Abstract: A system may include a plurality of wireless devices, each wireless device including a time source and configured to selectively communicate with at least one other of the plurality of wireless devices by way of a packet-based time precision protocol. The plurality of wireless devices may include a first wireless device and a second wireless device, the first wireless device being configured to determine whether the first wireless device and the second wireless device are in selective communication over a single-hop wireless link; determine a one-way delay over the single-hop wireless link by way of at least one packed-based time precision protocol message; and calculate a distance measurement between the first wireless device and the second wireless device based at least in part on the one-way delay.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a distribution management device, a request for a content item from a requesting local device. The distribution management device is at a first level of a content distribution architecture, the requesting local device is one of a plurality of local devices at a second level and each local device serves a plurality of sub devices at a third level. A determination whether the requested content item is available from the distribution management device is made. At least one other local device that has the requested content item is identified if the requested content item is not available. A minimum routing cost local device for the requested content to the requesting local device is determined based on the identified at least one other local device. A request for the requested content is sent to the identified minimum routing cost local device.

Abstract: A system may receive raw information associated with a network and may prepare the raw information to create optimized information. The optimized information may include the raw information that has been sorted. The system may correlate the optimized information to create a set of correlated information. The system may aggregate at least two sets of correlated information to create aggregated information. The system may determine that network analytics are to be performed using the set of correlated information or the aggregated information. The system may determine information associated with performing the network analytics, including the set of correlated information or the aggregated information. The system may perform the network analytics based on the information associated with performing the network analytics. The system may provide a result associated with performing the network analytics. The result may indicate a manner in which to improve a performance of the network.

Abstract: A credit based queue scheduler dynamically adjusts credits depending upon at least a moving average of incoming packet size to alleviate the impact of traffic burstiness and packet size variation, and increase the performance of the scheduler by lowering latency and jitter. For the case when no service differentiation is required, the credit is adjusted by computing a weighted moving average of incoming packets for the entire scheduler. For the case when differentiation is required, the credit for each queue is determined by a product of a sum of credits given to all queues and priority levels of each queue.

Abstract: A device may receive machine-to-machine (M2M) traffic associated with two or more M2M applications. The M2M traffic may include information that identifies two or more priority levels associated with the M2M traffic. The device may determine parameters associated with managing the M2M traffic. The device may determine a traffic rate, an overall holding time, and an outgoing traffic rate associated with the M2M traffic. The device may determine a normalization factor based on the overall holding time and the parameters. The device may determine a set of priority level holding times based on the normalization factor, the overall holding time, and the parameters. Each priority level holding time may be associated with a priority level of the two or more priority levels. The device may manage the M2M traffic based on the set of priority level holding times and the outgoing traffic rate.

Abstract: A system may receive, from a user device, a request to receive content via a first base station, where the content was previously being received, as multicast content, via a second base station; determine, in response to the request, whether the first base station can process multicast content; transmit a copy of the content, to the user device via the first base station, as multicast content, based on a determination that the first base station can process multicast content; and transmit the content, to the user device via the first base station, as unicast content, based on a determination that the first base station cannot process multicast content.

Abstract: A device receives, from a user device and via a first device, a first request for content, and determines whether the content is stored in memory. The device identifies first other requests for the content, received via the first device over a time period, and second other requests for the content, received via a second device over the time period, when the content is stored in the memory. The device identifies a first quantity of the first other requests and a second quantity of the second other requests, and determines whether the first quantity or the second quantity is greater than a threshold. The device transmits the content, to the user device and via the first device, when the first quantity is not greater than the threshold, and transmits, to the second device, an instruction to store the content when the second quantity is greater than the threshold.

Abstract: A device may receive machine-to-machine (M2M) traffic associated with an M2M application. The device may determine parameters associated with managing the M2M traffic. The parameters may include information identifying a time window. The device may determine a weighted average traffic rate associated with the M2M traffic based on the parameters. The device may determine a holding time to be applied to the M2M traffic based on the weighted average traffic rate and the parameters. The device may determine an outgoing traffic rate to be applied to the M2M traffic based on the weighted average traffic rate and the parameters. The device may manage the M2M traffic based on the holding time and the outgoing traffic rate.

Abstract: A system configured to receive a request to identify a quality of service (QoS) policy to be used to process traffic that is received from a user device associated with another network; obtain an interoperable QoS policy, where the interoperable QoS policy identifies a first QoS level, associated with the other network, that corresponds to a type of traffic received from the user device; obtain, from the interoperable QoS policy, a second QoS level that corresponds to the first QoS level; and send, to a device, an instruction to process the traffic based on the second QoS level.

Abstract: A communications system provides a dynamic setting of optimal buffer sizes in IP networks. A method for dynamically adjusting buffer capacities of a router may include steps of monitoring a number of incoming packets to the router, determining a packet arrival rate, and determining the buffer capacities based at least partially on the packet arrival rate. Router buffers are controlled to exhibit the determined buffer capacities, e.g. during writing packets into and reading packets from each of the buffers as part of a packet routing performed by the router. In the disclosed examples, buffer size may be based on the mean arrival rate and one or more of mean packet size and mean waiting time.

Abstract: A device receives session information and subscription information, for a service request, from an originating evolved packet system (EPS) network, and forwards the session information and the subscription information to a destination policy control and charging rules function (PCRF) device associated with a destination EPS network. The device receives, from the destination PCRF device, a connection admission control (CAC) decision for the destination EPS network; determines, based on the CAC decision for the destination EPS network, a dual CAC decision for the originating EPS network and the destination EPS network; and forwards, to the destination PCRF device, the dual CAC decision.

Abstract: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) may be optimized for a cellular network having a radio segment. A base station may include a radio interface to connect to one or more user equipment (UE) devices and a number of queues to buffer data, incoming to the base station, from one or more servers, over TCP sessions. One or more processors may: determine state information relating to a fullness level of the queues; and transmit the state information to the one or more servers for use by the one or more servers in performing flow control with respect to the TCP sessions.

Abstract: Techniques described herein may provide for the organization and the control of nodes in an Machine to Machine (M2M) domain that is energy efficient and may provide for prioritized control of network traffic. Data may be received from of clusters of nodes in a M2M network, each of the clusters including one or more nodes to generate the data and a hub node to receive, from the one or more nodes, the generated data. The hub node may transmit the generated data. An update interval for the one or more nodes in each of the clusters may be set on a per-cluster basis and the update interval may define a period at which the one or more nodes in a particular cluster transmit data towards a corresponding hub node of the particular cluster. Additionally, an update interval for the hub node may be set, the update interval for the hub node being set on a per-cluster basis and defining a period at which the hub node transmits data.

Abstract: A device receives, from multiple network elements, status information for a user equipment (UE) connection associated with a wireless core network and updates, based on the status information received from the network elements, a database record for the UE connection. The device receives, from an application server, a request for information associated with the UE connection and constructs, based on the request and from the database record, a resource message that includes real-time information about the UE connection. The device sends the resource message to the application server. The device also provides a disconnect message to the application server and/or the network elements when the status information received from the network elements indicates that the UE has been disconnected from the wireless core network.

Abstract: Different access networks may perform signaling and data delivery (bearer connection) for communication services. A device may determine, in response to a request for a service from a user of the device, whether the device is connected to a non-cellular access network. The device may transmit, when it is determined that the device is connected to the non-cellular access network, one or more control messages, relating to establishment of the service, using the non-cellular access network. The device may transmit, when it is determined that the device is not connected to the non-cellular access network, the one or more control messages, using a cellular access network. The device may establish, with a party with which the service is to connect, a bearer connection for the service over the cellular access network.

Abstract: A system may be configured to identify that a user device is connected to a first radio access network (“RAN”), via a first technology; and to identify that the user device is capable of accessing a second RAN, via a second technology. The system may further be configured to instruct the user device to concurrently connect to the second RAN and the first RAN, send or receive a first type of traffic via the first RAN, and send or receive a second type of traffic via the second RAN.

Abstract: A network device may receive a peer-to-peer (P2P) activity record corresponding to a P2P data flow of P2P activity in a network. The P2P data flow may include content information communicated from a first user equipment device (UE) to a second UE via the network, and the P2P activity record may include information identifying the P2P data flow. The network device may insert the information identifying the P2P data flow into a P2P activity map and compare the P2P activity map to a P2P pattern of interest. The network device may also determine a P2P activity of interest probability based on the comparison of the P2P activity map to the P2P pattern of interest, which may describe the likelihood that P2P activity of interest is occurring in the network. The network device may also generate a system response based on the P2P activity of interest probability.

Abstract: A method includes establishing an expected traffic load for a plurality of servers, wherein each server has a respective actual capacity. The method further includes limiting the actual capacity of each server to respective available capacities, wherein a combined available capacity that is based on the available capacities corresponds to the expected traffic load. The method also includes dynamically altering the respective available capacity of the servers based on the failure of at least one server.

Abstract: A system may be configured to receive information regarding a geographical location of a user device; and compare the geographical location of the user device to geographical locations of a set of gateway devices. The gateway devices may be associated with a cellular network, and the gateway devices may communicatively couple one or more network devices associated with the cellular network to an access point that is not associated with the cellular network. The system may further select a particular gateway device based on the geographical location of the user device and the geographical locations of the particular gateway device; and store or output information regarding the selected particular gateway device.

Abstract: A system may be configured to receive data. The system may be associated with a plurality of network interfaces that each correspond to a different radio access technology associated with one or more cellular networks. The system may identify one or more measures of load associated with each of the plurality of network interfaces; and output, based on the identified measures of load, a different portion of the received data to each network interface, of the group of network interfaces.