Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to routing data communications based on time zone. According to a specific example, a data-communications system for routing data communications based on time zone includes a communications routing circuit and a processing circuit. The communications routing circuit receives and routes data communications to a plurality of data communications stations and provides data communications services to remotely-situated client entities. For data communications routed for client entities in which a time zone routing feature is applied, the processing circuit determines a geographic location of the respective data communications station. The processing circuit then identifies a respective set of routing functions, based on a time zone of the geographic location, and routes the data communication based on the time zone, and according to the respective set of routing functions.

Abstract: A communication device includes a first client group in a first region; a second client group in a second region different from the first region; a first data hub configured to generate first burst data and a first control packet based on first client data received from the first client group; a second data hub configured to generate second burst data and a second control packet based on second client data received from the second client group; and a data transfer unit connected to the first data hub and the second data hub via a control protocol, the data transfer unit configured to, store the first burst data in a target memory based on the first control packet, and store the second burst data in the target memory based on the second control packet.

Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing discovery frames and group addressed frames communication. For example, some embodiments relate to a method including generating a first frame to be transmitted to a first electronic device. An association identifier (AID) value of the first frame is set to a first value to indicate that the first frame is an individually addressed frame addressed to the first electronic device. The method further includes generating a second frame to be transmitted to a group of one or more electronic devices. An AID value of the second frame is set to a second value different from the first value. The method also includes transmitting the first frame and the second frame.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support control and data multiplexing in uplink wireless transmissions. Described techniques provide for efficient communication of uplink control information (UCI) through rate-matching uplink data around uplink control information in uplink transmissions, including information on amounts or types of UCI to be transmitted by a UE, indications in downlink transmissions of allocated UCI resources and whether associated UCI is to be included in allocated UCI resources, formatting and multiplexing of multiple wireless services at the UE, or any combination thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a virtual switch hosted at a first network device. The virtual switch is configured to receive a data packet from a first virtual resource hosted at the first network device to be sent to a second virtual resource hosted at a second network device. The virtual switch is configured to encapsulate the data packet to define an encapsulated data packet using a tunnel header, which has a first portion associated with the first and second network devices, and a second portion associated with a data flow between the first and second virtual resources when the data packet is sent from the first network device to the second network device. An Internet Protocol network can use the second portion of the tunnel header to load balance the data packet with respect to other data packets sent from the first network device to the second network device.

Abstract: A wireless network includes access points with at least pairwise overlapping wireless coverage, each access point including an OFDMA modulation system and a channel scheduler coupled to the OFDMA modulation system configured to set up a number of virtual wireless interfaces of the access point, each virtual wireless interface being associated with a dedicated set of subcarriers within the OFDMA spectrum. At least one first of the virtual wireless interfaces is configured to host all communication links between the access point and local mobile clients to the access point. A least one second of the virtual wireless interfaces is configured to host communication links between the access point and one of the neighboring access points.

Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that detects a synchronization signal (SS)/physical broadcast channel (PBCH) block including an SS and a PBCH; and a processor that determines a resource for monitoring a downlink control channel based on a field in the PBCH, and at least one of a first subcarrier spacing of the SS/PBCH block, a second subcarrier spacing of the resource, a frequency band, and an index of the SS/PBCH block. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal and a base station are also disclosed.

Abstract: There is provided a method of transmitting and receiving user equipment management information and electronic device for performing the same. The electronic device includes a communication interface including a plurality of phase array antennas, a storage configured to store user equipment (UE) management information including information about at least one frequency band covered by each of the phase array antennas, and a controller configured to control to transmit the UE management information to a base station.

Abstract: An information indication apparatus and method and a communication system. The information indication method includes: transmitting a plurality of physical broadcast channels and a plurality of synchronization signals at a plurality of time units or a plurality of time instances within a time interval; wherein, each of the physical broadcast channels carries timing information of the time interval. Hence, even a plurality of physical broadcast channels and a plurality of synchronization signals are transmitted at a plurality of time units or a plurality of time instances within a time interval, the timing information of the time interval may be obtained with a simple structure and operation.

Abstract: Disclosed is the generation of a bit-indexed forwarding table (BIFT) that can include a plurality of entries, each such entry corresponding to a bit position of a plurality of bit positions, where each such bit position represents an egress network node of a plurality of egress network nodes, and the generating configures the BIFT to be used in forwarding a packet to one or more of the plurality of egress network nodes, based at least in part on a bit string in the packet. The generating includes selecting a bit position of the plurality of bit positions as a selected bit position, creating an entry of the plurality of entries (where the entry corresponds to the selected bit position), identifying a neighbor node associated with the selected bit position, and updating one or more fields of the entry with neighbor information regarding the neighbor node.

Abstract: Various solutions for user equipment power consumption enhancement for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) services with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may determine a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring configuration and a second PDCCH monitoring configuration. The apparatus may use the first PDCCH monitoring configuration to perform PDCCH monitoring. The apparatus may determine whether a switch condition is triggered. The apparatus may switch to the second PDCCH monitoring configuration to perform the PDCCH monitoring in an event that the switch condition is triggered.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus for setting a gain of a RF repeater includes: a synchronization signal power calculator configured to determine an average received power level of a synchronization signal received over a predetermined number of times as a synchronization signal power; a downlink power calculator configured to calculate a downlink input power according to a power ratio of synchronization signal to data channel signal based on the synchronization signal power; and a downlink gain setting unit configured to calculate a downlink gain by subtracting the downlink input power from a downlink output power determined by hardware specifications to set the downlink gain.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and apparatus for resource allocation for a control resource region in a wireless communication system. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method may include determining resource units each containing a predetermined number of resource blocks based on available transmission resources. Resource blocks not contained in the resource units are distributed in the available transmission resources to divide resource blocks contained in the resource units into a plurality of resource segments. The method also comprise allocating one or more of the determined resource units to the control resource region and transmitting resource allocation information indicating the allocated one or more of resource units. With embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an effective solution for resource allocation for control resource region.

Abstract: A method for wireless communication performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving, from a serving cell, a bandwidth part (BWP) configuration; configuring a plurality of uplink (UL) BWPs in the serving cell based on the BWP configuration; determining that listen-before-talk (LBT) fails in a first UL BWP of the plurality of UL BWPs; switching from the first UL BWP to a second UL BWP of the plurality of UL BWPs after determining that the second UL BWP is configured with physical random access channel (PRACH) occasions and LBT has not failed in the second UL BWP; and releasing a radio resource control (RRC) connection and transitioning to an RRC_IDLE state after determining that LBT has failed in each of the plurality of UL BWPs that is configured with PRACH occasions.

Abstract: A method for synchronizing topology information in a service function chain (SFC) network, where the SFC network includes at least one classifier (CF) and at least one service function forwarder (SFF). The method includes that a first network element in the at least two routing network elements establishes a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) connection to at least one second network element other than the first network element in the at least two routing network elements, where the first network element is any one of the at least two routing network elements, and the first network element sends a first BGP update message to the at least one second network element, where the first BGP update message includes topology information of the first network element such that the at least one second network element obtains the topology information of the first network element.

Abstract: Examples include techniques for determining power offsets of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). In some examples higher and physical layer signaling may be provided to user equipment (UE) by a base station such as an evolved Node B to enable the UE to determine power offset values for a multiplexed PDSCH having a serving PDSCH and a co-scheduled PDSCH transmitted via use of same time and frequency resources. The determined power offset values for use by the UE to demodulate the serving PDSCH and mitigate possible interference caused by the co-scheduled PDSCH. Both the UE and the eNB may operate in compliance with one or more 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Long Term Evolution (LTE) standards.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a corresponding method for mapping error correction code encoded time-domain data of at least two mapping input data streams (S1, S2, . . . , Sn) onto a time-domain mapping output data stream (Q) having a frame structure, comprising a data input (102) for receiving said at least two mapping input data streams (S1, S2, . . . , Sn) each being segmented into data blocks (D1, D2, . . . , DN) carrying error correction code encoded data, a data mapper (104) for mapping the data blocks (D1, D2, . . . , DN) of said at least two mapping input data streams (S1, S2, . . . , Sn) onto frames of said mapping output data stream (Q), each frame comprising a number of frame intervals (F1, F2, . . . , FM), wherein the data mapper (104) is adapted for mapping the data blocks (D1, D2, . . . , DN) onto said frame intervals such that each frame interval (F1, F2, . . . , FM) carries sequentially arranged data blocks (D1, D2, . . .

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to signaling information in physical broadcast channel (PBCH) demodulation reference signals (DMRS). In one example, a network entity may transmit the signaling information carried by a DMRS in one or more resource elements of physical broadcast channel (PBCH) symbols within a bandwidth of a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal of a synchronization signal block. In another example, a user equipment (UE) may receive the signaling information carried by the DMRS within one or more resource elements of PBCH symbols within a bandwidth of a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal of a synchronization signal block on a broadcast channel from the network entity.

Abstract: Network packet traffic in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network is analyzed by associating a micro network access agent with a single network element in the LTE network and performing packet traffic analysis for packet traffic processed by the single network element using the micro network access agent.

Abstract: A mechanism which can achieve enhanced network performance in wireless P2P groups is disclosed. A method for group reformation in wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, includes: monitoring traffic of a first device of a first P2P group, the first device communicating with a second device of at least one second P2P group; and altering group formation of the first and second P2P groups so as to put the first device and the second device together in a single P2P group, based on monitored traffic of the first device.