Disclosed is a method for selecting a path in a communication network. The method comprises transmitting, through a device connected to a target node, a beacon, to one or more nodes in the communication network. The beacon comprises a set of informative parameters. The method comprises calculating, by each node, a selective score towards one more paths to be selected for reaching the target node in the communication network. The method further comprises identifying, by each node, a target path from the one or more path. The target path is a path having a highest value of the selective score as compared to selective score for other paths in the one or more paths. The method further comprises selecting, by each node, the target path from the one or more paths for reaching the target node.

Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver and a processor for processing a radio signal received through the transceiver or a radio signal to be transmitted through the transceiver. The processor accesses a channel according to according to a priority of data to be transmitted to the base communication terminal by the wireless communication terminal.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine to operate as a relay UE based on a set of thresholds configured for the first UE. The UE may transmit a relay discovery announcement on a communication channel of a sidelink to indicate support for relay communications. A remote UE may monitor for and receive the relay discovery announcement on the sidelink communications channel. The remote UE may select the relay UE based on a set of criteria for selecting a candidate relay UE. The remote UE and the relay UE may establish the relay communications based on the relay discovery announcement transmitted on the communications channel of the relay sidelink.

A system may include a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) including nodes. The nodes may include beacon-based clusterhead (BB-CH) nodes and members. Each of the nodes may be configured to transmit communication data packets and transmit beacons. Each of the nodes may have passive spatial awareness. For each of at least some of the BB-CH nodes having members, a BB-CH node may be configured to compile spatial awareness information of all members of the BB-CH node. The compiled spatial awareness information may include a BB-CH node identification, position-location information (PLI) of the BB-CH node, a quantity of the members, and a member list with PLI. For each of the at least some of the BB-CH nodes, the BB-CH node may be configured to broadcast, via efficient flooding, some or all of the compiled spatial awareness information to every connected node.

A communication network (10) provides communicative coupling between potentially large populations of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices (12) and/or other types of communication devices (12) and one or more Application Servers (ASs) (14) that are affiliated with respective ones of the communication devices (12). One or more network functions (30, 58) in the communication network (10) are operative to determine that any given one of the communication devices (12) is compromised, or that multiple such devices (12) are compromised, and provide for management of such devices (12) within the network (10) as “compromised” devices (12). Aspects of compromised-device management include forcing re-registration of such devices (12), for quarantining them in one or more quarantine network slices (54), and recovering quarantined devices (12) after remediation of the compromise. Recovery operations include forcing re-registration of devices (12) being recovered, for migration back to their normal or regular network slice(s) (50).

A system and method for identifying a customer's location at a business and provide notification to a company representative upon arrival of the customer at the business location. Real-time location determinations for the customer and customer location tracking can be provided. One or more wireless beacons communicate with the customer's electronic device. The beacons provide the system with real-time data about the customer's whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking of the customer at the location. A first non-limiting example of use, include a company that provides food and beverage allowing the customer to place an order for food and beverages on their electronic device and having the order delivered to the person at their current location as determined by the system. Another non-limiting example includes a company using the notification system to have assigned staff members notified of the customer's arrival.

A first communication device determines whether a second communication device is in a power save mode with respect to a first communication link among a plurality of communication links that correspond to respective frequency segments, and determines whether the second communication device is in a power save mode with respect to a second communication link among the plurality of communication links. The second communication device is permitted to be in the power save mode with respect to the second communication link when the second communication device is not in the power save mode with respect to the first communication link, and vice versa. The first communication device communicates with the second communication device in accordance with the power save modes of the second communication device with respect to the first and second communication links.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive, from a base station and based at least in part on a triggering event, an indication of a frequency domain indexing configuration for a relative reference point. The user equipment may use at least one of a start of a control resource set or an absolute reference point for the relative reference point based at least in part on the indication of the frequency domain indexing configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.

There are provided systems and methods for wireless beacon devices for use in tracking user locations during group travel. A user may take a trip on a vehicle, such as a bus, train, cruise ship, or other large travel vehicle. The users may disembark the vehicle in order to visit a location but plan to travel further on the vehicle. Thus, when the vehicle is attempting to leave the location where the users have left the vehicle, the vehicle may be required to again account for each passenger. The vehicle may utilize a wireless beacon located near an entrance and/or onboard the vehicle to account for each passenger. The wireless beacon may connect to a communication device of each user when the communication device is in proximity to the wireless beacon and, thus, inform the vehicle's operator that each user in located on the vehicle.

A method, system, and computer program product for adding media file metadata based on micro-locations of a venue are provided. A media file is detected, where the media file is captured by a user at a venue. A plurality of wireless beacons are detected, where each of the plurality of wireless beacons is associated with a respective micro-location at the venue. A micro-location of the user is determined, based, at least in part, on: (i) a proximity of the user to a wireless beacon of the plurality of wireless beacons, and (ii) the respective micro-location of the wireless beacon. Metadata of the media file is populated, based on the determined micro-location of the user and any tag information for the determined micro-location, where the metadata includes a coordinate that relates to the micro-location of the user.