Abstract: A broadcast signal receiver includes a demodulator configured to perform Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) demodulation on a received broadcast signal; a frame parser configured to derive service data by parsing a signal frame of the received broadcast signal based on a number of carriers of the signal frame; a decoder configured to perform error correction on the service data; and an output processor configured to receive the service data and output a data stream, wherein the number of carriers of the signal frame is determined by equation: NoC=NoC_max?k*?, the NoC being the number of carriers, the NoC_max being maximum number of carriers, the k being a reducing coefficient and the ? being a control unit value, wherein the k ranges from 0 to 4 and the ? is 96 for 8K Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), 192 for 16K FFT, 384 for 32K FFT.

Abstract: A transceiver may include a reception (Rx) radio frequency (RF) part configured to process a received signal, a transmission (Tx) RF part configured to process a transmitted signal, and a phase lock loop (PLL) configured to provide a reception frequency to the reception RF part and provide a transmission frequency to the transmission RF part. The PLL may be controlled according to whether the reception RF part or the transmission RF part is on. In addition, a transceiver may include quenching waveform generator (QWGs) to control quenching waveforms of the RF parts corresponding to a plurality of antennas. The quenching waveforms may be generated respectively by VCOs operating at a same frequency. The QWGs may control the VCOs such that the quenching waveforms do not overlap.

Abstract: A mobility management node and a method in a mobility management node for reducing signalling caused by changes of location of a radio terminal, which mobility management node is configured to be operatively comprised by a wireless communication system and to operatively manage the mobility of the radio terminal and to operatively communicate with a gateway node acting as an interface between the system and an external network. The method comprises obtaining initial position information; obtaining boundary information indicating a boundary area wherein at least one of a policy or a charging rule is to be applied for the radio terminal; obtaining current position information; determining whether the radio terminal is inside or outside the boundary area; providing mobility information when the radio terminal is outside the boundary area and not providing mobility information to the gateway node when the radio terminal is inside the boundary area.

Abstract: An automatic impedance-matching method for a radiofrequency reception chain, which includes an antenna, an amplifier and a configurable impedance-matching network, arranged between the antenna and an input of the amplifier. The method includes two steps: acquiring measurement of a gain of the reception chain and of a noise level at an output of the amplifier and tuning the impedance-matching network according to the measurements. A radiofrequency reception chain allowing the method to be implemented is also provided.

Abstract: A radio communication system, a radio station, a network operation management apparatus, and a network healing method are provided that can suppress system performance degradation caused when a failure occurs in a radio base station, a network apparatus, or the like. In a radio communication system which includes multiple radio stations (10, 20) and a network operation management apparatus (30) managing the radio stations and in which network optimization is performed, at least one of a first radio station (10) in which a failure occurs, a second radio station (20) different from the first ration station, and the network operation management apparatus (30) sends alarm information regarding the failure.

Abstract: A receiver system comprising: an input terminal configured to receive input signalling comprising a plurality of antenna-signals, wherein the plurality of antenna-signals each comprise information that corresponds to a first-frequency-bin and a second-frequency-bin. AoA-blocks can determine a first-angle-of-arrival and a second-angle-of-arrival associated with the first- and second-frequency-bins. A first-weighting-determination-block configured to, based on the first-angle-of-arrival and the second-angle-of-arrival, either: set first-weighting-values as values for constructively combining the information that corresponds to the first-frequency-bins of the plurality of antenna-signals; or set first-weighting-values as values for destructively combining the information that corresponds to the first-frequency-bins of the plurality of antenna-signals.

Abstract: Because a phase offset occurs between adjoining input blocks of multiple divided blocks when the amount of frequency deviation compensation is dynamically changed, there is the possibility that a restored bit string contains an error. This frequency deviation compensation scheme is equipped with: a frequency deviation compensation means for compensating for a frequency deviation in a frequency-domain signal; and a phase offset compensation means for compensating for a phase offset caused to the signal due to change in an amount of compensation during the frequency compensation.

Abstract: A wide bandwidth radio system designed to adapt to various global radio standards and, more particularly, to a radio receiver composed of a demodulator operative to work in a delta sigma mode and a Nyquist mode, and wherein a filter and feedback loop may utilized in response to the modulation mode of an RF signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a receiving device, a receiving method, and a program that can reduce power consumption. A Viterbi decoding unit performs Viterbi decoding on a likelihood as a processing target, a byte de-interleaver delays a part of a decoding result of Viterbi decoding, and an RS decoding unit performs RS decoding on the decoding result after delaying by the byte de-interleaver. A likelihood converting unit controls decoding of the likelihood to improve reliability of the decoding result. Then, when all of a predetermined number of decoding results by the RS decoding unit are succeeded or failed, the decode stop determination unit determines to stop subsequent decoding on the likelihood as a processing target. The present technology may be applied to, for example, a receiving device that receives digital terrestrial broadcasting compatible with the ISDB-T standard, or the like.

Abstract: A system and method for generating high power pulses including a photoconductive semiconductor switch (PCSS), a laser for triggering the PCSS and a bipolar pulse generator coupled to the PCSS. The bipolar pulse generator is activated when the PCSS is triggered. A bipolar pulse is generated by the activated bipolar pulse generator. A modulator unit modulates the bipolar pulse to create a modulated bipolar pulse. The modulator unit is a nonlinear transmission line (NLTL).

Abstract: A method of demodulating a signal packet includes steps of: determining whether a pulse width of each of pulses of one of bits of the signal packet is associated with bit 0 or bit 1; updating first counting data associated with a number of the pulses that define bit 0, and determining whether the first counting data is greater than a first threshold value; deciding that said one of the bits of the signal packet is a bit 0; updating second counting data associated with a number of the pulses that define bit 1, and determining whether the second counting data is greater than the second threshold value; deciding that said one of the bits of the signal packet is a bit 1.

Abstract: Technology to generation of linear feedback shift register based PRN spreading code sequence using a processor device in a computing system is disclosed. A system is provided for generating a GNSS code sequence in a computer system, the system comprising one or more logic circuits configured to at least: receive a plurality of waveform generation parameters; select between a short pseudo-random noise (PRN) cycle and a long PRN cycle according to at least one of the plurality of waveform generation parameters; and emulate a plurality of linear feedback shift registers (LFSR) for generating a block of PRN code chips.

Abstract: Devices include a primary transmission system, and first and second duplicate (dummy or non-transmitting) transmission systems. The primary transmission system includes a primary transmitter circuit receiving a data signal, a primary transmission line connected to the primary transmitter circuit, and a primary receiver circuit connected to the primary transmission line. The first duplicate transmission system is connected to the primary transmitter circuit, and supplies a transmission timing control signal to the primary transmitter circuit. The primary transmitter circuit stops transmitting (e.g., stops reducing the voltage of the primary transmission line) when the transmission timing control signal is received. The second duplicate transmission system is connected to the primary receiver circuit, and supplies an output timing control signal to the primary receiver circuit, and the primary receiver circuit outputs the data signal when the output timing control signal is received.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for generating electromagnetic waves having a fundamental wave mode, and directing the electromagnetic waves to an interface of a transmission medium for guiding propagation of the electromagnetic waves. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for codebook sub-sampling. In various implementations, a wireless terminal receives a reference signal, determines, based on the reference signal, a first precoding index i2 for a first subband and a second precoding index i?2 for a second subband. The wireless terminal transmits a representation of i2 and a representation of i?2 to a base station. In various implementations, i?2 belongs to the set Si2 which, in one implementation, equals {mod(i2?K1+k,K), k=0, 1, . . . , K2}, where K1>1, and where K2>1 and K>1 are integers. According to an implementation, the wireless terminal receives the reference signal from a first base station and transmits the representations of i2 and i?2 to a second base station.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a communication system, a base station, a host node, and a communication method in order to address one or more of the above-described problems. A communication system according to the present invention is a communication system including: a base station (10) and a host node (40) that communicates with the base station (10). The base station (10) included in the communication system transmits to the host node (40) setting information indicating whether or not a paging message transmitted from the host node (40) can be transmitted to other base stations, and the host node (40) receives the setting information from the base station (10).

Abstract: A method of decoding encoded information communicated over a radio channel includes receiving a vector of encoded information transmitted by a wireless terminal. The encoded information includes an encoded representation of unencoded information bits that have been encoded using a first order Reed-Muller code. The method also includes generating a vector of transform values by performing a Hadamard Transform on the received vector and identifying a subset of the transform values based on scheduling information associated with the wireless terminal. Additionally, the method includes selecting, from the subset of transform values, one of the transform values based on a magnitude of the selected transform value and determining an estimate of the unencoded information bits based on a bit sequence associated with the selected transform value. In accordance with another embodiment of the present disclosure, an apparatus is operable to implement this method.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a detector circuit and a data buffer. The detector circuit may be configured to (i) identify a start of a command sequence associated with a directed access to a memory system and (ii) generate a control signal indicating a non-consecutive clock associated with the start of the command sequence. The data buffer circuit may be configured to initialize a condition of a receiver circuit in response to the control signal prior to reception of a first data bit associated with the command sequence.

Abstract: A Least Mean Squares (LMS) polynomial estimator is disclosed. The LMS polynomial estimator may be a LMS moving window polynomial estimator capable of performing real-time polynomial estimation and evaluation of successive time derivatives of a function of a single variable up to a specified polynomial order. The estimator makes a unique use system memory that allows for the evaluation of the least squares normal equations with a very low computational footprint. This allows the estimator to be realizable in computationally-constrained environments such as embedded systems. The LMS polynomial estimator may be implemented in a frequency estimator for estimation of the phase, frequency, Doppler, delta Doppler, and/or higher order time derivatives of phase. Estimates may be performed in real time, running at the same rate as the inbound signal.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a communication node having a modem that receives first data streams from a source communication node via a first plurality of twisted pair transmission lines. A multiplexer selects a first subset of the first data streams and a second subset of the first data streams. A wireless transceiver wirelessly transmits the first subset of the first data streams as radio frequency signals via an antenna to at least one device. A distribution point unit transmits the second subset of the first data streams on a second plurality of twisted pair transmission lines to a destination communication node of a distributed antenna system.