Abstract: Systems and/or methods are disclosed of improving vehicular safety by acquiring data from a transceiver responsive to one or more signals that are received at the transceiver from one or more devices. The transceiver may be in a motor vehicle, and the one or more devices may include a base station and/or another transceiver of another motor vehicle. In some embodiments, the transceiver may transmit a signal responsive to having received a first signal from a first device, and the signal that is transmitted by the transceiver may cause a second device to transmit a second signal. Moreover, the transceiver may transmit data responsive to having received the second signal that is transmitted by the second device. In some embodiments, the transceiver may receive a signal from a first device, receive a signal from a second device, and transmit data responsive to having received both of the signals.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a connection of a second device to a first device comprises a wireless connection that is used to relay information to and from the first and second devices. In further embodiments, at least one of said first and second devices comprises a smartphone and a destination device to which the first and second devices transmit information comprises a base station. In yet further embodiments, the first device solicits from the second device a processing capability; receives an acknowledgement from the second device that the second device can provide the processing capability; receives the processing capability from the second device; and uses the processing capability of the second device to increase an amount of information that is conveyed to the destination device.

Abstract: Systems/methods comprising a plurality of devices that cooperate with one another, particularly when in proximity to one another, are disclosed. According to some embodiments, first information is relayed from a first device to a second device and second information is relayed from the second device to the first device. The second device may transmit a signal, comprising the first information, to a destination device; and the first device may transmit a signal, comprising the second information, to the destination device. A plethora of embodiments are disclosed including a new carrier aggregation system/method that capitalizes on resources that may be provided by a plurality of devices that cooperate with one another.

Abstract: A transmitter is configured to convey N bits of information and L bits of information, for a total of N+L bits of information, to a destination device via an auxiliary device. The transmitter is configured to select, from a plurality of auxiliary devices that are respectively associated with different possible states of the L bits of information, an auxiliary device that is associated with a state of the L bits of information to be conveyed. L may be ?1. The transmitter is also configured to convey the N+L bits of information from the transmitter to the destination device via the selected auxiliary device, without the transmitter transmitting any of the L bits of information to the destination device or the selected auxiliary device, by transmitting a signal to the selected auxiliary device. This signal comprises the N bits of information. N may be ?0.

Abstract: Embodiments of inventive concepts are provided wherein a mobile device, such as a smartphone, may transmit information to a base station, either directly or via auxiliary/slave devices, using first and second spatial polarizations, in order to increase spectral efficiency. Pre-processing at the mobile device and/or post-processing at the base station may be used to reduce cross-polarization interference.

Abstract: Embodiments of inventive concepts are provided wherein a plurality of mobile devices, such as, for example, a plurality of smartphones, may transmit information to a base station concurrently in time and co-frequency therebetween in order to increase spectral efficiency and/or channel throughput. Embodiments comprising pre-processing at the mobile devices and/or post-processing at the base station may be used to reduce interference. Inventive concepts of a base station transmitting to a plurality of mobile devices concurrently in time and co-frequency therebetween are also presented. Embodiments are presented comprising pre-processing at the base station and/or post-processing at the mobile devices to reduce interference.

Abstract: A transmitter is configured to convey N bits of information and L bits of information, for a total of N+L bits of information, to a destination device via an auxiliary device. The transmitter is configured to select, from a plurality of auxiliary devices that are respectively associated with different possible states of the L bits of information, an auxiliary device that is associated with a state of the L bits of information to be conveyed. L may be ?1. The transmitter is also configured to convey the N+L bits of information from the transmitter to the destination device via the selected auxiliary device, without the transmitter transmitting any of the L bits of information to the destination device or the selected auxiliary device, by transmitting a signal to the selected auxiliary device. This signal comprises the N bits of information. N may be ?0.

Abstract: A transmitter is configured to convey N bits of information and L bits of information, for a total of N+L bits of information, to a destination device via an auxiliary device. The transmitter is configured to select, from a plurality of auxiliary devices that are respectively associated with different possible states of the L bits of information, an auxiliary device that is associated with a state of the L bits of information to be conveyed. L may be ?1. The transmitter is also configured to convey the N+L bits of information from the transmitter to the destination device via the selected auxiliary device, without the transmitter transmitting any of the L bits of information to the destination device or the selected auxiliary device, by transmitting a signal to the selected auxiliary device. This signal comprises the N bits of information. N may be ?0.