Secure, distributed radio access networks are enabled, e.g., to facilitate network resilience and security. For instance, a device can comprise a processor, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: in response an event being determined to have occurred that affects operation of a primary radio access network, activating an alternate radio access network via a group of mobile devices and re-routing communications from being communicated via a fixed location radio access network equipment of the primary radio access network to being communicated via the group of mobile devices of the alternate radio access network.

A communication system includes a central cloud server to establish a primary communication path between a radio access network (RAN) node and one or more user equipment (UEs) via a first set of edge devices of a plurality of edge devices, where each edge device is configured as a mesh node of a mesh network. The central cloud server determines a plurality of secondary communication paths between the RAN node and the one or more UEs via different sets of edge devices. The central cloud server ranks each of the plurality of secondary communication paths in terms of one or more signal quality parameters and controls switching from the primary communication path to one or more secondary communication paths configured as backup communication paths within a threshold time to maintain a continuity in service to the one or more UEs for uplink and downlink communication.

A communication system includes a central cloud server to establish a primary communication path between a radio access network (RAN) node and one or more user equipment (UEs) via a first set of edge devices of a plurality of edge devices, where each edge device is configured as a mesh node of a mesh network. The central cloud server determines a plurality of secondary communication paths between the RAN node and the one or more UEs via different sets of edge devices. The central cloud server ranks each of the plurality of secondary communication paths in terms of one or more signal quality parameters and controls switching from the primary communication path to one or more secondary communication paths configured as backup communication paths within a threshold time to maintain a continuity in service to the one or more UEs for uplink and downlink communication.

An apparatus of a computing node of a communication network, a system, a machine-readable storage medium, and a method. One or more processing circuitries of the apparatus are to: receive a plurality of service data flows (SDFs) associated with respective applications to be executed, the SDFs including data packets; determine first Quality of Service (QoS) flows corresponding to a plurality of first QoS requirements for the SDFs, wherein SDFs associated with a same application correspond to a same QoS requirement of the plurality of first QoS requirements; change the first QoS flows to second QoS flows different from the first QoS flows, the second QoS flows corresponding to a plurality of second QoS requirements for respective ones of the SDFs, the second QoS flows based on the respective applications and further based on respective ones of the data packets; and send for transmission from the output the plurality of SDFs based on the second QoS flows.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for wireless communication. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: transmitting, at a first user equipment (UE), a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration sidelink via relay message on a sidelink between the first UE and a second UE; and starting a timer associated with the RRC reconfiguration sidelink via relay message. The second UE may act as a relay node and may transfer the received message to a destination UE or base station. The destination UE or base station may response to the first UE before a timer expires.

The present disclosure relates to relay communication based on a sidelink in a wireless communication system, and a method for operating a first terminal may include performing direct communication with a second terminal based on a sidelink, when a path between the first terminal and the second terminal is predicted to be blocked and another relay device providing a relay service is discovered, transmitting, to the relay device, a first message for requesting the relay service for the first terminal and the second terminal, receiving, from the relay device, a second message for accepting the request for the relay service, and performing relay communication with the second terminal, and the first message may include information on the second terminal.

A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A control plane device obtains first information of a first terminal device, where the first information indicates a terminal device that has mutual trust with the first terminal device, and the terminal device that has mutual trust with the first terminal device includes a second terminal device. The control plane device sends a first message to a first user plane device, where the first message includes route configuration information, the route configuration information is used to configure a first transmission path, the first transmission path is used to forward data to a second terminal device via the first terminal device, and the first user plane device is configured to provide a user plane data forwarding service for the first terminal device.

A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A control plane device obtains first information of a first terminal device, where the first information indicates a terminal device that has mutual trust with the first terminal device, and the terminal device that has mutual trust with the first terminal device includes a second terminal device. The control plane device sends a first message to a first user plane device, where the first message includes route configuration information, the route configuration information is used to configure a first transmission path, the first transmission path is used to forward data to a second terminal device via the first terminal device, and the first user plane device is configured to provide a user plane data forwarding service for the first terminal device.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems for connecting a wireless device across multiple wireless networks are disclosed. One system includes a state machine and a router. The state machine operates to maintain a network availability of each of a plurality of wireless networks for a wireless device, wherein each of the plurality of wireless networks include network characteristics. The router operates to select a one of the plurality of wireless networks based on the network availability and the network characteristics as maintained by the state machine, process data packets according to the selected available wireless network based on the network characteristics of the selected available wireless network, and route the processed data packets to the wireless device through the selected one of the plurality of wireless networks.

During operation, a mesh network access point (MAP) may communicate, via multiple mesh paths in a mesh network with the one or more root access points (RAPs), uplink packets or frames to or from at least two electronic devices. Notably, at a given time, the MAP uses a first mesh path in the mesh paths to communicate a first subset of the uplink packets or frames associated with a first electronic device in the two electronic devices and uses a second (different) mesh path in the mesh paths to communicate a second subset of the uplink packets or frames associated with a second electronic device in the two electronic devices. Moreover, the MAP may dynamically distribute the first electronic device or the second electronic device over the multiple mesh paths, e.g., based at least in part on one or more communication-performance metrics of the mesh paths and/or the mesh network.