H04W40/246

Techniques for integrated access and backhaul topology discovery

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may receive, via a mobile termination (MT) and from a central unit (CU) of a donor network node, a first message that includes first information associated with a token. The network node may transmit, via a distributed unit (DU) and to the CU of the donor network node, a second message that includes second information associated with the token, to thereby indicate collocation of the MT and the DU. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Forwarding entry generation method, controller, and network device
11665595 · 2023-05-30 · ·

A forwarding entry generation method includes sending, by a controller, a plurality of resource allocation request messages to a plurality of network devices in a network slice, to trigger the plurality of network devices to allocate resources, where the resource allocation request message includes an identifier of the network slice and a resource that needs to be allocated by a corresponding network device to the network slice; receiving, by the controller, a plurality of resource allocation response messages including the identifier of the network slice and a segment identifier of a corresponding network device, and a resource allocated by each device belongs to the network slice; and generating, by the controller, a forwarding table corresponding to the network slice, where the forwarding table includes a forwarding entry for arriving at a network device in the network slice.

Multi-band millimeter wave network discovery

Multi-band signaling is described for reducing signaling overhead in an apparatus and method for communications within a mesh network. The communications involve using two different beacon signals on two different communication channels. Peer beacons are sent using directional millimeter-wave (mmW) communications to provide time synchronization and resource management information to maintain existing links among one or more neighboring peer stations. A separate network discovery beacon is sent over a sub-6 GHz communication channel, to provide mesh network profile information that identifies the mesh network to aid network discovery for wireless communication stations wanting to join the mesh network.

SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TOPOLOGY-AWARE CONFIGURATION DISTRIBUTION

One or more systems, methods, and/or devices for disseminating configuration information in a mesh network. A mesh network may have a plurality of nodes, and each node may belong to a zone depending on each node's number of hops away from a root ode of the mesh network. Configuration information may need to be sent to all of the nodes in the mesh network. The configuration information may be sent to the zone of nodes with the greatest number of hops form the root node, and this may be repeated until all of the nodes of the mesh network have been configured.

INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information transmission method, device and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: establishing an end-to-end adaptation layer in an L2 relay scenario; a function of the adaptation layer includes one or a combination: routing, bearer mapping.

Systems and Methods for Establishing and Operating a Resilient and Low-Latency Outband Overlay Communication Network
20230113457 · 2023-04-13 ·

The invention comprises a method for establishing and operating a resilient and reliable overlay ad-hoc communication network of heterogeneous end devices, comprising the steps of sending (200) a connection request signal by respectively each end device; establishing (201) pairwise connection links between at least a selection of the end devices under usage of the connection request signals thereby creating the ad-hoc communication network, characterised in that a policy is applied (202), providing a set of rules indicating the discovery and connection criteria for establishing (201) pairwise connection links and routing; as well as operating (203) an underlying real-time information streaming network platform using the created ad-hoc communication network. The invention also comprises a system arrangement of the foregoing method, as well as an end device to operate the method and a computer program likewise programmed as such.

DATA PACKET ROUTING IN A REMOTE UNIT
20230070259 · 2023-03-09 ·

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for data packet routing in a remote unit. An apparatus includes a memory coupled to a processor, where the processor configured to cause the apparatus to receive a data packet to be transmitted and determine a matching UE route selection policy (“URSP”) rule for the data packet. The processor is configured to determine packet routing information for the data packet if the matching URSP rule does not indicate that direct offload of the data packet is preferred and determine whether the packet routing information matches a first network connection. Upon determining that the packet routing information matches the first network connection, the processor is configured to cause the apparatus to transmit the data packet to a mobile communication network over the first network connection.

Method and device for determining a topology of a network of wireless access points
11627089 · 2023-04-11 · ·

Determined is a topology of a communication network composed of a plurality of nodes connected or not respectively to at least one item of equipment, one of the nodes, referred to as the root node, being connected to an external network. A service class is determined for each node, from each node, information is obtained representing the quality of the link between the node and other nodes, for each link, parameters representing the quality of the link are calculated, the nodes are classified according to the service class thereof and according to the number of links making up the path that separates them from the root node, for each node and according to the classification, the possible paths connecting the node to the root node are determined, a score is calculated for each path determined, the path is selected for the node having the best score.

Routing for non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite systems
11626923 · 2023-04-11 · ·

A Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit (NGSO) satellite system is described that implements one or more user route tables and a plurality of pre-calculated backbone route tables at its satellites. The user route tables track user connectivity to the satellites, and each of the backbone route tables defines a snapshot of a time-varying backbone topology seen by a particular satellite. During operation, a satellite selects different backbone route tables as the topology changes over time, and receives updates to the user route tables when connectivity changes occur between the users and the satellites. The decoupling of the user route tables from the backbone route tables at the satellite reduces the computational burden on the NGSO system, as the backbone route tables are calculated in advance and the NGSO system is subsequently tasked with a computationally lower burden of performing real-time updates to the user route tables.

System and methods for evaluating backhaul of wireless sites using expandable path search rings

The disclosed technology provides a system and method for evaluating candidate wireless sites within path search rings around centerpoints or new potential sites based on a portfolio of centerpoints, a portfolio of candidate sites, a variable radius of the path search rings, and a variable number of target candidates or paths sought within each path search ring, where the system and method computes radio path properties between the centerpoints and candidate sites and visually depicts bounding rings around centerpoints based on whether the target number of viable candidates or paths exist within the path search ring.