Abstract: Coding sub-channel selection involves, in an embodiment, determining, from sub-channels that are defined by a code and that have associated reliabilities for input bits at input bit positions, a first number of the sub-channels to carry bits that are to be encoded. A second number of the sub-channels, greater than the first number, are selected. The second number of sub-channels are selected to provide exactly the first number sub-channels to be available to carry the bits that are to be encoded.

Abstract: Method in and a network node (160; 110; 401a, 600) for congestion management of a transport network (130) comprised in a wireless communications network (100). The wireless communications network (100) further comprises a base station (110; 401a) configured to receive data being transported via a data transport path (132; 404a,d) of the transport network (130) and to transmit the received data to one or more wireless devices (120) served by the base station (110; 401a). The network node obtains (302; 409; 501) an indicator indicating at least a risk for occurrence of downlink data congestion in the data transport path (132; 404a,d). To reduce said at least risk, the network node then controls (304; 411; 502) the base station (110; 401a) to reduce and/or limit a throughput rate of data being transmitted to the one or more wireless devices (120). The data is received by the base station (110; 401a) via the data transport path (132, 404a,d).

Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a plurality of communication interfaces; and a control unit which is configured to determine an application program related to a currently-executed communication and select a communication interface to be used from among the plurality of communication interfaces on the basis of at least a part of information related to the application program related to the currently-executed communication, user profile information related to the communication, and information on consumption energy in each communication state of each of the plurality of communication interfaces. Other various embodiments are possible.

Abstract: Safety-relevant data in a motor vehicle is transmitted by means of an Ethernet standard via at least one intermediate node in an Ethernet packet. Each intermediate node receives an Ethernet packet, evaluates it, and forwards it accordingly. Provision is made for a data type for safety-relevant data to be transmitted in communication information in the Ethernet frame with the safety-relevant data, for each intermediate node to check the communication information from the data contents of the Ethernet frame in the received Ethernet packet for the presence of the data type for safety-relevant data, for each intermediate node to duplicate an Ethernet frame, which contains the data type for safety-relevant data in the communication information, at least once, and for each intermediate node to emit the duplicated Ethernet frame in a new Ethernet packet.

Abstract: A method implemented by a network device acting as a border gateway protocol (BGP) speaker, of exposing a maximum segment identifier depth (MSD) value of the network device is described. The method comprises encoding the MSD value into a BGP Link State (BGP-LS) extension message. The BGP-LS extension message includes a type, a length and a MSD value. The type indicates the type of the MSD value, the length indicates the length of the MSD value and the MSD value indicates a lowest MSD value supported by the network device for enabling segment routing. The method continues with transmitting the BGP-LS extension message including the type, the length, and the MSD value to a network controller, where the network controller is to use the MSD value to compute a segment routing path including the network device.

Abstract: An apparatus for disruptive flexible geostationary orbit (GEO) satellite constellation system includes an electronic steering array (ESA) including multiple antenna elements, a number of frequency converters coupled to the ESA, and a digital control unit to provide frequency and gain control commands to the frequency converters. Each frequency converter is coupled to an antenna element of the ESA and forms an independent payload path. A payload path is configurable to support a communication beam-pair consisting of a transmit (TX) beam and a receive (RX) beam. Each frequency converter is configured to couple the TX beam to the RX beam and to adjust a channel frequency and a gain of a respective optical communication beam independently using the frequency and gain control commands.

Abstract: There are provided measures for improvements in small cell mobility with dual/multi connectivity.

Abstract: The present specification provides an operation method of a base station for transmitting and receiving a signal using non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of: setting a first modulation scheme and a first transmission power for a first signal to be transmitted to a first user equipment; setting a second modulation scheme and a second transmission power for a second signal to be transmitted to a second user equipment; overlapping the first signal and the second signal; and transmitting a signal obtained by overlapping, wherein the transmission of the overlapped signal uses an overlapping constellation defined in advance or configured by a predetermined notation.

Abstract: Systems and methods for overload management of Internet-of-Things (IoT) gateways. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: detect an overload condition in the IHS; in response to the detection, compare a current volatility of a data field against a volatility baseline for that data field, wherein the data field is one of a plurality of other fields contained within a packet communicated between an IoT device and the IHS; and take responsive action based, at least in part, upon the comparison.

Abstract: Provided are method and device for generating STF signals which can be used in a wireless LAN system. STF signals are comprised in a field which is used for improving AGC estimation of MIMO transmission. Some of the STF signals are used for uplink transmission and can be used for an uplink MU PPDU transmitted from a plurality of STAs. The provided STF signals are, for example, used for an 80+80 MHz or 160 MHz band and can be generated on the basis of a sequence in which a preset M sequence is repeated. The preset M sequence can be a 15-bit length binary sequence.

Abstract: An HE-LTF transmission method is provided, including: determining, based on a total number NSTS of space-time streams, a number NHELTF of OFDM symbols included in an HE-LTF field; determining a HE-LTF sequence in frequency domain according to a transmission bandwidth and a mode of the HE-LTF field, where the HE-LTF sequence in frequency domain includes but is not limited to a mode of the HE-LTF field sequence that is in a 1× mode and that is mentioned in implementations; and sending a time-domain signal according to the number NHELTF of OFDM symbols and the determined HE-LTF sequence in frequency domain. In the foregoing solution, a PAPR value is relatively low.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a connection management method in device-to-device (D2D) relay communication, a terminal and a base station. The connection management method in D2D relay communication includes: determining whether a relay terminal for performing the D2D relay communication is selected when an Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection between a remote terminal in a network coverage and a base station is not released; when the relay terminal is determined to be selected, determining whether the RRC connection with the base station can be released according to a resource configuration mode used by the remote terminal when performing a D2D communication. By utilizing the connection management method, problems of state transition and connection management of the terminal in the D2D relay communication can be solved.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a network device for user data transmission are provided, where the method includes: transmitting a multicast frame for acquiring a user scheduling request to users in a user group, the multicast frame includes a long training sequence and a spread spectrum sequence(s) allocated to all users in the user group; receiving the user scheduling request(s) fed back by a user(s) with data transmission in the user group, the user scheduling request(s) is fed back by the user(s) using at least one of the long training sequence(s) and the spread spectrum sequence(s) allocated to the user(s); scheduling user data transmission according to the user scheduling request(s). According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the delay of users with data transmission is reduced, and the quality of service for the system is improved.

Abstract: An ultra low power wireless node (50) sends (100) a packet on at least two radio channels to a network of backbone nodes (65, 70, 75, 80). Which of the radio channels are listened for at the backbone nodes is allocated (130) according to detected reception performance. The allocating is coordinated for different ones of the backbone nodes. By combining sending on multiple radio channels with dynamically allocating the listening channels according to reception performance and with coordinated allocations for different backbone nodes, the spatial diversity and channel diversity of the separate receiving locations can be exploited. This can make the system more resilient to time varying location specific interference or channel specific interference for example.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes various examples of a method, an apparatus, and a computer readable medium for multi-state discontinuous reception (DRX) in wireless communications. For example, one of the methods described may include identifying, by a user equipment (UE), at least two states in connected mode, determining, by the UE, one or more triggers for transitioning between the at least two states, and transitioning, by the UE, from a first state of the at least two states to a second state of the at least two states in response to a determination of the one or more triggers. In an aspect, the transitioning comprises transitioning between cross-slot scheduling and same-slot scheduling, or between a narrow bandwidth and a wide bandwidth, or between a larger periodicity and a smaller periodicity for monitoring.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for receiving a signal from a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting reconfiguration of a wireless resource. Specifically, the present invention comprises the method for receiving, during a reconfiguration period, a plurality of reconfiguration messages from a subframe at a location indicated by means of upper layer signaling, wherein the plurality of reconfiguration messages indicate the same uplink-downlink configuration within the reconfiguration period.

Abstract: The technical solutions described herein provide a resource configuration method, system, and apparatus for a single-cell multicast control channel (SC-MCCH). An example method comprises: a base station sends a system broadcast message, wherein the system broadcast message carries configuration information of an SC-MCCH configured by the base station, the configuration information comprising: an SC-MCCH modification period (MP) and time-domain position information of the SC-MCCH; the base station sends frequency-domain scheduling information of the SC-MCCH over a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of a subframe where the SC-MCCH is located, wherein the frequency-domain scheduling information comprises at least one of: frequency-domain position information of the SC-MCCH and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of the SC-MCCH.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a synchronization signal carrying method and an apparatus. The synchronization signal carrying method in the present invention includes: determining, by first user equipment, a priority parameter of a synchronization signal; determining, by the first user equipment according to the priority parameter, a resource for carrying the synchronization signal, where a configuration of the resource indicates the priority parameter; and sending, by the first user equipment, the synchronization signal to second user equipment by using the resource, so that the second user equipment determines a synchronization signal for the second user equipment. The embodiments of the present invention enable a more flexible synchronization signal determining manner in a D2D communications system.

Abstract: A generalized frequency division multiplexing (GFDM) transceiver system includes a low complex GFDM transmitter with multiple sub-carriers and timeslots having IFFT based modulator for modulating data corresponding to a particular timeslot and different sub-carriers to corresponding sub-carrier frequencies and thereby generating transmittable GFDM data signal, multipath frequency selective fading GFDM channel having uncorrelated channel coefficients corresponding to different paths for transmitting the modulated GFDM data signal and a low complex GFDM receiver configured to operate with said multipath frequency selective fading channel involving channel equalization followed by self-interference equalization to receive the transmitted modulated GFDM data signal and thereby de-modulate the GFDM data signal to obtain the data.

Abstract: A base station assigns a first set of device-to-device (D2D) communication resources to a first D2D group and assigns a second set of D2D communication resources to a second D2D group. The D2D communication resources of the first set are different from the D2D communication resources of the second set. The first set of D2D communication resources and the second set of D2D communication resources are subsets of reserved D2D communication resources which are a subset of defined uplink communication resources defined by a communication specification for uplink communication between the D2D UE devices and a base station where the reserved D2D communication resources not used for uplink transmission to the base station.