Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining channel condition are disclosed. The apparatus comprises: a reception radio unit having a reception radio unit antenna and a reception radio unit receiver configured to receive uplink transmissions from user equipment; and a spatially-separated transmission radio unit having a transmission radio unit antenna and a transmission radio unit transmitter configured to transmit downlink transmissions to the user equipment, the transmission radio unit having a transmission radio unit receiver configured to receive the uplink transmissions from user equipment to determine a channel condition between the transmission radio unit and the user equipment.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to perform obtaining a stream of codewords, including a first type codeword and a second type codeword, wherein, the first type codeword is an idle codeword, and the second type codeword includes data intended for at least one of the ONUs; obtaining, an interleaved bitstream from the stream of codewords based on an interleaving scheme, wherein, in the interleaved bitstream, bits at positions corresponding the first type codeword include redundant bits, and bits at positions corresponding to the second type codeword include information bits; determining values for one or more redundant bits placed between two adjacent information bits in the interleaved bitstream based on the values of either or both of the two adjacent information bits; and transmitting the interleaved bitstream to one or more of the ONUs.

Abstract: Example embodiments provide a compression technique of feedback samples for digital predistortion. A system (100) may comprise a feedback receiver (116) configured to receive feedback signal of a power amplifier (112) output and determine a set of under-sampled samples based on the feedback signal; a compressing circuitry (130) configured to: obtain the under-sampled samples; and compress the under-sampled samples, wherein two or more consecutive under-sampled samples are combined into one or more single samples based on one or more predetermined parameters; and a model coefficient training circuitry (102) configured to receive the compressed under-sampled samples and determine model coefficients for digital predistortion based on the compressed under-sampled samples. A system and a method are disclosed.

Abstract: In response to a first channel associated with a first OLT and a second channel associated with a second OLT being enabled for target traffic, a traffic scheduler for scheduling the target traffic is determined by the first OLT. The first channel and the second channel correspond to a first wavelength and a second wavelength, respectively. The first OLT transmits channel configurations and offset information to an ONU, based on scheduling of a first group of data units and a second group of data units of the target traffic by the traffic scheduler on the first channel and the second channel, respectively. The channel configurations indicate channel identifications associated with the first channel and the second channel, and the offset information indicates timing information of the first group of data units and the second group of data units corresponding to physical frames transmitted on the first and second channels.

Abstract: Example embodiments provide a compression technique of feedback samples for digital predistortion. A system (100) may comprise a feedback receiver (116) configured to receive feedback signal of a power amplifier (112) output and determine a set of under-sampled samples based on the feedback signal; a compressing circuitry (130) configured to: obtain the under-sampled samples; and compress the under-sampled samples, wherein two or more consecutive under-sampled samples are combined into one or more single samples based on one or more predetermined parameters; and a model coefficient training circuitry (102) configured to receive the compressed under-sampled samples and determine model coefficients for digital predistortion based on the compressed under-sampled samples. A system and a method are disclosed.

Abstract: The method includes sending a first frame of a first modulation format that is suitable for a first group of receivers before sending a second frame of a second modulation format that is suitable for a second group of receivers, wherein the first modulation format is a higher modulation format than the second modulation format, and wherein the method further includes inserting into the first frame at least one symbol of the second modulation format at at least one outer edge of the first frame.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for resource sharing between at least a first radio access network (RAN) and a second RAN may include at least one base station and a resource manager corresponding to the at least one base station. The resource manager may determine whether to allocate at least one future slot of a radio frame of the common carrier as a first RAN slot or a second RAN slot based on received RAN resource utilization information corresponding to a current slot of the radio frame of the common carrier, or active connection information corresponding to active RAN connections served by the base station; generate RAN resource allocation information corresponding to the at least one future slot based on results of the determining, and transmit the RAN resource allocation information to at least one RAN scheduler corresponding to the base station.

Abstract: A network device includes processing circuitry configured to cause the network device to: partition a flow graph for an application to generate a partitioned graph of nodes and edges, each of the nodes including computations mapped to an execution unit to execute at least a portion of the application, and each of the edges denoting communications between execution units; determine whether the partitioned graph is an irreducible graph; and schedule the computations and the communications for execution in response to determining that the partitioned graph is an irreducible graph.

Abstract: A method performed by an access node includes the reception of dynamic resource requirements from a core network (CN) to perform adaptive scheduling of uplink transmissions linked to downlink data exchanges between the access node and a user device. The method involves configuring uplink and downlink schedule adaptively to accommodate variations in network conditions and user device requirements. The method facilitates an agile response from the core network which corresponds to closed-loop control events while considering real-time feedback from multiple user devices simultaneously.

Abstract: A coherent optical data receiver having a digital signal processor (DSP) capable of mitigating equalization-enhanced phase noise (EEPN). In an example embodiment, the DSP mitigates EEPN by applying individual phase adjustments to different spectral slices of a digital stream carrying CD-compensated digital samples of the received optical data signal. In different embodiments, the individual phase adjustments can be dynamically selected based on symbol decisions taken prior to EEPN mitigation, based on transmitted pilot symbols, and/or using moving averages computed for different spectral slices. Some embodiments are suitable for handling polarization-division-multiplexed optical data signals. Some embodiments are advantageously capable of producing an effective SNR gain of approximately 1 dB.

Abstract: Example embodiments describe an optical line terminal (OLT) configured to communicate in a point-to-multipoint optical network with optical network units (ONUs); where upstream burst signals originating from one or more ONUs can be received by the OLT at any time during a time window. The OLT is configured to perform, during the time window, initiating a tuning cycle by starting the tuning of one or more burst receiver components within the OLT. The OLT is further configured to perform, if detecting a burst signal within a first period, extending the tuning cycle by a second period to continue the tuning of the one or more burst receiver components. The OLT is further configured to perform, if detecting at least pattern within the second period, extending the tuning cycle to decode the burst signal; else, terminating the tuning cycle by initiating a next tuning cycle.

Abstract: This specification relates to estimation of a location of a mobile device using one or more locator devices. This specification describes an apparatus comprising: means for receiving, from one or more locator devices, each locator device comprising an antenna array, information indicative of a bearing from the antenna array of each of the one or more locator devices to a mobile device; means for determining parameters of a Kent distribution for each of the one or more locator devices based on the received information and predetermined characteristics of the antenna array; and means for determining an estimated position of the mobile device by performing an optimisation process on an objective function that is dependent on the Kent distribution parameters for each of the one or more locator devices.

Abstract: An example embodiment includes transmitting first connection information that the user device is connected to a plurality of servers to a first server, and receiving a list of candidate servers from the first server, the candidate servers being determined by the first server at least based on the first connection information. The embodiment further includes selecting a second server from the list to establish a connection.

Abstract: At least one embodiment relates to power delay profile (PDP) estimation e.g. in 5G systems for channel estimation and for demodulation. The power delay profile is estimated directly in the frequency domain using LMMSE properties based on the knowledge of channel statistics. An example embodiment applies an approximation by estimating the second order statistics of the channel autocorrelation function in time domain represented by the variance of the derivative of raw channel estimates in frequency domain.

Abstract: This document discloses a solution for controlling radio emissions in cells of a cellular communication system. According to an aspect, a method includes determining a set of cells having a spatially overlapping coverage area in a sector, wherein the set of cells includes at least a first cell and a second cell; determining a maximum total radiation level for the sector; determining a priority of each cell in the set of cells such that the first cell is prioritized over the second cell; and allocating, on the basis of the maximum total radiation level and said priorities, to each cell in the set of cells a parameter indicating a maximum radiation level in the respective cell, wherein said allocating is performed such that a smaller power reduction from a maximum transmission power is allowed for the first cell than for the second cell.

Abstract: A low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoder comprising a pre-processor, a core decoder, and a post-processor. The pre-processor is configured to transform a received log-likelihood-ratio (LLR) sequence into a form that enables the core decoder to toggle at a reduced rate during iterative decoding processing thereof. Upon stoppage of the decoding processing corresponding to the LLR sequence, the post-processor operates to apply a complementary transformation to the output of the core decoder, which recovers the corresponding codeword of the LDPC code. An example embodiment of the LDPC decoder operating in this manner may be able to beneficially reduce the power consumption therein by about 10%.

Abstract: Devices, methods and computer programs for determining a radio transmission power threshold are disclosed. At least some of the example embodiments described herein may allow improving resource usage by serving a maximum amount of traffic and not wasting resources, while also ensuring the possibility of serving a minimum traffic level.

Abstract: A network element includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code configured to, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to determine whether a bit error rate (BER) of a FEC codeword is at or below a correctable BER, wherein the FEC codeword is transmitted between an OLT and ONU, a first percentage of the FEC codeword is at a lower order modulation, and a second percentage of the FEC codeword is at a higher order modulation, establish, based on a determination that the BER is at or below the correctable BER, a connection between the OLT and the ONU at the higher order modulation, and maintain, based on a determination that the BER is greater than the correctable BER, the connection between the OLT and the ONU at the lower order modulation.

Abstract: According to an example embodiment, a method is provided including: decoding, at a base station of a wireless system, one or more bits of an uplink transmission from a user equipment, wherein the one or more bits are indicative of a channel quality; calculating a confidence metric corresponding to a reliability of the decoding; and causing a channel quality report to be generated based at least on the calculated confidence metric and a value for each system configuration parameter in a limited set of one or more system configuration parameters associated with the base station.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing of signals in a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) network are provided. The processing includes obtaining link conditions, in a spectrum comprising multiple OFDM subcarriers, of a plurality of users at respective user nodes that are in communication with a central node of the network. The processing further includes inputting the link conditions to an entropy loading (EL) algorithm, thereby to determine a modulation format for each of the OFDM subcarriers; optimizing an allocation of OFDM subcarriers to users according to an OFDMA scheme; and for each user, loading data from a bitstream onto the allocated OFDM subcarriers in the respective determined modulation formats.