Abstract: This disclosure provides a method of configuring a wireless telecommunications network, the wireless telecommunications network having a first transceiver serving a first plurality of User Equipment (UE) in a first coverage area.

Abstract: Examples describe a method of operating a distribution point unit (DPU) having a wireless backhaul connection, such as a 4G or 5G connection. The distribution point unit is reverse powered electrically by connected subscriber lines. The radio configuration (number of antennas, frequencies, etc.) used by the wireless backhaul connection is switched according to the power available from the subscriber lines. Changes to the available power can trigger a switch to a new radio configuration. Higher capacities (data rates) can be achieved with higher power radio configurations, which can be switched over to if the available power is sufficient. Similarly, when the available power drops, a switch can be made to an appropriate lower powered radio configuration.

Abstract: A method of detecting blockchain miner code executing in a web browser including receiving a profile for the browser identifying typical resource consumption by the browser in use; responsive to a detection of a deviation of the resource consumption by the browser from the profile, intercepting a communication with the browser including a cryptographic nonce, training a plurality of classifiers based on generated training examples, each training example being generated by applying a hashing algorithm to the nonce such that each classifier is trained with training examples generated using a different hashing algorithm; intercepting one or more second communications with the browser, each of the second communications including a hash value; executing at least a subset of the classifiers based on the hash value of each of the second communications; and identifying malicious miner code executing in the browser.

Abstract: There is herein disclosed a method of measuring the performance of a first communication channel at a first access point in a WLAN, in which the first access point is associated to a client device so that the first access point can send data to, and/or receive data from, the client device on a second communication channel, the method including disassociating the first access point to the client device and associating a second access point to the client device; switching the working channel of the first access point from the second communication channel to the first communication channel; and making one or more performance measurements in respect of the first communication channel at the first access point.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of selective transmission of a communications message from a home telecommunications network to a visited telecommunications network for delivery to a subscriber device roaming via the visited network includes receiving the message at the home network; identifying a communications component of the visited network to which the messages is to be routed; defining an input vector for a classifier, the input vector encoding parameters of the communications component; executing the classifier to classify the communications component to determine a reliability state of the communications component; and forwarding the message to the communications component of the visited network for delivery to the subscriber device in dependence on the classified reliability state.

Abstract: There is herein disclosed a method of communication between a client pair, the client pair including an upstream client and a downstream client, the method being performed over a first optical fiber in an optical fiber pair and including: transmitting a downstream DWDM signal over the first optical fiber, wherein the downstream DWDM signal has a first frequency and contains first data originating from the upstream client, transmitting an upstream DWDM signal over the first optical fiber, wherein the upstream DWDM signal has a second frequency and contains second data originating from the downstream client, wherein the first frequency is different to the second frequency, and performing Quantum Key Distribution over the second optical fiber of the optical fiber pair.

Abstract: A computer implemented method to identify a malicious database request including receiving a database query for retrieving data from a database; classifying the received query based on query instructions contained in the query to identify a class of query for the query, the class of query having associated attributes defining expected characteristics of queries of the class when executed by the database; monitoring characteristics of the received query executed to retrieve data from the database; and responsive to a determination that the monitored characteristics deviate from the expected characteristics, identifying the query as malicious.

Abstract: A method of managing a network for delivering content to a client device, where content segments are delivered over multicast to a proxy. The received segments are stored at the proxy, before delivery of those segments is made from the proxy to the client device over unicast. Whilst the proxy receives further segments over multicast, it probes the network by making unicast requests for data (dummy data or additional content segments), and receiving those segments over unicast from the content server. The multicast rate reception rate and the unicast (probe) rate are measured and a maximum network throughput is calculated as the sum of these two rates. Subsequent segments are then delivered from the proxy to the client device at the calculated maximum network throughput rate, or at some rate dependent thereon.

Abstract: A method of managing a telecommunications network, the telecommunications network having a first user and a second user, the method comprising the step of: ascertaining a competitive characteristic associated with the first user and a competitive characteristic associated with the second user; comparing the ascertained competitive characteristics; identifying whether there is a disparity between the competitive characteristics that exceeds a threshold, thereby to identify a competitive advantage associated with the first or second user; and if it is identified that the disparity exceeds the threshold, adapting a network configuration of a network connection associated with the first user so as to offset the competitive advantage associated with the first or second user.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of allocating a set of communications network resources to resource consumers in a digital communications system can include generating a set of multiple allocation schemes; iteratively applying a genetic algorithm to the set of allocation schemes to generate, at each iteration, a new set of allocation schemes as a generation of allocation schemes based on a preceding generation; and, responsive to a predetermined stopping condition for the iteration, assigning resource consumers to resources in the communications system in accordance with an allocation scheme in a most recent generation determined to satisfy a ranking condition.

Abstract: Malware Protection A computer implemented method, computer system and computer program are provided for protecting against malware. The method trains a classifier to classify a domain name as being either legitimate or illegitimate, wherein a classification of illegitimate indicates that the domain name was generated by a Domain Generation Algorithm used to generate domain names for malware. The method retrains the classifier using an active learning technique by: using the classifier to determine a respective classification of each domain name in a set of domain names: performing a respective domain name system. DNS, query for each domain name in the set: labelling one or more domain names in the set based on the classification of those domain names and the outcome of the respective DNS queries for those domain names: and using training data comprising the labelled one or more domain names to retrain the classifier.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of improved security of an application for deployment to a virtualized computing environment, the method including receiving configuration information for the application; accessing a set of configuration descriptors for a known security attack, each descriptor encoding at least a portion of an application configuration so as to identify one or more descriptors matching at least part of the configuration information, each descriptor in the set having a probability that the security attack will occur in a deployed application having a configuration consistent with the descriptor; evaluating a risk score for a risk of occurrence of the security attack, the risk score evaluated from the probabilities associated with the identified descriptors; identifying a set of compatible alternative configurations for the application; evaluating a risk score for a risk of occurrence of the security attack for each alternative configuration; selecting an alternative configuration having a risk sc

Abstract: Described is a method of media content delivery, where measurements of network delivery rates are used to determine at which bit rate to request each content segment. The aim is to ensure continuous play-out of good quality segments, without relying on a large buffer, so that end-to-end delay is kept low. The historical network delivery rate is measured on two or more timescales, such as a short-term delivery rate and a long-term delivery rate, and these are used to decide when to request a higher bit rate segment than the previous segment, and when to request a lower bit rate segment than the previous segment.

Abstract: A method of operating a telecommunications network (100), said telecommunications network being accessible to a User Equipment (UE) (102) and comprising a cellular telecommunications network (104-2) and a fixed-access telecommunications network (104-1), the method comprising the steps of: providing a set of user plane functions for processing user traffic for the UE, said set comprising at least two user plane functions; providing a combined user plane function (210) for processing user traffic for the UE according to the set of user plane functions; following establishing a network connection between the UE and the cellular telecommunications network via the fixed-access telecommunications network (510), identifying inefficient routing of user traffic associated with the UE (520), said inefficient routing comprising routing user traffic to at least the set of user plane functions; in response to identifying inefficient routing, re-routing user traffic associated with the UE to the combined user plane functio

Abstract: A method of managing a network of connected network devices can include detecting that a device descriptor file for a first network device has been updated and stored to a data store managed by a peer-to-peer network of computing systems; analyzing the updated device descriptor file stored to the data store; analyzing historical information stored in the data store regarding other device descriptor file updates related to the first network device or related to other network devices; performing predictive analytics processing on the results of the analyzing and generating a result; and storing the result of the performing predictive analytics processing to the data store.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of scheduling maintenance tasks for a target device, the device having a unique device type, comprising: retrieving, from a sequential transactional database, a series of transactions for each of a plurality of devices having the device type, each transaction corresponding to a change of state of one of the other devices; training a recurrent neural network based on each retrieved series of transactions as a predictor of a subsequent change of state of a device having the device type; retrieving, from a sequential transactional database, a series of transactions for the target device, each transaction corresponding to a change of state of the device; predicting a next maintenance task for the target device based on the series of transactions for the target device applied to the recurrent neural network; scheduling the predicted next maintenance task for the target device.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a method in a cellular telecommunications network, the cellular telecommunications network having a first central base station unit connecting to a first distributed base station unit, the method including the first central base station unit communicating with the first distributed base station unit using a first functional split in which a first set of protocol functions are implemented by the first central base station unit and a second set of protocol functions are implemented by the first distributed base station unit; determining that a processing resource utilization of at least one of the first central base station unit and first distributed base station unit using the first functional split satisfies a processing threshold; and, in response, causing the first central base station unit and first distributed base station unit to communicate using a second functional split in which a third set of protocol functions are implemented by the first central base station unit and a four

Abstract: This disclosure provides an optical network, and a method in an optical network, wherein: each reference optical transmitter is configured to transmit a reference optical signal on an associated second optical fiber of a plurality of second optical fibers, each reference error signal generator is configured to generate a reference error signal based on a reflection of the reference optical signal on the associated second optical fiber of the plurality of second optical fibers, and each reference phase shifter is configured to apply a phase shift to the first optical signal based on the reference error signal.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of media content delivery, where the time taken to deliver each chunk of content is measured, from which the stability or consistency of delivery times are calculated. The amount of data buffered at the user's device awaiting decoding and play-back can then be adjusted (such as by playing out the content slower or quicker), in order to achieve a good compromise between continuous play-out and low end-to-end delay, taking into consideration the current network characteristics.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of access control for a user device having at least one component for determining behaviors of the user. The method including accessing a first machine learning classifier trained based on at least one prior behavior of the user using the device, the classifier classifying user behavior as compliant or non-compliant. The method further including, in response to a determination that a subsequent behavior is classified as non-compliant, accessing a second machine learning classifier trained based on at least one prior behavior of the user using the device where the prior behavior is classified as non-compliant by the first classifier. The method further including, in response to a determination that the subsequent behavior is classified as non-compliant by the second classifier, requesting a credential-based authentication of the user and constructively training one of the machine learning classifiers based on the credential-based authentication result.