Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may configure for a wireless device access configurations on different uplink carriers, such as a supplemental uplink carrier and a non-supplemental uplink carrier. Control information may indicate that the wireless device may use a second uplink carrier, for example, if an access procedure fails on the first uplink carrier.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for autonomously routing data using in a peer-to-peer computer network includes automatically updating a peer-to-peer computer network. The method includes automatically sending pulse messages from a first node to neighbor nodes and candidate nodes, receiving return pulses by the first node from at least some of the neighbor nodes and the candidate nodes, calculating round-trip times (RTTs) between the first node and the neighbor nodes or the candidate nodes based on the pulse messages and the return pulses, sorting the nodes in the neighbor nodes and the candidate nodes into orbital bins based on RTTs, and automatically selecting and adding a node from one of the orbital bins based on the RTTs to updated neighbor nodes for the first node, and routing data from the first node to a second node via a relay node in the peer-to-peer computer network.

Abstract: User equipment is capable of connecting to a first core network and a second core network through a base station apparatus. The user equipment includes a controller that connects to, upon selecting or visiting a cell of a base station apparatus that does not support the first core network while connecting to the first core network or visiting the first core network, the second core network through a connection in the cell.

Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms provide a flexible mapping for physical functions and virtual functions in an environment including virtual machines.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and software technology are disclosed herein for monitoring for and reporting on degraded connections between applications and application resources. In an implementation, a connection service receives requests from an application to ascertain whether or not a connection between the application and an application resource has become degraded. The service probabilistically determines whether or not the connection has become degraded and replies to the application with information indicative of the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for notifying Quality of Service (QoS) information to User Equipment (UE), Users, and Application server. Embodiments of the present invention may analyze the network QoS and/or statistics of QoS parameters using one or more functions such as Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF). Embodiments may also provide control plane (CP) functions which may send the QoS information to the UE depending on the UE subscription, application and/or network slice.

Abstract: A network device inputs first network status information of the network device in a first time period to an ECN inference model, to obtain an inference result that is output by the ECN inference model based on the first network status information. Then, the network device sends an ECN parameter sample to an analysis device that manages the network device, where the ECN parameter sample includes the first network status information and a target ECN configuration parameter corresponding to the first network status information, and the target ECN configuration parameter is obtained based on the inference result. The network device receives an updated ECN inference model sent by the analysis device.

Abstract: A system of communicating data over a high availability industrial control system is disclosed. The industrial control system includes a first data producer, a second data producer in communicative connection with the first data producer, a first data consumer, and a second data consumer in communicative connection with the first data consumer. The system further includes the first producer communicating the data over multiple connection paths from the first producer to the first consumer and the second consumer through intermediate modules, and the second producer communicating the data over multiple connection paths from the second producer to the first consumer and the second consumer through intermediate modules. Also disclosed is a method of communicating data over the high availability industrial control system.

Abstract: The performance of a switch or other network device is improved by adjusting the number of idle bytes transmitted between data units—that is, the size of the interpacket gap—to increase the bandwidth of a network interface. In some embodiments, the adjustments may be made in a manner designed to compensate for potential mismatches between the clock rate of the network interface and clock rates of interfaces of other network devices when retransmitting data received from those other network devices. In yet other embodiments, the adjustments may be designed to increase available bandwidth for other purposes. In an embodiment, the idle reduction logic is in a Media Access Control (“MAC”) layer of a network interface. The idle reduction logic may be enabled or disabled based on user preference, or programmatically based on factors such as a transmission utilization level for the MAC layer, buffer fill level, and so forth.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to timer-initiated fallback. In an example method, a message associated with Quality of Service (QoS) sensitive services is received from a core network. In response to receiving the message, a timer is initiated. If the timer expires without having received a confirmation that a dedicated tunnel associated with the QoS-sensitive services has been established in the first core network, then a fallback process can be initiated.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a method for reducing power consumption and a device, and relate to the field of mobile terminals, to further reduce power consumption of a terminal device when the terminal device enters a doze mode. A specific solution is as follows: After detecting that screen-off duration of the terminal device is greater than first duration, the terminal device sends a transmission control protocol reset packet to an application server of a to-be-controlled application, so that the application server disconnects a TCP connection to the terminal device. Therefore, after the terminal device enters the doze mode, the power consumption of the terminal device is further reduced. The embodiments of this application are used to reduce power consumption of the terminal device.

Abstract: According to certain embodiments, an authentication method of an electronic device, comprises responsive to detecting an external electronic device using a first communication circuit, transmitting first data to the external electronic device using a second communication circuit; determining whether a response to the first data is received; and when the response to the first data is received from the external electronic device, performing communication connection and authentication procedures with the external electronic device.

Abstract: Method, apparatus and product for utilizing stochastic controller to provide user-controlled notification rate of wearable-based events. The method comprises obtaining events issued by a module based on analysis of multiple sensor readings of one or more sensors of a wearable device. The method further comprises determining by a stochastic controller whether to provide an alert to a user based on the events and based on a user preference, wherein the user preference is indicative of a desired notification rate of the user, wherein the stochastic controller comprises a stochastic model of an environment. Based on such determination, alerts are outputted to the user.

Abstract: A method and a device for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention are characterized by transmitting a PRACH on a RO, receiving, in response to the PRACH, a PDCCH for receiving a RAR, and receiving the RAR on the basis of the PDCCH, wherein the RAR includes a portion of the bits of a frame index of the RO on which the PRACH was transmitted.

Abstract: An intelligent network policy engine can be utilized to apply dynamic policy changes for microservices. For example, based on outlined service provider policies, user equipment state data, and/or network state data, the intelligent network policy engine can determine which microservices to use and/or what order to use the microservices to increase a performance of the network. The intelligent network policy engine can perform conflict resolution based on how network traffic should be treated in certain scenarios.

Abstract: A physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) may comprise a plurality of sets of PUCCH resource blocks overlapping in time in a time interval. A plurality of channel state information (CSI) reports may be used for transmission via the PUCCH resource blocks overlapping in time in the time interval. Selection of at least one CSI report for transmission may be based on a size of the CSI report and on numbers of blocks in the sets of PUCCH resource blocks.

Abstract: Provided relates to route discovery in a telecommunication network. It particularly applies to route discovery in a network which uses Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB). Disclosed is a method of route discovery in connection with establishing a backup backhaul network in an Integrated Access and Backhaul, IAB, network, the method comprising: discovering and maintaining backup backhaul links by providing channel measurement and reporting mechanisms.

Abstract: A device access method includes obtaining, by a mobility management entity, an identifier of a remote device and an identifier of a relay device, determining, by the mobility management entity based on at least one of the identifier of the remote device or the identifier of the relay device, to allow the remote device to access the network using the relay device, and sending, by the mobility management entity, a registration success message to the remote device using the relay device.

Abstract: A system having multiple devices that can host different versions of an artificial neural network (ANN). In the system, inputs for the ANN can be obfuscated for centralized training of a master version of the ANN at a first computing device. A second computing device in the system includes memory that stores a local version of the ANN and user data for inputting into the local version. The second computing device includes a processor that extracts features from the user data and obfuscates the extracted features to generate obfuscated user data. The second device includes a transceiver that transmits the obfuscated user data. The first computing device includes a memory that stores the master version of the ANN, a transceiver that receives obfuscated user data transmitted from the second computing device, and a processor that trains the master version based on the received obfuscated user data using machine learning.

Abstract: Managing prefix lists at edge devices can include detecting, at an edge device, a traffic flow that can include a packet that specifies a destination address. The edge device can measure a bandwidth associated with the traffic flow, identify a flow bandwidth threshold defined for the edge device, and determine if the bandwidth associated with the traffic flow satisfies the flow bandwidth threshold. If a determination is made that the bandwidth associated with the traffic flow satisfies the flow bandwidth threshold, the edge device can include the destination address in a prefix list stored at the edge device. If a determination is made that the bandwidth associated with the traffic flow does not satisfy the flow bandwidth threshold, the edge device can omit the destination address from the prefix list stored at the edge device.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for optimal placement of aggregator equipment in telecommunication networks. An embodiment operates by determining an optimized traffic aggregation configuration based on execution of a network optimization function. The embodiment executes the network optimization function by receiving, as an input, information corresponding to resource capacity of the one or more types of aggregator units and resource demands generated by the plurality of access nodes, calculating an estimated number of each type of traffic aggregator unit of the one or more types of traffic aggregator units, and calculating the optimized traffic aggregation configuration.

Abstract: A data transmission method and an apparatus to communicate data on multiple carriers in the mobile communication system are provided. A random access method of a terminal in a mobile communication system including primary and secondary cells operating on multiple carriers according to the present invention includes communicating data after random access in the primary cell, receiving, when the random access is triggered in the secondary cell, information for use in the secondary cell random access from the primary cell, transmitting a preamble in the secondary cell based on the received information, monitoring the primary cell to receive a Random Access Response for the secondary cell, and applying, when the Random Access Response for the secondary cell is received, the information carried in the Random Access Response to the secondary cell in which the preamble has been transmitted.

Abstract: A method and system to help facilitate communication between a user equipment device (UE) and an access node that is serving the UE, in a scenario where a bearer is configured for the UE, the bearer having a defined set of quality-of-service (QoS) requirements for communication of user-plane data on the bearer. When wireless coverage of the UE from the access node is threshold poor, the access node and a supporting core network could interwork to loosen the set of QoS requirements of the bearer in an effort to avoid loss of the bearer. And upon loosening of the set of QoS requirements, the access node could invoke Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) duplication for the communication between the UE and the access node on the bearer, to help improve quality of the communication between the UE and the access node in presence of the threshold poor wireless coverage.

Abstract: Playback devices may receive video content and an age of a playlist associated with the video content. A playback device may use the age of the playlist to schedule output of video fragments of the video content. The playback device may adjust the output of the video content until an actual output time of a video fragment is substantially the same as the scheduled output time for the video fragment.

Abstract: A method of communication includes receiving configuration data at a first device, the configuration data indicating a first packet loss rate threshold associated with a first codec configuration. The method includes determining a packet loss rate at the first device, the packet loss rate associated with one or more first packets received at the first device from a second device. The method includes, based on determining that a decoder of the first device has the first codec configuration and that the packet loss rate satisfies the first packet loss rate threshold, sending, to the second device, a request to change a codec configuration of the second device. The method also includes receiving a second packet at the first device from the second device, the second packet encoded based on a second codec configuration.

Abstract: A defense suite for an industrial control system (ICS) network is disclosed. The defense suite is installed and executed on a network server hosting the human-machine interface (HMI) function of the network, thereby gaining communication privileges of the HMI server to query and perform other operations with programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and other assets of the network. The defense suite further comprises a network protection engine (NWPE) that alerts a defense suite user of suspicious activity in the network. Normal behavior of the network is obtained by a learning engine, during a learning period. The learning engine can be reactivated after a configuration change in the network. The data suite also comprises an operating system protection engine (OSPE), for preventing removable devices from accessing the HMI server and a preventing execution of unauthorized executables. The OSPE is also trained for which programs are authorized through its own program discovery module.

Abstract: A system for data transmission includes a physical (PHY) layer which has a rate detection module which determines an adopted clock rate. The rate detection module provides a rate detection signal indicative of the adopted clock rate. The PHY layer includes a reference clock generator which has an input coupled to receive the rate detection signal and an output to provide a reference clock output. The PHY layer includes a PHY interface which has a first input coupled to receive the reference clock output, a data input and a data output. The PHY interface receives data from a MAC interface at the data input and transmits data to the MAC interface through the data output responsive to the reference clock output.

Abstract: Disclosed in various embodiments are a method for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for supporting same, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, by means of an upper layer signal, information associated with a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) starting location, and a plurality of combinations of channel access procedure (CAP) types; receiving DCI comprising one combination from among the plurality of combinations; and transmitting PUSCH on the basis of the one combination, wherein the plurality of combinations is a part of the information associated with the PUSCH starting location and collection of candidate combinations of CAP types.

Abstract: The disclosure includes a method for retrieving information stored in a cloud capable database. —A user has an OPC UA client, which is connected for communication with an OPC UA server, wherein the OPC UA server is used for the creating, aggregating and conforming of information models, wherein the OPC UA server interacts with an API for accessing the database, including: creating and loading a user-specific information model into the OPC UA server by using the configuration module, wherein the user-specific information model defines one or more pieces of information to be queried from the database; querying information defined in the user-specific information model from the database using the API and transferring the information from the API to the OPC UA server; converting the queried information into OPC UA-conforming structure data; and sending the structure data from the OPC UA server to the OPC UA client.

Abstract: A cable communications network provides an alternative communications path between a user equipment device and a data network to a cellular path for a communications session with a desired level of Quality of Service. A cable modem termination system, coupled to a wireless core network, e.g., a 5G core network, interacts with the wireless core network to attempt to establish a PDU session for a UE with a desired QoS level. The core sends a QoS service request message to the CMTS including a requested level of QoS, an IP address and port number for the session. The CMTS and cable modem, corresponding to the UE, negotiate and decide if the request desired QoS level can be supported over the cable between the CMTS and the cable mode for the session.

Abstract: Event delivery can be managed in a serverless computing environment. For example, an event broker can determine that each event message in a group of event messages from one or more event producers includes a particular key among a set of keys, and can determine a target event consumer that is to receive the group of event messages. Based on each event message in the group of event messages including the particular key, the event broker can add each event message to a dispatching queue in a sequential order in which the plurality of event messages were received. The event broker can then provide the group of event messages in the dispatching queue to the target event consumer in the sequential order in which the group of event messages are in the dispatching queue.

Abstract: Systems and methods for effectively managing security and privacy measures during a user's connectivity session with a VPN service are provided. The systems and methods use a computer program that introduces a double-NAT feature at the network layer and a temporary hash table containing the minimally necessary temporary data to link two NAT sessions together in a secure manner. The systems and methods avoid including the dynamic management of IP addresses or requiring each client to have an IP address assigned beforehand to avoid compromising the user's identity by hard linking the session traces with the client.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a forwarding element that can be configured through in-band data-plane messages from a remote controller that is a physically separate machine from the forwarding element. The forwarding element of some embodiments has data plane circuits that include several configurable message-processing stages, several storage queues, and a data-plane configurator. A set of one or more message-processing stages of the data plane are configured (1) to process configuration messages received by the data plane from the remote controller and (2) to store the configuration messages in a set of one or more storage queues. The data-plane configurator receives the configuration messages stored in the set of storage queues and configures one or more of the configurable message-processing stages based on configuration data in the configuration messages.

Abstract: A production line test method, system and device for a PCIE Switch product, and a medium. The method comprises: connecting to ports of a target PCIT Switch product using cables according to a preset rule, and controlling a target configuration file to run using a target controller such that the target PCIE Switch product enters a test state, wherein the target configuration file is a file pre-stored in the target PCIE Switch product, and the target controller is a controller pre-connected to the target PCIE Switch product; reading the current running information of the target PCIE Switch product and determining whether the current running information satisfies a preset condition; and if yes, determining that a production line of the target PCIE Switch product is normal. Hence, the method can greatly improve the test efficiency of a production line of a target PCIE Switch product.

Abstract: A network construction method, a routing method and device of mobile ad-hoc networks are provided. The mobile ad-hoc network includes a plurality of nodes, each node communicating with its neighbors via communication links. The routing method comprises the following steps: each node identifying a link quality with each of its neighbors by providing marks based on a hysteresis-based link quality marking mechanism; each node identifying a link operationality with each of its neighbors by evaluating a score calculated from the marks; and each node reconstructing routes with its neighbors by filtering route construction messages related to the link operationality of the neighbors.

Abstract: A first network device may receive, from a second network device, a first policy control create request and may provide, to the second network device, a common policy control request trigger. The first network device may receive a second policy control create request associated with a user equipment (UE) and may cause a UE policy to be provided to the UE. The first network device may receive, from a third network device, a third policy control create request and may provide a network device policy to the third network device. The first network device may receive, from the second network device, a policy control update request based on the common policy control request trigger and may generate an updated UE policy or an updated network device policy based on the policy control update request.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether sufficient resources are available to perform a transmission in a current slot. The UE may transmit the transmission in the current slot, transmit an early reservation signal for a future resource, or determine whether sufficient resources are available to perform the transmission in a subsequent slot based at least in part on a probability-based determination and based at least in part on whether sufficient resources are available to perform the transmission in the current slot. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining a secure path through a first plurality of network nodes within a network and determining an alternate secure path through a second plurality of network nodes within the network. The method also includes routing network traffic through the first plurality of network nodes of the secure path and detecting a failure in the secure path using single-hop BFD authentication. The method further includes rerouting the network traffic through the second plurality of network nodes of the alternate secure path.

Abstract: A data processing system may include a memory module; and a controller configured to exchange data with the memory module in response to a request received from a host. The controller divide a first data into a first data group to error correction and a second data group not to error correction in response to the first data and a first data write request received from the host, generates a first meta data for error correction for the first data group, configures a first data chunk that includes the first data and the first meta data, and transmits the first data chunk to the memory module.

Abstract: A data transmission method and an apparatus to communicate data on multiple carriers in the mobile communication system are provided. A random access method of a terminal in a mobile communication system including primary and secondary cells operating on multiple carriers according to the present invention includes communicating data after random access in the primary cell, receiving, when the random access is triggered in the secondary cell, information for use in the secondary cell random access from the primary cell, transmitting a preamble in the secondary cell based on the received information, monitoring the primary cell to receive a Random Access Response for the secondary cell, and applying, when the Random Access Response for the secondary cell is received, the information carried in the Random Access Response to the secondary cell in which the preamble has been transmitted.

Abstract: A control plane entity selects a subset of a plurality of user plane entities to support a charging session associated with a user based on charging policies for the plurality of user plane entities. The control plane entity allocates portions of a quota for the charging session to the control plane entity and the subset of the plurality of user plane entities based on the charging policies. In some cases, the control plane entity modifies the quotas that are allocated to the control plane entity or the subset of the plurality of user plane entities. Modifying the quotas can include redistributing unused portions of the quotas among the control plane entity and the subset of the plurality of user plane entities, e.g., in response to handover of the user equipment between user plane entities.

Abstract: In one example, a computer implemented method may include determining an application to be monitored in an endpoint, generating a marker with a unique identifier corresponding to the application running in the endpoint, bundling configuration data within the marker. The configuration data may include configuration settings of a monitoring agent installed on the endpoint to monitor the application. Further, the method may include appending the marker bundled with the configuration data to a configuration file of the monitoring agent and enabling the monitoring agent to monitor the application based on the configuration data in the configuration file.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus and a system for data connection management. The method for data connection management includes: obtaining, by a user equipment UE, first instruction information, wherein the first instruction information is used for instructing to close or open a data connection; and transmitting, by the UE, the first instruction information to a packet data network gateway P-GW, for enabling the P-GW to stop or start data transmission of at least one bearer of the UE according to the first instruction information.

Abstract: The routing of data received from a first network device into a second network device, each having a link aggregation engine, includes detecting whether or not the data has already undergone a link aggregation operation in the first device or upstream, based on markers present in the data, and then selecting an output link from all the output links of the second device participating in link aggregation if the data has not already undergone link aggregation, or selecting the output link from all the output links of the second device participating in link aggregation except for the output link towards the first device if the data has already undergone link aggregation, and transmitting the data on the output link selected.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for quality-of-service (QoS) in cellular information centric network (ICN) are described herein. An example system includes processing circuitry, and a memory that includes instructions, the instructions, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to obtain QoS characteristics for an ICN packet, apply the QoS characteristics to the ICN packet, and transmit the ICN packet over the cellular ICN in accordance with the QoS characteristics.

Abstract: A test transmission can be used to train and/or select a signal. For example, a cellular network can configure a receiver with a recommended receiver signal sweeping pattern for mobile devices. A transmitter device can duplicate a data packet transmission and send it to a receiver device to ensure that the receiver can receive the duplicated packets from different signals. Consequently, the duplicated data packet can be indicated in the associated control channel so that the receiver is aware that the data packet is a duplicated transmission, and based on this info and configuration data, the receiver can select a more favorable signal.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory storing a first data set comprising a first plurality of files; a communicator comprising circuitry; and a processor configured to: identify an amount of files having a size less than a first threshold value among the first plurality of files; based on the identified amount of files and a communication state with a server, determine a size of a unit file to be transmitted to the server; convert the identified files having the size less than the first threshold value into the determined size unit, and generate metadata for the first data set while converting the identified files; and control the communicator to transmit the first data set including the converted files and the metadata for the first data set to the server.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions and search terms are disclosed. An example method includes accessing, from a media device, a first identifier and a search term at a first server, the first identifier corresponding to at least one of the media device or a user of the media device, the search term associated with a search request, generating a second identifier based on the first identifier, sending the second identifier and the search term from the first server to a data collection server to facilitate the data collection server to logging the search request, and receiving user information associated with the search request from a database proprietor based on the second identifier.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for integrity protection for a packet data unit. One method includes determining a first portion of a packet data unit, wherein the packet data unit includes the first portion and a second portion. The method includes applying an integrity protection function to the first portion of the packet data unit to result in an integrity protection indicator without applying the integrity protection function to the second portion of the packet data unit. The method includes transmitting the packet data unit with the integrity protection indicator.

Abstract: This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a first sending rate based on a network performance objective of first data and a network status of a first transmission control protocol (TCP) connection of a transport layer protocol, where the first TCP connection is used to send the first data; and sending the first data based on the first sending rate. In this way, network congestion control is more flexible, and TCP-based data transmission efficiency is improved.