CPC Class H04W

Disclosed herein is an Internet of things (IoT) device which is capable of defending against an attack such as hacking while strengthening security of IoT by dynamically determining whether to operate as a master device in an IoT network, and, when the master device is determined, generating, distributing, and managing private keys of other IoT devices in the IoT network.

A computer program, network node and method performed at a secondary network node within a wireless communication network supporting dual connectivity, such that a user equipment may communicate with a master network node and a secondary network node at a same time, the secondary network node supporting a plurality of cells. The method comprising: determining at the secondary network node that a configuration of one of the plurality of cells as a special cell for the user equipment such that the special cell provides predetermined functionality should be transferred to another one of the plurality of cells; and in response to the determining step, transmitting a request for a change in special cell towards the master network node.

Provided is a method for managing synchronization with a network. The method includes detecting, by a dual SIM dual standby user equipment (a DSDS UE), a radio frequency resume event (an RF resume event); transmitting, by the DSDS UE, at least one uplink dedicated physical control channel (at least one UL-DPCCH) to the network in response to the RF resume event being detected, wherein the at least one UL-DPCCH is transmitted irrespective of a signal to interference ratio quality (an SIR quality) on a downlink dedicated physical control channel (a DL-DPCCH) of the network being below a first quality threshold; and managing, by the DSDS UE, a downlink (a DL) synchronization with the network.