Abstract: Systems and methods which provide a motion sensor data-driven framework for sports action recognition and/or assessment using a wearable sensor are described. A motion sensor data-driven system may provide real-time kinematical analysis to athletes engaged in active competition or training sessions under typical competition or training conditions. Analysis of motion sensor data provided according to embodiments may operate to recognize instances of one or more particular sports actions performed by an athlete and/or assess the skill of the athlete from analysis of one or more sports actions. A motion sensor data processing platform of embodiments of a motion sensor data-driven system may comprise a processor-based system configured to receive and analyze data regarding the movement of an athlete's limb reported by a wearable sensor device comprising a micro inertial measurement unit configuration for capturing and reporting data regarding the movement of an athlete's limb.

Abstract: Aspects of quadrature phase shift keying for quadrature amplitude modulation are described. In some examples, quadrature phase shift keying signals are generated using quadrature phase shift keying modulators. The quadrature phase shift keying signals are combined in a combiner circuit to generate a quadrature amplitude modulation signal for wireless transmission.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may measure a first energy level of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS). The UE may measure a second energy level of at least one of a tracking reference signal (TRS) or a synchronization signal block (SSB). The UE may determine, based at least in part on the first energy level and the second energy level, a DMRS signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The UE may perform, based at least in part on the DMRS SNR, channel estimation for a physical channel associated with a communication to determine an estimated channel. The UE may perform, based at least in part on the estimated channel, demodulation processing for the communication. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Provided are a transmitter and a method for transmitting a data block in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the following steps: deciding the number of bits (s) and encoders (NES) to allocate to one axis of a signal constellation; encoding an information bit based on the s and the NES and generating a coded block; parsing the coded block based on the s and the NES and generating a plurality of frequency sub-blocks; and transmitting the plurality of frequency sub-blocks to a receiver.

Abstract: Communication systems are described that use signal constellations, which have unequally spaced (i.e. ‘geometrically’ shaped) points. In many embodiments, the communication systems use specific geometric constellations that are capacity optimized at a specific SNR. In addition, ranges within which the constellation points of a capacity optimized constellation can be perturbed and are still likely to achieve a given percentage of the optimal capacity increase compared to a constellation that maximizes dmin, are also described. Capacity measures that are used in the selection of the location of constellation points include, but are not limited to, parallel decode (PD) capacity and joint capacity.

Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.

Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.

Abstract: Methods and systems for operation in a wireless communication system are provided. A first transmission may be initiated using at least a first portion of physical layer resources. A second transmission may be initiated using at least a second portion of the same physical layer resources. The first transmission may be any one of a puncturing transmission, interfering transmission, delay-sensitive transmission, or short transmission. The second transmission may be an on-going transmission or a long transmission.

Abstract: Provided are wireless communication methods for D2D communication and UEs therefor. A wireless communication method involves transmitting either a first DCI or a second DCI based on whether a first UE and a second UE are to be in a communication type of groupcast or unicast. In the wireless communication methods, the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the UE ID of the second UE if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of unicast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI, and the first DCI and the second DCI are scrambled by the group ID if the first UE and the second UE are in the communication type of groupcast upon transmitting the first DCI and the second DCI.

Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.

Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.

Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.

Abstract: Embodiments include methods of powerline communications using a preamble with band extension is provided. A method may include receiving a packet data unit PDU. Bit-level repetition is applied to at least a portion of the PDU to create a repeated portion. Interleaving is performed per a subchannel. Pilot tones are inserted in the interleaved portion. Each data tone is modulated with respect to a nearest one of the inserted pilot tones. The PDU is transmitted over a power line.

Abstract: A method for operating a wireless communication network, wherein a first member of the network transmits a scheduling message to a secondary member of the network and the secondary member receives the scheduling message. The secondary member schedules sounding signal transmissions and/or a corresponding schedule based on the scheduling message, wherein the scheduling message and/or the sounding signal schedule refers to a schedule for sounding signals based on a status of beam forming performed in the network and/or wherein the sounding signal schedule and/or the schedule message refers to a compact schedule of sounding signals.

Abstract: Various techniques for narrowband communications in a wireless communications network are provided. Narrowband communications may be transmitted using a single resource block (RB) of a number of RBs used for wideband communications. In order to provide for efficient device discovery and synchronization using narrowband communications, a synchronization signal, such as a primary synchronization signal (PSS) or secondary synchronization signal (SSS), may be transmitted within the single resource block. The synchronization signal may be transmitted, for example, using multiple orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols within the single RB. A common reference signal (CRS) may also be present in the single resource block, which may puncture the synchronization signal, in some examples. In other examples, the synchronization signal may be mapped to non-CRS symbols of the single resource block.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for transmitting signals, the transmitter including a memory storing instructions and a controller configured to execute the instructions to cause the transmitter to determine whether a value of transmitter power is less than a threshold, responsive to a determination that the value of transmitter power is less than the threshold: mix a baseband signal with a first oscillator signal to produce a very-low intermediate frequency (VLIF) signal; mix the VLIF signal with a second oscillator signal to produce a radio frequency (RF) signal, and transmit the RF signal.

Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.

Abstract: A communication apparatus performs data communication with another communication apparatus by using HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) in compliance with an IEEE 802.11 series standard, and determines, based on a state related to communication compliant with the IEEE 802.11 series standard of the communication apparatus, a retransmission type of the HARQ that the communication apparatus can use in data communication with the other communication apparatus in the communication.

Abstract: A transmitter includes: a modulation circuit that modulates a data sequence using QAM by mapping the data sequence to only four symbols each of which differs in phase by 90 degrees from an adjacent one of the four symbols and at least two of which have different amplitudes; and a transmission circuit that wirelessly transmits the data sequence mapped to the four symbols through the modulation by the modulation circuit, by assigning the data sequence mapped to the four symbols through the modulation by the modulation circuit to different subcarriers for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM).

Abstract: A signal detection method for a MIMO-OFDM wireless communication system includes obtaining a channel matrix of each subcarrier for each MIMO-OFDM data packet; receiving a reception vector of each subcarrier; performing MIMO detection for a first OFDM symbol and channel matrix preprocessing to generate a global dynamic K-value table; performing MIMO detection for each subsequent OFDM symbol, the MIMO detection includes: performing the following steps for each subcarrier of a current OFDM symbol: transforming the reception vector of the current subcarrier into a LR search domain; and obtaining a LR domain candidate transmission vector of the current subcarrier, a K-value applied to each search layer of the current subcarrier during the K-best search is a global dynamic K-value in the global dynamic K-value table corresponding to the search layer.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed with some embodiments including an analog and time to digital converter (ATDC) including a receiver, the receiver for receiving an analog channel input for conversion to a digital data, the digital data having at least one bit, and a defined absolute reference time stamp, the defined absolute reference time stamp representing an absolute reference time associated with conversion of the analog channel input to the digital data and an analog-to-digital converter, the converter converting the analog channel input to the digital data.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter device may segment a plurality of bits of a communication into a first set of bits and a second set of bits; process the first set of bits using a first processing chain and the second set of bits using a second processing chain, wherein the first set of bits is mapped to most significant bits (MSBs) of one or more symbols of a composite constellation and the second set of bits is mapped to least significant bits (LSBs) of the one or more symbols of the composite constellation, and wherein the composite constellation is formed from a plurality of lower order constellations; modulate the first set of bits and the second set of bits to generate a set of modulated symbols; and transmit the set of modulated symbols. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A memory controller including, in one implementation, a memory interface and a control circuit. The memory interface is configured to receive a punctured codeword read from a non-volatile memory. The control circuit is configured to determine error probability values for a plurality of check nodes associated with a punctured bit included in the punctured codeword. The control circuit is also configured to determine an error probability value for the punctured bit based on the error probability values for the plurality of check nodes associated with the punctured bit and a variable degree associated with the punctured bit. The control circuit is further configured to determine a log likelihood ratio (LLR) value for the punctured bit based on the error probability value for the punctured bit. The control circuit is also configured to decode the punctured codeword using the LLR value for the punctured bit.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of protecting a memory from a write attack includes dividing a cacheline of memory into a plurality of sub-blocks. A codeword is generated from at least one sub-block of the plurality of sub-blocks and a complement of the at least one sub-block. One of the generated codewords is selected, wherein the selected codeword is used for storage in memory.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to methods and apparatus for rate-matching a stream of bits encoded using polar codes. An exemplary method generally includes encoding K information bits using a polar code with a mother code length, N, to generate a stream of encoded bits storing a portion of the encoded bits in a circular buffer of size N reordering P blocks of the circular buffer according to row weights of a Hadamard matrix J interlacing the encoded bits of the blocks having a same row weight selecting, based on the row weights, a subset of the encoded bits in the blocks to modify modifying the selected subset of the encoded bits and transmitting the encoded bits in the P blocks, subsequent to modifying the selected subset of the encoded bits, via transmission resources.

Abstract: A communications device for use in a wireless communications system comprising an infrastructure equipment and the communications device is provided. The communications device is configured to transmit an uplink channel to the infrastructure equipment in a plurality of allocated subcarriers. The communications device comprises circuitry for one or more modulation symbol repetition blocks, each configured to receive modulated symbols mapped to one of plurality of modulated symbol sets and to repeat each of the received modulated symbols within each of the plurality of modulated symbol sets, and circuitry for a precoder block configured to carry out a precoder function on the repeated modulation symbols, the precoder function comprising multiplying each of the repeated modulation symbols by an element of a precoder vector to produce precoded symbols.

Abstract: A receiver system includes an interface between a radio receiver on a radio frequency (RF)-side and a baseband receiver on a baseband (BB)-side. The receiver includes an antenna for receiving radio frequency signals and an analogue-to-digital converter for converting received analogue signals to digital signals. The digital signals are further processed in the baseband receiver by a digital signal processing unit. The analogue-to-digital converter is a sigma-delta converter, which includes a sigma-delta modulator on the RF-side and a decimation filter on the BB-side. The sigma-delta modulator and the decimation filter are connected only by single-bit in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) streams output lines.

Abstract: An optical modulation apparatus comprises first, second, and third optical modulators arranged so as to collectively modulate light coupled into a first optical input in all three dimensions of the three-dimensional Stokes vector space, to produce an optical output signal. The optical modulation apparatus further comprises a modulating circuit having a digital input configured to N generate first, second, and third modulating signals for driving the first, second, and third optical modulators so as to map digital data to an M-point optical constellation in the optical output signal. The points in the M-point optical constellation are distributed in the three-dimensional Stokes vector space such that the constellation figure of merit for the M-point optical constellation equals at least half of the maximum achievable constellation figure of merit for M points in the three-dimensional Stokes vector space.

Abstract: Described are methods and circuits for margin testing digital receivers. These methods and circuits prevent margins from collapsing in response to erroneously received data and can thus be used in receivers that employ historical data to reduce intersymbol interference (ISI). Some embodiments detect receive errors for input data streams of unknown patterns and can thus be used for in-system margin testing. Such systems can be adapted to dynamically alter system parameters during device operation to maintain adequate margins despite fluctuations in the system noise environment due to e.g. temperature and supply-voltage changes. Also described are methods of plotting and interpreting filtered and unfiltered error data generated by the disclosed methods and circuits. Some embodiments filter error data to facilitate pattern-specific margin testing.

Abstract: A user terminal that includes a transmitter that transmits uplink control information on an uplink control channel and a controller that bases the transmission of the uplink control information on a number of symbols of the uplink control channel. The transmission of the uplink control information uses one of a first uplink control channel format and a second uplink control channel format, and the first uplink control channel format uses a cyclic shift that depends on the uplink control information, and the second uplink control channel format does not use a cyclic shift that depends on the uplink control information.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide to techniques for radio link monitoring (RLM), detecting beam failure, and beam failure recovery (BFR) using radio link monitoring reference signal (RML-RS) resources and beam failure recovery reference signal (BFR-RS) resources. An exemplary method by a user equipment (UE) may include obtaining a first configuration indicating one or more radio link monitoring reference signal (RLM-RS) resources and one or more beam failure recovery reference signal (BFR-RS) resources, wherein each RLM-RS resource corresponds to at least a first link, and each BFR-RS resource corresponds to at least a second link, obtaining a first indication that a first link quality for the first link is below a first threshold and a second link quality for the second link is above a second threshold, and taking action regarding a radio link failure (RLF) based on the indication.

Abstract: In some examples, a wireless device includes a network interface to communicate over a wireless network, at least one processor configured to send a capabilities information element comprising an indicator to indicate support by the first wireless device for semi-orthogonal multiple access (SOMA) communications over the wireless network.

Abstract: A base station broadcasts information to machine type communication (MTC) devices in the coverage area of the base station using multiple transmissions with layered modulation. Each transmission includes a different sequence of bits representing the information. A MTC device receiving the signals for the transmissions at a sufficiently high quality can recover the information by using a high modulation order on one of the transmissions. A MTC device receiving the signals of the transmissions at less than the sufficient quality can receive the information by applying a lower modulation order to multiple transmissions.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for multi-carrier communication with variable channel bandwidth are disclosed, where the time frame structure and the OFDM symbol structure are invariant and the frequency-domain signal structure is flexible. In one embodiment, a mobile station, upon entering a geographic area, uses a core-band to initiate communication and obtain essential information and subsequently switches to full operating bandwidth of the area for the remainder of the communication. If the mobile station operates in a wide range of bandwidths, the mobile station divides the full range into sub-ranges and adjusts its sampling frequency and its FFT size in each sub-range.

Abstract: Techniques for mitigating transient overlap times between wireless signals are presented. For instance, an example method performed by a transmitting device is presented that includes generating a signal comprising data to be transmitted to a receiving device during a symbol by modulating the data on L-K L-combs. In an aspect, each L-comb has an associated group of subcarriers that are separated from one another by L-1 subcarriers. In addition, in some instances, the method can include the transmitting device transmitting the generated signal to the receiving device (106) during at least a portion of the symbol. Corresponding devices and computer/processor-executable instructions are also described.

Abstract: A diagnostic system for a DC-DC voltage converter includes a microcontroller having a first diagnostic handler application and first and second applications. The first application sets a first non-recoverable diagnostic flag associated with the DC-DC voltage converter to a first encoded value having each nibble thereof selected from an odd Karnaugh set of binary values. The second application sets a second non-recoverable diagnostic flag to a second encoded value having each nibble thereof selected from an even Karnaugh set of binary values. The first diagnostic handler application sets a first master non-recoverable diagnostic flag to a first encoded fault value if the first non-recoverable diagnostic flag is equal to a second encoded fault value, or the second non-recoverable diagnostic flag is equal to a third encoded fault value.

Abstract: An FBMC equalization and demodulation unit and corresponding method to process an FBMC signal includes FBMC symbols, each FBMC symbol comprising data mapped over M subcarriers, oversampled by a factor K, filtered by a prototype filter and transposed in the time-domain, comprising: a frequency domain transposition unit, configured to transpose a block of P*KM samples comprising at least one FBMC symbol into frequency domain samples, where P is an integer greater than one, an equalizer unit configured to multiply the frequency domain samples by one or more coefficients computed from a propagation channel estimate, at least one circular convolution unit, configured to perform P circular convolutions between subsets of the equalized samples and a frequency domain response of a frequency shifted version of the prototype filter, and adders, to sum corresponding outputs of each of the P circular convolutions.

Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented, particularly for use in a system according to IEEE 802.11. The apparatus comprises an encoder configured to encode input data into cell words according to an LDPC code and a modulator configured to modulate said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation and to assign bit combinations to constellation values of the used non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use a non-uniform constellation and bit labeling from one of the several groups of constellations, which constellation show quadrant and octant symmetry.

Abstract: The disclosure relates in some aspects to information encoding. Information encoding may involve puncturing bits of a codeword or repeating bits of a codeword. The disclosure relates in some aspects to selecting a puncturing or repetition pattern. In some aspects, a puncture pattern for data encoding is selected based on a criterion that the output and the repetition input of an XOR are not erased. In some aspects, a repetition pattern for data encoding is selected based on a criterion that repetition not be applied for the output and the repetition input of an XOR.

Abstract: Examples herein disclose apparatus and systems for hybrid vector based polar modulator schemes that may use a series of polar modulators to create a system of vector modulators. The resulting polar response may be de-composed into the sum of the polar modulators. This approach allows accurate phase modulation in two such links without the need for high resolution AM part to cover the IQ plane of a QAM modulator.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to mechanisms for mapping a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) across multiple transmission configuration indication (TCI) states. In some examples, the PDCCH may then be encoded using a common mother polar code for each of a first set of control channel elements (CCEs) mapped to a first TCI state and a remaining set of CCEs mapped to a second TCI state. First and second portions of the encoded PDCCH may then be transmitted, such that the first portion includes the first set of CCEs, and the second portion includes the remaining set of CCEs.

Abstract: A TSN-based distributed antenna system including a headend unit, one or more TSN switches, and one or more remote units and a fronthaul transport network constituted by the headend unit, the TSN switch, and the remote unit is provided. The packet-based fronthaul network constituted by the headend unit, the TSN switch, and the remote unit transmits traffic in a time-deterministic manner while minimizing packet loss through Ethernet to which TSN standards are applied.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device capable of ensuring good communication quality in data transmission by using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleaving, an arrangement of the LDPC code after the group-wise interleaving is returned to an original arrangement. The present technology can be applied, for example, to the case of performing data transmission by using an LDPC code or the like.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to retransmissions of data within wireless communication networks. For a retransmission, at least a portion of the encoded bits of an original transmission may be mapped to different bit locations in one or more modulated symbols based on a non-random mapping rule. In some examples, the encoded bits of a symbol may be reversed within the symbol for a retransmission. In other examples, the first and last encoded bits within a symbol may be switched for a retransmission. Other non-random mapping rules, such as a bit location offset, may also be used to map encoded bits to different bit locations in the modulated symbol within a retransmission.

Abstract: Device, methods and systems for recoding in wireless systems using orthogonal time frequency space multiplexing are described. An exemplary method for transmitting wireless signals includes mapping data to generate a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal in a delay Doppler domain, determining a perturbation signal to minimize expected interference and noise, perturbing the QAM signal with the perturbation signal, thereby producing a perturbed signal, generating a pre-coded signal by pre-coding, using a linear pre-coder, the perturbed signal, and transmitting the pre-coded signal using an orthogonal time frequency space modulation signal scheme.

Abstract: A radio frequency transceiver is disclosed herein. The radio frequency transceiver comprises a transmitter, a receiver comprising a full complex mixer capable of operating as a frequency down-converter, and an in-phase and quadrature (IQ) imbalance calibration module. The IQ imbalance calibration module is connected with (e.g., only connected with) the transmitter. The IQ imbalance calibration module is arranged calibrate the transmitter to reduce its IQ imbalance. The IQ imbalance calibration module is not arranged calibrate the receiver. Use of the full complex mixer in the receiver eliminates the need for calibrating the receiver.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for transmitting digital data in a super channel, in which a set of carriers are packed in a predetermined bandwidth. The set of carriers comprises higher and lower edge carriers having the highest and lowest wavelengths, respectively, among said set of earners, wherein data is transmitted via the higher and lower edge carriers using a corresponding modulation format, each modulation format using a constellation diagram comprising a number of symbols, wherein a binary address is associated with each symbol.

Abstract: An electromagnetic energy delivery system includes a set of radio frequency channels; each channel configured to receive a set of reference signals. Each channel further includes a compensation component and a phase-locked loop component. The compensation component can be configured to determine a phase difference between at least a subset of the reference signals; compare the phase difference with a predetermined reference phase difference; and determine a reference signal compensation offset value based on the comparison of the phase difference and the predetermined reference phase difference. The phase-locked loop component can be configured to generate a phase-shifted signal wherein the phase shift is based on at least the reference signal compensation offset value.

Abstract: A base station serving as a transmission apparatus includes a plurality of transmission antennas capable of forming beams directed to a plurality of terminals, which are reception apparatus, and a precoder configured to perform outer precoding on transmission signals transmitted from the plurality of transmission antennas. The plurality of terminals include at least one first reception apparatus, which are transmission destinations of the transmission signals, and second reception apparatus, which are reception apparatus other than the first reception apparatus. The precoder performs outer precoding on the transmission signals transmitted from the plurality of transmission antennas so that received power in the second reception apparatus among the plurality of reception apparatus is equal to or less than a threshold.

Abstract: A method for transmitting information data by using a Reed-Muller coding scheme in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes configuring a number of resource elements for transmitting the information data; dividing the information data to first information data and second information data if a bit size O of the information data is equal to or larger than a predetermined number; applying RM coding on each of the first information data and the second information data; concatenating the coded first information data and the coded second information data, and transmitting the concatenated data by using the predetermined number of resource elements, wherein a minimum value Q?min for the number of resource elements is defined by a sum of a minimum value Q?min_1 for the number of resource elements corresponding to the first information data and a minimum value Q?min_2 for the number of resource elements corresponding to the second information data.