Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for providing uniform user equipment initialization procedure for both in-coverage and out-of-coverage device-to device communications are disclosed herein, incorporating a novel tri-timer design: an initial timer, a search timer, and an active timer. In a method a determination is made regarding a user equipment as being a clusterhead candidate which can act as a clusterhead of a cluster. The user equipment searches for a suitable cell or cluster to join. If a suitable cell or a cluster is not found, the user equipment is selected to be a clusterhead which will act as the clusterhead of its own cluster. After selecting the user equipment to be a clusterhead and establishing its cluster, the user equipment transmits a discovery signal which alerting other user equipment to the clusterhead, to which the other user equipment can join. The user equipment as clusterhead then maintains the cluster.

Disclosed is a method for transmitting signals for a device-to-device (D2D) link at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises receiving a synchronization signal for the D2D link in a reference subframe, receiving a subframe bitmap indicating a plurality of subframes for the D2D link, and transmitting D2D link signals on at least one of D2D subframes determined using the information on the reference subframe and the subframe bitmap, wherein the synchronization signal is received with information on the reference subframe.

A mobile terminal (communication apparatus) selects a data item that needs to be obtained from an MFP (information processing apparatus) according to a user instruction given via an operation screen. Upon establishment of NFC communication between the mobile terminal and an NFC tag of the MFP as a result of the mobile terminal being brought closer to the NFC tag by the user, the mobile terminal reads, from the NFC tag, connection information for connecting to the MFP by using the Wi-Fi Direct. The mobile terminal connects to the MFP by using the Wi-Fi Direct based on the obtained connection information, and obtains data corresponding to the selected data item from the MFP through the Wi-Fi Direct communication.

Systems and methods for a notification triggered device management session are described. A request for a device management session for a mobile station is received at a device management server. In response to determining that the mobile station is not connected to a cellular network, a home subscriber server is signaled to update a user equipment profile for the mobile station to indicate that the mobile station has a pending device management session. Upon connection of the mobile station to a first network, the mobile station is signaled to connect to the device management server for the device management session using a call session control function. The mobile station is connected with the device management server using the first network. The device management session is run using the first network connection between the mobile station and the device management server.

There is disclosed a method for operating a D2D enabled UE for a cellular communication network. The method comprises performing a cell search in an out of coverage condition of the UE, wherein performing a cell search is based on a first measurement configuration during a first phase, and based on a second measurement configuration during a second phase, wherein the first measurement configuration pertains to a carrier whose sidelink is preconfigured for ProSe operation in out of network coverage operation. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.

A download method for downloading data includes assigning a download range of the data to each of the plurality of sessions based on size of the data, the plurality of sessions including a first session employing a first communication system and a second session employing a second communication system; downloading the data of the download range assigned to each of the plurality of sessions in each of the plurality of sessions in parallel; assigning a part of a first download range assigned to the first session to the second session when it is determined that a first communication situation in the first communication system is inferior to a second communication situation in the second communication system, the part of the first download rage being not downloaded; and downloading part of the data corresponding to the part of the first download range in the second session.

A plurality of beacons that do not include any service set identifiers may be broadcast from an access point. A request concerning association with the access point may be sent wirelessly from a user device and received at the access point. A unique service set identifier (SSID) for the requesting user device may be generated, and information regarding the unique SSID may be transmitted to the requesting user device. A subsequent association request from the requesting user device may include the unique SSID.

Systems and methods for vehicle customization are disclosed. Customizing a vehicle configuration may include associating a wireless device of a user with the vehicle. The vehicle customization system may detect a first occurrence of an event corresponding to a set of customizable control options for the vehicle. The vehicle customization system may optionally respond to the first occurrence of the event based on a default option of the set of customizable control options. The vehicle customization system may send, to the wireless device, a notification of the event. The vehicle customization system may receive, from the wireless device, a selected control option of the set of customizable control options corresponding to the event. The vehicle customization system may respond to a second occurrence of the event based on the selected control option.

A method of transmitting and receiving a specific reference signal in single point transmission and multi-point transmission is disclosed. The specific reference signal transmission method includes determining specific reference signal transmission resources for at least one terminal targeted for transmission, and transmitting the specific reference signal using the determined transmission resources and notifying of information for a layer used by the terminal. The specific reference signal transmission method includes determining specific reference signal reception resources, receiving the information for the layer used by the terminal from a serving cell base station, and receiving the specific reference signal using the information for determined transmission resources and the layer.

Therefore, the terminal can recognize a position and a sequence of the specific reference signal. Particularly, in the case of multi-user MIMO and cooperative scheduling, signal interference can be suppressed or removed using the specific reference signal of another terminal.

A software-implemented method for assisting in handling of connection setup requests in a telecommunications network is disclosed. The method includes intercepting a connection setup request from a user equipment (UE) to a control node of a radio access network part of the telecommunications network, determining whether the connection setup request is to be fulfilled based at least on information regarding resource use within a network access point serving the UE, and passing the connection setup request for further processing within the telecommunications network only upon positive determination.