Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, devices may use information protection to detect fake base stations. A base station verified by a network may transmit first information to a user equipment (UE) in an unprotected message. If a fake base station intercepts and modifies the message before relaying the message to the UE, the UE may receive different information than the transmitted first information. The UE may then transmit an indication of the received information to the verified base station in a protected message. In some cases, based on the indication, the verified base station may re-transmit the first information to the UE in a message protected against modification by the fake base station. If the UE determines that the initially received information is different from the information received in the protected retransmission, the UE identifies message modification by the fake base station.

Abstract: A first apparatus may puncture, in at least two subslots, a first type of data or control information with a second type of data or control information. The first apparatus may bundle the least two subslots within a subframe, and the subframe may include a portion for carrying acknowledgment (ACK)/negative acknowledgment (NACK) information associated with the second type of data or control information. The first apparatus may communicate with a user equipment (UE) during the at least two subslots within the subframe. A second apparatus may receive ACK/NACK information associated with a second type of data or control information. The second apparatus may reduce a transmission power for a first type of data or control information during a subsequent subframe when the ACK/NACK information indicates a negative acknowledgement.

Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a Control Plane (CP) function (401) for handling a credit pool comprising granted service units to be used by multiple services. The multiple services are grouped in at least one first Rating Group (RG). The CP function (401) creates an individual Usage Reporting Rule (URR) for each of the at least one first RG. Each individual URR comprises a first credit pool threshold. The CP function provides the individual URRs to a User Plane (UP) function (405). The CP function (401) creates a Usage Reporting Rule for the Credit Pool (URR CRPL). The URR CRPL comprises instructions to the UP function (405) to aggregate service unit usage for all individual URRs for all first RGs. The URR CRPL further comprises the first credit pool threshold. The CP function (401) provides the URR CRPL to the UP function (405).

Abstract: According to one aspect, there is provided a method for predicting floor information for a destination call. The method comprises storing, in a memory, destination call history entries about destination calls made by a user, each destination call history entry comprising a time stamp and a source and destination floor pair for a destination call; detecting an intention of the user to make a new destination call; and predicting a destination floor for the new destination call based on the current time and the stored destination call history entries of the user.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mechanism to help reconfigure the geographic coverage area of a second access node so as to better cover UEs that experienced connection-addition failures with the second access node. In accordance with the disclosure, a computing system could determine geolocations where UEs that experienced connection-addition failures with the second access node were located when the UEs experienced the connection-addition failures with the second access node. The computing system could then reconfigure the antenna configuration of the second access node in an effort to have the geographic coverage area of the second access node better cover the determined geolocations.

Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide a communication method, network equipment, and terminal equipment to enhance communication efficiency. The communication method comprises: terminal equipment generates terminal capability information indicative of a terminal capability and/or a supportability of the terminal equipment with respect to a second parameter when the terminal equipment is configured with a first parameter; and the terminal equipment transmits, to network equipment, the terminal capability information.

Abstract: A method of determining the location of a user in an area. A user requests a transmitting device from a transmitter providing device. The transmitter providing device associates an identification code with the user, and the transmitting device transmits that identification code. One or more of receiving devices receive the identification code transmitted by the transmitting device, and send details of the received identification code to the user location determining device. The user location determining device then determines the location of the user, using the received details from the one or more receiving devices.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention are detection systems and methods for detecting call provenance based on call audio. An exemplary embodiment of the detection system can comprise a characterization unit, a labeling unit, and an identification unit. The characterization unit can extract various characteristics of networks through which a call traversed, based on call audio. The labeling unit can be trained on prior call data and can identify one or more codecs used to encode the call, based on the call audio. The identification unit can utilize the characteristics of traversed networks and the identified codecs, and based on this information, the identification unit can provide a provenance fingerprint for the call. Based on the call provenance fingerprint, the detection system can identify, verify, or provide forensic information about a call audio source.

Abstract: An automatic ticket examination system that enables tapless passage or an entry/exit system is achieved without a malfunction. There is provided a gate apparatus including a positioning unit that measures positions of a plurality of wireless communication terminals, and an authentication unit that performs authentication for determining whether or not each of the wireless communication terminals is permitted to pass through a gate on the basis of each of the positions of each of the wireless communication terminals which have been measured by the positioning unit. With this configuration, the automatic ticket examination system that enables tapless passage or the entry/exit system can be achieved without a malfunction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method by which a first terminal supports vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication through a first data transmission, comprising the steps of: determining a wireless resource for a second data transmission of a second terminal; transmitting, to the second terminal, first data including information of the wireless resource; and receiving, by using the wireless resource, second data transmitted from the second terminal.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a method that may include accessing events in a field-searchable data store. The events may include raw machine data associated with a timestamp. The raw machine data may represent interactions between a mobile device and one or more network devices at a locale. The method may further include determining, based on the interactions, one or more geographic positions of the mobile device, and calculating a metric for the locale using the geographic positions.

Abstract: A process triggering method may comprise receiving an input operation on a lock screen of a terminal device, wherein the lock screen is provided by an application executing on the terminal device; determining input operation information corresponding to an input operation; determining triggering operation information matching with the input operation information; determining a process corresponding to the input operation, wherein the input operation information is for accessing only the process, and wherein the input operation information does not have a function of unlocking the terminal device at a system level, wherein unlocking the terminal device at the system level includes making other processes on the terminal device accessible and unlocking the terminal device at the system level requires an unlock control different from the input operation information for accessing the process; and triggering, by the application, the process without unlocking the terminal device at the system level.

Abstract: Systems, devices and automated processes are provided of selective access to multiple available slices of a network from at least one cell by a user equipment (UE) to enable reductions in slice failure accesses to the network. The method includes: accessing at a first cell, by the UE, slice A of the network wherein slice A provides higher bandwidth and lower latency access than slice B; and accessing at a second cell, by the UE, both slice A and slice B of the network wherein slice B has greater access availability than slice A wherein if the UE attempts to access the first or second cell then via cell reselection of the UE making a determination to select the second cell if the user is authorized for use of a premium service for the higher bandwidth and lower latency access of slice A else selecting by the UE the first cell for network access of slice B.

Abstract: A method performed by a network unit (140) for determining a target radio network node (112). The network unit (140) and the target radio network node (112) are operating in a wireless communications network (100). The network node determines the target radio network node (112) as one radio network node out of a group of radio network nodes (110, 112, 112?) operating in the wireless communications network (100) and which one radio network node has a combination of a quality of a radio channel to a wireless device (120) and an amount of computational resources available for serving the wireless device (120), which combination is better than the other radio network nodes out of the group of radio network nodes (110, 112, 112?). The target radio network node (112) is for association with the wireless device (120) served by a serving radio network node (110).

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for performing a secure software update in a mesh network. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: receiving, at each node of a network, a notification from a coordinating server, wherein each node of the network is listening for an image available notification; receiving, at a first node of the network, the image available notification; downloading and installing a software update image by the first node of the network; broadcasting, at the first node of the network, the image available notification to other peer nodes of the first node of the network; and downloading and installing the software update image from the first node of the network by at least one other peer node of the network.

Abstract: A method, a computing system, and a computer program product for sending a message to a non-active user of a first communication device. The method includes receiving, via a processor of a computing system, a message for a non-active user of a first communication device. The first communication device is associated with an active user and the non-active user. The method further includes receiving, from the first communication device, user presence data for the non-active user and for the active user and determining, based on the user presence data, if the non-active user is in proximity to the first communication device. In response to determining that the non-active user is in proximity to the first communication device, the first communication device is designated as a recipient communication device to deliver the message to the non-active user and the message is delivered, via the first communication device, to the non-active user.

Abstract: Location of an electronic device is determined using signals received from a first set of reference radios. The first set of reference radios include at least one secondary reference radio, each secondary reference radio established as a secondary reference radio by registering a corresponding location with a server. The corresponding location of the secondary reference radio is determined as a function of signals received by the secondary reference radio from a second set of reference radios. The second set of reference radios include radios qualified as reference radios in a database of primary se reference radios and secondary reference radios, each primary reference radio being a fixed-location radio device.

Abstract: An apparatus and method that may receive, at an unmanned aerial vehicle, at least one coordinate from a base station, wherein the at least one coordinate comprises one or more reference altitude values associated with at least one of an altitude of an antenna associated with the base station or a ground altitude of the base station. The method may further determine that the unmanned aerial vehicle is within a first three-dimensional zone of a plurality of three-dimensional zones based on the one or more reference altitude values. The method may further adjust mobile network settings of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the determined first three-dimensional zone.

Abstract: A computing device is described that receives a notification generated by a notification source, determines a set of notification channels defined by the notification source, each notification channel having one or more parameters defined by the notification source, and determines a particular notification channel from the set of notification channels assigned to the notification. The computing device determines one or more parameters of the particular notification channel and outputs an indication of the notification according to the one or more parameters of the particular notification channel. In this way, a user may be provided with an indication of the manner in which a given notification is being handled by the computing device. This may provide further information on the notification itself and allow efficient interaction in light of the knowledge thereby provided.

Abstract: A terminal device is provided and includes a location information acquisition device configured to acquire location information including a location of the terminal device, a storage configured to accumulate history information on past communication status including a communication time of the terminal device at each location, and a controller configured to acquire the history information for a current location of the terminal device from the storage based on the location information, to extract one or more connection destinations as targets of communication quality measurement from connection destination candidates based on communication times for the connection destination candidates, and to measure communication quality levels of communications with the extracted connection destinations.