Abstract: Embodiments of an eNB to operate in accordance with a coverage enhancement mode are disclosed herein. The eNB may comprise hardware processing circuitry to, during a legacy sub-frame, transmit a system information block (SIB) in legacy SIB frequency resources according to a legacy SIB transmission format and refrain from transmission of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS). The hardware processing circuitry may be further to, during a first coverage enhancement sub-frame, transmit a first portion of the SIB in first SIB frequency resources included in the legacy SIB frequency resources. The hardware processing circuitry may be further to, during a first coverage enhancement sub-frame, transmit a first set of CSI-RS in first CSI-RS frequency resources that include at least a portion of the legacy SIB frequency resources.

Abstract: A method for communication includes respectively associating each of a plurality of client stations (STAs) with at least one basic service set (BSS) of at least one access point (AP) in a WLAN. The APs in the WLAN are synchronized prior to transmitting data to the STAs. First and second groups of the antennas are defined for downlink communication with the first and second STAs, each of the groups including antennas belonging to at least two of the APs. Different, first and second distributed beamforming parameters are computed over the first and second groups of the antennas. Respective data for transmission to the first and second STAs are distributed to the APs to which the antennas in the respective first and second groups belong and are transmitted in synchronization in accordance with the first and second distributed beamforming parameters.

Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, devices, apparatus, and computer program products for prioritized transmission of different data types, including VHF airband radio communication data (e.g., being transmitted or received from a control tower) over bonded communication modules at a remotely operated aerial vehicle. Embodiments of the invention include portable (and potentially mobile and/or remotely operated) vehicles for wirelessly transmitting and receiving various data types over a bonded mobile network and a control device (which can be fixed or portable) capable of receiving data transmitted from the mobile node and transmitting data to it. Different data types can be assigned different priorities, facilitating selective transmission of higher-priority data, such as, for example, VHF airband radio communication data, when quality degrades on a network link.

Abstract: Methods, user equipment and base stations for sending and receiving system information (SI) are provided. The method of receiving SI includes: in response to receiving first class SI broadcasted by a base station, determining a receiving window and a preamble associated with the to-be-requested SI, wherein the to-be-requested SI belongs to second class SI; in response to arrival of the receiving window associated with the to-be-requested SI, sending the preamble in an uplink subframe configured for sending the preamble; and receiving the to-be-requested SI within the receiving window associated with the to-be-requested SI, wherein the to-be-requested SI is sent by the base station according to the receiving window.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmitting data sent from at least one connected object to an addressee via a transmission architecture consisting of at least one low-rate network. The method includes encoding the data as messages and dividing each of the messages into a plurality of segments. The method further includes encapsulating each segment in a packet associated with a header to generate a plurality of packets and routing the plurality of packets via base stations in the at least one low-rate network. The method further includes reconstructing each of the messages from the plurality of packets received to generate reconstituted messages and transmitting each reconstituted message to the addressee from a control server. The reconstructing of each of the messages is based on a modulation of sending the plurality of packets of each message at successive time intervals defined by four or less sending periods of specific durations.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for connection handling. The method includes: receiving a connection request that requests for establishing or resuming a connection with a base station; and instructing a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) of a terminal to perform a predetermined operation based on an obtained first connection result corresponding to the connection request. In this way, the problems associated with inconsistent operations in the user plane optimization in the related art can be solved and the consistency in operations between the Access Stratum (AS) and NAS of the terminal can be achieved.

Abstract: An uplink information processing method and an apparatus, the method including receiving, by a terminal device, first control information sent by a base station device in a first downlink transmission time interval, determining, by the terminal device, a time domain resource based on the first control information, where the time domain resource includes at least one uplink transmission time interval, where a start time unit of the time domain resource is later than the first downlink transmission time interval, and wherein the start time unit is a first uplink transmission time interval of the at least one uplink transmission time interval, and sending, by the terminal device, data information on an uplink data channel, where the uplink data channel corresponds to the at least one uplink transmission time interval in the time domain resource.

Abstract: Technologies for processing network packets in an agent-mesh architecture include a network interface controller (NIC) of a computing device configured to write, by a network fabric interface of a memory fabric of the NIC, a received network packet to the memory fabric in a distributed fashion. The network fabric interface is configured to send an event message indicating the received network packet to a packet processor communicatively coupled to the memory fabric. The packet processor is configured to read, in response to having received the generated event message, at least a portion of the received network packet from the memory fabric, identify an agent of the NIC for additional processing of the received network packet, generate a network packet received event message indicating the received network packet is available for processing, and transmit the network packet received event message to the identified agent. Other embodiments are described herein.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a trigger frame for triggering that a frame for setting a link with a wireless communication terminal, which is an AP, is transmitted through UpLink Multi User (UL MU) transmission through the transmission/reception unit. The processor transmits the frame for setting the link through UL MU transmission based on the trigger frame.

Abstract: A network receives a connection request, from a wireless device, that includes a first Access Point Name (APN) that is invalid in a first wireless carrier network. The network device translates the first APN to a second APN that is valid in the first wireless carrier network. The network device uses the second APN in signaling associated with a connection between the wireless device and the first wireless carrier network.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for interlace determination. One apparatus includes a processor that determines a system bandwidth including multiple interlaces. Each interlace of the multiple interlaces includes a set of physical resource blocks (“PRBs”) that are uniformly spaced in frequency. The processor also determines a first set of interlaces of the multiple interlaces for a first device. The first set of interlaces includes one or more interlaces. The apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits a first signal to the first device. The first signal indicates the first set of interlaces, and a number of bits of the first signal is less than a number of interlaces of the multiple interlaces.

Abstract: A data transmission method, includes: a terminal performs, when the terminal performs transmission of same data with both a first base station accessed by the terminal and a second base station accessed by the terminal, transmission of to-be-transmitted data of the terminal with the first base station by using a first logical channel; and perform, transmission of the to-be-transmitted data with the second base station by using a second logical channel, where the first logical channel and the second logical channel are associated with a same radio bearer of the terminal. Therefore, reliability of a radio link is improved, and a latency of data transmission is reduced.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for parallel sniffing of non-identical mediums. An example apparatus includes a device configurator to configure a first sniffer using a first parameter of a second sniffer to generate a first data stream, a parameter determiner to identify a common frame included in the first and second data streams, the second data stream generated by the second sniffer and determine a first time-correction factor by determining a difference between a first timestamp and a second timestamp of the common frame in the first and second data streams, and a stream generator to generate a third data stream including first and second data frames, the first data frames based on the first time-correction factor, the second data frames based on a second time-correction factor based on configuring the first sniffer using a second parameter of the third sniffer.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide a number of groups of transmitters, each group of transmitters having at least one user equipment (UE), and each group of transmitters having an associated transmission opportunity (TXO) for transmission of a reference signal. A number of UEs may transmit transmissions to a base station according to non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) techniques in which two or more UEs concurrently transmit to the base station. Depending upon a number of UEs, a number of groups of transmitters, an overloading factor of NOMA transmissions, a system bandwidth, a time span of the reference signal TXO, or any combination thereof, a binary or non-binary orthogonal cover code (OCC) may be applied to transmitted reference signals, which the base station may use to identify reference signals from particular UEs.

Abstract: A transmission method includes: selecting, from a cooperative cluster covered by a plurality of transmission points that transmit signals in cooperation with each other, a transmission point positioned in vicinity of a boundary between the cooperative cluster and another cooperative cluster; generating a first transmission weight that causes the selected transmission point to form a directional beam directed in a direction different from a direction of the another cooperative cluster; generating, by using the first transmission weight generated, a second transmission weight that weights transmission signals, such that signals that are transmitted simultaneously from the transmission points and addressed to a plurality of transmission destinations are separately received; generating, by using the second transmission weight generated, streams to be transmitted from the transmission points, the streams respectively corresponding to antennas; and transmitting the streams generated, from the transmission points.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein for coordinating a random access channel (RACH) procedure with a beam discovery procedure. A timing and configuration of a RACH window may be coordinated with a beam discovery window. By coordinating the two windows, a user equipment (UE) may be configured to use information learned from the beam discovery procedure during the RACH procedure, thereby increasing the likelihood that the RACH procedure is successful. In some cases, the RACH procedure is triggered by the transmission of directional beam reference signals during the beam discovery window. In such cases, the UE determines the timing of the RACH window based at least in part on the receipt of the directional beam reference signals. In some cases, the RACH window is configured using a static configuration relative to the beam discovery window.

Abstract: A network device in a network system including a plurality of network devices, includes: an identification unit to identify whether specific information is included in an uplink message received from a specific terminal device, where the specific information includes subscription-related information indicating that the specific terminal device has a subscription to a specific network device among the plurality of network devices and the specific terminal device is locally managed by the specific network device; a determination unit to determine whether to route the uplink message on the basis of the identification of the specific information; and a decision unit to decide the specific network device to which the uplink message is routed on the basis of the specific information when routing the uplink message is determined, where each network device of the network devices in the network system locally manages terminal devices which subscribes to each network device.

Abstract: A wireless terminal for receiving a health report from a wireless communication network comprising a group of network nodes communicating within the wireless communication network using a first communication technology employing a first frequency band includes: a first wireless interface for communicating according to a second communication technology employing a second frequency band; and a terminal control unit for receiving, via the first wireless interface, at least one health report with health data from at least a first node in the group of network nodes triggered by a health report sending condition being fulfilled in the wireless communication network.

Abstract: Communication is implemented between at least one access node of a wireless network and a terminal attached to the wireless network. The communication is on at least one narrowband carrier (311-1, 311-2) comprising resources (308) in a first spectrum (301) and operating according to a first radio access technology, e.g., Narrowband Internet of Things, NB-IoT. The first spectrum (301) is arranged at least partly within a second spectrum (302) on which communication between the at least one access node and a second terminal is executed on a wideband carrier (312). The wideband carrier (312) comprises resources (308) in the second spectrum (302) and operates according to a second radio access technology different to the first radio access technology, e.g., Machine-Type Communication, MTC, or evolved UMTS radio access, E-UTRA. In some examples, the first spectrum (301) and the second spectrum (302) both may comprise a shared spectrum.

Abstract: Methods for managing packets in a communication system based on Software Defined Networking are disclosed. The communication system's data plane comprises a forwarding module, a service module, and an entry module, and the communication system's control plane comprises a management module. The entry module receives an IP packet from the peer device, the IP packet including a destination IP address associated with the mobile device. The entry module obtains, from the management module, a location value specifying the radio network node associated with the destination IP address. The entry module associates the location value with the IP packet, wherein the location value is related to a location tag name, indicating the radio network node that serves the mobile device, thereby obtaining a packet. The entry module sends the packet, via the forwarding module, towards the radio network node as indicated by the location value of the location tag name.