Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). A method for uploading data by a station (STA) in a mobile communication system supporting a plurality of radio access interfaces (RAIs) is provided. The method includes, upon detecting that there is content to be uploaded, determining whether a first RAI among the plurality of RAIs is available, and when the first RAI is available, transmitting a header message including information related to the content and a body message including at least one of a plurality of segments which are generated based on the content to a proxy server through the first RAI to upload the at least one of the plurality of segments to an original server.

Abstract: A first communication device associated with a first communication network determines that a second communication device associated with a second communication network is located proximate to the first communication device. The first communication device generates a data unit that includes information indicating i) a color identifier of the second communication network, the color identifier usable to identify transmissions from the second communication network, and ii) that a dynamic clear channel assessment (CCA) procedure should not be used for transmissions from the second communication network. The first communication device transmits the data unit to at least one other communication device associated with the first communication network such that the at least one other communication device associated with the first communication network does not use the dynamic CCA procedure for transmissions identified as being from the second communication network.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for updating an access network discovery and selection functions (ANDSF) policy in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives the ANDSF policy and radio access network (RAN) assistance information for the ANDSF policy and a RAN rule, and further receives a configuration indicating whether both the ANDSF policy and the RAN rule are utilized for access network selection and traffic routing. Only if the received configuration indicates that the RAN rule is not utilized for the access network selection and traffic routing, the UE updates the ANDSF policy based on the received RAN assistance information, and performs the access network selection and traffic routing based on the received configuration.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitter arrangement for a wireless communication network, the transmitter arrangement adapted for beamforming. The method comprises determining a maximum power level mask for the power of transmission and/or beams in a critical angular interval, the maximum power level mask covering at least the critical angular interval and controlling beamforming based on the maximum power level mask.

Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a method for operating a first base station (BS1) in a radio communication system (RAN). The method contains transmitting first reference signals via a first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) being directed towards a first direction and at least second reference signals via at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . , BM5-BS1) being directed towards at least one second direction. The method further contains receiving for a hand over of a mobile station (MS) from a second base station (BS2) being a serving base station of the mobile station (MS) to the first base station (BS1) an indication for a radiation beam being selected from a group of radiation beams comprising the first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) and the at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . , BM5-BS1) for applying the selected radiation beam as an initial radiation beam at the first base station (BS1) for serving the mobile station (MS).

Abstract: Method of scrambling signals, transmission point device, and user equipment using the method are provided. The method includes: sending an ID table to a user equipment through higher layer signaling, the ID table being a subset of the whole ID space and containing available IDs for the user equipment; notifying the user equipment an ID in the ID table to be used through physical layer signaling or UE specific higher layer signaling; generating a random seed based on the notified ID; initializing a scrambling sequence by the random seed; and scrambling the signals with the initialized scrambling sequence. The method of the disclosure, by combining physical layer signaling and higher layer signaling, may notify the used group ID and the blind detection space to a UE, wherein the blind detection for the UE is enabled and the signaling overhead is reduced.

Abstract: Proposed is a method for determining transmission using a network allocation vector (NAV) in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, after a receiving device receives a trigger frame, which triggers an uplink multiple user transmission, from a transmitting device, whether to transmit an uplink physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) corresponding to the trigger frame is determined using the NAV of the receiving device. In this case, if the NAV is established by an intra-basic service set (BSS) frame, whether to transmit the uplink PPDU is determined without taking the NAV into consideration.

Abstract: A device and method controlling working state change of a small cell and a base station including the device. The device includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires interference between a small cell to be controlled and an adjacent small cell and/or load of the small cell to be controlled or load distributed by other small cells and to be borne by the small cell to be controlled; and a state change determination unit that determines working state change to be performed by the small cell to be controlled according to the acquired interference and/or load. The working state includes multiple sleep levels from low to high. A sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a low sleep level is less than a sleep degree of the small cell to be controlled in a high sleep level, the working state change being performed among multiple sleep levels.

Abstract: A method for channel information feedback, a base station and a device, the method includes: a terminal performs a channel measurement, constructs an information matrix used for representing channel information according to a preset function, determines optimal channel parameters and feeds back the channel parameters to a base station; and the base station constructs quantization information of a characteristic vector of a channel matrix according to the received channel parameters and the channel matrix. In the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present document, since the most essential characteristic of a dual-polarized channel, i.e.

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to discover an adjacent wireless station of the wireless access network, wherein the wireless access network is a next generation mesh network; establish a wireless link with the adjacent wireless station; generate link information pertaining to the wireless link; transmit the link information to a controller of multiple wireless stations that include the wireless station and the adjacent wireless station; receive from the controller, first routing and forwarding information indicating a data plane via which the wireless station and the controller are to communicate end user traffic; and transmit to the controller, current control information pertaining to the data plane, wherein the control information includes one or more of link information, service performance information that indicates one or more service performance metrics, or traffic flow information.

Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a method and an apparatus thereof for formatting a payload for transmission of multi-mode speech/audio codec data. The method comprises deciding whether a header-less or a header-full payload format is used for transmission of a coded frame. The decision is based on a codec mode and a required functionality. The payload data is packetized with or without the payload header depending on the decision.

Abstract: A method in a wireless device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving one or more resource pool configurations for a particular discovery carrier, the one or more resource pool configurations comprising information indicating one or more of resource elements and subframes that the wireless device should use to monitor for incoming discovery messages and transmit outgoing discovery messages, the received one or more resource pool configurations comprising at least a first resource pool configuration received from a serving network node of the wireless device operating in Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode. The method comprises determining which of the received one or more resource pool configurations that the wireless device should use to monitor for incoming discovery messages and transmit outgoing discovery messages.

Abstract: A method in a network node for handling a transmission between a plurality of Transmission Points, TPs, and User Equipments, UEs, in a wireless network. The network node receives information from each respective UE out of a number of first UEs served by the network node, which information is related to the location of the UE. The network node then identifies a hot spot, based on the information received from the UEs. The hot spot is an area where the load density of UEs is above a first threshold. When a hot spot is defined the network node selects a plurality of TPs dedicated to serve the UEs 130 located in the hot spot and establishes a coordinated transmission mode from the plurality of dedicated TPs to the UEs located in the hot spot.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for performing ranging operations between an initiator device and a responder device. The initiator device may transmit, to the responder device, a fine timing measurement (FTM) request frame including a request to estimate angle information for a number of frames exchanged between the initiator device and the responder device and indicating a level of accuracy for the estimated angle information. The initiator device may receive a first FTM frame from the responder device, and may transmit an acknowledgement (ACK) frame to the responder device. The initiator device may receive, from the responder device, a second FTM frame including angle information of the first FTM frame and timing information of one or more of the exchanged frames.

Abstract: A method for User Equipment (UE) power management in a wireless communication system is provided. A connection manager of the communication system receives a power management policy from a third party entity. The policy directs setting of a power management scheme according to status information of the UE. The third party entity is functionally separate from the UE and a network domain associated with the connection manager. Status information is received from the UE. A power management instruction is transmitted towards the UE to modify power management parameters stored in the UE.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for de-configuring a cell from PUCCH resource in a carrier aggregation system, the method comprising: configuring a Secondary Cell (SCell) with Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource; receiving a signaling indicating that the PUCCH resource is de-configured from the SCell; de-configuring the PUCCH resource from the SCell according to the signaling; and triggering a Power Headroom Reporting (PHR) when the PUCCH resource is de-configured from the SCell.

Abstract: There is provided an app management software 16 for cooperating with a bandwidth control system 2 for dynamically changing a communication bandwidth of the mobile information terminal 3 for each type of application 3a which is installed on the mobile information terminal.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for canceling and/or suppressing inter-cell interference in a wireless communication. The method includes: establishing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a base station through a first serving cell; receiving, at a User Equipment (UE), an RRC message through the first serving cell, the RRC message comprising cell-specific reference signal (CRS) information of a neighbor cell and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) information of the neighbor cell, and the PDSCH information of the neighbor cell comprising a parameter relating to a power ratio of a CRS of the neighbor cell and a PDSCH of the neighbor cell; receiving the PDSCH through the first serving cell; performing a channel estimation for retrieving data from a PDSCH of the first serving cell; and retrieving the data from the PDSCH of the first serving cell based on the second channel estimation.

Abstract: A method for adaptive user equipment (UE) grouping and beamforming includes the assignment each of a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices into a respective UE group of a plurality of UE groups. Each UE group has at least one UE device. A UE device is reassigned from the respective UE group to which it was previously assigned to an updated UE group. An updated respective beamforming vector is generated for the updated UE group until the updated respective beamforming vector for each UE group produces a largest average UE rate for the updated UE group.

Abstract: In a disclosed embodiment, a power line communication (PLC) transmitter includes a forward error correction (FEC) encoder that receives payload data and adds parity information to the data to create an encoded output, a fragmenter that receives the encoded output from the FEC encoder and segments the encoded output into a plurality of fragments, a fragment repetition encoder that receives the plurality of fragments from the fragmenter and copies each of the fragments a selected number of times, and an interleaver that receives the copies of the plurality of fragments from the fragment repetition encoder and interleaves the copies of the plurality of fragments for transmission on a power line.