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 wirelessly 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.

A data flow manager distributes data of a data stream of a user equipment via at least a first communication link and a second communication link, wherein the second communication link is independent of the first communication link. The data flow manager includes: a network interface configured to receive a first status signal indicating a first link quality of the first communication link and a second status signal indicating a second link quality of the second communication link; and a processor configured to perform load-balancing by selecting a prioritization link from the first communication link or the second communication link independent of the first link quality and the second link quality provided that the first link quality is above a first quality threshold and the second link quality is above a second quality threshold.

Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, for enhanced network communication using multiple network connections. In some implementations, a networking apparatus concurrently maintains connectivity to a network through each of multiple network transports. The networking apparatus receives one or more packets to be transmitted over the network and classifies the one or more packets to determine a class of service. The networking apparatus selects one of the multiple network transports to transmit the one or more packets based on (i) the class of service for the one or more packets and (ii) measures of expected latency for transmission of the one or more packets over the respective multiple network transports. The networking apparatus transmits the one or more packets using the selected network transport.

Embodiments of this application provide a load balancing method and a device. The method includes: determining, by a network device if periodicities of allocatable sounding reference signal SRS resources in a first cell are greater than periodicities of allocatable SRS resources in a second cell, a to-be-handed-over terminal based on transmission modes of terminals having accessed the first cell, where the first cell and the second cell are cells in a multi-carrier co-coverage network, and the network device covers the first cell and the second cell; and handing over, by the network device, the to-be-handed-over terminal to the second cell, where a periodicity of an SRS resource, allocated to the to-be-handed-over terminal, in the second cell is less than a periodicity of an SRS resource, allocated to the to-be-handed-over terminal, in the first cell.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a communication method and a device. The method includes: determining a first CU-UP and a UPF network element that correspond to a QoS flow, where an access network device to which the first CU-UP belongs supports at least two CU-UPs; determining a first PDB for transmitting the QoS flow between the first CU-UP and the UPF network element; and sending the first PDB to the access network device, where the first PDB is used by the access network device to schedule an air interface resource. In the embodiments of the present invention, after the CU-UP corresponding to the QoS flow is determined, the PDB of the CU-UP corresponding to the QoS flow may be sent to the RAN device.

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.

Provided are a method and an apparatus for multi-link data transmission and a storage medium. The method includes: transmitting real time application (RTA) data over a primary link; and transmitting the RTA data at a high priority in response to a repetition condition being triggered. The apparatus includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to transmit RTA data over a primary link; and transmit the RTA data at a high priority in response to a repetition condition being triggered.

Improved positioning resolution and latency may be achieved via physical layer signaling between a mobile device (UE) and a base station. The physical layer procedures may aid target UEs in enhancing their positioning accuracy and latency, and/or reducing network overhead while boosting UE power efficiency. Accordingly, a base station may receive, via physical layer signaling from a UE, a request for positioning-resources, for example in response to a determination that current positioning-resources of the UE need to be adjusted. The base station may responsively transmit, via physical layer signaling to the UE, an indication of adjusted positioning-resources, and may optionally transmit an indication of corresponding allocated grant-resources. The base station may receive, via physical layer signaling from the UE, positioning information resulting from positioning measurements performed by the UE according to the adjusted positioning-resources. The base station may optionally receive the positioning information on the corresponding allocated grant-resources.

A device for wireless communication of user equipment (UE) in a dual connection system includes a memory providing a buffer storing first data received from a first base station (BS) and second data received from a second BS and a first processor generating a radio bearer (RB) by reordering the first data and the second data and adjusting a size of the buffer based on a delay between the first BS and the second BS.

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.