Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission system having a coupling device, a bypass circuit, a memory and a processor. The coupling device can facilitate transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves that propagate along a surface of a transmission medium. The memory can store instructions, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations including restarting a timer to prevent the bypass circuit from disabling the transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves by the coupling device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission system having a coupling device, a bypass circuit, a memory and a processor. The coupling device can facilitate transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves that propagate along a surface of a transmission medium. The memory can store instructions, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations including restarting a timer to prevent the bypass circuit from disabling the transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves by the coupling device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A system configured to analyze cellular connectivity information for at least one wireless network and at least one wireless device includes a processor configured to receive cellular connectivity information from at least one wireless network for at least one wireless device; the processor further configured to receive geographic location information from the at least one wireless network for the at least one wireless device. The system also includes a database configured to store the cellular connectivity information, the geographic location information, and equipment type information related to the at least one wireless device. The processor further configured to analyze the cellular connectivity information and determine a wireless device having poor wireless service performance based on the analysis of the cellular connectivity information. The disclosure additionally includes a process to analyze cellular connectivity information for at least one wireless network and at least one wireless device.

A satellite communication terminal according to the present invention includes a wired I/F unit to receive monitoring information from a mobile base station, which is a result of monitoring a device state of the mobile base station, a wireless I/F unit to perform radio communication with a satellite, a storage device to store therein monitoring-information processing policy information that indicates conditions for selecting the monitoring information to be transferred to the wireless I/F unit from among the monitoring information, and a monitoring-information processing unit to select the monitoring information to be transferred to the wireless I/F unit from among the monitoring information on a basis of the monitoring-information processing policy information, and to transfer the selected monitoring information to the wireless I/F unit.

A satellite communication terminal according to the present invention includes a wired I/F unit to receive monitoring information from a mobile base station, which is a result of monitoring a device state of the mobile base station, a wireless I/F unit to perform radio communication with a satellite, a storage device to store therein monitoring-information processing policy information that indicates conditions for selecting the monitoring information to be transferred to the wireless I/F unit from among the monitoring information, and a monitoring-information processing unit to select the monitoring information to be transferred to the wireless I/F unit from among the monitoring information on a basis of the monitoring-information processing policy information, and to transfer the selected monitoring information to the wireless I/F unit.

An application, executed by a User Equipment (“UE”), may receive an identifier, which may be used to monitor Key Performance Indicators (“KPIs”) associated with the UE. Such KPIs may be monitored in conjunction with execution of the application, such as at times that the application sends and/or receives traffic. The KPIs may be associated with sensor data, resources, and/or other features or functionality of the UE. The UE may obtain an identifier associated with the application and/or the UE from a KPI monitoring system of some embodiments, may obtain user consent to monitor and/or report KPIs associated with the application, and may provide such KPIs to the KPI monitoring system in conjunction with the identifier. The KPI monitoring system may generate aggregated KPI information, associated with the application, based on the KPIs received from the UE and/or KPIs received from one or more other sources.

A communication system includes a signal source for transmitting downlink signals and receiving uplink signals to and from an indoor signal coverage area; and a distributed antenna system interposed between the signal source and the indoor signal coverage area. The distributed antenna system includes an antenna monitoring unit connected to at least one service antenna through a distribution network. The at least one antenna transmits and receives the downlink signals and the uplink signals to and from at least one terminal unit within the indoor coverage area. The antenna monitoring unit includes an RFID transceiver that communicates with at least one RFID tag attached to the at least one antenna and detects the location of a point of anomaly with respect to that one antenna when a signal from the at least one RFID tag is not received by the RFID transceiver, or when a power level measured by the RFID tag and reported back to the RFID transceiver falls below a predetermined threshold level.

An overheating protection method for user equipment includes: sending a first signaling to a base station, the first signaling carrying indication information indicating that the user equipment has a capability of reporting a temporary capability of the user equipment; receiving a second signaling returned by the base station in response to the first signaling; and when the user equipment is overheated due to a wireless link configuration being too high, sending a third signaling for adjusting the wireless link configuration to the base station, the third signaling carrying assistance information indicating the base station to solve an overheating problem of the user equipment.

A method and corresponding system for implementing Virtual Network Function (VNF) performance monitoring is provided. The method includes that: an Element Management (EM) receives a threshold policy of a VNF performance monitoring threshold sent by a Network Management (NM) or an Operation Support System (OSS); the EM acquires related information about virtual resources after the VNF is scaled up/down; and the EM sets a new performance monitoring threshold for the VNF according to the threshold policy and the related information about virtual resources after the VNF is scaled up/down, and the performance monitoring threshold includes at least one of a scale up/down threshold and a performance warning threshold.

A location management device function is provided in an access network, and a base station identifies and authenticates a terminal device permitted to perform base station loopback communication on the basis of identification information on the terminal device received from the terminal device. With this configuration, provided is a communication control method and the like for the base station device that has lost connectivity to a core network, to permit only specific terminals to perform base station loopback communication.