Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for determining locations for range-extending devices. Signal strength between devices within an area may be measured one or more times over a time period. Based on the measurements, signal loss over fronthaul links and backhaul links may be determined for each range-extending device in the area. A predicted improvement in signal quality may be determined. A direction and distance to move each range-extending device may be determined based on a comparison with the fronthaul and backhaul signal qualities and the predicted improvement in signal quality. The direction, improvement in signal quality, and/or user preferences for devices may be used to determine an improvement associated with moving one or more range-extending devices.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a terminal device, which, when ARQ is used for communication that uses an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band, and when a transmission mode that supports up to 2 TB in a PCell is set in the terminal, is capable of reducing the amount of signaling from a base station while eliminating a lack of PUCCH resources when semi-permanent scheduling (SPS) is used in the PCell. A control unit in this device selects one value among values obtained by adding 1 to four PUCCH resource indexes, which have been preset for PUCCH resource 1 by the base station, on the basis of values for transmission power control information (TPC command for PUCCH) in a PDCCH, for which notification has been received at the start of SPS.

Abstract: Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes a terminal device that determines a first frequency domain resource within a pre-configured resource block (RB) range; and performs interference measurement or received energy measurement over the first frequency domain resource.

Abstract: Systems and methods for supporting a single logical IP subnet across multiple independent layer 2 subnets in a high performance computing environment. A method can provide, at a computer including one or more microprocessors, a logical device, the logical device being addressed by a layer 3 address, wherein the logical device comprises a plurality of network adapters, each of the network adapters comprising a physical port, and a plurality of switches. The method can arrange the plurality of switches into a plurality of discrete layer 2 subnets. The method can provide a mapping table at the logical device.

Abstract: Latency of a gateway system that connects to downstream services can be measured using an external computer system. The gateway may route component requests to various downstream services in order to service a main request, and be part of an overall service where low latency is important. It may be desirable for the gateway system to have as little added latency as possible. Benchmarking the gateway by performing latency measurements can give an indication of how the gateway is performing. If software on the gateway changes, re-benchmarking the gateway can reveal if problematic code was introduced. A measurement system can employ a lightweight process so that minimal additional latency is incurred by the measuring process. Memory can be allocated as to avoid a garbage collection process so that the latency measurement is unaffected when garbage collection occurs, for example, and multiple buffers can measure latency for different request types.

Abstract: A method for a mobile terminal to access a network with a multi-link with a plurality of network access points. When the terminal wishes to obtain a quality of service expressed in the form of a minimum bitrate constraint on the uplink, it determines the identity and the number of access points with which it must establish a link to meet this constraint while minimizing its emission power. A MEC network with a mobile terminal that can request the network to support a computational task under latency constraint.

Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a machine-type communication (MTC) user equipment (UE) comprises baseband processing circuitry to establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with an evolved Node B (eNB), and process a message from the eNB indicating a number of repetitions of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions to be used over multiple uplink subframes after the radio resource control connection is established.

Abstract: A set of neighboring base stations coordinate to transmit a cell-specific common resynchronization signal via a Common Synchronization Channel (CSCH). At least one neighboring base station transmits the cell-specific common resynchronization signal by a timing advance value before a serving base station transmits the cell-specific common resynchronization signal. A user equipment (UE) device receives the cell-specific common resynchronization signals from the base stations and combines the received cell-specific common resynchronization signals. In some examples, the UE device coherently combines the received cell-specific common resynchronization signals. Once the received signal strength of the combined received cell-specific common resynchronization signals exceeds a threshold level, the UE device utilizes the combined received cell-specific common resynchronization signals to obtain resynchronization.

Abstract: Systems and methods for supporting heterogeneous and asymmetric dual rail fabric configurations in a high performance computing environment. A method can provide, comprising at one or more computers each including one or more microprocessors, a plurality hosts, each of the plurality of hosts comprising at least one dual port adapter, a private fabric, the private fabric comprising two or more switches, and a public fabric, the public fabric comprising a cloud fabric. A workload can be provisioned at a host of the plurality of hosts. A placement policy can be assigned to the provisioned workload. Then, network traffic between peer nodes of the provisioned workload can be assigned to one or more of the private fabric and the public fabric in accordance with the placement policy.

Abstract: A network server selects a gateway, from among a plurality of alternative candidate gateways, to use for downlink wireless communication to an end node (EN) based on additional factors in addition to RSSI. Exemplary additional factors include: SNR, gateway loading, message loading, backhaul network loading, device type, application type, application priority, operator preferences, device/application black-lists, white-lists, and red-lists, number of devices, number of transmitting devices in a given time interval, operator rules and priorities. In some embodiments, the network server calculates a composite weighted metric (CWM) for each of the alternative candidate gateways which may be used for downlink, subject to operator policy rules, and selects to use a gateway based on the results, e.g. selects the gateway with the highest CWM.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a 5G (5th generation) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G (4th generation) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). In accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure, a device in a Central Unit (CU) connected to a Distributed Unit (DU) and a fronthaul in a wireless communication system may comprise: a communication interface for performing signaling between the CU and the DU; and at least one processor for determining whether to control a congestion state of the DU on the basis of the signaling, and when controlling the congestion state of the DU, stopping transmission of at least one packet to the DU before processing a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP).

Abstract: The present is directed to systems, methods, and devices for modelling cloud networks for automation, The system can include a computing network including at least one transit router and a plurality of switches. The system can include at least one server that can access model information for the computing network, and set up the computing network based upon the model information. Setting up the computing network can include creating a topology database, and building the computing network based on the topology database. The topolopgy data can be created by creating switches at each layer in the computing network, mapping links connecting the switches, each link connecting a pair of switches, creating Border Gateway Protocol (“BGP”) routing for both an underlay network and an overlay network, creating a topology graph of the computing network, and generating Zero Touch Provisioning (“ZTP”) links.

Abstract: Method, base unit and remote unit are disclosed for performing a resume request procedure. A method comprising: receiving a resume request from a remote unit in an inactive state; sending a message to a last serving base unit; and in response to receiving a response from the last serving base unit, sending a configuration message to the remote unit to maintain the remote unit in the inactive state.

Abstract: Techniques for control signaling in extreme high throughput (EHT) environments are described. A message transmitted by an access point (AP) may allocate resources to a plurality of stations (STAs). The AP may be configured to allocate up to 320 MHz of total bandwidth or up to sixteen spatial streams to one or more STAs. In some multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) cases, the spatial configuration field may include a starting spatial stream field and a spatial stream number field. In some non-MU-MIMO cases, the spatial configuration field may be expanded by one bit or more. In some cases, content channels of a resource unit (RU) allocation table may span a frequency segment of 40 MHz.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker configured to monitor, e.g., via filters, for certain protocol state transitions/changes or host hardware resource transitions/changes when a host processor in the control plane that performs such monitoring functions is unavailable or overloaded. The filters, in some embodiments, are pre-computed/computed by the host processor and transmitted to the protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker. The protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker may be used to implement a fast upgrade operation as well as load sharing and or load balancing operation with control plane associated components.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and device for NPRACH detect. In example embodiments, the method comprises determining whether an overlapping ratio between a first period and a second period exceeds a first threshold. A first NPRACH resource is available during the first period and a second NPRACH resource is available during the second period. The first NPRACH resource is associated with a first coverage level and the second NPRACH resource is associated with a second coverage level. The second coverage level is different from the first coverage level. The method also comprises in response to determining that the overlapping ratio exceeds the first threshold, determining a power estimation of noise based on a first plurality of signals received on the first PRACH resource and a second plurality of signals received on the second NPRACH resource.

Abstract: Hybrid ARQ is employed in a multi-carrier communication system for retransmission of erroneous packets by taking advantage of time/frequency/space diversity and by combining ARQ functions at physical layer and MAC layers, making the multi-carrier system more robust in a high packet-error environment.

Abstract: A user equipment is configured with at least two collections of uplink resources to be used for transmitting control information to a communication network. The UE receives an assignment of radio resources to be used for receiving a downlink transmission from a base station of the communication network. The UE receives an acknowledgement resource indication, ARI, indicating one of the configured collections of uplink resources to be used for transmitting control information associated with the DL transmission. Further, the UE transmits the control information to the base station on at least a subset of the indicated collection of UL resources. In example embodiments, the indicated collection of uplink resources comprises a plurality of selectable uplink resource sets. The control information is transmitted on one of the uplink resource sets which corresponds to an operational state of the communication network.

Abstract: A base station includes: a transmitter configured to transmit an operation signal for a remote control; and a controller that is coupled to the transmitter, wherein the controller is configured to execute a setting process that includes setting, with regard to transmission of the operation signal, a service class for the remote control, wherein the service class for the remote control includes a Packet Delay Budget (PDB) which is set to 5 milliseconds, and execute a control process that includes controlling, in accordance with the service class, the operation signal to be transmitted via the transmitter, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit the operation signal by using the service class that is set to the operation signal and information associated with the operation signal, wherein the information relates to a first attribute value that is different from a value of at least one attribute associated with the service class.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system message receiving method, comprising: receiving a minimum system message transmitted by a base station; determining a scheduling state of first other system messages in other system messages according to first indication information; if all messages in the first other system messages are changed from being scheduled to not being scheduled, ending the process of requesting the first other system messages; and if some of the first other system messages are changed from being scheduled to not being scheduled, ending the process of requesting the first other system messages, and sending to the base station a request of obtaining some messages that are still scheduled in the first other system messages, alternatively, continuing the process of requesting the first other system messages, and sending, after the process of requesting the first other system messages is ended, to the base station the request for obtaining some messages that are still scheduled in the first other system messages.