Abstract: A method of the present invention includes: determining, when packet congestion occurs or network bandwidth decreases, at least one to-be-discarded packet in a packet buffer; and discarding the at least one to-be-discarded packet so that at least one unbuffered packet enters the packet buffer to prevent discarding too many unbuffered packets, where the unbuffered packet is a packet that has not entered the packet buffer. The present invention is primarily applied in a packet buffering process.

Abstract: A troubleshooting method based on network function virtualization is provided, where the troubleshooting method may include: obtaining, by a first function management entity, fault information of a function entity; triggering, by the first function management entity, fault correlation processing according to the fault information, and formulating a troubleshooting policy according to a result of the fault correlation processing; and if the troubleshooting policy is formulated when troubleshooting time arrives, processing, by the first function management entity, a fault according to the troubleshooting policy; or if the troubleshooting policy is not formulated, processing, by the first function management entity, a fault according to a preset troubleshooting policy, where the preset troubleshooting policy is a policy formulated for a fault generated due to a reason of the function entity, so as to ensure that a service is not interrupted in a troubleshooting process, so that user experience is improved.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hybrid automatic repeat request management method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: determining, by a first network node according to at least one of a first correspondence between a carrier set and a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ process or a second correspondence between the carrier set and a HARQ entity, a HARQ process and/or a HARQ entity corresponding to the carrier set, where the carrier set includes at least one of: at least one uplink UL carrier set or at least one downlink DL carrier set; and receiving and/or sending, by the first network node, data and/or signaling according to the HARQ process and/or the HARQ entity by using the carrier set.

Abstract: The present application relates to the field of computer technologies, and in particular, to a stop word identification method used in an information retrieval system. In a stop word identification method, after a first query input by a user is acquired, a second query that belongs to a same session as the first query is acquired, and a stop word in the first query is identified according to a change-based feature of each word in the first query relative to the second query. According to the solution provided by the present application, a stop word in a query can be identified more accurately, and efficiency and precision of an information retrieval system are improved.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a carrier configuration method and a device, and relates to the field of communications, to resolve a problem that dividing multiple component carriers into primary and secondary component carriers only is not conducive to management of an important secondary component carrier. In a specific solution, a carrier aggregation model is configured for UE, so that the UE performs data transmission with a network device according to the carrier aggregation model. The carrier aggregation model includes multiple component carriers, the multiple component carriers include at least one core carrier, and the at least one core carrier includes at least one primary core carrier. The core carrier has an uplink transmission function and a downlink transmission function. The present invention is applied to a carrier configuration process.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of mobile communications technologies, and in particular, to an indoor positioning method and an apparatus. In this solution, a positioning server obtains floor numbers of floors on which at least one base station is located; the positioning server receives identification information of a first terminal; the positioning server determines the first terminal according to the identification information; and the positioning server determines vertical location information of the first terminal according to the floor numbers of the floors on which the at least one base station is located. When a terminal is located indoors, positioning is meaningful only when a specific floor on which the terminal is located is determined.

Abstract: The present application provides methods of determining bandwidth demands and allocating bandwidth for a network including a plurality of groups of sub-networks. Each subnetwork includes a plurality of server racks and an aggregation switch node configured to control the flow of traffic to and from the plurality of server racks in the subnetwork. The aggregation switch nodes in the network are optically coupled to one another via at least one switch controlled by a switch controller. Each group of subnetworks of the plurality of groups of subnetworks also includes a group controller in communication with each of the aggregation switch nodes in the group. The group controllers are communicatively coupled to one another. The interaction between the aggregation switch nodes, the group controllers and the switch controllers enable distributed and dynamic control of switching between the subnetworks.

Abstract: Method, apparatus and systems are provided for key derivation. A target base station receives multiple keys derived by a source base station, where the keys correspond to cells of the target base station. The target base station selects a key corresponding to the target cell after obtaining information regarding a target cell that a user equipment (UE) is to access. An apparatus for key derivation and a communications system are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a signal correction method and apparatus, and a terminal, and relates to the signal processing field. The method includes: receiving an input signal, where the input signal is an audio signal or an image signal, the input signal includes signals that are corresponding to multiple units respectively, and any one of the units is a sampling point of the audio signal or a pixel unit of the image signal; performing texture detection on a target unit to obtain a first signal; extracting a high frequency component of a signal of the target unit to obtain a second signal; performing multiplication processing and non-linear processing on the first signal and the second signal to obtain a sharpness correction signal of the target unit; and performing sharpness correction on the signal of the target unit according to the sharpness correction signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a CSI reporting method, a CSI receiving method, and an apparatus, to resolve a technical problem that PUCCH resource overheads are relatively large during CSI reporting. In embodiments of the present invention, at least two PUCCH resources are configured for each downlink carrier group. CSI that needs to be reported in one uplink subframe may be obtained, and a format of a corresponding PUCCH resource is determined according to the to-be-reported CSI. For example, the determined format is referred to as a first format. Then, all of the to-be-reported CSI is reported after being added to a first first-format PUCCH resource.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing a temporal envelope of an audio signal, and an encoder are disclosed. When multiple temporal envelopes are solved, continuity of signal energy can be well maintained, and in addition, complexity of calculating a temporal envelope is reduced. The method includes: obtaining a high-band signal of the current frame audio signal according to the received current frame audio signal; dividing the high-band signal of the current frame signal into M subframes according to a predetermined temporal envelope quantity M, where M is an integer that is greater than or equal to 2; calculating a temporal envelope of each of the subframes; performing windowing on the first subframe of the M subframes and the last subframe of the M subframes by using an asymmetric window function; and performing windowing on a subframe except the first subframe and the last subframe of the M subframes.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a memory resource optimization method and apparatus, relate to the computer field, solve a problem that existing multi-level memory resources affect each other, and optimize an existing single partitioning mechanism. A specific solution is: obtaining performance data of each program in a working set by using a page coloring technology, obtaining a category of each program in light of a memory access frequency, selecting, according to the category of each program, a page coloring-based partitioning policy corresponding to the working set, and writing the page coloring-based partitioning policy to an operating system kernel, to complete corresponding page coloring-based partitioning processing. The present invention is used to eliminate or reduce mutual interference of processes or threads on a memory resource in light of a feature of the working set, thereby improving overall performance of a computer.

Abstract: The present application discloses an identifier interaction method, comprising sending, by a 3GPP access network entity, an identifier of a wireless local area network (WLAN) to the user equipment according to the priority information of the WLAN, where the identifier of the WLAN is an identifier of a WLAN that a home area operator of a user equipment (UE) allows the UE to access and/or an identifier of a WLAN that a roaming area operator of the UE allows the UE to access, and the 3GPP access network entity is in a roaming area in which the user equipment is located.

Abstract: Methods and systems for determining placement of a virtual serving gateway. The method includes obtaining a set of input information. The input information includes network information and configuration information providing one or more parameters for placing the virtual serving gateway, and includes at least one mobility insensitivity criterion. Placement of the virtual serving gateway at one or more physical hosts is determined in accordance with the network information and the configuration information. The virtual serving gateway is distributively placeable across physical hosts. A set of output information is generated. The output information includes information identifying placement of the virtual serving gateway at the physical hosts, and a hosting percentage for each physical host.

Abstract: A method for managing a task on a terminal device and the terminal device are provided. The method for managing a task on a terminal device may include: monitoring whether a first application on the terminal device is running, and monitoring a user's action of operating a desktop of the terminal device; and displaying, on the desktop of the terminal device, a running-state icon corresponding to the first application if it is detected that the first application is running, and disabling the first application if it is detected that the first application is running and the detected user action meets a preset disabling condition corresponding to the first application; or displaying, on the desktop of the terminal device, a disabled-state icon corresponding to the first application if it is detected that the first application is in a disabled state.

Abstract: A communication method and system, an access network device, and an application server, where the communication method includes receiving, by an access network device, a service packet, and sending, by the access network device, the received service packet to an application server according to a policy, where the application server is arranged at an access network side, and is independent from the access network device or in the access network device, and the application server supports operation of at least one service. An application server that supports operation of third-party applications is introduced at an access network side such that a user equipment (UE) can directly perform service interaction with the access network side, which significantly improves the response time of a user request, decreases service delay, and improves the quality of service (QoS) of a service, thereby improving user experience.

Abstract: A method includes comparing a length of a first packet to a threshold, determining that the first packet is a short packet when the length of the first packet is less than the threshold, and determining that the first packet is a long packet when the length of the first packet is greater than or equal to the threshold. The method also includes when the first packet is a long packet placing the first packet in a long packet container and transmitting the long packet container to a photonic switch. Additionally, the method includes when the first packet is a short packet placing a first portion of the first packet in a first short packet container, where the first short packet container includes a sequence number, a source top-of-rack switch (TOR) address, and a destination TOR address and transmitting the first short packet container to an electronic switch.

Abstract: A method for packet routing in a network is disclosed. The network includes a network controller, a first switch connected to the network controller, a first server directly connected to the first switch, and a second server. The network controller obtains network connection information of the two servers. The network connection information indicates that the first server belongs to a first subnet and the second server belongs to a second subnet, the first subnet and the second subnet are two different subnets, and the two different subnets are configured on a same router. The network controller sends configuration information to the first switch. The configuration information configures the first switch to modify a packet header of a packet sent from the first server to the second server, and forward the modified packet to the second server.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a channel estimation method, apparatus, and device and a multichannel microwave communications system. According to the channel estimation method, a first vector group corresponding to a transmit end and a second vector group corresponding to a receive end are first obtained according to a transmit-receive array size; then a subchannel estimation procedure is performed multiple times according to the transmit-receive array size, the first vector group, and the second vector group, to obtain multiple corresponding subchannel estimated coefficients; and finally, a real channel matrix is determined according to the first vector group, the second vector group, and an estimation matrix consisting of the multiple subchannel estimated coefficients.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for obtaining a mapping between a random access parameter and a resource are disclosed in embodiments of the present invention, where the method includes: obtaining a random access parameter list, and obtaining a serial number of a parameter in the random access parameter list; obtaining a resource list; and obtaining a mapping between the random access parameter and a common enhanced dedicated channel resource in the resource list according to the obtained serial number of the random access parameter and the total number of resources in the obtained resource list, so that a network side device determines, according to the random access parameter sent by a UE, whether a corresponding common enhanced dedicated channel resource is available. In this way, a mapping between a signature and a default common E-DCH resource can be defined, and a problem of relatively low random access efficiency is solved.