A 5G network having a multi-path transport protocol (MPTP) proxy external to the user plane function (UPF). The session management function (SMF) provides address information of the external MPTP proxy to user equipment (UE) and distributes access traffic steering, switching, and splitting (ATSSS)-related rules to the UE, the UPF, and the external MPTP proxy. The external MPTP proxy receives, from the UPF, (i) 3GPP uplink data transmitted by the UE via a 3GPP radio access network (RAN) and (ii) non-3GPP uplink data transmitted by the UE via a non-3GPP RAN, combines the 3GPP and non-3GPP uplink data to form network uplink data for a data network. The external MPTP proxy also divides received network downlink data into 3GPP downlink data and non-3GPP downlink data, and provides the 3GPP and non-3GPP downlink data to the UPF for transmission to the UE via the 3GPP RAN and the non-3GPP RAN, respectively.

This application provides a method and apparatus for controlling traffic steering and a communications system. In an implementation of the method for controlling traffic steering, the method is applicable to an RAN node and comprises: traffic steering indication information is determined; and the traffic steering indication information is transmitted to UE, so that the UE steers corresponding traffic to a traffic steering target according to the traffic steering indication information. With the method, load balance between 3GPP RAN and WLAN at an RAN level may be ensured, and in comparison with an existing mechanism, user experiences and system performance are improved.

A method, a system, and a computer program product for selecting fronthaul links in a wireless communication system. One or more link delays are determined. The link delays are associated with one or more communication links in the plurality of communication links communicatively coupling a first communication device and a second communication device. Using the determined link delays, a communication link transmission priority of the communication links for transmission of one or more data packets is determined. A listing of prioritized communication links is generated. At least one communication link in the prioritized communication links is selected for transmission of data packets between the first and second communication devices. Using the selected communication link, the data packets are transmitted between the first and second communication devices.

A method for controlling a connection procedure for a terminal device requesting a radio connection to a cell supported by network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunication system, the method comprising: determining, at the terminal device, that a request to connect to the cell supported by the network infrastructure equipment is to be made, establishing, at the terminal device, application information relating to an operating context for the terminal device; transmitting a connection request message from the terminal device to the network infrastructure equipment, wherein the connection request message comprises a request for the terminal device to connect to the cell and an indication of the application information; and determining, at the network infrastructure equipment, whether to allow the request for the terminal device to connect to the cell based, at least in part, on the application information received by the network infrastructure equipment from the terminal device.

Disclosed herein is an architecture for an edge computing platform based on an underlying wireless mesh network. The architecture includes nodes installed with equipment for operating as part of a wireless mesh network, including (1) a first tier of one or more Point of Presence (PoP) node, (2) a second tier of one or more seed nodes that are each directly connected to at least one PoP node via a PoP-to-seed wireless link, and (3) a third tier of one or more anchor nodes that are each connected to at least one seed node either (i) directly via a seed-to-anchor wireless link or (ii) indirectly via one or more intermediate anchor nodes, one or more anchor-to-anchor wireless links, and one seed-to-anchor wireless link, where at least one node in each of these tiers is further installed with equipment for operating as part of an edge computing platform.

The disclosure relates to a data transmission method and device, and a terminal. The method is applied to a terminal that establishes a communication connection with a correspondent node through a first link provided by a cellular network and a second link provided by a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), respectively. The method includes acquiring relevant information of the WLAN that is accessed by a home terminal, the relevant information of the WLAN being used to indicate a data distribution capability of the WLAN; determining an amount of data transmitted to the correspondent node by the second link based on the relevant information of the WLAN; and transmitting uplink data to the correspondent node through the second link based on the amount of the data transmitted to the correspondent node.

The object of the present invention can be achieved by providing a method of indicating an offloading data size and time duration to a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by a Base station (BS) from a plurality of UEs, an input computing data size and local computing power; determining, by the BS, whether an each priority of the plurality of the UEs is greater than a threshold by using an offloading priority; determining, by the BS, an offloading data size and a time duration for each of UEs; transmitting, by the BS to the each of UEs, the determined offloading data size and a time duration for the each of UEs.

A network access server (NAS) device is described that is configured to load balance authentication requests to network access control (NAC) systems based on a type of the authentication request. The NAS device may probe or ping one or more geographically distributed NAC systems to determine response latency and to receive load and status indications from the NAC systems. In response to receipt of an authentication request from a client device, the NAS device may select one NAC system from among the one or more NAC systems based on the load and status indications of the NAC systems and the type of authentication request received.

Methods for managing packet transmissions, which may be implemented in a node of a radio access network, are provided. One such method includes receiving, from an upstream node, a packet via a downlink tunnel, selecting, based on one or more properties of the downlink tunnel, a semi-persistent scheduling radio resource for transmitting the packet to one or more UEs, and transmitting the packet via a radio interface to the one or more UEs using the semi-persistent scheduling radio resource. Another method includes receiving, from an upstream node, a packet associated with a quality-of-service (QOS) flow, selecting, based on the QoS flow, a semi-persistent scheduling radio resource for transmitting the packet to one or more UEs, and transmitting the packet via a radio interface to the one or more UEs using the semi-persistent scheduling radio resource.

A terminal device (200) includes a wireless communication unit (210) that receives data transmitted from a base station device (100); a reception buffer (231) that can hold the data received by the wireless communication unit (210); and a transmission control unit (222) that can perform control, in accordance with a status of the reception buffer, such that communication status information indicating a reception status of the data is transmitted to the base station device (100).