Abstract: The present disclosure provides a routing method and a routing device. The routing method includes: receiving, by an AMF, a first message from an (R)AN, the first message including session-related information and routing information associated with the session-related information; and routing, by the AMF, the session-related information to a relevant SMF in accordance with the routing information. According to the present disclosure, it is able to correctly route the session-related information between the (R)AN and the SMF.

Abstract: A method for allocating resources for device-to-device transmission between two or more user equipment (UEs) includes transmitting, from a first UE to a second UE, a resource allocation configuration for device-to-device communications. A resource request for a device-to-device transmission is received from the second UE. In response to the resource request, a resource for the device-to-device transmission is selected at the first UE. A resource grant is transmitted to the second UE. The resource grant identifies the selected resource. A device-to-device transmission is received from the second UE over the selected resource.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to enable the secure streaming of real-time location data between electronic devices. One embodiment provides for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to perform operations comprising creating record to specify a location streaming relationship between a first device registered with a first user account and a second device registered with a second online account, the record including a secret key. The record is stored to an online datastore and shared between the first user account and the second online account. The location data stream can be encrypted using the secret key stored in the record.

Abstract: A method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a User Equipment (UE) in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Inactive (RRC_Inactive) state, at least one packet to a base station, and receiving, by the UE in the RRC_Inactive state, an acknowledgement or non-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) message from the base station in response to the at least one packet transmitted by the UE.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to transmission prioritization in wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a wireless device in a wireless communication system comprises: configuring a threshold; creating a media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MAC PDU) for sidelink comprising a MAC control element (CE); setting a priority value to the MAC CE; identifying a transmission of the MAC PDU for sidelink and an uplink transmission to be performed; determining that the transmission of the MAC PDU for sidelink and the uplink transmission are not able to be performed simultaneously; determining that the priority value of the MAC CE is lower than the threshold; prioritizing the transmission of the MAC PDU for sidelink over the uplink transmission; and performing the transmission of the MAC PDU for sidelink that is prioritized over the UL transmission.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE initiates a Random Access (RA) procedure. The UE selects, from multiple carriers, a carrier for the RA procedure based on a measured Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP). The UE determines, based on the measured RSRP, whether or not to use a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) resource, associated with Message 3 (Msg3) repetition, for Message 1 (Msg1) transmission of the RA procedure, wherein the determination is performed after the selecting the carrier.

Abstract: The embodiments of the application relate to a resource scheduling method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes that: a first terminal device receives indication information and resource grant information from a network device, the resource grant information being to indicate a granted resource allocated to the first terminal device by the network device and the indication information being to indicate that the granted resource is configured to transmit data born on a target logical channel; and the first terminal device transmits the data born on the target logical channel to a second terminal device through the granted resource according to the indication information and the resource grant information. According to the resource scheduling method, terminal device and network device of the embodiments of the application, flexible configuration of a transmission resource for a terminal device in a special application scenario may be implemented.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for multi-carrier or multi-band utilization in an unlicensed wireless network. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods provide enhanced wireless services which provide enhanced bandwidth capability to 5G NR-U entities such as gNodeB and UE devices across two heterogeneous unlicensed bands having different medium access mechanism and protocols. In one variant, LBT (listen before talk) protocols are used to detect the presence or absence of users within the respective bands of interest. When two or more unoccupied carriers or bands are identified, aggregated operation is used ti enhance the downlink/uplink (DL/UL) transmission bandwidth for the device(s).

Abstract: Technologies for protocol-agnostic network packet segmentation includes determining whether a size of a payload of a network packet to be transmitted by the compute device exceeds a maximum size threshold and segmenting the payload into a plurality of segmented payloads if the size of the payload exceeds the maximum size of threshold. The payload may be segmented based on segmentation metadata associated with the network packet.

Abstract: A vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication method of a terminal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus using same method are provided. The method comprises: receiving a signal for setting a first mode and a second mode from a base station; performing V2X communication with another terminal according to the first mode; and, when a specific condition is satisfied, performing V2X communication with the another terminal according to the second mode or according to the first mode and the second mode, wherein the first mode is a mode for performing V2X communication using resources scheduled by the base station, and the second mode is a mode for performing V2X communication using resources determined by autonomous scheduling of the terminal.

Abstract: There are provided a wireless communication apparatus, method and system. The apparatus, at a first node, comprises: a transceiver, operative to transmit and/or receive radio signal; a circuitry, operative to measure one or more channel busy ratios for channel resource pools of the radio signal, and perform congestion control on the channel resource pools based on the measured channel busy ratios.

Abstract: A method for grouping a plurality of client stations in a wireless local area network is disclosed herein. An access point (AP) determines the channel correlation and a distance to the AP for each of the client stations. The AP selects a smaller subset of client stations that meet a threshold requirement determined based on the respective distances between the client stations and the AP.

Abstract: Provided herein is a system and method for a sensor system on a vehicle. The sensor system comprises sensors connected with one another in a daisy chain communication network. The sensor system further comprises a controller connected to at least one of the sensors. The controller is configured to operate the vehicle based on data from the sensors and to operate the daisy chain communication network.

Abstract: In various examples there is a telecommunications network access point of a telecommunications network in which the control plane is implemented using a data center comprising a plurality of interconnected computation nodes. The access point comprises a memory holding a log of encapsulated control messages the control messages being messages of a control protocol of the telecommunications network. The access point has a processor configured, for a control message to be sent by the access point to a node in the data center, to: generate a message identifier; encapsulate the control message in a packet of a communications protocol of the data center, add the message identifier to a header of the encapsulated control message; send the encapsulated control message to the node of the data center; and store a record of the encapsulated control message and node of the control plane in the log.

Abstract: Co-existence between an Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation system and a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system is achieved by generating a number of transmission beams for a first group of user equipment operating using LTE, and a second group of user equipment operating using the OTFS protocol, and transmitting a first group of data packets formatted according to the LTE protocol to the first group of user equipment and a second group of data packets formatted according to the OTFS protocol to the second group of user equipment. The transmissions are performed by precoding and modulating the first group of data packets according to an LTE modulation scheme, and precoding and modulating the second group of data packets according to an OTFS modulation scheme.

Abstract: An embodiment of a communication circuit for communicating data across an isolation barrier may include an input circuit to receive a plurality of input data channels, a framing circuit to frame an input data packet from the plurality of input data channels, an encoding circuit to select a characteristic of a data symbol to represent a plurality of bits of the framed input data packet, and a driver circuit to drive one or more data symbols representing the framed input data packet onto an isolator configured to communicate data across the isolation barrier. The encoding circuit may select an amplitude, frequency or phase of the data symbol from a plurality of predetermined amplitudes, frequencies or phases, to encode the plurality of bits as the selected amplitude, frequency or phase.

Abstract: In various examples there is a telecommunications network access point of a telecommunications network in which the control plane is implemented using a data center comprising a plurality of interconnected computation nodes. The access point comprises a memory holding a log of encapsulated control messages the control messages being messages of a control protocol of the telecommunications network. The access point has a processor configured, for a control message to be sent by the access point to a node in the data center, to: generate a message identifier; encapsulate the control message in a packet of a communications protocol of the data center, add the message identifier to a header of the encapsulated control message; send the encapsulated control message to the node of the data center; and store a record of the encapsulated control message and node of the control plane in the log.

Abstract: A method of reporting channel state information (CSI) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, includes receiving, from a base station (BS), first information on a set of CSI-reference signal resource element (CSI-RS RE) configurations and second information on a time resource configuration; obtaining CSI based on the first and the second information; and reporting, to the BS, the CSI, wherein the time resource configuration includes a CSI-RS periodicity commonly used for the CSI-RS RE configurations in the set.

Abstract: A method (30) and system (10) for controlling wireless local area network (WLAN) user quality in a multi-access point environment is provided. In order to ensure good quality of service/user experience in a multi-access point Wi-Fi™ setup in which a user roams with a station (14), the access points (11, 12) continuously or at intervals assess the wireless environment's quality and report to a control entity (13). The control entity (13) determines, from the assessment data, alternative target access points (11, 12) that could be used in case the link quality of a current connection between an access point (11) and the station (14) falls below a predefined value. The control entity (13) then instructs the access point (11) to actively disconnect the station (14) and selects a new target access point (12) to accept the stations (14) connection request.

Abstract: Provided are a monitoring method and terminal apparatus in an Internet-of-Vehicles system. The method comprises: a terminal apparatus generating instruction information on a media access control layer, the instruction information being configured to instruct the terminal apparatus to monitor, on a physical layer, at least one resource pool of one transmission duration; and the terminal apparatus sending to the physical layer the instruction information. In embodiments of the present invention, the terminal apparatus effectively improves a data transmission rate by means of selectively monitoring a resource pool (e.g., a resource pool of 1-ms TTI and a resource pool of a 0.5-ms TTI), thus reducing data transmission delay, and accordingly improving user experience.