Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method may include assigning an activation window by an optical line terminal during a portion of an upstream transmitting window in a passive optical network (PON). The method may include performing a first modification to a first upstream transmission. The method may include performing a second modification to a second upstream transmission. The method may include receiving the first upstream transmission from a first optical network unit (ONU) during the activation window, the first ONU synchronized in the PON. The method may include receiving a second upstream transmission from a second ONU during the activation window, the second ONU requesting activation in the PON.

Abstract: Example methods relate to avoiding beacon collisions between a repeater and a root AP, optimizing traffic flows based on buffers queued within hardware, and/or optimizing transmissions through a trigger-based mechanism. An example method includes determining loads on buffers within a repeater configured to communicate according to a DBVC protocol. The loads on the buffers correspond to data to be transmitted within upstream and downstream networks. The method includes determining whether to adjust a DBVC duty cycle of the repeater based on the loads. The DBVC duty cycle includes: an on channel duty cycle comprising a ratio of time on an on channel to total time on both the on and off channels; or an off channel duty cycle comprising a ratio of time on the off channel to total time on both the on and off channels. The method includes adjusting the DBVC duty cycle of the repeater.

Abstract: An example method includes detecting arrival of a packet at a receiver node including detecting over the air energy using at least one of the receiver node's antenna sectors. The method includes selecting one or more RF receive parameters based on information or metrics included in or determined from a pre-payload portion of the packet, including at least one of: selecting a first subset of the antenna sectors with better metrics than a second subset of the antenna sectors to receive the payload of the packet; or selecting an antenna polarization with better metrics than another antenna polarization to receive the payload of the packet. The method includes receiving a payload of the packet at the receiver node using the selected RF receive parameters.

Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method may include obtaining a first signal at a first port of a communication system. The first signal may include a combination of an incident signal and a reflected signal. The method may include performing a first processing to the first signal. In response to the first processing, the method may include performing a second processing to the first signal. The method may include estimating a voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) associated with a transmission line from results of the second processing to the first signal.

Abstract: A wireless transceiver having radios that support wireless communications with associated stations on a corresponding wireless local area network (WLAN). The wireless transceiver also includes: a utilization monitoring circuit, an association targeting circuit, and a power backoff circuit. The utilization monitoring circuit monitors communications between each of the radios and its associated stations. The association targeting circuit identifies, from the monitored communications of the utilization monitoring circuit, an underutilized one of the radios as a target radio for re-associating stations currently associated with at least one other radio and initiates the re-association with the target radio of the stations currently associated with the at least one other radio. The power backoff circuit reduces power to the at least one other radio.

Abstract: The described implementations relate a Passive Optical Network (PON). In one implementation, the PON includes an Optical Network Unit (ONU) that has at least one transmitter subsystem component and an associated optical transmitter. The at least one transmitter subsystem component may be configured to be in an enabled state during a timeslot period assigned to the ONU for transmitting an upstream data burst and a disabled state after the timeslot ends.

Abstract: Methods and systems for ripple suppression in multi-phase buck converters may comprise a buck converter for providing an output voltage with controlled ripple current. The buck converter may include one or more main buck converter stages and one or more suppression buck converter stages coupled with the one or more main buck converter stages. The one or more suppression buck converter stages may provide suppression currents to reduce ripple currents generated in the one or main buck converter stages.

Abstract: A system may include primary and secondary integrated circuits. The primary integrated circuit may receive a first subset of data packets associated with a first set of sequence numbers. The secondary integrated circuit may receive a second subset of data packets associated with a second set of sequence numbers. The primary integrated circuit is configured to manage the first set of sequence numbers and the second set of sequence numbers on behalf of the secondary integrated circuit and for the system.

Abstract: A node circuit associated with a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network is disclosed. The node circuit includes an optimizer circuit configured to process a plurality of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values associated with a plurality of subcarriers, respectively, associated with a set of cable modem (CM) circuits coupled to the node circuit. In some embodiments, at least one subcarrier is allocated to the set of CM circuits for communication with the node circuit. In some embodiments, the optimizer circuit is further configured to determine an optimal transmit power of the node circuit, based on the plurality of SNR values and a transmitter distortion of a transmitter circuit associated with the node circuit. In some embodiments, the transmitter distortion defines a transmitter distortion associated with the transmitter circuit in terms of a total transmit power of the node circuit.

Abstract: A method includes sending wireless data to a receiver node and receiving feedback from the receiver node that identifies a subset of the wireless data that the receiver node failed to receive correctly and that includes a token value as a label for the subset of the wireless data as a group. The method includes constructing retransmission wireless data that includes the subset of the wireless data and the token value. The method includes sending the retransmission wireless data to the receiver node. The receiver node may be a first client device. The method further includes allocating a first set of token values to the first client device and a second set of non-overlapping token values to a second client device in a network. The method includes respectively notifying the first and second client device of the corresponding set of token values for retransmissions requested by the corresponding client device.

Abstract: Multiple methods for determining a location of a STA operating on a mesh wireless network are described herein. A STA finder is used to monitor changes in received signal strength at each access point of a group of access points operating the mesh wireless network. The changes in received signal strength are then utilized to determine a location of STAs operating on the mesh wireless network. Methods for identifying poor performance areas on the mesh wireless network using the position information and then providing recommendations for improving the performance of the mesh wireless network are also described herein.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining, by a data transform accelerator, first metadata. The method also includes configuring a first pipeline in the data transform accelerator using the first metadata. The method further includes obtaining input data to be transformed by the data transform accelerator. The method also includes generating encoded data and second metadata in the first pipeline using the input data and the first metadata. The encoded data and the second metadata may be stored together for later operations, such as decode operations. The method further includes configuring a second pipeline in the data transform accelerator using the second metadata.

Abstract: An example device may include an antenna node configured to be coupled to an antenna element. The antenna node may be configured to pass wireless communications over multiple frequency bands. The device may also include multiple signal paths coupled to the antenna node. Each of the multiple signal paths may be configured to carry a signal from a different one of the multiple frequency bands. The device may further include a switch element coupled to the antenna node by the multiple signal paths and an amplifier circuit within the multiple signal paths between the switch element and the antenna node. The amplifier circuit may be configured to amplify the signals carried by the multiple signal paths.

Abstract: Multiple methods for determining a location of a STA operating on a mesh wireless network are described herein. A STA finder is used to monitor changes in received signal strength at each access point of a group of access points operating the mesh wireless network. The changes in received signal strength are then utilized to determine a location of STAs operating on the mesh wireless network. Methods for identifying poor performance areas on the mesh wireless network using the position information and then providing recommendations for improving the performance of the mesh wireless network are also described herein.

Abstract: Multiple methods for determining a location of a STA operating on a mesh wireless network are described herein. A STA finder is used to monitor changes in received signal strength at each access point of a group of access points operating the mesh wireless network. The changes in received signal strength are then utilized to determine a location of STAs operating on the mesh wireless network. Methods for identifying poor performance areas on the mesh wireless network using the position information and then providing recommendations for improving the performance of the mesh wireless network are also described herein.

Abstract: A multi-carrier transmitter apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an outer encoder, a shell mapper and an inner encoder. The outer encoder is configured to receive a signal, perform error correction using an outer code on the received signal and generate an outer encoder signal. The shell mapper is configured to perform constellation shaping on a subset of bits from the outer encoder signal and generate one or more constellation shaping bits. The inner encoder is configured to perform inner error correction/encoding using an inner code on a second subset of bits from the outer encoder signal and generate an inner correction signal.

Abstract: Multiple methods for determining a location of a STA operating on a mesh wireless network are described herein. A STA finder is used to monitor changes in received signal strength at each access point of a group of access points operating the mesh wireless network. The changes in received signal strength are then utilized to determine a location of STAs operating on the mesh wireless network. Methods for identifying poor performance areas on the mesh wireless network using the position information and then providing recommendations for improving the performance of the mesh wireless network are also described herein.

Abstract: Technology is disclosed for an access point (AP), comprising a processing device. The processing device may be operable to receive, at the AP from a different AP, a first wireless signal at a first frequency. The processing device may be operable to convert, at the AP, the first wireless signal at the first frequency to a second wireless signal at a second frequency, wherein the second frequency is higher than the first frequency. The processing device may be operable to send, from the AP for transmission to a station (STA), the second wireless signal at the second frequency.

Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a base station configured for beamforming estimation in a massive multiple input multiple output (mMIMO) radio access network (RAN) (mMIMO-RAN) may comprise a processing device and a transceiver. The processing device may be configured to compute, at the base station, a precoder based on jointly maximizing the signal with respect to noise and minimizing an interference with respect to the noise using an approximate decoder. The processing device may be configured to compute, at the base station, the precoder based on a power constraint. The processing device may be configured to generate, at the base station, the precoder for precoding a downlink signal for transmission from the base station to a user equipment (UE). The transceiver may be configured to transmit the DL signal to the UE.

Abstract: An apparatus including a wireless component configured for wireless communication in view of a set of wireless parameters and one or more processors configured to determine whether a biological presence is within a proximity based on a set of predetermined criteria and modify the set of wireless parameters in response to the biological presence being detected within the proximity.