Abstract: For paging user devices that are link budget limited (LBL), a base station transmits a special ID that is used by said devices to identify a paging frame and/or a paging occasion. When transmitting a paging message for an LBL device, the base station may use: (a) larger aggregation and larger CFI (than conventionally allowed) and (b) a larger number of resource blocks (than conventionally allowed) for paging payload. If paging messages for LBL devices saturate the paging frame capacity, the base station may allocate a plurality of special IDs. If paging messages for LBL devices and/or other data transfers saturate network capacity, at least a subset of the LBL devices may be directed to enter a connected-state discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, wherein those devices will remain in connected mode and periodically check for resource allocations. Paging payload information may be repeatedly transmitted in successive subframes, to support soft combining.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus transmits uplink information on an uplink physical channel, encodes the uplink information and sets transmission power for the uplink physical channel at least based on a parameter, wherein in a case that a first error correction encoding method is applied to the uplink information, the parameter is given at least based on a product of a first value and a first number of bits before coding per resource element, and in a case that a second error correction encoding method is applied to the uplink information, the parameter is given at least based on a product of a second value and a second number of bits before coding per resource element, the second value being different from the first value, and the second error correction encoding method being different from the first error correction encoding method.

Abstract: In a communication method disclosed in this application, a terminal device receives, from a network device, a synchronization signal and a system information signal that are generated based on a first subcarrier spacing. The terminal device sends a random access request signal to the network device based on a second subcarrier spacing and a first transmission resource, where a type of the first transmission resource corresponds to a third subcarrier spacing and/or a fourth subcarrier spacing. The terminal device further receives a random access response signal generated based on the fourth subcarrier spacing, where the random access response signal is used for instructing the terminal device to access a network or the random access response signal is used for instructing the terminal device to prepare to access network. Thereby, cell search for and random access to a network using a plurality of subcarrier spacings can be supported.

Abstract: Included are n antenna sets; n antenna switch units; n signal change units each changing a combination of one or more of a phase, a timing, a frequency, and a power of each signal transmitted/received in n antennas being selected from the antenna sets; a notification unit outputting a notification signal, in which control information on the antenna switch units and the signal change units according to a target terminal being a destination/source of the signals transmitted/received in the n antennas, are arranged according to a switch time of each of the antenna switch units and a change time of each of the signal change units; and a control unit sequentially starting control of switching by each of the antenna switch units and control of changing by each of the signal change units in order in which the control information on the each unit in the notification signal is notified.

Abstract: A first communication device allocates respective portions of a communication channel, that includes at least one primary component channel and one or more non-primary component channels, to a plurality of second communication devices, including a bandwidth-limited second communication device configured to operate with a maximum bandwidth that is less than a full bandwidth of the communication channel. The bandwidth-limited second communication device is operating in a particular component channel, and allocation of a frequency portion to the bandwidth-limited second communication device is restricted to the particular component channel.

Abstract: Methods, network devices and computer readable media are disclosed for traffic-engineered forwarding through a new form of bit indexed explicit replication. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at an ingress node of a network, a message associated with a message flow, obtaining a message bit array corresponding to the message flow, encapsulating the message with the message bit array to form an encapsulated message, and forwarding the encapsulated message into the network. Bit positions in the message bit array are assigned to separate segments of a path or tree in the network, and an explicit path or tree for the message flow is defined as an end to end connection of multiple segments assigned bit positions having a first bit value in the message bit array.

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a radio access network slice and core network slice service is provided based on RAN-CN network slice pairing information. A radio access network slice and/or a core network slice uses the RAN-CN network slice pairing information to select network resources to support sessions of end devices. The RAN-CN network slice pairing information may include location information, radio access network slice information, core network slice information correlated to different types or applications or services available to end devices. The RAN-CN network slice pairing information may include information indicating current and available radio access network resources pertaining to the radio access network slices and threshold resources that may be used to support the different types of applications or services.

Abstract: A data transport service of a provider network provide isolated and flexible network data transmission between different computing infrastructure collections of the provider network (e.g., between different geographical regions) for different users. The data transport service may receive a request from a user for assignment of a channel. The request specifies a desired capacity of the channel to transmit data from a computing infrastructure collection to another a computing infrastructure collection. Based on the requested capacity for the channel, the data transport service may reserve, for the channel, network resource capacity to transmit the data between the infrastructures and reserve, for the channel, compute instance capacity to ingest the data and to send the data between the infrastructures using the reserved network resource capacity. The reserved network resource capacity and reserved compute instance capacity are dedicated to the channel and are unavailable for use by other channels.

Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising monitoring if a cell is being started; selecting a temporary physical cell identifier among a predefined pool; instructing the cell to adopt the selected temporary physical cell identifier if the cell is being started; determining a permanent physical cell identifier for the cell, wherein the permanent physical cell identifier does not belong to the predefined pool and is different from each used physical cell identifier, wherein the used physical cell identifiers are indicated in measurement reports; checking if a first time has elapsed after the cell has been instructed to adopt the selected temporary physical cell identifier or a second time has elapsed after the cell has been started; replacing the selected temporary physical cell identifier by the determined permanent physical cell identifier if the first time or the second time has elapsed.

Abstract: A data transmission method, a data receiving device, and a data sending device are disclosed. An RLC protocol entity unit of a data receive end receives a TCP acknowledgement from a TCP protocol entity unit of the data receive end; and the RLC protocol entity unit sends indication information to an RLC protocol entity unit of a data transmit end, where the indication information is used to indicate whether the RLC protocol entity unit needs to generate a TCP acknowledgement. The RLC protocol entity unit receives the indication information from the RLC protocol entity unit, and sends the TCP acknowledgement to a TCP protocol entity unit of the data transmit end based on the indication information, to ensure that the TCP protocol entity unit ultimately receives only one TCP ACK for one TCP data packet.

Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) is provided. The communication method and system include intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.

Abstract: An optimum configuration of resources in a network function virtualisation data network is identified by assembling candidate configurations of resources (243), each configuration being an arrangement of the resources into clusters selected such that each cluster provides one or more required services, (212, 213) and assessing the candidate configurations (step 400) to identify an optimum configuration, the assessment of each configuration including measurement of latency (195) in physical links between the resources and, for each candidate configuration, determination of the total latency between the resources within each cluster of the configuration, for a predicted level and pattern of traffic associated with the required service to be operated by each cluster.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for establishing a connection of a wireless communication interface between a client and a server using Bluetooth Low Energy (LE).

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of transmitting a D2D (device-to-device) signal, which is transmitted by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of determining a sequence group, determining a base sequence in the sequence group, generating a reference signal sequence by applying cyclic shift to the base sequence, generating a demodulation reference signal sequence from the reference signal sequence and transmitting a subframe to which the demodulation reference signal sequence is mapped, wherein ID information, which is used for at least one selected from the group consisting of determination of the sequence group, determination of the base sequence and application of the cyclic shift, corresponds to one of an SSID (synchronization ID) and an L1 ID (layer 1 ID) changing according to time.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.

Abstract: Disclosed is a way to expand the range of Internet of Things devices in a home, office, or structure to the range of a local WiFi network. This is accomplished by generating a network bridge for the devices using machine-to-machine protocols to communicate using the WiFi network backhaul channel. Transmissions in machine-to-machine protocol are tunneled through WiFi communications and extracted by the closest access point. Access points include radios for both WiFi and machine-to-machine protocols.

Abstract: The disclosed methods and systems use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to model the usage and interference on each channel. For example, units of the system can measure channel interference regularly over the time of day on all radios. The interference information is communicated to the base unit or a cloud server for pattern analysis. Interference measurements include interference from units within the system as well as interference from nearby devices. The base unit or the cloud server can recognize the pattern of the interference. Further, connected devices have a number of network usage characteristics observed and modeled including bitrate, and network behavior. These characteristics are used to assign channels to connected devices.

Abstract: Described herein are techniques for beamforming a wireless signal to a harvesting device. In an example, a method to increase available energy to a harvesting device is performed by a WiFi transmitting device. The WiFi transmitting device determines a preferred wireless path to the harvesting device using input from a proxy device. The WiFi transmitting device then beamforms a WiFi signal to the harvesting device along the preferred wireless path.

Abstract: A method for processing a plurality of fragments of IP packet flows in a communication network includes receiving the plurality of packet fragments. The received packet fragments are associated with one or more packet flows. A first set of packet flows is selected from the one or more received packet flows. The first set of packet flows corresponds to a subset of the plurality of packet segments received during a first predetermined time interval. Only packet fragments associated with the first set of packet flows are reassembled into full packets.

Abstract: A device may receive cell property data associated with a cell in a mobile network and performance data associated with the cell. The device may determine whether the performance data associated with the cell satisfies a performance threshold. The device may identify, based on determining that the performance data associated with the cell satisfies the performance threshold, one or more impacted cells, in the mobile network, associated with the cell. The device may determine one or more antenna adjustment parameters based on at least the cell property data associated with the cell, the performance data associated with the cell, and performance data associated with the one or more impacted cells. The device may perform, based on the one or more antenna adjustment parameters, an action in connection with at least one of an antenna associated with the cell or another antenna associated with the one or more impacted cells.