Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink communication on a sidelink between the UE and another UE. The UE may transmit, on the sidelink, one or more feedback communications associated with the sidelink communication in a reporting period having a configurable periodicity and/or being configured to occupy an entire bandwidth of a resource pool configured for the sidelink. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: This application discloses a network handover method and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a first access network device, first session management information from a session management network element, where the first session management information is for requesting to set up a user plane tunnel for a voice service of a terminal device; and sending, by the first access network device, a handover request to a first mobility management network element based on the first session management information and a first condition, where the handover request is for handing over the terminal device from a first network to a second network, and the first condition includes that the voice service cannot be performed in the first network. This application is applicable to the field of communication technologies.

Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a method of synchronization of data packet transmission (P1, P2, P3) in a network (N), including and/or initiating the acts of: Receiving (S1), e.g. from a terminal device (T1, T2, T3) of the network (N), one or more data packets (P1, P2, P3) after a threshold time interval (tt) of a periodic transmission window (RT, BE), wherein the threshold time interval (tt) is arranged at the beginning of said periodic transmission window (RT, BE), and Forwarding (S2) the data packet (P1, P2, P3) in a subsequent transmission window (RT, BE), preferably directly after the transmission window in which the data packet (P1, P2, P3) was received, within the threshold time interval (tt) of the transmission window (RT, BE).

Abstract: Systems and methods include receiving one or more Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) advertisements from one or more peer nodes with information including any of traffic characterization information and traffic control information; and providing traffic to the EVPN and to the corresponding one or more peer nodes based on the information from the corresponding one or more peer nodes. The one or more EVPN advertisements can be in an EVPN Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) advertisement, and the EVPN NLRI can have Route Type 1 for the information to apply to an EVPN Instance (EVI) and the EVPN NLRI can have Route Type 2 for the information to apply to a specific customer node based on a Media Access Control (MAC).

Abstract: A transceiver for a wireless communication system for serving a plurality of user equipments is provided. A coverage area of the transceiver includes one zone or a plurality of zones, each zone having mapped thereto a resource pool. The transceiver is configured to signal to less than all user equipments assigned to a certain zone to return to the transceiver a zone occupancy report for the certain zone. The zone occupancy report indicates an occupancy status of the resource pool mapped to the certain zone.

Abstract: A method of identifying a failed egress path of a hardware forwarding element. The method detects an egress link failure in a data plane of the forwarding element. The method generates a link failure signal in the data plane identifying the failed egress link. The method generates a packet that includes the identification of the egress link based on the link failure signal. The method sets the status of the egress link to failed in the data plane based on the identification of the egress link in the generated packet.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network from a first station to a second station, wherein the first station comprises at least one buffer memory for storing data packets to be transmitted, the method comprising the steps of (a) the first station estimating the status of the at least one buffer memory, (b) the first station transmitting at least one buffer status packet representative of the buffer memory status, wherein the method further comprises (c) adapting the value of a first parameter of the buffer status packets on the basis of a data traffic characteristic.

Abstract: In an embodiment, an access point executes a Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) protocol to determine whether to begin transmission within a DRS Measurement Timing Configuration (DMTC) window. The access point transmits, based on a result of the execution, a multi-subframe DRS within the DMTC window, the multi-subframe DRS including a plurality of DRS subframes that each includes a plurality of symbols.

Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an access point in a wireless network so as to reduce congestion. The access point may have a transmitter capable of broadcasting a beacon indicating a channel over which the access point propagates wireless data. The channel broadcast by the access point may be optimized for future cooperative use of the channel with a second access point.

Abstract: A relay station configured to orbit a celestial body and configured to receive data from a population of devices arranged at the celestial body, the relay station and the devices configured to travel with respect to one another. The relay station includes a receiver configured to receive signals from the devices, the signals including a signal that is part of the signals, the signal including signal data in data packages that are at least part of the data. The relay station also includes a signal-processing device configured to receive the signal from the receiver and extract the signal data from the signal. The signal-processing device is configured to correct the signal for a positive Doppler shift or a negative Doppler shift. The relay station also includes a transmitter configured to transmit the signal data from the signal processing device to a server arranged remotely from the relay station at the celestial body.

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. A method of a terminal includes receiving packet duplication data radio bearer (DRB) configuration information from a base station, receiving a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) including information indicating whether packet duplication has been activated from the base station, and determining whether to activate a packet duplication bearer based on the packet duplication DRB configuration information and the MAC CE.

Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for reducing the size of packet headers without reducing the range of packet lengths supported. A packet header includes a fixed-width length field. Using a linear encoding, the maximum packet size is a linear function of the fixed-width length field. Thus, to expand the range of sizes available, either the granularity of the field must be decreased (e.g., by changing the measure of the field from flits to double-flits) or the size of the field must be increased (e.g., by changing the size of the field from 4 bits to 5 bits). However, by using a non-linear encoding, the difference between the minimum and maximum size can be increased without decreasing the granularity within a first range of field values and without increasing the size of the length field.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data processing methods and devices. One example method includes obtaining N correctly received radio link control (RLC) protocol data units (PDUs) in a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) PDU, and generating the PDCP PDU based on the N correctly received RLC PDUs, where the PDCP PDU includes M RLC PDUs, N and M are positive integers, and N<M.

Abstract: Nodes of a wireless network are automatically commissioned for communication. In this regard, the nodes of a wireless network are configured to recognize a primary network identifier and a default network identifier. A first node to be commissioned transmits a join request that includes the default network identifier. Neighboring nodes that receive the join request transmit a reply that includes network parameters, such as the primary network identifier, for enabling the first node to communicate on the wireless network. Thereafter, the first node uses such network parameters to communicate on the network.

Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus and a communication method that avoid mutual interference between networks. The communication apparatus includes a communication section and a control section. The communication section sends and receives wireless frames. The control section controls transmission and reception of frames. The control section controls transmission, to one or more target stations and with a transmission parameter (transmission power) specified for each target station, of a trigger frame that induces transmission of a transmission refrainment frame. The communication apparatus functions as a base station, and the control section selects, as target stations, one or more subordinate terminals to which a downlink signal is to be sent and controls the transmission of the trigger frame ahead of the transmission of the downlink signal.

Abstract: A user equipment and a method for controlling transmission of same in a wireless communication system are provided. The user equipment is configured to implement an access stratum (AS) layer. The method includes receiving, from an upper layer to the AS layer, a first indication and a second indication for a packet, wherein the first indication is configured to indicate whether to perform a packet data control protocol (PDCP) duplication, and the second indication is configured to indicate whether to use a release 15 feature and controlling the AS layer not to perform the PDCP duplication and controlling the AS layer not to use the release 15 feature when the first indication indicates to perform the PDCP duplication and the second indication indicates not to use the release 15 feature.

Abstract: A system for prediction of network quality in a wireless network. The system comprises at least one mobile communication device, at least one data prediction unit and a data collection unit. Furthermore, the at least one mobile communication device measures the network quality and transmits the measured network quality to the data collection unit. In addition to this, the at least one data prediction unit calculates prediction data with respect to the network quality based on data from the data collection unit.

Abstract: The disclosed technology describes on-demand adjusting of the quality of service (QoS) class identifier (QCI) relative weight settings for different QCI classes associated with user devices. A QoS controller, which can be implemented in a standalone or a cloud configuration, updates the QCI weight settings as requested or needed to deal with changing network environments, such as growing traffic, different RF conditions, new devices, ratio of different service classes of user devices, to improve the overall performance of one or more cell sites. In one implementation, the QoS controller collects actual network statistics, and runs simulations based on those statistics with different groups of candidate QCI weight settings to generate multiple result sets. The QoS controller evaluates the result sets to determine which group of QCI weight settings meets desired performance objectives, and then applies those QCI weight settings to one or more NodeBs for use with actual data traffic.

Abstract: A management device managing terminal devices includes a memory, a receiver, a controller, and a transmitter. The memory stores: area management information in which area specifying information specifying an area where the terminal device is positioned and area kind information indicating characteristic of the area are associated with each other; and memory management information in which the area kind information and memory setting information on memory regions for respective functions used by the terminal device are associated with each other. The receiver receives a request message including the area specifying information of one of the terminal devices. The controller specifies the area kind information corresponding to the one terminal device based on the request message and acquires the memory setting information corresponding to the specified area kind information from the memory. The transmitter transmits the acquired memory setting information to the one terminal device.

Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and wireless apparatuses are disclosed for virtual carrier sensing with two network allocation vectors (NAV). An apparatus of a wireless device is disclosed. The apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: determine a duration of a frame, determine whether the frame is an intra basic service set (Intra-BSS) frame, an inter-BSS frame, or an unclassified frame. The processing circuitry may be further configured to set an intra-BSS network allocation vector (NAV) to the duration of the frame, if the frame is determined to be the intra-BSS frame, and if a receiver address is decoded from the frame and the receiver address is not an address of the wireless device. The processing circuitry may be further configured to set a regular NAV to the duration of the frame, if the frame is determined to be the inter BSS frame or the unclassified frame.