Methods and apparatus for managing capacity in a Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) network. An exemplary method embodiment includes operating a Citizens Broadband Radio Service Device (CBSD) of a cell to perform the steps of: receiving a power down message; decreasing, in response to the power down message, UE inactivity timer length for one or more UEs from a first length to a second length; and continuing to transmit packets to UEs at an edge of the cell. An exemplary system embodiment includes: a CBSD of a cell that comprises: a network receiver that receives a power down message; a first processor that controls the first CBSD to decrease, in response to the power down message, UE inactivity timer length for one or more UEs from a first length to a second length; and a wireless transmitter that continues to transmit packets to UEs at an edge of the cell.

A first optimization server including a first publish-subscribe broker is configured to connect to a first cellular base transceiver station, where the first cellular base transceiver station is configured to communicatively connect to entities, including a first entity, in an RF coverage area of the first cellular base transceiver station. A second optimization server includes a second publish-subscribe broker, where the first publish-subscribe broker and the second publish-subscribe broker are part of a publish-subscribe broker network that is operable to distribute published data packets between entities that are connected to a publish-subscribe broker of the publish-subscribe broker network, where the publish-subscribe broker network is configured to route data packets published by the first entity to a second entity via the first publish-subscribe broker and the second publish-subscribe broker if the second entity has subscribed to receive the data packets published by the first entity.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In a wireless communications system, a user equipment (UE) may determine a preference of the UE for a termination point between a core network and a radio access network (RAN), the core network and the RAN supporting communications for the UE via at least one or a first cell and a second cell each associated with a multi-connectivity mode of the UE. The UE may transmit, to a base station, an indication of the preference of the UE for the termination point. In some cases, the base station may determine the termination point based on receiving the indication of the preference of the UE, and the base station may transmit a message indicating a configuration for the multi-connectivity mode to the UE, the configuration indicating the determined termination point.

An apparatus, a system, a computer-readable media, and a method. The method is to be performed at an apparatus of a gNB configured to host a management service (MnS) producer of provisioning function and a mobility robustness optimization (MRO) function in a distributed self-organizing network (D-SON). The method includes: decoding one or more requests from a MRO management function sent on a service-based layer of the D-SON, the one or more requests indicating attributes to be set by the gNB, the attributes including MRO targets, ranges of handover parameters, and a control parameter to enable or disable the MRO function; based on the one or more requests, setting the targets and the ranges of handover parameters for the MRO function, and enabling the MRO function; and in response to a determination that a MRO performance does not meet the targets, performing updates on the attributes to optimize the MRO performance.

The present disclosure provides a communication method. The method includes acquiring route information of a route, which includes a destination; determining a first resource scheduling for a communication connection of a mobile device based on the route information of the route; determining whether the communication connection of the mobile device based on the first resource schedule requires more resources than a second alternative resource scheduling; and if so, using the second alternative resource scheduling for the communication connection of the mobile device.

Systems and methods for switching communication pathways between a mobile device and connected “Internet of Things” (IOT) device are described to improve scalability and communication between devices. An application on the mobile device may determine whether local or virtual local endpoints are available to route communications without using a remote IoT server endpoint. Communications and updates from multiple co-located, but not necessarily user-related connected devices may be aggregated, and sent to a remote IoT server to reduce the peak load scalability requirement of the server.

Methods, systems, and storage media are provided for exiting conditional handovers and for estimating a user equipment mobility state. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a transit speed of a device, resulting in a detected transit speed; responsive to the detected transit speed satisfying a first threshold, including information in a message related to a handover request between a first access point of a network and a second access point of the network, the information being indicative of an amount of time that the device has been in a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) mode; and sending, to the first access point with which the device communicates and is transitioning away from, the message including the information that is indicative of the amount of time that the device has been in the DRX mode. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A network controller device for use with a first and second radio, and a client device, the first and second radio being configured to communicate with the network controller device and the client device on a first and second band. The network controller device includes: a memory of a priori history data; and a processor configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory to cause the network controller device to: determine the current battery level of the client device while wirelessly communicating on the first band; obtain the a priori history data; determine a battery level required to complete a service on the first band based on the a priori history data; and steer the client device to the second band when the determined battery level required to complete the service on the first band based on the a priori history data is less than the current battery level.

Provided is a method and an apparatus for for changing or controlling a state of a secondary cell in carrier aggregation. The method includes receiving secondary cell (SCell) state indication information indicating a state for a SCell from a base station through an RRC message or an MAC control element, causing a state of the SCell to transition into a dormant state when the SCell state indication information indicates the dormant state, and transmitting channel state information reporting for the SCell in the dormant state according to an dormant state CQI report period parameter set separately from an activation state CQI report period parameter.