Abstract: Disclosed is a 5G or a pre-5G communication system provided to support a higher data transmission rate than that of post-4G communication systems such as LTE. A method of operating a network node in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from at least one user plane function (UPF) instance, a registration request message including UPF profile information of the at least one UPF instance; storing the UPF profile information including UPF service support information for at least one UPF service supported by the at least one UPF instance; receiving, from a session management function (SMF) node, a UPF discovery request message including UPF service information; discovering one or more UPF instance based on the UPF profile information and the UPF service information; and transmitting, to the SMF node, UPF instance information for the one or more UPF instance.

Abstract: This disclosure invention relates to a method of operating a network node in a cellular telecommunications network, wherein the cellular telecommunications network further includes a first base station and a first User Equipment (UE), and the first UE is connected to the first base station by a first and second connection having resources associated with a first and second subscription, respectively, the method including determining that the first connection and second connection relate to the first and second subscription respectively; determining that the first connection and second connection relate to the first UE; monitoring a first resource usage of one or both of the first and second connections with the first UE; and initiating a handover of one or both of the first and second connections based on the first resource usage.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electronic device and method for a wireless communication system, and a storage medium. Various embodiments regarding beam management are described. In one embodiment, an electronic device for a terminal device side in a wireless communication system can comprise a processing circuit system. The processing circuit system can be configured to obtain random access configuration information, and send a random access preamble based on the random access configuration information, so as to indicate one or more transmission beams of a base station side, in a downlink, paired with one or more receiving beams at the terminal device side.

Abstract: A controller of a network, including routers to forward flows of packets originated at senders to receivers along distinct network paths each including multiple links, such that the flows merge at a common link that imposes a traffic bottleneck on the flows, receives from one or more of the routers router reports that each indicate an aggregate packet loss that represents an aggregate of packet losses experienced by each of the flows at the common link. The controller sends to the senders aggregate loss reports each including the aggregate packet loss so that the senders have common packet loss information for the common link on which to base decisions as to whether to switch from delay-based to loss-based congestion control modes when implementing dual-mode congestion control of the flows. In lieu of the controller, another example employs in-band router messages populated with packet losses by the routers the messages traverse.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Provided are a method and an apparatus for allocating V2X resources of an SN to a UE in a dual connectivity supporting network and also a method and an apparatus for controlling a dormant state of an SCell.

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a polymorphic algorithm service is provided. The service may coordinate and manage the execution of polymorphic algorithms of various optimization types in a multi-tier network, such as a radio access network or a self-organizing network. The service may coordinate the transition of execution of the polymorphic algorithms among the tiers of the multi-tier network, such that the polymorphic algorithm of a type may be active, for any given node, in a single tier of the multi-tier network. The service may monitor the yield of the optimizations based on various machine learning technologies, polices, and optimization targets. The polymorphic algorithms may operate in different time granularities in correspondence to the tiers of the multi-tier network.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a resource allocation method and a User Equipment (UE). The resource allocation method includes the following steps as configuring one or more resource pools, and sensing, by a UE, each configured resource pool to obtain a result of sensing, selecting, from a set of remaining candidate single time unit resources of each resource pool contained in the result of sensing, one candidate single time unit resource as a transmission resource, and transmitting, via the transmission resource, a packet to be transmitted which is borne by the transmission resource. The present disclosure also provides a method of sidelink communication performed by a control user equipment (CUE), which comprises determining transmission resources and reception resources for internal communication, transmitting data to member user equipments (MUEs) in the determined transmission resources, and receiving data from the MUEs in the determined reception resources.

Abstract: A wireless signal booster system and sensor processor for an IoT network is disclosed. An IoT Node contains one or more sensors, potentially a sensor processor or processing element and an IoT modem that can connect to the internet or a private IoT network to deliver data to an IoT hub application. The IoT node may also include one or more short range wireless links. The IoT node may communicate directly to a base station and through the base station be connected to the IoT network (which could be the Internet). Alternatively, the IoT node may connect to a base station through a repeater.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to probes with service set identifier (SSID). A device may determine one or more access points (APs) in an enterprise extended service set (ESS). The device may identify a probe request received from a first station device, wherein the probe request comprises a service set element, wherein the service set element comprises a variable number of service set fields based on a number of APs in the ESS. The device may determine that a service set that matches at least one of the service set fields in the service set element. The device may cause to send a probe response to the first station device in response to the probe request.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for flexible resource configuration for unicast vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in new radio access technology (NR) is provided. The wireless is configured with a monitoring channel busy ratio (CBR) threshold and an entering CBR threshold. While performing sidelink transmission in a first transmission mode by using a third resource pool among at least one first resource pool for the first transmission mode, the wireless device measures a CBR of the third resource pool, and monitors at least one second resource pool for a second transmission mode based on that the CBR of the third resource pool is higher than the monitoring CBR threshold. Upon satisfying a condition related to the entering CBR threshold, the wireless device can perform sidelink transmission in the first transmission mode by using both the third resource pool and a fourth resource pool among the at least second resource pool.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication device and a server communicably connected to the first wireless communication device. The server accumulates a plurality of optimized beam table, and selects therefrom an optimized beam table to be used by the first wireless communication device, and, the first wireless communication device obtains the optimized beam table selected by the server by communicating with the server, and performs a wireless communication using the obtained optimized beam table.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for non-contiguous resource units for wireless local-area networks (WLANs). An apparatus of an access point (AP) or station (STA) comprising processing circuitry configured to decode or encode a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU) in accordance with an aggregated (A) resource unit (RU)(A-RU) where the A-RU includes RUs, the RUs including tones that are contiguous, and where at least two of the RUs are non-contiguous with one another.

Abstract: A system and method for allocating network resources are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: determining a plurality of time slot resources contiguously allocated along a time domain, wherein a first subset of the plurality of time slot resources is assigned for receiving a first signal and a second subset of the plurality of time slot resources, contiguously allocated after the first subset of the plurality of time slot resources along the time domain, is assigned for receiving a second signal; and receiving the second signal transmitted in part of the first subset of the plurality of time slot resources.

Abstract: A 5G non-IP data delivery (NIDD) architecture is described including different options of data paths for non-IP data delivery through a 5G core network. A registration procedure is provided with new parameters for enabling the NIDD. Also, mechanisms are described for establishing a PDU session between a UE and SCS/AS for non-IP delivery. For example, the PDU session may pass through an AMF, SMF, and User Plane Function (UPF)/NEF. Additionally, methods of Mobile Originated (MO) and Mobile Terminated (MT) non-IP data transfer are described. Data buffering methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A wireless device (e.g., UE) and a method implemented by the wireless device are described herein where the wireless device is configured with resources for both Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) and short PUCCH (sPUCCH), and determines whether or not the sPUCCH performance is equal to the PUCCH performance, and based on a result of the determination applies a strategy for determining when to trigger a fallback where the strategy is based on a number of failed Scheduling Request (SR) transmissions to a wireless access node (e.g., eNB, eNodeB, ng-eNB, gNB). A wireless access node and method implemented by the wireless access node are also described herein.

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide a false grant detection service. An end device may receive downlink control information when in a discontinuous reception active state. The downlink control information may include a new downlink transmission grant or a new uplink transmission grant. When downlink data pertaining to the new downlink transmission grant is unsuccessfully decoded, the end device may identify the new downlink transmission grant as a potential false grant and invoke a verification procedure. Depending on the result of the verification procedure, the end device may or may not start a discontinuous reception inactivity timer depending on whether the potential false grant is deemed a false grant or a valid grant. Similarly, the end device may invoke a verification procedure for a new uplink transmission grant. The detection of false grants may minimize the waste of power for the end device.

Abstract: Systems and methods facilitating feedback of robust channel state information (CSI), such as to provide full CSI feedback or otherwise providing CSI feedback, are described. CSI encoders and/or decoders used by network nodes may implement channel compression/reconstruction based upon neural-network (NN) training of collected channels. A structured payload having an interpretable payload portion and an uninterpretable payload portion may utilized with respect to CSI feedback. The channel compression provided according to some aspects of the disclosure supports feedback of robust CSI, in some instances including full CSI, as determined by a particular network node. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: Various solutions for power consumption reduction with multi-link operation with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may establish a first link with a first network node. The apparatus may establish a second link with a second network node. The apparatus may receive a dormancy indication via a physical layer signaling from the first network node. The apparatus may transit a dormancy state of the second network node according to the dormancy indication.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and device for transmitting an uplink signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting an unlicensed band.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to DL control message monitoring are provided. A first wireless communication device monitors for a downlink control message from a base station during a first monitoring duration. Additionally, the first wireless communication device monitors for a network activity indication signal from the base station during the first monitoring duration. The first wireless communication device detects the network activity indication signal based on the monitoring of the network activity indication signal. The first wireless communication device switches from the first monitoring duration to a second monitoring duration for the monitoring of the downlink control message in response to detecting the network activity indication signal.