A control plane (CP) entity is to adaptively reroute user plane traffic of a mobile node (MN) with use of a segment routing (SR) for IPv6. A message indicating an attachment of the MN to the mobile network is received selecting a first user plane (UP) anchor node. A first set of home network prefixes (HNPs) are allocated to the MN. An IP traffic flow using a first HNP prefix is established between the MN and a correspondent node (CN) along a first network path—defined at least in part by the first UP anchor node and an anchor node of the CN. In response to a handover of the MN, a message indicating a subsequent attachment of the MN is received selecting a second UP anchor node. The second UP anchor node is instructed to host the first HNP prefix previously allocated by the first UP anchor node.

Techniques and systems relate to utilizing network metrics to optimize performance and network coverage for a telecommunications network. Using techniques described herein, a telecommunications network may utilize network metrics collected from user equipment (UE) devices to determine how where to deploy cells, such as 5G cells, in order to optimize network performance. Metrics are collected by UE that indicates the use of different wireless access technologies (e.g., 3G, 4G, 4G LTE, 5G, . . . ) within a telecommunications network.

System and techniques for radio link quality prediction are described herein. A mobile device may receive a device registration. Motion data for the mobile device may then be obtained. A predicted path for the mobile device may be derived from the motion data. A set of predicted radio metrics for the mobile device along the predicted path mat be produced via a dynamic coverage map. The set of predicted radio metrics may then be transmitted.

The present disclosure relates to an energy-efficient optimized computing offloading method for a vehicular edge computing network and a system thereof; the method comprises: calculating the energy efficiency cost EEC of local computing; calculating the energy efficiency cost EEC of mobile edge computing; determining an optimal offloading decision based on the energy efficiency cost of local computing and the energy efficiency cost of mobile edge computing; determining an optimal CPU frequency and an optimal transmit power of the vehicle based on the optimal offloading decision; and determining the optimal offloading time of the vehicle based on the optimal CPU frequency and the optimal transmit power of the vehicle. The method of the present disclosure can improve the computing offloading efficiency.

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided controlling transmission of sensor data. First sensor is processed to identify an area of interest and generate a trigger signal to direct the transmission of additional sensor data pertaining to the area of interest. Transmission of sensor data may be identified and/or prioritized based on various factors such as proximity, angle, orientation, interest level, category, rating, sensor type, sensor data quality and/or the like. Certain transmission characteristics may be controlled, directed and/or varied such as quantity, quality, rate of transmission, transmission frequencies and intervals, and/or the like. As such, user experience may be improved, and the consumption and timing of certain computation resources may be improved.

There is provided a method of managing traffic flows in a cellular network by a traffic flow management node. For each tile of a plurality of tiles of the cellular network, a traffic flow in the tile is measured (200) based on a location and corresponding velocity of at least one user equipment in the cellular network from information provided by the at least one user equipment, subsequent traffic flow in the tile is estimated (202) based on a comparison of the measured traffic flow in the tile to one or more previously measured traffic flows in the tile and an indication of the estimated subsequent traffic flow in the tile is transmitted (204) to a resource management node enabling management of resources related to the traffic flows in at least one tile of the cellular network by said resource management node.

The present disclosure describes methods, terminals, and base stations for terminal positioning method. One example method applied to a baseband unit (BBU) in an indoor distributed NodeB system includes: receiving an uplink positioning signal forwarded by multiple remote radio units RRUs, where the uplink positioning signal is sent by a to-be-positioned terminal to the multiple RRUs; selecting, from the multiple RRUs, at least two RRUs as target RRUs according to the uplink positioning signal and a preset rule; and respectively obtaining signal angles of arrival corresponding to the target RRUs, and determining a location of the to-be-positioned terminal according to the signal angles of arrival, locations of the target RRUs, and a preset algorithm.

A device may receive data indicating a required quality of service (QoS), and may receive radio access network (RAN) information associated with a RAN, wherein the RAN information is provided by a centralized unit (CU) of the RAN. The device may provide the RAN information to a multi-access edge computing (MEC) platform, and may receive, from the MEC platform, a QoS request that requests the required QoS. The device may provide the QoS request to the CU, and may receive a QoS response to the QoS request. The device may provide the QoS response to a policy control function (PCF) of a core network, and may receive an indication of approval of the QoS response from the PCF. The device may cause, based on receiving the indication of approval, the required QoS to be implemented by the MEC platform and network devices associated with the core network.

A device receives, from a policy control function (PCF) in a wireless network, at least one set of user equipment device (UE)-location based conditional policy rules. The device determines a geographic location of a UE connected to the wireless network and applies one of the set of UE-location based conditional policy rules to traffic associated with the UE based on the determined geographic location.

The present invention provides methods and apparatus for notifying Quality of Service (QoS) information to User Equipment (UE), Users, and Application server. Embodiments of the present invention may analyze the network QoS and/or statistics of QoS parameters using one or more functions such as Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF). Embodiments may also provide control plane (CP) functions which may send the QoS information to the UE depending on the UE subscription, application and/or network slice.