Abstract: A network interface card with traffic shaping capabilities and methods of network traffic shaping with a network interface card are provided. The network interface card and method can shape traffic originating from one or more applications executing on a host network device. The applications can execute in a virtual machine or containerized computing environment. The network interface card and method can perform or include several traffic shaping mechanisms including, for example and without limitation, a delayed completion mechanism, a time-indexed data structure, a packet builder, and a memory manager.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive one or more transmit receive point (TRP) pairing indications, wherein the one or more TRP pairing indications identify one or more TRPs that have a capability to be paired with one or more neighbor TRPs in a full-duplex communication mode or one or more TRPs that have a capability to be paired with one or more neighbor TRPs in a simultaneous half-duplex multi-TRP (mTRP) communication mode. The UE may transmit, to a base station, a report indicating at least one candidate TRP to be paired in the full-duplex communication mode or the simultaneous half-duplex mTRP communication mode based at least in part on the one or more TRP pairing indications. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Some embodiments include assessing multimedia service in a particular environment, determining in real-time whether an extender device would improve the multimedia service in the particular environment, and communicating a recommendation via a graphical user interface (GUI). The assessing is based on physical layer and application layer measurements of the multimedia service in the particular environment. Some embodiments utilize an application on a mobile communications device that may be used in conjunction with a multimedia device to determine placement of an extender device among multimedia devices associated with a same multimedia service customer account for a desired performance and hence, a desired customer experience.

Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the time it takes to form adequate beams, in communication using beamforming. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a receiving section that, using temporally orthogonal radio resources, forms receiving beams and receives reference signals that are transmitted in different transmitting beams respectively, a measurement section that performs measurements based on the reference signals, and a control section that controls the forming of the receiving beams so that at least one of the reference signal is received in a given period set.

Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing phase delay variation impact are described. A microcontroller can receive a sequence of phase offsets determined by a slave device over time. The microcontroller can determine a weight vector based on a metric associated with the sequence of phase offsets. The microcontroller can adjust a set of filter coefficients based on the weight vector. The set of filter coefficients can be filter coefficients of a filter being implemented by the slave device to filter incoming packet data.

Abstract: A method for synchronizing at least two environment sensors of a multi-sensor system using a central processing unit. In the method, the environment sensors acquire sensor signals that represent at least one item of environment information. The respective environment sensors generate data packets which include the respective acquired sensor signals and/or measured variables derived from the sensor signals in each case. These data packets are received by the central processing unit via a data network. Signal propagation times of the data packets for each environment sensor are ascertained using an algorithm, and a mean signal propagation time of data packets from a respective environment sensor is determined based on a content comparison of the measured variables included by the data packets with corresponding measured variables from data packets of at least one other environment sensor, and the determined mean signal propagation time is assigned to the respective environment sensor.

Abstract: A first bridge device, connected by a first wired link to a supplying device, and a second bridge device, connected by a second wired link to a consuming device, are interconnected via a wireless communication network and are able to be configured in: a nominal operating mode; an energy saving mode; or a stop mode. The first bridge device switches into stop mode following detection of deactivation of the first wired link, and switches into energy saving mode following detection of disconnection from the network of the second bridge device or when the second bridge device goes into energy saving mode or following detection of a low volume of bidirectional traffic. The second bridge device switches into stop mode following detection of deactivation of the second wired link, and switches into energy saving mode following detection of the consuming device being put into hibernation or following detection of disconnection of the network or detection of a low volume of bidirectional traffic.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a repeater node may transmit a capability report that includes an indication of one or more capabilities of the repeater node, wherein the capability report includes one or more of a duplexing mode report, an indication of one or more latency values associated with one or more processing modes of the repeater node, or an indication of a duplexing communication capability of the repeater node. The repeater node may receive, from a control node, a configuration, for a digital repeating operation, that is based at least in part on the capability report. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes identifying a traffic condition associated with data to be transmitted between a network access device and at least one user equipment (UE); selecting, based at least in part on the traffic condition, a dynamic subframe type of a time-division duplex (TDD) subframe; and indicating the dynamic subframe type in a TDD header of the TDD subframe. Another method includes identifying, in a TDD header of a subframe, an indication of a dynamic subframe type of the TDD subframe; and transmitting data or receiving data in a data region of the TDD subframe based at least in part on the dynamic subframe type.

Abstract: A virtual network comprising virtual machines executing at a computing environment is implemented. A software defined networking (SDN) appliance is configured to provide a connection to computing resources via a virtual network of a virtual computing environment. The SDN appliance includes a network interface card that are operable to interact with multiple field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices are configured to be a hardware acceleration device for processing data traffic, and the FPGA device is configured to ingress a packet to a dataflow on one port and egress the packet from a different port associated with a different dataflow.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to repeater controlled by a base station. The repeater receives control signaling including control information in association with traffic relayed through the repeater, between a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device, the repeater obtains a time division duplex state from the control information, obtains a fronthaul-link transmission control indicator (TCI) state index from the control information, obtains an access-link TCI state index from the control information, obtains a time domain resource allocation from the control information, and configures a relay unit of the repeater to communicate the traffic between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device based the control information comprising at least one of: the time division duplex state, the fronthaul-link TCI state index, the access-link TCI state index, and the time domain resource allocation.

Abstract: A method for controlling configuration of an air interface between an access node and at least one user equipment device (UE), where the air interface is divided over time into frames and the frames are further divided at least into subframes, where the air interface operates in accordance with a time-division-duplex (TDD) configuration that defines at least a number of uplink subframes per frame for communication over the air interface. An example method includes (i) detecting at least a threshold high rate of uplink voice muting on the air interface, and (ii) responsive to at least the detecting, changing the TDD configuration to increase the number of uplink subframes per frame over the air interface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a virtual wireless base station that can dynamically scale its capacity to meet changes in demand for connectivity. The virtual wireless base station includes a plurality of virtual baseband modules, a plurality of interface/router modules, an orchestrator module and a fabric mapper module. Each of the plurality of virtual baseband modules is coupled to the interface/router modules by a low latency switch fabric. The orchestrator determines current and near future demand for connectivity within the virtual wireless base station and either instantiates and connects new virtual baseband processors to meet a rise in demand, or shuts down underutilized virtual baseband processors in case of insufficient demand.

Abstract: Generally, the described techniques provide for duplex mode configuration for control information (e.g., duplex mode configuration for communication of downlink control information). For example, duplex modes may be defined (e.g., as full duplex (FD) capable, FD only, half duplex (HD) only, etc.), and such duplex modes may be configured for control resource sets (CORESETs), search space (SS) sets, or both. In some examples, duplex modes configured for a CORESET/SS set may depend on the priority of information conveyed via the CORESET/SS set. For example, a CORESET/SS set for high priority or critical control information may be configured with a HD mode to avoid FD self-interference, while CORESET/SS set for other control information may be configured with a FD mode to improve spectrum efficiency. Techniques for resolving conflicting duplex mode configurations (e.g., when a HD mode is configured for a SS set within a CORESET configured with FD) are also described.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Random access procedures may include various steps, such as 4-steps or 2-steps. One or more indicators such as, for example, transmission power requirements, may be used to indicate which random access procedure to utilize.

Abstract: A communications device is configured to transmit and/or receive signals via a wireless access interface provided by a mobile communications network. The wireless access interface comprising a plurality of transmission units each comprising one or more communications resource elements formed by dividing a system bandwidth in time and frequency. One or more transmission units are configured to form combined transmission units, which can be allocated to communications devices for receiving or transmitting signals. The communications device is configured to receive an indication of a combined transmission unit providing one or more of the transmission units for the communications device, and receive an indication for each of the one or more transmission units of the combined transmission unit of whether the transmission unit is for transmitting signals, whether the transmission unit is for receiving signals or whether the transmission unit is not to be used for transmitting or receiving signals.

Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a transmission path estimator that estimates a first transmission path characteristic of a transmission signal using a vertical signal out of vertical and horizontal signals resulting from being received by a vertical polarization antenna and a horizontal polarization antenna; a transmission path estimator that estimates a second transmission path characteristic of the transmission signal using the horizontal signal; a weight calculator that calculates a first weight for the vertical signal and a second weight for the horizontal signal, using the first transmission path characteristic and the second transmission path characteristic; and a weighting applier that applies weighted summation to the vertical signal and the horizontal signal using the first weight and the second weight.

Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a repeater system for use with a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) base station. The repeater system includes repeater circuitry configured to switch between a downlink mode and an uplink mode. The repeater circuitry is configured to determine basic time-division duplexing (TDD) parameters for a 5G NR cell served by the 5G NR base station. The repeater circuitry is configured to determine timing of 5G NR time-division duplexing of the 5G NR cell based at least in part on correlating a waveform of a downlink signal with one or more of: a 5G NR Primary Synchronization Signal expected to be in the downlink signal as indicated by at least some of the basic TDD parameters and a 5G NR Secondary Synchronization Signal expected to be in the downlink signal as indicated by at least some of the basic TDD parameters.

Abstract: Techniques for detecting path failures and reducing packet loss as a result of such failures are described for use within a data center or other environment. For example, a source and/or destination access node may create and/or maintain information about health and/or connectivity for a plurality of ports or paths between the source and destination device and core switches. The source access node may spray packets over a number of paths between the source access node and the destination access node. The source access node may use the information about connectivity for the paths between the source or destination access nodes and the core switches to limit the paths over which packets are sprayed. The source access node may spray packets over paths between the source access node and the destination access node that are identified as healthy, while avoiding paths that have been identified as failed.

Abstract: A network includes an intermediate node to communicate with a child node via a wireless network protocol. An intermediate node synchronizer in the intermediate node facilitates time synchronization with its parent node and with the child node. A child node synchronizer in the child node to facilitates time synchronization with the intermediate node. The intermediate node synchronizer exchanges synchronization data with the child node synchronizer to enable the child node to be time synchronized to the intermediate node before the intermediate node is synchronized to its parent node if the intermediate node has not synchronized to its parent node within a predetermined guard time period established for the child node.