Methods, systems, and devices for steering in mesh networks by a serving device are described. The method may include determining that a client device within a range of the serving device is eligible for steering, where the client device is outside a set of one or more trigger client devices, requesting, based on the determination, a radio resource management report from at least one trigger client device of the set of one or more trigger client devices, receiving the radio resource management report from the at least one trigger client device of the set of one or more trigger client devices, and performing a steering operation of the client device from the serving device to a target device based on the radio resource management report from the at least one trigger client device.

There are provided measures for enabling/realizing interface functionality for RAN-WLAN radio aggregation, i.e. radio level integration/aggregation between a cellular radio access network and a wireless area network. Such measures exemplarily comprise user-plane data forwarding from a cellular radio access network over a wireless local area network to a terminal, both the cellular radio access network and the wireless local area network providing radio level connectivity for the terminal, wherein in the user-plane data forwarding user-plane data packets according to a cellular data convergence protocol are transported, at least partly, using a reliable transport protocol over the wireless local area network to the terminal, providing feedback on performance of user-plane data packets transport using the reliable transport protocol, at least partly, from the wireless local area network to the cellular radio access network, and executing flow control on the basis of the performance feedback.

A session management function (SMF) receives, from a user plane function (UPF), a data notification message for a multi access (MA) packet data unit (PDU) session associated with multiple tunnels between multiple access network types and a PDU session anchor. The SMF sends, to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a first request to activate user plane resources. The first request comprises an indication of an access network type, from among the multiple access network types, of the MA PDU session.

A connection control device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes a process including: acquiring information on reception power in a plurality of terminal devices received from each of a plurality of radio units; aggregating an estimated communication load in each of the radio units by using the information on the reception power; determining a radio unit that belongs to each of a plurality of cells on a basis of an index indicating variance in a processing load for each cell associated with the estimated communication load in each of the radio units in the respective cells; and generating connection control information that allows a baseband processing device that manages a cell to be connected to the radio unit that belongs to the cell.

An apparatus (10) used in a Self-Organizing Network (SON) includes a SON execution unit (101) and an exclusion processing unit (105). The SON execution unit (101) executes a SON operation on a first cell (40), a second cell (41) or a neighboring cell pair (40 and 41), the SON operation including repeatedly adjusting a configuration parameter that affects an operation of a base station (20) or a mobile station (30) to achieve an optimization objective. The exclusion processing unit (105) excludes the first cell (40), the second cell (41) or the neighboring cell pair (40 and 41) from a future SON operation by the SON execution unit (101), if achievement status of the optimization objective after completion of the SON operation by the SON execution unit (101) does not satisfy a predetermined reference level. This can contribute to suppression of execution of SON operation providing only little performance improvement.

The present invention relates to technology for a sensor network, machine to machine (M2M) communication, machine type communication (MTC), and the Internet of things (IoT). The present invention can be utilized for intelligent services (smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, and the like) based on the technology. The present invention relates to a streaming service data receiving method of a terminal in a mobile communication system for supporting a plurality of radio access interfaces, the method comprising a step of receiving streaming service data from a server through at least one of the plurality of radio access interfaces, wherein the at least one radio access interface is selected such that the streaming service data can be received at a network speed corresponding to an encoding bit rate to be applied to the streaming service.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for data packet steering on a multi-access data connection. One apparatus 400 includes a processor 305, a first transceiver 325 and a second transceiver 330 that communicate with a mobile communication network via a first access network and a second access network, respectively. The processor 305 determines 810 to establish a multi-access data connection that includes a first user-plane connection over the first access network and a second user-plane connection over the second access network. The processor 305 receives 815 steering rules for the multi-access data connection and generates 820 a first data packet to be sent over the multi-access data connection. The processor 305 transmits 830 the first data packet over a selected one of the first and second user-plane connections, the selection based a first steering rule that applies to the first data packet.

A domain and a mobile device may exchange data via a radio access node included in a mobile network. During a time of peak demand, a data load level of the radio access node may exceed a threshold. To accommodate the peak demand, historical types and volumes of data may be used to manage a data rate related to data associated with the domain. Based on the historical information, the data rate for a mobile device, a radio access node, a range of time, or a data type may be controlled. The data rate may be managed by a network gateway, such as a gateway included in the mobile network.

There is at least a method and apparatus to offload to or receive an offload at least one other cell of a same or different radio access technology at least one beam of more than one beam associated with at least one user equipment of the cell; and based on the determining, forwarding or receiving information including at least one control message identifying the at least one beam associated with the at least one user equipment of the cell to the at least one other cell to perform the offload to the cell, and to perform receiving, by user equipment of a cell of a communication network, from another cell of a same or different radio access technology information.

A method for a terminal device to access a network, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method includes: sending a random access preamble by a terminal device; receiving, by the terminal device, indication information sent by a first network device; and receiving, by the terminal device, random access response information sent by at least one network device according to the indication information, wherein the at least one network device comprises the first network device.