Abstract: A wireless communication network delivers policy enforcement to a wireless user device in another wireless communication network. The wireless communication network wirelessly serves the wireless user device based on a policy. The wireless communication network determines when the wireless user device is visiting the other wireless communication network, and in response, selects the policy for the wireless user device. The wireless communication network transfers the selected policy for the wireless user device to the other wireless communication network. The other wireless communication network receives and enforces the selected policy for the wireless user device.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for training a position estimation module. In an aspect, a first network entity obtains a plurality of positioning measurements, obtains a plurality of positions of one or more user equipments (UEs), the plurality of positions determined based on the plurality of positioning measurements, stores the plurality of positioning measurements as a plurality of features and the plurality of positions as a plurality of labels corresponding to the plurality of features, and trains the position estimation module with the plurality of features and the plurality of labels to determine a position of a UE from positioning measurements taken by the UE.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure include methods, network servers or components and user equipment devices configured to authorize network slices that are associated with services provided by external providers. Various aspects enable access and use of network slices by user equipment devices connected to a network (e.g., 5G or New Radio network) via network components associated with a service provider by generating an allowed network slice selection assistance information (Allowed NSSAI) and an Unauthorized NSSAI, and sending the Allowed NSSAI and Unauthorized NSSAI to a user equipment device.

Abstract: A foldable terminal includes a body, a display screen and a flattening member. The display screen is located on a surface of the body and includes a bendable portion. The flattening member is located between the body and the bendable portion, and configured to apply a force to the bendable portion, so as to flatten the bendable portion when the foldable terminal is in a flattened state.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is associated with a cellular network, the UE and the cellular network are configured with a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) functionality, the DRX functionality including a cycle with a plurality of onDurations. The UE receives an indication of at least one parameter the cellular network is to utilize for the transmission of an emergency message, generates a monitoring schedule based on the indication of the at least one parameter, wherein the monitoring schedule does not include at least one of the plurality of onDurations and activates a mode of operation where the UE monitors for the emergency message based on the monitoring schedule.

Abstract: A transmission source position estimation system includes a sensor and a position estimation apparatus. The sensor is provided with a characteristic vector classification part and an attribute data extraction part. The characteristic vector classification part classifies a set of characteristic vectors obtained from received signal data of a transmitted wave, into subsets in a feature space. The attribute data extraction part extracts attribute data for each of the subsets and outputs the extracted data as an attribute data sequence. The position estimation apparatus is provided with a data combination part and a position estimation part. The data combination part combines attribute data that match or are similar to at least one attribute for a plurality of attribute data sequences. The position estimation part estimates the position of the transmission source from the combined attribute data and the position of the sensor that receives the transmitted wave.

Abstract: Various systems and methods for implementing random access channel security are described herein. An apparatus for a base station includes: receiver circuitry to receive at the base station, a signal from a user equipment (UE) transmitter to access resources of the base station; statistics circuitry to calculate high-order statistics on the signal to produce an identification indication; a memory device to store the high-order statistics and the identification indication; and processing circuitry to: associate the identification indication with the UE transmitter; use the identification indication to determine that multiple failures of a random access channel (RACH) process have occurred from the UE transmitter; and restrict later attempts by the UE transmitter to perform RACH processes with the base station.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Accordingly the embodiments herein provides a method and system for ciphering of initial NAS message protection procedure. A UE is registered to a first PLMN and a first 5G NAS security context has been established. The UE selects a second PLMN. The UE sends Initial Registration procedure with only cleartext IE to the second PLMN. The second PLMN may initiate and perform authentication procedure.

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for selectively granting or revoking/denying access to applications, services, data, etc. to a User Equipment (“UE”) based on location-based policies and a network-determined location of the UE. The network-determined location may be determined by elements of a wireless network, such as a Mobility Management Entity (“MME”), Access and Mobility Management Function (“AMF”), or other suitable element.

Abstract: Methods, systems, user interfaces, media, and devices are described for sharing the location of participants of a communication session established via a messaging system. Consistent with some embodiments, an electronic communication containing location information is received from a location sensor coupled to a first client device. A current location of the first user is determined based on the location information. A current location of the first user is displayed, on a display screen of a second client device, the current location of the first user being displayed within a messaging UI during a communication session between the computing device and the second computing device. The location information may be updated during the communication session as messages are exchanged and as a current location changes. Various embodiments may include additional information with the current location, such as a time period associated with the location, or other such information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a user device, a base station, and data transmission and reception methods to be performed by a user device and a base station in a communications system. The user device comprises circuitry which, in operation, receives paging occasion configuration from the base station, including at least one parameter for configuring a predefined time-domain pattern for receiving paging occasion within a paging cycle; and performs reception of paging signal in the paging occasions within the predefined time-domain pattern configured according to the received paging occasion configuration.

Abstract: A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a radio access network part of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprising configuring a notification area of a radio access network part by determining one or more base stations and/or one or more of non-terrestrial network parts which form part of the notification area, the base stations and/or the non-terrestrial network parts of the notification area being for use in transmitting signals to a communications device from the wireless communications network, determining, based on the notification area and on a present time, which one of the base stations and/or the non-terrestrial network parts of the notification area is presently serving the communications device, and transmitting a paging message to the serving base station or serving non terrestrial network part for subsequent transmission to the communications device.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for handling a pseudo base station. The method includes: performing restriction processing on a registration network of the mobile terminal at the pseudo base station in response to determining a pseudo base station; and prohibiting accessing the pseudo base station in response to the restriction processing.

Abstract: Methods and systems are discussed for location-based guidance based on interior conditions at a plurality of locations. For example, the system may receive, from a user device of a user, a user request to access a first service. The system may retrieve a plurality of locations that provide the first service. The system may retrieve an average density for respective first queuing areas at each of the plurality of locations at a first time interval, wherein the respective first queuing areas correspond to respective portions at each of the plurality of locations reserved for queuing users for the first service. The system may determine whether the average density for the respective first queuing areas at each of the plurality of locations at the first time interval exceeds a threshold average density.

Abstract: A communication method relates to a paging mechanism applied for a radio access network, including: a centralized unit sends a paging message to a distributed unit, where the paging message carries indication information indicates that the paging is paging originated from a core network or the paging is paging originated from a radio access network; and the distributed unit determines, according to the indication information, that the paging is paging originated from the core network or the paging is paging originated from the radio access network.

Abstract: This application provides a security context obtaining method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a user plane gateway, a PDU session establishment request from UE, where the PDU session establishment request is used to request to establish a PDU session between the user plane gateway and the UE, and the PDU session is carried between the UE and a service server of a data network; and separately obtaining, by the user plane gateway and the UE, a security context used for the PDU session, and activating user plane security protection based on the security context. Therefore, during PDU session reestablishment, for example, PDU session reestablishment triggered by switching of the user plane gateway, a session management network element, and the like, the user plane gateway and the UE can obtain a new security context, thereby achieving end-to-end protection between the UE and the user plane gateway.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for delaying a dynamic connection modification of a user device connection. A first frequency band is determined to have a greater sector power ratio (SPR) than a second frequency band. The first frequency band is determined to have a loading factor above a threshold. Based at least in part on the first frequency band having the greater SPR and the first frequency band having the loading factor above the threshold, a connection of the user device to the first frequency band for access for to a wireless communication protocol is delayed.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for monitoring a paging message, a mobile terminal, and a server. The method for monitoring the paging message is operable by a mobile terminal and includes: detecting whether the mobile terminal is in a connected state where the mobile terminal is connected with a wireless access device accessing the Internet; when the mobile terminal is in the connected state where the mobile terminal is connected with the wireless access device, monitoring the paging message according to a first paging cycle; when otherwise, monitoring the paging message according to a second paging cycle, wherein the first paging cycle is longer than the second paging cycle, and the second paging cycle is equal to a cycle according to which a core network transmits the paging message.

Abstract: A method and a wireless communication device for providing communication service to devices connected to the wireless communication device. By establishing a starter wireless carrier connection using a starter SIM from a plurality of local SIMs, the wireless communication device establishes one or more logical data connections with one or more SIM banks. Remote-SIMs are selected from the one or more SIM banks and used to establish further wireless carrier connections to allow communication service to be provided to the devices over wireless carrier connections.

Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to implement a privacy enhanced location service for determining a granularity of location information to return to a requestor computing device. The privacy enhanced location service receives, from a requestor computing device, a location query requesting location information for a subject. The privacy enhanced location service retrieves a selected subject privacy policy data structure, selected from a set of subject privacy policy data structures corresponding to the subject identified in the location query. The privacy enhanced location service applies the selected subject privacy policy data structure to location information associated with the subject to generate modified location information having a granularity of location information specified in the selected subject privacy policy data structure. The privacy enhanced location service transmits the modified location information to the requestor computing device.