A managing wireless device includes a local area communication device, a wide area communication device, a global position determination device, and a battery. The managing wireless device is attached to a first shipment component of a consolidated shipment. The managing wireless device is in communication with a server computing system. The managing wireless device has a unique identifier. Each of one or more additional wireless device(s) includes a local area communication device and a battery. Each of the additional wireless device(s) is attached to a respective shipment component of the consolidated shipment, other than the first shipment component. Each of the additional wireless device(s) is in bi-directional communication with the managing wireless device. Each of the additional wireless device(s) has a unique identifier. The managing wireless device and each of the additional wireless device(s) are associated with a same broadcast address.

A method of operating a wireless telecommunications network includes identifying a signal coverage area of a moving base station, that forms part of a first telecommunications network, to which to allocate a first physical network identifier, determining a second physical network identifier for enabling user equipment to access an access point that serves the identified signal coverage area, wherein the access point is stationary relative to the moving base station and forms part of a second wireless telecommunications network, and associating the first physical network identifier with the second physical network identifier. The method further includes allocating the first physical network identifier to the moving base station to allow user equipment within the signal coverage area to access the moving base station via the first physical network identifier when the moving base station is providing a telecommunications signal in the identified signal coverage area.

A method for accessing a satellite, applied to satellites, that can include sending movement information of a satellite to a terminal. The movement information being used for the terminal to access the satellite, and the movement information including measurement configuration parameter information.

A space-based communications network (100) includes at least one central ground station (116) having a transceiver that is configured to communicate with satellites, such as cube satellites (110). The cube satellites (110) form an ad hoc network of orbital cube satellites, in which each of the cube satellites (110) communicate with each other. One of the cube satellites communicates with the ground station (116). A ground-based control system (1000) communicates with the central ground station (116). The control system (1000) continuously determines a configuration of the ad hoc network (100) and communicates network control information for the cube satellites (110) to maintain communications in the ad hoc network (100). The cube satellites (110) disseminate the network control to each other via the ad hoc network (100).

This disclosure provides a communication method and apparatus for a satellite communication system, a device, and a readable storage medium. The method includes: transmitting an access request signal to a network side device through an uplink beam; and performing an access and data communication process through a service beam, the service beam being scheduled by the network side device after the access request signal is detected by the network side device.

Examples pertaining to selection of a current tracking area identifier (TAI) among multiple current TAIs in non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications are described. A user equipment (UE) initiates a procedure in a satellite-accessing cell of a selected public land mobile network (PLMN). The UE selects a tracking area code (TAC) from a plurality of TACs of the selected PLMN broadcast by the cell as a current TAC such that a tracking area identifier (TAI), constructed from the current TAC and a PLMN identifier (PLMN ID) of the selected PLMN, is a current TAI associated with a geographical area in which the UE is located.

This disclosure provides a satellite beam offset processing method, a device and a medium. The method includes: a network side device indicating a satellite beam offset parameter to a terminal via a broadcast message and/or a dedicated signalling; the terminal receiving the satellite beam offset parameter indicated by the network side device via the broadcast message and/or the dedicated signalling; and the terminal adjusting a communication process of the terminal according to the satellite beam offset parameter.

Provided are a measurement method and apparatus, and devices. The method comprises: a terminal device acquiring a plurality of measurement parameters of a network device; and the terminal device determining a first measurement parameter from the plurality of measurement parameters, and performing measurement on a TN cell according to the first measurement parameter. The communication performance between the terminal device and the network device is improved.

A cell switching method, a terminal device and a storage medium are provided. The method comprises: when a terminal device executes cell switching, the terminal device keeping an uplink in a source cell at a moment other than the moment for sending a first message; and the terminal device keeping a downlink in the source cell at a moment other than the moment for downlink synchronization with a target cell.

A power control method and apparatus, and a service node, a terminal device and a storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: transmitting configuration information, which is used for indicating N power parameter sets, where N is a positive integer; and receiving uplink data, where the transmission power of the uplink data is determined by a terminal device according to the configuration information.