Abstract: A communication protocol system is provided for reliable transport of packets. Transport of packets includes transmitting, by a sender entity over a connection to a receiver entity, a plurality of packets in a first order, maintaining, by the sender entity, one or more sliding windows including a plurality of bits, wherein each bit of the sliding window represents a respective packet of the plurality of packets, receiving, by the sender entity, one or more acknowledgments indicating that one or more of the plurality of packets have been received by the receiver entity, each of the acknowledgments referencing a respective packet of the plurality of packets and modifying, by the sender entity, values of one or more of the plurality of bits in the sliding window corresponding to the one or more acknowledgments received.

Abstract: In various embodiments, a method and apparatus are configured to receive information associated with a path from a first node to a second node; and generate a set of one or more segment identifiers at least one of which is in an address space having a span in a current region in which the first node resides, and is configured for use in identifying a next region, wherein the set of one or more segment identifiers encodes the path.

Abstract: Modular vending machines for storing and dispensing products to consumers. A modular vending machine may include a product storage system, a user interface, and a control unit. Several modular vending machines may be stacked and/or arranged together in various configurations. Several modular vending machines may be linked electronically and may communicate with each other and/or with a user mobile device over a network. A modular vending machine may automatically complete a transaction with the consumer, where the consumer removes a product from the modular vending machine. A consumer may access and purchase products from several modular vending machines in one transaction.

Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus and a method that allow for synthesis of information using an original signal and a retransmission signal for retransmitting information of the original signal whose demodulation has failed, in wireless communication with independent physical layer and MAC layer. Information is transmitted regarding a configuration of a retransmission signal for retransmitting information of an original signal whose demodulation has failed to a sender of the retransmission signal, and the retransmission signal transmitted from the sender is received on the basis of the information regarding the configuration of the retransmission signal transmitted.

Abstract: In various embodiments, a device classification service obtains device telemetry data indicative of declarative attributes of a device in a network and indicative of behavioral attributes of that device. The device classification service labels the device with a device type, based on the device telemetry data. The device classification service detects device type spoofing exhibited by the device using a model that models a relationship between the declarative attributes and the behavioral attributes. The device classification service initiates, based on the device type spoofing, a mitigation action regarding the device.

Abstract: A system and method for providing a communication session is provided. The system and method include a client device in communication with a plurality of communication networks. The system and method further includes a server also in communication with the plurality of communication networks. The client device includes a network monitor module and a dialer module. The network monitor module determines which networks to utilize in the communication session, and the dialer module initiates and terminates the communication session. The server receives a data signal associated with the communication session from the selected communication network. The server places a separate call to the recipient client device and completes the connection from the client device to the recipient client device by sending the data signal over the phone call to the recipient client device.

Abstract: A route recursion control method includes a first network device that receives Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing information from a second network device. The BGP routing information includes a destination address, a next-hop address for the destination address, and attribute information. The attribute information indicates a manner of performing route recursion on the next-hop address by the first network device. The first network device determines, based on the attribute information, the manner of performing the route recursion on the next-hop address.

Abstract: A network system is provided between at least a first client site and a second client site. A client site network component is implemented at least at the first client site, the client site network component aggregating one or more diverse network connections so as to configure an aggregated connection that has increased throughput. At least one network server component may be configured to connect to the client site network component using the aggregated connection. A cloud network controller may be configured to manage the data traffic and a virtual edge providing transparent lower-link encryption for the aggregated connection between the client site network component and the network server component. The network server component includes a virtual control plane interface configured to establish a unicast path between the network server component and each of a plurality of re-mote network server components.

Abstract: Method and system for transmitting data by a transmit device in a wireless communication channel bandwidth of a wireless network, the wireless communication channel bandwidth including a set of adjacent frequency channels of uniform bandwidth that comprise a primary channel for the transmit device and a plurality of secondary channels, including: sending, when the primary channel is sensed by the transmit device to be busy, a request frame for a receive device on one or more of the secondary channels that are sensed by the transmit device to be idle; monitoring, by the transmit device, for a response frame on each of the one or more of the secondary channels; and sending, by the transmit device, a data transmission for the receive device using a data channel that comprises one or more of the secondary channels on which the transmit device received a response frame from the receive device.

Abstract: Embodiments of this present disclosure may include a system that includes a first network device. The first network device may perform an operation according to a device configuration file. The system may also include a second network device that directly communicatively couples to the first network device through a peer-to-peer (P-P) communication network. The second network device may include a backup file of the device configuration file. The second network device may transmit the backup file of the device configuration file to the first network device in response to detecting that the first network device is lacking the device configuration file.

Abstract: Methods and systems may be used to synchronize time across multiple IoT related entities, such as a network of resource constrained sensor and actuator type devices, IoT gateways, IoT cloud services, or IoT applications.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method, by a network apparatus of a first domain network, includes receiving one or more packets from an access network, determining a classification for the packets based on the accounting information, selecting, based on the determined classification, a policy configuration from a plurality of policy configurations for processing the packets, encapsulating the packets with one or more segment identifiers in accordance with the selected policy configuration, and sending the encapsulated packets to a network slice or a second network slice in a second domain network based on the one or more segment identifiers.

Abstract: A test module tests the configuration of a network device. The test module obtains test parameters for a test process of the network device, and determines that the test parameters indicate a network conversation to test the network device. The network conversation includes a sequence of multiple messages. The test module also generates an initial message of the network conversation based on the test parameters, and provides the initial message to the network device. The test module further tracks processing results of the network device processing the initial message in the test process.

Abstract: Systems and methods for establishing path protection modes are provided. In one embodiment, a processor is configured to create a traffic policy that defines a Label Switched Path (LSP) configured to route data traffic in a unitary direction in a data plane of a telecommunications network. The LSP is configured to route the data traffic from a source router of an initial network domain to a destination router of a final network domain. The processor also creates a protection policy that defines one or more backup protection paths for routing the data traffic around one or more faulty nodes or links in a Segment Routing (SR) architecture of the telecommunications network. Furthermore, the processor distributes the traffic policy and protection policy in the telecommunication network via the Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP).

Abstract: The technology discloses intercepting a request to initiate a call configured to utilize one of plurality of call initiation techniques. Next, it is determined when the one of the call initiation techniques in the intercepted request is in a subset of the plurality of call initiation techniques configured to integrate at least a part of media control negotiation and call establishment. One or more fields of the intercepted request is modified to disable the one of the plurality of call initiation techniques that is configured to integrate at least a part of media control negotiation and call establishment when the determination indicates the one of the plurality of call initiation techniques is in the subset. A permission is provided to the first mobile device to initiate the call with the second mobile device using a sequential call establishment and media control negotiation technique.

Abstract: This application describes a tunnel establishment method. The method may include receiving, by a first network device, a first request message sent by a previous-hop network device, where the first request message is used to request to obtain an RSVP-TE label of the first network device, the first network device supports RSVP-TE and SR-TE, and the previous-hop network device supports RSVP-TE. The method may also include that when the first network device determines that at least one network device in downstream network devices of the first network device on a path of a to-be-established tunnel supports SR-TE, establishing an SR-TE tunnel from the first network device to a second network device in the at least one network device, and generating a tunnel identifier used to identify the SR-TE tunnel. Furthermore, the method may include sending, by the first network device, a first response message to the previous-hop network device, where the first response message includes the tunnel identifier.

Abstract: A method may include identifying an update file for a plurality of nodes; selecting a first set of nodes of the plurality of nodes based on a set of node selection criteria; sending the update file to the first set of nodes via a software-defined network (SDN); receiving a first message from a first node of the first set of nodes indicating that the first node is ready to host the update file; identifying a second node that is connected to the first node responsive to receiving the first message from the first node; sending a first instruction to the second node for the second node to obtain the update file from the first node; receiving a second message from the second node indicating that the second node is ready to host the update file; and adding the second node to the first set of nodes.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a routing path analysis method and device. The method includes a first step of determining a key node based on a label stack of segment routing of a data packet. The key node includes a diversion node, a next-hop working path node of the diversion node, and a next-hop protection path node of the diversion node. The diversion node is a crossed node of a working path and a protection path. The method further includes determining neighboring nodes of the key node as relevant nodes; querying for traffic information of the key node and traffic information of the relevant nodes; selecting, from the key node and the relevant nodes based on the traffic information, the nodes for the data packet to pass. The routing path of the data packet is determined based on the selected nodes.

Abstract: A method provides for the automatic configuration of a field device in a process control system. The process control system comprises one or more field devices and a configuration provider. The field devices and the configuration provider are communicatively coupled via a communication system. The method comprises: the automatic retrieval and provision of configuration data of the field devices via the configuration provider; the automatic recognition of the field device via the configuration provider after the removal of a second field device from the process control system and the replacement with the field device; and the automatic configuration of the field device using the provisioned configuration data of the second field device via the configuration provider. The method further comprises the recurrent sending of an introducing message from the configuration provider to the field devices to introduce the configuration provider to the field devices.

Abstract: An application-centric modernization and migration (AMM) architecture delivers AMM as a service to enterprises to automate migrating applications to new environments. In this regard, the architecture implements data migration functionality in concert with application code migration, environment provisioning, and post-migration configuration. The joint migration of application data and application code effectively provides a complete migration of an application. The architecture may also define and deliver a GUI portal through which an application owner provides application-specific metadata to drive the AMM.

Abstract: The present relates to a node to be integrated in a network of wirelessly connected nodes, to a network system, to method for operating a node of a network, and to a method for communicating within a network. A method is disclosed for communicating within a network of cooperatively synchronized nodes, configured to broadcast data packets to the network during broadcast phases through a flooding mechanism, each data packet comprising hop data. The method comprises, for each broadcast phase, broadcasting a data packet from a source node during a predetermined time slot; and receiving the data packet at one or more destination node during said predetermined time slot. The broadcasting and receiving are repeated according to the hop data, at respective predetermined time slots, wherein each destination node corresponds to a source node in a next execution of broadcasting and the data packet received corresponds substantially to the data packet to be broadcasted in the next repetition.

Abstract: Virtual machine mobility for virtual machine using remote direct memory access (RDMA) connections, including: receiving a virtual machine (VM) mobility request to transfer a virtual machine from a source host to a destination host; migrating application data transfer from an RDMA connection of the virtual machine to a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection of the virtual machine, wherein the RDMA connection and the TCP connection are facilitated by a physical network adapter; migrating the TCP connection to a virtual network adapter of the virtual machine; and transferring the virtual machine from the source host to the destination host.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for wireless data broadcasting. The system provides a hub for broadcasting data wirelessly to a plurality of end devices, such as light fixtures, and a plurality of nodes for retrieving at least a portion of the data broadcasted from the hub. Each node is associated with at least one corresponding end device, and transmits data retrieved to the end device. A method is provided for broadcasting the data using the system. The method includes interrogating the nodes and determining what data is required by the corresponding end devices. The hub then packetizes, in RF packets, the required data and transmits data to each of several nodes.

Abstract: By bearing multiple service signals in a same bearing area of a same Ethernet PCS channel, it is implemented that multiple types of service signals share an Ethernet channel, so that the multiple types of service signals can share a link resource and an interface module resource. This provides a basis for convergence and integration of devices in a multi-technology system, and can improve utilization of link resources and reduce a quantity, a footprint, power consumption, maintenance costs, and the like of devices in a metropolitan area network.

Abstract: Methods and devices for encoding or decoding messages, each message including a list of information items. The encoding method comprises determining a first list of indexes associated with information items that are already indexed in a local indexing table and a second list of literal values of other information items not yet indexed in said indexing table; encoding the indexes of the first list; binary compressing at least a serialized binary representation of the literal values of the second list; and concatenating the first list and the second list together to obtain an encoded bitstream of the information items. When the messages are sent over a plurality of connections, a global table is shared between the connections to store the indexed items of information; and a local indexing table for each connection associates indexes with references to an entry of the shared global table.

Abstract: A system for providing differentiated services to traffic flows of a content distribution network is disclosed. In particular, the system may include determining if a first portion of an internet protocol address associated with a traffic flow includes an identifier for a node in the content distribution network by comparing the identifier to a set of prefixes for the content distribution network. Additionally, the system may include determining if a second portion of the internet protocol address matches a unique host address specified by the content distribution network for a customer of the content distribution network. If a rule for providing a differentiated service exists for the customer, the first portion is in the set of prefixes, and the second portion matches the unique host address specified for the customer, the system may provide the differentiated service for the traffic flow.

Abstract: A communication system comprises a network configured to support data, voice, and video communications and a docking station coupled to the network and configured to provide data connections to a personal computer wireless device, wherein the personal computer wireless device is configured to communicate with the docking station using light communication. A method for accessing the communication system comprises connecting a personal computer wireless device to a docking station using light communication and identifying a current location of the personal computer wireless device based upon LC with the docking station or an LC access point. One or more selected applications may be enabled or disabled on the personal computer wireless device based upon the current location.

Abstract: A method for distributing Sigtran connections among signal transfer point (STP) message processors includes providing a connection load balancer as a front end to plural message processors of an STP. The method further includes publishing, by the connection load balancer, an Internet protocol (IP) address to SS7 peers. The method further includes initializing the message processors of the STP to listen on the IP address published by the connection load balancer. The method further includes receiving, at the connection load balancer, a Sigtran message addressed to the IP address. The method further includes determining, by the connection load balancer, whether the Sigtran message is an initial message for a Sigtran connection or a subsequent message for a Sigtran connection and whether the Sigtran connection has been assigned to one of the message processors.

Abstract: A method for providing reduced signaling Internet of things (IoT) device monitoring includes steps performed in a combined and service capability exposure function (SCEF) and Diameter signaling router (DSR) including at least one processor. The method includes receiving Diameter signaling containing IoT device information. The method further includes using the IoT device information to automatically provision an IoT device information database. The method further includes receiving a monitoring subscription request. The method further includes extracting the IoT device information from the IoT device information database. The method further includes using the IoT device information to respond to the monitoring subscription request.

Abstract: An integrated circuit for monitoring components of the integrated circuit, comprising: a resource monitoring circuit configured to: track activity factors for a plurality of components of the integrated circuit; evaluate the activity factors for each of the plurality of components; determine whether an activity factor for a particular component of the plurality of components exceeds a threshold; and transmit, from the resource monitoring circuit, a signal to a software element, causing the software element to deactivate the particular component and activate an alternate component, when the activity factor for the particular component exceeds the threshold and the alternate component is available to substitute for the particular component.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method is provided for customization of a mobile communications device's data session retry mechanism in a wireless packet data service network. The mobile communication device requests activation of a data session with a node via the wireless network and receives a reject message via the wireless network in response to the request for activation of the data session, the reject message including a cause code. If the cause code corresponds to a no-retry behavior of the data session retry mechanism of the mobile communication device, the mobile communications device no longer requesting activation of a data session with the node.

Abstract: A storage system in a clustered system may receive a first input/output (I/O) request. The storage system may include one or more storage nodes. Each of the one or more storage nodes may have a copy of a particular object stored thereon. The storage system may execute the first I/O request. Executing the first I/O request may modify data of a first object in a first storage node. The first object may be a copy of the particular object. The storage system may transfer the modified data of the first object to a master storage node. The master storage node may include a master object update descriptor list.

Abstract: A network device may forward fragments of an IPv4 network packet to an IPv6 network without reassembling the IPv4 network packet. The network device may receive and buffer one or more fragments of a fragment flow associated with the IPv4 network packet until it receives a fragment of the fragment flow that includes an indication of the destination port of the IPv4 network packet. When the network device receives the fragment that includes the indication of the destination port of the IPv4 network packet, the network device may encapsulate each fragment of the fragment flow that it has received into respective IPv6 network packets to the IPv6 network.

Abstract: A method of detecting a transmitting device within an obstruction rich environment is disclosed. The method may involve detecting the transmitting device with a wireless transmission detection facility; communicating signal information relating to the detected transmitting device from the wireless transmission detection facility to a central unit; determining the location of the transmitting device; displaying information of the detection and location of the transmitting device through a user interface; and providing an action facility for causing actions related to the detected transmitting device.

Abstract: Provided are a method and device for transmitting a packet. According to an example of the method, a Controlling Bridge (CB) device maintains a mapping entry representing a correspondence between a Port Extender (PEX) device and a Media Access Control (MAC) address of a host connected with the PEX device in a mapping table. The CB device receives a first data packet transmitted by a first PEX device, and determines a mapping entry in which the MAC address of the host matches a destination MAC address of the first data packet by querying the mapping table. Then, the CB device transmits the first data packet to a second PEX device in the mapping entry.

Abstract: A method may include identifying an update file for a plurality of nodes; selecting a first set of nodes of the plurality of nodes based on a set of node selection criteria; sending the update file to the first set of nodes via a software-defined network (SDN); receiving a first message from a first node of the first set of nodes indicating that the first node is ready to host the update file; identifying a second node that is connected to the first node responsive to receiving the first message from the first node; sending a first instruction to the second node for the second node to obtain the update file from the first node; receiving a second message from the second node indicating that the second node is ready to host the update file; and adding the second node to the first set of nodes.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method for determining a forwarding path and a control device. The method includes: obtaining a first-forwarding-path computation request, where the first-forwarding-path computation request instructs to compute a first forwarding path that is from a source node to a destination node and that satisfies a first constraint; and when the control device computes at least two forwarding paths that satisfy the first constraint, obtaining, based on a mapping relationship between a path computation reference constraint and a priority, a path computation reference constraint having a highest priority, and determining, based on the path computation reference constraint having the highest priority and from the at least two forwarding paths that satisfy the first constraint, at least one forwarding path that satisfies the path computation reference constraint having the highest priority.

Abstract: A method and system for dynamic redundancy in storage systems is described. The method may include receiving a data fragment from a data stream of user data to be archived. The method may further include splitting the data fragment into a first number of data chunks. The method may also include, in response to determining that the data fragment is not a last data fragment in the data stream, generating a second number of additional data chunks based upon, at least in part, the first number of data chunks. The method may additionally include, in response to determining that the data fragment is the last data fragment in the data stream, generating a third number of additional data chunks based upon, at least in part, the first number of data chunks.

Abstract: An authentication method, an authentication apparatus, and an authentication system for the communications field are described. The authentication includes sending, by first user equipment, a first random parameter to second user equipment. The second user equipment obtains a first user identifier, a second user identifier, and a second random parameter; and generates a second authentication feature based on the first user identifier, the second user identifier, the first random parameter, and the second random parameter. The second user equipment sends the second authentication feature to the first user equipment for authentication. The first user equipment, after authentication, generates a first authentication feature. The first authentication feature is sent to the second user equipment for authentication.

Abstract: In the present application, a method is disclosed for receiving data from a base station by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method comprises the steps of: receiving the data from the base station through a multicast channel; when decoding of the data is unsuccessful, transmitting a retransmission request signal for the data to the base station; and receiving a retransmission of the data from the base station through a unicast channel, wherein the data received through the multicast channel and the data received through the unicast channel are characterized by including the same transport block having mutually different and dissimilar RVs (Redundancy Versions).

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate, in one aspect, to a computing device. The computing device may include, among other things, a first communications module to send communication data, a communications monitor to capture a portion of the communication data sent from the first communication module, and a management processor to determine, based on the captured portion, a network address associated with the computing device.

Abstract: A method for signal transmission, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method includes: a terminal device determines a number of beams used for transmitting signals or a number N of signals to be transmitted according to a detected synchronization signal and/or a detected synchronization channel, where N is a positive integer; the terminal device transmits the signals with a network device according to the number of the beams or the number N of the signals to be transmitted.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a wireless controller having at least one processor and a radio frequency (RF) module. The at least one processor is configured to execute control logic in order to determine how to adjust at least one actuator based on data from at least one sensor. The RF module is configured to communicate wirelessly with the sensor(s) and/or actuator(s) over one or more wireless networks. The at least one processor is also configured to function as a gateway for each wireless network. The RF module is also configured to function as an access point for each wireless network. The at least one processor could be configured to execute multiple protocol stacks to function as the gateway for the multiple wireless networks, and the RF module could be associated with multiple access point protocol stacks to function as the access point for the multiple wireless networks.

Abstract: Detecting a foreign device is connected between what are expected to be directly connected network modules may present a network security concern. Disclosed is a protocol and method for detecting that an unexpected (i.e., foreign) device is in an unexpected location in a network path. For example, connected between two network nodes that are expected to be directly connected to each other. Scalable compute resources may rely on direct network connectivity to provide high availability, throughput, and security. Accordingly, determining a foreign device exists in the network path between two frame link modules (FLMs), for example, may address this need for security and reliability. A device connected to sniff network data may not advertise itself to the network and therefore may be actively detected using the disclosed methods.

Abstract: An IoT communication method, including: receiving via an account of the communication end, access information or control information sent from an account of a user end. The access information includes an identifier of a source terminal and an access command which accesses status information of the source terminal. The control information includes the identifier of the source terminal and a control command which controls the source terminal, the account of the communication end and the account of the user end are bound to each other in instant messaging software; sending the access command or the control command to the source terminal specified by the identifier of the source terminal; obtaining source information which the source terminal returns in response to receiving the access command or the control command from the communication end; sending, via the account of the communication end, the source information to the account of the user end.

Abstract: Device to device (D2D) communication can be performed with packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) based encapsulation without internet protocol (IP) addressing. The non-IP D2D PDCP-encapsulated communication can further include two forms of secure data transfer. A first non-IP D2D PDCP-encapsulated communication can be a negotiated non-IP D2D PDCP-encapsulated communication. A second non-IP D2D PDCP-encapsulated communication can be a non-negotiated non-IP D2D communication. The non-negotiated non-IP D2D PDCP-encapsulated communication can include a common key management server (KMS) version and a distributed KMS version. The encapsulated communication can be used with various protocols, including a PC5 protocol (such as the PC5 Signaling Protocol) and wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) protocols.

Abstract: A method performed by a first communication apparatus for transmitting data to a second communication apparatus in a communication channel shared with a communication link including a third communication apparatus, wherein all of the first communication apparatus, the second communication apparatus and the third communication apparatus employing directional transmission, the method comprising: determining there is data to be transmitted to the second communication apparatus; and transmitting the data to the second communication apparatus before listening to the channel.

Abstract: The document discloses a method for invoking a routing algorithm, an SDN-OAF, and an SDN controller. The method includes pre-configuring a customized routing algorithm; an SDN controller receiving a path computation request from an application, invoking a corresponding customized routing algorithm according to information about the customized routing algorithm carried in the path computation request to compute a service path.

Abstract: A method for remote-hosted video effects includes rendering an application frame buffer in a hosting service that is streaming interactive video. Only a portion of the application frame buffer is subsequently displayed on a local device.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication device and a communication method which are capable of achieving both an improvement in reliability of communication in which a frame is transmitted to a plurality of destinations and effective use of wireless communication resources. [Solution] The communication device includes: a communication unit configured to perform communication of a frame. The communication unit transmits a transmission acknowledgment request frame for a transmission acknowledgment response frame including frequency allocation information specifying a transmission frequency of the transmission acknowledgment response frame, and receives the transmission acknowledgment response frame which has undergone frequency division multiplexing, on the basis of the frequency allocation information.