Abstract: Methods and system for supporting traffic steering through a service function chain, the service function chain comprising at least one data processing function. An aspect of the disclosure provides for a method for steering traffic of a packet data unit (PDU) performed by a session management function. The method includes receiving PCC rules from a policy control function, the PCC rules including information comprising at least one of service function chain information; final delivery indication; and selective traffic steering information and associated parameters. The method further includes configuring at least one user plane function (UPF) according to the information. In some embodiments the configuring the at least one UPF includes instructing a first UPF to detect traffic according to the packet detection rules and route the received packet according to the forwarding action rules.

Abstract: The concept of a service layer message template is introduced, which may be a request template or a response template. Message templates may be created and stored at the service layer. Each message template may contain a set of request or response parameters and their values. Once in place, an application can send a request to the service layer that does not include the request parameters contained in the message template (i.e. request template); instead, a message template identifier may be sent. Since request parameters are included in the message template and stored at the service layer, communication overhead between the service layer and the application (or another service layer) may be reduced.

Abstract: There is provided methods, systems and apparatuses for management of network functions. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a processor and a non-transient memory for storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the apparatus to be configured to perform a method including steps as follows. The apparatus is configured to perform steps including sending, towards a source network exposure function (S-NEF) associated with a user equipment (UE), an event notification and obtaining, information on a target network exposure function (T-NEF) to be associated with the UE, and sending towards the S-NEF an event subscription update notification indicative of a change of destination for subsequent event notifications. The apparatus is further configured to perform steps including receiving, from the S-NEF, an event subscription update notification acknowledgement indicative of acceptance of the change and sending, towards the T-NEF, the subsequent event notifications.

Abstract: Mechanisms for subscription and notification may include dynamically changing notification behavior based on notification target status or support access to notification history information.

Abstract: Provided is a fault signal locating and identifying method of industrial equipment based on a microphone array. The method includes the steps of: acquiring sound signals and dividing the acquired signals into a training set, a verifying set and a test set; performing feature extraction on the sound signals in the training set, and extracting a phase spectrogram and an amplitude spectrogram of a spectrogram; sending an output of a feature extraction module, as an input, to a CNN, and in each layer of the CNN, learning a translation invariance in the spectrogram by using a 2D CNN; in between the layers of the CNN, normalizing the output by using a batch normalization, and reducing a dimension by using a maximum pooling layer along a frequency axis; sending an output from the layers of the CNN to layers of RNN; using a linear activation function; and inputting an output of a full connection layer to two parallel full connection layer branches for fault identification and fault location, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an intelligent vehicle platoon lane change performance evaluation method. First, an intelligent vehicle platoon lane change performance test scenario is established; secondly, a three-degree of freedom nonlinear dynamics model is established according to motion characteristics of intelligent vehicles in a platoon lane change process; further, an improved adaptive unscented Kalman filter algorithm is utilized to perform filter estimation on state variables of positions and velocities of platoon vehicles; and finally, based on accurately recursive vehicle motion state parameters, evaluation indexes for platoon lane change performance are proposed and quantified, and an evaluation system for platoon lane change performance is constructed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for key management. An aspect of the disclosure provides for a key management system including an authenticating function, a key-management function, and at least one function. The system provides for separation of authentications and key-management functions. The authenticating function configured for receiving an authentication request associated with a terminal device (TD), authenticating the request, and sending an authentication response to the at least one function. The key-management function configured for receiving a key request associated with the TD, generating a key according to the key request, and sending the key to the at least one function. The at least one function configured for receiving a request for service, sending, to the authenticating function, the authentication request, and receiving, from the authenticating function, the authenticating response.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a method of fabricating a metal-carbon fibrous structure is provided. The method comprises the steps of: (a) forming a fibrous support structure comprising composite nanocrystals and polymeric fibers, wherein each of the composite nanocrystals comprises metal ions connected by organic ligands; (b) growing the composite nanocrystals on the fibrous support structure; and (c) subjecting the fibrous support structure of step (b) to carbonization to form the metal-carbon fibrous structure, wherein the metal-carbon fibrous structure comprises metal nanoparticles derived from the composite nanocrystals. A metal-carbon fibrous structure comprising carbon based fibers arranged to form a porous network and the carbon based fibers are doped with metal nanoparticles, wherein the carbon based fibers have surfaces which comprise graphitic carbon, is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory string including a first select transistor, a first memory cell, a first select element, a second memory cell, and a second select element in series, a second memory string including a second select transistor, a third memory cell, a third select element, a fourth memory cell, and a fourth select element in series, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to set the second select transistor to an on state, and to set the third select element and the fourth select element to an off state, when reading data of the first memory cell.

Abstract: The present application discloses a wakeup indicator monitoring method, apparatus and electronic device. The present disclosure includes: acquiring M pieces of audio data of a device to be monitored; determining a first wakeup confidence of each piece of M pieces of audio data, wherein the first wakeup confidence indicates a probability that the audio data contains a first wakeup word for waking up the device to be monitored; acquiring a first audio data with a first wakeup confidence in a target zone in M pieces of audio data, wherein the wakeup confidence in the target zone indicates that the audio data contains a wakeup word for waking up an audio device; and determining the ratio of the first audio data to M pieces of audio data as a wakeup rate of a device to be monitored, where the wakeup indicator of the device to be monitored includes the wakeup rate.

Abstract: A sleep-aiding audio signal updating method and apparatus in the artificial intelligence (AI) field is provided. The method includes: obtaining a first biological signal collected when a first audio signal in a sleep-aiding audio library is played, where the first biological signal is a biological signal of a first user; determining a sleep quality of the first user based on the first biological signal; and updating the sleep-aiding audio library based on the sleep quality of the first user, so that a sleep-aiding audio signal can be updated, to provide a proper sleep-aiding audio signal for a user, and ensure a sleep-aiding effect.

Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for end-to-end reinforcement learning based coreference resolution models to directly optimize coreference evaluation metrics. Embodiments of a reinforced policy gradient model are disclosed to incorporate reward associated with a sequence of coreference linking actions. Furthermore, maximum entropy regularization may be used for adequate exploration to prevent a model embodiment from prematurely converging to a bad local optimum. Experiments on datasets compared with state-of-the-art methods verified the effectiveness of embodiments.

Abstract: A flexible display panel and a preparation method therefor, and a display device and a display module are provided. The flexible display panel includes a planar area, a first bending area, a second bending area and a corner bending area. The corner bending area is connected to a corner of the planar area and is connected between the first bending area and the second bending area, and is provided with a plurality of first hole groups, where the corner bending area is bent with a width of a first hole group in middle of the corner bending area increasing and a width of a first hole group in an edge area on a side of the corner bending area away from the planar area decreasing.

Abstract: A method of forming one or more composite structures is provided wherein one or more carbon structures is formed from a carbon source via a hydrothermal process. Said carbon source is a biomass material including glucose and glucosamine hydrochloride. In particular, the method further comprises introducing a seeding additive of potassium or phosphate salt, preferably monopotassium phosphate to the carbon source. The method includes introducing iron onto the carbon structures to form the one or more composite structures including carbon and iron.

Abstract: A method of producing a porous carbon composite fibrous mats formed of a network of carbon fibers incorporated with porous carbon particles. The method includes electrospinning a polymer solution to form a porous layer of polymeric fibers and the polymeric fibers are doped with a precursor of conductive metal particles, where the polymer solution includes a polymer and the precursor of the conductive metal particles, electrospraying a metal organic framework suspension onto the porous layer of polymeric fibers, where the metal organic framework suspension includes metal organic framework particles, repeating the electrospinning and electrospraying in an alternating manner to form a porous network of polymeric fibers incorporated with the metal organic framework particles, and heating the porous network of polymeric fibers incorporated with the metal organic framework particles to form the porous carbon composite fibrous mats.

Abstract: The present application describes a method and apparatus for managing a service in a service layer. In particular, a method describes a computer readable storage medium including instructions for managing a service in a service layer where the instructions are executed by a processor. The executed instructions cause the processor to receive a request to manage, via a service enabler function of the service layer, a change of state of the service including adding, removing, activating, or deactivating the service. The request may include a service description. The executed instructions also cause the processor to evaluate, via the service enabler function, the service description comprising identifiers of one or more services to manage. The executed instructions further cause the processor to identify one or more service capabilities in the service layer to assist in managing the one or more services identified in the service description.

Abstract: This invention relates to a a one-step process for making a polymer composite suspension for coating plastic films characterized in that a first polymer is synthesized in-situ optionally in the presence of other polymers and in the presence of clay. Preferably the polymer composite suspension comprises a) 1.0 to 11.0 wt % of clay or silane modified clay, b) 0.1 to 10.0 wt % of poly (acrylic acid), which is a copolymer of acrylic acid (AA) with at least one other monomer selected from 2-ethylhexyl acrylate (ERA), ?-carboxyethyl acrylate (?-CEA), methacrylamidoethyl ethylene urea (WAM II) and ethoxylated behenyl methacrylate (?-EHA), c) 1.0 to 15.0 wt % of other polymers, preferably poly (vinyl alcohol) and d) 70 to 97 wt % of water or mixture of water with 2-propanol. The coating films made from the suspensions show good barrier capabilities against water vapor and oxygen can be used to make barrier layers on or within plastic films for packaging applications.

Abstract: An M2M Service Layer is expanded to access the services of third parties and exchange data with these third parties. The M2M Service Layer is then able to act as a proxy between M2M Devices and the third party services. The M2M Service Layer is able to present a single/consistent interface, or API, to the M2M Device and hide the details of the third party service provider from the M2M Device.

Abstract: A vulcanizing agent is added during the processing of a polymer, and can form a crosslinking structure network in the polymer, thereby improving the mechanical properties of the material. Furthermore, the crosslinking agent can also de-crosslink the polymer material at a high temperature, and after being cooled, same can be crosslinked again to produce a network structure, thus endowing the polymer material with thermoplasticity for repeated processing.