Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to use of a neighbor list for wireless indoor navigation. The neighbor list may include related information regarding all neighboring access points (APs). The neighbor list can be transmitted, at least partially, to include the related information of a desired number of or all APs in the neighbor list from one AP to a wireless device. The neighbor list can be transmitted in a Neighbor Report Response (NRR) or a time-of-flight (ToF) Response and allow the wireless device to scan for minimal number of APs for ToF measurements. By using the neighbor list, power consumption and time can be significantly reduced during wireless indoor navigation.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for full-duplex millimeter wave mobile wireless communication are provided. The apparatus includes a Spatial Division Duple (SDD) mobile communication system using millimeter waves, the SDD mobile communication system including a first wireless terminal having a first transmit antenna array having a plurality of first transmit antennas for transmitting a spatially beamformed first transmit beam, and a first receive antenna array having a plurality of first receive antennas for forming a spatially beamformed first receive beam and a second wireless terminal including a second transmit antenna array having a plurality of second transmit antennas for transmitting a spatially beamformed second transmit beam directed towards a receive beam of the first wireless terminal, and a second receive antenna array having a plurality of second receive antennas for forming a spatially beamformed second receive beam directed toward the transmit beam of the first terminal.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires capability information on other communication apparatuses in a network. The determination unit determines, based on the capability information acquired by the acquisition unit, whether there is a communication apparatus having a specific function, related to data communication, to be performed after processing to set communication parameters is performed. The control unit perform controls, in response to the determination unit determining that there is a communication apparatus having the specific function, to continue the processing to set the communication parameters, and performs control, in response to the determination unit determining that there is no communication apparatus having the specific function, to terminate the processing to set the communication parameters.

Abstract: A method by which a terminal transmits a discovery signal for device-to-device communication in a wireless communication system is disclosed in the present application. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving one or more downlink signals; determining transmission power for transmitting the discovery signal on the basis of reference reception power of the one or more downlink signals; and transmitting the discovery signal on the basis of the determined transmission power, wherein the transmission power decreases as the reference reception power increases.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for carrying out HARQ action from a terminal operating in one of a plurality of link types, and to an apparatus for same, the method comprising the steps of: a first subframe (SF) receiving scheduling information; a second SF receiving data according to the scheduling information; and a third SF transmitting response information with respect to the data, wherein the first SF, the second SF, and the third SF correspond to a single HARQ process, a SF set which corresponds to the single HARQ process in a first link type comprises a plurality of SF subsets, and wherein each of the SF subsets corresponds to a single HARQ process in a second link type.

Abstract: In various embodiments, methods and systems for measuring load-balancer responsiveness in a cloud computing infrastructure are provided. A plurality of requests is transmitted to a data center virtual IP (VIP), where the data center VIP is configured to receive inbound traffic for a service. A load-balancing component associated with the VIP distributes the requests to a DIP pool comprised of one or more machines, each associated with a private direct IP (DIP). Each of the machines includes a DIP node-monitoring component including a keep-alive URL for receiving keep-alive probes and a dummy service URL for receiving the plurality of requests. A latency of exclusion or inclusion of a first DIP of a first machine in the DIP pool is determined based on at least some of the requests received by the DIP node-monitoring component from the load-balancing component.

Abstract: A method for encapsulating a packet of data from a data flow is described. The packet comprises a flow network header for identifying a source network address and a target destination network address and a flow transport network header for identifying a source port and a target destination port. The method comprises the following steps. The flow network header is replaced with an encapsulation network header for identifying an encapsulation network address and a decapsulation network address. The decapsulation network address specifies the address of a decapsulation node. The flow transport header is replaced with an encapsulation transport header for identifying an encapsulation port and a decapsulation port. The decapsulation port is configured to be the same as the target destination port. A method for decapsulating the encapsulated packet, as well as network nodes configured to implement the methods, are also described.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for cell reselection in a wireless communication system in which various radio access technologies (RATs) coexist with each other. In a wireless communication system in which heterogeneous networks coexist with each other, the method of cell reselection between heterogeneous networks for a user equipment may include: receiving a system information block (SIB) containing cell reselection parameters from a corresponding base station; checking whether cell reselection parameters based on a cell selection quality value (Squal) are configured in the received SIB; and performing, when cell reselection parameter based on Squal are not configured, cell reselection based on a cell selection receive level value (Srxlev). The present disclosure may prevent the user equipment from performing unnecessary cell reselection.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method is disclosed in which a device identifies a set of data stream rates for a plurality of data streams. A Huffman tree is constructed for data transmission time slots based on the set of data stream rates. A number of time slots assigned to a parent node in the tree are determined and evenly distributed to child nodes of the parent node, to assign the time slots to the data streams.

Abstract: An operation method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: applying de-prioritization to one or more frequencies in a de-prioritization frequency list; receiving a de-prioritization cancellation command from a network; and handling the applied de-prioritization on the basis of the de-prioritization cancellation command.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for data traffic optimization within a virtual environment. The method may be implemented within a data center hosting virtual machines and using virtual switches for routing data traffic. The method includes instructing a virtual switch associated with a virtual machine to redirect one or more data packets directed to or from a first address associated with the virtual machine to a second address associated with data optimization virtual machine, wherein the redirection is based at least in part on an access control list, receiving, at the data optimization virtual machine, the one or more data packets redirected by the virtual switch, selectively performing one or more transformations on the one or more data packets to create one or more transformed data packets, and transmitting the one or more transformed data packets to the first address.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method of performing scheduling for D2D multicast communication, which is performed by a base station in a wireless communication system, includes the steps of receiving channel state measurement information from each of D2D reception UEs belonging to one or more multicast groups, generating representative information on each of the one or more multicast groups based on the received channel state measurement information and average data transmission rate demand information of each of the D2D reception UEs, performing scheduling by assigning a sub channel on which the D2D multicast communication is to be performed to each of the one or more multicast groups based on the generated representative information and transmitting a scheduling signal including information on the assigned sub channel to each UE belonging to the one or more multicast groups.

Abstract: A base station (anchor node) determines that a channel quality for a UE is less than a threshold quality, and commands one or more base stations to adjust a periodicity of performing a beam sweep with the UE based on whether said channel quality is determined to be less than the threshold quality. A base station (mmW base station) adjusts a periodicity for performing a beam sweep with a UE based on a channel quality associated with the UE, and performs the beam sweep at the adjusted periodicity. The beam sweep is a plurality of transmissions of a beam in a plurality of different transmit spatial directions by one of the base station or the UE and a plurality of scans of the beam in a plurality of different scan spatial directions by an other of the one of the base station or the UE.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for performing MAC header compression in a wireless communication system. In a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention, a station STA may: receive information on assigning a plurality of association identifiers (AIDs) to the station STA from an access point (AP); receive, from the AP, a first frame including a medium access control (MAC) header that includes an address field set to one of the plurality of AIDs; and assign each of the plurality of AIDs by flow for the station STA.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method and device for transmitting a control signal, and a method for a terminal to transmit a control signal according to one embodiment of the present invention can comprise: a step for sensing a forced termination in a first subframe during active time; and a step in which if the forced termination is sensed and if, in a second subframe among a pre-set number of subframes after the first subframe, Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) transmission via a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) is set, and if neither one among Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback transmission and Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission is set in the second subframe, the CQI transmission is executed via the PUCCH. The embodiment of the present invention enables power consumption by the terminal to be reduced.

Abstract: The following is directed to control and data channel interference cancellation between a serving cell and interfering cell. A first symbol of a subframe is processed to determine a control span of a serving cell and a control span of an interfering cell. The interference is then cancelled based on the determined control spans.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method and device for transmitting a control signal, and a method for a terminal to transmit a control signal according to one embodiment of the present invention can comprise: a step for sensing a forced termination in a first subframe during active time; and a step in which if the forced termination is sensed and if, in a second subframe among a pre-set number of subframes after the first subframe, Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) transmission via a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) is set, and if neither one among Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback transmission and Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission is set in the second subframe, the CQI transmission is executed via the PUCCH. The embodiment of the present invention enables power consumption by the terminal to be reduced.

Abstract: This invention relates to a communication apparatus capable of facilitating a connection with a device in a network by using a discovery protocol for discovering a device in a network. After selecting a device based on pieces of device information transmitted from devices in the network in response to a search command to search devices in the network, the communication apparatus transmits a notification signal to notify devices in the network of the presence of the communication apparatus. If a connection request received from a device which has received the notification signal is one transmitted from the selected device, the communication apparatus transmits a response representing that connection is accepted for the connection request.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for transmitting small data payloads in a wireless communication network. An apparatus may include non-access stratum (NAS) circuitry configured to receive a trigger to send a data payload to a wireless communication network, the data payload having a size that is less than a preconfigured threshold, and generate a NAS message including the data payload and access stratum (AS) circuitry coupled with the NAS circuitry and configured to transmit the NAS message including the data payload to a node comprising a Mobility Management Entity (MME) or a Serving GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) Support Node (SGSN). Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting channel status information (CSI) of a user equipment (UE) in a carrier aggregation system. The method includes: receiving an uplink grant including a CSI request field from a base station (BS); and transmitting aperiodic CSI for a first serving cell, a first serving cell set or a second serving cell set according to a bit value of the CSI request field to the BS via the first serving cell.