A system includes a host processor, which has a host memory and is coupled to store data in a non-volatile memory in accordance with a storage protocol. A network interface controller (NIC) receives data packets conveyed over a packet communication network from peer computers containing, in payloads of the data packets, data records that encode data in accordance with the storage protocol for storage in the non-volatile memory. The NIC processes the data records in the data packets that are received in order in each flow from a peer computer and extracts and writes the data to the host memory, and when a data packet arrives out of order, writes the data packet to the host memory without extracting the data and processes the data packets in the flow so as to recover context information for use in processing the data records in subsequent data packets in the flow.

Traffic is received at an interface of a compute server. Identity information associated with the traffic is determined including an identifier of a customer to which the traffic is attributable. An egress policy configured for the first customer is used to determine whether the traffic is allowed to be transmitted to a destination where that destination is a resource of a second customer. If the traffic is allowed to be transmitted, the traffic and identity information is transmitted over a cross-customer GRE tunnel to a namespace of the second costumer on the compute server. An ingress policy configured for the second customer is used to determine whether the traffic is allowed to be transmitted to the destination, and if it is, then the traffic is transmitted.

Apparatuses and methods for command and response descriptors handling are provided. In an example, a method for descriptor handling can include instantiating a command descriptor of a command regarding a packet at a first layer of a protocol stack by a microcontroller of a node. The method can also include passing a command pointer to the command descriptor to integrated circuits of the node from the microcontroller of the node. The method can further include looking up, by the integrated circuits, the command descriptor. The method can additionally include processing the command by the integrated circuits.

Apparatuses and methods for command and response descriptors handling are provided. In an example, a method for descriptor handling can include instantiating a command descriptor of a command regarding a packet at a first layer of a protocol stack by a microcontroller of a node. The method can also include passing a command pointer to the command descriptor to integrated circuits of the node from the microcontroller of the node. The method can further include looking up, by the integrated circuits, the command descriptor. The method can additionally include processing the command by the integrated circuits.

An apparatus and method for downlink data transmission and decoding are disclosed. In the method, a physical layer code block or a physical layer code block group is decoded. A medium access control (MAC) sub-packet corresponding to the decoded physical layer code block or the physical code block group is decoded without waiting for any subsequent physical layer code blocks to be decoded. The decoded MAC sub-packet is passed up a protocol stack.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a core network; an access network communicatively coupled with the core network, wherein the access network comprises a plurality of network resources; a network resource abstraction layer, wherein the network resource abstraction layer comprises descriptor objects that define a plurality of universal resource ports, and wherein each universal resource port of the plurality of universal resource ports corresponds to a respective network resource of the plurality of network resources; and a software-defined network configured to leverage the plurality of network resources, via the plurality of universal resource ports, to facilitate end-to-end service composition and delivery. Other embodiments are disclosed.

This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems of wireless communication in accordance with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) techniques. Some implementations more specifically relate to aligning aggregate medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (A-MPDU) subframes with codeword boundaries in a physical-layer service data unit (PSDU). The alignment may be performed by selectively adding padding bits to the PSDU based on the size of each A-MPDU subframe and the lengths of the codewords. In some aspects, an A-MPDU subframe may be aligned with a first codeword of the PSDU so that the first A-MPDU subframe is encoded exclusively within the first codeword. In some other aspects, an A-MPDU subframe may be aligned with two or more contiguous codewords of the PSDU so that the two or more contiguous codewords include the A-MPDU subframe and no portions of any other A-MPDU subframe.

This disclosure provides a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for wireless communication at a modem, comprising receiving, via an interface with a host, an internet protocol (IP) packet including a first transport protocol header and a first IP header. The IP packet has a size greater than a maximum transport unit (MTU) size allowable for each packet transmitted over a communication link. The modem segments the IP packet into a plurality of segments based on a segment size indicated by a segmentation policy. Each segment includes a respective derived segment transport protocol header and a respective derived segment IP header derived from the IP packet. Each of these derived headers includes at least one field based on the segmentation policy, and each of the segment transport protocol headers includes a checksum for the respective segment. Additionally, the modem transmits the plurality of segments over the communication link.

A driver of an Ethernet controller may determine, based on an interrupt received from a PHY circuit coupled to the Ethernet controller, that a connection between the PHY circuit and a remote device was established using auto-negotiation over a physical communication medium. The driver may determine a speed of the connection. The driver may, based on a determination that the speed of the connection is not a first predetermined speed, enable auto-negotiation between the PHY circuit and the Ethernet controller to establish a link at a second speed that is different than the first predetermined speed.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an Internet-of-Things resource access system and method. The system comprises a protocol management subsystem, a data conversion subsystem, and a load balancing subsystem. The protocol management subsystem is configured to obtain protocol frames from shared storage queues of protocol data packets, use a protocol stack to parse the protocol frames into original data payloads and provide the original data payloads to a data conversion subsystem; the data conversion subsystem is configured to perform protocol management, resource binding and data conversion, load Internet-of-Things resources and convert the original data payloads into observation data through multi-threaded concurrency; and the load balancing subsystem is configured to access the Internet-of-Things resources to the system through virtual IP, connect the Internet-of-Things resource to background service nodes through load balancing servers and send the protocol frames to the shared storage queues of the protocol data packets.