Apparatus and methods concerning simulation of call quality are disclosed. In an example embodiment, computing server is communicatively coupled to a server. The computing server is configured to receive a first set of data which may include audio of a call routed by the server. The computing server also includes a processing circuit configured to characterize a post-transmission quality state of the first set of data. The processing circuit is also configured to generate a second set of data including audio that is different from the audio of the call and data including characteristics indicative of the post-transmission quality state of a first set of data. The processing circuitry may configured to use the second set of data to provide security, protect the confidentiality and privacy, and/or monitor changes of behavior/quality for different audio CODECs, encryption, bit-rate, etc.

A method of processing a service in a transmitter, and including generating, by a hardware processor, a first media component and a second media component for the service; generating, by the hardware processor, signaling data for the service; time interleaving, by a time interleaver, the first media component, wherein the first media component is time-interleaved by column-wise writing actual Forward Error Correction (FEC) blocks including the first media component in a Time Interleaving (TI) memory and diagonal-wise reading the first media component in the actual FEC blocks from the TI memory, wherein one or more virtual FEC blocks are skipped during the diagonal-wise reading the written first media component, and wherein a number of the one or more virtual FEC blocks is equal to a difference between a number of the actual FEC blocks and a column number of the TI memory; generating, by a signaling generator, physical layer signaling information, wherein the physical layer signaling information includes first physical layer signaling information and second physical layer signaling information, wherein the first physical layer signaling information includes information for identifying a size of the second physical layer signaling information and wherein the second physical layer signaling information includes information for obtaining the column number of the TI memory; transmitting, by an antenna, the time-interleaved first media component, the physical layer signaling information and the signaling data through a broadcast network; and transmitting, by a network interface, the second media component to a receiver through a broadband network. Further, the signaling data transmitted through the broadcast network includes first timeline information for specifying a timeline of the first media component transmitted through the broadcast network and uniform resource location information for the second media component.

A method for performing code block segmentation for wireless transmission using concatenated forward error correction encoding includes receiving a transport block of data for transmission having a transport block size, along with one or more parameters that define a target code rate. A number N of inner code blocks needed to transmit the transport block is determined. A number M—outer code blocks may be calculated based on the number of inner code blocks and on encoding parameters for the outer code blocks. The transport block may then be segmented and encoded according to the calculated encoding parameters.

An optical module includes first circuitry configured to receive data transmitted from a host over an electrical communication link at a first data rate, the data transmitted from the host being either one of PCIe data and CXL data and change a data rate for transmission of data from the optical module, the data transmitted from the optical module being transmitted at a second data rate different from the first data rate. Second circuitry is configured to convert the data transmitted from the host at the first data rate from an electrical format to an optical format for transmission from the optical module at the second data rate and convert data received from an optical receiver at the second data rate from the optical format to the electrical format for transmission from the optical module to the host at the first data rate via the first circuitry.

Techniques for negotiating optical configuration parameters of transceivers are disclosed. In one example, a method may include outputting, by a first optical node to a second optical node, a negotiation request message that specifies a configuration parameter setting for optical transceivers, the setting comprising one of a speed, a forward error correction (FEC) scheme, a modulation type, a transmission power, a minimum central frequency, a maximum central frequency, a minimum input power, a maximum input power, or a signal-to-noise ratio threshold; receiving, by the first optical node from the second optical node, in response to the negotiation request message, a negotiation response message including an indication of support for the configuration parameter setting; and configuring, by the first optical node, in response to the indication of support, a configuration parameter of an optical transceiver for the first optical node with the configuration parameter setting for the configuration parameter.

The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node for wireless communications. A first receiver receives a first signal and a second signal; a first transmitter transmits a third signal in a first radio resource pool; wherein the first signal is used for determining first information, the first information being related to channel quality between the first node and a transmitter of the first signal; the second signal is used for determining second information, the second information being related to channel quality between a transmitter of the second signal and the first node; the transmitter of the first signal is different from the transmitter of the second signal; and the first information and the second information are used together for determining a magnitude of time-domain resources occupied by the third signal.

A communication apparatus includes: a communication unit that performs signal transmission to and from a communication partner apparatus; and a communication control unit that changes a signal ratio in a first direction to the communication partner apparatus and a signal ratio in a second direction from the communication partner apparatus in accordance with a signal transmission state with the communication partner apparatus.

A method for routing is disclosed. The method comprises provisioning an endpoint in a network with a reactive path selection policy; monitoring, by the endpoint, current conditions relating to various paths available to said end point for the transmission of traffic; and selectively applying, by the endpoint, at least a portion of the reactive path selection policy based on the current conditions of the available paths.

In one embodiment, a device that executes an application obtains a delay budget objective for traffic for the application to be sent by a Hybrid Information-Centric Networking source to the device. The device makes a determination as to whether the traffic for the application to be sent by the Hybrid Information-Centric Networking source to the device should use a forward error correction mechanism or a retransmission mechanism, in an attempt to optimize the delay budget objective. The device sends, to the Hybrid Information-Centric Networking source, a Hybrid Information-Centric Networking request for the traffic for the application, wherein the Hybrid Information-Centric Networking request is indicative of the determination. The device receives, from the Hybrid Information-Centric Networking source, one or more packets of the traffic for the application, after sending the Hybrid Information-Centric Networking request.

Methods and systems for operation in a wireless communication system are provided. A first transmission may be initiated using at least a first portion of physical layer resources. A second transmission may be initiated using at least a second portion of the same physical layer resources. The first transmission may be any one of a puncturing transmission, interfering transmission, delay-sensitive transmission, or short transmission. The second transmission may be an on-going transmission or a long transmission.