This application discloses a network coding method and an apparatus. The network coding method includes: A first terminal device determines first indication information, where the first indication information indicates whether to preprocess a phase of first to-be-coded data to be sent by the first terminal device; and transmits data to a second terminal device in a same slot of a same transmission resource through an electromagnetic hypersurface array antenna, where the transmitting includes: sending third to-be-coded data to the electromagnetic hypersurface array antenna in a first slot of a second transmission resource, and receiving first network coded data from the electromagnetic hypersurface array antenna in the first slot, where the third to-be-coded data is obtained based on the first indication information and the first to-be-coded data; and obtaining second to-be-coded data from the second terminal device based on the third to-be-coded data and the first network coded data.

Disclosed are systems and techniques for performing wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine at least one parameter associated with a sidelink communication. Based on the at least one parameter, the wireless communication device may determine a status of a network coding indicator corresponding to the sidelink communication. The wireless communication device may transmit the sidelink communication and the network coding indicator including the determined status to at least one network entity configured to perform network coding.

An apparatus, methods and systems for data collection in an industrial environment are disclosed. A monitoring system can include a data collector coupled to a plurality of sensors to collect data, a data storage structured to store a plurality of data collection management plans, a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the collected data, and a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the collected data and select one of the plurality of data collection management plans, wherein the selected one of the plurality of data collection management plans is selected is at least in part based on a data analysis of received data from the plurality of sensors.

This application provides a data transmission method and an apparatus. In the provided method, network coding-based data transmission is introduced, and adaptive adjustment is performed on HARQ retransmission and network coding-based transmission based on a data reception status or channel quality.

A sidelink device can perform a network coded sidelink transmission without increasing resource overhead by using resources originally reserved for retransmission of a packet, The sidelink device can reuse the reserved resources when retransmission is not needed based on feedback of the initial sidelink transmission. In one aspect, the sidelink device can use reserved retransmission resources to transmit a network coded transmission of sidelink data received from other sidelink devices. In one aspect, the sidelink device can use the reserved retransmission resources to transmit a network coded transmission including a retransmission of the sidelink device's own sidelink data and sidelink data from other devices.

A platform for facilitating development of intelligence in an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) system generally includes a plurality of distinct data-handling layers comprising an industrial monitoring systems layer that collects data from or about a plurality of industrial entities in the IIoT system; an industrial entity-oriented data storage systems layer that stores the data collected by the industrial monitoring systems layer; an adaptive intelligent systems layer that provisions available computing resources within the platform; and an industrial management application platform layer that manages the platform in a common application environment.

A low density parity check (LDPC) channel encoding method for use in a wireless communications system includes a communication device encoding an input bit sequence by using a LDPC matrix to obtain an encoded bit sequence for transmission. The LDPC matrix is obtained based on a lifting factor Z and a base matrix. The encoding method can be used in various communications systems including the fifth generation (5G) telecommunication systems, and can support various encoding requirements for information bit sequences with different code lengths.

An apparatus, such as a base station, may determine channel conditions associated with at least two carriers on which communication with another apparatus is configured. The apparatus may encode a dataset into a set of protocol data units (PDUs) using fountain coding based on the channel conditions. The apparatus may send a first subset of the set of PDUs to the other apparatus on a first carrier of the at least two carriers. The apparatus may send a second subset of the set of PDUs to the other apparatus on a second carrier of the at least two carriers. Another apparatus, such as a user equipment (UE), may receive the set of PDUs from the apparatus over the at least two carriers, and may decode the set of PDUs to obtain a dataset using fountain coding.

An exemplary hearing device is configured to receive, from a source, sequential data packets each identified by a sequence number. The hearing device receives, from an additional hearing device configured to also receive the sequential data packets, a first particular sequence number indicating a last of the sequential data packets received without discontinuity by the additional hearing device. The hearing device selectively transmits, based on the first particular sequence number and to the additional hearing device, a data packet included in the sequential data packets received from the source, the data packet identified by a sequence number that is based on the first particular sequence number.

Systems for self-organizing data collection and storage in a manufacturing environment are disclosed. A system may include a data collector for handling a plurality of sensor inputs from sensors in the manufacturing system, wherein the plurality of sensor inputs is configured to sense at least one of: an operational mode, a fault mode, a maintenance mode, or a health status of at least one target system. The system may also include a self-organizing system for self-organizing a storage operation of the data, a data collection operation of the sensors, or a selection operation of the plurality of sensor inputs. The self-organizing system may organize a swarm of mobile data collectors to collect data from a plurality of target systems.