A communication technique for establishing communication among an access point, an electronic device, and a radio node in a cellular-telephone network is described. In this communication technique, the electronic device is pre-provisioned by the radio node with an identifier of the cellular-telephone network. Moreover, the access point may advertise support for one or more LWA protocols in beacons. In response to a query from the electronic device, the access point may provide identifiers of the one or more cellular-telephone networks supported by the access point. If one of these identifiers matches the identifier, the electronic device may associate with the access point. Then, the access point may receive LWA traffic from the radio node and may forward the LWA traffic to the electronic device.

Embodiments of this application relate to the communications field and disclose a network handover method and a session management network element. The method includes: receiving, by a session management network element, first indication information and second indication information from an access management network element, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate that a terminal device is handed over from a first network to a second network to set up a voice service, and the second indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device needs to return to the first network after the voice service ends; and sending, by the session management network element, the first indication information and the second indication information to an access network device of the second network.

Implementations of the present disclosure provide a service distribution method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method is applied to a 5G communications system and comprises: after a terminal device accesses a first network, a network device determining control information according to first information, wherein the control information is used to control the terminal device to perform service distribution in a licensed spectrum and an unlicensed spectrum, the first network is a licensed network and/or an unlicensed network, and the first information is a PDU session, a QoS flow, or a DRB; and the network device sending the control information to the terminal device.

The disclosed technology is directed towards load balancing in an adaptive and automated way for wireless mobility networks to improve the overall harmonic-average UE throughput within each controlled group of cells (e.g., different frequency carriers serving a sector of a base station). A load balancer (e.g., analytics component) obtains various device traffic data including throughput data for cells of a group. Pairs of cells in a group (sharing a site and face) can be selected based on satisfying various criteria, with estimated throughput gain achieved by changing the handoff rates between the cell pairs. The technology iteratively repeats the overall process, driving a system to an optimal equilibrium.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish, in a communication mode, a communication connection with a first radio access technology (RAT) or a second RAT. The UE may receive or identify an indication to deprioritize the first RAT. The UE may perform, based at least in part on the indication to deprioritize the first RAT, an action to deprioritize the first RAT, where the action is based at least in part in the communication mode. Numerous other aspects are described.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first set of traffic load measurements associated with current traffic of a first RAT and a second set of traffic load measurements associated with current traffic of a second RAT, determining a respective weighted traffic load for each QoS level in a first set of QoS levels associated with the first RAT and for each QoS level in a second set of QoS levels associated with the second RAT, deriving a resource allocation ratio for the first and second RATs, and performing a resource allocation based on the resource allocation ratio to enable relative scheduling weights assigned to the QoS levels in the first set of QoS levels and the second set of QoS levels to be reflected in first RAT traffic and second RAT traffic over a DSS spectrum. Other embodiments are disclosed.

The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate after a 4G system with IoT technology. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. According to an embodiment, a method for providing a MA PDU service to a UE by a UPF device in a mobile communication system may include receiving an N4 rule including a traffic transmission method for downlinks (DLs) to the UE from an SMF device, wherein the DLs include a DL of 3GPP access and a DL of non-3GPP access; receiving a split ratio change report for UL traffic to the 3GPP access and UL traffic to the non-3GPP access from the UE; generating a traffic counter based on the received split ratio change report; and transmitting the split ratio change report to the SMF device.

A wireless communication network to serve a wireless User Equipment (UE) with a wireless communication service over multiple wireless communication links. The wireless communication network comprises a primary access node, a first support access node, and a second support access node. The primary access node receives signal metrics for the support access nodes from the wireless UE, determines add thresholds for the support access nodes based on the amount of active UEs served by the primary access node, and converts the signal metrics for the support access nodes into add values for the support access nodes. When the add values are greater than the add thresholds, the primary access node signals the corresponding ones of the support access nodes to serve the wireless UE. The corresponding ones of the support access nodes exchange user data with the wireless UE.

This disclosure provides a method of balancing load in a cellular telecommunications network, the cellular telecommunications network having a first transceiver, a second transceiver, a first core network and a plurality of User Equipment (UE) the method including connecting a UE of the plurality of UEs to the first transceiver and second transceiver in a first non-standalone deployment mode in which the UE communicates control plane traffic and user plane traffic with the first transceiver and communicates user plane traffic only with the second transceiver; monitoring a load of one of more of the first transceiver, second transceiver and the first core network; determining whether the load satisfies a trigger threshold; and, if it does, responding by, connecting the UE to the first transceiver and second transceiver in a second non-standalone deployment mode in which the UE communicates control plane traffic and user plane traffic with the second transceiver and communicates user plane traffic only with the first transceiver.

To provide a low latency near RT RIC, some embodiments separate the RIC's functions into several different components that operate on different machines (e.g., execute on VMs or Pods) operating on the same host computer or different host computers. Some embodiments also provide high speed interfaces between these machines. Some or all of these interfaces operate in non-blocking, lockless manner in order to ensure that critical near RT RIC operations (e.g., datapath processes) are not delayed due to multiple requests causing one or more components to stall. In addition, each of these RIC components also has an internal architecture that is designed to operate in a non-blocking manner so that no one process of a component can block the operation of another process of the component. All of these low latency features allow the near RT RIC to serve as a high speed IO between the E2 nodes and the xApps.