Systems and methods described herein provide an intelligent MEC resource scheduling service. A network device in a MEC network stores, in a memory, threshold values indicating overload conditions for resource usage by a first MEC cluster; monitors resource usage in the first MEC cluster; determines, based on the monitoring, when one of the threshold values is reached; identifies available resources in a second MEC cluster; and re-directs, based on the identifying, at least some of the resource usage from the first MEC cluster to the second MEC cluster.

Systems herein allow an administrator to efficiently enroll computing devices into a mobile device management system, even when those computing devices are offline and not connected to the system. A management server can include a console that allows the administrator to enroll an offline computing device by selecting an offline enrollment option on a registration record. This option can cause the management server to create a device record, indicating the computing device is enrolled. The management server can also create and save a provisioning file onto a storage device, such as a USB drive. Assets, such as graphics and applications, specified by the device record are also saved onto the storage device. The storage device can be physically connected to the computing device, at which point the provisioning file guides automatic installation of the assets and implementation of device settings and compliance rules specified by the device record.

This patent application provides a context processing method and apparatus for a terminal device. The method includes: determining, by a first RAN device, to release a context of a terminal device, and sending a first message to a second RAN device, to instruct the second RAN device to page the terminal device, where the first message includes a first identifier of the terminal device and instruction information for releasing the context of the terminal device; and paging, by the second RAN device, the terminal device, and instructing, according to the instruction information for releasing the context of the terminal device, the terminal device to perform state transition.

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.

The various embodiments of the present invention disclose a method of handling control plane data in a wireless network, the method comprises sending, by a user entity (UE), a non-access stratum (NAS) message along with an indication data to a mobility management (MM) core network entity. The MM core network entity processes the received NAS message and the indication data. The MM core network entity determines status of network congestion upon processing the processed NAS message. Sending, by the MM core network entity, a response to the UE based on at least one of the processed indication data and the determined network congestion.

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.

Provided are a method of activating or deactivating terminal-based traffic steering by a terminal in a wireless communication system, and a device for supporting the same. The terminal performs terminal-based traffic steering, and transmits WLAN offloading information indicating a RAN/WLAN interworking state to a network, wherein the terminal-based traffic steering may be traffic steering on the basis of a RAN rule or ANDSF.

A portable electronic device comprises a first wireless interface and a second wireless interface. The first wireless interface is controlled to perform a control signaling with a further device over the first wireless interface. The second wireless interface is selectively activated to transmit data traffic to the further device and/or to receive the data traffic from the further device over the second wireless interface. The first wireless interface is maintained in an activated state to control the data traffic over the second wireless interface by the control signaling over the first wireless interface while the second wireless interface is activated.

Techniques are disclosed relating to apportioning data between network links in dual-connectivity environments. In some embodiments, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity implemented by a mobile device determines a ratio for sending packet data to two or more different radio link control (RLC) entities implemented by the mobile device for dual connectivity communications via two or more different networks. In some embodiments, in response to a current data volume meeting a threshold value, the PDCP entity apportions packet data between the two or more different RLC entities based on the determined ratio. The ratio may be determined based on various input parameters from one or more protocol layers or may be specified by the network. In various embodiments, the disclosed techniques may improve resource utilization and reduce re-ordering delay at the receiver.

Systems herein allow an administrator to efficiently enroll computing devices into a mobile device management system, even when those computing devices are offline and not connected to the system. A management server can include a console that allows the administrator to enroll an offline computing device by selecting an offline enrollment option on a registration record. This option can cause the management server to create a device record, indicating the computing device is enrolled. The management server can also create and save a provisioning file onto a storage device, such as a USB drive. Assets, such as graphics and applications, specified by the device record are also saved onto the storage device. The storage device can be physically connected to the computing device, at which point the provisioning file guides automatic installation of the assets and implementation of device settings and compliance rules specified by the device record.

Systems and methods for balancing load in an area of a wireless network comprising first nodes operating according to a first Radio Access Technology and at least one second node operating according to a second Radio Access Technology. The method comprises establishing a connection between a user device and a first node; receiving an indication of an entry threshold for establishing a connection between the user device and a second node during a current time period, wherein the entry threshold is determined in dependence on an expected usage requirement for the area of the wireless network during the current time period; determining, by the user device, whether a parameter of a signal received from the second node exceeds the entry threshold; and responsive to determining that the parameter of the signal received from the second node exceeds the entry threshold, establishing, by the first node, a dual connectivity session between the user device and both the first and the second nodes.