Abstract: An apparatus of a transmitter may include, for example, a Golay builder to build modulated Golay sequences for at least a non-EDMG Short Training Field (L-STF), and a non-EDMG Channel Estimation Field (L-CEF) of a PPDU; a scrambler to generate scrambled bits by scrambling bits of a non-EDMG header (L-header) and a data field of the PPDU; an encoder to encode the scrambled bits into encoded bits according to a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code; a constellation mapper to map the encoded bits into a stream of constellation points according to a constellation scheme; a spreader to spread the stream of constellation points according to a Golay sequence; and a transmit chain mapper to map a bit stream output from the Golay builder and the spreader to a plurality of transmit chains by applying a spatial expansion with relative cyclic shift over the plurality of transmit chains.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprising: (i) defining a new ethertype to be used in communicating PIDs (process identification codes), with the new ethertype being assigned a new ethertype code; (ii) determining a selected abstraction layer from a plurality of abstraction layers to be used in communicating PIDs; and (iii) making a plurality of network communications among and between computers of a networked computers system, with each communication, with the making of each given communication including: (a) inserting the new ethertype code and a PID of a process causing the given communication to occur into a data structure, and (b) communicating the data structure between computers of the networked computers system at the selected abstraction layer.

Abstract: A transmission method includes: generating one or more transfer frames that each store one or more streams used for content transfer; and transmitting the one or more generated frames through broadcast, each of the one or more streams storing one or more second transfer units, each of the one or more second transfer units storing one or more first transfer units, and each of the one or more first transfer units storing one or more Internet Protocol (IP) packets. In at least one stream among the one or more streams, each of the first transfer units positioned at a head contains reference clock information indicating time used for reproduction of the content.

Abstract: An integrated circuit device that includes a secure or protected memory component is herein disclosed and enabled. The integrated circuit device may be a wireless communication device, a smart phone, or a smart card. Additionally, the integrated circuit device may be part of, or included in, a computing device or a mobile device. The integrated circuit device includes a protected memory section for storing protected data that is not accessible by a user at the protected memory section, but is accessible by a memory controller included in the integrated circuit device. The access and transfer of the protected data is protected using combination security operations that may include encryption, cryptography, and user authentication. The integrated circuit device may further include a wireless component for establishing a wireless connection with wireless computing devices or readers for wirelessly transmitting the protected data accessed by the memory controller.

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the recovery and return of lost physical items through a communication network, involving adhering a label having a unique identifier thereon to a physical item; storing a database record including the unique identifier and a user identification, the record further including the name of the owner of the physical item; recovering a lost physical item; receiving, by a client server, the unique identifier associated with the recovered lost physical item; searching, by a processing device, the database for a matching unique identifier with the unique identifier associated with the recovered lost physical item; and communicating to the user the name of the owner of the recovered lost physical item through the communication network.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration for a group of UEs, including the UE, associated with a common set of parameters indicated in multicast or broadcast traffic, wherein the configuration includes a group identifier associated with the group of UEs; and receive the multicast or broadcast traffic over a radio access network (RAN) in a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communication, wherein the group identifier is used to identify that the multicast or broadcast traffic is intended for the UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Different filtered-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (f-OFDM) frame formats may be used to achieve the spectrum flexibility. F-OFDM waveforms are generated by applying a pulse shaping digital filter to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal. Different frame formats may be used to carry different traffic types as well as to adapt to characteristics of the channel, transmitter, receiver, or serving cell. The different frame formats may utilize different sub-carrier (SC) spacings and/or cyclic prefix (CP) lengths. In some embodiments, the different frame formats also utilize different symbol durations and/or transmission time interval (TTI) lengths.

Abstract: The disclosure includes a method at a device configured to process both wireless data traffic and Ethernet data traffic into a wireless communication, comprising determining, at a compressor, whether an acknowledgement (ACK) signal is received from a decompressor in response to transmitting, over a wireless communication link, a context creation message for a context identification (ID) associated with a flow of incoming Ethernet data traffic; refraining from transmitting, by the compressor to the decompressor over the wireless communication link, a compressed packet corresponding to the flow based on a first determination that the ACK signal is not received from the decompressor; and transmitting, by the compressor to the decompressor over the wireless communication link, the compressed packet corresponding to the flow based on a second determination that the ACK signal is received from the decompressor.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes establishing, by an identity agent installed on a device, a connection to a browser installed on the device and generating, by the identity agent, first device information, a public key, and a private key. The method also includes communicating, by the identity agent, the first device information and the public key to an authentication service and receiving, by the identity agent, a unique identifier from the authentication service. The method further includes generating, by the identity agent, a first signature of the first device information and communicating, by the identity agent, the first signature, the first device information, and the unique identifier to the browser.

Abstract: A packet processing method, a network node, and a system includes obtaining, by a first network node, a first packet that includes a segment list, where the segment list includes a segment identifier of a network node on a path used to forward the first packet, obtaining, by the first network node, a segment identifier of a second network node from the segment list, where the second network node is a next-hop segment node of the first network node on the path, replacing, by the first network node, a destination address of the first packet with the segment identifier of the second network node, and adding a network performance parameter of the first network node to the segment list to generate a second packet, and sending, by the first network node, the second packet to the second network node.

Abstract: There is provided an electronic device having Bluetooth communication function. The electronic device confirms whether a current packet received in a receive slot is a retransmitted packet according to a SEQN bit in the packet header so as to determine whether to continuously turn on an RF receiver in the receive slot or early turn off the RF receiver to save power.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive an Aggregate-MAC Protocol Data Unit (A-MPDU) from an originator using the transceiver, and when receiving all MPDUs included in the A-MPDU, transmit to the originator a block ACK (BA) frame signaling that all MPDUs included in the A-MPDU are received without a bitmap indicating whether each MPDU included in the A-MPDU is received.

Abstract: The invention relates to simultaneous recording and uploading systems and methods, and, more particularly to a simultaneous recording and uploading of multiple files from the same conversation.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to scrambler initialization for multi-user (MU) clear to send (CTS) transmission. A first device may identify a MU request to send (RTS) frame received from a second device. The first device may determine an initial state of a scrambler based on the first 7 bits of a service field of the MU-RTS frame. The first device may cause first data to be scrambled, using the initial state of the scrambler, resulting in second data. The first device may cause to send a MU-CTS frame that comprises the second data to the second device.

Abstract: Methods and systems for establishing a media streaming connection between a client and a placeshifting device that are each communicating via a network using a standard and non-standard port, including: in response to an initial denial of a request to receive streamed content by a client via a non-standard port in communication with the placeshifting device, attempting another request by the client using a standard port in communication with a relay reverse proxy service of a relay backend server to the placeshifting device; establishing a first connection by the client between the relay reverse proxy service of the relay backend server and the client using the standard port to receive streamed content from the placeshifting device; and establishing a second connection between the relay reverse proxy service of the relay backend server and the placeshifting device using the non-standard port to communicate streamed content streamed directly from the placeshifting device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). Disclosed is a method by which a terminal transmits a buffer status report (BSR) in a communication system, comprising the steps of: allocating an uplink resource from a base station; comparing the number of padding bits with a value obtained by summing the size of the BSR and the size of a sub-header of the BSR; and transmitting, to the base station according to the comparison result, the BSR including information indicating the presence or absence of a field representing a buffer size for at least one logical channel group (LCG).

Abstract: A wireless device may receive a radio link control (RLC) protocol data unit (PDU) from a lower layer (e.g., from a media access control (MAC) layer) when processing communications (e.g., packets) received from another wireless device. The receiving wireless device may identify that the PDU is an RLC service data unit (SDU) segment based at least in part on an indication corresponding to a sequence number associated with the RLC SDU segment. The receiving wireless device may then determine that the RLC SDU segment is received out of order based on previously received PDUs or previously received RLC SDU segments, and initiate a reassembly timer based on the out of order determination for the RLC SDUs. If the remaining RLC SDU segments (e.g., that complete the RLC SDU) are received before reassembly timer expires, the wireless device may reassemble the RLC SDU to be passed to a higher layer.

Abstract: Systems and methods for setting a carrier-sensing mechanism in a PLC node are disclosed. In a PLC standard, coexistence is achieved by having the nodes detect a common preamble and backing off by a Coexistence InterFrame Space (cEIFS) time period to help the node to avoid interfering with the other technologies. In one embodiment, a PHY primitive is sent from the PHY to the MAC know that there has been a preamble detection. A two-level indication may be used—one indication after receiving the preamble and other indication after decoding the entire frame. The MAC sets the carrier-sensing mechanism based on the preamble detection.

Abstract: A 5G communication system or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate than that of a beyond 4G communication system such as an LTE is provided. A method by an apparatus for controlling buffers in a wireless communication system comprises storing information related to a packet in at least one of a first buffer or a second buffer, transmitting data generated based on the packet, and, when an acknowledgement signal is received for the data, discarding the information.

Abstract: Software defined network orchestration to manage media flows for broadcast with public cloud networks is provided by identifying a media flow at a media production facility for multicast transmission; registering the media flow to a registration database; migrating the media flow from multicast transmission to unicast transmission; transmitting the media flow to a public cloud network facility; and updating the registration database with a location of the media flow in the public cloud network facility. Once registered, a media flow management system allows any authorized device to request for a media flow; and in response locates the media flow based on a registration database indicating a location of the media flow (whether in the public cloud network facility, on a common carrier, or in a production facility); receives access to the media flow at the location; and allows the authorized device to consume the media flow.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system is disclosed, in which the apparatus for OFDM transmission in the WLAN system includes a signal repetition unit to repeat an encoded signal based on a block unit and output the encoded signal and a repeated signal, an interleaver to interleave the encoded signal and the repeated signal and output an interleaved signal, a modulator to modulate the interleaved signal and output modulated symbols, and a phase rotation unit to phase shift the modulated symbol.

Abstract: A method involves transferring a transmittal data block from a transmitting device via an Ethernet connection to a receiving device which has a storage for storing a transferred transmittal data block, and a processor for at least partially processing the transferred transmittal data block stored in the storage. The transmitting device forms from the data of the transmittal data block a sequence of Ethernet packets, comprising respectively management data and a transmittal data sub-block. The receiving device receives the Ethernet packets of the respective sequence and, while employing at least a part of the management data, writes the transmittal data sub-blocks of the received Ethernet packets of the sequence of Ethernet packets for the transmittal data block to the storage, wherein not upon or after the writing each of the transmittal data sub-blocks an interrupt is sent to the processor.

Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus including a communication control section that performs, using a network address configured by m bytes, communication control on one or more network slices, and the network address has a prefix section that includes, in a portion of high-order n bytes, a slice number that identifies the one or more network slices and a subnet number in the one or more network slices.

Abstract: A method of operating a user equipment (UE) device according to some embodiments includes receiving a transmission from a base station (gNB) that includes instructions for performing an action; attempting an ACK based on the transmission; timing performance of the action. Timing performance may be based on the transmission of the ACK, receipt of the transmission, or receipt of a retransmission request. Performance of the action is according to the timing.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for assigning the execution of a cryptography and/or compression operation on a data segment to either a central processing unit (CPU) or a hardware cryptography/compression accelerator is disclosed. In particular, a data segment on which a cryptography and/or compression operation is to be executed is received. Status information relating to a CPU and a hardware cryptography/compression accelerator is determined. Whether the operation is to be executed on the CPU or on the hardware accelerator is determined based at least in part on the status information. In response to determining that the operation is to be executed on the CPU, the data segment is forwarded to the CPU for execution of the operation. On the other hand, in response to determining that the operation is to be executed on the hardware accelerator, the data segment is forwarded to the hardware accelerator for execution of the operation.

Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: a baseband packet (BBP) generator configured to generate a BBP including a header and payload data; a frame generator configured to generate a frame including the BBP; a signal processor configured to signal-process the generated frame; and a transmitter configured to transmit the signal-processed frame. The header includes information about a type of the payload data, whether an additional header exists, a length of the payload data, and a Least Significant Bit (LSB) of the length of the payload data. Therefore, various types of data are mapped on a physical layer based on information included in the header, and data processing efficiency is improved.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for integrating one or more light switch panels into a monitoring system. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of determining to communicate a non-traditional file to a z-wave capable device, communicate a first data packet to the z-wave capable device, based on communicating the first data packet to the z-wave capable device, alter a schedule command class payload of a second data packet to include a first portion of the non-traditional file, alter a schedule command class payload of a third data packet to include a second portion of the non-traditional file, and alter a schedule command class payload of a fourth data packet to include a third portion of the non-traditional file, and communicate, to the z-wave capable device, the altered second data packet, the altered third data packet, and the altered fourth data packet.

Abstract: Technologies for remote direct memory access (RDMA) congestion control include a requester device and a responder device in communication over an Ethernet network. The requester device sends routable RDMA packets to the responder device over the Ethernet network. The packets may be RDMA over Converged Ethernet version 2 (RoCEv2) packets. The responder device determines whether any of the received packets have been marked by the network with a congestion encountered codepoint. If so, the responder device sends an acknowledgment packet with an express congestion notification bit set in the RDMA base transport header. The requester device updates a congestion window as a function of a number of congested packets acknowledged and a total number of packets acknowledged. Those operations may be performed by a network controller of each of the requester device and the responder device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: This application provides a packet fragment processing method and apparatus and a system, to reduce occupancy of a storage resource of a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a network device, a first packet fragment set from first user equipment, where the first packet fragment set includes a plurality of packet fragments; and sending, by the network device, the first packet fragment set to a server.

Abstract: A pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system, such as long term evolution (LTE). A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The UE includes a transceiver, and at least one processor coupled to the transceiver and configured to generate a lone truncated buffer status report (BSR) based on a number of padding bits, and transmit the long truncated BSR informing of data volume for at least one logical channel group among logical channel groups having data for transmission, wherein the data volume for the at least one logical channel group is reported following an order that is determined based on a highest priority logical channel in each of the at least one logical channel group.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for signal transmission and reception are provided for a wireless communication system. A message is transmitted to a terminal that includes information on a number of symbols for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a higher layer signaling. The PDCCH is transmitted to the terminal in a slot, based on the information. Data is transmitted to the terminal in a slot based on the PDCCH. The slot for a transmission of the data is transmitted is identified based on the PDCCH.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for receiving a byte stream from a data provider. Data elements of a data record included in the byte stream may be identified and transferred to buffer memory. A key-value map may be generated to map the identified data elements to their respective memory locations in the buffer memory. Based on a data directive associated with the data provider and using the key-value map, filtering of the data elements may be performed, and the filtered data elements may be provided to a data recipient.

Abstract: According to a method for encapsulating or decapsulating a general data stream, one or more data sections are obtained by encapsulating data of a transport object based on a format of the general data stream. The data section includes a data section head and a data section payload. The data section head includes a basic section head and an extension section head or includes the basic section head only. The basic section head includes a transport object identity, a data section length, a data section payload encapsulation mode and an extension section head flag. The encapsulation mode uses a variable-length packet encapsulation mode, a fixed-length packet encapsulation mode or a stream encapsulation mode. The flag indicates whether there is the extension section head and the extension section head includes at least one extended parameter. The one or more data sections are concatenated to obtain and transmit the general data stream.

Abstract: Various example embodiments for supporting fragmentation and reassembly of packets in communication networks are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting fragmentation and reassembly of packets in communication networks may be configured to support fragmentation and reassembly of labeled packets, such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) packets or other types of labeled packets, in communication networks. Various example embodiments for supporting fragmentation and reassembly of labeled packets may be configured to support fragmentation and reassembly of labeled packets at various contexts of the labeled packets where the contexts of the labeled packets may be indicated within the labeled packets using sets of context labels for the contexts of the labeled packets.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing scheduling information in a terminal into which a plurality of forward carriers and reverse carriers are aggregated are provided. The method includes receiving a control message from a base station, the control message including information on a reverse carrier added by the carrier aggregation, and determining a new buffer state table to be used for reporting the state of buffers to the base station, based on the information included in the control message.

Abstract: A device and a method for communicating with a link partner device. The device may include a fragmentation unit configured to fragment a packet into multiple fragments if a size of the packet is greater than a maximum fragment size, a packet control header unit configured to generate a packet control header for a packet or each fragment of the packet, and a transceiver configured to send the packet or the fragments of the packet with the packet control header via a connection between the device and the link partner device. The packet control header may include at least one of a traffic control identifier field for identifying a data stream to which the packet belongs, a priority field for indicating a priority for the packet, or a data flow control field for congestion control between the device and the link partner device.

Abstract: A LoRa device for communicating sensor signals in a low power wide area network (LPWAN) includes a physical layer using Hamming encoding and Gray indexing with chirp spread signal (CSS) modulation to encode and modulate the sensor signals and a medium access layer (MAC) including a compressive sensing sub-layer which reduces encoded, modulated signals to sparse vectors. A transmission packet is formed by combining the sparse vectors with a selected set of sparse vectors representing past measurements and the incoming velocity of the sensor signals. A receiver decompresses the transmission packet by reconstructing, at a sparse recovery sub-layer of a receiver MAC layer, the encoded, modulated sensor signals. A decoder path removes the CSS modulation and Gray indexing, and Hamming decodes the sensors signals.

Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, apparatus of an evolved NodeB (eNB) comprises circuitry to configure one or more parameters for a 5G master information block (xMIB). The xMIB contains at least one of the following parameters: downlink system bandwidth, system frame number (SFN), or configuration for other physical channels, or a combination thereof. The apparatus of the eNB comprises circuitry to transmit the xMIB via a 5G physical broadcast channel (xPBCH) on a predefined resource, the xPBCH comprising a xPBCH. The xPBCH may use a DM-RS based transmission mode, and a beamformed xPBCH may be used for mid band and high band.

Abstract: A method for classifying a gesture made in proximity to a touch interface. A system receives data related to the position and/or movement of hand. The data is delimited by identifying a variable length window of touch frames. The variable length window of touch frames is selected to include touch frames indicative of feature data. The variable length window of touch frames is classified based upon classifications learned by the classifying module to identify gestures.

Abstract: A method for transmitting data packets through a random-access (RA) transmission channel shared by a plurality of user terminals uses and exploits a function F for assigning and distributing transmission resources F(u) to the user terminals, knowledge of the graph of which is shared by the sending user terminals and the receiving station in a preliminary step. During the decoding of the received packets, the graph {(u, F(u)} of the assigning and distributing function is exploited by the receiving station to minimize, or even to decrease to zero, the number of replica-location correlations required in case of failure of the conventional CRD-SA protocol decoding process.

Abstract: This application provides a communications method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a media access control (MAC) entity, M radio link control (RLC) protocol data units PDUs, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and generating, by the MAC entity, N media access control MAC protocol data units (PDUs) based on a logical channel corresponding to each of the M RLC PDUs, where any two RLC PDUs corresponding to a same logical channel and having consecutive RLC sequence numbers are carried in different MAC PDUs, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. Consecutive RLC PDUs are placed into different MAC PDUs, so that a continuous packet loss of a same service can be avoided, and transmission reliability can be improved.

Abstract: A method in a User Equipment (UE) for determining a transmission data block size is provided. The method comprises: obtaining parameters for a data transmission, the parameters including at least a number of layers, a number of allocated resource blocks, a modulation order and a code rate; determining an effective number of resource elements; determining a transmission data block size based on the obtained parameters and the determined effective number of resource elements; and performing one of transmitting and receiving data based on the determined transmission data block size.

Abstract: Remote copy operations are performed to copy data from a primary storage controller to a secondary storage controller, wherein input/output (I/O) requests are received at the primary storage controller from a host both via a bus interface and a network interface while the remote copy operations are in progress, and wherein consistency groups are formed during the remote copy operations to copy the data consistently. Quiescing of I/O operations performed via the bus interface are performed while a current consistency group is being replaced by a next consistency group during the remote copy operations.

Abstract: System and methods for generating and authenticating verifiable network traffic. Specifically, the system and methods disclosed herein describe solutions for augmenting layer-2 (L2) frames with additional verifiable information entailing, for example, hash-based message authentication code encryption or digital signature authentication. These solutions may address scenarios where evidence of tampering, through deceptive practices, of network traffic data may prove difficult to detect.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method of tunneling data packets. The method establishes a tunnel between a first forwarding element and a second forwarding element. For each data packet directed to the second forwarding element from the first forwarding element, the method encapsulates the data packet with a header that includes a tunnel option. The method then sends the data packet from the first forwarding element to the second forwarding element through the established tunnel. In some embodiments, the data packet is encapsulated using a protocol that is adapted to change with different control plane implementations and the implementations' varying needs for metadata.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of transmitting an uplink control channel according to a power saving mode of a user equipment, including receiving configuration information about at least one power saving mode, determining whether to apply a power saving mode of the at least one power saving mode, applying the power saving mode based on a result of the determining, and transmitting an uplink control channel based on configuration information corresponding to the applied power saving mode.

Abstract: A transmission method includes: generating one or more transfer frames that each store one or more streams used for content transfer; and transmitting the one or more generated frames through broadcast, each of the one or more streams storing one or more second transfer units, each of the one or more second transfer units storing one or more first transfer units, and each of the one or more first transfer units storing one or more Internet Protocol (IP) packets. In at least one stream among the one or more streams, each of the first transfer units positioned at a head contains reference clock information indicating time used for reproduction of the content.

Abstract: A method for transmitting a broadcast signal is disclosed. The method for transmitting a broadcast signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes link layer processing IP/UDP data to output a link layer packet, and physical layer processing the link layer packet based on a PLP.

Abstract: Techniques are described for encapsulating AV1 encoded video data within NAL units. For example, the NAL units can be H.264 or HEVC NAL units. Encapsulation can comprise using a reserved NAL unit type. For example, an open bitstream unit comprising AV1 encoded video data can be encapsulated within a NAL unit using a reserved NAL unit type. The NAL unit can be packetized for delivery to another computing device via a computer network.

Abstract: A control information interpretation method of a terminal and a base station in a mobile communication system, and a terminal and a base station concerning the same, respectively, are provided. The control information interpretation method of a terminal includes receiving, by the terminal, control information including transport block information and antenna port related information; identifying whether a codeword 0 is enabled and a codeword 1 is disabled, or both the codeword 0 and the codeword 1 are enabled based on the transport block information; and interpreting the antenna port related information according to a result of the identification.