Abstract: Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a data storage device and a set of computing servers communicatively coupled to the data storage device. The set of computer servers are configured to provide a respective virtual data center for each of a plurality of accounts. The respective virtual data center for each account is configured to provide virtual services specified in a respective settings file for the account stored in the data storage device. The virtual data center for at least one of the accounts includes a set of virtual desktops and a set virtual servers, including at least one Voice-over-IP (VoIP) server. A processing circuit is communicatively coupled to the computing servers and is configured to, for each account, provide support services specified in the settings file for the account.

Abstract: New radio download numerology allocation information may be obtained through master information block data, system information block data, radio resource control signals, or signals or a physical downlink numerology indication channel, and used along with a reference signal detected in a search space to obtain resource element positions in an antenna port reference signal in a resource block that belongs to a particular band slice according to a reference signal allocation scheme for a band slice numerology. A physical download control may then be decoded based upon one or more resource elements of the reference signal, allowing the connection of, e.g., an enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine type communication, or ultra-reliable/low-latency application to a communications network thereby. Alternatively, multiple physical downlink control channels may be blindly demodulated at each of a number calculated reference signal locations, and one channel selected based on passing a cyclic redundancy check.

Abstract: A system includes an electronic device that has communication circuitry configured to communicate with one or more other electronic devices on a wireless network in a structure. The electronic device includes a processor operatively coupled to a memory and configured to determine a status associated with occupants of the structure. The processor may determine a priority schedule based at least in part on the status. The priority schedule may be indicative of an amount of bandwidth allocated to each of the one or more other electronic devices. The processor may then cause data to be communicated by each of the one or more other electronic devices based at least in part on the priority schedule.

Abstract: A network device may receive user datagram protocol (UDP) packets associated with an internet protocol (IP) session. The network device may apply a first firewall filter by setting one or more bits of each UDP packet to particular bit values to allow each UDP packet to be identified in association with the first firewall filter. The network device may update, each time a UDP packet is received, a first packet counter to account for a total number of UDP packets to which the first firewall filter has been applied. The network device may provide each UDP packet to another network device. The other network device may update a second packet counter. The network device and the other network device may provide the first packet counter and the second packet counter to a server device to cause the server device to determine packet loss information for the IP session.

Abstract: An image communication system includes an image transmission apparatus and an image reception apparatus. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmission-side wireless communication unit. The image reception apparatus includes a reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a radar detection unit configured to execute a detection process on radio waves of radar in a communication channel that has a possibility of being used for image data communication by the transmission-side wireless communication unit and the reception-side wireless communication unit. At least one of the image transmission apparatus and the image reception apparatus includes a channel use confirmation unit configured to execute channel use confirmation for confirming that the communication channel is usable by continuously monitoring the detection process by the radar detection unit for a predetermined time.

Abstract: Coherence based pre-decoding pruning for control channels in wireless communication systems is discussed. Data is received on at least one channel resource of a plurality of channel resources. In addition, the determining of a plurality of channel coherence metrics is discussed, where a channel coherence metric for a channel resource indicates coherence information between channels on which the plurality of carriers associated with the channel resource operate. Additionally, the determining of one or more channel resources to search for data to be decoded based, at least in part, on the plurality of channel coherence metrics is also discussed. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: A system is provided in which a user device communicates control data with a first base station and communicates user data with a second base station. The user device receives, from the first base station, configuration data specific to the first base station and configuration data specific to the second base station for configuring the user device to handle in-device coexistence interference. When the user device detects interference, it identifies the base station to which the interference relates, and controls the operating of its transceiver circuitry: i) using the first base station specific configuration data if it identifies that the interference is related to the first base station; and ii) using the second base station specific configuration data if it identifies that the interference is related to the second base station.

Abstract: A bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) method, apparatus, and system, where when a first virtual machine receives BFD packets from a second virtual machine, prediction duration and a predetermined quantity of sample time intervals are obtained. An eigenvalue is obtained according to the prediction duration and the predetermined quantity of sample time intervals, where the eigenvalue indicates a possibility of fault occurrence on an application in the second virtual machine. For an application that is running on the second virtual machine, the eigenvalue is compared with a preset fault determining criterion of the application, and whether the application is faulty is determined according to a comparison result.

Abstract: A network element includes a processor that is configured to receive a request for performing an administratively-requested reroute (ARR) on a network. The ARR includes at least a first data plane operation on the network element and a second data plane operation on another network element. The network element is also configured to determine whether it is capable of performing the first data plane operation without interrupting network traffic on that network element. The network element is further configured to determine whether the other network element is capable of performing the second data plane operation without interrupting network traffic on that network element.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods for modifying the numerology of the D2D frame structure to match the numerology of the Macro cell communication frame structure. Particularly, the present disclosure introduces techniques that allow the D2D devices to partition a long-TTI D2D transmission into a plurality of segments such that each segment may fit into a short-TTI MiCr uplink (UL) subframe. The present disclosure also provides techniques for scheduling D2D transmission and managing transmission power of the D2D communication to minimize the interference with the MiCr communication on the macro cell while maximizing the spectrum utilization.

Abstract: Schemes for configuring a longer DRX cycle for user equipment are disclosed. One aspect of the present invention relates to a base station, comprising: a communication control unit configured to control radio communication with user equipment; and a DRX control unit configured to control discontinuous reception (DRX) by the user equipment, wherein the DRX control unit manages a system frame number (SFN), a subframe number and a hyper SFN (HSFN) in the radio communication, wherein the HSFN counts how many times the SFN wraps around, and uses the HSFN to configure an extended DRX (eDRX) having a specified reception period for the user equipment.

Abstract: Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a set of computing servers configured to provide a respective set of virtual servers for each of a plurality of accounts. The set of virtual servers for at least one of the accounts includes a voice-over-IP (VoIP) server. The apparatus also includes a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the set of computing servers. For each of the plurality of accounts, the processing circuit provides a graphical user interface (GUI) including a mechanism for an authorized user of the account to select options for reporting usage of the respective set of virtual servers. The processing circuit also monitors use of the respective set of virtual servers for the account and generates invoices for use of the respective set of virtual servers according to the selected options.

Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems related to cascaded trigger frame indication. A device may determine a beacon frame on a communication channel. The device may determine one or more trigger frames based at least in part on the beacon frame, the one or more trigger frames including at least in part a first trigger frame and a second trigger frame. The device may determine a cascade indication associated with the one or more trigger frames. The device may cause to send the beacon frame to one or more devices. The device may cause to send the first trigger frame to the one or more devices based at least in part on the beacon frame.

Abstract: Techniques for communication are disclosed. A method may include selecting from a subframe two or more resource elements for control signaling, wherein the subframe includes a plurality of symbol periods and each symbol period includes a plurality of resource elements, wherein the selected two or more resource elements are associated with a concurrent symbol period, and transmitting a resource allocation message to an access terminal, wherein the resource allocation message indicates that the selected two or more resource elements are allocated for control signaling.

Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for transmitting reference signals. A method is performed by a first network device. The method comprises transmitting, in a single orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, a composite reference signal to a second network device. The composite reference signal is a time domain concatenation of at least a first reference signal and a last reference signal. The composite reference signal has a single cyclic prefix. The cyclic prefix is determined according to a last part of the single OFDM symbol. There is also provided mechanisms for receiving such reference signals.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for managing communication channels in a communication system that includes communication devices and a communication server. In one embodiment, first and second near field communication (NFC) equipped communication devices are put into a designated temporary channel and placed into close enough proximity to cause an NFC transaction. The NFC transaction may generate a transaction identifier that may be included in a channel establishment message sent from the first and second communication devices to the communication server. The communication server receives the transaction identifiers from the first and second NFC equipped communication devices and when they match, the communication server creates a temporary communication channel accessible to the first and second NFC equipped communication devices.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes determining, by a first base station, that the first base station is overloaded with connections from mobile devices. Responsive to the first base station being overloaded, a status update may be received, by the first base station, from each of a plurality of base stations, where each base station is configured to provide connections to a plurality of mobile devices. Responsive to the first base station being overloaded, a second base station may be selected, by a computer processor of the first base station, from among the plurality of base stations. Responsive to the first base station being overloaded, the second base station may be instructed, by the first base station, to relocate from a first position to a new position closer to the first base station. The plurality of base stations automatically relocate to load-balance connections from the plurality of mobile devices.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating a broadcast signal frame using enhanced layer dummy values are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver, the time interleaver uses one of time interleaver groups, and enhanced layer data corresponding to the one of the time interleaver groups include dummy values.

Abstract: A multi-cell/multicast coordination entity (MCE) determines a cluster to which a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message. The MCE receives a first session start message, which includes a temporary mobile group identity (TMGI), quality of services (QoS) parameters, and a list of cells, from a V2X application server and determines a cluster, which contains group of cells, to which V2X message is to be broadcast, based on the received TMGI, QoS parameters, and list of cells. Upon determining the cluster, the MCE transmits a second session start message, which includes an indication to notify eNodeB (eNB) to wait for scheduling information, to eNBs corresponding to the determined cluster, and transmits MBMS scheduling information to the eNBs. Further, update of the cluster may be triggered from the V2X application server or from the eNB with limited feedback.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method, in a first node, for performing Co MP-based resource allocation for a second node, the method comprising steps of: a. selecting at least one Co MP hypothesis from among a plurality of Co MP hypotheses based on measurement theses based on measurement information reported by a second node; b. transmitting a resource allocation request to the second node; c. receiving feedback information from the second node with response to the resource allocation request, and performing a corresponding operation. According to the method of the present embodiment, the CoMP transmission performance can be enhanced, and the second node has more freedom to select a CoMP hypothesis more suitable for the second node based on its own status.