Abstract: A data processing method implemented by a network interface card device, wherein the method comprises receiving, from a first client, a first access request carrying an access address, detecting whether the first access request has a conflict; and processing the conflict according to a processing policy when the network interface card device detects that the first access request has a conflict.

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, including receiving, by a wireless device of a first wireless network, a control request frame from a second access node of a second wireless network, the control request frame including at least a number of nulls for the wireless device. The wireless device selects a subset of antenna elements, wherein the number of antenna elements is in accordance with the number of nulls for the wireless device, and the antenna elements are selected based on reception powers of antenna elements of at least a frame from a first access node of the first wireless network and/or the second access node of the second wireless network. The wireless device transmits a control response frame with the selected antenna elements, and a data frame to the first access node with the selected antenna elements.

Abstract: In a method of query derivation in an observation platform a signal from a first communication device is received at a second communication device that is associated with a computer system. The computer system is associated with an organization and a first characteristic of the signal corresponds to an audible source. The signal is parsed, by the computer system according to a policy, to determine metadata associated with the signal, wherein the first communication device is operated by a user and wherein the policy dictates rules for use of the metadata. The computer system determines a prior user history of the user. The computer system converts the audible source of the signal to text or machine understandable language. The computer system derives a query related to the organization based on at least one of the prior user history, the metadata, and the text or machine understandable language.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating discrete latent representations of input data items. One of the methods includes receiving an input data item; providing the input data item as input to an encoder neural network to obtain an encoder output for the input data item; and generating a discrete latent representation of the input data item from the encoder output, comprising: for each of the latent variables, determining, from a set of latent embedding vectors in the memory, a latent embedding vector that is nearest to the encoded vector for the latent variable.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, at an unmanaged switch, a link-aggregation control protocol (“LACP”) protocol data unit (“PDU”) on each port of two or more connections to be in a link-aggregation group (“LAG”). The ports are in the unmanaged switch, which is unconfigured for LACP and is connected over the connections to a managed switch configured for LACP. The method includes, in response to the ports that received an LACP PDU being unconfigured for LACP, configuring each port receiving an LACP PDU for LACP, creating a LAG that includes the connections of the ports that received the LACP PDUs, and starting an LACP timer. The method includes, in response to determining that the LACP timer has expired, clearing the LACP configuration of the ports configured for LACP. The LACP timer expires in response to the ports in the LAG not receiving additional LACP PDUs prior to expiration of a timer period.

Abstract: A window adjustment method and apparatus, a network device and a terminal device, the method comprising: a network device determining a first sending parameter, the first sending parameter being used to indicate an SN of a first data packet, and sending the first data packet according to the first sending parameter, the first data packet being a next data packet expected to be sent in a send window (501); if the network device confirms that the first data packet has been accurately received by at least one terminal device, the network device moving the send window; a starting SN of the send window before being moved being a first SN, a starting SN of the send window after being moved being a second SN, and the second SN being a first unconfirmed SN after the first SN (502).

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication device, and a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device includes: a communicator that delivers, to the second wireless communication device, data addressed to a third wireless communication device and receives, from the second wireless communication device, information on communication quality according to failed data of which delivery fails among the data delivered from the second wireless communication device to the third wireless communication device; and a controller that controls delivery of the data in accordance with the information on the communication quality.

Abstract: A voltage conversion apparatus for converting from a control voltage to a supply voltage and an apparatus for converting from a supply voltage to a control voltage are described. The supply voltage is designed to power, through a coaxial cable, a data communication device, and the coaxial cable is suitable for transmitting said supply voltage signal and at least one data signal associated with said data communication device. A conversion means of the conversion apparatus is configured to convert from the control voltage to the supply voltage comprising conversion means configured to convert from a first value of control voltage Vp1 and from a second value of control voltage Vp2 to a first value of supply voltage Va1 and, respectively, to a second value of supply voltage Va2. Said first value of control voltage Vp1 and said second value of control voltage Vp2 are values of control voltage for controlling a device that is distinct from such a data communication device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for timing over a Metro Transport Networking (MTN) path include detecting a specific block in a stream of blocks, wherein each block is encoded based on a line code, and sampling an output of a clock to determine a timestamp reference based on detection of the specific block, and transmitting timing information based on the timestamp reference. The specific block can be a control block. The timing information can be transmitted via a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) message. The timing information can be transmitted via a plurality of subsequent specific blocks.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for automatically establishing a virtual private network (VPN) based on detecting a connection to a public network. A computing device may detect a connection to a public network. The computing device may determine whether the connection to the public network is secured and/or may determine a quality of that connection. If the connection is unsecure and/or if the quality satisfies a quality threshold, the computing device may establish a VPN session.

Abstract: Systems and methods for detection of network issues and health reporting to ground-based stakeholders are described herein. In exemplary embodiments, a system includes multiple aircraft, wherein an aircraft in the multiple aircraft communicates through one or more communication links. The aircraft includes processors that compile network event information related to degraded communication link events. Further, the aircraft includes memory units that store a degraded link event report and a configuration database, wherein the degraded link event report stores the network event information related to the degraded communication link events as directed the configuration database.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for creating a custom service in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method implemented via a processor determines that the custom service does not exist, receives one or more desired functions for the custom service, creates the custom service having the one or more desired functions and modifies one or more network elements within the communication network to perform the one or more desired functions to deploy the custom service.

Abstract: Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for switch management involves connecting switches to form a switch ring, and within the switch ring, configuring each of the switches to participate equally in network communications.

Abstract: Bandwidth for information transfers between devices is dynamically changed to accommodate transitions between power modes employed in a system. The bandwidth is changed by selectively enabling and disabling individual control links and data links that carry the information. During a highest bandwidth mode for the system, all of the data and control links are enabled to provide maximum information throughout. During one or more lower bandwidth modes for the system, at least one data link and/or at least one control link is disabled to reduce the power consumption of the devices. At least one data link and at least one control link remain enabled during each low bandwidth mode. For these links, the same signaling rate is used for both bandwidth modes to reduce latency that would otherwise be caused by changing signaling rates. Also, calibration information is generated for disabled links so that these links may be quickly brought back into service.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for determining for at least one of a plurality of user equipments, based on an activation probability value of some or all of the plurality of user equipments, uplink resources for use by the at least one user equipment; and providing an indication of the determined uplink resources to the at least one user equipment.

Abstract: Provided is a transmission device for transmitting and receiving data through a transmission channel. The transmission device includes a transmission circuit unit configured to transmit data to the transmission channel. When an overcurrent caused by a simultaneous transmission of data to the transmission channel is detected during data transmission, the transmission circuit unit increases an output resistance, which is a resistance value for an output to the transmission channel, to an resistance value corresponding to a characteristic of a facility equipment item that transmits data to the transmission channel at the same time as itself.

Abstract: A system and method for communication channel failover between disparate communication providers. A communication application hosting server: while hosting a communication application between a first user device and a second user device: initiating establishing a first communication channel between the first user device and the second user device, wherein the first communication channel is provided by a first communication channel provider. The method further comprising, receiving a failure to connect signal from the first user; in response to receiving the failure to connect signal: determining whether a second communication channel provided by a second communication channel provider of a plurality of disparate communication channel providers meets a failover criteria. In response to determining that the second communication channel provided by the second communication channel provider meets failover criteria, redirecting the first user device and second user device to the second communication channel.

Abstract: A multiple access point system includes a wireless network including a first channel and a second channel. The system further includes a first access point and a second access point co-located within a single physical location environment, a wireless backhaul connecting the first and second access points to the wireless network, and a processor configured to (i) assign the first channel as a primary channel of the first access point and the second channel as a primary channel of the second access point, and (ii) assign the first channel as a secondary channel of the second access point and the second channel as a secondary channel of the second access point. The primary channel of the first access point does not overlap with the primary channel of the second access point, and the secondary channel of the second access point overlaps with the first access point.

Abstract: A method and system for accelerating the analysis of large-scale data reads a data packet from a queue, and after performing data processing on the data packet, a first high, middle, and low byte of the processed data packet is cyclically read; a preset signal reference value is read, and the signal reference value is converted into a collected value according to a preset signal transformation ratio and correction factor; the collected value is converted into an integer value, and the integer value is split into a second high, middle, and low byte; and the first high, middle, and low byte of the processed data packet is compared with the second high, middle and low byte of the integer value in a preset way. A determination as to whether the data of the packet is abnormal or not is made based on the result of the comparison.

Abstract: A first communication device is configured to process packets that conform to a first physical layer (PHY) protocol for wireless vehicular communications and packets that conform to a second PHY protocol for wireless vehicular communications. The first communication device determines that one or more second communication devices neighboring the first communication device are not capable of processing packets that conform to the second PHY protocol. The first communication device transmits a first packet to a third communication device that is configured to process packets that conform to the first PHY protocol and packets that conform to the second PHY protocol. The first packet indicates that the one or more second communication devices neighboring the first communication device are not capable of processing packets that conform to the second PHY protocol to inform the third communication device of the one or more second communication devices.

Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for interference aware packet transmission. A method is performed by a radio transceiver device. The method comprises obtaining an estimate of interference in a surrounding of the radio transceiver device. The method comprises determining how many symbols for channel estimation to include in a packet to be transmitted based on amount of estimated interference. The method comprises transmitting the packet towards another radio transceiver device, where the packet comprises the determined amount of symbols for channel estimation.

Abstract: A regular buffer and a shadow buffer are maintained at a receiver host. Responsive to receiving a data flow from a sender host that is clock-synchronized with the receiver host using a common reference clock, a first indication of data of the data flow is stored to the regular buffer, the shadow buffer is transitioned from an idle state to an active state, and a counter of the shadow buffer is incremented that indicates a unit of data traffic received. A dynamic drain rate is determined based on a number of units of the data removed from the regular buffer per unit of time while the shadow buffer is in the active state, where the shadow buffer reverts to an idle state responsive to a break in the receiver host receiving the data flow. Dwell time is calculated as a function of the counter of the shadow buffer and the dynamic drain rate, and a congestion signal for the data flow is determined based on the dwell time.

Abstract: A method for receiving a backoff value at a wireless station is presented. A traffic indication map is received at the station, wherein a backoff number is implicitly assigned to the station based on a position of the station within the traffic indication map. The backoff value is determined by multiplying the backoff number by a predetermined time value.

Abstract: Link data is stored in a distributed link descriptor memory (“DLDM”) including memory instances storing protocol data unit (“PDU”) link descriptors (“PLDs”) or cell link descriptors (“CLDs”). Responsive to receiving a request for buffering a current transfer data unit (“TDU”) in a current PDU, a current PLD is accessed in a first memory instance in the DLDM. It is determined whether any data field designated to store address information in connection with a TDU is currently unoccupied within the current PLD. If no data field designated to store address information in connection with a TDU is currently unoccupied within the current PLD, a current CLD is accessed in a second memory instance in the plurality of memory instances of the same DLDM. Current address information in connection with the current TDU is stored in an address data field within the current CLD.

Abstract: An arrangement is disclosed where in a multi-carrier communication system, the modulation scheme, coding attributes, training pilots, and signal power may be adjusted to adapt to channel conditions in order to maximize the overall system capacity and spectral efficiency without wasting radio resources or compromising error probability performance, etc.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods in a communication system are provided. A method comprises receiving from network instructions of how to control multi-user multiple input multiple output connections maintained by one or more radio access nodes, the connections utilising one or more slices. One or more radio access nodes perform, based at least in part on the received network instructions, multi-user pairing of terminal devices of the same or different slices, and determine, based at least in part on the received network instructions, slice-based quota taking multi-user pairing and interference arising from paired allocations into account.

Abstract: Arrangements for transaction adapter control are provided. In some aspects, a user device may connect to a network in a current geographic location. The user computing device may detect that a change in geographic location has occurred based on the current geographic location. Responsive to detecting that the change in geographic location has occurred, a mobile transaction adapter associated with or unique to the current geographic location may be downloaded to the user computing device. The mobile transaction adapter may be a plug-in component to a mobile payment application on the user computing device. A request to process a transaction may be received via the mobile payment application on the user device. Upon receiving the request to process the transaction, the mobile transaction adapter may be activated and the request may be routed to the mobile transaction adapter. The requested transaction may then be processed via the mobile transaction adapter.

Abstract: Determination of an inflection point in congestion in a network path can include determining packet congestion on a network path using an inflection point mechanism (IPDM), detecting a potential inflection point in response to a one-way delay (OWD) of a first packet being lesser than an OWD of a second packet by a quantity greater than a function of a difference of inter departure time (IDT) between the first packet and the second packet, and determining an inflection point in congestion of the network path based on the potential inflection point.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for establishing a level of security for a virtual meeting similar to a level of security associated with in person meetings. A communication system may use an application programming interface (API) of an operating system to secure the device by terminating any applications or processes operating on the computing device that are not consistent with a security policy. The system may also use machine learning techniques to monitor audio and/or video streams for participant behaviors that are not consistent with a security policy.

Abstract: In some examples, a system identifies a potential issue based on comparing measurement data acquired at different hierarchical levels of a computing environment. Within a hierarchical level of the different hierarchical levels, the system determines, based on measurement data acquired for objects in the hierarchical level, whether the potential issue is localized to a subset of the objects.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive protocol data units (PDUs) in multiple TTIs (e.g., slots). The wireless communication device may generate, for each TTI of the multiple TTIs, a descriptor that identifies serial numbers (SNs) of PDUs that are received in the TTI. The wireless communication device may aggregate the descriptors for the multiple TTIs into an aggregated descriptor that identifies the SNs of the PDUs across the multiple TTIs. The wireless communication device may process the PDUs received in the multiple TTIs based at least in part on the aggregated descriptor. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: A control system for a motor vehicle, having a first control device for controlling a first function of the motor vehicle and a second control device for controlling a second function of the motor vehicle. The first and second control devices are each in a signal transmission connection with at least one sensor and/or at least one actuator. To ensure the proper execution of functions of a motor vehicle controlled by control devices even with a faulty control device with the least possible effort, it is provided that in dependence on the receipt of an error signal from the first control device or the second control device, the respective error-free control device is configured such that the function of the motor vehicle that corresponds to the faulty control device is controlled by the error-free control device.

Abstract: A first method comprises transmitting (101) a preamble in a first time interval in a first frequency resource, transmitting (103) a first portion or a first copy of data in the first frequency resource in a second time interval, and transmitting (105) a second portion or second copy of the data in a second frequency resource in the second time interval. The second time interval succeeds the first time interval and the second frequency resource is separate from the first frequency resource. A second method comprises listening (111) for transmission of a preamble, transmitting (115) data in a second time interval succeeding a first time interval upon determining that the preamble was not received in the first time interval, and refraining (113) from transmitting data in the second time interval upon determining that the preamble was received in the first time interval.

Abstract: The present teaching generally relates to providing optimized access control rules. A request may be received from a client device. A determination may be made, based on the request, that an update is needed for access control rule information for the client device. Rule data may be generated. The rule data may include a plurality of data buckets each including one or more access control rules, each data bucket of the plurality being associated with a range of destination port numbers, and where each of the one or more access control rules comprise a set of tuples having a common source network and source port number, and one or more destination port numbers associated with the common source network and source port number. The rule data may be sent to the client device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for signaling a multi-user packet. More specifically, provided are a wireless communication terminal including a communication unit; and a processor configured to process signals transmitted and received through the communication unit, wherein the processor receives, through the communication unit, a high efficiency multi-user PHY protocol data unit (HE MU PPDU), wherein a preamble of the HE MU PPDU includes high efficiency signal A field (HE-SIG-A) and high efficiency signal B field (HE-SIG-B), and decodes the received HE MU PPDU based on information obtained from the HE-SIG-A, wherein a configuration of the HE-SIG-B is identified based on information obtained from at least one subfield of the HE-SIG-A and a wireless communication method using the same.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique executed by a user equipment (UE) for obtaining a burst of transmission control protocol (TCP) packets conveying packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data units (PDUs) by an application protocol TCP layer of a communication protocol stack of the UE. The UE may then determine a first number of a first plurality of acknowledge (ACK) tokens to transmit in a first transmission time interval (TTI) based on an amount of data used to ACK the burst of TCP packets. The UE may then transmit the first plurality of ACK tokens in the first TTI and a single ACK token in a second TTI subsequent to the first TTI.

Abstract: Sensor device, control system and method of communication between a sensor device and a control system. Sensor devices, control systems and methods for communication between sensor devices and control systems are provided. In these, sensor data are transmitted via first interfaces and redundant sensor data and/or other data are transmitted via second interfaces.

Abstract: A network security system that analyzes data from network attacks to determine which attacks came from the same attacker, even if the attacker tries to disguise its identity by spreading attacks out over time and attacking from multiple IP addresses. Intrusion detection systems or firewalls may log data for each attack, such as the time of the attack, the type of attack, and the source and target addresses. Embodiments may augment this data with derived attributes that may profile the attacker's behavior. For example, some attackers may spread out attacks over time, but always attack on the same day of the week; some attackers may spread out attacks over different IP addresses, but these addresses may all be in the same country. The original and augmented data may be clustered using an algorithm such as DBSCAN, and each attacker may be identified with one of the resulting clusters.

Abstract: A system includes a bridge circuit configured for low latency communication among integrated circuits (ICs). The bridge circuit includes a plurality of transceiver circuits. Each transceiver circuit is coupled to a corresponding parallel channel in the IC. Each transceiver circuit is configured to send and receive data over the corresponding parallel channel. Each transceiver circuit includes a transmit channel configured to packetized data received from the corresponding parallel channel for transmission over a serial link to a second IC. Each transceiver circuit includes a receive channel configured to depacketize data received from the serial link from the second IC. The serial link is asynchronous to each of parallel channel coupled to the first bridge circuit.

Abstract: A network device includes a wireless transceiver configured to establish a bi-directional communication channel with a network gateway. The network device also includes a visible light communication (VLC) interface configured to establish a visible light communication channel with a configurator for the network gateway. The network device further includes a controller configured to operate with the configurator to execute out-of-band (OOB) provisioning of the network device for the network gateway, wherein data communicated on the visible light communication channel includes a portion of information related to bootstrap provisioning the network device with the network gateway using the device provisioning protocol (DPP).

Abstract: Certain aspects relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus generally includes a processing system configured to generate a first frame including an indication of unused resources in a first basic service set (BSS) available to be shared with one or more wireless nodes in one or more second BSSs. The apparatus also includes a first interface configured to output the first frame for transmission to the one or more wireless nodes.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for on-network device identification. A user device may make an application programming interface (API) call to an address associated with a network device. The API call may comprise an indication of an address associated with the user device. Based on the API call, the network device may send an indication of the address to a computing device associated with an on-network service. The computing device associated with the on-network service may determine that the user device is authorized to connect to a network or to access an on-network service.

Abstract: In a method of guaranteeing a jitter upper bound for a network without time-synchronization, which guarantees a jitter upper bound for a flow that is transmitted from a source to a destination through a network, the network guarantees a latency upper bound of the flow, a buffer located between the network and the destination holds a packet of the flow for a predetermined buffer holding interval and then outputs, and the jitter upper bound is set to an arbitrary value including 0 (zero).

Abstract: An initial bitrate is selected for a video delivery session by a user equipment (5, 200) performing, during a time window from initiation of a video player application in the user equipment (5, 200) up to selection of a video content, network measurements of a current condition of a network used to deliver the video content to the user equipment (5, 200). A respective initial buffer duration is provided for each bitrate available for the video content and where these respective initial buffer durations are predicted based on at least one network metric derived from the network measurements. An initial bitrate for delivering the video content over the network to the user equipment is selected based on the respective initial buffer durations.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for switching between unicast and multicast by considering degraded user experience in a wireless communication system is described. A CU of a RAN node receives, from the DU, a first switching message including status of the MBS for each of the first wireless device and the second wireless device. A CU of a RAN node determines to switch the first transmission to a third transmission only for the first wireless device for the MBS, based on the received status of the MBS.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication device, and a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device includes: a communicator that delivers, to the second wireless communication device, data addressed to a third wireless communication device and receives, from the second wireless communication device, information on communication quality according to failed data of which delivery fails among the data delivered from the second wireless communication device to the third wireless communication device; and a controller that controls delivery of the data in accordance with the information on the communication quality.

Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with an Evolved Node-B (eNB) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process a configuration transmission carrying a half-tone shifting indicator. The second circuitry may be operable to select one or more subcarrier frequencies for Uplink (UL) transmission based on the half-tone shifting indicator. The third circuitry may be operable to generate a UL transmission for the one or more subcarrier frequencies. The half-tone shifting indicator may have a first value indicating application of a half-subcarrier offset, and a second value indicating no application of the half-subcarrier offset.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for signaling a multi-user packet. More specifically, provided are a wireless communication terminal including a communication unit; and a processor configured to process signals transmitted and received through the communication unit, wherein the processor receives, through the communication unit, a high efficiency multi-user PHY protocol data unit (HE MU PPDU), wherein a preamble of the HE MU PPDU includes high efficiency signal A field (HE-SIG-A) and high efficiency signal B field (HE-SIG-B), and decodes the received HE MU PPDU based on information obtained from the HE-SIG-A, wherein a configuration of the HE-SIG-B is identified based on information obtained from at least one subfield of the HE-SIG-A and a wireless communication method using the same.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods in a communication system are provided. A method comprises receiving from network instructions of how to control multi-user multiple input multiple output connections maintained by one or more radio access nodes, the connections utilising one or more slices. One or more radio access nodes perform, based at least in part on the received network instructions, multi-user pairing of terminal devices of the same or different slices, and determine, based at least in part on the received network instructions, slice-based quota taking multi-user pairing and interference arising from paired allocations into account.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for the identification of applications from communication sessions of network traffic between client devices and the generation of application-specific metrics for network traffic associated with the applications. In one example, a router obtains metrics for a plurality of packets. The router determines a session of a plurality of sessions associated with each packet. For each determined session, the router generates metrics for the session from the metrics of the packets associated with the session and determines an application of a plurality of applications associated with the session. For each determined application, the router generates metrics for the application from the metrics of the sessions associated with the application and transmits, to a device, the metrics for the application. In some examples, the router generates the metrics for each application on a per-client, per-next-hop, or per-traffic class basis.