Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Edward Diaz

Lei Song

Jin Yang

Zheng Zhao

Xin Wang

Yuexin Dong

Nischal Patel

Mamadou Mamoune Niang

A radio access network (RAN) may comprise at least one transmission-reception point (TRP) configured to provide wireless connections to one or more User Equipment devices (UEs) in an area. The area is not predefined by a cell boundary. The RAN may be configured to: broadcast Scheduling and Synchronization Relation (SSR) information to a UE; and establish with the UE a transmission mode for the TRP.

Cell-less wireless network

In some implementations, a device may receive cell information regarding a current primary cell associated with a user equipment (UE), wherein the UE is further associated with a plurality of secondary cells. The device may determine, based on the cell information, that the UE is to be associated with a new primary cell, wherein the new primary cell is selected from the plurality of secondary cells. The device may generate configuration information indicating that: a particular secondary cell, of the plurality of secondary cells, is to become the new primary cell, and one or more other secondary cells, of the plurality of secondary cells, are to remain secondary cells. The device may provide, to the UE, the configuration information to configure the UE to communicate via the new primary cell.

Systems and methods for efficiently causing a secondary cell to become a primary cell

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an SLA-based network slice control service is provided. The service may provision a network slice with multiple tiers of service based on a performance metric with differing performance metric values. The service may also provision the network slice based on other factors such as location of an application service layer network. The service may monitor and reconfigure the network slice when the performance metric is not satisfied.

Method and system for SLA-based network slice control service

Systems and methods allow access stations to save power when no user equipment (UE) devices require service from the access station. The access station may enter a low power-consumption mode (or 'sleep mode') when the access station is inactive. The access station transmits a beacon signal when in the low power-consumption mode to indicate to UE devices in a coverage area of the access station that the access station is in the low power-consumption mode. The access station receives a wake-up signal from a device and, in response, exits the low power-consumption mode.

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