Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting an indicator of channel quality while minimizing the use of a broadcast channel is described. A metric of forward link geometry of observed transmission signals is determined. An indicator of channel quality value is determined as a function of the observed transmission signals. An access sequence is selected, randomly, from one group of a plurality of groups of access sequences, wherein each of the plurality of groups of access sequences correspond to different ranges of channel quality values.

Abstract: A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for enabling a mobile endpoint device to be a hub for a conference call are disclosed. For example, the method connects to the conference call, broadcasts a signal to at least one slave mobile endpoint devices to join the conference call over a personal area network, receives a pairing request from the at least one slave mobile endpoint device over the personal area network, accepts the pairing request and connects the at least one slave mobile endpoint device to the conference call via the master mobile endpoint device over the personal area network, wherein both the master mobile endpoint device and the at least one slave mobile endpoint device have two-way communications with the conference call and conference call controls.

Abstract: There is provided a communication method for a coordinator communication device, including generating a first scheduling element to be used by a first communication device and a second scheduling element to be used by a second communication device; and transmitting the first and second scheduling elements to the first and second communication devices. The second scheduling element includes a second allocation indicating a time-frequency resource allocated to the second communication device. The first scheduling element includes a first allocation indicating a time-frequency resource allocated to the first communication device and optionally includes a first virtual allocation that is a duplicate of the second allocation.

Abstract: The present invention is designed so that, when a plurality of user terminals with different numerologies are multiplexed in the same carrier, the effect of latency reduction can be achieved effectively. According to the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) signal in a carrier in which a plurality of user terminals with different numerologies are multiplexed, a transmission section that transmits the retransmission control information of the DL signal, and a control section that configures a retransmission control subframe based on the same numerology among the plurality of user terminals, and controls transmission of the retransmission control information in the retransmission control subframes.

Abstract: A communication method and system are provided 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 communication method and system 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. A wireless communication system, and more particularly, a method and device for determining uplink signal transmission timing is provided.

Abstract: This application provides a method and apparatus for controlling traffic steering and a communications system. In an implementation of the method for controlling traffic steering, the method is applicable to an RAN node and includes: traffic steering indication information is determined; and the traffic steering indication information is transmitted to UE, so that the UE steers corresponding traffic to a traffic steering target according to the traffic steering indication information. With the method, load balance between 3GPP RAN and WLAN at an RAN level may be ensured, and in comparison with an existing mechanism, user experiences and system performance are improved.

Abstract: This application provides a reference signal transmission method and an apparatus, to resolve a prior-art problem of relatively high overheads of resources occupied by transmitted reference signals in a communications system. The method includes: configuring, by a transmitting device, one reference signal group corresponding to one port in the first time symbol, and configuring one reference signal corresponding to the port in each of time symbols except the first time symbol. This reduces overheads of resources occupied by transmitted reference signals in the communications system and improves service data transmission efficiency while ensuring that a receiving device can obtain a channel parameter of the port.

Abstract: Various aspects described herein relate to receiving wireless communications from an access point, determining resources of the wireless communications associated with a search space for control information in the received wireless communications, and performing one or more of a set of blind decodes over the search space to decode at least low latency control information associated with a low latency communication technology, wherein the low latency communication technology utilizes a transmission time interval (TTI) having a duration that is less than a subframe of a legacy communication technology.

Abstract: Provided are a method for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) of a terminal in a wireless communication system and the UE using the method. The method includes determining a number of coded symbols for the UCI transmission and transmitting the UCI on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on the number of coded symbols. The number of coded symbols is determined among a first value based on a payload size of the UCI and an offset value and a second value based on a radio resource control (RRC) signal.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies and disclose a communication method and a device. The method includes: obtaining, by an apparatus, signal quality of at least one beam in a cell; and determining, by the apparatus, the highest signal quality of a beam in the at least one beam as signal quality of the cell in a case that the highest signal quality of the at least one beam below a preset threshold.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an agent to facilitate communication in one of two or more modes, where a first of the two or more modes involves communication over links including a first number of lanes and a second of the two or more modes involves communication over links including a second number of lanes, and the first number is greater than the second number. The apparatus further includes a memory including data to indicate which of the two or modes applies to a particular link and a multiplexer to reverse lane numbering on links including either the first number of lanes or the second number of lanes.

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes transceiver circuitry coupled to front end circuitry via an interconnect signal path. The transceiver circuitry is configured to generate a number of frequency-shifted RF beamforming signals such that each one of the frequency-shifted RF beamforming signals has a different frequency, and multiplex the frequency-shifted RF beamforming signals to provide a multiplexed interconnect signal. The front-end circuitry is configured to receive the multiplexed interconnect signal from the transceiver circuitry via the interconnect signal path, demultiplex the multiplexed interconnect signal to isolate each of the frequency-shifted RF beamforming signals, shift a frequency of each one of the frequency-shifted RF beamforming signals to provide a number of RF beamforming signals, and transmit each of the RF beamforming signals from a different antenna.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to enabling and disabling of codewords in multi-subframe grants. In particular, dynamic and subframe based enabling/disabling of codewords is enabled even if other control parameters including the resource allocation is performed for multiple subframes. For instance, signal from a scheduling entity to a scheduled entity comprises control information including the resource grant common for multiple subframes and a plurality of codewords for each subframe, and a codeword indication indicating enabling or disabling of one or more codewords for each of the multiple subframes. For each subframe it is determined whether a codeword from the plurality of codewords in said subframes is enabled or disabled according to the codeword indication and/or which codeword is enabled or disabled. The indication of enabling and disabling may alternatively be done by using modulation and coding scheme indicator values which are not associated with a particular modulation and coding scheme.

Abstract: The present disclosure teaches a method and a system (10; 510; 710) for relaying telecommunication signals (S1, S2), wherein the telecommunication signals (S1, S2) have a plurality of carriers (401, 402). The system (10; 510; 710) comprises a central hub (20; 520; 720) connectable to one or more base stations (5, 6; 505, 506); a plurality of remote units (80-1, . . . , 80-N; 580-1, . . . , 580-7; 780-1, . . . , 780-9) for relaying at least one of the plurality of carriers (401, 402) in the telecommunication signals (S1 S2) supplied by the central hub (20; 520; 720). Power of the plurality of remote units (80-1, . . . , 80-N; 580-1, . . . , 580-7; 780-1, . . . , 780-9) is adjustable such that first ones of the plurality of remote units (80-1, . . . , 80-N; 580-1, . . . , 580-7; 780-1, . . . , 780-9) can be switched off and second ones of the plurality remote units (80-1, . . . , 80-N; 580-1, . . . , 580-7; 780-1, . . .

Abstract: The method in the embodiment of the present invention includes: determining a shared frequency band, and a cell of the shared frequency band is a secondary serving cell of UE1 that performs communication by using the first network and a secondary serving cell of UE2 that performs communication by using the second network, and both the UE1 and the UE2 can work on the shared frequency band and at least one other frequency band than the shared frequency band; and transmitting only a common signal of the second network on the shared frequency band when service transmission of the first network is performed on the shared frequency band.

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. The present invention presents a method for efficiently estimating a physical channel and, according to the present invention, a terminal of a communication system receives a synchronization signal from a base station, receives a broadcast channel from the base station, and can estimate the broadcast channel on the basis of the synchronization signal.

Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes obtaining, by UE, signal quality of a first cell operating on a first transmission carrier frequency. When the UE determines that the signal quality of the first cell is higher than a preset threshold, and the UE receives first indication information sent by the first cell, the method includes selecting, by the UE, the first cell as a serving cell, where the first indication information indicates that the first cell can control the UE to transmit device-to-device D2D service data on a second transmission carrier frequency, and the first transmission carrier frequency and the second transmission carrier frequency are located at different frequencies.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for resource allocation. A method includes: obtaining a future traffic estimate in a data network of a cellular radio network based on past traffic in the data network; requesting a pool of session resources from a border gateway of the data network based on the future traffic estimate; and allocating repeatedly dedicated resources including an IP address and a port of the border gateway for each session from the pool of session resources.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable management of redundant route announcements in an access point including multiple packet processors. Route controllers are described that can generate routing information distributing incoming packets to the access point among the packet processors. The route controllers can operate redundantly, such that a failure of a single controller does not cause a complete failure of the access point. To avoid different announcements by different route controllers (particularly under partial failure scenarios), the route controllers utilize a strongly consistent data store to store routing information. So long as a record within the data store contains valid information, it is considered authoritative and routing information from the record is announced by all route controllers. If the information is invalid, the route controllers attempt to overwrite the information with new, higher priority routing information.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for transmitting an indicator of channel quality while minimizing the use of a broadcast channel is described. A metric of forward link geometry of observed transmission signals is determined. An indicator of channel quality value is determined as a function of the observed transmission signals. An access sequence is selected, randomly, from one group of a plurality of groups of access sequences, wherein each of the plurality of groups of access sequences correspond to different ranges of channel quality values.