Qualcomm Incorporated

Gerardo Giaretta

Gavin Bernard Horn

Kalle Ahmavaara

Arnaud Meylan

Haipeng Jin

Georgios Tsirtsis

Lorenzo Casaccia

Arungundram C Mahendran

Jay Kumar Sundararajan

Patrick Stupar

Osok Song

Julien H Laganier

Kalle I Ahmavaara

Parag Arun Agashe

Miguel Griot

Sivaramakrishna Veerepalli

Ajith Tom Payyappilly

John Nasielski

Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap

Fatih Ulupinar

Satashu Goel

Rajat Prakash

Stefano M Faccin

Uppinder Singh Babbar

Suli Zhao

David William Craig

George Cherian

Ozcan Ozturk

Nathan Edward Tenny

Jun Wang

Kuo-Chun Lee

Srinivasan Balasubramanian

Rajarshi Gupta

Mehmet Yavuz

Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam

Anand Palanigounder

Andrei Dragos Radulescu

Roozbeh Atarius

George Tsirtsis

Josef J Blanz

Peter Hans Rauber

Farrokh Khatibi

Ramaswamy Venkateshwaran

Lijun Zhao

Tejash Shah

Chennagiri Krishna Subramanaya Pandit

Aziz Gholmieh

Haris Zisimopoulos

Reza Shahidi

Richard Dominic Wietfeldt

Prashanth Haridas Hande

Serge D Willenegger

Marcello Vincenzo Lioy

Nikolai Konrad Leung

Juan Zhang

Damanjit Singh

Francesco Pica

Ramachandran Subramanian

Andrea Garavaglia

Sundar Raman

Aleksandar Gogic

Oronzo Flore

Sachin Jain

Debesh Kumar Sahu

James Lionel Panian

Jeffrey Alan Dyck

Vamsi Dokku

Hariharan Sukumar

Can Zhao

Andrew Mackinnon Davidson

David Hugh Williams

Vinod Nagarajan

Susheel Kumar Yadav Yadagiri

Liat Ben-Zur

Dino Flore

Thomas Matthew Rebman

Krishna S Pandit

Steven F Harris

Vidula Rajeev Kurundkar

Sha Hua

Nikolai Konrad Nepomucceno Leung

Niranjan Ramesh Pendharkar

Tiruvaiyaru Kothandaraman Krishnaswamy

Debessay Fesehaye Kassa

Peter C Thompson

George (Georgios) Tsirtsis

George Tsirtsis (Georgios)

Damanji Singh

Randall C Gellens

Wireless communications systems and methods related to providing an indication that a user equipment (UE) is within coverage by a particular network are provided. An example method of wireless communications obtaining, by a first wireless communication device from a second device associated with a second network, information regarding whether the first wireless communication device is within coverage by a first network. The first wireless communication device supports dual connectivity with the first network and the second network. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the information, whether to display an icon indicating that the first wireless communication device is connected to the first network. The method further includes in response to a determination to display the icon, displaying, by the first wireless communication device, the icon on a display coupled to the first wireless communication device.

Options to provide a network icon in non-standalone mode

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to methods and apparatus for utilizing a control protocol to establish multiple packet data network (PDN) connections through a trusted wide area network (TWAN). Techniques are provided for expanding mobile network capacity by offloading traffic from wireless wide area networks (WWAN) to other types of networks, including wireless local area networks (WLAN).

Transport of control protocol for trusted WLAN (TWAN) offload

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for confirming identity of a user equipment (UE) registered in both a wireless local area network (WLAN) and WWAN. A method is provided for wireless communications by a base station (BS). The method generally includes establishing communications with a first UE, wherein the UE is identified by a first set of one or more identifiers in a wide area wireless network (WWAN) and by a second set of one or more identifiers in a wide local area network (WLAN), and determining, based on the first and second set of identifiers, a UE connected to the WWAN and WLAN is the first UE.

Determining to use multi-RAN interworking by correlating different RAN identifiers

Systems, devices, and methods for reporting information in real time about traffic generated by each application for a device are described. In one aspect, the network can configure a list of applications user equipment (UE) devices need to report traffic information for and then when one of these applications starts a communication, the UE may send traffic descriptor(s) describing the traffic generated by the application. In this way the network can accurately identify the traffic and take actions based on UE report and local policy or subscription.

Application traffic pairing

Local IP access paging schemes facilitate paging of an access terminal when packets destined for the access terminal are received via local IP access. In some implementations, a local entity acquires information that enables local paging of the access terminal by sniffing messages passing through the local entity. In some implementations, a local entity sends a packet or message to cause the core network to page an access terminal when a local IP access packet destined for the access terminal arrives at the local entity.

Paging for local IP access packets

Techniques for aggregating heterogeneous carriers in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A mobile device may receive a configuration for aggregating a plurality of component carriers including one or more cellular carriers and a wireless local area network (WLAN) carrier. The one or more cellular carriers may include LTE carriers, and aggregation may be performed at a sub-IP protocol layer of operation. In one aspect, protocol entities may be modified to perform quality of service determinations, carrier selection, traffic mapping, or the like, in view of the different capabilities and characteristics of the heterogeneous carriers in the carrier aggregation configuration.

System and method for heterogeneous carrier aggregation

A method for registration-less paging includes establishing a mobile device identity for a mobile device in a wireless network, determining a time instance for the identified mobile device to listen to pages, and sending a page from the wireless network to the identified mobile device during the determined time instance. In one example, the method is for a network-initiated attach procedure and includes receiving a request to attach a mobile device in a wireless network, generating a paging message based on the request to attach the mobile device, sending a paging indicator to a mobile device based on the paging message during a time instance based on an agreed rule, and accepting an attach procedure from the mobile device based on the paging indicator.

Apparatus and method for network-initiated attachment and registration-less paging

In one or more mobile stations of a wireless communication network, a method for network node selection in a wireless communication system by a mobile entity may include receiving, from a home network, a message comprising a policy associated with network node selection, determining whether the home network policy has precedence over a policy of a visited network based on the message, and selecting a network node based on the policy of the home network, in response to determining the home network policy has precedence over the visited network policy. The policy may include at least one of mobility or routing policies. The message may include an indication of precedence between the home network and one or more visited networks. A communication apparatus, for example a mobile entity, may be configured for performing these and other aspects of the method.

Selecting a network node based on precedence of network policies

Network entities in a wireless network cooperate to account and charge for data communicated over the wireless network. Accounting and charging enable the network entities to properly allocate charges to a second user equipment that communicates through a first user equipment, which acts as a relay in the wireless network. A network entity receives a request from the first user equipment related to a packet data network connection relating to the second user equipment. The network entity establishes or modifies a connection between a gateway and the first user equipment in response to the request. Charges for the data may be allocated to the second user equipment for data communicated with the identifier of the second user equipment.

Charging over a user-deployed relay

A multi-mode access point supports different radio access technologies (e.g., Wi-Fi and cellular) for serving multi-mode access terminals. To provide improved service for such an access terminal, the access point may redirect the access terminal from a first type of radio access technology to a second type of radio access technology under certain circumstances. A decision to invoke such a redirection may be based on, for example, at least one of: traffic conditions on the first type of radio access technology, traffic conditions on the second type of radio access technology, and whether a backhaul for the access point is currently a bottleneck for access point communication.

Switching between radio access technologies at a multi-mode access point

Certain aspects of the described aspects relate to scheduling communications in wireless networks using traffic aggregation. A UE communicates with a first access point using a first RAT over a first connection to access a first wireless network, and with a second access point using a second RAT over a second connection. The UE can receive, from the first access point, one or more parameters for scheduling communications with the second access point. The UE can also schedule communications with the second access point based at least in part on the one or more parameters.

Techniques for scheduling communications in wireless networks with traffic aggregation

Methods performed by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, the method comprising receiving an authentication load indicator from an access point (AP), and determining whether to attempt authentication with a network entity based at least in part on the authentication load indicator.

Mechanism to limit signaling storms over a network

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Gerardo Giaretta