A participant in a network is configured to query a data storage system to determine whether there have been any changes to a network. The participant receives a response to the query and determines, based at least in part on the response, whether reconfiguration is necessary. If the network has changed (e.g., if the network topology has changed), as indicated in the response, the system performs one or more actions in accordance with the response. Multiple participants in the network may query the data storage system so that, collectively, network updates are initiated by changes to data in the data storage system. The network may be an overlay network that allows communication according to a communication protocol, such as multicast, that may not be completely supported by a physical network substrate.

Systems and methods for dynamically switching between unicast and multicast delivery of media content are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a user device 1) accessing, over a wireless network, a unicast stream carrying data representative of a media content program, 2) detecting, during the accessing of the unicast stream, an instruction to switch to a multicast stream carrying data representative of the media content program, and 3) switching, in response to the instruction, from the accessing of the unicast stream to accessing the multicast stream by way of the wireless network. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.

A communication control method for performing an offload from a cellular RAN to a wireless LAN, includes a step of performing, by a user terminal, a network selection operation to select an appropriate access network with which a traffic of the user terminal is exchanged, from the cellular RAN and the wireless LAN on the basis of determination parameters. The determination parameters comprises at least one of: a cellular network status that is a network status concerning the cellular RAN; a wireless LAN network status that is a network status concerning the wireless LAN; a cellular radio link status that is a radio link status between the cellular RAN and the user terminal; and a wireless LAN radio link status that is a radio link status between the wireless LAN and the user terminal.

A method, base station, and device perform an offload from a cellular RAN to a wireless LAN via a network selection operation to select an access network with which user terminal traffic is exchanged from the cellular RAN and the wireless LAN on the basis of parameters transmitted from a first base station to the user terminal. The parameters comprise at least one of a cellular signal strength threshold, a WLAN signal strength threshold, and a WLAN load threshold. After transmitting the parameters, the transmitted parameters are transferred from the first cellular base station to a second cellular base station, in response to the user terminal performing a handover from the first cellular base station to the second cellular base station. The transferred parameters enable the second cellular base station to determine whether there is a need for a change of configuration indicated by the transferred parameters.

Embodiments herein disclose a method for identifying a unicast Device to Device (D2D) communication. Further, the method includes generating, by a source User Equipment (UE), a D2D Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) comprising a unicast parameter. Further, the method includes transmitting, by the source UE, the D2D MAC PDU to the destination UE. Further, the method includes receiving, by the destination UE, the D2D MAC PDU. Further, the method includes detecting, by the destination UE, one of unicast parameters and groupcast parameters of the D2D MAC PDU. Furthermore, the method includes identifying, by the UE, the D2D MAC PDU is for one of the unicast D2D communication when the unicast parameters are detected, and the groupcast D2D communication when the groupcast parameters are detected.

A method, base station, and device perform an offload from a cellular RAN to a wireless LAN via a network selection operation to select an access network with which user terminal traffic is exchanged from the cellular RAN and the wireless LAN on the basis of parameters transmitted from a first base station to the user terminal. The parameters comprise at least one of a cellular signal strength threshold, a WLAN signal strength threshold, and a WLAN load threshold. After transmitting the parameters, the transmitted parameters are transferred from the first cellular base station to a second cellular base station, in response to the user terminal performing a handover from the first cellular base station to the second cellular base station. The transferred parameters enable the second cellular base station to determine whether there is a need for a change of configuration indicated by the transferred parameters.

Group-addressed transmission techniques for directional wireless networks are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise logic to generate a frame sequence for transmission to an addressee group of a group-addressed fragmented medium access control service data unit (MSDU), the frame sequence to comprise a source identification frame followed by a series of fragment frames comprising fragments of the group-addressed fragmented MSDU, the logic to encapsulate the frame sequence in packets of a first packet sequence for transmission in a first direction and encapsulate the frame sequence in packets of a second packet sequence for transmission in a second direction, the transmission of the second packet sequence in the second direction to be initiated following completion of the transmission of the first packet sequence in the first direction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Each of a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus includes a display, an operation portion, and a radio communication unit. The second apparatus transmits operation information accepted by the operation portion of the second apparatus to the first apparatus through the radio communication unit. The first apparatus performs application processing based on operation information accepted by the operation portion of the first apparatus and the operation information from the second apparatus, generates an application image including a result of execution of the application processing, shows the application image on the display of the first apparatus, and transmits the application image to the second apparatus through the radio communication unit of the first apparatus. The second apparatus shows the application image from the first apparatus on the display of the second apparatus.

An apparatus for transmitting a plurality of data streams is provided, having a scheduling unit for selecting a data stream as a selected data stream and a transmission unit for transmitting the selected data stream. The scheduling unit is configured to select the selected data stream depending on scheduling information and a counter value, the scheduling information having a plurality of scheduling elements. A data stream is assigned to each scheduling element, wherein the data stream information of the scheduling element is data stream information for the data stream assigned to the scheduling element. A selection criterion is fulfilled or not fulfilled depending on the selection information of each scheduling element and the counter value. Depending on an order of the plurality of scheduling elements, the scheduling unit is configured to select, as the selected data stream, a data stream, which is assigned to a selection element, for which the selection criterion is fulfilled. The scheduling unit is configured to determine for at least one scheduling element, whether or not the selection criterion is fulfilled.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product that involve address encryption. The method includes: in response to receiving a packet from a source device, extracting a first address representing an address of the source device from the packet. The method further includes: mixing the first address with a random number to generate a mixed address, wherein the number of bits of the first address is the same as the number of bits of the random number. The method further includes: encrypting the mixed address. Moreover, the method further includes: generating a second address representing the address of the source device at least partially based on the encrypted mixed address, wherein the second address includes a prefix field and an interface identifier field. Illustrative embodiments can improve the security of the source device, and reduce computational overhead during address encryption and decryption.