The communication method includes the following. A first terminal device receives first information from a first network device, where the first information indicates that the first terminal device is to hand over to a second network device. The first terminal device transmits second information to a second terminal device, where the second information indicates that the second terminal device is to hand over to the second network device, and the first terminal device provides relay service to the second terminal device.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a WLAN communication circuit supporting a plurality of frequency bands, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to perform WLAN communication with a first AP through a first channel of a first frequency band, to when an external device for performing WLAN-based direct communication is detected during the WLAN communication with the first AP, check capability of the external device and/or WLAN connection information of the external device, to switch the WLAN communication with the first AP to WLAN communication with a second AP based on a second channel of a second frequency band different from the first frequency band, based on the capability of the external device and/or the WLAN connection information of the external device, and to perform direct communication with the external device through the second channel of the second frequency band.

Systems and methods for switching communication pathways between a mobile device and connected “Internet of Things” (IOT) device are described to improve scalability and communication between devices. An application on the mobile device may determine whether local or virtual local endpoints are available to route communications without using a remote IoT server endpoint. Communications and updates from multiple co-located, but not necessarily user-related connected devices may be aggregated, and sent to a remote IoT server to reduce the peak load scalability requirement of the server.

A method and device for mode switching includes: a first base station sending a message including mode switching information to a first User Equipment (UE) to trigger the first UE to perform mode switching according to indication information of a mode in the mode switching information. The problem of poorer service continuity caused by mode switching inflexibility in the related is solved, and the effect of improving overall throughput of a system is further achieved.

A first UE sending via a sidelink messages to second UE(s) indicating the first UE is changing to a different network access node and therefore might be changing a synchronization source, which the second UE(s) use to maintain a sidelink communication between the first and second UEs. The first UE performs a handover process from a first network access node in the first wireless network to the different network access node in the second wireless network. The second wireless network uses the second synchronization source. The first UE attempts to synchronize the second UE(s) to the second synchronization source. The second UE, and first and second networks may interoperate to effectuate this process. Methods, apparatus, software, and computer program products are disclosed.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for switching between a first path and a second path when certain selection criteria are met. The first path may be a Uu connection whereby the remote UE is connected directly to a network entity. The second path may be a connection whereby the remote UE is connected to the network entity (i.e., indirectly) via a relay UE (e.g., by a PC5 connection).

This application discloses a link switching method in sidelink communication and an apparatus, to improve SL communication quality. The method may be implemented by using the following steps: A first communication apparatus communicates with a second communication apparatus through a first relay apparatus, where a link between the first communication apparatus and the first relay apparatus is a first source communication link, and a link between the second communication apparatus and the first relay apparatus is a second source communication link; the first communication apparatus establishes a destination communication link when a specified condition is satisfied; and the first communication apparatus communicates with the second communication apparatus through the destination communication link. When either or both of the two communication apparatuses moves/move, quality of the link between the two communication apparatuses may deteriorate. In embodiments of this application, communication quality between two terminals is improved through link switching.

Provided are a device for communicating with and controlling a small unmanned airplane, and a method therefor. In an information processing system to which the present invention is applied, a drone is provided with: a converter module that operates on a storage battery; an onboard communication means; an FDR module; a drive unit or the like, not illustrated; a leg section that contacts or approaches a landing port; and a charging terminal for supplying power for charging to the storage battery, the charging terminal being disposed in the proximal area. The landing port is the landing port where the drone lands, and has a projection for guiding the leg section onto a planar section.

Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of wireless communication, in particular a D2D switchover method, system, and device, for solving the problem in prior art of the lack of mechanism for D2D switchover for D2D user devices under appropriate conditions so as to ensure the short-distance transmission quality in the situation where an LTE system has too high a load and interference is too strong. Embodiments of the present invention comprise: a network device determines, according to resource management information and/or channel status information whether a D2D user device needs to perform a D2D switchover; when the D2D user device is determined to need to perform a D2D switchover, the D2D user device is triggered to switch to a heterogeneous system and conduct end-to-end communication, or to conduct end-to-end communication via the network device, or to conduct in the current system end-to-end communication not controlled by the network device. The method in the embodiments of the present invention ensures that D2D devices can perform D2D switchover under appropriate conditions even when an LED system has too high a load and interference is too strong, thereby enhancing the end-to-end communication performance.

In this invention, we disclose methods for enabling ad hoc cellular base station functionality within a user equipment when the connection quality between a base station and the user equipment is limited or nonexistent. These methods include measuring a connection quality between a user equipment and its serving base station. If the connection quality is below a threshold, the user equipment can enable its internal ad hoc cellular base station functionality. This is done by running a software within the user equipment that (a) checks the connection quality periodically, and (b) enables ad hoc cellular base station functionality of the connection threshold dips below a certain value. In one embodiment, that threshold could be the same threshold value that a user equipment would use if it were making a decision to handoff to another base station based on poor connection quality.