A method is provided for transmission rate adaptation of one or more data units, the method including: receiving, by an adapter, the adapter including an adaptation circuitry, a plurality of data units according to a first transmission rate and at least one delay character separating two consecutive data units; and transmitting, by the adapter, each of the plurality of data units received according to a second transmission rate, wherein the second transmission rate is determined based on the at least one delay character received.

A method, system and computer readable medium for providing access network bit rate recommendation for Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) Coder Decoder (CODEC) change using dynamic VoLTE allocation is presented. In one embodiment a method includes determining, by an eNodeB, if Transmit Time Intervals (TTI) bundling is configured for a User Equipment (UE); and when TTI bundling is not configured, then sending an Access Network Bitrate Recommendation (ANBR) Medium Access Control (MAC) SE for VoLTE CODEC decrease.

In modern networks, RRU and BBU equipment of an access point site typically handles traffic from a single sector. An RRU-BBU pair process that traffic (often limited to a single spectrum from a single sector) according to implemented capabilities and other equipment located further upstream perform functions that rely on information from multiple sectors. An integrated device (e.g., white box) can integrate the functionality of multiple RRU (or NR in 5G) and the functionality of multiple BBU (or DU/CU splits in 5G), which can reduce implementation footprint, costs, and can provide related services more efficiently without going upstream.

The disclosure generally relates to various methods to increase network coverage for a Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) session between a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE. In an aspect, a first and second UEs negotiate a codec configuration to use in the VoIP session, transmits, to the second UE, a maximum end-to-end packet loss rate (PLR) that the first UE can tolerate for received media given the negotiated codec configuration, receives, from the second UE, a maximum end-to-end PLR that the second UE can tolerate for received media given the negotiated codec configuration, and determines a distribution of the maximum end-to-end PLRs among respective uplinks and downlinks at the first UE and the second UE.

A cellular data communication network includes a BBU connected to a UPF by an IP network. A first translation module translates GFP packets into IP packets transmitted over the IP network. A second translation module translates the IP packets back into IP packets and forwards the IP packets to the UPF. A PFCP proxy intercepts control packets of the UPF. Information snooped by the PFCP proxy is provided to a routing/SDN controller that programs the translation modules and a routing module to perform routing of packets in bypass of the UPF.

[Problem] When a communication apparatus that is the communication partner is called via a relay device, the transmission control mode of a voice signal can be switched according to the capability of the communication partner. [Solution] A relay device (2) includes a telephone relay unit (3), a network communication relay unit (4), and a wireless communication relay unit (5). The wireless communication relay unit (5) includes a plurality of external apparatus interfaces, and an analog repeater (25), a digital repeater (27), or the like is connected to each external apparatus interface. If an SIP telephone (20) has called an analog transceiver (27), the relay device (2) obtains the address and apparatus type of the analog transceiver (27) from call information, and transmits a voice signal to the analog transceiver (27) using a transmission control mode (VOX mode) that suits the analog transceiver (27).

Devices, methods, user equipment (UE), network core devices, gateway devices, evolved node B (eNB), and storage media for UE provisioning are described. In one embodiment, a UE is configured for codec bitrate adaptation via an interface configured to receive a bandwidth indication and a codec awareness indication from an eNB. The UE process the bandwidth indication and identifies, based on the codec awareness indication, a first codec from a plurality of codecs supported by the UE. The UE then configures with the eNB using data encoded with the first codec. This data may, for example, be Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) data or other such media data. Selection of the codec or associated codec information may be further based on the codec awareness indication.

Embodiments provide systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products for selecting codec parameters to satisfy one or more operating constraints. An example method performed by a network component that facilitates a communication session set-up process among endpoints in a communication network, the method includes: during the communication session set-up process, determining a utilization factor of the network component; selecting a value for sampling frequency associated with a first codec in response to determining the utilization factor; negotiating use of the first codec and the value for sampling frequency with a first endpoint and negotiating use of a second codec with a second endpoint; and transcoding a media stream of a communication session between the first endpoint and the second endpoint according to the first codec and the value for sampling frequency and the second codec.

In modern networks, RRU and BBU equipment of an access point site typically handles traffic from a single sector. An RRU-BBU pair process that traffic (often limited to a single spectrum from a single sector) according to implemented capabilities and other equipment located further upstream perform functions that rely on information from multiple sectors. An integrated device (e.g., white box) can integrate the functionality of multiple RRU (or NR in 5G) and the functionality of multiple BBU (or DU/CU splits in 5G), which can reduce implementation footprint, costs, and can provide related services more efficiently without going upstream.

A cellular data communication network includes a BBU connected to a UPF by an IP network. A first translation module translates GFP packets into IP packets transmitted over the IP network. A second translation module translates the IP packets back into IP packets and forwards the IP packets to the UPF. A PFCP proxy intercepts control packets of the UPF. Information snooped by the PFCP proxy is provided to a routing/SDN controller that programs the translation modules and a routing module to perform routing of packets in bypass of the UPF.