Abstract: A control device (15a) includes a control unit configured to: acquire a switching request based on a latency measured in a first application function (AF) (30) disposed in a first network slice (5) or in a terminal device (40) communicating with the first AF (30); and switch, based on the acquired switching request, a core network to be connected to the terminal device (40) from a first core network (10a) disposed in the first network slice (5) to a second core network (10b) disposed in a second network slice (6) by using the first AF (30), or using the first AF (30) and the terminal device (40), as an anchor.

Abstract: A base station device (100) transmits, to a terminal device (200), repetition information instructing repetition transmission of a signal in an uplink and beam information instructing a beam to be used for the repetition transmission in association with each other.

Abstract: An optimal network is constructed in a case in which a plurality of IoT standards or IoT platforms coexist. According to the present disclosure, provided is a terminal management device including a receiving unit that receives, from a terminal that collects information from a sensor, access timing information related to an accessible timing to the terminal and a transmitting unit that transmits the access timing information to a server that searches for the information. With this configuration, it is possible to construct an optimal network in a case in which a plurality of IoT standards or IoT platforms coexist.

Abstract: An information processing device (260) includes a control unit (263). The control unit (263) acquires information from a device (100) that provides an application function to a terminal device (400). The control unit (263) notifies a base station device (300) that communicates with the terminal device (400) of setting information regarding intermittent reception of the terminal device (400) using an application programming interface (API) on the basis of the information.

Abstract: A control unit receives at least one of a plurality of synchronization signals transmitted after undergoing beam sweeping via a wireless communication unit. The beam sweeping includes each of the plurality of synchronization signals forming a different beam and transmitted from the base station during a predetermined period of time. The control unit determines, from a plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information, one piece of the configuration information based on priority between a plurality of types of beam sweeping and receives the synchronization signal or report the received synchronization signal to the base station using the one piece of the configuration information determined based on the priority. The number of the synchronization signals transmitted during a predetermined period of time varies among the plurality of pieces of beam sweeping configuration information.

Abstract: To detect and recover from failure occurring in a core network. A subscriber information holding unit holds subscriber information indicating association between a terminal and a user plane function in a communication system. A failure detection unit detects a failure related to the user plane function. A control unit changes the subscriber information held in the subscriber information holding unit so as to associate a new user plane function with the terminal associated with the user plane function in which the failure is detected by the failure detection unit.

Abstract: In an information processing device having a function of a push notification server, messages and the like are exchanged by a simple procedure. The information processing device according to the present disclosure has a function of performing push notification. An information processing device having a function of performing the push notification is disposed in a local area network (LAN) including a base station device to which a terminal device is connected and a core network, and performs the push notification to the terminal device on the basis of a connectionless protocol.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a mechanism capable of more appropriately ascertaining an interference condition of a data signal. [Solution] An apparatus includes: a processing unit that feeds back a channel quality indicator (CQI) of a serving base station, which is calculated on a basis of results of measuring reference signals received from the serving base station and a neighbor base station and information related to a power difference between the reference signal and a data signal of the neighbor base station, to the serving base station.

Abstract: A communication apparatus and corresponding method for performing wireless communication to include controlling deliver of content for plural programs using a directional beam, and notifying a terminal apparatus of first information regarding a timing of transmitting the directional beam in each of a plurality of directions in association with second information notified commonly to one or more of the terminal apparatuses within a communication range.

Abstract: A communication device (100) which operates as an application node which executes one or a plurality of applications includes: a communication unit (110) that executes communication with another logical node; and a control unit (130) that controls communication by the communication unit (110). The another logical node is a node which is applied with application function chaining (AFC) in which, in transmission/reception of an application message with the application node as a transmission source or a transmission destination, one or a plurality of application functions act on the application message midway along a path of the transmission/reception, and the control unit (130) causes the communication unit (110) to transmit, to the another logical node, a message according to a publishing/subscription model in order to transmit and receive the application message on which the one or the plurality of application functions act.

Abstract: [Object] To provide the uplink reference signal for beam tracking. [Solution] A terminal apparatus, including: a communication unit configured to perform communication with a base station configured to form beams and perform communication; and a control unit configured to transmit a first uplink reference signal and a second uplink reference signal which has a narrower target frequency bandwidth and a shorter transmission period than the first uplink reference signal.

Abstract: A communication device (200) includes a plurality of antenna panels (60) and a control unit (240). The antenna panel (60) includes one or more antennas (50), one or more transmission analog circuits (54) for signal transmission using the antennas (50), and one or more reception analog circuits (55) for signal reception using the antennas (50). When having received a notification including information regarding a reference signal of downlink from a second communication device (100), the control unit (240) performs antenna switching being an operation of switching a connection between the antenna (50) included in the antenna panel (60) that has received the reference signal and the transmission analog circuit (54).

Abstract: Provided is a mechanism capable of reducing a burden on a beam selection procedure on a plurality of frequency bandwidths. A communication device includes: a setting section (151) that performs setting of beam groups defined in a plurality of frequency bandwidths, respectively; and a notification section (153) that notifies a terminal device of information regarding identicalness between the beam groups defined in the frequency bandwidths different from each other.

Abstract: To flexibly control the number of user planes in a communication system. In the communication system, a base station located on a local area network is connected to at least one user plane function located on a cloud. Whether or not to add a new user plane function is determined in consideration of an amount of traffic of user data and an assumed amount of traffic of the new user plane function out of a maximum amount of traffic on the local area network, the user data being transferred by the at least one user plane function by use of the local area network.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a control apparatus, a control method, and a vehicle that realize highly reliable communication. Communication with another terminal is controlled by controlling a communication target, a communication method, and communication parameters on the basis of geographic information around an own terminal. The present disclosure can be applied to in-vehicle communication.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a network control device to flexibly control, at low cost, allocation of a user plane to a terminal in order to secure throughput according to the number of terminals in a network. The network control device includes a setting information holding unit and a control unit. The setting information holding unit holds, for each terminal, setting information including setting of a correspondence relationship with a user plane of a network. The control unit controls, after the setting of a correspondence relationship between a terminal and a user plane is changed, the network with the setting reflected under a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An application function node (10) includes a control unit (13). The control unit (13) acquires session information regarding a PDU session from a UDM node (30), determines, from a plurality of the PDU sessions, a first PDU session for maintaining communication and a second PDU session for stopping communication based on the session information, and requests to stop communication in the determined second PDU session.

Abstract: A base station device (20) includes a control unit (23). The control unit (23) performs operations including: receiving an acquisition request, which is a request for acquiring beam information related to a PDU session established with a terminal device (40); and transmitting beam group information including at least one piece of the beam information, the transmission being performed in association with the PDU session in response to the acquisition request.

Abstract: A communication device (100) that operates as a management node in a first zone being a management domain on a network, the communication device (100) including: a communication unit (110) that executes communication with another node; and a control unit (130) that controls communication executed by the communication unit (110), in which the control unit (130) operates such that, when having received, from a user, a request regarding an application that chains one or more application functions (AFs) to act on a packet flowing in the network, the control unit (130) acquires information regarding the application from a second zone being a management domain other than the first zone, and then calculates a deployment destination of the AFs in the network including the first zone and the second zone based on the information.

Abstract: Provided are a control apparatus, a control method, and a vehicle that realize highly reliable communication. The control apparatus includes a position prediction unit that predicts a position of an own terminal having a communication function, an information acquisition unit that acquires geographic information around the position of the own terminal, and a communication control unit that controls communication with another terminal by controlling a communication target, a communication method, and communication parameters on the basis of the geographic information.