Abstract: An apparatus and method for path creation element driven dynamic setup of forwarding adjacencies and explicit path. In one embodiment of the method, a node receives an instruction to create a tunnel between the node and another node. The node creates or initiates the creation of the tunnel in response to receiving the instruction, wherein the tunnel comprises a plurality of nodes in data communication between the node and the other node. The node maps a first identifier (ID) to information relating to the tunnel. The node advertises the first ID to other nodes in a network of nodes.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive information identifying a channel configuration associated with a downlink channel. The user equipment may identify a repetition configuration for the downlink channel based at least in part on the channel configuration. The user equipment may monitor for the downlink channel in accordance with the repetition configuration based at least in part on identifying the repetition configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A device-to-device (D2D) user equipment (UE) apparatus identifies at least first and second synchronization reference (SyncRef) UEs each satisfying a predetermined selection/reselection criterion with respect to the D2D UE, determines a measurement period in which to perform one or more measurements on the identified at least first and second SyncRef UEs, and performs the one or more measurements on each of the identified at least first and second SyncRef UEs during the determined measurement period.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, electronic device and computer-readable medium for processing data generated by a service. The method disclosed herein comprises: obtaining a data packet generated by a service; identifying whether the service generating the data packet is a predetermined service for which a routing path is to be set; in response to identifying that the service is the predetermined service, attaching an indication of the routing path to the data packet. In this way, the embodiments of the present disclosure can provide different routing paths for data packets generated by services, thereby increasing transfer efficiency of data packets.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for responding to RAN paging failures. One apparatus (300) includes a processor (302), a transmitter (310), and a receiver (312). The receiver (312) receives (702) an access network context release request including an indication of RAN paging failure. The processor (302) suspends (704) a protocol data unit session deactivation procedure and triggering core network paging in response to receiving the indication of RAN paging failure. In response to the core network paging failing, the processor (302) resumes (706) the protocol data unit session deactivation procedure. In response to the core network paging succeeding, the transmitter (310) transmits (708) an access network context establishment request to a target RAN. In response to receiving an access network context establishment response from the target RAN, the transmitter (310) transmits (710) a protocol data unit session modification request.

Abstract: Aspects of the present application provide mechanisms for minimizing latency in real time application (RTA) traffic on wireless LANs. A wireless electronic device identifies real time application network packets in the Application layer, gives them a novel MPDU frame type and subtype, and maps them into a high priority access category such as AC_VO. Upon receiving a TXOP, the device preferentially transmits RTA frames before frames mapped to the access category awarded the TXOP. Additional aspects allow for pre-emptive priority transmission of RTA frames.

Abstract: A communication method, a base station, a user equipment (UE), and a communications system. The method includes generating an uplink resource request message including identification information of a first UE, and sending, by the first UE, the uplink resource request message to a base station on a third time domain resource of a first subframe. The first subframe includes a first, second and third time domain resource, the first time domain resource of the first subframe is before the second time domain resource, the second time domain resource is before the third time domain resource, the first time domain resource is used to send first downlink control information, the second time domain resource is used to send downlink data, the first resource indication information indicates a first downlink resource used by base station to send the downlink data to a second UE.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wireless communication methods and apparatus. One example method is executed in a communications system including N cells, where at least two cells of the N cells perform wireless communication by using a same carrier set, the carrier set includes M carriers, the M carriers are divided into N time-frequency resource groups, the M time-frequency resources in a same time-frequency resource group are in a one-to-one correspondence with the M carriers, and time domain locations of time-frequency resources corresponding to a same carrier are different, N?2, and M?2. The example method includes determining, by a network device, a first time-frequency resource group from the N time-frequency resource groups, and performing, by the network device, wireless communication in a first cell of the N cells by using one or more time-frequency resources in the first time-frequency resource group.

Abstract: A terminal device can modify, through an RRC link providing a normal service, an RRC link in which an RLF or channel quality deterioration occurs, so that the terminal device maintains RRC links to at least two network devices, thereby ensuring RRC reliability while the failed RRC link or the RRC link whose channel quality is poor is replaced in time. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a first link modification request to a first network device through a first RRC link; receiving, by the terminal device, an RRC link modification message and a transmission parameter that are sent by the first network device through the first RRC link; and setting up, by the terminal device, a target RRC link to a target network device based on the transmission parameter, and maintaining both the target RRC link and the first RRC link.

Abstract: In a point to multipoint wireless communications system comprising a master station and a plurality of slave stations operating according to a time division multiplex protocol, a noise and interference level is measured associated with each frequency channels at each slave station, in a predetermined timeslot of the time division multiplex protocol. A histogram is generated of the noise and interference level measurements for each slave station for each frequency channel. A noise and interference level estimate is generated for each frequency channel for each slave station as a predetermined percentile of the respective histogram, and a respective single combined noise and interference level estimate is generated for each frequency channel from the estimates. One of the frequency channels is selected for use in subsequent transmission of frames of the time division multiplex protocol on the basis of the respective single combined noise and interference level estimates.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a user equipment context management method, apparatus, and device, and relates to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving, by a first control plane entity, a service request message of user equipment UE, where the service request message includes service information requested by the UE; obtaining location information of the UE, determining, based on the service information requested by the UE, a mobility level of a service requested by the UE, determining, based on the location information of the UE and the mobility level of the service, an effective range of a context of a network resource bearing the service of the UE, and managing the context based on the effective range of the context.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a wireless LAN (WLAN) transceiver configured to transmit and receive a WLAN signal; and a wake-up radio (WUR) receiver configured to receive a WUR signal. The WUR receiver is configured to receive a wake-up packet from a base wireless communication terminal and wakes-up the WLAN transceiver. A part of the WUR signal is transmitted by a modulation method different from a modulation method of the WLAN signal.

Abstract: The method includes: sending, by a first base station, a first message to a second base station, where the first message is used to request to add a data radio bearer DRB; receiving, by the first base station, a second message sent by the second base station, where the second message is used to indicate an identifier of at least one DRB; and sending, by the first base station, first information to user equipment, where the first information includes DRB configuration information, and the DRB configuration information includes the identifier of the at least one DRB. In the embodiments of this application, the first base station can add the DRB based on a radio resource management policy and a network condition of the first base station, to reconfigure a mapping relationship between a QoS flow and the DRB, so that setting of the DRB is more flexible and effective.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a resource indication method, user equipment, a network device, and a computer storage medium. The method includes selecting a target mapping relationship from at least two candidate mapping relationships, determining a size of a target resource block group according to a size range of a bandwidth part in the target mapping relationship, and allocating frequency domain resource according to the size of the target resource block group and first control information sent from a network side. The at least two candidate mapping relationships at least include a first mapping relationship and a second mapping relationship. In the first mapping relationship, a size range of each group of bandwidth parts is mapped to a different resource block group size. In the second mapping relationship, size ranges of at least two groups of bandwidth parts can be mapped to a same resource block group size.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for a network slice selector. From an electronic device, the method receives a connection initiation message for a connection between the electronic device and a network domain. The method exchanges a set of connection initiation messages with the electronic device to set up the connection. The method receives a data message belonging to the connection from the electronic device. The method selects one of multiple network slices to which the electronic device has access as the network slice for the connection based on analysis of the received data message. The method forwards the data message and subsequent data messages belonging to the connection onto the selected network slice to be delivered to the network domain.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a first network interface (NI) to receive data from a source; a second NI coupled to a target; and a circuitry to generate a sequence of source timestamps and a sequence of target timestamps, wherein the first NI is to receive the sequence of source timestamps, and associate a first source timestamp of the sequence of source timestamps with the data, and wherein the second NI is to receive: the data with the first source timestamp from the first NI and the sequence of target timestamps from the circuitry, the second NI to generate a timestamp for the data, based at least in part on the first source timestamp and a first target timestamp of the sequence of target timestamps.

Abstract: A base station communicates with a terminal, for which an uplink component carrier and downlink component carriers are configured. The base station adjusts a payload size of control information, transmitted in a downlink control channel, based on a basic payload size, and maps the control information onto a search space in at least one of the downlink component carriers. The basic payload size of the control information mapped onto a search space in a primary downlink component carrier is based on a number of information bits obtained from a bandwidth of the primary downlink component carrier, and on a number of information bits obtained from a bandwidth of the uplink component carrier. The basic payload size of the control information mapped onto a search space in a non-primary downlink component carrier is based on a number of information bits obtained from a bandwidth of the non-primary downlink component carrier.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus and a system for uplink information transmission relating to the field of communications. The method includes: transmitting, by a first access network device, first configuration information to a second access network device, where the first configuration information is used to indicate a resource in a target carrier, and the second access network device is configured to receive, in the resource, second uplink information transmitted by a terminal device; transmitting on a first carrier, by the first access network device, first downlink information to the terminal device based on a first communication protocol; receiving on the target carrier, by the first access network device, first uplink information transmitted by the terminal device.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may select, in a first time slot, a set of resources to use for transmission to another UE; evaluate, in a second time slot, whether one or more resources of the set of resources is available; and transmit, based on the one or more resources of the set of resources being available, information to the other UE in a third time slot and using the set of resources, or reselect, based on the one or more resources of the set of resources being unavailable, another resource for transmission of the information to the other UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A packet forwarding network may include switches that forward network packets between end hosts. A monitoring network may be coupled to the forwarding network. A controller may control switches in the monitoring network to forward network packets tapped from the forwarding network to network flow information generation circuitry. The controller may provide configuration information such as record description information to the network flow information generation circuitry. Based on the configuration information, the network flow information generation circuitry may dynamically generate instructions that generate network flow information records. A set of network flow information records may be stored in a repository at the network flow information generation circuitry. The repository may include hash values associated with each of the stored network flow information records.