A method in a vehicle equipped with a long-range and a short-range interface comprises maintaining a connection to an access network using the long-range interface; recording a time and location at which the connection to the access network is operable; in case of failure of the connection to the access network, attempting to form a vehicle ad-hoc network (VANET) using the short-range interface; and sharing, with other vehicles in the VANET, the recorded time and location. Further, the vehicle may receive, from the other members of the VANET, a time and location at which the other members' connection to the access network was operable. From the time and location recorded by the vehicle and the time and location it receives, the vehicle derives coverage information indicative of a geographical boundary of an operable portion of the access network.

The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for fusing, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system, and a system thereof. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety related services on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT related technologies. A method for performing a vehicle communication service by a first terminal in a wireless communication system, according to the present disclosure, may comprise the steps of: receiving a first message related to the vehicle communication service from a network entity; determining a parameter of the vehicle communication service on the basis of the first message; receiving a second message related to the vehicle communication service from a second terminal; and determining whether to process the second message on the basis of the parameter of the vehicle communication service.

In accordance with an embodiment, a method for processing information associated with vehicular traffic includes monitoring two signals that include information associated with vehicular traffic. A comparison signal is generated by comparing the two signals. The two signals may be wireless signals, or one of the two signals may be a hardwired signal.

A method for controlling the position of an updating agent in a decentralised multi-agent system, the method comprising: identifying a first neighbouring agent within a communicative range of the updating agent; estimating a first distance to the first neighbouring agent and a first direction to the first neighbouring agent; determining a movement direction based on the first direction to the first neighbouring agent; and determining a movement magnitude based on an activation function, the first distance to the first neighbouring agent, and a desired reference distance. The activation function is configured such that the greater the difference between the first distance to the neighbouring agent and the desired reference difference, the larger the movement magnitude. The method further comprises moving the updating agent based on the movement direction and the movement magnitude.

A method performed by a network node for locating a User Equipment (UE) is provided. The network node, the at least one portable network node and UE operate in a wireless communication network. The network node configures (204) the at least one portable network node to broadcast reference signals. The broadcasted reference signals trigger the UE to subsequently measure and report the quality of the respective reference signals to the network node. The network node then receives (205) subsequent measurement reports from the UE. Each measurement report comprises a current quality value of the reference signals sent by the respective at least one portable network node. The network node manages the respective at least one portable network node to approach the position of the UE by: Meanwhile analyzing the subsequent measurement reports, commanding (206) each of the at least one portable network node to move in a direction that is decided based on the analysis of its corresponding subsequent measurement reports one by one upon receiving them. The moving direction is to be performed such that quality values of its corresponding reference signals in subsequent measurement reports are increasing.

A terminal device includes a signal reception unit that receives signals transmitted from a plurality of transmission devices, and analyzes the contents of data contained in the signals; and a control unit that performs control to select one transmission device from the plurality of transmission devices that have transmitted signals containing identical data, and causes the signal reception unit to continuously receive a signal being transmitted from the selected transmission device when the number of received signals containing identical data is equal to or larger than a prescribed number.

A communication apparatus includes an acquisition unit to acquire, from a base station apparatus being connected, switching information including information used for wireless communication with a movably configured base station apparatus to be a switching destination candidate, a determination unit to determine whether or not to switch a base station apparatus to be a connection destination, and a connection unit to, upon determining by the determination unit to switch the base station apparatus to be the connection destination, execute connection to the base station apparatus to be the switching destination candidate on a basis of the switching information.

A system for communication is provided, where the system comprises a context broker configured to gather context information for use in managing a plurality of radios, a Wi-Fi radio manager configured to manage the plurality of radio managers using the context information, and a plurality of radios, where each of the plurality of radio managers is configured to manage one of the plurality of radios for communication with another electronic device.

The present publication relates to the wireless signal technologies, and provides methods and systems for wireless signal reinforcement and wireless network load sharing and following. The method for wireless signal reinforcement comprising: a mobile wireless access point moving and measuring the wireless signal strength of other wireless access points received at the location the mobile wireless access point passes through; determining a first location where the wireless signal needs to be reinforced according to the measurement result; and the mobile wireless access point moving to a second location according to the first location, so that the strength of the wireless signal transmitted by the mobile wireless access point from the second location to the first location exceeding the strength of the wireless signal of other wireless access points at the first location. The implementation of the publication can adaptively change the distribution of the environment wireless signals as the environment changes, and realize efficient coverage of wireless signals at low cost.

A communication speed prediction apparatus (1) includes: a position prediction unit (111) for predicting a future positional relationship between first and second communication apparatuses (B, D); a speed prediction unit (112) for predicting the future communication speed between the first and second communication apparatuses by using a predicted result by the position prediction unit and a prediction model (PD) for predicting the future communication speed between the first and second communication apparatuses; an extraction unit (113) for extracting a training information from an information source (121) including information relating to a past positional relationship between the first and second communication apparatuses and information relating to a past communication speed between the first and second communication apparatuses; a training unit for training a parameter of the prediction model by using the training information; and a model update unit (115) for updating, by using the trained parameter, the prediction model used by the speed prediction unit, the model update unit changes, based on at least one of a state of the communication speed prediction apparatus and a state of the first and second communication apparatuses, an update frequency by which the prediction model is updated.