Systems and methods are described herein for performing automated testing of online charging systems associated with telecommunications networks. In some embodiments, the systems and methods utilize various components associated with an online charging system, such as an event mediator, to convert data associated with test cases to be simulated by the online charging system (e.g., data from spreadsheets) into various test requests actionable during the online charging system under when simulating the test cases.

A protocol element referred to as a secure handle is described which provides an efficient and reliable method for application-to-application signaling in multi-process and multi-computer environments. The secure handle includes an absolute memory reference which allows the kernel to more quickly and efficiently associate a network data packet with an application's communication context in the kernel.

In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a scheduler disposed at a control device of a switch fabric system. The scheduler is configured to receive a control plane request associated with the switch fabric system having a data plane and a control plane separate from the data plane. The scheduler is configured to designate a control plane entity based on the control plane request and state information of each control plane entity from a set of control plane entities associated with the control plane and instantiated as a virtual machine. The scheduler is configured to send a signal to a compute device of the switch fabric system in response to the control plane request such that the control plane entity is instantiated as a virtual machine at the compute device.

A first terminal receives a first Timing Advance (TA) value from a base station and includes a second TA value that is obtained based on the first TA value in a Scheduling Assignment (SA) signal. The first terminal transmits the SA signal to a second terminal at downlink (DL) timing for receiving a downlink signal of the base station in cellular communication. When a length of a Cyclic Prefix (CP) that is set for the D2D communication and a length of a CP that is set for the cellular communication are different, the first terminal transmits data of the D2D communication to the second terminal at first timing that is obtained by applying the second TA value to the DL timing.

Disclosed methods for network modernization include obtaining a list of end-to-end circuits carried in a circuit-switched network, calculating, for each circuit, an early retirement credit (ERC) score and a circuit load factor (CLF) score, selecting, dependent on the ERC and CLF scores, a circuit to migrate to a new network, adding the selected circuit to a circuit migration sequence, and removing the circuit from the list. The ERC score represents the number of circuit-switching units on which no circuits would be carried and that would remain in the network following its removal. The CLF score represents an average number of circuits that would be carried on each circuit-switching unit currently traversed by the circuit following its removal. When two circuits have the highest ERC score, the circuit with the lowest CLF score is selected for migration. The method is repeated until the list is empty.

Disclosed methods for network modernization include obtaining a list of end-to-end circuits carried in a circuit-switched network, calculating, for each circuit, an early retirement credit (ERC) score and a circuit load factor (CLF) score, selecting, dependent on the ERC and CLF scores, a circuit to migrate to a new network, adding the selected circuit to a circuit migration sequence, and removing the circuit from the list. The ERC score represents the number of circuit-switching units on which no circuits would be carried and that would remain in the network following its removal. The CLF score represents an average number of circuits that would be carried on each circuit-switching unit currently traversed by the circuit following its removal. When two circuits have the highest ERC score, the circuit with the lowest CLF score is selected for migration. The method is repeated until the list is empty.

Mobile termination control techniques to support eMBMS are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to send a first AT command to enable evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) support at a mobile termination (MT), send a second AT command to query the MT regarding eMBMS services available for use by the MT, receive information describing one or more available eMBMS services in response to the second AT command, and send a third AT command to configure the MT to use at least one of the one or more available eMBMS services. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

The present disclosure relates to correction apparatus and correction methods. One example correction apparatus includes a first adjustment module, a plurality of second adjustment modules, a correction calculation module, and a plurality of non-ideal channels. One second adjustment module is disposed on one non-ideal channel. The first adjustment module is connected to each non-ideal channel. The correction calculation module is separately connected to the first adjustment module and the plurality of second adjustment modules. The correction calculation module is connected to an output end of each non-ideal channel. The non-ideal channel is a channel that outputs an output signal in response to a drive signal having an error value.

A novel and efficient method is described that creates a monolithic high capacity Packet Engine (PE) by connecting N lower capacity Packet Engines (PEs) via a novel Chip-to-Chip (C2C) interface. The C2C interface is used to perform functions, such as memory bit slicing and to communicate shared information, and enqueue/dequeue operations between individual PEs.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for modifying a machine-to-machine (M2M) service setting in an M2M system, comprising the steps of: transmitting at least one policy information to at least one device, wherein each of the at least one policy information comprises scope information and condition information; and if the state of an M2M gateway corresponds to a state of which the condition information is indicative, transmitting a first notification indicative of a state change of the M2M gateway to a device of which the scope information is indicative.