A device comprising: a transceiver operable in a first or second mode and configured to receive packets from a remote device, each packet comprising an indication of whether or not the remote device has a further packet to transmit, wherein: in the first mode the transceiver: (i) sends a polling message in response to receiving the indication of a further packet for transmission; and (ii) listens for that further packet; and in the second mode the transceiver: (i) does not send a polling message in response to receiving the indication of a further packet for transmission; and (ii) listens for packets regardless of whether a received packet indicates that there is a further packet to transmit or not; and a controller configured to monitor an activity level for the transceiver and cause the transceiver to operate in the first or second mode in dependence on the activity level.

A method and apparatus for determining CPU occupancy time for a multiple PDCCH repeated transmission scenario, a storage medium, and a terminal are provided. The method includes: in response to receiving a PDCCH currently, determining whether a time domain position of a last PDCCH can be determined based on the currently received PDCCH and configuration information for a plurality of PDCCHs, wherein the currently received PDCCH and the last PDCCH belong to the plurality of PDCCHs, and the configuration information for the plurality of PDCCHs is used to configure candidate resource positions of each of the plurality of PDCCHs; and based on that the time domain position of the last PDCCH can be determined, determining the CPU occupancy time based on the time domain position of the last PDCCH and a time domain position of a PUSCH scheduled by the currently received PDCCH.

A method for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) includes: switching from a source bandwidth part to a target bandwidth part; and monitoring the PDCCH according to a monitoring strategy, in response to missing a monitoring moment of the first wake-up signal on the target BWP.

Systems and methods for power conservation via frame aggregation in a wireless network. A station may enter low-power sleep mode for a prescribed duration and subsequently transmit or receive either a burst transmission or an aggregate frame comprising a prescribed amount of data. The prescribed duration and amount of data may be analytically characterized in terms of the arrival rate of data, latency, power consumption, and various additional parameters in the wireless network. The systems and methods can be applied to conserve power in data-intensive high-rate wireless mesh networks, finding application in cellular backhaul, mm wave small cell networks, oil and gas exploration, and wide area monitoring.

Systems and methods of scheduling data in background services on mobile devices are disclosed. An example method includes identifying data consumption patterns on a mobile device. The method also includes determining sensitivity of data arriving at the mobile device based on the data consumption patterns. The method also includes aggregating network access by background services on the mobile device according to a schedule based on the sensitivity of the data arriving at the mobile device.

In one embodiment, a method for implementing two-way communication between at least first and second devices comprises steps of: (a1) during finite time periods following transmission of respective first messages from the first device to the second device, using the first device to listen for second messages transmitted from the second device to first device; and (a2) after each of the finite time periods following the transmission of the respective first messages from the first device to the second device, ceasing to use the first device to listen for second messages transmitted from the second device to the first device until after the first device transmits another first message to the second device.

Devices and methods power configurations of radio communication devices. A device may include a memory storing communication activity data comprising information indicating a plurality of attributes with respect to communication activities over a radio connection between a user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS). The device may further include a processor that is configured to provide the communication activity data to a trained machine learning model configured to predict a communication activity for the radio connection between the UE and the BS and encode a power preference information for transmission to the BS based on the predicted communication activity.

A communication system includes: a communication terminal, configured to be ready to communicate within a predetermined time interval; a management entity, coupled with the communication terminal, wherein the predetermined time interval is stored in the management entity; and a communication entity, coupled with the management entity, wherein the communication entity is configured to transmit a connection request for requesting establishment of a communication link to the communication terminal to the management entity at a first time. The management entity is configured to check, responsive to the connection request, whether the first time falls within the predetermined time interval, and if the first time does not fall within the predetermined time interval, to transmit information about a communication time to the communication entity at which communication time the communication terminal is ready to communicate.

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of power management in a wireless network. For example, a wireless station may be configured to transmit a first frame including a first Wakeup Schedule Element (WSE), the first WSE including a first beacon interval (BI) start time field value; to switch to a Power Save (PS) mode based on the first BI start time field value; and during the PS, transmit a second frame including a second WSE, the second WSE including a second BI start time field value, e.g., different from the first BI start time field value.

A method at a module within a sensor system for updating a timing profile, the method including: turning on a radio of the sensor module for a first time duration; detecting signals from other modules within the sensor system; for each signal, storing data comprising a time such signal is received and an identifier for a module sending such signal; sending the data to a server; and receiving the timing profile from the server.