Abstract: The invention relates to a solution for determining an allowable round trip time for a communication between a base station and a terminal device served by the base station in an asynchronous communication system, At least some aspects of the solution relate to a method performed by a controller, the method comprises: determining round trip times of terminal devices served by the base station; selecting a maximum round trip time among the determined round trip times of the terminal devices served by the base station as the allowable round trip time; and delivering the selected allowable round trip time to the base station. The solution also relates to applying the determined round trip time by a base station and a terminal device as well as to a system comprising the mentioned entities and to computer program products.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a radio frequency (RF) virtualization system are disclosed. One system includes a plurality of radios, an abstraction layer network, and a controller. The controller operates to receive a standard set of interfaces and capabilities from a plurality of radios through the abstraction layer network, wherein the abstraction layer provides an interface to connect the radio access technology to a corresponding one of the plurality of radios, receive a request from the radio access technology for a radio of the plurality of radios, and allocate and connect a one of a plurality of radios that satisfies specifications of the request of the radio access technology, wherein the one of the plurality of radios that is allocated and connected to the radio access technology changes over time.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for wireless communication are disclosed. One method includes dividing available wireless communications resources into a plurality of groups, connecting, by a wireless device, to a base station through a wireless satellite link, allocating, by the base station, a set of the plurality of groups to the wireless device, receiving, by the wireless device, a datum from a data source, assigning, by the wireless device, the datum to one or more of the allocated groups based on characteristics of the datum, and wirelessly communicating, by the wireless device, the datum to the base station according to the assigned one of the plurality of groups.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for managing a User Equipment (UE) connection to a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes attaching, by a core network, the UE to the wireless network, storing, by the core network, at least a first subset of an attach context and a UE operational data set, wherein the UE stores at least a second subset of the attach context in memory and network operational data sets, wherein the UE transmits packets using the second subset of the attach context and the network operational data sets. The method further comprises receiving, by the core network, the packets from the UE using the first subset of the attach context, and urging by the core network the first subset of the attach context based on the UE network operational data set.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for communicating through a wireless link are disclosed. A method includes scheduling, by a server, communication between a base station and a plurality of user devices, receiving, by the base station, the scheduled communication, providing, to each user device, a data profile that includes a periodicity, an offset, and a carrier frequency based on the scheduled communication, receiving, by the base station, uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of user devices according to the data profile of each of the user devices and according to the scheduled communication, and simultaneously broadcasting, by the base station, acknowledgements of reception of uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of user devices.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated satellite and terrestrial channel utilization, are disclosed. One wireless system includes one or more controllers. For an embodiment, the one or more controllers are operative to (or configured to) determine one or more communication delays for each base station of a plurality of base stations based upon a maximum propagation delay between each base station and one or more of a plurality of hubs, generate a channel sharing map that includes a timing of communication between each base station and the one or more of the plurality of hubs, wherein each of the plurality of base stations operates to time wireless communication with the plurality of hubs based on the channel sharing map, and the one or more communication delays of the base station.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for providing function models to hubs, are disclosed. One method includes sensing, by a hub, local data, collecting the local data from the hub, creating function models based on the collected local data and non-local data collected from non-local data sources, dynamically creating non-local inputs based upon the local data from the hub and the non-local data collected from non-local data sources, transmitting the created function models to the plurality of hubs at a first timing, and dynamically transmitting the non-local inputs to each of the plurality of hubs at a second timing, and applying, by the hub, current locally sensed data and the dynamically transmitted non-local inputs to the created function models.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for dynamically estimating a propagation time between a first node and a second node of a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by the second node, from the first node a packet containing a first timestamp representing the transmit time of the packet, receiving, by the second node, from a local time source, a second timestamp corresponding with a time of reception of the first timestamp received from the first node, calculating a time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, storing the time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, calculating a predictive model for predicting the propagation time based the time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, and estimating the propagation time between the first node and the second node at a time by querying the predictive model with the time.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated access to a wireless link through data profiles are disclosed. One method includes receiving through the wireless link, by each hub associated with a base station, one or more data profiles from a network management element, receiving, by each hub, data from data sources associated with the hub, controlling, by each hub, a timing of communication of the data for each of the data sources from the hub to the base station through the wireless link based on the one or more data profiles, allocating preamble codes to each of the data sources, wherein different preamble codes are allocated to different data sources of different hubs that report within a margin of time of each other, and including the allocated preamble codes with the data of each of the data sources.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinating satellite and terrestrial base station resource block suppression are disclosed.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for communicating through a wireless link are disclosed. A method includes scheduling, by a server, communication between a base station and a plurality of hubs, receiving, by the base station, the scheduled communication, providing, to each hub, a data profile that includes a periodicity, an offset, and a carrier frequency based on the scheduled communication, receiving, by the base station, uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of hubs according to the data profile of each of the hubs and according to the scheduled communication, and simultaneously broadcasting, by the base station, acknowledgements of reception of uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of hubs.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for a satellite wireless communication system are disclosed. One system includes a base station, a satellite, a beam management controller, and a plurality of wireless devices. The base station is configured to wirelessly communicate according to a schedule between the base station and each of the plurality of wireless devices within a scheduling frame. The satellite is operative to form a plurality of beams between the satellite and the wireless devices and support a wireless satellite link between the base station and the wireless devices through the plurality of beams. The beam management controller is operative to assign beam allocations for the scheduled wireless communication between each of the wireless devices and the base station that is time aligned with the scheduling frame, wherein each of the beam allocations includes an assignment to at least one of the plurality of beams.

Abstract: The invention relates to a solution for determining an allowable round trip time for a communication between a base station and a terminal device served by the base station in an asynchronous communication system, At least some aspects of the solution relate to a method performed by a controller, the method comprises: determining round trip times of terminal devices served by the base station; selecting a maximum round trip time among the determined round trip times of the terminal devices served by the base station as the allowable round trip time; and delivering the selected allowable round trip time to the base station. The solution also relates to applying the determined round trip time by a base station and a terminal device as well as to a system comprising the mentioned entities and to computer program products.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for adaptive satellite wireless communication parameter selections are disclosed. One method includes predicting, by a base station, characteristics of a communication channel between the base station and a wireless hub, wherein a satellite is located within the communication channel between the base station and the wireless hub, and selecting, by the base station, wireless communication parameter selections including at least an MCS (modulation and coding scheme) based on the predicted characteristics of the communication channel.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems of hub communication with a satellite network or a terrestrial network are disclosed. One method includes detecting presence of the satellite network, detecting, by the hub, presence of a terrestrial network, selecting to connect to one of the satellite network or the terrestrial network based on a priority ruleset, estimating a propagation delay between the hub and a base station of the satellite network when the satellite network is selected, adjusting a timing offset between transmit and receive radio frames at the hub based on whether the satellite network or the terrestrial network is selected, and based at least on the propagation delay, and communicating with the base station of the satellite network or a base station of the terrestrial network.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinating wireless communication are disclosed. One method includes generating, by a wireless radiator, a plurality of selectable directional wireless communication links capable of providing connectivity across a plurality of cells, wherein each of the cells is spatially different from other cells, and wherein each of the cells covers a cell area, wherein a plurality of hubs are located within the cell area, generating, by a controller, a cell map, wherein the cell map maps which of the directional wireless links, which of the plurality cells, and which of the hubs are active as a function of time, thereby supporting a wireless communication link between the base station and the hubs of the cell area corresponding with the active directional wireless link, and providing the cell map to the base station and the hubs of each of the cells.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for configuring multicast communication, are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a solution for determining an allowable round trip time for a communication between a base station and a terminal device served by the base station in an asynchronous communication system, At least some aspects of the solution relate to a method performed by a controller, the method comprises: determining round trip times of terminal devices served by the base station; selecting a maximum round trip time among the determined round trip times of the terminal devices served by the base station as the allowable round trip time; and delivering the selected allowable round trip time to the base station. The solution also relates to applying the determined round trip time by a base station and a terminal device as well as to a system comprising the mentioned entities and to computer program products.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for dynamically estimating a propagation time between a first node and a second node of a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by the second node, from the first node a packet containing a first timestamp representing the transmit time of the packet, receiving, by the second node, from a local time source, a second timestamp corresponding with a time of reception of the first timestamp received from the first node, calculating a time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, storing the time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, calculating a predictive model for predicting the propagation time based the time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, and estimating the propagation time between the first node and the second node at a time by querying the predictive model with the time.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for connecting a wireless device across multiple wireless networks are disclosed. One system includes a state machine and a router. The state machine operates to maintain a network availability of each of a plurality of wireless networks for a wireless device, wherein each of the plurality of wireless networks include network characteristics. The router operates to select a one of the plurality of wireless networks based on the network availability and the network characteristics as maintained by the state machine, process data packets according to the selected available wireless network based on the network characteristics of the selected available wireless network, and route the processed data packets to the wireless device through the selected one of the plurality of wireless networks.