A method is provided for identifying network services in a network having at least one Internet-of-Things network subscriber, in particular Internet-of-Things sensors/actuators, based on domain name system service discovery DNS-SD via a multicast domain name system mDNS. A domain name system service discovery DNS-SD compliant request for a network service type is transmitted by an Internet-of-Things network subscriber to a network having at least one host that provides network services. At least one domain name system service discovery DNS-SD compliant response to the request is received from one of the hosts. The response comprises a text field having a network service identifier. A connection request is transmitted by the Internet-of-Things network subscriber to the host to which the network service identifier is assigned and which provides the desired network service.

A disclosed example includes obtaining first data associated with a first device class; build a vocabulary including keys that map to values for an incremental training batch, the incremental training batch based on the first data and exemplars from memory, the exemplars associated with a set of device classes, the exemplars include first means closest to first overall means for ones of the set of the device classes that were stored to the at least one memory during a previous incremental training batch; train a model based on the keys as input features and an updated set of the device classes that includes the first device class; and select a set of samples from the first data and the exemplars, the set of the samples includes second means closest to second overall means for ones of the updated set of the device classes.

Methods and apparatuses are described for dynamic medium access control (MAC) address distribution in a wireless network. A station (STA) may receive, from an access point (AP), a frame that includes an indicator indicating at least one MAC address type or MAC address policy supported by an extended service set (ESS) associated with the AP. The indicator may comprise an 8 bit bitmap. The STA may then transmit, to the AP, a request message that includes MAC Address Assignment Protocol information determined based on the at least one MAC address type or MAC address policy. The STA may receive a response message that includes a local medium access control (MAC) address assigned based on the MAC Address Assignment Protocol information. The STA may transmit, to the AP, an association request frame with the local MAC address.

Methods and apparatuses are described for dynamic medium access control (MAC) address distribution in a wireless network. A station (STA) may receive, from an access point (AP), a frame that includes an indicator indicating at least one MAC address type or MAC address policy supported by an extended service set (ESS) associated with the AP. The indicator may comprise an 8 bit bitmap. The STA may then transmit, to the AP, a request message that includes MAC Address Assignment Protocol information determined based on the at least one MAC address type or MAC address policy. The STA may receive a response message that includes a local medium access control (MAC) address assigned based on the MAC Address Assignment Protocol information. The STA may transmit, to the AP, an association request frame with the local MAC address.

A device estimating apparatus acquires one or more DNS queries transmitted from each device connected to a network and generates comparison source data in which each content of the acquired DNS queries is associated with one or more pieces of attribute information of each of the one or more devices that have transmitted the DNS queries having the content. Thereafter, when one or more DNS queries are acquired from an estimation target device, the device estimating apparatus reads, for each DNS query, attribute information of one or more devices associated with a content of the DNS query from the comparison source data and estimates an attribute of the estimation target device using the read attribute information.

Methods, systems, and computer readable media for hiding network function (NF) instance identifiers (IDs) in communications networks are disclosed. One method for hiding NF instance IDs in a communications network occurs at an NF repository function (NRF) comprising at least one processor. The method comprises: receiving, from a first NF, an NF registration request message for registering a first NF instance of the first NF, wherein the NF registration request message includes a first NF instance ID for identifying the first NF instance; storing, in a data store, a mapping between the first NF instance ID and at least one pseudo NF instance ID, wherein the data store includes mappings between NF instance IDs and related pseudo NF instance IDs; and generating and sending, to the first NF, an NF registration response message including the at least one pseudo NF instance ID for identifying the first NF instance.

A signature comprised of a plurality of data blocks formatted in accordance with a multicast communications protocol is received from a target appliance. When it is determined that one or more of the plurality of data blocks has been populated with user data, a representation of at least a portion of signature is provided to an analytics engine for processing whereby the user data within the one or more of the plurality of data blocks is replaced with a predicted, original data. The predicted, original data is then usable to provision a controlling device with a command code set for use in communicating commands to the target appliance.

A signature comprised of a plurality of data blocks formatted in accordance with a multicast communications protocol is received from a target appliance. When it is determined that one or more of the plurality of data blocks has been populated with user data, a representation of at least a portion of signature is provided to an analytics engine for processing whereby the user data within the one or more of the plurality of data blocks is replaced with a predicted, original data. The predicted, original data is then usable to provision a controlling device with a command code set for use in communicating commands to the target appliance.

Disclosed are a communication method and apparatus based on edge computing, a computer storage medium, and an electronic device. The communication method based on edge computing includes: receiving an uplink Internet Protocol (IP) packet transmitted by a user equipment, a destination address of the uplink IP packet being a network address of a target application server; determining a network address of a local edge server that is configured to respond to the uplink IP packet according to the network address of the target application server; and modifying the destination address of the uplink IP packet to the network address of the local edge server, and forwarding the modified uplink IP packet to the local edge server for processing.

A Centralized Discovery Controller (CDC) uses built-in intelligence to determine or estimate whether a connection with a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) entity has been discontinued intentionally or whether a connection loss is rather transient, e.g., due to a temporary network issue. In the former case, the CDC sends out asynchronous event notifications (AENs) and communicates the absence of the NVMe entity in a get log page to indicate an administrative access control action, e.g., a user intervention due to a zoning change or the removal of an entity due to a hardware failure. In the latter case, the CDC creates an “unreachable” entry in the name server database that indicates a CDC connectivity failure but maintains the entity in the name server database despite the connection loss, refraining from sending out notifications to relevant (or impacted) entities to increase bandwidth, traffic stability, and network availability.