Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to control traffic accessing a public land mobile network service (PLMN) at a non-public network to perform local breakout for selected traffic.

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques that include selecting a member port of an aggregation bundle by evaluating utilization of paths, within a router, to member ports of an aggregation bundle. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving network data to be output through an aggregation bundle having a plurality of member ports; identifying local member ports; identifying non-local member ports, each of the non-local member ports being reachable from the receiving line card over a path through the switch fabric to a different one of the plurality of line cards; identifying available non-local member ports by determining, for each non-local member port, whether the path through the switch fabric has low utilization; and selecting a member port by applying a hashing algorithm to a group that includes each of the identified available non-local member ports.

Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor; a memory; a power management unit (PMU); a wireless interface adapter to communicate via an antenna to a wireless network; an antenna controller to: receive, via a sideband wireless communication link, network telemetry data descriptive of network operating frequency bands and network frequency channels from a remote optimizing information handling system management system for a wireless protocol; receive operating characteristics associated with the operation of the information handling system indicating at least one detuning trigger for a network operating frequency band for a wireless protocol link for the wireless network; execute instructions of an antenna tuning algorithm to determine a tune state of the antenna, and issue instructions to a radio frequency switch including a resistor, inductor, and capacitor (RLC) circuit tuner at the antenna to tune the antenna to transceive data at the network operating frequency band to a target frequency commen

Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for stereo vision and tracking with a plurality of coupled cameras and optional sensors.

Abstract: A network congestion processing method includes performing Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) marking on a packet using first ECN configuration information, obtaining first network status information indicating a network status when the first ECN configuration information is used; determining second ECN configuration information based on the first ECN configuration information and the first network status information; and performing ECN marking on the packet using the second ECN configuration information.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for jitter-less distributed Function as a Service (FaaS) using flavor clustering. A set of FaaS functions clustered by flavor chaining is implemented to deploy one or more FaaS flavor clusters on one or more edge nodes, wherein each flavor is defined by a set of resource requirements mapped into a jitter Quality of Service (QoS) and is executed on at least one hardware computing component on the one or more edge nodes. One or more jitter controllers are implemented to control and monitor execution of FaaS functions in the one or more FaaS flavor clusters such that the functions are executed to meet jitter-less QoS requirements. Jitter controllers include platform jitter-less function controllers in edge nodes and a data center FaaS jitter-less controller. A jitter-less Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) network controller is also provided to provide network resources used by FaaS flavor clusters and satisfy connectivity requirements between the edge nodes.

Abstract: A method for completing a transaction includes: a backend server connected to a communication network executes an application backend of a transaction application; a first terminal device connected to the communication network via a first connection executes a first application frontend of the transaction application; the first application frontend transmits a transaction request indicating the transaction to be started and a second application frontend and comprising transaction data associated with the indicated transaction to the application backend via the first connection; a second terminal device connected to the communication network via a second connection executes the second application frontend of the transaction application; the application backend transmits an authorization request to the second application frontend via the second connection; the second application frontend authorizes the requested transaction and transmits a transaction authorization to the application backend via the second conn

Abstract: An apparatus and method for dynamic resource allocation with mile/performance markers.

Abstract: In order to provide a communication system and the like which are capable of updating a correction value of a time synchronization packet, and to which a traffic bonding scheme is applied, a set of primary devices of the communication system determines presence or absence of communication in a first transmission path, adds an actual measurement value of a first delay amount to an information value when a determination result according to the determination is that the communication is present, or adds, to the information value, a design value of a second delay amount being the delay amount inside the wireless transmission device and the wireless reception device when the determination result is that the communication is absent.

Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for data networking are described. In one example, a method includes receiving a first Layer-2 Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) packet which includes a virtual local area network (VLAN) tag and a quality-of-service (QoS) data field; converting the first Layer-2 RDMA packet to a first Layer-3 encapsulated packet; and forwarding the first Layer-3 encapsulated packet to a switch fabric. In this method, the converting includes adding at least one header to the first Layer-2 RDMA packet, where the at least one header includes: a virtual network identifier that is based on information from the VLAN tag, and a QoS value that is based on information from the QoS data field.

Abstract: A computing system is described. The computing system is configured to receive, from a portal device of a premises monitoring system, a first request for a list of compatible pipelines for a premises analytics device of the premises monitoring system, identify a plurality of pipelines that are compatible with the premises analytics device based on a parameter, and transmit the list of compatible pipelines to the portal device. The computing system is further configured to receive, from the portal device, a second request to deploy a user selected pipeline of the plurality of pipelines referenced in the list of compatible pipelines, transmit a command, to a third-party system, to obtain a pipeline deployment based on the user selected pipeline, and receive, from the third-party system, the pipeline deployment based on the user selected pipeline. The pipeline deployment is transmitted to the premises analytics device.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for a robust Self-Organizing Network (SON) framework that quantifies SON applications' control and management of a network into key performance indicators (KPI) that are leveraged to determine the impact of a SON application's effectiveness in regulating network parameters, which then dictates how the SON application operates. The disclosed framework is configured to receive multiple data streams from existing data sources, determine the performance of a node on a network, and then automatically perform SON operations based therefrom. The disclosed framework can utilize this information to predict additional and/or future opportunities for SON automation on the network, which can be based on an aggregate determination of a net performance gain (NPG) of the SON applications. The framework can leverage the NPG to modify, configure and/or further maintain network operations so as to improve control and management of the network and the applications operating thereon.

Abstract: A wireless communication network serves wireless User Equipment (UEs) over producer Network Functions (NFs) and consumer NFs that use Network Repository Function (NRFs). The producer NFs determine their NF identities and status. The producer NFs indicate the NF identities and status to the NRFs. The consumer NFs request NF information from the NRFs. The NRFs indicate the NF identities and status to the consumer NFs. The consumer NFs select NF identities based on the NF status. The consumer NFs exchange network signaling with the producer NFs based on the selected NF identities to serve the wireless UEs. The producer NFs may comprise Charging Functions (CHFs).

Abstract: Restricting mobility between networks by identifying and rejecting incoming mobility events (e.g. handovers) from unknown cell sites based on a cellID included in a handover request. Core network nodes e.g. MME, AMF, SMF, can detect and reject the incoming mobility events by comparing Cell ID with a white list or referring to a database. This improves over current 3GPP specifications and network vendor implementations that support restriction policies on the source but not on the target.

Abstract: A method for traffic flow classification in a communication network includes (1) identifying a traffic flow in communication network traffic, (2) extracting features of the traffic flow, and (3) using a machine learning model, classifying the traffic flow at least partially based on the features of the traffic flow. The features of the traffic flow include, for example, a distribution of packet size values of a sliding window sample of the traffic flow, a distribution of inter-arrival time values of a sliding window sample of the traffic flow, standard deviation of data packet size, average of data packet size, standard deviation of data packet inter-arrival time, and average of data packet inter-arrival time.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for partitioning and parallel loading of property graphs with constraints are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining graph-related input data and corresponding constraint data, wherein the graph-related input data and corresponding constraint data are at least one of user-defined and input data model-based; generating at least one in-memory graph based at least in part on processing at least a portion of the obtained graph-related input data; partitioning the at least one in-memory graph into two or more sub-graphs by processing the at least one in-memory graph using one or more polynomial time partition algorithms; and generating at least one property graph by allocating, at least a portion of the two or more partitioned sub-graphs which satisfy the obtained constraint data, to two or more threads that run in parallel.

Abstract: A method including determining, by a virtual private network (VPN) server providing VPN services to one or more user devices, an average threshold level associated with an aggregate amount of VPN data communicated with a host device during a reference period; determining, by the VPN server, an observed average aggregate amount of VPN data communicated with the host device during an operation period; comparing, by the VPN server, the observed average aggregate amount with the average threshold level; and selectively transmitting, by the VPN server, a notification to the one or more devices indicating that the one or more user devices is to manage transmission of data from the one or more user devices based at least in part on a result of comparing the observed average aggregate amount with the average threshold level. Various other aspects are contemplated.

Abstract: A method for allocating resource and accessing in open wireless channels includes: covering multiple types of user terminal stations in open wireless channels; making dynamic adaptive matching according to comprehensive change factors of a transmitting end and a receiving end in each communication process. The factors of the transmitting end mean that a type and transmitting capacity of a transmitting station are changed, a current state of the wireless channel between the transmitting station and a relay node is changed, a working state of a receiving end of the relay node is changed, and user services to be transmitted are changed; the factors of the receiving end mean that a type and receiving capacity of a receiving station are changed, a current state of the channel from the relay node to the receiving station is changed, and a working state of a transmitting end of the relay node is changed.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing roadside assistance services are described herein. The system can include network computing devices and computing devices associated with vehicles and service vehicles. Requests for roadside services can be automatically assigned to an available service provider. Service providers can be ranked based on a variety of criteria and requests can be assigned based on the ranking. The ranking of service providers can be adjusted based on the performance of the service provider. If a service provider takes too long to respond to a request, the request can be automatically declined and an alternative service provider can be selected.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for improved routing operations in a network computing environment. A system includes a network topology comprising a spine node and a plurality of leaf nodes. The system is such that at least one of the plurality of leaf nodes is associated with one or more networking prefixes. The spine node stores a prefix table. The prefix table includes a listing of networking prefixes in the network topology. The prefix table includes an indication of at least one equal-cost multipath routing (ECMP) group associated with each of the networking prefixes in the network topology. The prefix table includes an indication of at least one leaf node of the plurality of leaf nodes associated with each of the networking prefixes in the network topology.

Abstract: An information processing device, having a communication unit for wirelessly communicating with an external device, includes: a throughput measurement unit for measuring communication throughput with the external device; a throughput prediction unit for predicting future communication throughput by using at least data of the measured throughput; a communication control unit for controlling data communication with the external device based on the predicted throughput; a communication determination unit for determining a type of the data communication with the external device; and a priority setting unit for setting priorities of communications for a plurality of the data communications based on the determined type, in which the communication control unit is for limiting the throughput for the data communication for which the set priority is low, in comparison with the data communication for which the set priority is high, when the future throughput is below a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: An anomaly detection method includes collecting and preprocessing time series data every preset detection cycle; detecting an anomaly in time series data preprocessed for a current detection cycle using a deep learning model trained with an unsupervised learning scheme using features of time series data of a previous detection cycle; retraining the deep learning model by further using the time series data preprocessed for at least one detection cycle included in the current learning cycle; and detecting an anomaly in time series data collected and preprocessed for a detection cycle after the current learning cycle using the retrained deep learning model.

Abstract: A digital optical data network system for improving information security in Passive Optical Networks (“PON”) by providing virtual information separation in the router, such as a premise router, or routers interfacing the entire PON, such as by utilizing virtual routing and forwarding, thus allowing safe data traffic between multiple carriers, service providers accessing the PON and multiple end users on the PON such as tenants in a building, employees of a business entity, or subscribers in a residential community.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and method for isolating private information in streamed data. In an exemplary aspect, a method may comprise receiving a stream of data, for storage in a first storage device, and an indication of how the stream will be utilized by an end user. The method may comprise comparing the indication against a plurality of rules, wherein each rule indicates a type of private information that should be isolated from a given input stream based on a respective indication of usage for the given input stream. The method may comprise identifying and extracting a first type of private information that should be isolated from the stream, modifying the stream by removing the first type of private information from the stream, storing the modified stream in the first storage device, and storing the extracted first type of private information in a different location from the modified stream.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: send (800) a registration request comprising a range of addresses and/or ports managed by a network address and/or port translation service and an identifier of the network address and/or port translation service; and receive (804) an address and/or port translation information request comprising an address and/or port used by an application to communicate with a terminal, wherein the address and/or port used by the application to communicate with a terminal is within the range of addresses and/or ports managed by the network address and/or port translation service.

Abstract: A data transmission method includes: determining, by a regional access device, a message that needs to be transmitted includes M pieces of QoS information; and after the regional access device determines that a device identifier in a first piece of QoS information is consistent with a device identifier of the regional access device, updating a QoS value of the message that needs to be transmitted with a first QoS value in the first piece of QoS information, and forwarding the updated message that needs to be transmitted. The first piece of QoS information is any one of the M pieces of QoS information.

Abstract: A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a read command to read data from the memory device or a write command to write data to the memory device from a host device, determine whether a bottleneck exists in a data/control path between the host device and the memory device, wherein the bottleneck exists either in an input queue corresponding to a hardware module of a plurality of hardware modules or in the hardware module of the plurality of hardware modules, and execute a bottleneck release operation when the bottleneck exists in the data/control path between the host device and the memory device, wherein the bottleneck release operation is dependent on whether the bottleneck exists in the input queue or in the hardware module.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus. In the method, a first network element creates a buffer queue based on a request of a second network element. Further, the first network element collects data of a corresponding type, sends data in the buffer queue to the second network element, and releases corresponding storage space after the second network element completes a data collection task. In this way, utilization of storage space of the first network element is improved, thereby solving the problem in the conventional technology that the first network element needs to have relatively large storage space capacity.

Abstract: A network node that is a second network node connected to a user device and a first network node includes: a control unit that acquires information regarding a layer which is terminated at the user device and the second network node; and a transmission unit that transmits the information regarding the layer to the first network node. The layer is not terminated at the user device and the first network node.

Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure relate to resource unit (RU) assignment to combat frequency selective fading. A method comprises determining, at an access point (AP), a plurality of channel qualities of a plurality of resource units (RUs) for a client. The plurality of RUs are configured to be available for communications with a plurality of clients comprising the client. The method further comprises determining, from the plurality of RUs, a target RU for the client based at least in part on the plurality of channel qualities. The target RU is to be used by the client for a following transmission with the AP. A target RU with good channel quality will be assigned to the client, thus the transmission and overall system performance will be enhanced.

Abstract: A method in which a high-quality packet telephony terminal apparatus performing low-latency and lossless packet communication with a counterpart packet telephony terminal apparatus operates in an integrated network structure in which a time sensitive network (TSN) and a packet communication network are combined may be disclosed. The packet telephony terminal apparatus may perform packet telephony call processing, perform a TSN stream reservation procedure when the counterpart packet telephony terminal apparatus is capable of performing a TSN function for lossless packet communication, adjust a size of a dejitter buffer when the TSN stream reservation procedure is successful, and perform low-latency packet telephony communication through the minimized size of the dejitter buffer.

Abstract: A method by a wireless transmitting device is disclosed for indicating a partial traffic identifier (PTID) or an access category index (ACI) in a header compression element. The method includes generating a frame that includes the header compression element, wherein the header compression element includes a first subfield that is for indicating a PTID of a quality of service (QoS) data frame or an ACI of a QoS management frame and a second subfield indicating whether the first subfield indicates the PTID of the QoS data frame or the ACI of the QoS management frame. The method further includes transmitting the frame through a wireless medium.

Abstract: A transmission control protocol (TCP) flow control method is provided, which comprises: sending a data packet from a packet processor to a receiver and storing a copy of the data packet; receiving a current ACK packet with a current packet number; determining whether the current packet number is identical to a last packet number and whether a last substitute ACK packet generated by the input ACK filter exists; and performing steps respectively corresponding to different results of this determination to avoid TCP congestion control timely. A TCP flow control device performing the method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for accessing a wireless medium for a NR-U deployed at 60 GHz. A directional CCA sensing is performed on a set of multiple beams in the medium in which each beam is oriented in a different direction. It is determined whether at least one beam of is busy and, if so, a back-off timer is initialized. The back-off timer is decreased by a predetermined amount based on a determination that all beams of the set of multiple beams are idle. The back-off timer is repeatedly decreased the predetermined amount based on a determination that all beams of the set of multiple beams are idle until the back-off timer equals a predetermined amount. Data is transmitted at least one beam of the set of multiple beams based on the back-off timer equaling the predetermined amount.

Abstract: A channel indication method and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method is performed by a base station working on an unlicensed spectrum. The method includes that the base station determines one or more first channel detection subbands that pass a channel detection. Additionally, the base station generates a channel indication signal to indicate the one or more first channel detection subbands that pass the channel detection. Furthermore, the base station transmits the channel indication signal to a terminal to determine, based on the channel indication signal, the one or more first channel detection subbands that pass the channel detection.

Abstract: Techniques for tracking compute capacity of a scalable application service platform to perform dynamic bandwidth allocation for data flows associated with applications hosted by the service platform are disclosed. Some of the techniques may include allocating a first amount of bandwidth of a physical underlay of a network for data flows associated with an application. The techniques may also include receiving, from a scalable application service hosting the application, an indication of an amount of computing resources of the scalable application service that are allocated to host the application. Based at least in part on the indications, a second amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay to allocate for the data flows may be determined. The techniques may also include allocating the second amount of bandwidth of the physical underlay of the network for the data flows associated with the application.

Abstract: An example method includes detecting, using sensors, packets throughout a datacenter. The sensors can then send packet logs to various collectors which can then identify and summarize data flows in the datacenter. The collectors can then send flow logs to an analytics module which can identify the status of the datacenter and detect an attack.

Abstract: A network device receives, from a congestion controller, traffic policy information associated with a data stream between a sender and a receiver, where the traffic policy information includes a maximum round trip delay time (RTT) and a maximum throughput rate (Rate). The network device obtains a receiver advertised window size (RWND) for the receiver for the data stream. The network device modifies the RWND based on the RTT and the Rate to produce a modified receiver window size (RWND?) and sends the RWND? to the sender for use in controlling congestion on the data stream between the sender and the receiver.

Abstract: Systems and methods for multicast send duplication instead of replication in a high performance computing environment. A method can provide a plurality of switches, a plurality of hosts, the plurality of hosts being interconnected via the plurality of switches, wherein a host of the plurality of hosts comprises a multicast sender node, the sender node comprising a system image generation module and a current message sequence module. The method can organize the plurality of switches into two rails, the two or more rails providing redundant connectivity between the plurality of hosts. The method can send two or more duplicate multicast packets on different rails. Upon a receiving node receiving at least two versions of the same multicast packet, only one will be delivered to the communication stack/clients above the layer that handles the encapsulation header.

Abstract: There are provided measures for enabling/realizing load balancing between neighboring cells in a system with beamformed radio access. Such measures exemplarily include determining a load balancing condition, including at least one beam as a candidate beam and at least one target radio access entity for offloading terminal entities being currently served by the candidate beam, specifying a load balancing hypothesis for a hypothetical case of deactivation of the candidate beam, including information on an impact of the hypothetical beam deactivation, inquiring non-/acceptance of deactivation of the candidate beam from the at least one target radio access entity on the basis of the load balancing hypothesis, and deactivating the candidate beam if acceptance of deactivation of the candidate beam is inquired from the at least one target radio access entity.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention a method of receiving a signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, may comprises: receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a plurality of transport blocks (TBs) carrying system information; receiving at least one of the plurality TBs based on the DCI; and obtaining at least part of the system information based on the at least one TB, wherein the DCI can be configured as common DCI for a plurality of UE types different from each other, wherein the system information carried by the plurality of TBs may include one or more system information blocks (SIBs) for the plurality of UE types, and wherein the UE may determine whether to receive a specific TB based on whether or not the UE is a first type UE or a second type UE.

Abstract: Transaction activity of a cache maintaining content may be monitored to determine periods of transaction activity below a first threshold amount of transactions. A period of anticipated transaction activity above a second threshold amount of transactions may be determined. A period of anticipated transaction activity below the first threshold may be selected based upon the monitored periods of transaction activity below the first threshold and the determined period of anticipated transaction activity above the second threshold. Content then may be evicted from the cache during the selected period of anticipated transaction activity.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes input circuitry, an encapsulator, transmission circuitry and flow control circuitry. The input circuitry is to receive packets from a data source in accordance with a first communication protocol that employs credit-based flow control. The encapsulator is to buffer the packets in a memory buffer and to encapsulate the buffered packets in accordance with a second communication protocol. The transmission circuitry is to transmit the encapsulated packets over a communication link in accordance with the second communication protocol. The flow control circuitry is to receive from the encapsulator buffer status indications that are indicative of a fill level of the memory buffer, and to exchange credit messages with the data source, in accordance with the credit-based flow control of the first communication protocol, responsively to the buffer status indications.

Abstract: A network management system can include multiple network interfaces. For example, the network management system can include a first network interface that can receive a stream of network packets associated with users. The network management system can include a second network interface for transmitting the received stream of network packets. The network management system can shape the stream of network packets before transmission. The network management system can assign the network packets into classes. The classes may have a configured hierarchical relationship. The classes may also have an operational hierarchy based on bandwidth usage during operation. The network management system can shape the stream of network packets based on operational hierarchy of classes and configured hierarchical relationship.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a transmitter UE. The method generally includes receiving, from a network entity, a downlink control information (DCI) allocating resources in an unlicensed frequency band for multiple physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmissions to at least one receiver UE across transmission time intervals (TTIs), performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) channel access procedure in the TTIs, and transmitting at least one LBT report to the network entity on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource that occurs before another PUCCH resource used for transmitting acknowledgment feedback for the PSSCH transmissions.

Abstract: A system and method remotely allocate bandwidth among content consumers on a computing network based on optimizing an aggregate objective pertaining to a plurality of flows of content. The system and method create a profile for each flow of the plurality of flows from a content provider to a content consumer on the computing network. Information is stored in each profile based on at least a metric associated with the corresponding flow. A target bandwidth for each profile is computed remotely, based on optimizing an aggregate objective pertaining to the plurality of flows of content. The optimizing is also based on the information stored in their respective profiles. The system and method distribute the bandwidth to each flow of the plurality of flows based on the target bandwidth remotely computed for each profile.

Abstract: A method is provided by a central-unit-control plane (CU-CP) of a network node for exchanging information with a central-unit user plane (CU-UP) of the network node to manage Quality of Service (QoS) flows for the optimization of radio resources. The method includes transmitting, to the CU-UP, a request for flow information for at least one QoS flow and receiving, from the CU-UP of the network node, the flow information for the at least one QoS flow. Based on the flow information for the at least one QoS flow, at least one action is taken.

Abstract: Herein are techniques for dynamic aggregation of results of a database request, including concurrent grouping of result items in memory based on quasi-dense keys. Each of many computational threads concurrently performs as follows. A hash code is calculated that represents a particular natural grouping key (NGK) for an aggregate result of a database request. Based on the hash code, the thread detects that a set of distinct NGKs that are already stored in the aggregate result does not contain the particular NGK. A distinct dense grouping key for the particular NGK is statefully generated. The dense grouping key is bound to the particular NGK. Based on said binding, the particular NGK is added to the set of distinct NGKs in the aggregate result.

Abstract: This application provides a transmission method and a data transmission apparatus, so as to avoid out-of-order of data packets.

Abstract: A computing system includes a distributed computing cluster including a plurality of computing nodes interconnected by an interconnect network over which the computing nodes of the plurality of computing nodes communicate with each other by passing messages. The computing nodes are configured with a first parameter governing transmissions of messages by the computing nodes over the interconnect network. The computing nodes are configured to accumulate messages for transmission as a group of messages according to the first parameter, and the computing system is configured to limit injections of computing requests into the distributed computing cluster according to a second parameter. A controller is configured to receive at least one predetermined service level requirement and to control a value of the second parameter and a value of the first parameter to control a computational throughput of the distributed computing cluster while complying with the at least one service level requirement.