Apple Inc.

Robert K Kitchens

Srinivasan Nimmala

Vijay Venkataraman

Sethuraman Gurumoorthy

Srirang Ashok Lovlekar

Murtaza A Shikari

Muthukumaran Dhanapal

Lakshmi N Kavuri

Sridhar Prakasam

Viswanath Nagarajan

Xiangpeng Jing

Pankaj Subhash Vasandani

Zheng Lu

Dawei Zhang

Fangli Xu

Yuqin Chen

Haijing Hu

Huarui Liang

Xiangying Yang

Yannick L Sierra

Shu Guo

Samuel David Post

Lijia Zhang

A device and method for a user equipment (UE) to implement power savings mechanisms when operating within a significant location. The UE identifies that the UE is at a significant location. The significant location is a location relative to a currently camped cell of a network. At a first time and at the significant location, the UE performs a type of operation related to the network connection. The UE stores information corresponding to the performance of the type of operation at the first time in a profile associated with the significant location. At a second time and at the significant location, the UE performs the type of operation related to the network connection. The performance of the type of operation at the second time is modified based on the information stored in the profile associated with the significant location.

Power efficient operation at significant locations

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for generating and utilizing improved initialization vectors (IVs) when performing encryption and authentication in wireless communications. In some scenarios, a wireless communication device may generate one or more pseudorandom multi-bit values, e.g., using a respective plurality of key derivation functions (KDFs). A first portion of each value may be used as a respective key for encryption or authentication of traffic on the user plane or the control plane. A second portion of each value may be used as a nonce value in a respective IV for use with a respective key for encryption or authentication of traffic on the user plane or the control plane. In some scenarios, the nonce values may instead be generated as part of an additional pseudorandom value (e.g., by executing an additional KDF), from which all of the IVs may be drawn.

Initialization vector generation when performing encryption and authentication in wireless communications

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Robert K Kitchens