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This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices for quality of service (QOS)-level security configuration in a packet data unit (PDU) session. A device may identify a first user plane security indication received from an application function of a wireless network; identify a second user plane security indication received from the application function; generate, based on the first user plane security indication, a first security configuration for a first QoS flow of a PDU session; generate, based on the second user plane security indication, a second security configuration for a second QoS flow of the PDU session, the first security configuration different than the second security configuration; decode a first packet received, from the UE, in the first QoS flow using the first security configuration; and decode a second packet received, from the UE, in the second QoS flow using the second security configuration.

A flow tagging technique includes tagging a data flow at a plurality of points in the data flow. For example, the data flow can be tagged at a socket and at a proxy manager API. By tagging the data flow at multiple points, it becomes possible to map network service usage activities to the appropriate initiating applications.

The embodiment of the invention provides a real-time relay transmission method, device and system for fax data, which are applied to a first client front-end device, the first client front-end device is in communication connection with a first fax machine, and the method comprises the following steps: after the first fax machine and a second fax machine are connected in a call, the first client front-end device transmits the fax data to the second fax machine; the first client front-end equipment receives fax data sent by a first fax machine; the first client front-end equipment converts the fax data into an image file; the first client front-end equipment decomposes the image file into a plurality of image units, and a plurality of data packets are obtained after the image units are packaged through an internet protocol; and the first client front-end equipment sends the plurality of data packets to a second fax machine in real time through an Internet session protocol link.

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein related to providing information about multi-modal services to a radio access network (RAN). In examples, a first network node may receive information associated with an application layer session and a multi-modal service identifier (MMSID) that may be associated with the application layer session. The first network node may generate a policy and charging control (PCC) rule for a wireless transmit / receive unit (WTRU) using the received information. The MMSID may be used to generate an association ID. The PCC rule may be sent to a second network node. The PCC rule may include the association ID.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether a bandwidth deficit exists in association with communications of a device, resulting in a first determination; responsive to the first determination being that the bandwidth deficit exists, communicating with a server to determine whether the device can participate in a link aggregation group (LAG), resulting in a second determination, wherein the communicating with the server comprises sending to the server a unique identifier, and wherein the second determination is based at least in part upon the unique identifier; responsive to the second determination being that the device can participate in the LAG, identifying a source of available bandwidth; and using the unique identifier to track bandwidth provided to the device via the source of available bandwidth. Other embodiments are disclosed.

To make it easier for a person in charge of calling with a master device of a disaster prevention monitoring system to grasp a situation of a site where a fire or the like has occurred.SOLUTION: A disaster prevention monitoring system according to the present invention includes a master device, a slave device, a fire receiver, and a call wiring connecting the master device and the slave device, in which the master device includes a master device handset and a display device, the slave device includes a slave device main body, a handset, and a camera device, the handset is capable of making a call with the master device handset by an audio signal via the call wiring, the camera device is movable, and a video signal obtained by photographing a fire can be sent to the master device via the call wiring or the video wiring and displayed on the display device.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Methods and apparatus for associating energy use with a data-stream passing through a device, or system or service center are provided, enabling reporting and control of energy from data centers or content delivery networks. In one embodiment, information is transmitted from a data center, comprising a number of customers associated with the data center, corresponding data rates for each of the number of customers and an energy for each of the number of customers. A total energy can be determined for all customers and for individual users. In another embodiment, an energy corresponding to an individual user within a set time interval can be determined and transmitted using the determined energy corresponding to the data center.

There is provided a wireless end-user device that includes a wireless wide area network (WWAN) modem to communicate Internet data with a WWAN, and one or more processors configured to pass, using an operating system packet network stack, Internet data packet traffic, including Internet data, between the WWAN modem and one or more applications being executed by the one or more processors, classify, using the application identification agent, each of individual flows of the Internet data packet traffic passing through the operating system packet network stack according to the one or more applications associated with each of the individual flows, measure, using a service measurement agent, for each of the classified individual flows, an amount of the Internet data packet traffic associated with each of the one or more applications, and apply, using a policy control agent, application-specific traffic policy controls to each of the classified individual flows.

There is provided a management system in a mobile network, the management system comprising one or more processors arranged to: receive a request to provide an Edge Service, the request indicating a geography in which the Edge Service is to be provided; identify at least one Edge Data Network, EDN, to use to provide the requested Edge Service based on at least a part of the indicated geography; and request deployment of an Edge Application Server, EAS, in the identified EDN to provide the requested Edge Service in the specified geography.

An authorization method includes receiving, by a policy control function device of a relay terminal, a request message from an access and mobility management function device of the relay terminal. The request message includes an identifier of a remote terminal and an identifier of the relay terminal. The method also includes determining, by the policy control function device, an authorization result based on the identifier of the remote terminal and the identifier of the relay terminal. The authorization result indicates whether the relay terminal and the remote terminal are authorized to establish a relay service relationship. The method further includes sending, by the policy control function device, the authorization result to the access and mobility management function device.

An information processing apparatus includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires first identification information as a MAC address from a communication apparatus; a second acquisition unit that acquires, based on a fact that the acquired first identification information is a MAC address that is randomized in the communication apparatus by a predetermined function of randomizing a MAC address of the communication apparatus, second identification information as a predetermined kind of identification information different from a MAC address from the communication apparatus that has transmitted the first identification information to the information processing apparatus; and a first execution unit that executes, using the acquired second identification information, processing for communicating with the communication apparatus that has transmitted the first identification information to the information processing apparatus.

A call routing device maintains a call routing log that identifies previous call routing attempts for a plurality of PSAPs. When a first one of the PSAPs requests to transfer a call to a second one of the PSAPs, the call routing device determines, based on the call routing log, that a previous routing attempt to the second PSAP failed and responsively generates a list of alternate PSAPs to receive the call. The call routing device provides the list to the second PSAP, receives a selection of one of the alternate PSAPs, and transfers the call to the selected alternate PSAP.

The invention provides a smoke and fire detection alarm method and a camera, and relates to the technical field of fire safety intelligent monitoring and emergency response, and the method comprises the steps: collecting an image of a monitoring area through the camera; analyzing the image of the monitoring area, extracting the form, texture, color and dynamic change multi-dimensional features of smoke and flame in the image, comparing the features with a preset smoke and flame feature database, analyzing the possibility of existence of smoke or flame features, and obtaining a possibility value; according to the possibility value, if smog or flame characteristics are analyzed and confirmed, an alarm triggering instruction is automatically obtained and sent out; based on an alarm triggering instruction, a remote alarm notification is automatically sent to a specified contact person through a wireless communication network in various modes of making a call, sending a short message or pushing a message by means of a built-in communication function. According to the invention, intelligent and efficient management and control of the whole process from early-stage accurate recognition of the fire behavior to emergency disposal can be realized.

A method implemented in a communication network between a compact core system and a central core network system for registration and session management comprises transmitting, by a compact access and mobility management function (AMF) at the compact core system, a registration request to the central core network system, in which the registration request comprises data associated with the compact core system, and completing, by a central AMF at the central core network system, a registration of the compact core system by adding the data associated with the compact core system at a registration data store in the central core network system, and establishing, using a user plane function (UPF) at the compact core system, a connection between the compact AMF and a central AMF at the central core network system over a network slice.

Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are an information transmission method and apparatus, a communication device, and a storage medium. A method executed by a first core network element comprises: sending first information to a radio access network (RAN), wherein the first information is information provided by an application function (AF), and the first information is configured to indicate a time interval between end time of a first data burst and start time of a second data burst in two adjacent data bursts.

Systems, methods and devices are provided for transmitting, by a wireless device, a call request to a public safety answering point (PSAP) using a wireless network, determining a connection status of the call request based on the wireless network and, in response to the connection status being termination by the wireless network, transmitting a text message to the PSAP using the wireless network.

Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products for reporting of measurements. A wireless transmit-receive unit (WTRU) may initiate a multi-access packet data unit (MA PDU) session establishment request, incorporating energy-aware access traffic steering, switching and splitting (ATSSS) capabilities and an indication of preferred energy-based user plane optimization. The session management function (SMF) receives the request and sends a session management (SM) policy association create to the policy control function (PCF). The PCF obtains an energy estimate report for traffic flows and QoS flows, for both access legs of the MA PDU session, uses the report to generate policy and charging control (PCC) rules, and sends these rules to the SMF, which derives ATSSS rules for the WTRU and N4 rules for the user plane function (UPF), that include energy aware traffic steering policies.

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: testing a software application having instances that run on (a) a test computing environment and (b) a target computing environment, wherein each of the test computing environment and the target computing environment is provided by a mobile access edge computing (MEC) environment, wherein the testing includes varying a software application performance impacting parameter value impacting performance of an instance of the software application running on the test computing environment, and examining metrics data resulting from the varying the software application performance impacting parameter value; providing, in dependence on the metrics data, an action decision to adjust a software application performance impacting parameter value impacting performance of a software application instance of the software application running on the target computing environment; and adjusting the software application performance impacting parameter value impacting performance of the software application instance of the software application running on the target computing in accordance with the action decision.

A method for selecting a policy control function (PCF) network element is performed by a first PCF network element. The method includes: in response to a received policy association establishment request being related to a packet data unit (PDU) session of a user equipment (UE) within a UE group, determining whether to select a same PCF network element serving each UE in the UE group for the PDU session of the UE; and requesting a binding support function (BSF) network element to select a PCF network element for the PDU session of the UE based on a result of determining whether to select the same PCF network element for the PDU session of the UE.

A user equipment (UE) device may include a processor configured to receive a request associated with a user equipment (UE) device and obtain subscription information associated with the UE device from a subscription management device, wherein the subscription information includes a charging function (CHF) group identifier associated with the UE device, in response to receiving the request. The processor may be further configured to select a CHF for the UE device based on the CHF group identifier and send a message associated with the request to the selected CHF.

Some embodiments establish, for an entity, a virtual network over several public clouds of several public cloud providers and / or in several regions. In some embodiments, the virtual network is an overlay network that spans across several public clouds to interconnect one or more private networks (e.g., networks within branches, divisions, departments of the entity or their associated datacenters), mobile users, and SaaS (Software as a Service) provider machines, and other web applications of the entity. The virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the routing of the entity's data messages to their destinations for best end-to-end performance, reliability and security, while trying to minimize the routing of this traffic through the Internet. Also, the virtual network in some embodiments can be configured to optimize the layer 4 processing of the data message flows passing through the network.

Provided is a novel system for identifying the location of a terminal carried by a user or operated by the user.　This system includes at least one computer device. The system includes a location identification means for identifying the location of a terminal carried or operated by a user on the basis of the distance between each of a plurality of wireless devices and the terminal. The terminal may be a portable terminal carried by a first user. The system may include an evacuation-site identification means that identifies, on the basis of the identified location of the portable terminal, an evacuation site satisfying a prescribed condition.

To provide a communication system capable of providing IoT devices with access to an IP network, the communication system enabling data processing of data transmitted from the IoT device, prior to the data going out onto the IP network.SOLUTION: First, an IoT device 130 transmits, to a base station 120, data which comprises a payload to which a required header has been added (S201). In the case of 4G, the base station 120 adds a GTP-U header and transmits the same to an MNO facility 111 (S202). The MNO facility 111 forwards the received data to a cloud facility 112 (S203). Further, on the basis of the TEID contained in the header of the received data, the cloud facility 112 runs a pre-specified program on the payload of the data, as necessary (S204). Thereafter, the cloud facility 112 adds a required header to the payload after conversion, and transmits the same to an application server 140 on the IP network (S205).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The invention discloses a charging method and equipment. In the method, a first control node receives a first request for requesting to allocate resources; the first control node obtains a charging policy and charging information, the charging policy comprises a charging policy corresponding to at least one charging type, the charging information comprises charging information corresponding to at least one charging type, and the charging type comprises one or more of the following types: a function type, a value type, a resource type and a scenario type; and the first control node sends the charging strategy and the charging information to at least one execution node, so that the at least one execution node reports resource use information according to the charging strategy and the charging information, and the at least one execution node is an execution node which is allocated by the first control node and used for providing resources. According to the method, a single charging strategy and charging information are not adopted any more, different charging strategies and charging information can be adopted for different charging types, and diversified charging requirements of different services can be met.

To allow display of a notification image according to the state of use of a GUI mode of an information processing apparatus.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus 100 comprises: first acquisition means 101 that acquires mode information representing a set GUI mode; and second acquisition means 110 that performs notification information acquisition processing for acquiring notification information provided from a server system 200. The information processing apparatus further comprises: display means 108 for displaying a screen according to the GUI mode and a notification image based on the notification information; storage means 118 that stores the notification information acquired by the acquisition means; and control means 101 that controls the display means. When the notification information stored in the storage means corresponds to the set GUI mode, the control means allows the display means to display the notification image, and when the notification information does not correspond to the GUI Mode represented by the mode information, does not cause the display means to display the notification image.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8

A communication device that is capable of receiving packets via one of a first route, in which a service provider bears usage fees, and a second route, in which a user bears usage fees, the communication device comprises: a controller configured to execute: acquire information indicating use of the first route and log information, in a case where the packet is from the first route; acquire the log information, in a case where the packet is from the second route; identify whether the packet passed through the first route or the second route based on whether the information was acquired together with the log information; identify whether the packet is related to the service provider or the user, based on header information; and generate information indicating an incentive to the user, in a case where the packet is received via the second route and is related to the service provider.

A reporting system, a disaster prevention system, a reporting method, and a program which lead to a better countermeasure against disasters are provided. A reporting system (10) according to a first aspect includes an acquisition unit (12) and a notification unit (13). The acquisition unit (12) is configured to acquire detection information from a detector (3). The detector (3) is configured to detect presence of an event that calls for disaster prevention measures in a facility (F1). The notification unit (13) is configured to transmit at least one piece of report information to an outside of the facility (F1) based on the detection information. The notification unit (13) is configured to transmit the at least one piece of report information to at least one of a first terminal (4) or a second terminal (5). The first terminal (4) is owned by a user (X1). The second terminal (5) is a terminal other than the first terminal (4). The second terminal (5) is owned by a person or organization that could arrive at the facility (F1) ahead of the user (X1).