Abstract: An exemplary embodiment extended peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) device includes a host PCIe fabric comprising a host root complex. The host PCIe fabric has a first set of bus numbers and a first memory mapped input/output (MMIO) space on a host CPU. An extended PCIe fabric includes a root complex endpoint (RCEP) as part of an endpoint of the host PCIe fabric. The extended PCIe fabric has a second set of bus numbers and a second MMIO space separate from the first set of bus numbers and the first MMIO space, respectively.

Abstract: A method for operating a communications controller in a wireless communications system includes scheduling a pair of user equipments (UE) located in different ones of a plurality of split beams using an appropriate code pair that produces the plurality of split beams for multi-user multiple-input multiple output (MU-MIMO) mode transmission, and transmitting data packets to the pair of UEs in accordance with the appropriate code pair.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for a fully differential adjustable gain device that includes differential input terminals, differential output terminals, fully differential signal processing circuitry, and first and second cross-coupled segments. The first cross-coupled segment is coupled between differential input terminals of the fully differential adjustable gain device and a negative input of the fully differential signal processing circuitry. The second cross-coupled segment is coupled between differential input terminals of the fully differential adjustable gain device and a positive input of the fully differential signal processing circuitry.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for beam failure recovery in user equipment, comprising detecting a beam failure event between the user equipment and a base station, sending a first beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) to the base station upon detection of the beam failure and searching for a beam failure recovery response (BFRP) within a first response window.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to technology for identifying a user equipment beam index in a base station. The base station indicates one or more resources assigned to the user equipment within a beam failure random access channel (BRACH) resource, and transmits one or more synchronization signal block resources and one or more new beam identification reference signal resources to the user equipment. The base station then receives one of the resources from a group of the one or more resources within the BRACH resource assigned to the user equipment corresponding to the BRACH resource, and identifies a preferred beam index of the user equipment based on information in the BRACH resource and the received one of the resources.

Abstract: A packet optical network configuring method including obtaining network information that includes an optical reachability graph for a packet optical network, generating a packet reachability graph using the network information, generating a packet transport design for a network configuration for the packet optical network based on the packet reachability graph, generating an optical transport design for the network configuration, determining the network configuration is acceptable when the network configuration meets one or more predefined user objectives, and outputting the network configuration based on the determination.

Abstract: A method of compressing a plurality of multi-dimensional keys includes receiving, by a computer, the plurality of multi-dimensional keys, where the plurality of multi-dimensional keys have a first length and determining a first plurality of bit slots that are common among the plurality of multi-dimensional keys, wherein the first plurality of bit slots are not a prefix. Also, the method includes forming a mask indicating the first plurality of bit slots and forming a pattern indicating values of the first plurality of bit slots. Additionally, the method includes determining a second plurality of bit slots that vary among the plurality of multi-dimensional keys and forming a plurality of compressed multi-dimensional keys indicating values of the second plurality of bit slots. Further, the method includes storing the mask, the pattern, and the plurality of compressed multi-dimensional keys.

Abstract: A method for receiving wideband (WB) LTE uplink signals. A base station may signal a first frequency tone assignment to a first user equipment (UE), the first frequency tone assignment scheduling at least a first set of subcarriers allocated to the first UE, subcarriers in the first set of subcarriers being non-contiguous in the frequency domain. Subcarriers in the first set of subcarriers may be interleaved with subcarriers in a second set of subcarriers. The first UE may perform a first single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) uplink transmission over the first set of subcarriers. A second UE may perform a second SC-FDMA uplink transmission, the second SC-FDMA uplink transmission spanning the second set of subcarriers.

Abstract: A dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) optical network includes an optical input port configured to receive unmodulated optical signals from the optical fiber comprising wavelength channels; one or more modulators coupled to the optical input port wherein the one or more modulators are each configured to modulate a respective first wavelength channel of the wavelength channels with respective data to produce a modulated first wavelength channel when the modulator is in a transmit state; wherein an input optical power of each modulator is kept at substantially a first level and an output optical power of the each modulator is kept at substantially a second level during operation of the modulator. A method and an optical network node are also disclosed therein.

Abstract: A method for communicating in a wireless system includes receiving a trigger frame including a paging bitmap, and resource allocation information indicating a location of a resource pool for transmitting a packet, and determining if the station is permitted to transmit the packet in accordance with the paging bitmap. If the station is permitted to transmit the packet, the method also includes determining a location of a network resource in the resource pool in accordance with an identifier of the station, and transmitting the packet at the location of the network resource.

Abstract: A method includes creating communication agents in each worker node in a distributed processing cluster, creating communication agents in nodes other than the distributed processing cluster as redundant nodes, the worker nodes and redundant nodes forming a communicator group, numbering and identifying each worker node in the distributed processing cluster using the communication agents, detecting a distributed processing worker node fault using the communication agent between nodes of the distributed processing cluster, spawning a new worker node via the communication agent from one of the redundant nodes in the communicator group for use as a new worker node, rebuilding the new worker node by using the communication agent to operate with the distributed processing cluster, and starting the new worker node to join the distributed processing cluster to work with the other worker nodes utilizing the communication agents for communications between the worker nodes in the communicator group.

Abstract: A method including receiving, via a frontend of a communication device from a communication link, a cascaded waveform modulation with embedded control signal (CWM-CS); performing time-domain demultiplexing on the CWM-CS to obtain a first waveform modulation signal (W1), a second waveform modulation signal (W2), and a control signal (CS); training a channel equalizer based on the control signal; performing channel equalization on the first waveform modulation signal, the second waveform modulation signal, and the control signal CS; performing time-domain de-multiplexing on the first waveform modulation signal W1, the second waveform modulation signal W2, and the control signal CS; applying a rounding function to the first waveform modulation signal W1; generating a recovered signal (S), by summing the first waveform modulation signal W1 and the second waveform modulation signal W2; recovering data from the recovered signal S; and recovering control information by demodulating the control signal CS.

Abstract: A method for communicating using a large scale multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna array, the method includes determining angular domain channel estimates of the large scale MIMO antenna array in accordance with antenna domain channel estimates of the large scale MIMO antenna array, identifying significant beams of the large scale MIMO antenna array by maximizing the angular domain channel estimates, and communicating with at least one receiving device utilizing the significant beams as identified.

Abstract: An apparatus and associated method are provided involving a converter circuit. The converter circuit includes an inductor including a first terminal configured to be coupled to a power source, and a second terminal. Also included is a pair of serially-coupled transistors coupled to the second terminal of the inductor. The pair of serially-coupled transistors have a transistor intermediate node therebetween. Further included is a pair of serially-coupled diodes coupled to the second terminal of the inductor. The pair of serially-coupled diodes have a diode intermediate node therebetween. A first capacitor is coupled in parallel with the serially-coupled transistors and the serially-coupled diodes. Further, the converter circuit includes a sub-circuit having a second capacitor serially-coupled with an auxiliary transistor. The sub-circuit is coupled between the transistor intermediate node and the diode intermediate node.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for control channel transmission in a wireless network are disclosed. A disclosure is provided with at least one resource block (RB) including a first control channel element associated with a first antenna port (AP) and a second control channel element associated with a second AP. The first and second control channel elements might be used for transmission of a single control channel, and a first reference signal sequence associated with one of the first AP and the second AP is selected for transmission of the single control channel based on a control channel element index value, such that a resource element of the at least one RB can be detected to decode the first control channel element and the second control channel element.

Abstract: In an Input-Series-Output-Parallel (ISOP)-type power converter circuit, a DC-to-DC converter has a positive input coupled to a DC power source and a negative input connected to a negative output. A plurality of capacitors are coupled in series between a positive output of the converter and a circuit ground, the negative output of the converter coupled to a common node of first and second capacitors. A half-bridge inverter network is coupled between the positive output and a circuit ground, each inverter having an input respectively coupled to the first capacitor and the second capacitor. A plurality of resonant tanks are coupled to an output of a respective one of first and second half-bridge inverters. A transformer is coupled to outputs of the plurality of resonant tanks. A rectifier circuit is coupled to a secondary winding of the transformer to provide a DC output voltage.

Abstract: An embodiment method of network node operation includes indicating, by a first network node, to a first UE, a first number of REs in a first set of RBs for a first reference signal, transmitting, by the first network node, to the first UE, the first reference signal in accordance with the first number of REs and a first precoding in a first subframe, receiving, by the first network node, from the first UE, a report indicating a first MCS in accordance with a level of signal and interference measured by the first UE, wherein the measurement is restricted to the first reference signal, and transmitting, by the first network node, a first data with the indicated first MCS and the first precoding in a second subframe, the first data being transmitted on a second number of REs in the first set of RBs in the second subframe.

Abstract: A solid state drive (SSD) employing a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) scheme includes a flash memory chip, erasable blocks in the flash memory chip, and a flash controller. The erasable blocks are configured to store flash memory pages. The flash controller is operably coupled to the flash memory chip. The flash controller is also configured to organize certain of the flash memory pages into a RAID line group and to write RAID line group membership information to each of the flash memory pages in the RAID line group.

Abstract: A method implemented by a temporal tunnel service (TTS) controller, comprising computing a path in a network for a temporal label switched path (LSP), wherein the path satisfies a network constraint in a time interval comprising a predetermined start time and a predetermined end time, reserving, at a current time prior to the predetermined start time, a network resource along the path computed for the temporal LSP, wherein the network resource is reserved for the temporal LSP to carry traffic in the time interval, and creating the temporal LSP in the network by sending a route configuration instruction to each node along the path of the temporal LSP.

Abstract: An apparatus in a passive optical network (PON) is configured to modify a preamble of a data packet to include channel bonding information. The apparatus may further fragment the data packet into a plurality of data frames and transmit the fragmented data frames through multiple channels. The channel bonding information may be used to identify different channels and to identify data frames transmitted through each channel.