Aspects of the disclosure relate to a user equipment (UE) configured to schedule resource management procedures including measurements and tracking loop procedures. In some examples, the UE includes at least one antenna pair and two or more receivers. The UE may be configured to determine a plurality of combinations of antenna pairs and component carriers, where each component carrier is associated with a particular frequency. The UE may further be configured to schedule measurements/tracking loop procedures to available receivers first and utilize a selection algorithm to select combinations of antenna pairs and component carriers and map the selected combinations to the remaining of the available receivers to perform tracking loop procedures. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described.

A control plane function node may be used in a Fifth Generation (5G) Non-Standalone (NSA) architecture having Radio Access Network (RAN) level interworking between a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) RAN and a 5G New Radio (NR). The node obtains usage report data which are based on traffic of a user equipment (UE) via primary and secondary Radio Access Technologies (RATs). The node also obtains secondary RAT usage report data which are based on traffic of the UE via the secondary RAT. The node constructs a message which indicates a request for charging based on the usage report data and the secondary RAT usage report data. In constructing the message, the node populates, in association with a corresponding rating group and usage data of the UE, an identifier of a flow or bearer associated with secondary RAT usage, together with the secondary RAT usage report data.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a process or apparatus for receiving, by a processing system including a processor, cell traffic reports for cells of a radio communication network, performing a reconfiguration analysis to identify reconfiguration information to reconfigure the radio communication network according to changing network conditions, and communicating the reconfiguration information defining a new cell configuration for the cells of the radio communication network and communicating information defining a new reconfiguration time for the cells to substantially synchronously switch to communicating according to the reconfiguration information. The receiving the cell traffic reports, the performing the reconfiguration analysis and the communicating the reconfiguration information occur in substantially real time. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A method for accessing a gateway and an apparatus are disclosed, relate to the field of communication technologies, and are applied to a network system including a virtual broadband network gateway (vBNG), where the vBNG includes a control plane (CP) device and a plurality of user plane (UP) devices managed by the CP device, and the network system further includes a user plane steering function (USF) device. The method includes: The USF device obtains user information of a target terminal; the USF device determines a target UP device in the plurality of UP devices based on the user information and load of the plurality of UP devices; and the USF device indicates the target terminal to access the target UP device. Therefore, an appropriate UP device is selected for the target terminal in the network system including the vBNG, and load balancing between the plurality of UP devices is implemented.

Methods, apparatus, and systems that can be implemented to associate User Datagram Protocol (UDP) based connection identifiers with appropriate Quality of Service (QoS) flows are disclosed to enable Access Traffic Steering, Switching and Splitting functionality at lower layers and to allow accurate measurements of Round-Trip Time for all traffic on a session. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes determining, by one or more nodes in a core network for a session that comprises at least one QoS flow, at least two identifiers identifying two connections associated with the at least one QoS flow. The two connections are established according to a UDP based protocol. The method also includes establishing, by the one or more nodes in the core network, a mapping between the at least two connection identifiers and the at least one QoS flow.

A wireless local area network, WLAN, node (400) is adapted to be comprised in an integrated wireless communications network comprising a WLAN and a cellular communications network. The WLAN node (400) comprises a receiving module (401) adapted to receive traffic data from a wireless device. A differentiation module (403) is adapted to determine whether the received traffic data relates to a first traffic type which is to be routed locally within the WLAN or a second traffic type which is to be routed to the cellular communication network. A processing module (405) is adapted to control the handling of the traffic data according to whether the traffic data is determined as relating to the first traffic type or the second traffic type.

The technology includes a method performed by a system of a telecommunications network to manage network traffic of a 5G network. The system can instantiate a security system to sort incoming or outgoing network traffic at a perimeter of the 5G network into multiple groups that are each uniquely associated with multiple traffic types and multiple security levels. The system can inspect segments of data included in the incoming network traffic and sort multiple portions of the network traffic into the groups based in part on the inspection of the segments of the data. The system can dynamically adjust an available bandwidth of the 5G network based on each load of each of the groups and dispatch the portions of the network traffic in accordance with a traffic type and a security level of each of the groups.

The present application is related to a method performed by a user equipment (UE). The method includes: obtaining a power based at least in part on path-loss of a link between the UE and a base unit; obtaining another power based at least in part on path-loss of a sidelink between the UE and another UE; selecting one of the power and the abovementioned another power as transmission power; and transmitting data on the sidelink using the transmission power.

A data transmission method and UE. The method includes: performing a target operation on first uplink data according to first information, where the target operation includes: in a case that the first 5 information is used to indicate that a first path is capable of transmitting uplink data, transmitting the first uplink data on the first path, and/or in a case that the first information is used to indicate that a second path is incapable of transmitting target uplink data, and that the first uplink data belongs to the target uplink data, skipping transmitting the first uplink data on the second path; and the first path is 10 a source path between the UE and a source cell, the second path is a target path between the UE and a target cell; or, the first path is the target path, and the second path is the source path.

The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for information transmission, capable of enabling a terminal device to efficiently identify a network to which identification information it receive is to be applied. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, identification information transmitted by a network device; and determining, by the terminal device, whether the identification information is to be used in a non-public network based on an indication from the network device, an environment in which the identification information is received, or content of the identification information.