An accessory device may dynamically determine to transition a cellular connection between mobile-initiated communication only (MICO) mode and non-MICO mode based on a variety of factors. The accessory device may be configured to communicate through a non-cellular network in addition to the cellular network. The accessory device may transition from MICO to non-MICO mode based on one or more of: loss of the non-cellular connection; location of the accessory device; a call, data, or SMS request failure over the non-cellular network; or other factors.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method. According to the method, a mark is added to a data packet. After user equipment is handed over from an original device to a target device, and before a user plane network element receives a handover notification, the user plane network element sends, through a path used before handover, a data packet that carries a first mark to the original device. The original device modifies the first mark in the data packet to a second mark, and then forwards, to the target device, a data packet whose mark is modified and that carries the second mark. After receiving the handover notification, the user plane network element sends, to the target device, a data packet that carries a fourth mark. The target device can distinguish between sources of the received data packets based on different marks in the received data packets.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes receiving at least one first packet of a sequence of packets from a source cell, the at least one first packet being dependent on at least one second packet of the sequence of packets for decoding, performing a handover from the source cell to a target cell, determining that the at least one second packet of the sequence of packets was not received from the source cell, generating a message requesting a retransmission from the target cell for the at least one first packet and the at least one second packet based on the determination, and transmitting the message to the target cell.

A mobile station including: a communication unit that includes a first logical processing subject and a second logical processing subject that operates in association with the first logical processing subject and performs multiple communications with a first wireless communication apparatus and a second wireless communication apparatus; an accumulation unit that accumulates data received from the second wireless communication apparatus; and a notifying unit that notifies the first wireless communication apparatus of data receiving status in the accumulation unit.

A method of operating a wireless device (300) is described. The method includes providing (1001) a connection with a source access node. The method also includes receiving (1005) a handover command from the source access node while providing the connection with the source access node. The method also includes establishing (1009) a connection with a target access node responsive to receiving the handover command. The method further includes transmitting (1019) uplink data to the source access node after establishing the connection with the target access node. Related wireless devices are also discussed.

Embodiments of this application provide a node handover method and an apparatus. A source secondary node receives first handover information and determines to perform an uninterrupted node handover. The source secondary node performs, in a process of the uninterrupted node handover, first processing on first data received by the source secondary node, to obtain second data, and sends the second data to a terminal device. The source secondary node performs second processing on the first data to obtain third data in the process of the uninterrupted node handover, and sends fourth data to the terminal device via a target secondary node. According to some embodiments provided in this application, a communication delay of the terminal device can be reduced, and user experience of the terminal device can be improved.

Buffering streaming content includes accessing prior device location data of a device and predicting a future sector that the device will travel through based at least in part on the prior device location data. A predicted quality of service of wireless communications is determined and a streaming buffer is adjusted based at least in part on the predicted quality of service and a caching policy set in accordance with key variables related to network conditions in the future sector.

Embodiments relate to systems and methods for modifying the playback rate of media data in order to improve craft-based media playback system performance during handover events in a communication system.

A system for delaying or inhibiting data is provided in order to shorten the time required for a reselection process from a first communication protocol to a second communication protocol. Reselection from the first communication protocol to the second communication protocol (e.g., 3G to 4G) requires a period of time without data transfers to allow the reselection to complete. The system delays or inhibits data transfers on the mobile device until the reselection process completes or the mobile device is idle for a predetermined length of time. In an embodiment, the system can buffer outgoing data and then send the data once the reselection has completed. In other embodiments, the system can drop packet sessions or ignore incoming packet pages. In another embodiment, the system can delay or inhibit data based on the priority of the data.

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a method for performing access for a UE. In addition, the present disclosure discloses a data forwarding method and a data forwarding equipment, user equipment and base station. By the technical solutions disclosed in the present disclosure, a UE may help a base station to forward data of other UEs.