The present disclosure relates to: a communication technique merging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail, security- and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A terminal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention can select a server of an onboarding stand-alone non-public network (SNPN).

A main body device includes a first communicator (an RF communicator) for transmitting and receiving a signal in a first communication scheme, a second communicator (an IR communicator) for receiving a signal in a second communication scheme, and a controller that executes a process in accordance with an operation signal transmitted from an operation device and received via the first communicator or the second communicator. The controller, by communicating with a communication device via the first communicator, determines whether the controller can determine the timing of transmitting or receiving a signal to or from the communication device via the first communicator. If the controller determines that the controller cannot determine such a timing, the controller executes a switching process that causes the operation device to transmit an operation signal in the second communication scheme.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods configured to provide customized and guided instructions for the placement of multiple access points in a home envelope to optimize-coverage therein. The exemplified system and method facilitates the learning of the home envelope, the determining of placements of devices within different locations within the home envelope, and the guiding of the homeowner or occupant through the installation process of the devices at such placements. The provided information are customized and tailored for a given home envelope. In addition, the exemplified systems and methods simplifies the task of adding personal wireless devices to a network whereby no password is used.

A device may be coupled to a time slot based communication system and receive a timing beacon packet that is broadcast in a time slot of the communication system at a periodic rate, in which the network uses a time slotted channel hopping protocol of sequential frames each having a plurality of time slots. The device may synchronize its time base to the timing beacon. The device may calculate a sleep time corresponding to a number of time slots until a next time slot that is scheduled for use by the device and then place the device in a sleep mode. The device may be awakened after the sleep time and operate during the next time slot. The device may repeat the process of calculating a sleep time, going into sleep mode, and waking for operation after the sleep time in order to reduce power consumption.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for accessing a local data network via a mobile data connection. One apparatus includes a processor that determines to configure a first data connection to provide access to a local data network in addition to the remote data network based on information received from a session management function (SMF) and activates a network interface that communicates with the local data network in response to determining to configure the first data connection to provide access to the local data network. The processor transmits a downlink data packet to the remote unit over the first data connection and provides the remote unit with access to one or more services via the local data network using the activated network interface.

A method and an electronic device are provided for establishing, at a first electronic device, a communication link between the first electronic device and a second electronic device in a Near Field Communication (NFC) network. The method includes sending, to the second electronic device, a discovery request for discovery of one or more services registered in the second electronic device; receiving, from the second electronic device, a discovery response including a parameter list for the one or more services registered in the second electronic device; and establishing a logical link control protocol (LLCP) link between the first electronic device and the second electronic device based on the discovery response. Each of the discovery request and the discovery response is formed in a logical link control (LLC) protocol data unit (PDU).

Techniques and devices for determining a preferred physical layer for communication by a node in a Thread network are described. The node transmits a first IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks, 6LoWPAN, frame to a neighbor node using a first physical layer and transmits the first 6LoWPAN frame to the neighbor node using a second physical layer. The node determines a first preference value for the neighbor node using the first physical layer and determines a second preference value for the neighbor node using the second physical layer. The node compares the first preference value and the second preference value to determine the preferred physical layer for communication and transmits a second 6LoWPAN frame to the neighbor node using the preferred physical layer.

An enterprise controller of an enterprise network sends to a service gateway of a service provider network a request for network slice information about network slices provisioned on a data plane of the service provider network. Responsive to the sending, the enterprise controller receives from the service gateway the network slice information including identifiers of and properties associated with the network slices. Responsive to receiving a request for the network slice information from a network device at a border of a forwarding plane of the enterprise network, the enterprise controller sends the network slice information to the network device to cause the network device to perform configuring network traffic in the forwarding plane with identifiers of ones of the network slices that match the network traffic, and to perform forwarding the network traffic configured with the identifiers to the data plane of the service provider network.

Systems and methods are described herein for enabling service continuity between standalone non-public network (SNPN) and a public land mobile network (PLMN). A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may enable service continuity, for example, by triggering a temporary leave of the WTRU from a serving SNPN to prepare a pre-established backup user plane (UP) connection in a PLMN. A network may enable service continuity, for example, by triggering a temporary leave of a WTRU from a serving SNPN to prepare a pre-established backup UP connection in a PLMN. A WTRU may switch back to SNPN from PLMN, for example, using an SNPN priority search mode and/or other WTRU behavior(s).

A communication apparatus (100) according to the present disclosure is a communication apparatus (100) that performs non-contact communication with an external apparatus (200) via a memory (210) of the external apparatus (200). The communication apparatus (100) includes a control unit (120). The control unit (120) receives a message including a parameter related to the control of the non-contact communication. The control unit (120) performs the non-contact communication with the external apparatus (200) on the basis of the parameter.