Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments include apparatus and systems for providing health monitoring sensor placement. An apparatus includes a sensor device, comprising one or more sensors to respectively collect sensor data, a memory configured to store the sensor data, communication logic configured to provide the sensor data to an external electronic device. The sensor device is configured to be disposed within and removably coupled to a wristband device. When the sensor device is disposed within the wristband device, the sensor device contacts the skin of a user when the wristband device is worn by the user.

Abstract: A method, device and system configured to support webRTC media communications. The method includes a webRTC client initiating a media connection with a signaling server serving the webRTC client. A monitor server obtains server performance metrics from each of a plurality of media gateway (GW) servers and responsively provides the signaling server with the assigned media GW server as a function of the performance metrics. The monitor server is configured to communicate with a plurality of media GW servers in the network. The monitor server is configured to execute a background process on performance metrics of each of the plurality of media GW servers, and determine a preferred media GW server from the plurality of media GW servers for the webRTC client. The system is configured to support webRTC media communications to connect a webRTC client to a preferred media GW server based on the performance of the media GW servers.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for control channel transmission in a wireless network are disclosed. A disclosure is provided with at least one resource block (RB) including a first control channel element associated with a first antenna port (AP) and a second control channel element associated with a second AP. The first and second control channel elements might be used for transmission of a single control channel, and a first reference signal sequence associated with one of the first AP and the second AP is selected for transmission of the single control channel based on a control channel element index value, such that a resource element of the at least one RB can be detected to decode the first control channel element and the second control channel element.

Abstract: A WebRTC system, device and method enabling a P2P communication when both ends of a communication are WebRTC enabled devices. The system and devices also enable a WebRTC client to SIP device communication. A SIP interworking function is configured to receive a SDP1 from an originating WebRTC and obtain local media information from a media interworking function. The first SIP interworking function is configured to create a SDP2 based on the SDP1 and the local media information, create a SIP message comprising a message-body field including the SDP2 and an SIP extension header field including the SDP1, and send the SIP message to an IMS or SIP server.

Abstract: A method implemented for providing a source of entropy in source routing, the method comprising receiving a source routing packet that comprises an entropy-header, wherein the entropy-header comprises an entropy field and a list of identifiers (IDs), determining a next hop ID from the list of IDs, determining whether the next hop ID identifies a plurality of routes used to reach a next hop node, selecting a first route from the plurality of routes using the entropy field, and transmitting the source routing packet via the first route, wherein the list of IDs indicates the route used to transport the source routing packet from a source to a destination.

Abstract: A system for managing, storing and providing shared digital content to a group of users in a multi-platform environment, comprising a cloud storage component configured to store digital content items that are shared by members in a user relationship defined group, and a cloud service component configured to provide one of the digital content items to a first platform for a first member of the user relationship defined group in a format suitable for the first platform and to a second platform for a second member of the user relationship defined group in a format suitable for the second platform, wherein the first platform and the second platform are different platforms.

Abstract: Crest factor reduction (CFR) can be performed on the various carriers of a multi-carrier multi-channel signal prior to modulation and/or beamforming operations in order to improve signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) in the resulting wireless communication. More specifically, clipping noise is introduced into each of the individual carrier signals prior to application of the beamforming weight vectors, as well as prior to carrier modulation, thereby causing the beamforming weight vectors to be applied to both the signal and the clipping noise. As a result, variations between the signal antenna pattern and the clipping noise antenna pattern are reduced, which mitigates and/or reduces low SNR spatial locations in which the signal would have been drowned out by the clipping noise under conventional CFR.

Abstract: A method for distributing routing instructions to a plurality of nodes within an OpenFlow Software Defined Network (SDN) using a logically centralized multi-controller that comprises a plurality of controllers, wherein the method comprises receiving a plurality of incoming data packets, storing a plurality of current flow tables, queuing the incoming data packets, wherein the incoming data packets are queued based on the order received, processing the incoming data packets based on the order the incoming data packets were queued, wherein the incoming data packets that are first to be queued are the first to be processed, generating a plurality of flow tables by processing the incoming data packets, and transmitting the flow tables to the plurality of nodes when the flow tables have not been previously generated.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) for a backplane serializer/deserializer (SerDes) system, comprising a first transmitter configured to send first data at a data rate to a second receiver in a second IC, a first receiver configured to receive second data at the data rate from a second transmitter in the second IC, wherein each of a first link and a second link is to the first transmitter, the first receiver, the second transmitter, and the second receiver, and wherein both the first link and the second link combined are configured to transfer the first data from the first transmitter to the second receiver and transfer the second data from the second transmitter to the first receiver at the data rate.

Abstract: An embodiment method includes selecting, by a network infrastructure manager, a first user equipment (UE) as a destination UE and selecting a second UE as a relay UE for the destination UE. The method further includes negotiating installation of a virtual range extender (vREX) UE on the destination UE, and negotiating installation of a vREX forwarding agent (FA) on the relay UE. The vREX FA is configured to act as a FA for the vREX UE.

Abstract: A trie comprising a plurality of subtries may be balanced by storing, in a first memory stage, a first root that identifies a first subtrie of a trie and a second root that identifies a second subtrie, which is a direct or indirect child of the first subtrie. A plurality of network address prefixes representing vertexes in the plurality of subtries may be stored in at least one additional memory stage. As the first subtrie is located on a top subtrie level which may contain relatively fewer network address prefixes, promoting the second subtrie to the top subtrie level may help improve memory utilization. Further, looking up any received network address may have less memory access latency.

Abstract: Users can be alerted of important missed calls while away from their mobile device by sending missed call notifications to contacts of the user, which may include friends, family, colleagues, or other people/entities associated with the called party. The missed call notifications may include text or automated voicemail messages, email messages, and/or messages sent via a social networking site or service to name a few, and can specify information pertaining to the missed call and/or the calling party. Missed call notifications can be triggered when one or more predefined conditions are met, such as when the mobile device is deemed not to be in the possession of the user and/or the missed call is deemed to be important. Missed call notifications can originate from the mobile device or a network device.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a processor configured to calculate a noise figure of an optical amplifier for a plurality of selected wavelength channels in a partial-fill scenario that accounts for channel loading. The noise figure is calculated using a plurality of corresponding noise figure correction values at a plurality of wavelengths based on an effective number of channels.

Abstract: An embodiment user equipment has a list of predictive data that a user may request, and programming to receive prefetched data based on the list of predictive data at a reduced cost, wherein the reduced cost is lower than a network cost of downloading the data, and to store the prefetched data within the UE for future consumption. An embodiment base station has a list of predictive data a UE may request, a high priority queue for data requested by the UE, and a low priority queue with predictive data corresponding to the list of predictive data. The base station further includes programing to send the requested data and to send the predictive data.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for setting a clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold includes receiving, by a station from a first access point, a first message including an information element and determining a CCA threshold in accordance with the information element. The method also includes detecting a power level of a channel between the station and the access point to produce a first detected power level and comparing the first detected power level and the CCA threshold. Additionally, the method includes transmitting, by the station to the first access point on the channel, a second message when the detected power level is less than the CCA threshold.

Abstract: System and method embodiments are provided for traffic engineering (TE) in software defined networking (SDN). The embodiments enable a complete end-to-end TE solution between a user equipment (UE) and a source/destination across a radio access network (RAN). In an embodiment, a method in a network component for TE in a SDN includes receiving TE information from a first core network component in a core network, a RAN component, wherein the RAN is communicably coupled to the core network, wherein the TE information includes a TE objective; and determining a TE decision between at least one UE and a second core network component in the core network according to the TE information and the TE objective, wherein the TE decision comprises information for at least one end-to-end path solution between the at least one UE and the second core network wherein the path traverses the core network and the RAN.

Abstract: A method for transmitting control information to a wireless node in a communications system includes mapping, by a communications controller, the control information onto resources associated with a wireless node specific search space, the wireless node specific search space being located in a first data region of a first subframe, the first subframe including a first common search space in addition to the wireless node specific search space. The method also includes generating, by the communications controller, a location indicator identifying a location of the wireless node specific search space. The method further includes transmitting, by the communications controller, the first subframe to the wireless node, and transmitting, by the communications controller, the location indicator to the wireless node.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to split an optical signal into a first optical signal and a second optical signal, wherein the first optical signal comprises a plurality of encoded wavelengths, receive a selection signal, wherein the selection signal selects a plurality of active wavelengths, wherein the active wavelengths are a subset of the encoded wavelengths, compute the routing information for the second optical signal using the active wavelengths, and switch the second optical signal using the routing information.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a network element (NE) configured to support routing-associated signal compatibility constraint information that is associated with the NE using Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) and an open shortest path first (OSPF) routing protocol, wherein the signal compatibility constraint information comprises a modulation type list, a Forward Error Correction (FEC) type list, a bit rate range list, and an acceptable client signal list, and wherein the signal compatibility constraint information is associated with a resource block (RB) pool for a plurality of NEs. Also disclosed is a network component comprising a transmitter unit configured to transmit signal compatibility constraints via GMPLS OSPF routing, wherein the signal compatibility constraints comprise a modulation type list, a FEC type list, a bit rate range list, and an acceptable client signal list.

Abstract: A method embodiment includes configuring, by a network device, a multiple point communication measurement reporting scheme. The multiple point communication measurement reporting scheme includes a multiple point communication measurement set, a List A, a List B, and measurement report triggering events. The measurement report triggering events includes a first event wherein a measurement result of an element in List A becomes better than a threshold, a second event wherein a measurement result of an element in List A becomes better than a measurement result of an element in List B by at least an offset, a third event wherein a measurement result of an element in List B becomes worse than a threshold, and/or a fourth event wherein a measurement result of an element in List B becomes worse than a measurement result of an element in List A by at least an offset.