Abstract: An optical network element includes an optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device forming a degree; a channel holder source connected to the optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device; and a controller configured to, responsive to provisioning a media channel on the degree, wherein the media channel is a contiguous portion of optical spectrum supporting N channels, N>1, cause allocation of optical filter bandwidth in the optical multiplexing/demultiplexing device for M channels in the media channel, M<N, cause provisioning of the M channels in the media channel, and cause configuration of N?M channel holders in the media channel from the channel holder source.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for gain control in a wireless receiver. The wireless receiver comprises a first receiver chain adapted to receive a first signal in a first frequency range, a second receiver chain adapted to receive a second signal in a second frequency range, and a common amplifier module operatively connected to the first receiver chain and the second receiver chain. The method comprises determining a first target gain level for a first path comprising the common amplifier module and the first receiver chain, and determining a second target gain level for a second path comprising the common amplifier module and the second receiver chain. The method comprises setting a gain GA of the common amplifier module and a gain GRx1 in the first receiver chain and a gain GRx2 in the second receiver chain based on the first target gain level and the second target gain level.

Abstract: An example system includes non-transitory machine-readable storage storing calibration data sets. A calibration data set includes parameter values that vary non-linearly. Each of the calibration data sets is temperature-specific. The example system also includes channels over which signals pass to and from units under test (UUTs). A channel includes input circuitry to receive a signal of the signals and to obtain a first parameter based on the signal; and correction circuitry to obtain a second parameter based on the first parameter and based on the calibration data set. The second parameter includes a calibrated version of the first parameter. The calibration data set is selectable based on temperature.

Abstract: Described herein is a satellite communications system that includes: two or more satellites using laser communications, and a communications relay aircraft adapted for flying at altitudes above clouds. The communications relay aircraft includes: a laser communications module to communicate with the satellite using laser communication and a Radio Frequency (RF) communications module to communicate with RF equipment at or near ground level using cloud-penetrating RF communications. The RF communications module is configured to take data received as laser communication and generate a corresponding RF transmission containing the data. The laser communications module is configured to take data received as RF communication and to generate a corresponding laser transmission containing the data.

Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a filter configured to perform an adaptive equalization process of a signal, on a basis of a filter coefficient; an updater configured to update the filter coefficient, on a basis of amplitude of the signal and a target value of the amplitude; and a corrector configured to correct the target value, on a basis of the amplitude of the signal.

Abstract: A vehicle communication system includes an on-board vehicle communication module and a remote communication module. The on-board vehicle communication module includes a light source that is configured to be modulated in order to transmit data, an on-board controller that controls the light source and an on-board memory that is operably coupled to the on-board controller such that the on-board controller can obtain data from the on-board memory for transmission by the light source. The remote communication module includes a light receiver that is sensitive to the modulated light provided by the light source forming part of the on-board vehicle communication module. In some cases, the vehicle communication system enables bidirectional communication between the vehicle communication module and the remote communication module.

Abstract: A network design method includes calculating, from the number of wavelength filters on a transmission route of an optical signal, a bandwidth of the optical signal after narrowing by the wavelength filters, selecting, from a plurality of combinations of a multi-level modulation system and a baud rate about the optical signal set in a transmitting apparatus, one or more first combinations about which a lower-limit value of the bandwidth of the optical signal in each of the combinations is equal to or smaller than the bandwidth of the optical signal after narrowing, and selecting a second combination from the one or more first combinations based on a minimum value of an OSRN of the optical signal in the selected combinations.

Abstract: Highly efficient digital domain sub-band based receivers and transmitters.

Abstract: A user equipment UE includes: a measurer that measures, for each of a plurality of candidate beams, a benchmark pertaining to communication quality; a comparer that compares the benchmark with a first threshold value and a second threshold value; and a feedback unit that transmits the benchmark to the base station as feedback information pertaining to an interference beam if the benchmark is the first threshold value or higher and lower than the second threshold value, transmits the benchmark to the base station as feedback information pertaining to a desired beam if the benchmark is the second threshold value or higher, and transmits no feedback information to the base station if the benchmark is lower than the first threshold value, based on the comparison results of the comparer.

Abstract: A controller for an optical network includes a network interface configured to communicate to one or more nodes in an optical network that includes a plurality of nodes interconnected by a plurality of links; a processor communicatively coupled to the network interface; and memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to obtain information related to a plurality of services that require spectrum assignment with each service given a time-constraint T for restoration to a restoration path and each service on its home route given a margin-constraint X dB for transients caused by restoring channels, classify each of the plurality of services in terms of viable paths in the optical network, restoration speed each viable path can tolerate, and re-tunability, and assign a home route and a restoration route, a restoration speed, and spectrum for each of the plurality of services based on priority.

Abstract: Generating, during a first and second signaling interval, an aggregated data signal by forming a linear combination of wire signals received in parallel from wires of a multi-wire bus, wherein at least some of the wire signals undergo a signal level transition during the first and second signaling interval; measuring a signal skew characteristic of the aggregated data signal; and, generating wire-specific skew offset metrics, each wire-specific skew offset metric based on the signal skew characteristic.

Abstract: A reduced-complexity optical packet switch which can provide a deterministic guaranteed rate of service to individual traffic flows is described. The switch contains N input ports, M output ports and N*M Virtual Output Queues (VOQs). Packets are associated with a flow f, which arrive an input port and depart on an output port, according to a predetermined routing for the flow. These packets are buffered in a VOQ. The switch can be configured to store several deterministic periodic schedules, which can be managed by an SDN control-plane. A scheduling frame is defined as a set of F consecutive time-slots, where data can be transmitted over connections between input ports and output ports in each time-slot. Each input port can be assigned a first deterministic periodic transmission schedule, which determines which VOQ is selected to transmit, for every time-slot in the scheduling frame.

Abstract: An optical repeater performs an electrical-to-optical conversion based on a power level of an optical signal or an optical modulation index (OMI) required by a radio unit or a host unit connected to the optical repeater. Further, the optical repeater performs an optical-to-electrical conversion based on a power level of a radio frequency (RF) signal required by the radio unit or the host unit connected to the optical repeater.

Abstract: A system and method for waveform modulation includes encoding input digital data at selected phase angles of an unmodulated sinusoidal waveform. The encoding includes selectively reducing a power of the unmodulated sinusoidal waveform at the selected phase angles in accordance with bit values of the input digital data so as to respectively define first, second, third and fourth data notches in the modulated sinusoidal waveform. An encoded analog waveform is then generated from a digital representation of the modulated sinusoidal waveform. The encoding is performed so that energies associated with the first and third data notches are balanced and energies associated with second and fourth data notches are also balanced. Each of the energies corresponds to a cumulative power difference between a power of the unmodulated sinusoidal waveform and a power of the modulated sinusoidal waveform over a phase angle range subtended by one of the data notches.

Abstract: A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit includes first through ninth samplers, a clock recovery circuit, a level finding circuit, an offset voltage generator, and a data recovery circuit. Each of the first through ninth samplers samples a data signal based on one of first through ninth reference offset voltage levels to generate first through ninth intermediate signals, respectively. The clock recovery circuit generates the first through fourth clock signals based on the first, second, fifth, and eighth intermediate signals. The level finding circuit generates a band level signal by varying the third intermediate signal. The offset voltage generator generates one of: the fourth and seventh reference offset voltage levels, the fifth and eighth reference offset voltage levels, and the sixth and ninth reference offset voltage levels based on the band level signal. The data recovery circuit detects an output data signal based on the fourth through ninth intermediate signals.

Abstract: An information processing device and method, a transmitting device and method, and a receiving device and method are disclosed for multiplexing transmission signals in the same channel. In one example, transmission signals are generated by performing chirp modulation on data to be transmitted, and the transmission signals are multiplexed by shifting transmission timings of a plurality of transmission signals in a time direction and transmitting the transmission signals. Further, a plurality of chirp-modulated transmission signals which are multiplexed by shifting the transmission timing in the time direction and transmitted from a transmission side are received, and the plurality of received transmission signals are dechirped at timings according to the transmission timings.

Abstract: A method for controlling an antenna array is provided, which includes following steps. Associations with a plurality of mobile devices are established, and at least one characteristic parameter table corresponding to the mobile devices is generated. When a plurality of transmission request signals are received simultaneously and the mobile devices are divided into a user group, a multi-user antenna index of the antenna array is generated based on the at least one characteristic parameter table, and a plurality of data streams corresponding to the mobile devices are transmitted simultaneously through the antenna array. When the transmission request signals are received simultaneously and the mobile devices are not divided into the user group, a single-user antenna index of the antenna array is generated based on the at least one characteristic parameter table, and the data streams corresponding to the mobile devices are transmitted one-by-one through the antenna array.

Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication at a wireless communication device. A determination may be made regarding the number of receive chains, of a plurality of receive chains, to enable for a channel. Power to the receive chains may be regulated based on the determined number of enabled receive chains. The determination may be based on a transmission scheduling rate for the wireless communication device and a rank for the channel. In some examples, the determination may further be based on a channel quality of the channel and/or a type of traffic scheduled for the channel.

Abstract: A method for implementing a convergence layer. Data is received on a first communication medium by a first transceiver. Data is transmitted on the first communication medium by the first transceiver. A signal is received. Causing, through the convergence layer, by a control logic in response to the signal, the data received and transmitted on the first communication medium as part of a communication session to be received and transmitted instead by a second transceiver on a second communication medium, wherein the convergence layer is configured to conceal from a routing layer at least one of: information related to the first signal, and information related to the data being received and transmitted on the second communication medium.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to digital up-conversion for a multi-band Multi-Order Power Amplifier (MOPA) that enables precise and accurate control of gain, phase, and delay of multi-band split signals input to the multi-band MOPA. In general, a multi-band MOPA is configured to amplify a multi-band signal that is split across a number, N, of inputs of the multi-band MOPA as a number, N, of multi-band split signals, where N is an order of the multi-band MOPA and is greater than or equal to 2. A digital upconversion system for the multi-band MOPA is configured to independently control a gain, phase, and delay for each of a number, M, of frequency bands of the multi-band signal for each of at least N?1, and preferably all, of the multi-band split signals.