Disclosed are a method and apparatus for implementing traffic splitting. The method includes: after a control plane function obtains an application identifier, a packet flow description corresponding to the application identifier and location information applicable to the packet flow description from an application, the control plane function provides the packet flow description to a user plane function corresponding to the location information applicable to the packet flow description, so that the user plane function splits traffic data corresponding to the application identifier. In the solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the packet flow description is installed on the corresponding user plane function by using the location information, and thus the traffic splitting is implemented.

A network offload method and a relevant device, the method for an electronic device including: determining a current moving speed of the electronic device, in response to processing at least one event, and the at least one event including a first event, and important priority of the first event being greater than or equal to preset priority; and distributing data flows associated with the first event to a wireless network module for data processing, in response to the current moving speed of the electronic device being greater than or equal to a first threshold.

The embodiments of the disclosure relate to a data transmission method, a terminal device and a Core Network (CN) device. The method includes that: a terminal device determines a target access type for uplink data in multiple different access types; the terminal device determines a target-type CN corresponding to the target access type according to a correspondence between an access type and a CN type; and the terminal device sends the uplink data by use of at least one data flow corresponding to the target-type CN. According to the data transmission method, terminal device and CN device of the embodiments of the disclosure, transmission efficiency may be improved.

Systems and methods provide cross-layer bearer splitting and cross-RAT retransmission in a RAN-based WLAN/WWAN integrated network. A link aggregation transmitter is configured to receive, from a WLAN stack lower layer protocol, a WLAN transmission confirmation signal and a WLAN congestion status, and to receive, from a WWAN stack lower layer protocol, a WWAN transmission confirmation signal and a WWAN congestion status. The link aggregation transmitter dynamically splits the bearer traffic across the WWAN link and the WLAN link based at least in part on the WLAN transmission confirmation signal, the WLAN congestion status, and the WWAN congestion status.

A radio access system includes: a set of radio access entities, in particular a set of gNBs and/or ng-eNBs, which are interconnected via respective first interfaces; and a centralized resource controller. Each radio access entity of the set of radio access entities comprises a centralized unit (CU) and at least one distributed unit (DU) coupled to the CU via a second interface. The centralized resource controller configured to assign computational resources to the CUs and the DUs of the radio access entities based on measurement reports received via the first interfaces and/or the second interfaces from the respective units, wherein the measurement reports comprise information about a computational resource utilization of the respective units.

A method and an apparatus for offloading data in a wireless communication system are provided. The method performed by a user equipment (UE) of offloading data includes determining a server for processing at least some of the data, receiving, from the server, a list regarding splitting points at which the data is splittable, determining, based on the list, at least one of the splitting points as an offloading point, transmitting, to the server, information about the offloading point and information about requirements for offloading data corresponding to the offloading point, receiving, from the server, a response as to whether the offloading data is capable of being processed, and determining whether the offloading data is to be processed, based on the response.

In some example embodiments there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, at a user equipment, configuration information, wherein the configuration information at least configures the user equipment for wireless local area network aggregation with cellular; and dividing, based on the received configuration, packet transmission between a cellular transceiver and a wireless local area network transceiver. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.

A mobility management node (e.g., MME) for selecting a network access gateway node (e.g., PGW) when establishing a PDN connection for a radio terminal to a PDN identified by an APN, which mobility management node is configured to operatively manage the mobility for the radio terminal and which access gateway node is configured to operatively act as a network access gateway to the PDN so as to provide connectivity for the radio terminal to the PDN.

Various embodiments herein provide techniques for integrated access and backhaul (IAB) nodes. For example, embodiments include techniques associated with: rate-proportional routing for network coding; utilizing multiple routes in IAB networks; user equipment (UE) and parent selection for efficient topology in IAB networks; establishing efficient IAB topologies; and/or adaptive coded-forwarding for network coding. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Various embodiments herein provide techniques for integrated access and backhaul (IAB) nodes. For example, embodiments include techniques associated with: rate-proportional routing for network coding; utilizing multiple routes in IAB networks; user equipment (UE) and parent selection for efficient topology in IAB networks; establishing efficient IAB topologies; and/or adaptive coded-forwarding for network coding. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.