Abstract: Provided is a method for receiving, by a terminal, a single-cell point-to-multipoint (SCPTM) service in a wireless communication system. The terminal receives a list of available SCPTM services from a serving cell, the list of available SCPTM services including SCPTM-RNTIs corresponding to the available SCPTM services. The terminal may store a SCPTM-RNTI corresponding to an interested SCPTM service among the received list of available SCPTM services and may receive the interested SCPTM service using the stored SCPTM-RNTI corresponding to the interested SCPTM service. Further, provided is a method for interrupting, by a terminal, reception of a SCPTM service in a wireless communication system. The terminal may determine whether or not to interrupt the reception of the SCPTM service from a serving cell, and when determining to interrupt the reception of the SCPTM service, may release the SCPTM-RNTI corresponding to the SCPTM service.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for establishing a voice conversation between a first user of a first telephone terminal and a second user of a second telephone terminal by using a current communication technique of a plurality of communication techniques supported by the first telephone terminal and the second telephone terminal, monitoring one or more quality indicators of the current communication technique, and switching the voice conversation from the current communication technique to a selected one of the other communication techniques different from the current communication techniques in response to a switching condition based on the quality indicators of the current communication technique and on one or more quality indicators of each one of the other communication techniques.

Abstract: Systems and methods for testing a wireless device under test (DUT) using over the air (OTA) channel emulation are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a system is disclosed for testing a wireless DUT having a DUT antenna array. The system includes a probe antenna array, a shielded test chamber, a radio channel emulator, and a wireless communication emulator. The probe antenna array is electrically coupled with the radio channel emulator, and the shielded test chamber is configured to position the DUT antenna array in a radiative near field region of the plurality of probe antennas. The wireless communication emulator is operatively coupled with the radio channel emulator and is configured to emulate an electrical coupling between at least one antenna port of the DUT and at least one radio channel model of the radio channel emulator.

Abstract: A 5th generation (5G) or a pre-5G communication system to support a higher data transmission rate than a system after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE) is provided. A method of determining a carrier sense threshold by one source terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes identifying whether one or more interferer terminals and one or more destination terminals exist for one source terminal, and if the terminals exist, determining a carrier sense threshold of each of the one or more interferer terminals and the one or more destination terminals based on an interference intensity received from the one or more destination terminals and a feedback link margin.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for detecting a fault condition in a network, making use of standard parameter data generated by a network termination device of a user of the network, the method comprising, in a training phase, the remote retrieval of selected parameters from a predetermined set of users' network termination devices in order to generate one or more representative models of expected operational status using the retrieved parameters and, in a monitoring phase, determining a measure of operational status for the set of users at some future time and comparing that with a corresponding expected model measure. Parameter retrieval takes place over substantially the same path through the network as used to supply services to a respective network termination device so that the models are generated in respect of communications over those elements of network infrastructure likely to affect operational status of the respective set of users in the event of a fault condition.

Abstract: A method for context-aware routing including receiving raw data; configuring a message handler with a routing table; determining data information flow with a remediation; utilizing a rule speed estimator and an orchestration speed; generating a selection signal with a resolution module to operate a selector to process the raw data; ordering the raw data with a sequencer to set a data processing order; processing the raw data; determining and sending a response message. A system for a context aware router involves service abstraction layers receiving input control signals; a router transforming the input control signals into message control signals; a rules interpretation component transforming the message control signals into rule control signals; a network abstraction layer receiving the message control signals and transforming the message control signals into a network control signal; and sending the network control signal to affect a machine state of one or more machines.

Abstract: A method for performing network allocation vector (NAV) operation by a station (STA) in a wireless LAN system, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a first frame; and configuring NAV in accordance with basic service set (BSS) of the first frame, wherein the first frame is other BSS (OBSS) frame. If a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) is lower the OBSS packet detection (PD) level, an STA drops the OBSS frame without configuration of the NAV. And if second frame transmission of another STA following the OBSS frame is scheduled, the STA can defer the OBSS frame drop even if the RSSI is lower than the OBSS PD level.

Abstract: Systems and methods relating to a cellular communications system having an architecture in which Serving Gateway (SGW) user plane functionality is separated from SGW control plane functionality are disclosed. In some embodiments, a cellular communications system having an architecture in which SGW user plane functionality is separated from SGW control plane functionality comprises a Serving Gateway Control plane entity (SGW-C) partitioned into a plurality of virtual SGW-Cs that correspond to a respective plurality of SGW User Plane (SGW-UP) service areas. The cellular communications system further comprises a plurality of SGW-UP pools each comprising one or more SGW User entities (SGW-Us), wherein each SGW-UP pool serves a respective one of the plurality of SGW-UP service areas. In this manner, the coordination problem between Tracking Areas (TAs) and the SGW-UP service areas is avoided.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to resolving out-of-sync uplink grants for communication in an unlicensed spectrum. For example, a user equipment (UE) may receive an uplink grant from a network entity on a downlink communication channel, wherein the uplink grant is associated with a system frame number (SFN). The UE may further determine, based on the SFN, that the uplink grant is out of order with one or more stored uplink grants within a queue. Additionally, the UE may insert the uplink grant in an ordered position within the queue relative to the one or more stored uplink grants.

Abstract: A stream at a source device may be transmitted over multiple channels. At the input of the channels the packets from the stream may be grouped into chunks. Informational packets may be appended to the chunks. The informational packets may include sequencing information for the chunks and packet-to-packet timing information. The chunks may then be distributed over the multiple channels. After transmission over the channels, the informational packets may be extracted from the chunks. Reconstruction circuitry, at the destination device, may determine the sequence of the chunks at the source device based on the sequencing information. The reconstruction circuitry may also determine relative timings of the packets within the single stream based on the packet-to-packet timing information. The packets may be released from buffers in accord with the determined packet-to-packet timing information and the sequencing information to recreate the relative timings within the single stream at the destination device.

Abstract: In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method for programming a network element to granularly track network traffic traversing through one or more network elements.

Abstract: A method of measuring interference by a user equipment in a wireless communication system includes receiving a first interference measurement resource configuration for a first downlink subframe set and a second interference measurement resource configuration for a second downlink subframe set, being used to configure interference measurement resource for one channel state estimation process, receiving a usage change message for changing a usage of a radio resource, determining validity of the interference measurement resource as valid if the interference measurement resource exists in a transient period when the usage of the radio resource is changed from downlink to uplink by the usage change message, or if the interference measurement resource exists after the transient period when the usage of the radio resource is changed from uplink to downlink by the usage change message, and measuring interference on the interference measurement resource if the interference measurement resource is determined as valid.

Abstract: A network apparatus for providing native load balancing, having: a first network interface to communicatively couple to a first network; a plurality of second network interfaces to communicatively couple to a second network; one or more logic elements providing a switching engine to provide network switching or routing; and one or more logic elements, including at least one hardware logic element, providing a load balancing engine to: load balance network traffic among a plurality of service nodes; probe a first service node with a first probe; and probe a second service node with a second probe, the second probe different in kind from the first probe.

Abstract: A system and a method for multimedia broadcast and multicast services is disclosed. The method comprises determining, by a multimedia services computing device, at least one of type of multimedia services and number of multimedia services subscribed by each UE of a plurality of UEs. The method further comprises, creating by the multimedia services system, one or more multicast groups of UEs based on a similarity between the at least one of type of multimedia services and the number of multimedia services subscribed by the each UE. Based on the one or more multicast groups the multimedia messages may be multicast or broadcast.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a first controller device in a first OpenFlow domain, a packet from an originating endpoint in the first OpenFlow domain destined for a destination endpoint in a second OpenFlow domain that is separate from the first OpenFlow domain; outputting, by the first controller device, a broadcast message identifying the destination endpoint to a plurality of respective controller devices associated with separate OpenFlow domains; receiving, by the first controller device, a response to the broadcast message from the destination endpoint via a second controller device associated with the second OpenFlow domain; updating, by the first controller device, a local flow table identifying a flow for transmitting the packet to the destination endpoint based on information included in the response; and transmitting, by the first controller device, the packet towards the destination endpoint based on updating the local flow table.

Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program for a transportation vehicle for vehicle-to-vehicle data communication by the transportation vehicle. The apparatus for vehicle-to-vehicle data communication by a transportation vehicle includes a first radio interface for the data communication of the transportation vehicle with a further transportation vehicle using a first data communication protocol and with a first transmission capacity; a second radio interface for the data communication of the transportation vehicle with the further transportation vehicle using a second data communication protocol and with a second transmission capacity, wherein the second transmission capacity is greater than the first transmission capacity; and a device for obtaining data messages about a status of transportation vehicles in surroundings of the transportation vehicle via the first radio interface.

Abstract: A base station according to a first aspect manages a cell in which a group including a plurality of user terminals exists. The base station comprises: a controller configured to instruct, if starting transmission of multicast data to the plurality of user terminals, each of the plurality of user terminals to activate a semi-persistent scheduling; and a transmitter configured to use the semi-persistent scheduling to transmit the multicast data to the plurality of user terminals via a physical downlink shared channel.

Abstract: A method performed by a network node for managing transmission of one or more CRS subframes. The network node identifies if a cell is actively serving a set of UEs. When the cell is actively serving a set of UEs, which set of UEs is configured for DRX the network node sends CRS over the first bandwidth in one or more CRS subframes which are transmitted in the cell during an onDuration interval of the DRX pattern and/or in one or more CRS subframes where system information is sent and/or in one or more CRS subframes where downlink, DL, data is sent. The network node sends CRS over a second bandwidth, in CRS subframes which are not transmitted in the cell during the onDuration interval of the DRX and/or in the one or more CRS subframes except CRS subframes where system information is sent and/or in the one or more CRS subframes except CRS subframes where DL data is sent, which second bandwidth is reduced in relation to the first bandwidth.

Abstract: A method at a client includes receiving data from a server at a first dynamic receive diversity antenna port, evaluating a data throughput of the data from the server, and selectively activating or deactivating a circuit coupled to a second dynamic receive diversity antenna port based on the data throughput.

Abstract: The invention relates to a technique for determining the presence of a peripheral device (23, 26) in a service area of a local network (2). The local network includes a gateway (20) for accessing a communications network (1) and at least one relay device (21, 24). The peripheral device and the relay device(s) are arranged to communicate with other devices via a radio-access network. The access gateway controls at least one relay device, so that the latter scans frequencies for accessing the radio-access network. When the relay device receives an announcement message from the peripheral device, said relay device transmits a notification of detection of the peripheral device to the access gateway. The peripheral device is then identified as being present in the service area.