Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device comprising: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising: determining whether a first device, which is wireless-capable, is communicating under a bandwidth surplus with a fixed network via a first fixed network connection, wherein the bandwidth surplus results at least in part from use by the first device of one or more link aggregation groups, wherein the one or more link aggregation groups comprise licensed wireless spectrum, unlicensed wireless spectrum, or a combination thereof, and wherein the determining with respect to the first device results in a first determination; determining whether a second device is communicating under a bandwidth deficit with the fixed network via a second fixed network connection, wherein the determining with respect to the second device results in a second determination; and responsive to the first determination being that the first device is communicating under the bandwidth surplus and responsive to the second determination being that the second device is communicating under the bandwidth deficit, allocating at least a portion of the bandwidth surplus associated with the first device to the second device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Systems and methods for simultaneous multi-path TCP data flows over a plurality of transport paths, such as satellite and terrestrial networks. One system enables the plurality of paths to be used for increasing the end-to-end transport reliability or throughput of the network, depending on the prevailing reliabilities of the paths. One method includes determining, with a first electronic processor, a first reliability for a first network path configured to carry a first data stream, and a second reliability for a second network path configured to carry a second data stream. The method includes transmitting the first and second reliabilities to a second electronic processor. The method includes receiving a selected mode based on the first and second reliabilities, said mode indicating whether the plurality of paths are being used to enhance reliability or throughput. The method includes receiving the first and second data streams, and processing the first and second data streams based on the selected mode. The method includes determining the relative delays between the plurality of paths and equalizing the delays through buffering, which may be performed either at the transmitter, the receiver or both.

A radio access network (RAN) operates by: determining an initial RU/UE association that allocates the plurality of UEs among the plurality of RUs via reference signal received power (RSRP) data received from the plurality of RUs; receiving RU conditions data corresponding to a set of RU conditions associated with the plurality of RUs; receiving RU constraint data associated with the plurality of RUs; assigning, via at least one iterative RU sleeping loop and based on the initial RU/UE association, the RU conditions data and the RU constraint data, an active mode to a first subset of the plurality of RUs and a sleep mode to a second subset of the plurality of RUs; and updating a dynamic RU/UE association based on the first subset of the plurality of RUs and the second subset of the plurality of RUs.

An information handling system executing an on-demand network slice overlay optimization system includes a processor executing the on-demand network slice overlay optimization system to receive wireless network load profile metrics from a regional edge device and the endpoint load profile metrics; receive core metrics from a radio access network (RAN) service provider descriptive of the load capacity of a core network to provide data throughput at a given time; determine whether the real-time data load demand of the grouped plurality of endpoint devices can be provisioned to the load capacity described in the core metrics; and provide instructions to dynamically adjust network slices at the regional edge device to provide for any changes in the real-time data load demand based on an elastic client business policy enforced at the regional edge device for wireless connectivity data for the grouped plurality of endpoint devices.

A radio network may include: a distributed unit (DU); a fronthaul multiplexer coupled to the distributed unit; a plurality of RUs, each one of the RUs being in communication with the DU through the fronthaul multiplexer; and a control loop (either open or closed) configured to detect performance parameters of the plurality of RUs, to train an artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) application using the performance parameters, and wherein the AI or ML application is configured to, once trained, receive either the performance parameters or analysis of the performance parameters and to adjust a multiplexing functionality of the fronthaul multiplexer during use of the radio network and in near real time based on either the performance parameters or the analysis of the performance parameters.

Examples described herein relate to supplementing wireless local area network (WLAN) connection of a wireless having multiple Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) in which at least one of the SIMs is associated with a Designated Data Service (DDS) subscription. A method includes connecting the wireless communication device with a wireless local area network (WLAN), receiving a request for transferring data, determining whether a WLAN link rate of the wireless communication device is less than a link rate threshold, transferring the data over the WLAN in response to determining that the WLAN link rate is not less than the link rate threshold, and transferring a first portion of the data over the WLAN and a second portion of the data via the DDS subscription in response to determining that the WLAN link rate is less than the link rate threshold.

The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically choose a channel such that channel usage is optimized. Furthermore, APs can perform automatic power adjustment so that multiple APs can operate on the same channel while minimizing interference with each other. Wireless stations are load balanced across APs so that user bandwidth is optimized. A movement detection scheme provides seamless roaming of stations between APs.

Any one of the following dual connectivity attributes is assigned to a group profile of each service group: (1) macro cell only (serving both data/control planes via a macro cell base station.), (2) small cell only (serving data/control planes via a small cell base station), (3) dual connectivity enabled-A (serving data plane of UEs via a small cell base station, and serving control plane via a macro cell base station), and (4) dual connectivity enabled-B (serving data plane via both a macro cell base station and a small cell base station, and serving control plane via a macro cell base station), wherein the RAN controller calculates and sets the optimal splitting between the macro cell base station and the small cell base station dynamically, such that desired load balancing is achieved.

The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically choose a channel such that channel usage is optimized. Furthermore, APs can perform automatic power adjustment so that multiple APs can operate on the same channel while minimizing interference with each other. Wireless stations are load balanced across APs so that user bandwidth is optimized. A movement detection scheme provides seamless roaming of stations between APs.

The described embodiments regard detecting a bandwidth part (BWP) mismatch between a wireless device and a cellular wireless network base station and performing mitigation to correct for the BWP mismatch. The wireless device can detect a BWP mismatch, based on content of a downlink control information (DCI) message indicating to switch BWP configurations, which is inconsistent with a scheduled downlink resource or granted uplink resource indicated in the DCI message occurring before completion of a BWP switching delay time period. The wireless device can monitor for DCI messages, after switching BWP configurations, in accordance with a previous BWP configuration for a monitoring time period to confirm use of the new BWP configuration or to detect a BWP mismatch. Responsive to detecting a BWP mismatch, the wireless device switches back to the previous BWP configuration without waiting to complete the BWP switching delay time period for switching BWP configurations.