Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first and a second node devices, and a control device configured to control data transmission between the first and the second node devices, the control device being coupled to the first node device through a first path group including a plurality of paths and being coupled to the second node device through a second path group including a plurality of paths, the control device is configured to perform a communication test of the first path group and the second path group, and when a first failure is detected in a first path in the first path group, couple a third path other than the first path in the first path group with the first node device, couple a second path in the second path group with the second node device, and couple the third path and the second path with each other.

Abstract: Provided are a method for requesting, by a user equipment (UE), system information in a wireless communication system and a device supporting the same. The method may include: initiating a random access procedure; requesting system information from a base station (BS) in the initiated random access procedure; receiving, from the BS, a broadcast indication indicating that the requested system information is broadcast in the initiated random access procedure after requesting the system information from the BS; and stopping the initiated random access procedure.

Abstract: A communication method, a base station, a radio communication node, and a user equipment are provided. A base station determines first resource configuration information, where the first resource configuration information is used for indicating N radio resource sets that are used when N radio communication nodes separately perform communication with a user equipment UE, and the radio resource includes a time domain resource and/or a frequency domain resource. The base station sends the first resource configuration information to the UE, where the UE communicates with a corresponding transmission point by using respective radio resource sets of transmission points, and the respective radio resource sets of the transmission points do not intersect. Therefore, a base station does not need to schedule a radio resource, thereby lowering a delay requirement on a backhaul link and eliminating interference.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device control method and apparatus, and relate to the field of device control technologies. The method includes: determining a session attribute of user equipment UE; and sending the session attribute to a first access network AN accessed by the UE, where the session attribute is used by the first AN to control the UE.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a resource management method and a related device. The resource management method includes: receiving, by UE, signaling for releasing resource sent by a base station, where the signaling for releasing resource indicates information of resource location; and determining, based on the information of resource location, a time-frequency resource corresponding to the information of resource location in allocated resources already allocated by a network side to the UE, and then releasing the time-frequency resource. The UE may release some of the allocated resources based on an indication of the base station.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (300) in a Radio Unit (RU) for facilitating Clear Channel Assessment (CCA). The method (300) comprises: detecting (S310), in a first transmission period while the RU is operating in a first channel, whether one or more candidate channels in proximity to the first channel are unoccupied; determining (S320), when the first channel is not clear for transmission in a second transmission period, whether any of the one or more candidate channels that is detected to be unoccupied is clear for transmission in the second transmission period; and selecting (S330) one of the one or more candidate channels that is determined to be clear, for transmission in the second transmission period.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes sending, by a base station to UE, a downlink control channel used to schedule downlink data. The method further includes indicating, by the base station, a first time-frequency resource domain and a second time-frequency resource domain using the downlink control channel. A downlink data channel is sent on a time-frequency resource that is in the first time-frequency resource domain and that does not belong to the second time-frequency resource domain.

Abstract: A network distance prediction method and apparatus, wherein the method includes communicating, with at least two reference nodes, to determine values of at least some elements in a local distance matrix; constructing, the local distance matrix based on the values of the at least some elements in the local distance matrix; performing, low-rank sparse factorization on the local distance matrix to obtain a low-rank matrix; obtaining, values of elements in a first element set of the low-rank matrix, to use the values as target values of network distances between the to-be-positioned node and the at least two reference nodes; communicating, with the reference nodes, to obtain coordinates of the reference nodes in a network coordinate system; and determining, coordinates of the to-be-positioned node.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. The communication method includes: receiving, from a second network device, a first message indicating one or both of a first data volume of first data sent from a core network device to the second network device and from the second network device to a terminal and a second data volume of second data sent from the terminal to the second network device and from the second network device to the core network device, wherein the first data and the second data are data of a bearer, data of a flow, or data of a session, and wherein the first network device is a master node and the second network device is a secondary node both connecting to the terminal; sending, to the core network device, a second message indicating one or both of the first data volume and the second data volume.

Abstract: An information processing method and a terminal device are disclosed. The method is applied to a terminal device and includes: grouping DL component carriers CCs based on a downlink DL transmission length; and sending UCI based on grouped DL CCs by using an uplink UL CC, where the UCI is UCI corresponding to the grouped DL CCs, and transmission lengths of DL CCs in at least one DL CC group of the grouped DL CCs are all the same. According to embodiments of the present invention, an information transmission delay can be reduced.

Abstract: A network device, based on received location from a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE may determine that the first UE and the second UE are in proximity to each other. Based on the proximity determination, the network device may provide at least one of the first and second UE uplink LTE resources for transmission, wherein the transmission is associated with a group of UEs.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to the field of communications technologies, and specifically, to a mobility management method, an apparatus, and a system. Embodiments of the present invention provide the mobility management method, the apparatus, and the system. When a primary cell of user equipment is changed, a change of the primary cell is performed through modification but not through conventional handover, so that data transmission is uninterrupted when the primary cell is changed.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a terminal access method and an apparatus, to resolve a problem in an existing SCMA multi-terminal access mechanism that a conflict causes system performance degradation and may cause system retransmission. The method is as follows: determining, by a terminal, to enter a contention-based access phase; and determining, by the terminal during each transmission of binary data, a first signature according to a random number seed and a signature matrix, and mapping, according to the first signature, the binary data to a multi-dimensional symbol for transmission, where first signatures used during different transmissions of binary data are different.

Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure relates to a method in a user equipment for instructing establishment of a connection between a first local device and a second local device, the user equipment being connected to a public network, wherein an intermediary system is configured to connect to a first local network, to a second local network and to the public network. A virtual view is generated and, upon receiving a selection of a representation in the view, connectivity information is obtained regarding the communication path between the first local device and the second local device. An ability for user to instruct establishment of communication path in dependence of the connectivity information.

Abstract: Examples of the present invention provide a method for allocating Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) channel resources supporting transmit diversity and channel selection. The method includes: receiving, by a UE, Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) information and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) data from a base station through two Carrier Components (CCs); obtaining, by the UE according to specific indication information, Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) channel resources required for transmitting HARQ-ACK feedback information using a transmit diversity technique; and transmitting, by the UE, the HARQ-ACK feedback information on the obtained PUCCH channel resources adopting the transmit diversity technique. According to the method provided by the examples of the present invention, it is possible to allocate HARQ-ACK channel resources to the UE reasonably and avoid waste of channel resources in the premise that channel selection and SORTD technique are supported.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications provide for transmission of a beam switch command to a user equipment (UE) via control channel signaling. The UE may establish a connection with a base station using a first transmission beam, receive configuration information configuring the UE to select between a first decoding hypothesis corresponding to downlink control information (DCI) including a bit field including a beam switch command and a second decoding hypothesis corresponding to the DCI not including the bit field, receive a downlink control channel transmission via the first transmission beam, decode the downlink control channel transmission in accordance with the configuration information to obtain decoded DCI, and communicate with the base station based at least in part on the decoded DCI.

Abstract: A system and a method minimize power consumption, signalling overhead, and processing load in blind scheduling in a mobile communication system. A User Equipment (UE) detects a type of an uplink (UL) grant while it is periodically allocated the UL grant. If there is no data to transmit using the UL grant, the UE determines whether to transmit a padding Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB) using the UL grant according to the type of the UL grant.

Abstract: A data symbol transmission method and a wireless network device are provided. The device includes: an information determining unit, configured to determine a location at which hardware switching needs to be performed in a current subframe and switching time of the hardware switching; a configuration unit, configured to configure, according to the switching time, a first guard period for a first data symbol corresponding to the location, where a length of the first guard period is greater than or equal to that of the switching time; where the configuration unit is further configured to: use, as a second data symbol, a data symbol in the subframe other than the first data symbol, and configure a second guard period for the second data symbol; and a sending unit, configured to send the subframe to another wireless network device. Resource utilization can be improved, and a system capacity can be increased.

Abstract: Communication signals using a first and a second frequency band in a wireless network is described herein. The first frequency band may be associated with a first beamwidth while the second frequency band may be associated with a second beamwidth. An apparatus may include receiver circuitry arranged to receive first signals in a first frequency band associated with a first beamwidth and second signals in a second frequency band associated with a second beamwidth, the first signals comprising a frame synchronization parameter and the second signals comprising frame alignment signals. The apparatus may further include processor circuitry coupled to the receiver circuitry, the processor circuitry arranged to activate or deactivate the receiver circuitry to receive the frame alignment signals based on the frame synchronization parameter. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Presented systems and methods facilitate efficient and effective communication link adaptation. In one embodiment, a system comprises: a first communication device configured to forward link adaptation information, and a second communication component configured to receive the link adaptation information. The system is part of a wireless local area network (WLAN). The link adaptation information can include Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) Feed Back (MFB) related information in a communication frame. The communication frame can include a first field and a second field. The first field indicates the information is being forwarded as unsolicited MFB information or is associated with a solicitation request for the MFB information. The second first field indicates whether the information is MFB information or a request for MFB information.