Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method (20) performed in a communication device (2). The method (20) comprises obtaining (21) a policy comprising one or more rules associated with different values of a parameter, the parameter comprising a first part and a second part; receiving (22) the parameter; and applying (24, 26) a rule associated with a value of the first part of the parameter or a rule associated with a value of the second part of the parameter. The disclosure also relates to a corresponding method in a communication system (1), to a communication device (2), a communication system (1), computer programs and computer program products.

Abstract: Provided are an implementation method and device for a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) to access a Visual Fabric (VF) network, and a Fiber Channel over Ethernet Forwarder (FCF). The method includes that: a VF network and corresponding relationships between the VF network and plurality of VLANs needing to access are configured according to a preset rule; and the plurality of VLANs are associated to the same VF network according to the configured corresponding relationships, wherein terminals in different VLANs are allowed to perform data intercommunication.

Abstract: A method using energy harvesting including receiving, by a relay node, first information signals transmitted from a source node and second information signals transmitted from a destination node, harvesting, by the relay node, energy using energy signals transmitted from the source node while bi-directionally relaying the first information signals and the second information signals; receiving, by the source node, information signals transmitted by the relay node; and receiving, by the destination node, the information signals relayed by the relay node. The source node, the relay node, and the destination node are devices for performing communication in a full-duplex mode.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide an ARP-offload service node for several managed hardware forwarding elements (MHFEs) in a datacenter in order to offload ARP query processing by the MHFEs. The MHFEs are managed elements because one or more network controllers (e.g., one or more management servers) send configuration data to the MHFEs to configure their operations. In some of these embodiments, the network controllers configure the MHFEs to create logical forwarding elements (e.g., logical switches, logical routers, etc.) each of which can span two or more managed forwarding elements.

Abstract: For a managed network including multiple host machines implementing multiple logical networks, some embodiments provide a method that reduces the memory and traffic load required to implement the multiple logical networks. The method generates configuration data for each of multiple host machines including (i) data to configure a host machine to implement a set of logical forwarding elements that belong to a set of routing domains and (ii) identifiers for each routing domain in the set of routing domains. The method then receives data regarding tunnels endpoints operating on each of the host machines and an association with the routing identifiers sent to the host machines. The method then generates a routing domain tunnel endpoint list for each routing domain based on the data received from each of the host machines including a list of the tunnel endpoints associated with the routing domain which the host machines can use to facilitate packet processing.

Abstract: A switch unit for an Ethernet network having a switch and a microprocessor, the switch including at least three ports, which are connected to inputs and outputs of the switch unit, a signal detector and generator for detecting and initiating a bus activity being arranged in each case between the ports and the inputs and outputs of the switch unit. For each input and output an allocation rule to the other inputs and outputs of the switch unit is stored in a memory, the switch unit being designed such that when a bus activity is detected at a signal detector and generator, the assigned inputs and outputs of this input and output are read out from the memory and the associated signal detectors and generators are woken up so that they generate a bus activity at their inputs and outputs.

Abstract: A network apparatus for interconnecting heterogeneous networks and an interconnecting method thereof. The network apparatus includes a communicator configured to communicate with a heterogeneous network apparatus using the same frequency band, to communicate with the heterogeneous network apparatus through a gateway in a first communication mode, and to perform direct two-way communication with the heterogeneous network apparatus in a second communication mode; and a processor configured to determine a signal received through the communicator, and to determine a communication mode with the heterogeneous communication network.

Abstract: A hop-by-hop trust evaluation scheme (H-TEA) is disclosed that can be used to route a data packet between a set of network nodes in an identity anonymous wireless sensor network. The H-TEA scheme is a complete localized approach for each network node to determine a trustworthiness reputation of the data packet for routing without requiring a recommendation from another node or any historical information about the other node. In the H-TEA scheme, the trustworthiness reputation of the packet is evaluated based on one or more of four verification processes: a data quality verification process, a location verification process, a time verification process, and a travel direction verification process. The H-TEA scheme can be implemented to preform network data management and network data security in a wireless sensor network with a resource constraint and requires anonymity.

Abstract: A communication timing control method for a communication service system provided with wireless communication devices, a wireless network, and an upper server groups the wireless communication devices using device information including characteristics of a service provided to the wireless communication devices entering the communication service system via the wireless network, characteristics of communication data handled in an execution application for receiving the provided service, and transfer characteristics of the wireless communication devices receiving the provided service. Next, a group-specific communication timing is determined for the grouped wireless communication devices. Next, communication is performed on the basis of the determined communication timing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of configuring transmission data streams and a wireless communication system. A first wireless device of the wireless communication system determines a number of data streams for a second wireless device, under a condition that the first wireless device operates in a noncontiguous operation mode. Radio frequency (RF) units of the wireless devices are fully exploited, and the data rate between the first wireless device and the second wireless device is enhanced.

Abstract: A dynamic wireless multicast service system is described. A method includes transmitting in a first service area, multicast data using a first orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) resource block associated with first resource allocation control information in response to a first user request for a multicast service. The method includes providing the first resource allocation control information to a second user in the first service area in response to the second user requesting the multicast service. The method may include releasing the first OFDMA resource block in response to termination of the multicast service by all users in the first service area. The method may include transmitting in the first service area, unicast data using the first OFDMA resource block after the releasing.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a base station apparatus, a resource management method, and a data processing method. The base station apparatus includes: a remote active antenna unit configured to perform transmission and reception of a wireless signal to and from a terminal; and a central unit connected to the remote active antenna unit, configured to process a signal received from the terminal or a signal to be transferred to the terminal, and configured to transfer resource allocation information to the remote active antenna unit, in which the remote active antenna unit schedules a data and a resource for the terminal based on resource allocation information received from the central unit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method in a radio access controller in a first radio access network for providing access control in a wireless network comprising the first radio access network arranged to operate according to a first radio access technology and a second radio access network arranged to operate according to a second radio access technology. The method comprises the steps of receiving an access request (Si3, Si4) originating from a wireless device, said access request comprising wireless device related information including information related to a global cell identity; assessing (P4) the access request based on the received wireless device related information, a throughput related value for the first radio access technology and a throughput related value for the second radio access technology, and responding (Si5, Si6) to the access request based on the assessment.

Abstract: A device, a method and a user equipment (UE) for a wireless communication system, the device including: a UE parameters acquisition unit configured to obtain UE parameters from a UE; a master UE determination unit configured to determine a master UE on the basis of the proximity of the UE to a data stream center, as shown by the UE parameters, the master UE being connected to an associated infrastructure and being provided with functionalities to forward data and/or signaling to other UEs; a communication unit configured to transmit to UEs network control signaling including information relating to the master UE. The device makes possible dynamic network planning while taking account of both network capacity and user equity, thereby improving resource utilization rates.

Abstract: A UE is configured to function as a relay on behalf of a donor access node. The donor access node can dynamically adjust scheduling of resources to the relay UE based on a size of a buffer associated with the relay UE. The donor access node monitors a size of the buffer and, if the size exceeds a threshold, assigns a greater scheduling weight to the relay UE. Similarly, when the buffer size associated with the relay UE drops below a threshold, the scheduling weight may be lowered. The buffer may include any combination of a downlink buffer stored on the donor access node or an uplink buffer stored on the relay UE.

Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a method for operating a mobile station (MS) in a radio communication system (RAN). The method contains receiving first radio resource information for a transmission of first reference signals via a first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) being directed towards a first direction by at least one neighboring base station (BS1) of a serving base station (BS2) of the mobile station (MS) and at least second radio resource information for a transmission of at least second reference signals via at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . BM5-BS1) being directed towards at least one second direction by the at least one neighboring base station (BS1).

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method of controlling a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), and a CPE, in a cellular communications network, the cellular communications network having an overlapping coverage area with a Wireless Local Access Network, WLAN, the method including: receiving data relating to the WLAN and cellular communications networks; analyzing the received data; and configuring a downlink capacity of the cellular communications network based on the analysis of the received data.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method 100 performed in a broadcast multicast service center, BM-SC, node 10 for providing an on-request service to an end-user device 5. The method 100 comprises obtaining 101, from a content delivery node 4, the size of a file of the on-request service; determining (102), based on the obtained file size, one or more parameters related to encoding of the file, thereby establishing a virtual partitioning of the file into a number Z of source blocks; downloading 103, from the content delivery node 4, a source block of the file according to the determined one or more parameters; encoding 104 the source block of the file into encoding symbols according to the determined one or more parameters; and providing 105 the encoding symbols for delivery to the end-user device 5. The disclosure also relates to a BM-SC node 10, computer programs and computer program products.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method (200) in a first radio access node for obtaining neighboring cell information. The method comprises the steps of transmitting via an interface a radio access node request (Si2) for set-up information related to the neighboring cell to at least one second radio access node, and receiving a radio access node response (Si3) over the interface from said at least one second radio access node. The radio access node response (Si3) comprises set-up information including an indicator related to the neighboring cell's capability for uplink transmission. The present disclosure also relates to said first radio access node.

Abstract: The image predictive encoding device 10 comprises an intra frame predictive signal generation method determination section 15 which determines, for adjacent areas comprising regenerated pixel signals and adjacent to the target area, a predictive method which is derived on the basis of data corresponding to the adjacent areas as an R mode predictive method or an L mode predictive method, an intra frame predictive signal generation section 16 which generates an intra frame predictive signal on the basis of the R mode predictive method thus determined, and a subtractor 18, a transform section 19, a quantization section 20, and an entropy encoding section 25 which encode a residual signal of a pixel signal of the target area on the basis of the generated intra frame predictive signal.