Systems and methods relating to the reduction of signaling for selecting or re-selecting a relay wireless device in a cellular communications network. Embodiments of a method of operation of a relay wireless device in a cellular communications network are provided. The relay wireless device is a wireless device having relay functionality. In some embodiments, the method of operation of the relay wireless device comprises receiving a relay request from a remote wireless device, wherein the remote wireless device is a wireless device desiring a connection to the cellular communications network via a relay wireless device. The method further comprises determining whether one or more criteria for responding to the relay request are satisfied and responding to the remote wireless device upon determining that the one or more criteria for responding to the relay request are satisfied.

The present invention relates to a method for operating a communication apparatus in a network comprising a plurality of communication nodes, upon reception of a message at the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus starting a retransmission delay being selected at random from a retransmission delay interval, said retransmission delay interval being dependent on at least one of a status of the communication apparatus and a property of the received message, the communication apparatus monitors retransmissions of said message by other communication nodes during said retransmission delay and the communication apparatus transmitting a retransmission of said message at the expiry of said retransmission delay if a statistic based on the retransmissions of said message by other communication nodes is below a threshold.

One embodiment provides a system that facilitates a large-scale mobile ad hoc network to adapt to specific needs of wireless nodes in a mobile wireless network. During operation, a controller node collects state information associated with one or more wireless nodes. The controller node allocates one or more network elements based on the collected state information and a predetermined utility-based technique. Responsive to the allocation of the one or more network elements, the controller node reconfigures a logical topology of the mobile wireless network by using software-defined mobile ad hoc network nodes, thereby facilitating a large-scale mobile ad hoc network to adapt to specific application needs of wireless nodes.

This application provides a data sending method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: A first node determines, based on a quality of a channel between the first node and a second node, a sending time for starting to send data, where the first node is one of several candidate previous-hop nodes of the second node. The first node starts to send the data to the second node at the sending time. According to the data sending method, when a node needs to send data to a next-hop node of the node, the node may determine, based on quality of a channel between the node and the next-hop node of the node, a sending time for starting to send the data.

The method of the invention envisages determining, for each packet that is to be transmitted/retransmitted, through an LLC communication protocol, which is the top sublayer of the datalink layer of the ISO-OSI model, (LLC logic) autonomously, node by node, the specific communication apparatus to be used from the ones available on the single node, to which subset of the nodes said packet is to be transmitted (routing logic), i.e., the number and the set of neighbouring nodes to which it is to be transmitted, the specific communication apparatus to be used from the multiple ones that may be available, and the maximum number of retransmissions to be made, by using a decentralized self-learning algorithm that enables each node to learn and select dynamically the best operating mode, according to the number of transmissions already made.

The present invention relates to a method for routing messages through a mesh network comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein a message is send from a sending node to a receiving node. The method comprises the steps of defining a routing table designating a path from a source node to a destination node through the mesh network, and defining a neighbor table listing one or more neighbor nodes from the plurality of nodes which are in the neighborhood of the sending node. If the destination node is not in the neighbor table of the sending node, the message is transmitted by the sending node to a receiving node adapted to forward the message to the destination node in accordance with the routing table. The one or more neighbor nodes save the message in internal storage and a predetermined number of helping nodes from the one or more neighbor nodes repeat the message after respective predetermined time intervals have passed, wherein the number of helping nodes being smaller or equal than the number of neighbor nodes.

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for reducing uplink interruption in dual active protocol stack (DAPS) handover. For example, the user equipment may transmit an indication either to a source cell or to a target cell that there is no more pending uplink medium access control and radio link control (re)-transmissions to be transmitted to the source cell, after the uplink switch to the target cell occurs during a DAPS handover. Based on the received indication, the network (e.g., the source cell or target cell) may perform one or more actions to enable forwarding of the uplink packets received from the user equipment by the target cell to a user plane function and/or serving gateway.

Aspects provided herein provide methods, systems, and a non-transitory computer storage medium storing computer instructions for network aware optimal route selection for autonomous user equipment (UE) in a network. The method begins with identifying an initial route based on a mapping mechanism. An example is entering a start and ending point for a delivery using an autonomous UE. After an initial route is identified operator defined geospatial hex bins and base stations along the initial route are identified. Further identifying operations include identifying at least one flow quality of service (QoS) value that comprises a priority of at least one service and identifying at least one geospatial hex bin and associated node with a QoS value greater than an operator defined threshold. Those geospatial hex bins are then marked and excluded from the route of the autonomous UE and a revised route is transmitted to the autonomous UE.

A wireless communication system includes a concentrator and a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses including a first wireless communication apparatus having a first number of hops up to the concentrator, a second wireless communication apparatus having a second number of hops different from the first number of hops up to the concentrator, and a third wireless communication apparatus having a third number of hops different from the first number of hops and the second number of hops up to the concentrator. In a first subframe among a plurality of subframes included in a first frame period, the first wireless communication apparatus transmits first data, the second wireless communication apparatus transmits second data, and the third wireless communication apparatus receives the second data. In a second subframe not corresponding to the first subframe among a plurality of subframes included in a next second frame period of the first frame period, the third wireless communication apparatus transmits the second data, and the third wireless communication apparatus does not transmit the third data in the first frame period.

A method for use in a IEEE 802.11 device, comprising: wirelessly connecting, by the device, to a gateway that is part of a wireless local area network (WLAN), the gateway configured to operate as an access point (AP) for the WLAN and bridge the WLAN to the Internet; receiving, by the device from the gateway, an announcement message including a network identifier (NI) of a subnetwork of the WLAN, the subnetwork including the gateway and a first node that is also configured to operate as an AP for the WLAN; transmitting, by the device to the gateway, a request message to join the subnetwork; receiving, by the device from the gateway, a response message including a confidential credential for connecting to the subnetwork; establishing a first connection to the first node based on the confidential credential and the NI and beginning to operate as an AP for the WLAN.