication network may include an upstream interface configured for receiving downlink Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layer 2 traffic in the communication network; at least one downstream cellular coupling interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a user equipment (UE) represented by an OSI layer 2 address via a cellular access network (e.g. a Radio Access Network or RAN) of the communication network; an inspection module configured for inspecting an OSI layer 2 header of the received traffic; and a direction module configured for, based on the inspected OSI layer 2 header, directing the received traffic to the user equipment via the at least one downstream cellular coupling interface.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device of signal processing in optical fiber communication systems. The method includes dividing electrical signals for a plurality of receivers in the optical fiber communication system into a plurality of groups, the plurality of groups each being associated with at least one of the plurality of receivers. The method also includes obtaining time-domain multiplexed signals by multiplexing the electrical signals in the plurality of groups in time domain. The method also includes multiplexing the time-domain multiplexed signals in the plurality of groups in frequency domain such that the time-domain multiplexed signals occupy respective sub-bands of a transmission bandwidth for the optical fiber communication system. The method also includes converting the frequency-domain multiplexed signals into analog optical signals for transmission.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus of obtaining feedback of HARQ acknowledgment information. The method comprises allocating to UE an uplink control channel resource for report of HARQ acknowledgment information related to downlink data transmission on an unlicensed carrier. The method also comprises obtaining feedback of the HARQ acknowledgment information from the UE within a predefined deferral window. The predefined deferral window specifies a minimum delay and a maximum delay for report of the HARQ acknowledgment information. The embodiments of the present disclosure may increase the reliability and reduce the latency of HARQ acknowledgment information feedback. In addition, the embodiments of the present disclosure may not only be for LAA scenarios, but also may be extended to standalone LAA access scenarios on unlicensed carriers.

Abstract: An Auto Configuration Server is coupled via at least one Load Balancer in a broadband network to at least one device, including at least one gateway device, in at least one home network. The Auto configuration Server remotely manages the devices by using the CPE WAN Management Protocol CWMP on top of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol http.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for occupying an unlicensed band channel, thereby avoiding misjudgment of an occupied unlicensed band state. A method for occupying an unlicensed band channel includes: a user equipment receiving a power increase rate of a reference signal transmission unit of an unlicensed band channel determined by a secondary cell (Scell) base station; the user equipment receiving, in the unlicensed band channel, a sub-frame of reference signal transmission unit level power distribution sent by the Scell base station; the user equipment decoding the power increase rate; and the user equipment using the power increase rate to process the sub-frame.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to communication methods and devices for virtual base stations. For example, data is sequentially read and written between the hardware accelerator and the general purpose processor of the baseband processing unit at the baseband processing unit arranged with a plurality of virtual base stations, thereby achieving sharing of the traditional hardware accelerator among a plurality of virtual base stations without introducing virtualization layer or increasing hardware complexity.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transmitter and a corresponding method. The method includes: pre-processing a signal to be transmitter, the signals being across a plurality of sub-bands; filtering the signal to generate a universal-filtered orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (UF-OFDM) signal, where two or more sub-bands of the plurality of sub-bands are filtered by a common filter; and transmitting the generated UF-OFDM signal.

Abstract: A method for estimating the speed of a user equipment connected to a base station of a wireless network, the method comprising the following steps: measuring the power of a signal transmitted between the user equipment and the base station; computing the derivative of the measured signal power with respect to time; computing the standard deviation of the computed derivative; estimating, from previously established reference data, the speed of the user equipment that corresponds to the computed standard deviation, the reference data associating a given user equipment speed with a certain computed standard deviation.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for resource reconfiguration and the corresponding device. A method provided in a first aspect of the present disclosure comprises: at a controller for managing a baseband unit (BU) pool, determining system status and resource usage conditions of the BU pool; based on the system status and the resource usage conditions, identifying a resource that needs to be reconfigured, the resource being selected from a virtual machine running on a server in the BU pool or from a processing module in an accelerator in the BU pool; determining an address of a target device using the resource, wherein the target device is selected from servers or accelerators in the BU pool; and instructing the target device to reconfigure the resource. The solution of the present disclosure effects reconfiguration of all resources in cloud RAN.

Abstract: An embodiment is a method for support of retrieval and/or reporting and/or triggering the reporting of user location information in a mobile network, wherein said user location information is retrieved and/or reported and/or the reporting of said user location information is triggered, at a granularity of an area referred to as administrative area defined as a set of mobile network related areas, mobile network related areas being defined at mobile network management level, and mobile network related areas being mapped to administrative areas.

Abstract: A technique is provided for a personalized access to a storage device from a communication device through a local network, with public data and private data being stored in the storage device. The storage device is configured to retrieve an identifier of the local network, allow access to the public data and a set of private data if the retrieved identifier is included in a first list of local networks, and deny access to the set of private data if the retrieved identifier is not included in the first list of the local networks.

Abstract: A technique is provided for authentication of a user accessing an access control device. The technique includes an application server that receives a request from a communication device associated with the user or the access control device. The request contains an identifier of the communication device, an identifier of the access control device and presence data indicating that the communication device is associated with the access control device. The application server checks a database for the user's subscription, sends a response to the access control device to request the user to enter a secret code via an interface of the access control device, receives a temporary secret code generated by a service provider server if the entered secret code is correct, and sends a message containing the temporary secret code to the communication device to request the user to enter the secret code via the interface of the access control device.

Abstract: A vectoring controller for configuring a vectoring processor that jointly processes DMT communication signals to be transmitted over, or received from, a plurality of N subscriber lines according to a vectoring matrix. In accordance with an embodiment, the vectoring controller is configured, for given ones of a plurality of tones, to enable the given tone for direct data communication over a first set of N?Mk targeted lines out of the plurality of N subscriber lines, and to disable the given tone for direct data communication over a second disjoint set of Mk supporting lines out of the plurality of N subscriber lines, Mk denoting a non-null positive integer. The vectoring controller is further configured to configure the vectoring matrix to use an available transmit or receive power at the given tone over the second set of Mk supporting lines for further enhancement of data signal gains at the given tone over the first set of N?Mk targeted lines.

Abstract: Aspects relating to managing flow aggregation and routing for a multi-connectivity client device are described herein. In an implementation, a method for managing flow aggregation and routing for the client device includes establishing connection with a network communication engine based on connection parameters. The method further includes exchanging communication capabilities of the client device and a multi-access bearer proxy, with the network communication engine through a predefined communication protocol. The method further includes negotiating a set of communication standards for managing flow aggregation and routing of data packets, with the network communication engine based on the exchanged communication capabilities, where the set of communication standards comprises at least one flow aggregation and routing protocol.

Abstract: A device to process a channel state information reference signal CSI-RS and further data to be transmitted via a first radio module of a radio communications network, in which data to be transmitted is mapped on subcarriers and in the radio module subsequently up-converted to a radio frequency higher than the subcarrier frequencies is provided. The subcarriers are grouped into frequency subbands, and at least one subband is scalable with at least one subband parameter for a period of time. A subband parameter is in particular a subcarrier spacing, and in at least one subband at least two different parameters, in particular subcarrier spacings, can be used.