Systems, methods, and techniques for implementing a defined configuration for an application. A request is received to provision an instance of an application for a external entity. A resource identifier is obtained based on the request. A defined configuration of a plurality of defined configurations for the application is identified based on the resource identifier. A set of features is determined that are specified in the defined configuration. The instance of the application is generated having the set of features. A connection is established with an application resource of a plurality of application resources of the application based on the resource identifier. The instance having the set of features is provisioned over one or more networks to the external entity.

A device in an evolved packet core (EPC) which includes a processor and a memory. The processor effectuates operations including receiving from one or more devices residing within a customer premise equipment (CPE) portion of a telecommunications network, sensor data associated with one or more customers and in response to receiving the sensor data, generating a data request for an ecosystem status for the CPE portion of the telecommunications network. The processor further effectuates operations including obtaining customer information for the one or more customers and creating an analytics environment, using the customer information, for the one or more customers. The processor further effectuates operations including performing, within the analytics environment, analytics on the sensor data to determine a state of the CPE portion of the telecommunications network for the one or more customers and in response to performing analytics on the sensor data, optimizing the telecommunications network.

A system and method are described that provide user-controlled Quality of Experience (QoE) in a network of resources. QoE or service parameter profiles of an SDN-NPV network are mapped to options for user selection using a QoE selector knob. The user selects the desired QoE or service parameter profile from the available options and the SDN-NPV network configuration is implemented that corresponds to the desired QoE or service parameter profile.

An apparatus obtains fingerprints that have been collected by a plurality of mobile devices at a particular site for supporting a positioning of other mobile devices, each fingerprint comprising results of measurements on radio signals of at least one communication node at a particular location and an indication of the particular location. The apparatus generates feedback information based on the obtained fingerprints as a whole for coordinating a collection of fingerprints by the plurality of mobile devices. The apparatus transmits the feedback information to the plurality of mobile devices for presentation to users of the mobile devices.

A method of assigning performance indicators to objects of a network employing a computation to assign performance indicators to said objects of said network such that a sum of said performance indicators of objects along a given path in said network in relation to a first threshold value indicates whether said path fulfils a predetermined criterion, and/or indicates whether said path does not fulfil said predetermined criterion.

A method of evaluating a performance of a path in a network based on the performance indicators involves the steps of calculating a sum of performance indicators for said objects along said path and evaluating a performance of said path by comparing said sum against a first threshold value.

There is provided a method of scanning for a remote device, the method comprising: generating, at a data processing device, a search input; transforming, at the data processing device, the search input to provide a transformed output, wherein the transformed output is representative of the search input; transmitting, a communication comprising the transformed output from the data processing device to the remote device; receiving, at the data processing a device, a communication from the remote device based on the transformed output.

In a method for miming a computer network (2) comprising a number of devices (4a-d) comprising at least one network port (6a-c) and being interconnected by network links (8a-c) connecting two respective ports (6a-c), wherein each of the network ports (6a-c) is running the LLDP protocol (9) and comprises a remote MIB (10a-c), a change of a physical state (up, down) of a network link (8a-c) triggers an update of the information in the remote MIB (10a-c) of the ports (6a-c) associated with this link (8a-c), especially immediately after the change of the physical state (up, down). A computer network (2) comprising a number of devices (4a-d) comprising at least one network port (6a-c) and being interconnected by network links (8a-c) connecting two respective ports (6a-c), wherein each of the network ports (6a-c) is running the LLDP protocol (9) and comprises a remote MIB (10a-c) is adapted for performing the above method.

A method for managing wireless devices in a wireless medical body area network, MBAN, comprises configuring the wireless MBAN based on all wireless devices of the MBAN comprising at least one sensor and at least one hub, by sharing identification data, battery status, and communication performance between wireless devices of the wireless MBAN; providing a plurality of the wireless devices with at least short range communication and long range communication; and configuring a first wireless device of the wireless MBAN as a master depending on battery status and communication performance. Thereafter, the method comprises configuring a second wireless device of the wireless MBAN as a new master if the battery status and communication performance of the master drops below that of the second wireless device; and routing data transfer within the wireless MBAN depending on the battery status and communication performance of the wireless devices of the wireless MBAN.

A method and an apparatus for communication between a first network device and second network device are suggested. The method comprises, at the level of the first network device: receiving, from the second network device, one or more requests for SNMP Set operation; caching the one or more requests; and upon a determined time period being reached, processing the cached one or more requests. A cache mechanism is suggested so that an SNMP agent can cache the requests for SNMP Set operation for a time period and process these requests in batch.

A user terminal according to an embodiment is capable of executing dual connectivity. The user terminal comprises: a controller configured to execute the dual connectivity in which a first base station configured to establish an RRC connection with the user terminal and a second base station configured to provide an additional radio resource are used; and a transmitter configured to preferentially transmit, if a radio link failure is detected between the user terminal and the first base station, to the second base station, an RRC reestablishment request for reestablishing the RRC connection.