A wireless communication network serves User Equipment (UEs) over a wireless network slice. A core user-plane in the slice exchanges user data with the UEs over a Radio Access Network (RAN). The core control-plane determines when the slice has a concentration of UEs that exceeds a threshold in a geographic area. When the slice has the UE concentration that exceeds the threshold in the geographic area, the core control-plane signals an edge user-plane to serve the UEs that use the wireless network slice in the geographic area. The edge user-plane exchanges additional user data over the RAN with the UEs that use the wireless network slice in the geographic area. The core control-plane may determine when the concentration of UEs moves toward another geographic area and proactively launch another edge user-plane to serve the UEs that will soon need the slice in the other geographic area.

A first infrastructure equipment configured to communicate with a core network part of a wireless communications network via a first central unit node communicatively coupled to the core network part, wherein the first central unit node controls a first zone of the wireless communications network. The first infrastructure equipment configured to perform measurements on signals received from one or more of the first central unit node and the one or more of the plurality of other infrastructure equipment, to transmit, to the first central unit node, a measurement report comprising an indication of the measurements performed on the received signals, to receive, from the first central unit node, a command signal comprising an indication that the first infrastructure equipment should communicate with the core network part via a second central unit node communicatively coupled to the core network part instead of the first central unit node.

Techniques for utilizing dual-stack network addressing for compute instances hosted in an edge location of a cloud provider network along with communications service provider (CSP) network addresses are described. A first network address is assigned to the compute instance from a pool of network addresses of the cloud provider network, and a second network address is associated with the compute instance that is provided by the CSP network. A gateway of the edge location is updated to direct packets addressed to the second network address to the compute instance via use of the first network address.

An endpoint computing device multi-network slice remediation/productivity system includes a core network system coupled to a RAN system and configured to allocate network slices and make them available for use in wireless communications via the RAN system. While operating in a pre-boot environment, an endpoint computing device determines that it is unable to transition to operating in a runtime environment and, in response, establishes a remediation network connection with a first network slice, and establishes a productivity network connection with a second network slice. While operating in a pre-boot environment and performing the remediation operations, the endpoint computing device then performs remediation operations via remediation wireless communications over the remediation network connection with the first network slice, and provides access to productivity application(s) that are configured to allow a user to perform productivity operations via productivity wireless communications over the productivity network connection with the second network slice.

A method and apparatus for transmitting a local home network identity (LHN ID) in a wireless communication system is provided. A first evolved NodeB (eNB) transmits an X2 Setup Request message including a LHN ID of the first eNB to a second eNB, and receives an X2 Setup Response message including a LHN ID of the second eNB from the second eNB. The first eNB may determine whether or not to trigger a secondary eNB (SeNB) addition procedure according to the LHN ID of the second eNB. When it is determined that the LHN ID of the second eNB is the same as the LHN ID of the first eNB, the first eNB may trigger the SeNB addition procedure.

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5.sup.th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4.sup.th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides a method of de-activating a local internet protocol access (LIPA) bearer supporting local breakout in a dual-connectivity architecture. When a master eNodeB (MeNB) determines to change a secondary eNodeB (SeNB) serving a user equipment (UE) or hand the UE over from the MeNB to an eNB, the MeNB may trigger a LIPA bearer de-activation process, and then trigger the process of change the SeNB serving the UE or hand the UE over from the MeNB to the eNB. Various examples also provide another method and an apparatus for de-activating a LIPA bearer, for bearer switch, for establishing a LIPA bearer. The methods and apparatus can establish, switch and correctly release local breakout bearer in a dual-connectivity architecture, so as to reduce the load of a core network of an operator.

Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods to establish a connection to the Internet via a local gateway (L-GW) function for a LIPA or a SIPTO@LN. The establishment of the connection to the Internet may be performed, for example, by at least one of an E-RAB SETUP procedure, an INITIAL CONTEXT SETUP procedure, an INITIAL UE MESSAGE procedure or an UPLINK NAS TRANSPORT procedure.

A data transmission method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: determining, by a source base station of a terminal in a handover process, first data and a radio air interface protocol sequence number of a data unit used to carry the first data, where the first data includes data that is not acknowledged by a terminal for correct reception during data transmission between the source base station and the terminal. The method further includes sending, by the source base station, the first data and the radio air interface protocol sequence number to a target base station; where the core network connected to the target base station is different from the core network connected to the source base station.

Disclosed are a handover method and apparatus, devices and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving configuration information from a network device, the configuration information including multiple sets of handover configuration information, each set of the multiple sets of handover configuration information being associated with a service situation, and the handover configuration information being used to configure an operation related to cell handover; obtaining a current service situation; determining, from the multiple sets of handover configuration information, target handover configuration information according to the current service situation; and performing the operation related to cell handover according to the target handover configuration information.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for handover. A method performed by a source NG-RAN, base station in a wireless communication network, for handling handover of a User Equipment, UE, in which the method includes obtaining an indication information which indicates the IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, voice call initiation. The method further includes performing a handover policy to prioritize handover or redirection to an Evolved-Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network, E-UTRAN, base station over handover to a target NG-RAN base station.