3821results about "Wireless network protocols" patented technology

A wireless device receives a configuration for a layer 1 or layer 2 triggered mobility (LTM) of the wireless device and / or an early timing advance (ETA) acquisition of the wireless device. The wireless device transmits, to a base station, a report indicating an elapsed time between a first event associated with the ETA and / or the LTM and a second event associated with the ETA and / or the LTM.

The invention discloses an adaptive protocol stack reconstruction and transaction-level data control method for 5G communication, and aims to solve the technical problems of fixed protocol stack structure, coarse transmission control granularity and the like of an existing communication module. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, analyzing an application layer communication session initialization instruction, generating a communication task label, acquiring 5G network environment state data in real time, and constructing a network state feature vector; then, the communication task label and the network state feature vector are input into a protocol mapping decision map, a protocol reconstruction instruction is generated, loading and unloading of a protocol module in a protocol stack resource pool are controlled, a dynamically-adaptive protocol path is constructed, and a transaction identifier is allocated to the protocol path; and establishing a transaction-level data buffer area based on the transaction identifier, performing priority marking on the data packet, and executing differentiated dynamic flow control operation according to the network state feature vector and the priority label, thereby realizing high-reliability and low-delay 5G communication data management.

Methods and systems for providing network connectivity are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for providing network connectivity involves receiving from a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) an access ID, an IP address, and an Access Point Name (APN) at a SASE domain, wherein the access ID, the IP address, and the APN correspond to a wireless device, updating IP address-to-tenant mappings at the SASE domain in response to the access ID, the IP address, and the APN, and forwarding traffic received at the SASE domain from the wireless device via the MNO according to the updated IP address-to-tenant mappings.

A computer may generate a temporary digital wallet containing one or more anonymous payment tokens and transmit the temporary digital wallet to a user device of a user. When the user provides an anonymous payment token of the one or more anonymous payment tokens to a point of sale (POS) system, the computer may receive from the POS system or other systems connected thereto, a request to authorize payment for the anonymous payment token. The request to authorize payment may also include an amount to be paid by the user to the POS system. Using the anonymous payment token, the computer may retrieve a user account and determine that the user account has sufficient funds for the transaction. Based upon the determination that the user account has sufficient funds, the computer may transmit an authorization confirmation back to the POS system or any other system that the authorization request originated from.

Embodiments described herein relate to wireless communications, including methods and apparatus for dynamically selecting subscriber identity module (SIM) profiles, electronic SIM (eSIM) profiles, multi-SIM operating modes, and / or wireless access networks for network slice based applications of wireless devices. A wireless device can include at least two SIM / eSIM profiles and switch use of SIM / eSIM profiles, change between dual SIM operating modes, and / or select a registration mode based on requirements of one or more applications in use and availability of network slices via different wireless networks.

Methods and systems are disclosed for resource management on Sidelink for vehicle to everything (V2X) scenarios. Example methods and systems for a Resource Structure on Sidelink are disclosed. Control and data channels may be Frequency Division Multiplexed (FDMed) or Time Division Multiplexed (TDMed) with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) waveform. Example methods and systems for a Resource Configuration on Sidelink are disclosed. The resource configuration may be statically configured or may be locally configured. Example methods and systems for Assisted Resource Allocation are disclosed. Assisted Sensing may be performed by a group lead or RSU and local scheduling may be performed by a group lead or RSU.

A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving a configuration via a radio resource control (RRC) message, the configuration including information about a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) burst comprising B>1 time instances of CSI-RS transmission; measuring the CSI-RS burst; determining, based on the measurement, time-domain (TD) or Doppler domain (DD) components of a downlink (DL) channel; and transmitting a CSI report including an indication about the TD or DD components of the DL channel.

Disclosed are systems and techniques for performing wireless communication. For example, a method for wireless communications at a network entity (e.g., a base station or portion thereof) may include selecting a special cell (SpCell) from one or more candidate cells for communicating with a user equipment (UE) and transmitting an indication of the SpCell to the UE. In another example, a method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE) may include receiving an indication of a special cell (SpCell) from a network entity and, in response to the indication, communicating with the SpCell.

A first base station node receives, from a second base station node, a request to setup a context of a wireless device, wherein the request indicates that a packet flow is associated with a PDU set.

A wireless transmit / receive unit (WTRU) may receive a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising configuration information. The configuration information may include one or more preconfigured candidate cell configurations. Each of the preconfigured candidate cell configurations may include a special cell (SpCell) configuration, a secondary cell (SCell) configurations, and / or a candidate cell index. The WTRU may receive a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE). The MAC CE may indicate to apply a first preconfigured candidate cell configuration of the one or more preconfigured candidate cell configurations and an activation state for each SCell in the first preconfigured candidate cell configuration. The WTRU may initiate a handover to a SpCell in the first preconfigured candidate cell configuration based on the indication in the MAC CE. The WTRU may transmit data to the SCells activated by the MAC CE.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support random-access occasion (RO) selection for reduced-capability (RedCap) user equipment (UEs). A RedCap UE operating in a half-duplex mode may use the techniques described herein to efficiently select an RO in which to transmit a random-access preamble based on a duration between a latest received downlink transmission and the RO satisfying a threshold duration. The UE may receive system information mapping a set of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) to a set of ROs. The UE may then select an RO from the set of ROs in which to transmit the random-access preamble such that the UE has sufficient time to transition from a receive mode to a transmit mode to transmit the random-access preamble.

A method performed by an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station, configuration information regarding an uplink (UL) grant, receiving, from the base station, configuration information regarding backhaul (BH) radio link control (RLC) channel via higher layer signaling, identifying, based on the configuration information regarding BH RLC channel, whether an extended logical channel identifier (eLCID) is used, in case that the eLCID is not used and a UL grant size is equal to or larger than a first size, not transmitting only a padding buffer status report (BSR) or not transmitting only padding or not transmitting only the padding BSR and the padding, and in case that the eLCID is used and the UL grant size is equal to or larger than a second size, not transmitting only the padding BSR or not transmitting only the padding or not transmitting only the padding BSR and the padding.

Various solutions for adaptation of measurement gap configuration with dynamic control signaling are described. A network node may transmit a configuration of one or more measurement gaps (MGs) to a user equipment (UE). The network node may determine a specific type of traffic associated with the UE. The network node may transmit a downlink control information (DCI) or a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) to the UE. The DCI or the MAC-CE may indicate an adaptation of at least one of the one or more MGs.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus and method for beam failure recovery between a UE and a base station operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. In an embodiment, the UE receives a frame from a base station for determining a radio link quality of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The UE determines whether the frame is received only during the DRX ON state of the DRX mode and that the radio link quality of the PDCCH is less than an acceptable quality threshold. In response, the UE transmits a recovery message to the base station indicating a change to a communication beam used to receive the frame.

Wireless communications may comprise transmissions using a beam. A message may comprise one or more indications of a beam and / or type(s) of signals for downlink and / or uplink transmission using the beam. An acknowledgement may be used to indicate reception of the one or more indications and / or a time offset may be used for applying the beam for the downlink and / or uplink transmission.

Some present implementations provide a method for a user equipment (UE) connected to a non-terrestrial network (NTN). The method may receive, from a base station (BS) of the NTN at a downlink (DL) slot n, a timing advance (TA) command. The method may also adjust a timing of uplink (UL) transmissions to the BS according to the received TA command. The method may also include applying the adjusted timing for the UL transmissions by performing the UL transmissions from a beginning of a UL slot n+k+1+Koffset. Koffset may be a common delay broadcast by the BS to a plurality of UEs connected to the NTN including the UE, and k may be an additional delay specific to the UE.

The present disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method for remapping slice by using an access and mobility management function (AMF) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises the steps of: determining that a slice for at least one protocol data unit (PDU) session of user equipment (UE) will be replaced with an alternative slice; transmitting, to a policy control function (PCF), a message for requesting the alternative slice including an identifier of the slice; receiving the message including the identifier of the alternative slice from the PCF in response to the message for requesting the alternative slice; and transmitting, to a session management function (SMF) corresponding to the at least one PDU session for the slice, a message for requesting a change in the slice including the identifier of the alternative slice.

A wireless device receives one or more configuration parameters for a two-step random access channel (RACH) procedure. The wireless device transmits, based on the configuration parameters, a message, for the two-step RACH, comprising a preamble and a transport block. The wireless device receives, during a discontinuous reception (DRX) active time of a DRX operation of the wireless device, a response to the message. The DRX active time may be based on a time window for receiving the response to the message. The time window may start at least one symbol after a transmission occasion of the transport block.

Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products to facilitate coordination between multiple radio access technologies (RATs). In certain embodiments, a Stack Data Analytics Coordinator (SDAC) may be provided in association with radio protocol stacks (e.g., 5G NR and / or Wi-Fi) at user equipment and / or network access points (e.g., gNB and / or Wi-Fi AP). The SDAC may coordinate requests and / or collection of information (e.g., protocol stack measurements and / or statistics) among entities of multiple RATs. In certain embodiments, Network Data Analytics Services may be enhanced by being extended beyond a core network, such as to user equipment and / or network access points.

Wireless communications are described. A base station may send control information for scheduling data to be transmitted to the wireless device via a downlink. The control information may comprise one or more indications of wireless resources to be used by the wireless device to receive the data. The wireless device may receive the data based on one or more determinations / conditions, such as satisfying a time offset (e.g., between reception of the downlink information and a scheduled transmission of the data), whether a control resource set is configured to indicate a transmission configuration state, and / or whether the control information indicates a transmission configuration state.

A system can communicate broadband cellular communications with a user equipment. The system can direct the user equipment to perform iterations of transmitting a keep alive report periodicity signal according to a packet data convergence protocol protocol data unit format. The system can, in response to determining that a consecutive threshold number of keep alive report periodicity signals of the iterations of transmitting the keep alive report periodicity signal has not been received, initiate a user equipment release transaction with regard to the user equipment.

The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes identifying whether a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity is suspended in case that the PDCP entity re-establishment is requested from an upper layer, identifying whether an indicator is configured for indicating that an uplink data compression (UDC) is continuously used and a PDCP service data unit (SDU) is compressed, for an acknowledged mode (AM) data radio bearer (DRB) whose the PDCP entity is not suspended, and submitting the PDCP SDU, in case that the indicator is configured for indicating that the UDC is continuously used and the PDCP SDU is compressed.

A wireless device receives one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages indicating a plurality of control resource set (CORESET) groups and a plurality of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets. Each of the plurality of CORESET groups corresponds to a respective SRS resource set of the plurality of SRS resource sets. The wireless device receives, via a CORESET of a CORESET group of the plurality of CORESET groups, a downlink control information (DCI) scheduling transmission of an uplink signal. The wireless device determines an SRS resource set, from the plurality of SRS resource sets, corresponding to the CORESET group comprising the CORESET. The wireless device transmits the uplink signal based on an SRS resource in the SRS resource set.

Provided are a method and a device for processing an application data flow. The method of user equipment may include receiving a higher layer message including radio resource configuration information configured for transmission or reception of specific application data, configuring the radio resource configuration information in the terminal, and classifying and processing user plane data of the application data on the basis of the radio resource configuration information.

A method performed by an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station, configuration information regarding an uplink (UL) grant, receiving, from the base station, configuration information regarding backhaul (BH) radio link control (RLC) channel via higher layer signaling, identifying, based on the configuration information regarding BH RLC channel, whether an extended logical channel identifier (eLCID) is used, in case that the eLCID is not used and a UL grant size is equal to or larger than a first size, not transmitting only a padding buffer status report (BSR) or not transmitting only padding or not transmitting only the padding BSR and the padding, and in case that the eLCID is used and the UL grant size is equal to or larger than a second size, not transmitting only the padding BSR or not transmitting only the padding or not transmitting only the padding BSR and the padding.

The invention discloses a tracking data processing method, a medium, a main routing node and a sub routing node, relates to the technical field of communication, and discloses the tracking data processing method which is applied to the main routing node and comprises the following steps: configuring a target base address of a storage space for storing tracking data under the condition that the tracking data provided by the sub routing node is received; converting the tracking data into a routing protocol format to obtain routing tracking data; and routing the routing tracking data to a storage space indicated by the target base address. The processing efficiency of the tracking data is effectively improved.

A method in a wireless communication system for service continuity between a user equipment, UE, based client application and a server, the connection comprising an edge application server, the connection further comprising a first local user plane proxy function and a user plane tunnel connection between the UE based client and the first user plane proxy function, the user plane tunnel connection further comprising a first source internet protocol, IP, address, the method comprising: inserting (910) a second user plane function between the UE based client and the server, providing (920) a second source IP address for uplink, UL, data packets, wherein the second source IP address is different from the first source IP address; forwarding UL (930) data packets from the second user plane function to the first user plane proxy function, wherein the first source IP address is replaced with the second source IP address; initiating (940) a path change procedure between the UE based client and the first user plane proxy function in response to the change to the second source IP address.

The invention relates to PDCP SN gap reporting and a state variable RXNEXT. A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product are provided. In the context of a method, the method comprises receiving (302) a message from another PDCP entity (another of the 110 / 112), the message indicating at least one sequence number. The method further comprises updating (304) a first state variable based on the at least one sequence number, where the first state variable indicates an expected sequence number of a next expected service data unit (SDU) to be received, and wherein the updating of the first state variable includes increasing the first state variable by a lowest sequence number that is higher than a reference value and that is associated with the SDU that is not considered to be discarded.

Optimizing traffic routing operations in a two-box WLAN setup including a gateway device and a WAN adaptor device. The WAN adaptor device receives initial packets of a traffic flow from a client device, and sends the initial packets to the gateway device for slowpath (SP) processing. The gateway device creates fastpath (FP) processing rules for the traffic flow, including traffic modifications resulting from the SP processing, and sends the FP processing rules to the WAN adaptor device. The WAN adaptor device applies the FP processing rules to perform the traffic modifications on subsequent packets of the second traffic flow. The FP processing rules enable the WAN adaptor device to forward the subsequent packets of the traffic flow to the client device directly, without bridging to the gateway device for FP processing.