Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for obtaining information for a cyclic prefix (CP) in a wireless communication system by a terminal and a device for the same. Specifically, a method for obtaining information for a cyclic prefix (CP) in a wireless communication system by a terminal includes: detecting a specific synchronization signal received from a base station via a first symbol of a first subframe; detecting the specific synchronization signal received from the base station via a second symbol of a second subframe; and obtaining information for the CP applied to transmission of the specific synchronization signal based on an offset value between an index of the first symbol and an index of the second symbol.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for failing over from a current network access medium to an alternative network access medium. A customer premises equipment (CPE) box has ports for connections to a network through several network access media, such as high speed cable connections, DSL connections and dial-up connections. QoS parameters for each of the connections are monitored from a bandwidth manager remote from the CPE box. When it is determined that a fail-over would be beneficial, a message is sent from the bandwidth manager to the CPE box containing a command to fail-over and an identity of the alternate network access media.

Abstract: In a network device such as a network switch having a port coupled to a communications medium dedicated to a single virtual local area network and another port coupled to a communications medium shared among multiple virtual local area networks for transmitting data frames between the dedicated communications medium and the shared communications medium, a method of identifying the virtual network associated with each data frame received by the network switch when transmitting the data frames over the shared communications medium. The method comprises receiving data frames from the dedicated communications medium coupled to one port, and, with respect to each data frame so received, inserting a new type field and a virtual network identifier field. The contents of the new type field indicate the data frame comprises a virtual network identifier field.