Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing handover time includes a wireless transmit receive unit receiving cell specific information in a downlink signal. The downlink signal is one of a set of signals included in a handover process.

Abstract: Various systems and methods for providing a proximity measurement system are provided herein. A proximity measurement system includes: a user tracking service to calculate a travel area of a user, the travel area representing an area that the user has traveled within during a period of time, a proximity service to: identify a reminder task created by the user, the reminder task having an associated point of interest; identify a plurality of geographical locations of the point of interest; and calculate an effective proximity measure based on the travel area of the user and the plurality of geographical locations; and a notification service to transmit a notification to the user when the user is within the effective proximity measure of any one of the plurality of geographical locations.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an information processing method and a coding apparatus. An information bit sequence includes a K-bit information block. The information bit sequence is to be processed into an encoded bit sequence with a target code length M, M>1024. For a given code rate R, when the length K of the information block is greater than a preset threshold, the information bit sequence is segmented into two or more segments. Each segment is polar encoded into an encoded subsequence. The encoded subsequence has a length that equals to a mother code length Ni, and i=1, 2, . . . , p. Each of the p encoded subsequences is rate matched to obtain a rate-matched encoded subsequence. A rate-matched encoded subsequence i of the p rate-matched encoded subsequences has a code length Mi. The p rate-matched encoded subsequences are concatenated into an encoded bit sequence which has a code length M.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method of performing automated administrative operations on a mobile device. The mobile device user may be unaware of any updates or other administrative operations being performed. One example method may include detecting that an event has occurred, interrupting a previously executed program, initiating a new program different from the previously executed program to perform a new function and notifying an application of the program interruption. The message may be a SMS type message.

Abstract: The technology disclosed herein enables the automatic discovery of MTU size across a software defined network (SDN). In a particular embodiment, a method provides, in a management plane of the SDN, receiving a first MTU request from a first endpoint of the SDN that indicates a second endpoint of the SDN to which the first endpoint will transfer first data. The method further provides tracing a first path through the SDN for the first data between the first endpoint and the second endpoint, determining the smallest MTU along the first path, and setting a first MTU to a value less than or equal to the smallest MTU along the first path. The method also includes providing the first MTU to the first endpoint.

Abstract: Disclosed is a group trigger method, apparatus, and system. In embodiments of the present invention, the group trigger system includes: an interworking function (IWF) entity, configured to send a trigger delivery request to an entity that has a trigger function; and the entity that has a trigger function, configured to, after receiving the trigger delivery request sent by the IWF entity, return a trigger delivery acknowledgement message to the IWF entity, and delivers, according to the trigger delivery request, an acquired group trigger payload to a user equipment UE. The entity that has a group trigger function delivers the group trigger payload to the UE, so as to effectively implement group trigger, avoid point-to-point trigger, and save system resources.

Abstract: Disclosed is a retransmitted data reception method comprising the steps of: receiving a first data packet from a base station through a first DU group including one or more DUs; receiving a second data packet, which is retransmitted for the first data packet, through a second DU group including another one or more of the DUs; and combining the first data packet and the second data packet so as to decode the combined data packet, wherein control information corresponding to the second data packet includes an HARQ process ID for notifying that the second data packet is retransmitted for the first data packet.

Abstract: A communication apparatus performs control to recognize another communication apparatus joining a cluster based on neighbor awareness networking, determines a wireless communication state about a wireless network different from the neighbor awareness networking in the communication apparatus, and switches, based on a determination result, whether to perform the control.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a base station to trigger transmissions of sounding reference signals (SRS) from one or multiple user equipments (UEs) on one or multiple cells and for a UE to determine a power, a time instance, and other parameters for SRS transmissions in response to the triggering. A SRS transmission can be on a cell where a UE is not configured to transmit data or control information.

Abstract: A computing device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a message from a user equipment (UE) device via a Mobility Management Entity (MME), wherein the computing device is configured as a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF) device. The processor may be further configured to identify an application server associated with the message based on one or more application server identifiers included in the received message; map uplink data, included in the received message and associated with the identified application server, to an application programming interface (API) associated with the identified application server; and send the mapped uplink data to the identified application server using the API associated with the identified application server.

Abstract: An agent is configured to receive queries from an application server in a communication network. The queries are directed to one or more devices in the communication network. The agent selects a communication path for a device from a plurality of communication paths from the application server to the device. The communication path is selected based on a data size that is to be sent to the device as part of the query, a number of devices that are to receive the query, or a combination thereof. The agent transmits the query via the selected communication path. The communication path can be selected based on one or more of a time criticality of the query, a subscription class of a user of the device, a category of a type of the device, an operator-defined influence factor, network conditions along the communication path, a broadcast flag in the query, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: Provided herein are system, methods and computer readable storage media in facilitating the determination of a location of at least one mobile device. In providing such functionality, the system may be configured to, for example, receive contextual data corresponding to a contextual state of a mobile device, determine the location of a mobile device, and transmit the location of the mobile device to at least one other mobile device.

Abstract: A mobile or transportable device for radio communications includes at least one antenna; a radio operating component coupled with the at least one antenna for receiving and/or transmitting radio signals; a database containing radio communication parameters of fixed location radio communication facilities; a location determining component for determining its current location; and a computer component coupled with the radio operating component, the database and the location determining component, configured such that when a radio signal received by the radio operating component from one of the fixed location radio communication facilities is weaker than a threshold value, the computer component searches the database to find radio communication parameters of a fixed location radio communication facility that is the closest radio communication facility to the current location, and operably retunes the mobile or transportable device according to the radio communication parameters of the closest radio communication

Abstract: A method for failure recovery in a virtual network environment including a virtual network having virtual nodes and virtual links mapped onto substrate nodes and substrate paths, respectively, of a substrate network, the method comprising, in response to an indication of failure of at least one substrate node in the substrate network: re-mapping a virtual node mapped to a failed substrate node to a selected substrate node other than the failed substrate node; and re-mapping a virtual link mapped to a substrate path that involves the failed substrate node to a substrate path that does not involve the failed substrate node; wherein the re-mapping is carried out to achieve at least one re-mapping objective.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for determining presence of narrowband reference signals (NRSs) in non-anchor physical resource blocks (PRBs). An exemplary method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes deciding that a paging occasion (PO), a RAR transmission, or a SC-PTM transmission will occur or has occurred, determining occurrence of a narrowband reference signal (NRS) in a non-anchor resource block (RB) based on at least one of: the decision, one or more narrowband transmission parameters, or presence of one or more other transmissions in a same RB as the PO, the RAR transmission, or the SC-PTM transmission; and processing the NRS. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: A method is provided for diagnosing and assessing the status of a mobile device. Device status data acquired from hardware components of the mobile device, such as sensors associated with the touch screen, accelerometer, and network signal strength sensor, may be compared to benchmark values associated with the hardware components to evaluate and determine the status of the mobile device. A corresponding system, apparatus, and computer program product are also provided.

Abstract: Systems and methods for improved content streaming and downloading. The system enables content to be transmitted to wireless base stations (WBSs) using unicast on the core network side of a cellular network to avoid incompatibilities associated with network broadcast technologies such as Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (eMBMS) and Long-Term Evolution Broadcast (LTE-B). At the same time, the system enable content to be broadcast, or transmitted to multiple user equipment (UE) in a single transmission to reduce wireless bandwidth consumption. The system can include a commodity server to receive requests from WBSs, place them in a chronological list based on network latency, and then transmit content to each WBS in a synchronized unicast manner. Each WBS can then transmit the content to a plurality of UEs with minimal buffer required due to the “pre-synchronization.

Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for wireless communication in a wireless network include generation of a bandwidth query report poll (BQRP) frame by an access point and transmission of the BQRP frame to multiple wireless stations. The BQRP frame includes a bandwidth query for each station. Each wireless station receives the BQRP frame and generates a bandwidth query report. The bandwidth query report includes channel availability information at a corresponding wireless station. The access point allocates channel resources to each wireless station according to the channel availability information.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication system that is used with a wireless communication device and a position location system, the wireless communication device being capable of communicating with the position location system. The wireless communication system includes a memory device for storing position locations of the wireless communication device and for storing transactions made relating to the wireless communication device, a processor for determining trends by recalling stored information from the memory device and processing the recalled information, and a transmitter for transmitting targeted broadcasts to the wireless communication device based on the current location of the communication device.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for enhancing indoor navigation using light-based communication (LCom). In some cases, an LCom-enabled luminaire configured as described herein may acquire user data from a local computing device and relay it to a server that tracks and analyzes the data to assess statistics for the luminaire's local spatial environment. The disclosed luminaire may receive from a local computing device a request for indoor navigation to a target of interest, such as a remote computing device. The luminaire may relay that request to a downstream luminaire, which delivers the request to the target. The target may respond with data that allows for tracking of its location and indoor navigation thereto, regardless of whether that target is moving or stationary. In a network of such luminaires, data distribution via inter-luminaire communication may be provided, for example, via an optical interface or other wired or wireless communication.