A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may select a first type of buffer status information or a second type of buffer status information. The first type of buffer status information may indicate an amount of data buffered and the second type of buffer status information has less bits and is a different format than the first type of buffer status information. The WTRU may select, subsequent to a number of subframes of a transmission of buffer status information of a first type, buffer status information of the first type for transmission.

There is provided a method comprising: preparing a data packet for transmission on a bearer, wherein at least one of the following is configured for transmission: a first network node and a second network node, checking whether at least one predetermined criterion is met, selecting, based at least partly on the said checking, whether to transmit the data packet via the first network node, via the second network node, or via both the first and the second network nodes, and transmitting the data packet according to the selecting.

Embodiments are directed to a computer system for managing data transfer. The computer system includes a memory, a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, a send component and a receive component having a message queue and a controller. A link interface communicatively couples the send component to the receive component. The link interface includes a mainline channel and a sideband channel, and the computer system is configured to perform a method. The method includes transmitting mainline channel messages over the mainline channel from the send component to the receive component. The method further includes transmitting sideband channel messages over the sideband channel from the send component to the message queue of the receive component. The method further includes utilizing the controller to control a flow of the sideband channel messages to the message queue without relying on sending feedback to the send component about the flow.

A communication device is described comprising a media output unit, a receiver configured to receive a packet of a sequence of packets, the packet comprising a compressed header and media payload and a processor configured to detect whether decompression of the compressed header is prevented, and, if decompression of the compressed header is prevented, to determine a sequence number of the media payload, extract the media payload from the packet and forward the media payload and an indication of the sequence number to the media output unit.

Method, apparatuses, and storage mediums are provided for establishing an RRC connection in the technical field of communications. The method may include: receiving a designated signaling sent by a first base station, the designated signaling carrying system configuration information of a second base station; and establishing an RRC connection with the second base station, based on the system configuration information of the second base station.

A first component of a network device may provide an offload request to a second component of the network device to offload a data flow from the first component. The offload request may direct the second component to provide the data flow towards a destination device and bypass the first component. The first component may receive a beacon from the second component. The beacon may identify information regarding one or more data flows offloaded from the first component. The first component may process the one or more data flows based on the information regarding the one or more data flows included in the beacon and without receiving the one or more data flows.

An output circuit, included in a device, may determine counter information associated with a packet provided via an output queue managed by the output circuit. The output circuit may determine that a latency event, associated with the output queue, has occurred. The output circuit may provide the counter information and time of day information associated with the counter information. The output circuit may provide a latency event notification associated with the output queue. An input circuit, included in the device, may receive the latency event notification associated with the output queue. The input circuit may determine performance information associated with an input queue. The input queue may correspond to the output queue and may be managed by the input circuit. The input circuit may provide the performance information associated with the input queue and time of day information associated with the performance information.

A mobile communication system includes a control device and a base station device. Data communication between the control device and the base station device is conducted using a fixed-length data size and a variable-length data size. The control device transmits information indicating whether a data size of the data communication has a fixed length or a variable length. The base station device receives the information from the control device.

In an embodiment, a method includes identifying a core of a multicore processor to which an incoming packet that is received in a packet buffer is to be directed, and if the core is powered down, transmitting a first message to cause the core to be powered up prior to arrival of the incoming packet at a head of the packet buffer. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Methods and systems for improving accuracy, speed, and efficiency of context-aware pattern matching are provided. According to one embodiment, a packet stream is received by a first stage of a hardware accelerator of a network device. A pre-matching process is performed by the first stage to identify a candidate packet that matches a string or over-flow pattern associated with access control (e.g., IPS or ADC) rules. A candidate rule is identified based on a correlation of results of the pre-matching process. The candidate packet is tokened to produce matching tokens and corresponding locations. A full-match process is performed on the candidate packet by a second stage of the hardware accelerator to determine whether it satisfies the candidate rule by performing one or more of (i) context-aware pattern matching, (ii) context-aware string matching and (iii) regular expression matching based on contextual information, the matching tokens and the corresponding locations.