Abstract: There is provided a calibration device including: a calibration signal supply unit configured to supply, as a calibration input signal, a multitone signal having tones at a plurality of frequency bands to a converter configured to multiply an input signal by each of a plurality of signal patterns and limit a band to obtain each of a plurality of bandpass signals, and reconstruct an output signal in accordance with the input signal from the plurality of bandpass signals; a calibration bandpass signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of calibration bandpass signals obtained by the converter in response to the multitone signal; and a calibration processing unit configured to calibrate a parameter for the reconstruction in the converter based on the plurality of calibration bandpass signals.

Abstract: A method for wireless communication in a reflective environment includes (a) receiving first wireless signals at a first antenna assembly at least partially via a first reflective environment, (b) generating a first electrical signal from a first antenna element of the first antenna assembly in response to the first wireless signals, the first antenna element having a first polarization, (c) generating a second electrical signal from a second antenna element of the first antenna assembly in response to the first wireless signals, the second antenna element having a second polarization different from the first polarization, (d) shifting phase of at least one of the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal, and (e) after shifting phase, combining at least the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal to generate a combined electrical signal.

Abstract: A system includes a plurality of controllers associated with the plurality of units of building equipment, each controller comprising a plurality of communication ports, a plurality of cables connected to the plurality of communication ports and linking together the plurality of controllers, wherein the plurality of controllers are configured to self-identify a break in a connection between two the plurality of controllers by monitoring statuses of the plurality of communication ports. The system also includes circuitry configured to receive a signal indicative of the order of the connections between the plurality of controllers from the plurality of controllers, generate a graphical map of the order of the connections between the plurality of controllers based on the signal, receive, from the plurality of controllers, an indication of a break in a connection between two of the plurality of controllers, and update the graphical map to indicate the connection as broken.

Abstract: A cable network that includes a multi-slope equalizer and/or cable simulator.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmission method and a network device. The method includes generating, by a network device, a slot format indicator (SFI). The SFI is used to indicate one or more slot format indices. The one or more slot format indices are used to determine a slot format in a time unit based on a first correspondence relationship. The first correspondence relationship is a relationship between a slot format index and a slot format. The method also includes sending, by the network device, the SFI to a terminal device. The method further includes sending, by the network device, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to the terminal device according to the slot format corresponding to the one of the one or more slot format indices indicated by the SFI. The SFI is carried in downlink control message (DCI), and the DCI is scrambled by using a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI).

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting a physical layer protocol data unit that can provide a short training field sequence for a larger channel bandwidth. The short training field sequence has a smaller peak-to-average power ratio PAPR and better performance. The method includes: generating a physical layer protocol data unit PPDU, where the PPDU includes a short training field, a length of a frequency domain sequence of the short training field is greater than a first length, and the first length is a length of a frequency domain sequence of a short training field of a PPDU transmitted on a channel with a bandwidth of 160 MHz; and sending the PPDU on a target channel, where a bandwidth of the target channel is greater than 160 MHz.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a transceiver device, an electronic control unit and an associated method. The transceiver device is suitable for communicating between one or more network protocol controllers and a network bus and comprises: first interface circuitry configured to communicate with the one or more network protocol controllers; second interface circuitry configured to communicate with the one or more network protocol controllers; and selector circuitry configured to switch communication with the one or more network protocol controllers from the first interface circuitry to the second interface circuitry in response to a communication error in data carried on the first interface circuitry.

Abstract: An example apparatus as discussed herein includes a first communication circuit and a second communication circuit. A communication link couples the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit. The communication link conveys signals between the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit. The first communication circuit includes a first active inductor set to a first inductance; the first inductance controls a resonant frequency (carrier frequency) of communicating signals from the first communication circuit. The second communication circuit includes a second active inductor set to a second inductance. The second inductance controls a frequency response (such as band-pass resonant frequency) of a band-pass filter in the second communication circuit. The setting of the first inductance and the second inductance aligns the resonant frequency of the transmitted signals with respect to a peak or center frequency passed by the band-pass filter.

Abstract: A device includes feed-forward clock circuitry to provide a receiver (RX) clock to a sampler circuit that samples a data lane of a set of RX data lanes, the feed-forward clock circuitry having a temperature-induced delay. The device also includes an RX phase-locked loop (PLL) coupled between the feed-forward clock circuitry and the sampler circuit. The RX PLL includes a phase interpolator positioned in a feedback path of the RX PLL. The phase interpolator has a negative delay that matches the temperature-induced delay of the feed-forward clock circuitry to cause the sampler circuit to cancel out the common noise shared between the feed-forward clock circuitry and the data lane.

Abstract: An electronic control unit is mounted on a vehicle, and includes a reception unit that receives a data signal transmitted via a transmission path mounted on the vehicle; an environmental information acquisition unit that acquires environmental information of the vehicle; and a determination unit that determines the state of the transmission path, in which the reception unit includes an equalizer that compensates for the data signal, the equalizer calculates a compensation parameter for compensating for the data signal, and the determination unit determines the state of the transmission path based on the compensation parameter and the environmental information.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced constellation shaping. A device may generate payload bits associated with a frame, wherein the payload bits comprise a first portion and a second portion. The device may send the first portion of the payload bits through a shaping encoder. The device may generate shaped bits from the shaping encoder. The device may determine a number of amplitude bits based on the shaped bits. The device may generate parity bits from the shaped bits and the second portion going through an low-density parity-check (LDPC) encoder. The device may select sign bits comprising the second portion and a first subset of the parity bits. The device may send the amplitude bits with the sign bits to a modulator before transmitting the frame to a first station device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to single carrier modulation schemes, and presents a transmitter device, a receiver device and a transceiver device for a single carrier modulation scheme. The transmitter device is configured to generate a plurality of signature roots for a single carrier transmission, construct a Lagrange matrix and a Vandermonde matrix based on the plurality of signature roots, and generate a single carrier modulated signal based on the Lagrange and the Vandermonde matrix. The receiver device is configured to determine a plurality of signature roots, construct at least two Vandermonde matrices from the plurality of signature roots, and perform a demodulation of a single carrier modulated signal based on the at least two Vandermonde matrices. The transceiver device comprising a transmitter device configured to generate a single carrier modulated signal, and a receiver device configured to perform a demodulation of the single carrier modulated signal.

Abstract: A method of transmitting signals includes transmitting a signal from a plurality of antennas over a plurality of subcarriers. The signal is on-off keyed and comprises a plurality of on periods and a plurality of off periods. Each on period comprises, on each subcarrier, a frequency domain symbol associated with the subcarrier. The frequency domain symbol is phase shifted from each antenna by a respective factor of a set of factors associated with the subcarrier. The set of factors is different for at least two of the subcarriers.

Abstract: A digital radio OFDM modulator and demodulator provide an efficient mode and a backwards-compatible mode to work with IEEE 802.15.4g or a similar standard. In backwards-compatible mode, they use a single method for error encoding physical header and payload transmit data, and a single method for detecting and correcting errors in physical header and payload receive data. In efficient mode, they use two different methods. The payload is BCH-LDPC encoded. They may also use mapping constellations that are not available in IEEE 802.15.4g, including 64-QAM, 256-QAM, and APSK. To ensure that physical header data can be received more robustly than payload data, they use frequency diversity of the physical header data, and selection maximal ratio combining (SMRC) in the demodulator to reduce the bit error rate (BER) at a low cost.

Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting subcarriers to be used for sub-Physical Resource Block (PRB) transmission and, in some embodiments, for mapping Demodulation Reference Signals (DMRS) to resources on the selected subcarriers are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a radio node for providing sub-PRB transmission comprises selecting two adjacent subcarriers from a set of three allocated subcarriers that are allocated for a sub-PRB transmission that uses Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) Pi/2 Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) modulation using only two adjacent subcarriers out of the set of three allocated subcarriers with Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) spread length of 2. In some embodiments, the selection is such that the selected adjacent subcarriers varies, e.g., from one cell to another. In doing so, interference is distributed.

Abstract: Provided is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, including the steps of selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices, which define precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, while switching between the N matrices, i being an integer from 0 to N?1, and N being an integer at least two, generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2, generating a first encoded block and a second encoded block using a predetermined error correction block encoding method, generating a baseband signal with M symbols from the first encoded block and a baseband signal with M symbols the second encoded block, and precoding a combination of the generated baseband signals to generate a precoded signal having M slots.

Abstract: A configuration for local coordination between the child node and parent node to enable SDM communication between the parent and child node, without input or interaction from the CU. The apparatus receives, from a CU, an indication including an allocation of resources. The apparatus determines a type of communication with a second node based on the allocation of resources. The apparatus communicates with the second node based on the determined type of communication and utilizing the allocated resources. The apparatus coordinates with a parent node to utilize the allocated resources in an SDM operation between the child node and the parent node.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may identify a translational or rotational misalignment between a first antenna array of the first wireless device and a second antenna array of a second wireless device that is in line-of-sight (LoS) wireless communication with the first wireless device via a channel. The first wireless device may update a channel matrix for the channel based on the translational or rotational misalignment, where the first wireless device may update the channel matrix with one or more beam steering metrics of the first antenna array so as to improve a beam alignment between the first antenna array and the second antenna array. The first wireless device may communicate with the second wireless device in accordance with the updated channel matrix.

Abstract: A pilot information symbol sending method, a channel estimation method, and a communications device. The method includes: determining, based on a discrete Fourier transform DFT matrix and a sensing matrix, a pilot information symbol corresponding to each antenna on each pilot resource; and sending a corresponding pilot information symbol on each of the pilot resources for each of the antennas; where the sensing matrix is determined through training of channel information.

Abstract: A very low intermediate frequency receiver and methods for controlling the same. One method includes providing, using a local oscillator, a first intermediate frequency, detecting, using an interferer detector, an adjacent or alternate channel interference signal and an image of the adjacent or adjacent channel interference signal causing interference with a desired signal, and determining, using an electronic processor, whether the desired signal is an analog signal. In response to determining that the desired signal is an analog signal, the method includes controlling, using the electronic processor, the local oscillator to provide a second intermediate frequency.