Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and calculators for configuring traffic allocations for service classes with different Quality of Service (QoS) in a router. Example embodiments involve setting allocations at a router based on traffic rate values and/or traffic weight values provided by a user. The router may monitor actual traffic rates to ensure that traffic is not being dropped due to improper rate allocations and to provide historical data for optimizing traffic allocations. In addition, the router may automatically adjust traffic allocations to avoid dropping high(er) priority traffic. The router may also transmit alarms to the user and/or to other network devices to prompt traffic re-routing and/or re-allocation of traffic rates. Example methods and apparatus ensure appropriate traffic allocation to meet certain QoS metrics.

Abstract: Creating an Ethernet network, within an existing MPLS network, for one or more specified traffic services by selecting in the MPLS network one or more bidirectional non-disjoint LSPs between dual-enabled nodes, presenting these LSPs as Ethernet-enabled links, deploying over them an Ethernet protocol and forwarding there-along dedicated Ethernet over MPLS packets according to Ethernet forwarding rules regardless any MPLS labels except for a predetermined dedicated LSP label.

Abstract: A request to add or remove a leaf node to a multicast group in a Point-to-Multipoint Label Switched Path is detected, and the leaf node can select a pre-configured tunnel in accordance with the requested multicast group. The leaf node encapsulates the received request and transmits it through the selected pre-configured tunnel. A root node for the multicast group receives the request through the tunnel and can identify the leaf node responsible for transmitting the message by the tunnel header. The root can determine if a Point-to-Multipoint Label Switched Path exists for the request multicast group and can update the membership of the multicast group by adding or removing the leaf node to the multicast group.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for semi-centralized routing. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method receives a network protocol packet at a router adapted for routing data packets to one or more additional routers. The network protocol packet conforms to a routing protocol that provides distributed routing computation. The method also sends the network protocol packet, through a controller, to a selected one of a plurality of route control servers. The method also processes the network control packet at the selected route control server to generate a routing computation result that conforms to the routing protocol. The method also generates routing information based on the routing computation. The routing information conforms to a control protocol that provides centralized routing computation. The method also sends the routing information to the router for routing of data packets based on the control protocol.

Abstract: Systems and methods for designing, using, and/or implementing superframe coordination in beacon-enabled networks are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include implementing a Media Access Control (MAC) superframe using a communication device. The MAC superframe may include a plurality of beacon slots, a plurality of Contention Access Period (CAP) slots following the plurality of beacon slots, a Contention Free Period (CFP) poll access slot following the plurality of CAP slots, a CFP slot following the CFP poll access slot, an inactivity period following the CFP slot, a beacon region following the inactivity period, and a communication slot following the beacon region. The method may also include communicating with another communication device using the MAC superframe.

Abstract: A method is provided for direct communications between members of at least one communication group of wireless entities, in which two communication groups are provided. A first group that has at least two wireless entities of an identical type, and a second group that has at least one wireless entity. A time slot is allocated in a frame belonging to a frame-based protocol for use by members of the first group to exchange direct communications between each other. The same time slot is used by at least one wireless entity of the second group to exchange non-direct communications in accordance with the frame-based protocol, or direct communication with one or more wireless entities of second group. Within the time slot, frequency resources within the same frequency channel are allocated to each of the two communication groups.

Abstract: Meeting and conferencing systems and methods are implemented in a variety of manners. Consistent with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for operating an audio conference system that includes at least one logic circuit and a caller interface involves receiving incoming telephony calls at the caller interface. A logic circuit is used to authenticate incoming telephony calls. Menu options are provided to authenticated, incoming telephony calls. In response to a selection of the menu options, an incoming telephony call is prompted to select a callback number. The logic circuit monitors for a trigger event. A participant is called back using the selected call back number in response to detecting the trigger event. The called-back participant is then placed into a conference.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for running a network, in particular an Ethernet network with redundancy properties, wherein the network has a ring network topology, in which network devices are connected to each other with the data ports thereof via data lines and exchange control data and user data by means of protocols via the data lines, wherein the protocols prevent the transmission of network traffic via certain data ports of individual network devices with the exception of network traffic for controlling and/or monitoring the media redundancy, in order to avoid an endless circulation of network traffic in physical loops of the network, wherein it is provided according to the invention that at least two different protocols are executed parallel to each other in the network on the network devices, wherein the parallel operation of the at least two redundancy protocols is enabled by the fact that the control over the data ports to be blocked is assigned to an individual redundancy, or the parameters for

Abstract: A gateway device connects a packet transfer device on a mobile high-speed network and a radio network controller on a mobile circuit-switched network via an IMS network, and if the gateway device receives from the packet transfer device a request signal for changing a bit rate of audio, the gateway device converts an audio compressed-and-encoded bit stream, stored in a packet transmitted from the packet transfer device or the radio network controller, into a bit rate requested in the request signal and transmits the converted bit stream to the radio network controller or the packet transfer device.

Abstract: A user equipment UE reports its UE-specific channel quality to the network. The network uses this to narrow a search space in which the UE looks for its downlink control signaling. In one embodiment the search space is defined by downlink signaling the network sends. The width of the search space may also select between types of downlink control signaling (for example, between PDCCH and E-PDCCH). In the specific examples described the poorest channel qualities result in the whole-bandwidth PDCCH being used while better channel qualities result in progressively narrower search spaces to look for an E-PDCCH.

Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes identifying handover from a source eNodeB (eNB) to a target eNB or reestablishment with a subsequent eNB after losing connection with an initial eNB. Time-domain measurement resource restrictions for the UE are identified. The time-domain measurement resource restriction for the UE is released in connection with identifying the handover or the reestablishment.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing layer-2 extension services through a non-routed ground segment network, are described. The method includes providing a Layer-2 (L2) interface between a node of the non-routed ground segment network and a service provider, assigning a virtual tagging tuple to the service provider and receiving service provider traffic at a node of the non-routed ground segment network. The method further includes tagging the service provider traffic with the virtual tagging tuple, and switching the tagged service provider traffic through the non-routed ground segment network according to the virtual tagging tuple.

Abstract: A novel and useful hitless node insertion mechanism for configuring a new node to be inserted into an Ethernet network. The mechanism comprises pre-configuring the new node into a partially configured state, disconnecting a network link where the new node is to be inserted and connecting the new node to at least one end of the disconnected link. All data traffic received from neighboring nodes is then blocked and fake signal failure (SF) messages are generated and sent if Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP) messages are detected. An in-band management port is then selected and a configuration from a Network Management System (NMS) is received. Once configuration of the said new node is complete, the new node is set to a fully configured state.

Abstract: A wireless device receives control messages from a first base station. The control messages configure measurement parameters and triggers measurements of channel state information for a subset of carriers. The control messages configure an uplink transmission resource, physical uplink channel format, and a list of carriers. The wireless device measures and transmits the channel state information for each active carrier in the list of carriers. The wireless device simultaneously receives signals from a subset of carriers belonging to at least two base stations or belonging to at least two sectors of the first base station.

Abstract: A message sending method is provided, which includes: obtaining route feature information of a user, and sending a request of the user, where the request is data in an Efficient Extensible Markup Language (XML) Interchange (EXI) format, and the route feature information is carried in a header of the data in the EXI format. A message processing method, a client, a router, and a message processing system are further provided. Through preceding technical solutions, a user request message is routed according to route feature information in an EXI header, thereby reducing a system overhead and improving a distribution processing efficiency.

Abstract: High-speed processing of packets to, and from, a virtualization environment can be provided while utilizing hardware-based segmentation offload and other such functionality. A hardware vendor such as a network interface card (NIC) manufacturer can enable the hardware to support open and proprietary stateless tunneling in conjunction with a protocol such as single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) in order to implement a virtualized overlay network. The hardware can utilize various rules, for example, that can be used by the NIC to perform certain actions, such as to encapsulate egress packets and decapsulate packets.

Abstract: A method of handling a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The mobile device is a low priority device or a machine type communication (MTC) device. The method comprises the mobile device sending an indicator to a network of the wireless communication system during a combined attach procedure, wherein the combined attach procedure comprises a circuit-switched (CS) attach procedure and a packet-switched (PS) attach procedure; and the network forwarding the indicator to a switching center of the wireless communication system.

Abstract: A communication network apparatus and method for routing communication signals from a source device to a receiving device. The apparatus performs only local processing on communication signals to thereby increase the speed of processing the signals. A plurality of the processing nodes is combined into a plurality of sub-networks that comprise the network apparatus. Each processing node of a sub-network need only process address information pertaining to the node's current layer, one layer above it, if any, and one layer below it, if any. Additionally, each processing node has associated communication signal frequencies/wavelengths that identify the processing node as the intended recipient of the communication signal.

Abstract: A path control method includes a procedure for developing a path control message including regional information in transmission on the network. The regional information designates a path and/or a path length for transmitting the path control message. The path control message includes a regional property for instructing each node as to how to process the regional information either in a strict manner or in a flexible manner. With reference to the regional information and/or the regional property, each node is capable of selecting a destination node to which the path control message is to be transmitted, stopping the further transmission of the path control message, or discarding the path control message.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of transmitting a first segment of data via a data network from a transmitting unit having a first data transmission rate to a first destination having a first data reception rate. Where the first data transmission rate is larger than the first data reception rate, the method comprising: effectively reducing the first transmission rate from the transmitting unit to the first destination by switching between transmitting at least a part of the first segment as one or more data packets to the first destination in a direction only from the transmitting unit to the first destination, and transmitting at least a part of second segment as one or more data packets to one or more additional destinations in a direction only from the transmitting unit to the one or more additional destinations, the switching being repeated until said first segment and/or at least said second segment has been transmitted.