Apparatus and method for protecting against victim masquerade attack in remote interference management

    公开(公告)号:US12149461B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-19

    申请号:US17430619

    申请日:2020-02-17

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments verifying legitimate victim-aggressor pairs in remote interference management operation. In an embodiment, a first even report is generated by a victim base station based detection of an atmospheric duct and it transmits a victim reference signal with the first event report. The first event report includes an ID of the victim base station. An aggressor base station is triggered to begin monitoring for transmission of the victim reference signal. The aggressor base station sends a second event report if it detects the victim reference signal. The central entity tries to verify that the victim and aggressor are legitimate. If the verification passes, then the central entity sends a message to the aggressor to start of remote interference mitigation. If verification fails, the remote interference mitigation is not triggered and the victim reference signal is ignored.

    UE to UE crosslink interference measurement and reporting

    公开(公告)号:US12132528B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US17420780

    申请日:2020-01-13

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04B17/345 H04W24/10

    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for measuring and/or reporting UE-to-UE crosslink interference (CLI). In some embodiments, a communication network may use transmission reception points (TRPs) to facilitate communications for user equipment (UE). A first TRP may command a first UE to transmit a crosslink interference reference signal (CLI-RS) according to a particular time behavior. A second TRP may command a second UE to measure UE-to-UE CLI using the CLI-RS and the time behavior. The second UE may then report the measured CLI indicating a level of interference caused by the first UE.

    Off-raster SSB design in IAB networks

    公开(公告)号:US11997620B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-28

    申请号:US17283869

    申请日:2019-10-29

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04W56/001 H04W24/10

    Abstract: An apparatus of an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory. To configure the LAB node for inter-IAB node discovery and measurements within an IAB network, the processing circuitry is to encode a first synchronization signal block (SSB-A) for transmission to an access UE using a first frequency resource from a synchronization raster set of frequency resources. A second SSB (SSB-B) is encoded for transmission to a second IAB node using a second frequency resource from an off-raster set of frequency resources. The off-raster set is non-overlapping with the synchronization raster set of frequency resources and the SSB-B being time-division multiplexed with the SSB-A. A measurement report from the second IAB node is decoded. The measurement report is based on the SSB-B and associated with a backhaul link between the IAB node and the second IAB node.

    Policy and charging control (PCC) in information centric networking

    公开(公告)号:US11902036B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-13

    申请号:US17284448

    申请日:2019-11-01

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04L12/1407 H04W4/24

    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing policy and charging control in an information-centric network are described. An interest packet is transmitted from a content consumer to a holder through a gNB, ICN-PoA and ICN-GW. The interest packet has a prefix identifying content to be retrieved and a type field indicating an interest packet. The ICN-PoA modifies the interest packet to include a type of service (TS) field having the identity of the consumer and then transmitted to the ICN-GW when the content is neither created nor cached inside the 5G network. A data packet that includes the prefix, a type field indicating a data packet and the TS field is returned from the ICN-GW. The data packet is modified by the ICN-PoA to remove the TS field and transmitted to the consumer. The interest and data packets are logged and reported to an ICN-CF for generation of charging records.

    CONFIGURATIONS FOR DYNAMIC INDICATION OF SOFT RESOURCE AVAILABILITY

    公开(公告)号:US20220183003A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-09

    申请号:US17442006

    申请日:2020-03-27

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: One or more methods for an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) wireless network. At least one of the methods includes determining, by an IAB node including a mobile termination (MT) block and a co-located distributed unit (DU) block, two slot format indications (SFIs) by configuring the co-located DU block, the two SFIs indications including a first SFI that indicates a resource availability for communicating with a parent node and a second SFI that indicates a soft resource availability for communicating with a child node, in which each of the two SFIs include at least one RRCconfigured slot formats; and transmitting the two SFI indications to a second DU block.

    SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL BLOCKS FOR INTER-INTEGRATED BACKHAUL ACCESS (IAB) DISCOVERY AND MEASUREMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20220174630A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-02

    申请号:US17593740

    申请日:2020-03-27

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for operating Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) nodes are described. A described technique includes transmitting, by an IAB-node, first synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) for access user equipment (UEs); and transmitting, by the IAB-node, second SSBs for inter-IAB-node discovery and measurement. The technique can include measuring, by the IAB-node, one or more third SSBs for inter-IAB-node discovery and measurement, and attaching to another IAB-node that is discovered based on the measuring.

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