A data processing method and apparatus, and a terminal device are described. The method includes: receiving, by a mobility management device, uplink data sent by a terminal device by using a NAS message, and determining, based on a processing capability of the mobility management device, whether the mobility management device is overloaded; and when the mobility management device is overloaded, instructing, by the mobility management device, the terminal device to transmit the uplink data through a user plane. The data processing method and apparatus may improve communication quality, especially when a bearer between the mobility management device and a service device is not set up, the bearer does not need to be first set up and then released, saving signaling and resources.

Example transmission rate control methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes obtaining a user equipment aggregate maximum bit rate (UE-AMBR) by a master base station. The master base station determines, based on the UE-AMBR, a first UE-AMBR used for the master base station and a second UE-AMBR used for a secondary base station. The master base station sends the second UE-AMBR to the secondary base station, and sends instruction information used to instruct the secondary base station to control data splitting for the master base station to the secondary base station. In this application, a transmission rate between each base station and a UE is controlled by allocating a UE-AMBR.

A schedule coordinator schedules an air resource of a virtual distributed unit (vDU) in a wireless communication system. The schedule coordinator identifies a radio unit (RU) to be migrated to a target vDU, from among one or more RUs connected to a source vDU, requests the source vDU to exclusively transmit or receive first information including synchronization information of one or more user equipments (UEs) connected to the RU. The schedule coordinator allocates a source vDU-dedicated air resource to the source vDU, and allocates a target vDU-dedicated air resource to the target vDU. When a migration of the RU is completed, the schedule coordinator requests the target vDU to exclusively transmit or receive the first information, and requests the source vDU to stop transmitting or receiving the first information.

A method of handling communication traffic from one or more User Equipment (UE) in a Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN) network includes: analyzing, by an analytics engine in the CRAN network, communication traffic distribution and loads across multiple cell sites; and determining, by the analytics engine, an optimal mapping of one of a specified cell site or a selected sector of a specified cell site to one of a specified virtual machine or server. Communication traffic from a sector of a first cell site having a first type of traffic load profile and communication traffic from a sector of a second specified cell site having a second type of traffic load profile are aggregated by a single specified virtual machine or server.

In some implementations, a message indicating a request for delivery of data to user equipment (UE) (e.g. an IoT device) operative for communications in a mobile network may be received from an application server. One or more first loading or congestion indication values indicative of a first loading or congestion at one or more first network nodes along a first mobile network route may be obtained. In addition, one or more second loading or congestion indication values indicative of a second loading or congestion at one or more second network nodes along a second mobile network route may be obtained. The first or the second mobile network route may be selected based on at least one of the one or more first and the second loading or congestion indication values. The data may be delivered to the UE over the selected mobile network route.

A system for offloading traffic from a cellular network to a broadcast network is provided. The offloading mechanism caters to both unicast and broadcast traffic. The system includes a converged cellular core network, World Wide Web, a CDN, a Broadcast Offload Packet Core (BO-PC), a cellular base station, a Broadcast Radio Head, and a converged UE. The converged cellular core network includes an enhanced packet core, a policy rules engine and a packet inspection and steering unit. The BO-PC includes a Broadcast Proxy, a subscriber database, a Broadcast Offload Service Center, a Broadcast Offload Gateway and an analytics engine. For offloading the unicast traffic, the packet inspection and steering unit identifies sessions that are offloaded for supporting offload of the traffic from the converged cellular core network to the broadcast network.

A message transmission apparatus, applicable to a first integrated access and backhaul node (IAB-node) includes: a receiver configured to: receive a second radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message for path migration of a second IAB-node while the first IAB-node is still connected with source parent node, the second radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message being transmitted by a donor central unit (donor-CU), the second IAB-node is a downstream child node of the first IAB-node; and receive a first RRC reconfiguration message for path migration of the first IAB-node, the first RRC reconfiguration message being transmitted by the donor-CU; and a transmitter configured to forward, to the second IAB-node, the second RRC reconfiguration message which is withhold until random access of the first IAB-node is successful.

In some implementations, a message indicating a request for delivery of data to user equipment (UE) (e.g. an IoT device) operative for communications in a mobile network may be received from an application server. One or more first loading or congestion indication values indicative of a first loading or congestion at one or more first network nodes along a first mobile network route may be obtained. In addition, one or more second loading or congestion indication values indicative of a second loading or congestion at one or more second network nodes along a second mobile network route may be obtained. The first or the second mobile network route may be selected based on at least one of the one or more first and the second loading or congestion indication values. The data may be delivered to the UE over the selected mobile network route.

The method provides for one or more processors to disperse object data for storage within a fifth-generation radio access network (RAN). The one or more processors receive radio frequency (RF) input for object data storage from a client device. The one or more processors perform a setup session configuring the RF input received for object data storage. The one or more processors perform a translation of the received RF input, wherein the translation enables processing of the RF input by an information dispersal algorithm (IDA) and enables storage of the object data of the RF input among multiple next generation node base stations (gNBs) forming a gNB cluster within a radio access network (RAN), and the one or more processors storing the object data of the received RF input across the gNB cluster in an Object Segment format.

A system for offloading traffic from a cellular network to a broadcast network is provided. The offloading mechanism caters to both unicast and broadcast traffic. The system includes a converged cellular core network, World Wide Web, a CDN, a Broadcast Offload Packet Core (BO-PC), a cellular base station, a Broadcast Radio Head, and a converged UE. The converged cellular core network includes an enhanced packet core, a policy rules engine and a packet inspection and steering unit. The BO-PC includes a Broadcast Proxy, a subscriber database, a Broadcast Offload Service Center, a Broadcast Offload Gateway and an analytics engine. For offloading the unicast traffic, the packet inspection and steering unit identifies sessions that are offloaded for supporting offload of the traffic from the converged cellular core network to the broadcast network.