Abstract: According to one embodiment, a computerized method conducted by logic deployed within a network device implemented within a virtual private cloud network for supporting network address translations within a public cloud network is described. Herein, after receipt of a message, based on content within the message, a network address translation (NAT) control logic unit from a plurality of NAT control logic units is selected. The selected NAT control logic unit is configured to perform address translations on information within the message to produce a translated message. Thereafter, the translated message is routed to a destination network device located on the public network.

Abstract: A measurement gap determination method, a UE and a network side device are provided. The measurement gap determination method includes: receiving, by a UE, measurement configuration information of a SS block of at least one BWP transmitted from a network side device, wherein the UE operates at the BWP on which no SS block is transmitted when the UE receives the measurement configuration information; determining, by the UE, a measurement gap for the measurement of the SS block on the at least one BWP in accordance with the measurement configuration information; and measuring, by the UE, the SS block on the at least one BWP in the measurement gap.

Abstract: A communication method and an apparatus, the method including generating a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequence of a broadcast signal according to a pseudo-random sequence c(m), where the DMRS sequence is related to a quantity NRB of resource blocks (RBs) of the broadcast signal and a quantity nRE of resource elements (REs) occupied by the DMRS sequence in one RB, and mapping the DMRS sequence to one or more symbols.

Abstract: Embodiments of a session processing method and a device relating to a data network are provided. The method includes a data-network network element in the data network receiving a data network access request sent by a session management function (SMF) network element of the data network, where the data network access request includes an identifier of user equipment UE and a session address to be used by the UE. The data-network network element sends a response message to the SMF, where the response message instructs the SMF to allow the UE to access the data network, so that the SMF establishes a data packet unit session of the UE. The data-network network element detects, based on the session address or the identifier of the UE, that the data packet unit session of the UE needs to be processed, generates a session processing request, and instructs, by using the session processing request, the SMF to process the data packet unit session of the UE.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and device for providing a V2X service in a next generation radio access technology (new RAT). The present embodiments provide a method for performing sidelink communication by a terminal and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving sidelink synchronization block (SSB) configuration information including synchronization information for sidelink communication; monitoring a SSB monitoring slot configured on the basis of the SSB configuration information; and receiving a SSB in the SSB monitoring slot, wherein the SSB comprises a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS), a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS), and a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH), and the S-PSS, the S-SSS, and the PSBCH are allocated to N consecutive symbols in the SSB monitoring slot.

Abstract: There is described an apparatus for a base station in a radio access network. The apparatus is configured to detect a change in a radio network congestion status associated with a cell or cell sector of the base station that is being used to serve a mobile device, the change being a change to a given one of a plurality of possible radio congestion levels. The apparatus starts a packet modification process to modify one or more packets in each of one or more uplink data flows from the mobile device to a core network of the radio access network, the one or more packets in each of the one or more uplink data flows being modified by the packet modification process to signal, to a server in the core network, the change in congestion status to the given one of the plurality of possible radio congestion levels.

Abstract: Wireless communications are described. A wireless device and/or a base station may determine/select one or more beams for transmission of signals (e.g., sounding reference signals, SRSs) in one or more cells. The wireless device and/or the base station may determine/select a beam based on one or more of: cell indicators of a first cell and/or a second cell, antenna panel indicators associated with SRS transmissions, prorities of SRS transmissions, resource set indicators corresponding to the SRS transmissions, and/or other information.

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) are provided. The system and method provides for receiving, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) including information on a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, identifying at least one grant free resource corresponding to the information on the HARQ process number, and releasing the at least one grant free resource based on the information. The disclosure discloses a grant-free based data transmission method in a wireless communication system that 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: Methods and systems for signaling Supplementary Activity Configuration (SAC) for lean carrier operation are provided. According to one aspect, a method performed by a wireless device for lean carrier operation during which Cell-specific Reference Signals (CRSs) are transmitted by a base station using a reduced bandwidth during an inactive time of a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode of operation excluding a Warm Up (WU) period that occurs immediately before a DRX active time and a Cool Down (CD) period that occurs immediately after a DRX active time, comprises: determining a number M of subframes to comprise a WU period; determining a number N of subframes to comprise a CD period; and transmitting an indication of the determined numbers M and N to a base station currently serving the wireless device.

Abstract: A reliable data transmission method and system based on a predicted amount of data in a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) network is disclosed. A data transmission method of a base station includes determining a maximum amount of data to be transmitted from the base station disposed around a road to a vehicle traveling on the road, determining an encoding number for systematic network coding (SNC) based on the determined amount of data, performing the SNC on original data based on the encoding number and the amount of data, and transmitting encoded data obtained by performing the SNC to the vehicle.

Abstract: A communication system is described in which machine-type communication devices having a reduced bandwidth can be allocated physical uplink control channel resources that fall within that reduced bandwidth whilst other, legacy, devices can continue to use physical uplink control channel resources that do not fall within that reduced bandwidth.

Abstract: An illustrative embodiment of a disclosed physical layer interface device includes: a first transmitter and a first receiver for a primary data path; a second transmitter and a second receiver for a secondary data path; a third transmitter and a third receiver for a non-redundant data path; and a multiplexer. The third receiver is coupled to provide a data stream received from the non-redundant data path concurrently to the first and second transmitters, and the multiplexer provides the third transmitter with a selected one of the data stream received via the primary data path and the data stream received via the secondary data path. Disclosed network switch embodiments employ the illustrative physical layer interface to provide internal or external data path redundancy for traffic handled by the network switch.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide sequences of spreading codes and hopping patterns that may be used in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communications between a user equipment (UE) and a base station. A codebook of spreading codes and the associated hopping patterns may be systematically constructed by closed form formulas or look up table. The base station may receive multiple concurrent transmissions from multiple different UEs, and the sequences of spreading codes and hopping patterns, may be used to identify a particular UE of the multiple UEs.

Abstract: Monitoring of quality of service includes monitoring the quality measured at the radio modem based on measurements in the physical layer and monitoring of the network state by the physical layer or a higher layer wherein the monitoring entity bypasses one or more intermediate layers and directly accesses the physical layer, which provides the necessary information.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for uplink switching for enhanced mobility. In some aspects, this disclosure provides techniques for potentially reducing or eliminating service interruptions experienced during a handover from a source cell to a target cell. Additionally, this disclosure provides techniques for potentially simplifying or improving uplink communications while a UE is connected to both the source cell and the target cell during the handover. This disclosure further provides techniques for potentially reducing UE power consumption or improving uplink resource utilization during a handover from a source cell to a target cell while a UE is connected to both the source cell and the target cell during the handover.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiver may receive an indication that a plurality of time-domain resources are associated for purposes of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) bundling of a physical channel. The receiver may determine, based at least in part on receiving the indication, a first DMRS pattern for a first subset of time-domain resources of the plurality of time-domain resources of the physical channel, and a second DMRS pattern for a second subset of time-domain resources of the plurality of time-domain resources of the physical channel, the first DMRS pattern and the second DMRS pattern being different DMRS patterns. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a terminal device. The communication method may include determining, by user equipment (UE), a candidate resource set on a first carrier, where the first carrier is a carrier on which a resource is currently to be selected, and the first carrier is used to transmit first data.

Abstract: A measurement method includes sending, by a first device to a second device, a message including a first configuration, wherein the first configuration indicates that a first event triggers the second device to send a first measurement message. The first event includes at least a channel quality of a measurement object is less than a first threshold, the channel quality of the measurement object is lower than a channel quality of a serving cell of the second device, the channel quality of the measurement object is less than the first threshold, and the channel quality of the serving cell of the second device is greater than a second threshold, or the channel quality of the measurement object is lower than the channel quality of the serving cell of the second device and the channel quality of the serving cell of the second device is greater than the second threshold.

Abstract: It is difficult in related communication apparatuses to avoid degradation of communication quality due to fading and achieve sufficient throughput performance; therefore, a communication apparatus according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes fade avoidance rate calculation means for calculating, from a time variation in communication quality information and a transmission pattern in transmitting a communication packet repeatedly, a fade avoidance rate of a probability that the communication packet lies outside a fade duration, with respect to each transmission pattern; throughput calculation means for calculating, from the transmission pattern and the fade avoidance rate, a throughput of the communication packet with respect to each transmission pattern; and transmission pattern determination means for determining an optimum transmission pattern, of the transmission pattern, by which the throughput is maximized.

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) communication system comprising a plurality of RF nodes connected via a mesh wireless network. Each of the RF nodes comprises an RF node processor, an RF node wireless transceiver configured for data communication over the mesh wireless network that is coupled to the RF node processor, an RF node memory that is coupled to the RF node processor of the RF node, and a preloaded routing table in the RF node memory including all or a subset of routes in the mesh wireless network.