The present invention relates to a handover method and apparatus in a wireless communication system supporting an eICIC function. A communication method of a first base station in a heterogeneous network wireless communication system, which includes the first base station and a second base station and supports a cell range expansion (CRE) function, comprises the steps of: monitoring whether the cell range expansion function is deactivated; when the deactivation of the cell range expansion function is detected, generating a handover request message; and transmitting the handover request message to the second base station.

An information handling system of a first gateway access point in a wireless network includes at least one wireless adapter for receiving a plurality of reply messages including information that can be used to calculate a plurality of traffic factor values describing traffic flow between one of a plurality of gateways in the wireless network and a cloud computing resource, and a processor executing code instructions of a wireless network gateway sink nomination system. For each of the plurality of traffic factors, the wireless network gateway sink nomination system may calculate and store within a memory a traffic factor value for each of the plurality of gateways, based on the reply messages, associate each calculated traffic factor value with the gateway from which the reply message used to calculate each value was received, identify a most desirable calculated traffic factor value for each of the gateways, identify a most desirable sink gateway from the plurality of gateways based on the most desirable calculated traffic factor values, transmit the identity of the most desirable sink gateway to each of the plurality of gateways, and transmit data bound for transmission to the cloud computing resource to the most desirable sink gateway for delivery of the data to the cloud computing resource.

Systems and methods for maintaining a user session during an access network handover are provided. The method can include establishing, between a user equipment and an access network, a first connection over a first access network, and a second connection over a second access network such that the first and second connections exist concurrently. The method can include setting the first connection as an active connection for conveying data packets for stateful user session, and setting the second connection as a standby connection. The method can include exchanging a series of handover messages between the user equipment and the access gateway. The method can include transitioning the active connection to the second connection, and setting the first connection to the standby connection. The method can include continuing, over the second connection, the stateful user session such that a state of the stateful user session is maintained through the transition.

A terminal device may determine that the terminal device camps on a first cell and is located within a coverage area of a second cell. The terminal device determines that no data service has been received within a preset-duration. The terminal device further determines that a radio resource control (RRC) connection is not released when no data service is received within the preset duration. The terminal device performs a hand over from the first cell to the second cell upon determining that the RRC connection is not released.

A method for managing network traffic on a portable communication device including a processor, a memory, and a plurality of network interfaces configured to connect to a plurality of networks includes: processing network traffic of an application running on the processor via a first network of the plurality of networks, the first network being specified as a primary network by an operating system running on the processor; monitoring a plurality of network status information associated with the first network; detecting a problem of the first network when one or more parameters of the received network status information is outside of one or more threshold values; in response to detecting the problem in the first network, selecting a second network of the plurality of networks as the primary network; and processing the network traffic via the second network as the updated primary network.

There is provided a mechanism capable of processing a service using a plurality of sensor devices in a distributed manner while suppressing a communication load and providing the service. A control device is arranged on a local network side with respect to a gateway between an internet and a local network. The control device includes: a control unit configured to transmit or receive information regarding one or more sensor devices wirelessly connected to a first cell associated with the control device to or from another control device associated with a second cell.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications, and more specifically to narrowband retuning for simultaneous transmission and reception (e.g., broadcast-broadcast or broadcast-unicast) in enhanced machine type communications (eMTC). An example method that can be performed by a base station (BS) generally includes transmitting a first type of signal in a first set of narrowband resources for a first duration and transmitting a second type of signal in a second set of narrowband resources for a second duration. A user equipment (UE) can monitoring for the first type of signal in the first set of narrowband resources for the first duration and tune-away to the second set of narrowband resources to monitor for the second type of signal for the second duration.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications, and more specifically to narrowband retuning for simultaneous transmission and reception (e.g., broadcast-broadcast or broadcast-unicast) in enhanced machine type communications (eMTC). An example method that can be performed by a base station (BS) generally includes transmitting a first type of signal in a first set of narrowband resources for a first duration and transmitting a second type of signal in a second set of narrowband resources for a second duration. A user equipment (UE) can monitoring for the first type of signal in the first set of narrowband resources for the first duration and tune-away to the second set of narrowband resources to monitor for the second type of signal for the second duration.

Methods, apparatuses, and embodiments related to a technique for managing interference of communication of a wireless network in a multi-band wireless networking system. In an example wireless network with multiple wireless networking devices and one or more client devices, communications between the wireless networking devices occurs via a backhaul channel, and communication between the client(s) and the wireless networking devices occurs via a fronthaul channel. In response to detection of electromagnetic interference, a wireless networking device attempts to manage the interference, such as by adjusting a parameter associated with circuitry associated with a radio of the wireless networking device, or by other disclosed techniques.

In modern networks, frequent handovers (e.g., ping-pong) from one AP device to another is a situation that can lead to increased latency, excessive resource utilization, poor quality of service, or radio link failure (RLF). Conventional networks employ mobility robustness optimization (MRO) procedures to balance tradeoffs between setting low thresholds before initiating a handover procedure, thereby increasing the likelihood of ping-pong issues, and setting those thresholds to higher values, thereby increasing the likelihood of RLF. Conventional MRO procedures are tailored to terrestrial-only networks and furthermore merely react to existing issues. Hybrid networks, having both terrestrial and aerial AP devices often witness ping-pong issues and may be implemented with urgency not conducive to using MRO procedures. An architecture is presented that can predict and mitigate ping-pong and other issues in connection with hybrid networks before those issues occur.