An intelligent transportation system (ITS) for a vehicle is described. The ITS includes: a packet count estimator arranged to receive broadcast ITS transmissions from a plurality of neighbouring vehicles and provide an indication of a number of packets received from the plurality of neighbouring vehicles, where the indication includes at least an information length and a data rate of the received packets; a fair resource allocator circuit operably coupled to the packet count estimator and configured to adjust at least one ITS broadcast transmission parameter of the ITS based on the indication of the number of received packets; and a transmitter operably coupled to the fair resource allocator circuit and configured to broadcast at least one ITS message using the adjusted at least one ITS broadcast transmission parameter.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to logical channel management in a communication network. In an embodiment, a mapping between a plurality of logical channels of at least one terminal device and a plurality of resource sets of a network device is determined. The resource sets are assigned for communication between the at least one terminal device and the network device via the logical channels. If at least one resource set is overloaded, at least one of the plurality of logical channels is determined based on the mapping. Status information indicating that the at least one logical channel is in a congestion status is caused to be transmitted to a target terminal device of the at least one terminal device, the target terminal device communicating with the network device via the at least one logical channel.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system facilitates transmission of video data on RF bands; the video data includes startup video data to be presented during a startup period and post-startup video data to be presented subsequently. The method includes selecting an RF band according to whether the segment has startup video data; estimating a value, based at least in part on characteristics of the RF band, corresponding to a quality of experience (QoE) for the segment; determining whether the value satisfies a target criterion; and transmitting the segment using the RF band, in accordance with the value satisfying the target criterion. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing management of network slices are disclosed. In one aspect, a wireless communication method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a network side function operating in a wireless network in which network services are provided as one or more network slices, a request for a quota information associated with a network slice selection assistance information. The process further includes transmitting, by the network side function, in response to the request, the quota information for the network slice information.

This disclosure provides a terminal state processing method, a device and a medium. The method includes: in a case that a network is overloaded due to an excessive quantity of terminals receiving an MBMS service in an RRC_CONNECTED state, indicating, by a network side device, that a terminal receiving the MBMS service is to enter a specified RRC state, and/or indicating, by the network side device, a time duration for a terminal to receive the MBMS service in the specified RRC state. The terminal enters the specified RRC state in accordance with the indication, and/or receives the MBMS service in the specified RRC state during the indicated time duration.

One or more network devices create, in a network, a network slice with multiple network slice instances (NSIs) having multiple slice instance variations, where each of the multiple slice instance variations services a slice variation type and one of multiple slice variation levels. The slice variation type corresponds to a first performance characteristic of one or more performance characteristics met by the network slice while servicing sessions and the multiple slice variation levels sub-divide the slice variation type into multiple different levels of service within the slice variation type. The one or more network devices allocate, instantiate, and provision virtual resources for each of the multiple NSIs; and services User Equipment (UE) sessions via one of the multiple slice instance variations based on UE selection of one of the multiple slice variation levels of the slice variation type.

Embodiments herein provide a method for managing a network slice load in a wireless network. The method includes: sending, by a CN device, a request message for network slice load information to a base station of the wireless network; determining, by the base station, the network slice load based on the parameter; sending, by the base station, the response message comprising the network slice load information to the core network device for managing the network slice load; determining, by a CN device, the network slice load at the base station based on the response message; and managing, by a CN device, the network slice load at the base station.

Disclosed embodiments provide edge computing mechanisms for network congestion identification and control, and for providing predicted QoS notifications. The network congestion control embodiments enable context-aware, location-aware, radio network information-aware congestion event identification and control at the transmitter/sender device, which provides a new category of congestion control algorithms exploiting the aforementioned information via edge computing services, where an edge computing framework acts as broker. The predicted QoS notifications include predictions of radio signal quality and conditions as well as predicted edge or cloud computation resources. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of wireless communication over a sidelink between a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE. The first UE may identify a configuration for discontinuous reception (DRX) for direct link communications with a second UE. The first UE may determine a channel busy ratio (CBR) based on a plurality of CBR measurement occasions within a time window prior to a direct link transmission based on the configuration for DRX. The first UE may determine whether to perform a congestion control on the direct link transmission based on the CBR. The first UE may perform a direct link transmission subject to a channel occupancy ratio limit.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first network parameter associated with a first network device and obtaining a second network parameter associated with a second network device. Further embodiments include determining that the first network device is less congested than the second network device based on the first network parameter and the second network parameter resulting in a first determination. Additional embodiments include amplifying a first wireless signal based on the first determination and in response to receiving the first wireless signal from the first network device resulting in a first amplified wireless signal, and transmitting the first amplified wireless signal Other embodiments are disclosed.