Method and apparatus for facilitating accessing home surveillance device data, preferably an IP camera video stream, by a remote user device at the remote user device's instigation, over the Internet through a home router, the facilitating including incorporating a smart gateway in local communication with the home router and in persistent or intermittent communication with a remote Internet server to facilitate communication of data over the Internet at the remote user device's request through direct communication between the remote user device and the smart gateway, the smart gateway in local communication with the home surveillance device such as an IP camera, the direct communication facilitated by a “hole punch” type of technique.

One embodiment includes a network device including multiple interfaces to serve as ingress ports for receiving network packets from nodes in remote customer-site network(s) via a tunnel in a provider network, and from nodes in a local customer-site network, and egress ports for forwarding at least some of the network packets, and control circuitry to make a decision to drop a network packet to reduce packet duplication in at least one of the nodes, responsively to the network packet being identified as a packet of broadcast, unknown unicast, or multicast traffic, the network packet being subject to decapsulation of an encapsulation header, being assigned to one of the egress ports, and having a header including one of a plurality of virtual local area network identifications, or one of a plurality of source identifications.

A streaming policy management system and method wherein bandwidth may be allocated based on external device information received from a streaming client device connected to one or more external audio/video (A/V) devices. When a streaming network back office receives a request from the streaming client device for delivery of a particular content, wherein the request includes external device information of one or more external A/V devices connected to the streaming client device, a bandwidth is determined for streaming the particular content to the streaming client device and a request may be made to a content delivery network to create a distribution pipe having the bandwidth to accommodate the delivery of the particular content. A manifest file is provided to the streaming client device that includes one or more pointers that point to content segments of the particular content.

Packet data corresponding to a multicast (MC) packet received by a network device is stored in a packet memory. A header of the MC packet is analyzed to determine two or more ports via which the MC packet is to be transmitted. It is determined that two or more pending read requests are to read packet data from a particular memory location in the packet memory. In response to determining that the two or more pending read requests are to read packet data from the particular memory location, the packet data is read a single time from the particular memory location. Respective instances of the packet data read from the particular memory location are provided to respective two or more read client devices for subsequent transmission of the packet data via the two or more ports determined by the packet processor.

Techniques for limiting forwarding of multicast communications are described herein. For example, the techniques intelligently forward data along paths of a network where members of a multicast group are located. As such, a node that does not lead to members of the multicast group may be configured to selectively and intelligently forward multicast messages it receives. This can reduce network communications, ultimately conserving processing, communication, and/or battery resources of the nodes and improving performance of the network.

The invention concerns a computer network comprising a group of several computing resource infrastructures (51 to 56) associated with a plurality of orchestrators (41 to 46) responsible for assigning the resources of this infrastructure (51 to 56) to one or more client applications (17) and interconnected in a swarm in which they are connected to one another by a cooperation interface (3), the assigning of resources being decided by a decision method based first on evaluations distributed to the orchestrators (41 to 46), then on a consensus protocol, between the orchestrators (41 to 46), which is based on said evaluations and is produced at the cooperation interface (3) in order to choose one of the infrastructures (51 to 56) of the group for hosting all or part of the client application (17).

A method and apparatus include receiving a measurement configuration by higher layer signaling, where the higher layer signaling is above the physical layer. The measurement configuration includes at least information of frequency location of synchronization signals, a carrier frequency, and a maximum allowed measurement bandwidth. A measurement reference signal is then received based on the received measurement configuration, and a measurement based on the received measurement reference signal is performed.

To make it possible to perform retransmission control in which wireless resources are more efficiently utilized, a wireless communication apparatus includes: a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with a terminal apparatus; a communication control unit configured to control multicast transmission performed by the wireless communication unit; and a setting unit configured to set a threshold for determining whether or not it is necessary for the communication control unit to perform a retransmission process, on the basis of information about reception of a reception acknowledgment response corresponding to the multicast transmission from the terminal apparatus.

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose example broadcast message management methods and a broadcast message management apparatus. One example method includes receiving a broadcast message sent by a target application program, determining a user experience assurance priority of the target application program, and determining a target broadcast queue corresponding to the target application program. The broadcast message is saved in the target broadcast queue, and, when a broadcast message scheduling request is received, the broadcast message stored in the target broadcast queue is scheduled according to a target broadcast message scheduling priority corresponding to the target broadcast queue.

Provided are a packet forwarding method based on BIER-TE, a node device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring X bit string sub-package structures from a BIER-TE based message; and forwarding the message according to the X bit string sub-package structures, where X is greater than or equal to 1.