Abstract: Base station devices 20 and 30 includes communication units 21 and 31 and control units 24 and 34. The communication units 21 and 31 communicate with the terminal devices 40 and 50. When at least one symbol included in a slot format configured in the terminal devices 40 and 50 is a symbol for communication other than sidelink communication, the control units 24 and 34 transmit, to the terminal devices 40 and 50, information for use by the terminal devices 40 and 50 as a symbol for sidelink communication with at least one symbol.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a method and a device, the method comprising the steps of acquiring message A including a PRACH preamble and a PUSCH, and transmitting message A, wherein the PUSCH includes a DM-RS related to a DM-RS sequence, and the DM-RS sequence is related to a RAPID of the PRACH preamble.

Abstract: A network device may receive a non-Internet protocol (non-IP) frame with a particular size and may compare the particular size to a maximum transmission unit (MTU) associated with a path between the network device and another network device. The network device may divide the non-IP frame into fragments, based on the particular size being greater than the MTU and may prepend generic fragmentation headers to the fragments to generate fragments with headers, based on the particular size being greater than the MTU. The network device may add generic fragmentation header labels and transport labels to the fragments with the headers to generate fragments with headers and labels, based on the particular size being greater than the MTU. The network device may transmit the fragments with the headers and the labels to the other network device, via the path, based on the particular size being greater than the MTU.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a network forwarding element that can be dynamically reconfigured to adjust its data message processing to stay within a desired operating temperature or power consumption range. In some embodiments, the network forwarding element includes (1) a data-plane forwarding circuit (“data plane”) to process data tuples associated with data messages received by the IC, and (2) a control-plane circuit (“control plane”) for configuring the data plane forwarding circuit. The data plane includes several data processing stages to process the data tuples. The data plane also includes an idle-signal injecting circuit that receives from the control plane configuration data that the control plane generates based on the IC's temperature. Based on the received configuration data, the idle-signal injecting circuit generates idle control signals for the data processing stages.

Abstract: A wireless communication system serves user functions to a wireless user device. The wireless communication system serves selects the user functions for the wireless user device. The wireless communication system selects User Plane Functions (UPFs) to serve the selected user functions. The wireless communication system selects data routes between the selected UPFs. At least one of the selected UPFs receives user data for the wireless user device. At least some of the selected UPFs route the user data among the selected UPFs based on the selected data routes. The selected UPFs serve the selected user functions to the user data for the wireless user device. At least one of the selected UPFs transfers at least some of user data to one or more external data systems. The user functions may comprise deep packet inspection, network border security, low-latency data transfer, high-throughput data transfer, data cryptography, and/or another data service.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatuses for controlling a mode of operation of a wireless device. A method in a base station comprises receiving, from a core network node, a first indication of a level of pending signalling or user plane data to be transmitted to the wireless device; and based on the first indication, controlling the mode of operation of the wireless device.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method for minimizing network traffic and maintaining synchronous state information between systems.

Abstract: A secondary cell activation method and apparatus relating to the communications field are described herein. The method may include sending, by an access network device, an activation command to a terminal device, where the activation command indicates activating a secondary cell. The method may also include sending, by the access network device, first configuration information of a first reference signal to the terminal device. Furthermore, the method may include sending, by the access network device, the first reference signal to the terminal device according to the first configuration information, where the first reference signal is used to obtain a channel measurement result of the secondary cell. According to secondary cell activation methods described herein, a flexible and efficient secondary cell activation mechanism can be provided, so as to improve secondary cell activation efficiency.

Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for data channel mapping type and demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) configuration to enable a physical layer (L1) crosslink interference (CLI) measurement and reporting. Some embodiments are direct to a method of operating a base station (BS), where the method can include generating, by the BS, a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS), determining, by the BS, a position of the DM-RS in a first transmission slot, transmitting, by the BS, the DM-RS to a UE based on the determined position in the first transmission slot, processing, by the BS, a crosslink interference (CLI) measurement fed back based on the DM-RS, wherein the CLI measurement fed back is in a channel state information (CSI) report, and performing, by the BS, a CLI mitigation based on the CLI measurement.

Abstract: A wireless communication method, a receiving-end device, and a sending-end device are provided. When the sending-end device transmits data to at least two receiving-end devices, the at least two receiving-end devices may implement acknowledgement feedback, and the sending-end device may implement HARQ transmission. The wireless communication method includes: a receiving-end device receiving a first control channel sent by a sending-end device, wherein the first control channel is used to schedule a first data channel, the first data channel is used to transmit a first transmission block, the first transmission block includes information sent to the at least two receiving-end devices, and the at least two receiving-end devices include the receiving-end device; and the receiving-end device determining a first control resource, wherein the first control resource is used to transmit feedback information corresponding to the first transmission block in the first data channel.

Abstract: A computer executed process can be configured to identify a network traffic flow of a source network device. The process can select a traffic fidelity rate from a plurality of traffic fidelity rates for sending information regarding the network traffic flow to a digital twin device corresponding to the source network device. The process can transmit the information regarding the network traffic flow to the digital twin device according to the traffic fidelity rate. The digital twin device can be configured to replicate at least one operation of the source network device with respect to the network traffic flow.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for encoding and decoding multiplexed video signals to de-jitter the content. A first de-jitter operation is performed on incoming signals and a second de-jitter operation is performed on PCR modified outbound packetized signals after sequencing of the packetized signals has been determined. In one case the second de-jitter operation can be performed using a PLL that is based, at least in part, on the output hardware limitations.

Abstract: A smart network interface card (smartNIC) may receive first traffic for a first process configured with a first bandwidth limit. The smartNIC may receive second traffic for a second process configured with a second bandwidth limit, the second bandwidth limit corresponding to a larger value between a second transmit limit and a second receive limit associated with the second process. The smartNIC may queue the received traffic associated with the first process and the second process in a scheduler, the scheduler having a first set of queues configured to store traffic from the first process, and a second set of queues configured to store traffic from the second process. The smartNIC may forward queued traffic from the first set of queues or the second set of queues, a maximum amount of forwarded first process traffic corresponding to the first bandwidth limit minus an amount of forwarded second process traffic.

Abstract: A method of selecting an egress interface for a source process running on an electronic device is provided. The device implements a TCP/IP stack utilized by a plurality of applications for sending network packets. The method receives a packet from a particular application in the plurality of applications to send to a network destination over a socket tagged with an identifier of the particular application. The method compares the socket tag with a set of network egress interface tags. Each network egress interface tag is associated with a network egress interface in a plurality of network egress interfaces. Each network egress interface tag includes the identifier of an application that utilizes the network egress interface. The method selects a network egress interface with a tag that matches the socket tag. The method sends the packet to the network destination through the selected network egress interface.

Abstract: The invention refers to a method in a user equipment, UE (200), for handling radio link failures, wherein the UE is connected to a radio communication network by means of a plurality of uplink, UL, carriers (220, 230), comprising: monitoring (S41) retransmissions of radio link control, RLC, data packets for at least two of the plurality of UL carriers, determining (S42) a failure of RLC data packet transmissions with respect to one of the UL carriers, and providing (S43) an information indicative of the failure and said UL carrier; the invention further refers to a method in the UE (200), for handling radio link failures, wherein the UE is connected to a radio communication network by means of a plurality of UL carriers (210, 220, 230), comprising performing (S61) retransmissions of a certain RLC data packet on at least two of the plurality of UL carriers, monitoring (S62) retransmissions of a radio link control, RLC, data packet commonly for bthe at least two UL carriers, and providing (S63) an information i

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a paging early indication (PEI) indicating whether at least one UE in a UE group or a UE sub-group including the UE is to be paged in a paging occasion. In some aspects, a sequence on which the PEI is based is a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)-based sequence. In some aspects, the PEI is a sequence-based PEI and is received based at least in part on a sequence configuration configured on the UE. In some aspects, the PEI is a sequence-based PEI and is received based at least in part on a distributed resource block allocation associated with the sequence. The UE may selectively process a paging PDCCH associated with the paging occasion based at least in part on the PEI. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: An infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network is configured to act as a first relay node by determining an allocation of a first set of communications resources by the infrastructure equipment acting as a first relay node for another infrastructure equipment acting as a second relay node, the communications resources for transmitting uplink data from a first communications device to an infrastructure equipment connected to a core network part of the wireless communications network acting as a donor node, the allocation of the first set of communications resources for the other infrastructure equipment acting as the second relay node being based upon a donor set of communications resources allocated by the donor node for communicating the uplink data from the first communications device to the donor node via the infrastructure equipment acting as the first relay node.

Abstract: Proposed is a method for transmitting a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble in a wireless communication system. Specifically, a method performed by user equipment (UE) comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, setting information including a first power ramping step for a two-step random access channel (RACH) and a second power ramping step for a four-step RACH; transmitting, to the base station, information including a first preamble and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for a two-step RACH on the basis of the first power ramping step; and transmitting, to the base station, a second preamble for a four-step RACH by using the second power ramping step, on the basis of the number of retransmissions of the information exceeding a maximum number of retransmissions associated with a preset two-step RACH.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques, systems, apparatuses, and methods of wireless communication. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, by a first communications node to a second communications node, a set of information for transmission of reference signals or channels, wherein the set of information includes: timing information related to a transmission timing of the reference signals or channels, timing information related to when an antenna group or a group of reference signals and/or channels related to the antenna group is activated, or an identification of one or more antenna groups associated with the reference signals or channels.

Abstract: A clock circuit is provided for clocking a high-speed data communication interface. The interface has (N) lanes. The clock circuit includes a triangle wave generator, N clock generators, and N lane FIFOs. The triangle wave generator provides P phase outputs, wherein P is greater than or equal to N. Each clock generator receives an associated one of the phase outputs and generates a clock signal having a frequency based upon the phase output. Each FIFO receives data and an associated one of the clock signals, and provides the data at a clock frequency associated with the associated clock signal.