Abstract: In one embodiment, a device obtains data regarding routing decisions made by a machine learning-based predictive routing engine for a network. The device determines, based on the data regarding the routing decisions, a behavior of the machine learning-based predictive routing engine. The device compares the behavior of the machine learning-based predictive routing engine to a behavioral policy for the machine learning-based predictive routing engine. The device adjusts operation of the machine learning-based predictive routing engine, when the behavior of the machine learning-based predictive routing engine violates the behavioral policy.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a mapping that associates a plurality of preambles to a plurality of channel resource units used to carry a plurality of payloads associated with the plurality of preambles, including but not limited to, determining that the plurality of channel resource units is carrying the plurality of payloads, determining that a set of preambles of the plurality of preambles is associated with a same beam, and prioritizing mapping the set of preambles to reference signals of the plurality of channel resource units corresponding to different code division multiplexing (CDM) groups.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) that comprises a receiver of the UE receives, from a source base station of a source radio cell, a common timing advance value for a target radio cell. The UE is connected to the source radio cell and is involved in a handover procedure to hand over the UE from the source radio cell to the target radio cell. Further, the common timing advance value is received from the source base station in a first message of the handover procedure, which also comprises a timing indication for transmitting a second message from the UE to the target base station. Then, a processor of the UE determines a first uplink timing of uplink transmissions to the target base station with respect to downlink transmissions from the target base station, based on the received common timing advance value and the timing indication. A transmitter of the UE transmits a second message of the handover procedure to the target base station based on the determined uplink timing.

Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may determine a first set of beams and a second set of beams, that a respective quality of each beam in the first set of beams is less than a predetermined quality value, and that a beam that is in the second set of beams and not in the first set of beams has a quality that is equal to or greater than the predetermined quality value. The WTRU may select the beam that is in the second set of beams and not in the first set of beams and whose quality is equal to or greater than the predetermined quality value, for a BFR and send a message that indicates the selected beam for the BFR to abase station (e.g., a gNodeB). The WTRU may receive a message comprising the selected beam from the gNodeB.

Abstract: In a wireless local area network (LAN) system, a transmitting STA can encode at least one codeword on the basis of a plurality of data blocks. The transmitting STA can encode a second codeword on the basis of a first data block and a second data block that is continuous with the first data block, in response to a first data block transmission request signal from among the plurality of data blocks. The transmitting STA can transmit the encoded second codeword to a receiving STA.

Abstract: A method for identifying alternate delivery endpoints for mobile originated data and monitoring reports in a communications network includes establishing, by a network exposure function (NEF) in a communications network, priority rules in a priority configuration database that define routing priority indicators corresponding to a plurality of applications functions (AFs) and receiving a service request or notification request message directed to one of the plurality of AFs from a consumer network function (NF) in the communications network. The NEF accesses a context database to validate context information associated with a destination AF belonging to the plurality of AFs. If the destination AF is unavailable or is not in proximity to the NEF, an event notification request message associated with the service request or notification request message is directed to a prioritized AF specified in the priority configuration database, wherein the prioritized AF is a peer of the destination AF.

Abstract: There are provided measures for enabling/realizing flexible and adaptive QoS monitoring for unicast/groupcast over sidelink communication, which may preferably be capable of enhancing support of unicast/groupcast services over sidelink communication. Such measures exemplarily comprise obtaining a request for QoS monitoring for unicast/groupcast over sidelink communication with a specified quality-of-service profile, which indicates at least one target QoS metric to be monitored, determining a QoS monitoring procedure, wherein a scheme for enforcing QoS monitoring over sidelink communication in collaboration with at least one unicast/groupcast receiving-side device is decided, and performing the QoS monitoring procedure, wherein QoS monitoring messages are exchanged with the at least one unicast/groupcast receiving-side device over the sidelink communication with the specified QoS profile in accordance with the decided scheme and the at least one target quality-of-service metric is derived based thereon.

Abstract: A method and an access network node are disclosed for scheduling transmission for terminal device. According to an embodiment, the access network node determines, for a transmission to be scheduled for a terminal device, whether one or more control channels required by the transmission have no collision with measurement gap and a traffic channel required by the transmission has collision with a measurement gap, based on current repetition number of the traffic channel. When determining that the one or more control channels have no collision with measurement gap and the traffic channel has collision with a measurement gap, the access network node determines a second repetition number of the traffic channel that is larger than the current repetition number of the traffic channel. The access network node schedules the transmission for the terminal device based on the second repetition number.

Abstract: A method and a device for use in wireless communication nodes are disclosed in the present disclosure. A first node firstly performs channel listening to determine that K1 sub-bands out of K sub-bands are idle; and then transmits a first control information block and a second control information block on a first channel; the first channel occupies the K1 sub-bands of the K sub-bands; K1 repetitions of the first control information block are respectively transmitted by the K1 sub-bands, while the second control information block is transmitted only once on the first channel; the first control information block is used to indicate a sub-band occupied by the second control information block. The present disclosure categorizes UCI and transmits in different ways, so that different groups of UCI can be mutually indicated, thus enhancing the uplink transmission efficiency and performance on Unlicensed Spectrum.

Abstract: Aspects relate to grouping sidelink carriers in a wireless communication network. A first wireless communication device, such as a user equipment (UE), may communicate with a base station on a cellular link utilizing a first set of first component carriers (CCs) in a particular frequency band. The UE may identify one or more first carrier groupings for the first set of first CCs with the base station. The UE may communicate with a second wireless communication device, such as a second UE, on a sidelink utilizing a second set of CCs within the same frequency band. The first UE may map at least one second CC to a respective corresponding first CC and apply the one more carrier groupings to the second set of CCs to generate one or more second carrier groupings based on the mapping.

Abstract: A communications method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: generating, by a terminal device, a first media access control layer control element (MAC CE), where the first MAC CE includes channel quality information of the terminal device; determining, by the terminal device, whether to multiplex the first MAC CE into a message 3; and when determining to multiplex the first MAC CE into the message 3, sending, by the terminal device, the message 3 including the first MAC CE to a network device.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for receiving a handover command from a first cell, the handover command comprising an uplink resource grant and a condition to be met before handover is performed to a second cell, wherein the uplink resource grant indicates a set of uplink resources for uplink data transmission in the second cell without random access, determining validity of the uplink resource grant based on one or more further configuration parameter and in response to the condition being met, performing the handover according to the validity of the uplink resource grant.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for reporting measurement quantities, a method for determining measurement quantities, and devices. The method comprises: a terminal device determines measurement quantities of K signals, the measurement quantities comprising RSRQ and/or SINRs; and the terminal device reports the measurement quantities of the K signals to a network device, wherein K is a positive integer.

Abstract: A method for testing a sensor of a vehicular sensing system includes displaying, by a processor, a test generation interface on a display screen, and receiving, by the processor, a user input based on a user interacting with the test generation interface. The method includes determining a plurality of parameters based on the user input. The method includes generating a test script based on the parameters that includes at least one test message for performing at least one system test. The method includes transmitting generated test script to a host adapter in communication with the sensor. Responsive to receiving the generated test script, the method includes transmitting, by the host adapter, the test message to the sensor to test the sensor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for use in wireless communication nodes. A first node executes a first monitoring and a second monitoring, judges whether a first channel and a second channel are available respectively according to the first monitoring and the second monitoring; a target bit block being transmitted on which of a first channel or a second channel is related to whether the second channel is judged to be unavailable; the first channel overlaps with the second channel in time domain; the second channel occupies K subbands in frequency domain; when a number of idle subbands on the second channel is less than K1, the second channel is judged to be unavailable. The present disclosure establishes a connection between frequency-domain resources occupied by a target bit block and a monitoring result to improve uplink transmission efficiency on unlicensed spectrum.

Abstract: An example branch gateway (BG) of a local area network (LAN) includes processing circuitry and a memory. The memory includes instructions that cause the BG to determine that a network traffic load of the BG is greater than that of another BG. The instructions further cause the BG to determine that a first network traffic load skew between the BG and the other BG is greater than a first threshold. The instructions further cause the BG to select a first virtual local area network (VLAN) of a set of VLANs of the LAN, wherein network traffic of client devices of the first VLAN is routed through the BG based on a master role of the first VLAN being assigned to the BG. The instructions further cause the BG to transmit a message to the other BG that assigns the master role of the first VLAN to the other BG.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for deriving a cryptographic protection to a new initial non-access stratum, NAS, message for a target network from an existing security context in an idle mode inter-system change when one or more of conditions a) to d) is met, and for deriving a mapped 5G NAS security context from a source cellular network that is an EPS security context maintained by a source MME of the EPS, in an idle mode inter-system change, when one or more of conditions 1) to 4) is met, optionally after receiving a REGISTRATION REQUEST message without integrity protection and encryption.

Abstract: Techniques for mixed precision quantization of a machine learning (ML) model. A target bandwidth increase is received (302), for the ML model (114) including objects of a first data type represented by a first number of bits. The target bandwidth increase relates to changing a first portion of the objects to a second data type represented by a second number of bits different from the first number of bits (310). The method further includes sorting the objects in the ML model based on bandwidth (304). The method further includes identifying the first portion of the objects to change from the first data type to the second data type, based on the target bandwidth increase and the sorting of the plurality of objects (508). The method further includes changing the first portion of the objects from the first data type to the second data type (508).

Abstract: A user equipment may be configured to perform demodulator selection based on ML model coefficients trained by a base station. In some aspects, the user equipment may transmit a dynamic demodulator indication to a base station, transmit channel information to the base station, and receive, in response to the dynamic demodulator indication, updated coefficient information based on the channel information. Further, the user equipment may select a demodulator based on the updated coefficient information, and communicate with the base station via the demodulator in response to the selection of the demodulator.

Abstract: Selecting a transport configuration for a data network adapted to transport data traffic belonging to different traffic types. A selecting device determines an actual traffic mix of traffic types and corresponding traffic loads transported on the data network. The device determines, based on the actual traffic mix, multiple future traffic mixes of traffic types and corresponding traffic loads, wherein the future traffic mixes are associated with probability values and classifiable into different future traffic mix classes, each future traffic mix class being associated with a predefined transport configuration capable of handling any future traffic mix falling in that future traffic mix class. The device is configured to aggregate the probability values associated with those future traffic mixes that belong to the same future traffic mix class and to select the transport configuration associated with the highest probability value across the aggregated and non-aggregated probability values.