Abstract: It is possible to efficiently transmit and receive signals containing uplink control information between a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus. eREG is configured with a plurality of resources into which one DL PRB pair is divided, eCCE is configured with an aggregation of a plurality of eREGs, a second PDCCH is configured with an aggregation of one or more eCCEs, a PUCCH resource corresponds to each eCCE, a first reception processing unit receives information indicating a plurality of second PDCCH regions and information indicating a PUCCH resource in which association with eCCE of the second PDCCH region for each second PDCCH region is started, from the base station apparatus, and a first control unit configures a PUCCH resource, in which association with eCCE of the second PDCCH region is started, for each second PDCCH region, based on the received information.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that allow for the management of switching devices in an information handling system without having to access the switching device. An information handling system as provided herein includes at least one switching device and a controlling device in communication with the at least one switching device. The controlling device includes a network interface component configured to receive a request from the at least one switching device, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to provide configuration settings and an operating system to the at least one switching device in response to the received request, record network traffic of the at least one switching device, provide the recorded traffic to an analytics engine, and debug the at least one switching device based on information received from the analytics engine.

Abstract: A method for performing uplink power control by a user equipment, the method includes receiving downlink, DL, hybrid automatic repeat and request, HARQ configuration information indicating a uplink-downlink, UL-DL, configuration used as a DL HARQ reference configuration; receiving downlink control information, DCI, containing transmit power control, TPC, information; determining transmit power of a physical uplink control channel, PUCCH, carrying ACK/NACK information for a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, based on the TPC information; and transmitting the PUCCH with the transmit power of the PUCCH, wherein the transmit power of the PUCCH is determined based on the TPC information according to the DL HARQ reference configuration.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for assisting a wireless a communication device to acquire access to a millimeter-wave access point (mmW AP). In some embodiments, an angular direction from a mobile wireless communication device to the mmW AP is determined. In some embodiments, the mobile wireless communication device receives information from a wireless network that helps the mobile wireless communication device determine the angular direction. In some embodiments, the signals between wireless network and mobile wireless communication device are below 6 GHz. In some embodiments, the wireless network provides the mobile wireless communication device with the angular direction. Therefore, the mobile wireless communication device is able to configure an antenna to receive and/or transmit a beam in a direction of the mmW AP. The mobile wireless communication may do so during a process of gaining access to the mmW AP.

Abstract: A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing a random access procedure for coverage enhancement. The method may comprise the steps of transmitting a random access preamble repetitively to a certain cell on the basis of a predetermined repetition level; when a random access response has not received within a random access response window, reconfiguring the repetition level; and retransmitting the random access preamble repetitively on the basis of the reconfigured repetition level.

Abstract: A base station may transmit, and a wireless device may receive, configuration parameters for a control channel used for wireless communications between the base station and the wireless device. The configuration parameters may indicate various aspects of the control channel, such as applicable subframes, starting symbols for control and/or data channels, frequency resource parameters, etc.

Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus includes a controller including a processor configured to generate and store data in a padding space, when padding exists in a data space, and a transmitter configured to transmit the data stored in the padding space.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system supporting device to device (D2D) communication. The method performed by first User Equipment (UE) includes receiving first control information related to D2D communication from an eNB, transmitting second control information, including resource information related to D2D data transmission, to second UE based on the received first control information, and transmitting the D2D data to the second UE. Receiving the first control information includes allocating, by the eNB, a resource pool related to the D2D communication through high layer signaling.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting data using a multi-carrier in a mobile communication system. The method of transmitting data in user equipment of a wireless communication system using a carrier aggregation technique according to an embodiment of the present invention includes setting secondary cells included in an S-TAG (Secondary-Timing Advance Group) configured of only secondary cells (SCells), deactivating a downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG; determining whether other activated secondary cells exist besides the deactivated downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG, and when the other activated secondary cells exist in the S-TAG, setting one of the other activated secondary cells as a new downlink timing reference cell. According to the present invention, uplink transmission speed can be increased in the user equipment and user QoS can be improved by transmitting data using one or more uplink carriers in the terminal.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems, methods, and computer readable media to enable a millimeter wave capable small cell (MCSC) devices to receive a handover of a user equipment from a universal mobile telecommunications system terrestrial radio access node B (eNB.) In particular, systems and methods are described for user equipment (UE) association with a MCSC operating as a booster for an eNB, including identification of and communication on preferred cell sector between the UE and the MCSC.

Abstract: A method determining scheduling for packet transmission in a convergecast network. The method includes receiving a request to perform an operation in the network. Initializing a query from the sink-node, the query is transmitted to a plurality of nodes, and in response to the query, the receiver receives information indicative at a period of time. Sorting the nodes by the sink-node based on the received information and using a sorting function that prioritizes each node to obtain a prioritized order of the nodes. Calculating an end-to-end delay for each node based on the time data by determining a difference between the data generation release time for each node and the data delivery time at the sink-node for each node. Scheduling packet transmission for each of the nodes based on a scheduling function having a set of predetermined scheduling criteria. Performing packet transmissions in the tree using the scheduled order.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in an IEEE 802.11 root access point (AP) are provided. The method may comprise transmitting, from the root AP to the R-AP, an indication of a number of end-STAs which the R-AP is allowed to associate with. A first message may be received, from the R-AP that enables the root AP to associate the end-STA with the R-AP, the first message including: an indication of a number of information fields in the first message and a number of information fields identified by the indication of the number of information fields. Each information field may include a unique identifier associated with a respective indicated end-STA associated with the R-AP. A second message may be transmitted for the end-STA, from the root AP to the R-AP, and the second message may include the unique identifier.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at an ingress node in a segment routing network, an entropy prefix segment identifier, generating a label stack comprising the entropy prefix segment identifier and an entropy label beneath the entropy prefix segment identifier, and transmitting a packet comprising the label stack using the entropy prefix segment identifier as a transport label and an entropy label identifier. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A communication system includes a transmit (TX) device and a receive (RX) device. The TX device is configured to transmit data over a communication link. The RX device is configured to receive the data transmitted by the TX device over the communication link, to buffer the received data in an RX buffer, to assess a fill level of the RX buffer, to select, depending on the fill level of the RX buffer, either a pause-resume flow-control scheme or a credit-based flow-control scheme, and to apply the selected flow-control scheme in coordination with the TX device.

Abstract: A method for processing telephony sessions of a network including at least one application server and a call router, the method including the steps of assigning a primary Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and at least a secondary URI to an application; mapping a telephony session to the primary URI; communicating with the application server designated by the primary URI using an application layer protocol; receiving telephony instructions from the application server and processing the telephony instructions with the call router; detecting an application event; and upon detecting the application event, communicating with the application server designated by the secondary URI.

Abstract: A method by a terminal, a method by a base station, a terminal, and a base station are provided. The method by the terminal includes receiving system information including first time division duplex (TDD) configuration information; receiving control information via a higher layer signaling; monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a first subframe identified based on the control information; and identifying second TDD configuration information based on the monitoring result. The method by the base station includes transmitting system information including first time division duplex (TDD) configuration information; transmitting control information via a higher layer signaling; transmitting downlink control information on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a first subframe identified based on the control information, wherein the downlink control information is used to identify second TDD configuration information.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to receive a plurality of packet from an inflow of a single packet flow. In response to receiving the plurality of packets, a plurality of packet pointers is enqueued into multiple physical queues. Each of the plurality of packet pointers designates one of the plurality of packets from the single packet flow. The plurality of packet pointers are dequeued from the multiple physical queues to transmit the plurality of packets along an outflow of the single packet flow.

Abstract: A method of data packet handling in data transmission between a mobile station and a wireless telecommunication network, comprising protocol layers of a LLC layer for handling control information of data packet transmission and a RLC layer for transmitting the data packets between the mobile station and the network. A plurality of the RLC data units, received from the network, are transferred to the LLC as LLC PDUs and if a high load situation caused by the transfer of the LLC PDUs to the LLC layer is detected, the operation of the RLC layer is intermitted until a number of LLC PDUs has been acknowledged by the LLC layer. When the transfer of the LLC PDUs to the LLC layer is intermitted, also the acknowledgements of RLC PDUs on RLC layer between the mobile station and the wireless telecommunication network are intermitted.