Abstract: User equipment (UE) positioning within a 5G New Radio (NR) network may be determined by receiving a downlink (DL) position reference signal (PRS) resource set indicating a plurality of DL PRS resources and receiving a DL PRS report configuration that indicates a set of measurements to be performed by a UE for each of the plurality of DL PRS resources within the DL PRS resource set. Position measurements may be performed for each of the plurality of DL PRS resources within the DL PRS resource set, including generating a reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement by estimating a timing of a first arrival path from at least two of the plurality of DL PRS resources and determining a reference signal received power (RSRP) metric or a signal to noise and interference ratio (SINR) metric associated with the at least two DL PRS resources. The performed position measurements may be reported.

Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes grouping, by a network device, rate matching resources into a plurality of first groups for communication with a wireless terminal and transmitting a channel control indicator identifying at least a first group from the plurality of first groups of rate matching resources. In various embodiments, the rate matching resources include one or more of a rate matching pattern comprising multiple time-frequency transmission resources, a periodic zero power channel state information reference signal (ZP CSI-RS) resource set, an aperiodic ZP CSI-RS resource set, a semi-persistent ZP CSI-RS resource set, a long-term evolution cell specific reference signal (LTE CRS) resource, or a rate matching pattern group.

Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitate allocating resources to zones for IOT equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method discussed herein includes identifying, by carrier allocation equipment, carrier transmission information corresponding to transmission of a first carrier signal configured to support Internet of things equipment. The method can further comprise analyzing, by the carrier allocation equipment, the carrier transmission information to determine coverage information corresponding to a potential for coverage, by the first carrier signal, of an Internet of things equipment support zone corresponding to a geographic area. The method can further include, based on the coverage information, facilitating configuring transmission parameter information, representative of a transmission parameter applicable to the coverage of the Internet of things equipment support zone by the first carrier signal.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a maximum power reduction for non-contiguous radio resource allocations. One apparatus includes a memory comprising instructions executable by a processor to cause the apparatus to determine a non-contiguous resource allocation having a fraction of resource blocks punctured from a smallest containing contiguous allocation (“SCCA”), wherein the SCCA is the smallest set of contiguous resource blocks that encompasses the non-contiguous resource allocation. The instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to indicate the non-contiguous resource allocation to a UE and to receive uplink signals on the non-contiguous resource allocation using a first maximum power reduction in response to the fraction of punctured resource blocks being less than a threshold value.

Abstract: A system for receiving signals transmitted via serial links includes an equalizer for accessing a digitized communications signal and producing an equalized output signal, and a fast equalization module for determining output data corresponding to the communications signal. The fast equalization module includes a filter to access an output of the equalizer, a slicer module to access an output of the filter and produce a data output corresponding to the communications signal, a lookup table to provide filtering coefficients to the filter, and a coefficient improvement module to improve the coefficients based on an error signal from the filter. The coefficient improvement module is configured to update the coefficients in the lookup table.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: receiving downlink positioning signals from each of a plurality of communication nodes of a mobile communication system at a user device of the mobile communication system, wherein each downlink positioning signal is received from a downlink beam direction for the respective communication node; determining an angle of arrival and/or a time of arrival for each of the received downlink positioning signals; and determining an uplink positioning signal beam configuration based, at least in part, on the determined angle of arrival and/or the determined time of arrival for said received downlink positioning signals.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to external services provided to a network. For example, the disclosure proposes network entities that are involved in at least one of registration of an external network entity or registration of one or more services provided by the external network entity, and entities that are involved in transfer of service traffic from an external network entity providing one or more services to another network entity consuming the one or more services. For instance, the disclosure proposes a network entity for supporting at least one of registration of the external network entity or registration of one or more services of the external network entity at another network entity.

Abstract: A technique is provided that can reduce degradation of the sound quality due to a tandem connection of paired coding and decoding, and can reduce the operation processing amount and the required memory amount of a multipoint control unit. In multipoint connection between terminals of a plurality of communication networks (for example, a fixed phone line and a mobile phone line) having different communication capacities, when a multichannel coding including a monaural coding scheme of a communication network having a smaller communication capacity is used in a communication network having a larger communication capacity to transmit sounds of a plurality points to the communication network terminal having the larger communication capacity, control is exercised such that monaural codes of the plurality points are output.

Abstract: Systems and methods for performing impairment compensation in point-to-multi-point communication systems are described. In a data snapshot mode, a hub node can send instructions to each communication node connected to the hub node to send a data snapshot of data being received and processed by the communication nodes at a particular time. In a trench line mode, a hub node sends instructions to each communication node to send trench line data back to the hub node. The hub node uses the data snapshot or trench line data to determine how to tune filter coefficients in the hub node to perform impairment compensation and improve performance of the communication system.

Abstract: In a position correction information delivery system using a positioning scheme in which a receiver and a reference station measure a phase of a carrier wave from a satellite and position information of the receiver is obtained in real time based on position correction information transmitted from the reference station, the receiver transmits a request for position correction information to a first base station managing a cell that the receiver camps on, on reception of the request from the receiver, the first base station selects a nearby second base station having a reference station or a nearby reference station from those registered in a database, receives the position correction information from the selected second base station or reference station, and broadcasts the position correction information to the cell.

Abstract: A technique for generating synthetic data as input for a machine learning process that recommends radio access network, RAN, configurations is presented. An apparatus implementation is configured to generate synthetic data from a noise input, using a trained generative machine learning model, wherein the generative machine learning model has been trained together with a discriminative machine learning model as adversaries based on non-synthetic data. The non-synthetic data comprises non-synthetic configuration management, CM, parameter values, non-synthetic RAN characteristic parameter values and non-synthetic performance indicator values. The synthetic data is in the same form as the non-synthetic data and comprises synthetic configuration management, CM, parameter values, synthetic RAN characteristic parameter values and synthetic performance indicator values. The apparatus is also configured to output the synthetic data for the machine learning process.

Abstract: A method for operating a wireline communication device on a wireless communication network includes (a) receiving a downlink radio frequency (RF) electrical signal at a first connector, (b) converting the downlink RF electrical signal to a downlink access signal having a format that is compatible with the wireline communication device, and (c) providing the downlink access signal to a second connector for transporting to the wireline communication device. A method for extending a wireline communication network includes (a) receiving a downlink wireline signal at a node of the wireline communication network, (b) converting the downlink wireline signal to a downlink RF electrical signal, and (c) converting the downlink RF electrical signal to a downlink wireless signal, for transmission to one or more communication devices which are not physically connected to the wireline communication network.

Abstract: A wireless network device in a wide area network is disclosed. A radio of the network device receives a plurality of communication signals. The device detects a signal to noise ratio value and/or a noise floor value and determines, for each frequency channel, when one of the detected signal to noise ratio value is less than a signal to noise ratio threshold value for a period of time and/or the detected noise floor value is greater than a noise floor threshold value for the period of time. The device transmits a jamming warning signal when one of the detected signal to noise ratio value for each of the channels is determined to be greater than the signal to noise ratio threshold value for the period of time and/or the detected noise floor value for each channel is greater than the noise floor threshold value for the period of time.

Abstract: A queue management device includes: a queue detection unit that, on the basis of a detection result of forming elements at a site subject to queue management, detects the state of the queue; a guidance position determination unit that, on the basis of the state of the queue detected by the queue detection unit, determines a guidance position where a guidance should be displayed; and a guidance display control unit that controls a display device such that the guidance is displayed at the guidance position determined by the guidance position determination unit.

Abstract: Improvements to demodulators in receivers of radios used for train communications t to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal transmitting a packet of data. A demodulator is configured to generate a soft decision for a decoder, the soft decision including reliability information determined by calculating for the bit position a logarithmic likelihood ratio (LLR). The demodulator is configured to correct a bias in the LLR calculation for any one of the bit positions resulting from a difference in the number symbols in the set of all possible symbols that could have a 0 value in the bit position and the set of all possible symbols that could have a 1 in the bit position.

Abstract: Techniques for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction are described. Wireless devices may use one or more PAPR shaping resources, such as expanded bandwidth and/or pulse-shaping filtering, for shaping a signal to reduce PAPR. For example, expanded bandwidth may be utilized for adding a cyclic affix (CA), such as may comprise a cyclic prefix (CP), cyclic suffix (CS), etc., and combinations thereof, to a frequency domain data signal to provide a CP augmented frequency domain data signal used to generate a reduced PAPR time domain data signal. Additionally or alternatively, pulse-shaping filtering may be applied to a frequency domain signal to provide a pulse-shaped frequency domain data signal used to generate a reduced PAPR time domain data signal. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a tunable filter with harmonic rejection. The tunable filter includes mutually coupled inductors and a tunable capacitance circuit electrically connected to at least one of the mutually coupled inductors. The tunable capacitance circuit includes N switches configured to adjust effective capacitance of the tunable capacitance circuit to tune harmonic rejection of the tunable filter for at least 2×2N harmonics. The tunable filter can filter a radio frequency signal. Related methods, radio frequency systems, radio frequency modules, and wireless communication devices are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for antenna calibration for an active antenna system is disclosed. According to an embodiment, test signals are generated for multiple antennas of the active antenna system. The test signals are transmitted via the multiple antennas. A first signal that results from the transmission of the test signals is received over the air. A second signal is received from a coupler network of the active antenna system. The coupler network is configured to generate coupled signals of the test signals and combine the coupled signals into the second signal. Calibration information for compensating an influence of the coupler network is determined based on the first and second signals. An active antenna system is also disclosed for use in antenna calibration.

Abstract: There is provided a method at a network node equipped with an advance antenna system, AAS. The AAS comprises a plurality of antenna elements and one or more radio frequency integrated circuits, RFICs. Each of the one or more RFICs is associated with one or more of the plurality of antenna elements. The method comprising: capturing a plurality of signal samples of one or more signal chains of each of the one or more RFICs. Each of the one or more signal chains correspond to one or more of the plurality of antenna elements and a signal sample is associated with an envelope power level at an output of the respective signal chain; and summing at least a subset of the plurality of signal samples to obtain a short term average power value at the AAS.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a computer executable program which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to; receive a location information from a terminal device; identify, from among data stored in the computer, the region information based on the location information, the region information being posted by a region affiliated person, the region affiliated person being a person affiliated with a region including the location, and the region affiliated person including; send the region information to the terminal device; send display selection information for selecting a guide type to the terminal device and, in response to a selection of the guide type from the terminal device, accept the selection of the guide type. The region information includes information relevant to accepting a reservation for a on-site human guided tour and contents relevant to a non-human guided tour.