Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system anchor base station for a mobile telecommunications system is provided. The mobile telecommunications system has at least one anchor cell and at least one slave cell which is associated with the anchor cell. The anchor base station has circuitry which is configured to broadcast slave cell system information being specific for the at least one slave cell.

Abstract: A node in a Segment Routing network includes a plurality of ports and a switching fabric between the plurality of ports, wherein, for an Ethernet Tree (E-tree) service, a port is configured to transmit a packet with a plurality of Segment Identifiers (SID) including a first SID, a second SID, and a third SID, wherein the first SID identifies one of multicast, ingress replication for broadcast, and a destination node including any of a node SID and an anycast SID, wherein the second SID identifies a service including the E-tree service, and wherein the third SID identifies a source of the packet. A second port of the node is connected to a customer edge, and wherein the third SID is based on whether the customer edge is a leaf node or a root node in the E-tree service.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmission beam indicating. One apparatus (200) includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (902) information using multiple transmission beams. The apparatus (200) also includes a receiver (212) that receives (904) a feedback message indicating a transmission beam of the multiple transmission beams. The feedback message is received in response to transmitting the information. The transmitter (210) transmits (906) a message using the transmission beam in response to receiving the feedback message.

Abstract: A mobile communications system, methods, and communication terminals. A first of plural communications terminals is configured to determine, based on current communications conditions, one of plural predetermined priority levels representing a relative ability of the first communications terminal to act as a relay node for a second of the plural communications terminals, and to transmit an indication of the determined priority level to the second communications terminals for one of the first or other communications terminals to be selected to act as a relay node for the second communications terminal. The second communications terminal is configured to receive from the first communications terminal the indication of the determined priority level, to receive from the other communications terminals indications of determined priority levels, to select one of the first communications terminals or one or more of the other communications terminals to act as a relay node for the second communications terminal.

Abstract: Predicting small cell capacity and coverage to facilitate offloading of macrocell capacity is presented herein. A system selects a group of candidate locations for placement of respective small cells to facilitate offloading, via the respective small cells, of traffic from respective macrocells corresponding to the candidate locations—the respective small cells including first transmission powers that are less than second transmission powers of the respective macrocells. Further, for each candidate location of the group of candidate locations, the system determines an estimated amount of traffic capacity of a small cell of the respective small cells that has been presumed to have been placed at the candidate location, and determines estimated signal strengths of respective signals that have been predicted to have been received from the small cell at respective portions of a grid of a defined signal coverage area corresponding to the candidate location.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for receiving handover assistance information including a list of one or more candidate target cells; initiating a first random access procedure to a first candidate target cell of the one or more candidate target cells and a first timer for the first candidate target cell, when the first candidate target cell satisfies a handover condition; and stopping trying to connect to the first candidate target cell when any one of at least the following events occurs: (i) the first timer expires for the first candidate target cell, and (ii) a number of random access trials to the first candidate target cell reaches a maximum number.

Abstract: A method and system for controlling uplink communication from a user equipment device (UE) that has at least two co-existing air-interface connections including a first air-interface connection with a first access node and a second air-interface connection with a second access node. An example method includes comparing a level of antenna pattern efficiency associated with the first air-interface connection with a level of antenna pattern efficiency associated with the second air-interface connection and, based at least on the comparing, configuring an uplink split ratio defining a distribution of uplink user-plane data flow of the UE between at least the first air-interface connection and the second air-interface connection. In an example implementation, this could involve configuring one of the air-interface connections as a primary uplink path to which the UE restricts its uplink communication unless and until a trigger occurs for transitioning the UE to operate in an split-uplink mode.

Abstract: User equipment receives first connection priority information. In accordance with the first connection priority information, the mobile communication device establishes a first wireless communication link between the user equipment and a first wireless network to communicate first communications. A controller/management resource provides notification of second connection priority information to be used instead of the first connection priority information. In response to detecting a trigger event in which the user equipment is operated to communicate second communications, the user equipment uses the second connection priority information as a replacement to the first connection priority information to establish a second wireless communication link connecting the user equipment to the second network instead of the first network.

Abstract: Provided are a method whereby a terminal transmits an acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) with a primary cell and a secondary cell aggregated, and a device for supporting the method. The method comprises: receiving data by a downlink subframe of a secondary cell; and transmitting an ACK/NACK for the data by an uplink subframe of a primary cell, wherein: the time interval between the downlink subframe and the uplink subframe is determined by a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing or a second HARQ timing; the first HARQ timing is an HARQ timing which is applied when the primary cell is used alone; and the second HARQ timing is an HARQ timing which is additional to the first HARQ timing.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a method of selecting a cell for communication over a network, the method comprising: determining a round trip delay (RTD) measurement from a device to each of a plurality of base stations, each of the plurality of base stations being in a respective one of a plurality of cells; ranking the plurality of cells based at least in part on the RTD measurements; selecting the highest-ranked cell; and initiating attachment to the selected cell.

Abstract: A method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes receiving, from an access point (AP) by a station (STA), a beacon frame comprising a first field related to a transmission time of a trigger frame, wherein the trigger frame includes frequency resource information to be used for an uplink multi-user (UL MU) transmission, wherein the frequency resource information to be included in the trigger frame includes at least one of first type resource information used for random access and second type resource information used for scheduled access, wherein the random access is performed by the STA based on orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), wherein the beacon frame further comprises a second field related to whether or not the trigger frame includes the first type resource information; receiving, from the AP by the STA, the trigger frame based on the first field; determining, by the STA, UL resource to be used for the UL MU transmission based on the first type resource information and the se

Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for transmitting information. The method includes: a first device sending a random access message to a second device, wherein the random access message carries first dedicated information of the first device and/or indication information used to indicate second dedicated information of the first device, and the first dedicated information and the second dedicated information are used to establish a connection between the first device and the second device.

Abstract: Among other things there is disclosed a method for determining corrected load values. The method includes obtaining a set of input features, each input feature being one of: i) a reported load value that was reported by a target base station to a source base station and ii) a derived load value derived using the reported load value; obtaining a set of output features, each output feature being a determined load value determined by the source base station, wherein each output feature is associated with a single one of the input features; and determining, using the set of input features and the set of output features, a set of one or more parameters for a mathematical model for determining a corrected load value based on one or more load values provided by the target base station.

Abstract: A radio network node (110) and a method therein for managing transmission of at least one channel quality report and a user equipment (120) a method therein for handling transmission of at least one channel quality report are disclosed. The radio network node (110) sends, to the user equipment (120), a first message comprising information about at least one resource for use by the user equipment (120) when transmitting the at least one channel quality report. The radio network mode (110) sends, to the user equipment (120), a second message for activating, in the user equipment (120), the transmission of the at least one channel quality report. The radio network node (110) receives, from the user equipment (120), a first channel quality report of the at least one channel quality report. The first channel quality report is received on the at least one resource on an uplink control channel.

Abstract: A traffic planning platform may receive information related to a traffic flow including a traffic bandwidth to transport through a network with various network devices interconnected by links. The traffic planning platform may generate a traffic plan by assigning the traffic flow to a set of the links that includes network resources connecting a source of the traffic flow to a destination of the traffic flow. The traffic planning platform may render a visualization of the traffic plan, wherein the visualization includes a user interface (e.g., a diagram, an animation, and/or the like) in which geometric shapes that represent the source, the peer link, and the destination are connected by bands that represent the tunnel and the external route and further in which the geometric shapes and the bands each have a first visual property and a second visual property based on the traffic bandwidth of the traffic flow.

Abstract: Communication control for establishing a multi-access PDN connection is performed based on a response to a PDN connectivity establishment request from a terminal device. Communication control for transmitting and/or receiving user data using one or more default bearers for a multi-access PDN connection is performed. This provides a communication control method and the like along with a multi-access PDN connectivity establishment request from the terminal device.

Abstract: A method for transmitting information, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a first value broadcast by a network device, the first value being configured for the terminal device to select a carrier; determining, by the terminal device, a target uplink carrier from a first uplink carrier and a second uplink carrier according to the first value, the first uplink carrier and the second uplink being configured for the terminal device to transmit data and having different frequencies; and sending, by the terminal device, uplink data to the network device over the target uplink carrier.

Abstract: Methods for scheduling data packets based on a target transmission time may include receiving, from an application layer at a first time, a data packet and an associated latency requirement. The first layer may determine based, at least in part, on the associated latency requirement, a target transmission time. The target transmission time may be a sum of a queuing delay, an expected transmit completion time, and the first time. The data packet may be queued (or scheduled for transmission) based, at least in part, on the target transmission time and an access category assigned to the data packet. The data packet may be transmitted (or scheduled for transmission) from the queue according to the target transmission time. The expected transmit completion time may be a sum of an average contention time for the access category assigned to the data packet and estimated airtime.

Abstract: Systems and methods for pacing data transmission are described. An illustrative method includes transmitting, by a network device, a data stream at a pacing rate to a user equipment (UE) device. The method further includes accessing a metric of a radio access network (RAN) to which the UE device is connected, the metric associated with the UE device. The method further includes adjusting, based on the metric, the pacing rate at which the data stream is transmitted to the UE device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for using Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT) to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the internet. The devices and methods may dynamically switch from using communication interfaces associated with Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT) to communication interfaces that support greater amounts of bandwidth in response to detecting an increase in data traffic. The devices and methods may dynamically establish communication interfaces for transmitting data packets in response to determining that a data transfer rate for the data packets exceeds a threshold. The devices and methods may switch to the newly established communication interface for sending the data packets.