Abstract: A method for operation of a broadband access network of a telecommunications network includes: a central office point of delivery and/or a load management entity or functionality thereof detects that an increased load situation is currently happening or determines that an increased load situation is likely to happen or that a specific task is to be performed; the central office point of delivery triggers the use of additional virtualized network functions and/or additional micro services and an additional message router and load balancing entity for handling the increased load situation and/or for performing specific tasks within the telecommunications network and/or within the central office point of delivery; and upon detection of a normal load situation, the central office point of delivery releases the use of the additional virtualized network functions and/or additional micro services and the use of the additional message router and load balancing entity.

Abstract: A method for controlling use of user plane radio communication resources of a telecommunications network and/or for controlling access of a user equipment to the telecommunications network includes: transmitting, by the telecommunications network, a plurality of specific suspend time indications to the user equipment, wherein each one of the plurality of specific suspend time indications relates to a different network slice and/or to a different network service; and controlling the use of user plane radio communication resources of the telecommunications network and/or the access of the user equipment to the telecommunications network by deciding whether an attempt to use user plane radio communication resources of the telecommunications network is allowed or disallowed and/or whether an attempt to access the telecommunications network is allowed or disallowed.

Abstract: A method for configuring a mobile Point-of-Sales (mPOS) application for executing a transaction includes: installing an application frontend of the mPOS application on a terminal device connected to a communication network; installing an application backend of the mPOS application on an edge cloud server of the communication network; configuring the application frontend to act, upon launch, as an I/O interface and to communicate with the application backend via a secure connection provided by the communication network; and splitting I/O drivers comprised by computer program code of the mPOS application into a low-level driver executed on the terminal device as part of the I/O interface and a high-level driver executed in the application backend at the edge cloud server.

Abstract: A telecommunications system includes: a user equipment (UE); an access network (AN); and a core network (CN) composed of CN elements. A CN element comprises a set of UE route selection policy (URSP) rules, wherein each URSP rule comprises at least the following parameters: precedence value of URSP rule, a traffic descriptor, and at least a route selection descriptor containing a destination for matching traffic. The UE comprises one or more local resources which comprise: a local device or location in the UE, either physical or logical; and/or a local network address in the UE. A CN element is configured to instruct the UE with one or more URSP rules to route traffic matching the traffic descriptor to the destination local resource, local device, location or local network address in the UE. The UE is configured to direct the matching traffic to the destination in the URSP rule.

Abstract: A method for operating a mobile Point-of-Sales (mPOS) application includes: an application frontend of the mPOS application is installed and launched on a terminal device connected to a communication network via a secure connection; an application backend of the mPOS application is installed and launched on an edge cloud server of the communication network; the application frontend, for starting a transaction associated with the mPOS application, transmits a transaction request indicating the transaction to be started and comprising transaction data associated with the indicated transaction to the application backend via the connection; the application backend transmits an authorization request to the application frontend via the connection; the application frontend authorizes the requested transaction and transmits a transaction authorization to the application backend via the connection; and the application backend completes the transaction.

Abstract: A method to enable secure data communication between a first network of a first network provider and a second network of a second network provider includes: establishing a handover process from a 5G communication environment of a first network to a 4G communication environment of a second network; directing control plane traffic of the data transmission from a security edge protection proxy (SEPP) of the first network to a SEPP of the second network; directing user plane traffic of the data transmission to an access link to the 4G communication environment of the second network and through a GTP-firewall; and providing decrypted control plane traffic to the GTP-firewall, wherein the GTP-firewall performs security measures based on information extracted from the control plane traffic.

Abstract: The present disclosure refers to a method comprising: a) selecting an edge computing system (212) of a plurality of edge computing systems each located nearby a respective base station (211) of a wireless network (110) and deployed and managed by a network provider, the selected edge computing system (212) being configured to provision at least one latency critical application (214) which is to be provided to at least one end user device (230) in a cell via the base station (211) serving the cell and located nearby the selected edge computing system (212), b) provisioning, at the selected edge computing system (212), the at least one latency critical application (214) and a service layer radio application (SLRA) (215) for communication with a scheduler associated with the base station (211); c) transferring transmission specific data in real time between the at least one latency critical application (214) and the scheduler associated with the base station (211) via the service layer radio application (SLRA) (

Abstract: A 5G network includes an access network (AN), a 5G Core (5GC), one or more campus network components each configured to run 5GC software associated to a campus network, and one or more public network components each configured to run 5GC software associated to a public network. The 5GC comprises a central cloud having functionally separated instances, including: a public 5GC instance configured to host the public network realized as a network slice; a private 5GC instance configured to host one or more campus networks, wherein the one or more campus networks are realized as Network Slices; and a data layer instance configured to host Unified Data Repository (UDR) functionality. Unified Data Management (UDM) functions of both 5GC instances are connected to the data layer instance. A Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF) contains the information about network slices present in both 5GC instances.

Abstract: A method for synchronizing a distributed application includes: transmitting, by an application backend, application data packets to an application frontend; transmitting, by the application backend, a synchronization request packet to the application frontend; retrieving, by the application backend, a backend timestamp from a server clock; retrieving, by the application frontend, a frontend timestamp from a terminal device clock and transmitting the retrieved frontend timestamp to the application backend; calculating, by the application backend, a time offset of the frontend timestamp from the retrieved backend timestamp and using the calculated time offset for synchronization; detecting, by a scheduler, an actual state of a communication connection and transmitting control data to the application backend; and adapting, by the application backend, transmission of synchronization request packets based on the control data indicating jitter of the synchronization request packets preventing the distributed applic

Abstract: A method for enabling communication between a first network entity and a second network entity via at least two network flows includes: providing at least a first network flow and a second network flow of the first network entity; measuring, by a measuring unit associated with the first network entity, condition values of each of the at least two network flows; comparing the measured condition values of the at least two network flows to entries of a condition matrix; based on comparing the measured condition values to the entries of the condition matrix, selecting a mode for the first network entity out of an aggregation mode, a reliability mode, and a single-connectivity mode; and activating the selected mode.

Abstract: A method for operating a delivery instance for an access network of a telecommunications network is provided. The delivery instance is connected to a management entity, where the delivery instance and the management entity include a control functionality, a management functionality, a transport functionality, and an edge functionality. The delivery instance includes an access functionality realized by a plurality of access nodes that terminate physical subscriber lines serving end users of the telecommunications network. The delivery instance is operated using a hardware host. The management entity and the hardware host exchange configuration and setup information to bring the delivery instance into operation on the hardware host.

Abstract: A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle includes: controlling, by a stationary control unit connected to a radio access network, an autonomous vehicle via a wireless connection of the autonomous vehicle to the radio access network, wherein the autonomous vehicle moves in a predefined path network; allocating, by the radio access network, spectral resources to the wireless connection while the autonomous vehicle is moving; and determining, by the stationary control unit, a path of the autonomous vehicle in the predefined path network depending on the spectral resources used by the wireless connection of the autonomous vehicle while moving along the determined path.

Abstract: A method for transmitting multiple data streams of different communication services over a multipath transmission system includes: providing data to be transmitted, wherein the data to be transmitted comprises first data and second data; detecting, out of a plurality of communication services, a first communication service the first data belongs to and a second communication service the second data belongs to; mapping the first data to a first data stream and the second data to a second data stream based on the first and second detected communication services; scheduling transfer of the first data stream and the second data stream based on the first classification parameter assigned to the first and second communication services; and scheduling transmission of the first data and the second data to the destination communication device based on the at least one second classification parameter assigned to the first and second communication services.

Abstract: A service discovery method for activating an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) device includes: initiating a device comprising an eSIM; and connecting the device to at least one of an entry point of a mobile network operator and a designated entitlement configuration server, using an entitlement configuration for automatically activating the eSIM via the connection to the entitlement configuration server and connecting the eSIM with a data service or a data network of the mobile network operator based on an entitlement of designated use-cases. The device and the entitlement configuration server validate parameters and/or methodologies for the entitlement configuration. The device requests the entitlement configuration server to provide supported parameters for a designated use-case and compares the response returned by the entitlement configuration server with its own supported parameters for the designated use-case.

Abstract: A method for enhanced emergency call handling and/or continuation of an emergency call in a telecommunications network includes: in a first step, an emergency call is initiated by a mobile communication device and set up as an IP multimedia subsystem emergency call; in a second step, during or subsequent to the first step, the mobile communication device receives, from the telecommunications network, a temporary local profile information comprising a security credential information and comprising or corresponding to a public identity of the mobile communication device and provided by the telecommunications network; and in a third step, subsequent to the second step, the mobile communication device triggers an IP multimedia subsystem registration at or to the telecommunications network, using the temporary local profile information.

Abstract: A method for operation of a central office point of delivery within a broadband access network of a telecommunications network and/or for flexibly providing, within the central office point of delivery, user-related traffic to at least one central functional entity providing at least one specific functionality within the central office point of delivery or for the central office point of delivery includes: in a first step, the user-related traffic is routed to a specific service edge node, wherein the specific service edge node is selected or determined, by at least one repository node, based on the at least one specific network termination node and/or the specific line termination node; and in a second step, the user-related traffic is provided to the at least one central functional entity.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of optimizing a usage distribution in a communications network uses a quantum concept processor. A set of traffic demands for a transfer of determined data volumes between origin nodes and destination nodes among the plurality of communication nodes is captured. The traffic demands are split into sub-demands. A set of optional communication paths for an individual routing of each sub-demand is specified. The edges within the set of optional communication paths are assigned a respective usage capacity limit. Fractional capacity usages of the edges are calculated based on the respective usage capacity limit. The calculated fractional capacity usages are formulated as terms of a quadratic stress function. An optimized routing is determined by using a quantum concept processor, thereby selecting for each sub-demand one communication path from the set of optional communication paths such that the quadratic stress function is minimized.

Abstract: A method includes: a) provisioning, at a selected edge computing system, at least one latency critical application; b) determining, at a first base station, that an end user device is located proximate to an edge of the first cell and/or in an overlapping area of the first cell and a second cell of the wireless network; c) checking a degree of capacity utilization of the second cell; d) scheduling a handover of the end user device from the first cell to the second cell in case that the second cell has sufficient available capacity; e) transferring, before executing the handover, in real time a first note about the scheduled handover from a first scheduler associated with the first base station to the at least one latency critical application; and f) executing the handover.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method optimizes a routing of data traffic in a communications network by using a quantum concept processor. A set of potential short communication paths among possible communication paths between respective origin nodes and respective destination nodes of captured traffic demands is specified. The edges within the set of potential short communication paths are assigned a respective usage capacity limit. Fractional capacity usages of the edges are calculated based on respective usage capacity limits of the edges. The calculated fractional capacity usages are formulated as terms of a quadratic stress function. An optimized routing is determined by using a quantum concept processor, thereby selecting for each traffic demand one short communication path from the set of potential short communication paths such that the quadratic stress function is minimized.

Abstract: A multipath capable communication device includes: a first communication path and a second communication path configured to provide data traffic to be transmitted; at least one control unit; a multipath scheduler configured to distribute data traffic to the first communication path and/or to the second communication path based on a first path metric; a first traffic shaper configured to limit the total bandwidth allocated to the communication device to a first adjustable bandwidth limiting value; and a second traffic shaper configured to limit the bandwidth allocated to the first communication path to a second adjustable bandwidth limiting value and/or a third traffic shaper configured to limit the bandwidth allocated to the second communication path to a third adjustable bandwidth limiting value. The at least one control unit is configured to control the multipath scheduler, the first traffic shaper, and the second traffic shaper and/or third traffic shaper.