A load balancing apparatus and method for a wireless communications system, and a base station. The apparatus includes: an interference monitoring part, configured to monitor interference between small cells during load balancing; and a load balancing control part, configured to adjust load balancing according to the interference between the small cells that is monitored by the interference monitoring part.

A system and method to identify different access names for discovering and learning service provider's Wi-Fi access networks in user's premises where user may have defined a customized SSID on said Wi-Fi Access Points, for increasing the likelihood for automatic Wi-Fi offload on service provider network thus enhancing user experience to dynamically offload a user equipment [202] and prevent revenue loss for the service provider by keeping the user always on its Network (either cellular or Wi-Fi). Furthermore, the method encompasses identifying of a parent service provider's user-defined Wi-Fi Access Network SSID(s), learning one or more information of connection between said SSID(s) and the UE [202], categorizing said SSID(s) and allowing automated offload to a selected SSID whenever the UE [202] is within its coverage.

During operation, an access point receives a message a message from a second access point with second information specifying loading of the second access point. Then, the access point receives a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request from an electronic device with an Internet protocol (IP) address of the access point and a media access control (MAC) address of the electronic device. Next, the access point determines, based at least in part on information specifying loading of the access point, the second information and the MAC address, an assigned IP address of a gateway for the electronic device to access a second network, where the assigned IP address is one of: the IP address of the access point, or a second IP address of the second access point. Moreover, the access point provides a DHCP response to the electronic device with the assigned IP address.

Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a related device. The method includes: receiving, by a first node, a data packet from a second node, where the data packet includes first indication information, and the first indication information includes a logical channel identity LCID corresponding to the data packet; and delivering, by the first node, the data to an upper protocol layer of the RLC layer of the first node based on the first indication information.

A wireless backhaul method, including: a wireless backhaul device generates a first F1AP message, maps the first F1AP message to a signaling-plane bearer of an LTE Uu interface, and sends the first F1AP message to a primary base station of the wireless backhaul device via the signaling-plane bearer of the LTE Uu interface. The primary base station obtains the first F1AP message via the signaling-plane bearer of the LTE Uu interface, encapsulates the first F1AP message into a first X2AP message, and sends the first X2AP message to a secondary base station of the wireless backhaul device. The secondary base station receives the first X2AP message and obtains the first F1AP message based on the first X2AP message.

Based on a load prediction analysis performed by a machine learning enabled processor and a load balancer, the load of multiple distributed unit (DU) resources in a baseband unit (BBU) pool hub can be optimized. The BBU pool hub can comprise multiple DU functionality and redundant centralized unit (CU) functionality connected via a high-speed/low latency redundant switch to enable pooling of resources. DU resource pooling can facilitate efficiencies in the network by allocating resources based on active and/or inactive status, load, of radio units RUs as well Radio Bearers activity.

The disclosed technology is directed towards load balancing in an adaptive and automated way for wireless mobility networks to improve the overall harmonic-average UE throughput within each controlled group of cells (e.g., different frequency carriers serving a sector of a base station). A load balancer (e.g., analytics component) obtains various device traffic data including throughput data for cells of a group. Pairs of cells in a group (sharing a site and face) can be selected based on satisfying various criteria, with estimated throughput gain achieved by changing the handoff rates between the cell pairs. The technology iteratively repeats the overall process, driving a system to an optimal equilibrium.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for load balancing and mobility robustness in cellular systems. A network entity such as a near-RT RIC may receive ranges of handover (HO) parameters and/or performance targets for a mobility robustness optimization (MRO) function and/or a load balancing optimization (LBO) function from a service management and orchestration framework (SMOFW) and receive and analyze HO related performance measurements and/or cell load measurements from an open RAN (O-RAN) distributed unit (O-DU) or centralized unit (O-CU). The near-RTI RIC, based on the analysis, may request the SMOFW to change virtualized resources, request the O-DU update HO parameters, and/or request the O-DU/O-CU update UE selection, cell selection and/or handover parameters.

A method and apparatus are disclosed for using alternate paths for descendant nodes for backhaul failure link reporting. In one embodiment, a method for a network node that may be a parent node includes receiving information indicating at least one alternate path of at least one child IAB node to an IAB donor node, the at least one child IAB node being a wireless backhaul node; and using the received information to perform at least one of a backhaul wireless link failure recovery and load balancing of traffic. In another embodiment, a method for a network node that may be a child node includes receiving information indicating at least one alternate path of a parent IAB node to an IAB donor node, the parent IAB node being a wireless backhaul node for the child IAB node. The received information is used to perform at least one operational task.

Disclosed are a signaling transmission method and apparatus, base station and terminal. The signaling transmission method includes: a base station determines a manner for a terminal transmitting signaling data on a signaling radio bearer; and the base station transmits instruction information for instructing the terminal whether to transmit the signaling data on the signaling radio bearer in a separate transmitting manner to the terminal.