The present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving, by a station, signals in a wireless WLAN system. More particularly, the present specification proposes a frame structure for transmitting signals by bonding a plurality of channels by the station, and a method for transmitting and receiving signals on the basis of the same frame structure, and an apparatus therefor.

A system for providing enhanced and/or supplementary network connectivity to at least one client device being connected to a telecommunications network using a customer premises equipment device includes: the customer premises equipment device; a supplementary access gateway device; and the at least one client device. The supplementary access gateway device is configured to provide enhanced and/or supplementary network connectivity to the at least one client device using the second access network and the first interface of the supplementary access gateway device, the enhanced and/or supplementary network connectivity being provided to the at least one client device instead of or in addition to the network connectivity provided using the first access network and the customer premises equipment device.

The present disclosure provides for devices, systems, and methods which optimize throughput of bonded connections over multiple variable bandwidth logical paths by adjusting a tunnel bandwidth weighting schema during a data transfer session in response to a change in bandwidth capabilities of one or more tunnels. By making such adjustments, embodiments of the present invention are able to optimize the bandwidth potential of multiple connections being used in a session, while minimizing the adverse consequences of reduced bandwidth issues which may occur during the data transfer session.

An aggregation module receives a data packet. A bonding engine of the aggregation module breaks the data packet into fragments, and each fragment is part of a bonding group that is assigned a sequence identifier that allows the data packet to be reconstructed from the fragments. Each fragment is provided to one of a plurality of transmitters to be transmitted over a data link. When a noise event occurs on one of the data links, the fragments stored at the transmitter associated with that data link are transferred to another transmitter within the same bonding group for transmission over a different data link.

A network system for improving network communication performance is provided. The system include at least one client site network component implemented at least at a first client site, the client site network component bonding or aggregating one or more diverse network connections so as to configure a bonded connection that has increased throughput, at least one network server component configured to connect to the client site network component using the bonded connection, the network server component automatically terminating the bonded connection and passing data traffic to the at least one network, a virtual control plane interface at the at least one network server component, and a cloud network controller configured to manage the data traffic, wherein the cloud network controller is operable to configure the virtual control plane interface to provide a priority queue for the data traffic from or to a plurality of client site network components.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for virtualizing a passive optical network, and a passive optical network virtualization system. The method includes: receiving a virtualized passive optical network creation message, where the virtualized passive optical network creation message includes an ID of a to-be-created VPON and at least one wavelength flow identifier -flow ID; and establishing, according to the VPON ID and the at least one -flow ID, a communication connection relationship with at least one optical network unit in the virtualized passive optical network identified by the VPON ID. According to the method provided by the embodiments of the present invention, on one hand, complex networking performed to deal with different application scenarios is avoided.

Different data communication architectures deliver a wide variety of content, including audio and video content, to consumers. The architectures employ channel bonding to deliver more bandwidth than any single communication channel can carry. In some implementations, the communication architectures distribute data streams to bonded channels that are clocked independently. A system is provided for synchronizing the bonded channels.

A method for bandwidth sharing is provided. The method may include getting a list of neighboring communications hubs, the neighboring communications hubs being disposed in respective neighboring residences. The neighboring communications hubs may be communicatively coupled to the first communications hub using a first broadband data network provisioned by an Internet Service Provider (ISP), and the neighboring residences may be within a same predetermined geographic region as the first residence or within a predetermined temporal distance on a data network from the first residence. The method determines if a data requirement exceeds bandwidth available to the first communications hub and provides a request for data to a neighboring communications hub. The request corresponds to the data requirement. The method then receives data responsive to the request from the neighboring communications hub.

Implementing multicast transmission over bonded broadband provides a communication network comprising a plurality of routers having the ability to route multicast streams: a multicast stream splitter receiving a multicast stream and arranged in operation to split the multicast stream into a plurality of multicast sub-streams and to transmit the plurality of multicast streams. The plurality of routers receive the multicast sub-streams and replicate them in dependence upon downstream routers subscribed to the sub-streams. One or more bonding routers serve a single customer serving a plurality of fixed or wireless broadband connections having a respective capacity. Each bonding router subscribes to one or more of the plurality of multicast sub-streams in dependence upon the respective capacity of the plurality of connections; wherein the one or more bonding routers serving a single customer aggregate the plurality of multicast sub-streams to form a single multicast stream for use by the customer.

Methods and apparatuses for controlling load balancing of modems may include receiving an indication of impairment of a channel, placing modems using the impaired channel into a partial service mode and removing the impaired channel from a list of channels available for load balancing, monitoring the quality of the impaired channel, and, responsive to detection of acceptable quality on the impaired channel, removing the modems from partial service mode and adding the channel back to the list of channels available for load balancing. Another method includes, but is not limited to, receiving an indication of a partial service mode for a modem, incrementing a partial service mode counter for a channel associated with the partial service mode indication, computing a partial service mode metric based in part upon the partial service mode counter, and responsive to a determination that the partial service mode metric meets a threshold, determining an allocation of modems to channels.