Systems and methods are provided for operating a media transmission network. The system includes at least one destination device for receiving a plurality of media streams from a plurality of source devices. The system further includes a controller that is configured to, for each media stream of the plurality of media streams: determine a media property adjustment for the media stream based at least on the media stream; identify a source device from the plurality of source devices associated with generating the media stream; determine at least one device setting for the identified source device to apply the media property adjustment to the media stream; generate a control packet for configuring the identified source device based on the at least one device setting, the control packet including the at least one device setting; and transmit the control packet to the identified source device.

In one embodiment, a system comprising a network interface controller comprising circuitry to determine per-flow analytics information for a plurality of packet flows; and facilitate differential rate processing of a plurality of packet queues for the plurality of packet flows based on the per-flow analytics information.

A network element includes a data transfer interface for connecting to a data transfer network, a data-plane section for managing data to be forwarded, and a control section for configuring the data-plane section in accordance with configuration data carried by control-plane messages received from the data transfer network. The control section controls the data transfer interface to send one or more overload messages to the data transfer network in response to an overload situation where the workload of the control section impairs the ability of the control section to react to the control-plane messages. Thus, other network elements know that the network element that does not respond to the control-plane messages and thus appears to be non-working may still forward data even though its ability to react to the control-plane messages is, at least temporarily, impaired.

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses and methods for signal designs for device-to-device (D2D) subframes. Various embodiments may include a UE with a radio transceiver to communicate with another UE via D2D communications. The UE may further include processing circuitry to generate a cyclic prefix (CP) for a first or second symbol of a D2D subframe at an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) resource block or a single-carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) resource block. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

A system with distributed proxy for reducing traffic in a wireless network satisfies data requests made by a mobile application. The system includes a mobile device having a local proxy for intercepting a data request made by the mobile application. The local proxy simulates application server responses for the mobile application on the mobile device for data requests where responses are available in the local cache. A proxy server is coupled to the mobile device and an application server to which the data request is made. The proxy server is able to communicate with the local proxy. The local proxy forwards the data request to the proxy server for transmission to the application server for a response to the data request. The proxy server queries the application server for any changes to the data request that the mobile application has previously made and notifies the local proxy of such changes.

Embodiments provide techniques for device-level traffic shaping in a communications network. Embodiments operate in communication networks providing connectivity to large numbers of user-side network nodes via shared communications links. For example, customer premises equipment (CPE) devices behind one of the user-side network nodes are classified into device types according to a predetermined rate-relevant characteristic of the CPE device. Upon receiving a forward-link (FL) traffic flow destined for one of the CPE devices, the device type of the CPE device is identified, and the FL traffic flow is shaped in accordance with a traffic shaping policy that corresponds to CPE device type. Various embodiments are tailored to support architectures having device-level shapers and/or network address translators (NAT) in user-side network nodes and/or in a provider-side network node.

Processes and systems described herein enable improvement of quality of experience (QoE) of network services using an upsell framework of the network services. Embodiments of the present disclosure include determining, by a computing device, a network throttling event associated with a network throttling imposed on an account of a user. In response to the determining, the computing device may at least cause presenting of one or more upgrade options in a user interface. After receiving a user selection of an upgrade option of the one or more upgrade options, the computing device may at least cause an adjustment of the network throttling.

A computing device includes a processor and memory. A throttling application is stored in the memory and is executed by the processor. The throttling application receives a server request from a first application. The throttling application is located in a non-accessible location relative to the first application. The throttling application is configured, in response to the server request, to estimate a completion time when the server request will complete; send the server request with the completion time to a server; receive a response to the server request from the server prior to the completion time; when the completion time for the server request is in the future, wait until the completion time is now; and when the completion time is now, indicate completion to the first application.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a network congestion control method, a device, and a system. The method includes: receiving a first congestion control message, where the first congestion control message carries a 5-tuple of a packet that causes congestion; obtaining a flow identifier of the packet based on the 5-tuple of the packet that causes the congestion; generating a second congestion control message, where the second congestion control message carries the flow identifier corresponding to the 5-tuple; and sending the second congestion control message to a source node of the packet. In the embodiments of the present invention, a network congestion problem of a layer 3 IP network can be resolved.

A communication device that is used in a multi-point communication includes: a receiver, a processor and a transmitter. The receiver receives, from a target communication device included among one or more destination communication devices of the communication device, information that indicates a reception bandwidth allocated to a data transmission conducted from the communication device to the target communication device. The processor calculates a transmission bandwidth to be allocated to the data transmission conducted from the communication device to the target communication device according to information relating to the one or more destination communication devices. The transmitter transmits data to the target communication device at a rate that does not exceed an upper limit transmission rate. The upper limit transmission rate is determined according to a smaller one of values of the reception bandwidth and the transmission bandwidth.