A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: A first communication apparatus receives a plurality of data packets from a second communication apparatus, where the plurality of data packets are data packets of a first service, the plurality of data packets are data packets in a plurality of periods, and a length of the periods of the plurality of data packets is less than a maximum delay of the first service; and the first communication apparatus centrally reports the plurality of data packets to a third communication apparatus after an end moment of a first time period, where a length of the first time period is not greater than the maximum delay of the first service. By implementing the centralized reporting method, data packet transmission efficiency can be improved, and data scheduling complexity can be reduced.

The disclosure provides a multi-link receiving method and a multi-link receiver. The method includes the following. A reference delay range of a j-th data section is determined according to a preset delay time and a receiving time point of the j-th data section of an i-th data frame. In response to determining that the j-th data section is first received among an N number of data sections of the i-th data frame, the reference delay range of the j-th data section is taken as a designated delay range. In response to determining that receiving time points of the data sections of the i-th data frame are each within the designated delay range, the i-th data frame is restored based on the N number of data sections of the i-th data frame.

A method for transmitting data includes: receiving delay parameter information of a plurality of communication links, in which the delay parameter information is configured to represent an access category (AC) access delay condition of a time sensitive network (TSN) data type under each of the plurality of communication links; and transmitting, based on the delay parameter information, TSN data to be transmitted on a first communication link in the plurality of communication links, in which the first communication link satisfies a TSN data transmission/reception delay requirement.

Systems, methods, and computer software are disclosed for providing an Open Radio Access Network (RAN) networking infrastructure. In one embodiment a method is disclosed, comprising: providing real-time OpenRAN controller responsible for radio connection management, mobility management, QoS management, edge services, and interference management for the quality of end user experience; and providing a non-real-time controller in communication with the real-time OpenRAN controller, the non-real-time controller providing functionality such as configuration management, device management, fault management, performance management, and lifecycle management for all network elements in a network.

Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for user plane function (UPF) and network slice load balancing within a 5G network. Example embodiments include systems and methods for load balancing based on current UPF load and thresholds that depend on UPF capacity; UPF load balancing using predicted throughput of new UE on the network based on network data analytics; UPF load balancing based on special considerations for low latency traffic; UPF load balancing supporting multiple slices, maintaining several load-thresholds for each UPF and each slice depending on the UPF and network slice capacity; and UPF load balancing using predicted central processing unit (CPU) utilization and/or predicted memory utilization of new UE on the network based on network data analytics.

A wireless communication device uses multiple wireless communication services for communication between an in-vehicle device of a vehicle and an external device. The wireless communication device acquires a delay characteristic value for each wireless communication service from a network device. The delay characteristic value is an upper limit of an estimated range of delay time in communication. The wireless communication device acquires an allowable delay amount indicating a length of an allowable communication delay time from the in-vehicle device. The wireless communication device allocates a wireless communication service, which is relatively small in the delay characteristic value among the wireless communication services, to the in-vehicle device that is small in the allowable delay amount.

This invention flexibly controls the number of user planes in a communication system. In a communication system, a base station is in a local area network and at least one user plane function arranged in a cloud are connected. A determination is made as to whether or not a new user plane function should be added, taking into consideration: the traffic amount, from the maximum traffic amount using the local area network, of user data transferred by the at least one user plane function using the local area network; and an anticipated traffic amount of a new user plane function.

Currently, spatial reuse (SR) is a feature used indiscriminately for/across all traffic classes. However, systems and methods are provided for reducing channel access latency via selective application of SR for latency-sensitive and high-priority traffic. If a radio frequency (RF) signal is detected on a channel used by an access point (AP) or a client device, a determination can be made as to whether the energy of the RF signal relative to SR energy level thresholds permits transmission on that channel used simultaneously by another, e.g., neighboring AP. If so, frames can be transmitted so long as the other neighboring AP is associated with a different basic service set (BSS) color than that of the AP, and so long as the frames to be transmitted belong to a high-priority/low-latency traffic access category.

In one embodiment, a method comprises causing, by a network controller device, a first access point (AP) device to initiate a reverse sounding operation comprising wireles sly requesting a mobile constrained network device to transmit a null data packet (NDP) at a first transmission interval, wirelessly receiving the NDP at the first transmission interval, and generating a reception report describing reception of the NDP and including beamforming information; causing, by the network controller device, a second AP device to generate a corresponding reception report describing a corresponding wireless detection of the NDP at the first transmission interval; and causing, by the network controller device, the mobile constrained network device to connect to a selected one of the first AP device or the second AP device for an identified data flow based on the respective reception reports from the first and second AP devices.

Disclosed is a method for deploying tasks in a satellite network. In the method for deploying tasks in a satellite network, a utility function is determined by constructing a task processing delay model and a traffic model; a fitness degree of each individual is determined according to the utility function, and an individual with a highest fitness degree is put into a next-generation population; a probability that each of the plurality of individuals is selected is determined according to the fitness degree; a crossover operation and a mutation operation are performed on the individual according to the probability, to obtain a crossover individual and a mutation individual respectively; an available crossover individual and an available mutation individual are put into a next-generation population, to perform a repeated iteration and complete population updating; an optimal task deployment location table is output; and satellite network task deployment is completed.