Abstract: An embodiment of a User Equipment (UE) for supporting a communication with IRS in communication networks is disclosed. The UE is configured to receive configuration signal from a network device for configuration of a set of trigger points. Based on the set of trigger points, the UE is configured to detect one or more pilot signals from an IRS controller corresponding to the IRS, and perform measurement of one or more parameters. The UE is configured to transmit a first set of information to the network device based on the detected one or more pilot signals and the measurement of the one or more parameters and receive one or more instructions, for executing a handover procedure for network communication from the network device to the IRS, based on the transmitted first set of information.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a system and method for offloading user equipments and as such, unicast and/or broadcast/multicast content of the user equipments from one broadcast/multicast system to another broadcast/multicast system and vice versa based on multiple criteria. The system collects one or more data parameters from the user equipments in a first network system, identifies a number of the user equipments to be offloaded based on the one or more data parameters, determines whether the identified number of the user equipments meet one or more offloading criteria, and triggers offloading of the identified number of the user equipments from the first network system to a second network system. The system facilitates switching the network system seamlessly without any manual intervention of users and provides continued broadcast/multicast services.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiment of network device includes one or more processors coupled to a memory storing a set of instructions which when executed by the one or more processors cause the network device to: receive, from an IRS manager, a scheduling data request. The one or more processors further causes the network device to transmit, to the IRS manager, responsive to the received scheduling data request, a scheduling data response and receive, from the IRS manager, an IRS resource command, wherein the IRS manager transmits the IRS resource command responsive to the scheduling data response. Further, the one or more processors causes the network device to transmit to an IRS controller associated with the IRS, the received IRS resource command, wherein IRS controller is configured to allocate the IRS resources to each of the plurality of UEs based on the IRS resource command.

Abstract: Embodiments of a sixth generation (6G) network device in communication with one or more Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRSs) and one or more UEs are disclosed. In an embodiment, the 6G network device includes one or more processors coupled to a memory storing a set of instructions which when executed by the one or more processors cause the network device to compute IRS tilt information associated with the one or more IRSs based at least in part on one or more of signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SINR) information, Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) information, and Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) information received from the one or more UEs. The one or more processors further cause the network device to communicate the computed IRS tilt information to the one or more IRSs via a network interface, wherein the IRS tilt information is used to control one or more operational aspects of the one or more IRSs.

Abstract: The present invention provides an efficient and reliable system to identify machine emergency types within a 3GPP network/device such as LTE, 5G, 6G and the like and enrich the emergency messages with appropriate data such as location, machine ID, Plant ID and the like. The system further may provide for a mechanism to identify the appropriate emergency servers that can handle the type of emergency, and redirect the emergency messages to one or more servers along with enriched data. The system may further enable architectural systems that may be needed to handle such emergencies in a time effective manner.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and a method for offloading users from a unicast platform to a broadcast platform. The system receives a request from various users and identifies users accessing similar media content. The system further receives a direction of mobility and a radio capability from the users and determines a point of viewing with a corresponding buffer time. The system determines a sliding window for offloading the one or more users and intelligently offloads the users from a unicast network to a broadcast network across various radio access technologies (RATs).

Abstract: A network entity and an operating method thereof in a communication system are provided. The method includes establishing a first connection with a user equipment (UE) using a first access technology; receiving, from the UE, via the first connection, capability information on communication with a second cell using a second access technology different from the first access technology; transmitting a first signal to the UE via the first connection; and transmitting, to the UE, via the first connection, configuration information related to the second cell for establishing a second connection between the UE and the second cell. The first cell and the second cell are simultaneously active for the UE.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for enabling machine type communication in a long term evolution (LTE) network environment. In one embodiment, a Physical (PHY) layer of an LTE protocol stack maps data bits in resource elements of a logical channel to resource elements of a physical channel. The PHY layer identifies the data bits intended for legacy devices but mapped to a first set of resource elements of machine type communication (MTC) devices and the data bits intended for the MTC device but mapped to the second set of resource elements of the legacy devices. Accordingly, the PHY layer remaps the data bits intended for the legacy devices to the second set of resource elements and the data bits intended for the MTC devices to the first set of resource elements prior to transmission.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for enabling machine type communication in a long term evolution (LTE) network environment. In one embodiment, a Physical (PHY) layer of a LTE protocol stack maps data bits in resource elements of a logical channel to resource elements of a physical channel. The PHY layer identifies the data bits intended for legacy devices but mapped to a first set of resource elements of machine type communication (MTC) devices and the data bits intended for the MTC device but mapped to the second set of resource elements of the legacy devices. Accordingly, the PHY layer remaps the data bits intended for the legacy devices to the second set of resource elements and the data bits intended for the MTC devices to the first set of resource elements prior to transmission.

Abstract: The disclosure provides for fault tolerant parallel journaling that speeds up both input/output (I/O) operations and recovery operations. Journal entry writing may occur in parallel with data writing operations. Even if a crash occurs during a data writing operation for which the journal entry has been written, the recovery operation will correctly determine that the journal entry is not valid. Additionally, recovery operations may need to validate fewer journal entries, and yet possibly retain more valid data. Examples include: for each of a plurality of journal entries: receiving incoming data; determining a signature for the incoming data; generating the journal entry for the incoming data; writing the signature in the journal entry; and writing the journal entry and the incoming data to a storage media; and based at least on writing data to the storage media, updating an awaiting index in a journal header.

Abstract: The disclosure supports both trickle and burst input/output (I/O) admission rates in journaling file systems. Examples include receiving incoming data; based at least on receiving the incoming data, generating metadata for a journal entry; adding the metadata to an active metadata batch; issuing a data write to write the incoming data to a storage medium; monitoring for a first trigger comprising determining that a data write for an entry in the active metadata batch is complete; based at least on the first trigger, closing the active metadata batch; and issuing a journal write to write entries of the active metadata batch to the storage medium. A second trigger comprises determining that a batch open time exceeds a selected percentage of a moving average of data write durations. A third trigger comprises determining that a batch counter exceeds a count threshold. These triggers work together to reduce I/O latencies.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reclaiming one or more portions of storage resources in a computer system serving one or more virtual computing instances, where the storage resources in the computer system are organized in clusters of storage blocks. In one aspect, a method includes maintaining a respective block tracking value for each storage block that indicates whether a call to reclaim the storage block is outstanding; determining, from the block tracking values, a respective cluster priority value for each of the clusters based on a count of storage blocks in the respective cluster for which a call to reclaim is outstanding; and reclaiming a first portion of storage resources in the computer system in accordance with the cluster priority values.

Abstract: The disclosure herein describes managing a rate of processing unmap requests for a data storage volume. Unmap requests are received from a cluster of active hosts that are associated with the data storage volume. Latency data values of each active host are then accessed. A long-term cluster latency average value is calculated based on the accessed latency data values of all active hosts over a long-term time period and a short-term cluster latency average value is calculated based on the accessed latency data values of all active hosts over a short-term time period. An unmap rate adjustment value is calculated based on a difference between the long-term cluster latency average value and the short-term cluster latency average value. The rate of processing unmap requests for the data storage volume is adjusted based on the unmap rate adjustment value and the unmap requests are performed based on the adjusted rate.

Abstract: The disclosure supports both trickle and burst input/output (I/O) admission rates in journaling file systems. Examples include receiving incoming data; based at least on receiving the incoming data, generating metadata for a journal entry; adding the metadata to an active metadata batch; issuing a data write to write the incoming data to a storage medium; monitoring for a first trigger comprising determining that a data write for an entry in the active metadata batch is complete; based at least on the first trigger, closing the active metadata batch; and issuing a journal write to write entries of the active metadata batch to the storage medium. A second trigger comprises determining that a batch open time exceeds a selected percentage of a moving average of data write durations. A third trigger comprises determining that a batch counter exceeds a count threshold. These triggers work together to reduce I/O latencies.

Abstract: The disclosure provides for fault tolerant parallel journaling that speeds up both input/output (I/O) operations and recovery operations. Journal entry writing may occur in parallel with data writing operations. Even if a crash occurs during a data writing operation for which the journal entry has been written, the recovery operation will correctly determine that the journal entry is not valid. Additionally, recovery operations may need to validate fewer journal entries, and yet possibly retain more valid data. Examples include: for each of a plurality of journal entries: receiving incoming data; determining a signature for the incoming data; generating the journal entry for the incoming data; writing the signature in the journal entry; and writing the journal entry and the incoming data to a storage media; and based at least on writing data to the storage media, updating an awaiting index in a journal header.

Abstract: The systems described herein are configured to enhance the efficiency of memory usage and access in a VM file system data store with respect to allocating memory in large and small file block clusters using affinity metadata and propagating and maintaining the affinity metadata in support of the described allocation. In order to maintain affinity metadata of the large file block cluster, affinity generation values stored on the large file block cluster are read and cached affinity generation values for each small file block cluster are read from an in-memory cache associated with the large file block cluster. When the stored affinity generation values and the cached affinity generation values do not match, affinity metadata from all the small file block clusters associated with the large file block cluster is used to update the affinity metadata of the large file block cluster and the associated cache.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for enabling machine type communication in a long term evolution (LTE) network environment. In one embodiment, a Physical (PHY) layer of a LTE protocol stack maps data bits in resource elements of a logical channel to resource elements of a physical channel. The PHY layer identifies the data bits intended for legacy devices but mapped to a first set of resource elements of machine type communication (MTC) devices and the data bits intended for the MTC device but mapped to the second set of resource elements of the legacy devices. Accordingly, the PHY layer remaps the data bits intended for the legacy devices to the second set of resource elements and the data bits intended for the MTC devices to the first set of resource elements prior to transmission.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for performing a write to a storage system, the write having reduced latency due to parallelism of sub-steps of the write, and due to calculating a partial rather than a full checksum. The mechanism of the write has low file corruption of files on the storage system, due to journaling of the checksum.

Abstract: A network entity and an operating method thereof in a communication system are provided. The method includes establishing a first connection with a user equipment (UE) using a first access technology; receiving, from the UE, via the first connection, capability information on communication with a second cell using a second access technology different from the first access technology; transmitting a first signal to the UE via the first connection; and transmitting, to the UE, via the first connection, configuration information related to the second cell for establishing a second connection between the UE and the second cell. The first cell and the second cell are simultaneously active for the UE.

Abstract: The disclosure herein describes managing a rate of processing unmap requests for a data storage volume. Unmap requests are received from a cluster of active hosts that are associated with the data storage volume. Latency data values of each active host are then accessed. A long-term cluster latency average value is calculated based on the accessed latency data values of all active hosts over a long-term time period and a short-term cluster latency average value is calculated based on the accessed latency data values of all active hosts over a short-term time period. An unmap rate adjustment value is calculated based on a difference between the long-term cluster latency average value and the short-term cluster latency average value. The rate of processing unmap requests for the data storage volume is adjusted based on the unmap rate adjustment value and the unmap requests are performed based on the adjusted rate.