Methods and systems are provided for adaptive road management in a communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., a network of moving things, which may be a vehicle network, a network of or including autonomous vehicles, etc.).

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for establishing a connection of a wireless communication interface between a client and a server using Bluetooth Low Energy (LE). According to the present invention, a client, receives, from the server, a first advertising message including at least one of first state information indicating a state of main power of the server and second state information indicating a state of a specific wireless communication interface, performs an activation procedure of the main power based on the first state information, transmits, to the server, a first write request message requesting writing of a first operation code of control point property for activating the specific wireless communication interface; receiving a first write response message in response to the first write request message, receives, from the server, a first indication message including a first result code indicating whether the specific wireless communication interface is activated, and establishes a connection with the specific wireless communication interface, when the specific wireless communication interface is activated.

A remote UE may transmit, to at least one of a source master network entity or a target master network entity, an indication of a first entity change and a second entity change. The remote UE may receive, from the target master network entity, a measurement configuration during an RRC reestablishment procedure with the target master network entity. The remote UE may transmit, to the target master network entity during the RRC reestablishment procedure, one or more measurements corresponding to the second entity change. The remote UE may receive, from the target master network entity, a dual connectivity configuration based on the transmitted one or more measurements. The dual connectivity configuration may correspond to the first entity change and the second entity change. The remote UE may communicate with the target master network entity and the target secondary network entity based on the dual connectivity configuration.

An infrastructure-controller (206) for an infrastructure (202), wherein the infrastructure has a plurality of Bluetooth Low Energy, BLE, nodes (208, 210, 212) associated with it. The infrastructure-controller (206) is configured to: identify one of the plurality of BLE nodes as a current-BLE-node (212), and activate the current-BLE-node (212) for communication with a key (204) using BLE signals; determine a communication-quality-indicator for each of the plurality of BLE nodes (208, 210, 212), that represents the quality of communication with the key (204); based on the communication-quality-indicators, identify one of the plurality of BLE nodes as a next-BLE-node (210); and provide connection-information to the next-BLE-node (210) using out-of-band signalling (214). The infrastructure-controller (206) can then deactivate the current-BLE-node (212); and activate the next-BLE-node (212) for continued communication with the key (204) using BLE signals.

Methods and apparatus to manage communication sessions to handover between a direct connection at a secondary wireless device and a relayed connection to the secondary wireless device via a primary wireless device. A connection manager of a secondary wireless device can trigger transfer of a communication session based on measurements of performance metrics for the communication session. Upon detection of performance degradation in a local connection or a backhaul connection or both, the connection manager of the secondary wireless device can determine proximity of and/or capabilities for connections of the primary wireless device and instigate transfer of the communication session between different connection types, such as between a direct connection and a relayed connection. The transfer of the communication session can occur without user intervention or in response to input from the user without interrupting or reestablishing the communication session.

In an aspect of the present invention, provided herein is a method for turning on a Wi-Fi interface based on a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) interface by a first station (STA) in a wireless communication system, including: exchanging an advertising packet with a second STA based on the BLE interface; transmitting a first message to the second STA based on the BLE interface; and receiving a second message from the second STA based on the BLE interface. In this case, the Wi-Fi interface may be turned on based on the advertising packet, and information related to the Wi-Fi interface may be exchanged through the first and second messages.

A communications method of a wearable device, a communications system, and a related device are disclosed, which are applied to a communications technology field. In the communications method of a wearable device, if a second Bluetooth connection between user equipment and the wearable device is disconnected, a first Bluetooth connection between a network connection device and the wearable device is established, so that the network connection device may send, to the wearable device through the first Bluetooth connection, first information sent by the user equipment through a third communication connection to the network connection device. In this way, indirect communication between the user equipment and the wearable device is implemented by using the network connection device, so that the user equipment and the wearable device are not limited by a communication range.

Devices and methods for dynamic management of incident area deployable communications systems. Deployable base stations implement an ad hoc peer-to-peer or master-slave methods of determining activation states and transmission characteristics of plurality of deployable base stations at an incident area. The methods include receiving incident scene information from the plurality of deployable base stations and determining a coverage region for providing wireless communications coverage to one or more mobile communication devices in the incident area. The methods further include determining the activation states of the plurality of deployable base stations and determining transmission characteristics of the plurality of deployable base stations based on the incident scene information and the coverage region. One or more of the deployable base stations are activated in accordance with the determined transmission characteristics.

Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things). Specifically, there is disclosed optimizing methods for handing off or connecting a mobile user to different access points.

Methods, a system, a self-organizing network of nodes and at least one portable personal device is provided. The at least one personal device is adapted to be worn by individuals and is configured to transmit short-range wireless broadcast signals. The personal device is configured to establish a short-range wireless communication link with the nodes of the self-organizing network and to enable the establishment of a short-range wireless communication link with a mobile communications device which may be associated with the personal device. The network and the personal devices are further configured to enable handover of the personal device between a node of the self-organizing network and a mobile communications device which may be associated with the personal device.