Abstract: A method performed by a station (STA) for operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN) is provided. The method includes communicating, in an operation mode, with devices in the WLAN including another STA and transmitting, to the another STA, one or more of a data frame or a management frame including a medium access control (MAC) header. The MAC header includes an operation mode field indicating a change in one or more parameters of the operation mode. The method includes transmitting or receiving, based on a determination that the indicated change in the one or more parameters of the operation mode has taken effect, a frame to or from the another STA in accordance with the indicated change in the one or more parameters of the operation mode.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device may receive a set of demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) over a multi-path channel on a set of resources in accordance with a reference signal pattern. The reference signal pattern may be associated with a non-uniform frequency spacing that results in a row-sampled Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) matrix associated with the reference signal pattern having a lower coherence than other row-sampled DFT matrices. Additionally or alternatively, the device may receive a set of tracking reference signals (TRSs) over the multi-path channel. The set of TRSs may be specific to wide-area terrestrial broadcast services, single frequency network (SFN)-based broadcast services, multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMSs), or the reference signal pattern. The device may perform channel estimation based on receiving one or both of the set of DMRSs or the set of TRSs over the multi-path channel.

Abstract: A method for establishing connection includes: receiving network slice information and target user equipment (UE) information that correspond to a service to be transmitted and that are sent by a core network; and sending the network slice information to a target UE corresponding to the target UE information. The network slice information is configured for establishing a connection between the target UE and a base station. A base station, a user equipment, and a core network device implement aspects of the method.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for performing wireless communication by a UE in a first cell is provided. The method may include: obtaining first N streams based on precoding of a transmit symbol vector obtained based on N data symbols, and transmitting the first N streams to an AP based on first M antennas, wherein the first N streams are received by the AP included in the first cell based on second M antennas, wherein the precoding is performed based on a cross-channel from the UE to a second cell which is different from the first cell, and wherein the N is equal to half of the M, and the M and the N are positive integers.

Abstract: A network element (36) includes circuitry and at least one port (72). The at least one port is coupled to an optical fabric (32) including one or more optical switches (40) that provide optical paths between the at least one port and multiple destination nodes, at predefined time slots. The circuitry is configured to hold a schedule plan (84) that specifies which of the destination nodes are accessible via the optical fabric at which of the time slots, to queue packets that are destined to the destination nodes, and to transmit the queued packets via the at least one port in accordance with the schedule plan.

Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide a router control system for routing data streams from a plurality of input ports to a plurality of output ports using at least one video router. Each router in the system comprises a backplane including a plurality of backplane connections, at least one line card and at least one fabric card. Each line card comprises a plurality of input ports and output ports, each input port and output port being coupled to a respective external signal through the backplane, and a line card cross-point switch having a plurality of input switch terminals and a plurality of output switch terminals, wherein a first plurality of input and output switch terminals are coupled to a respective plurality of input and output ports and a second plurality of input and output switch terminals are coupled to a respective plurality of backplane connections.

Abstract: Terminal device comprising; MAC layer control circuitry configured to manage a first timer for a HARQ process and a second timer for the HARQ process which starts with expiry of the first timer, and reception circuitry configured to receive a first PDCCH indicating a first transmission of a HARQ-ACK feedback for a transport block for the HARQ process and a second PDCCH indicating a second transmission of a second HARQ-ACK feedback for the transport block for the HARQ process where the second transmission occurs later than the first transmission, wherein, the MAC layer control circuitry configured to start the first timer for the HARQ process at a timing of the first transmission, the MAC layer control circuitry configured to start or restart the first timer for the HARQ process at a timing of the second transmission.

Abstract: A mobile communications system is proposed in which mobile communications devices are arranged to transmit signals to and to receive signals from a base station using one or a subset of available sub-bands, with the base station being configured to move the mobile communications devices between the sub-bands. An anchor sub-band is also provided on which idle mobile communications devices camp until they are moved to one or more other sub-bands in addition to or instead of the anchor sub-band.

Abstract: Provided are a channel monitoring method and apparatus, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving first search space configuration information and second search space configuration information which are sent by a network device; and the terminal device determining, on the basis of a first timer and/or first control information, to perform downlink control channel monitoring on the basis of the first search space configuration information or the second search space configuration information.

Abstract: An EtherCAT device with a node for use in an EtherCAT network is disclosed. The EtherCAT device includes: a clock circuit; a clock input to receive an input clock signal; a clock output to send an output clock signal; and control logic. The control logic is to determine whether to operate the EtherCAT device in a clock generation mode or a clock propagation mode, wherein in the clock generation mode, the clock circuit is to drive an oscillator to generate the input clock signal; and in the clock propagation mode, the clock circuit is to receive the input clock signal from another node in the EtherCAT network. The control logic is further to control the clock circuit to output the output clock signal for a subsequent node in the EtherCAT network based upon the input clock signal.

Abstract: In an example, a system includes a network port that receives a packet; a first memory; a second memory; and a packet analyzer coupled to the network port. The packet analyzer operates to divide the packet into multiple fragments, analyze each of the multiple fragments to determine whether the corresponding fragment has a first priority level or a second, lower, priority level, determine whether to store each of the multiple fragments in the first memory or the second memory based on the priority level determined for that fragment, store each fragment determined to have the first priority level in the first memory, and store each fragment determined to have the second priority level in the second memory. The network port, packet analyzer and the first memory, which may be a cache memory, may be embodied on a chip, and the second memory may be external to the chip.

Abstract: The present application relates to wireless devices, and more particularly to apparatus, systems, and methods for multiplexing Configured Grant (CG) transmissions in New Radio (NR) systems operating on unlicensed spectrum. In one embodiment, a method for signaling a wireless system is disclosed, comprising: determining, by a user equipment (UE), that a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) overlaps with a configured grant (CG) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) within a PUCCH group; multiplexing uplink control information (UCI) with a CG UCI based on the determination; and transmitting, by the UE to the wireless system, the multiplexed UCI with the CG UCI.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, and in particular, to a communication method, apparatus, and system. This application provides a communication method. The method includes: a user equipment sends a first message to a secondary base station, where the first message is used to indicate that an exception occurs on a connection between the user equipment and a master base station; and the user equipment receives a second message sent by the secondary base station, where the second message is used to indicate whether to recover the connection to the master base station. This aims to quickly recover the connection between the user equipment and the master base station through interaction between the user equipment and the secondary base station, thereby reducing interruptions of data transmission and/or signaling transmission, and further improving system performance and user experience.

Abstract: A modular network element includes one or more lineboxes which are a hybrid between a rack mounted module and a line module which is inserted in a chassis; one or more linebox carriers which are rack mountable and configured to selectively receive the one or more lineboxes and provide power connectors and data connectors thereto; and a core chassis including one or more switch modules, one or more controller modules, and a set of connectors located at the rear for cabling to the power connectors and the data connectors on the one or more linebox carriers.

Abstract: A receiver receives a multicarrier signal from a wireless communication network and determines subcarrier values of the multicarrier signal. A decoder decodes the subcarrier values to produce a set of data symbols. The multicarrier signal is characterized by a set of modulated pulse waveforms, which results from a sum of the subcarriers. Each of the modulated pulse waveforms has a different time offset. The decoder employs a set of codes for decoding the baseband signal, wherein each code comprises a different linearly increasing phase. Each of the linearly increasing phases corresponds to one of the different time offsets.

Abstract: Systems, devices and processes are provided to improve the design and implementation of radio frequency (RF) communication networks. Specifically, these various embodiments improve the likelihood of a successful RF network design by identifying and preferentially utilizing RF transmission sites having a relatively high probability of being successfully incorporated into the RF network. These various embodiments provide a site qualification database that includes site data for a plurality of RF transmission sites. When so implemented, the site qualification database is utilized to analyze the site data and generate a plurality of site scores for the corresponding RF transmission site, which can then be utilized in an RF analysis.

Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system in which there are no restrictions on a communicable area and it is not necessary to install communication software on a wireless device. A communication system according to the present invention is configured so that the functions of a wireless access point are separated into a front-end unit on a wireless terminal side and a back-end side on the Internet side, radio signal processing functions supporting a wireless scheme of the wireless terminal are deployed only on the back end, and only relatively simple processing functions such as E/O conversion are deployed on the front end near the wireless terminal 311.

Abstract: Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of configuration modes for baseband units (BBU) and remote radio heads (RRH). For example, a computing system including a BBU and a RRH may receive a configuration mode selection including information indicative of a configuration mode for respective processing units of the BBU and the RRH. The computing system allocates the respective processing units to perform wireless processing stages associated with a wireless protocol. The BBU and/or the RRH may generate an output data stream based on the mixing of coefficient data with input data at the BBU and/or the RRH. Examples of systems and methods described herein may facilitate the processing of data for 5G wireless communications in a power-efficient and time-efficient manner.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for a User Equipment (UE) with reduced processing capabilities (e.g., Machine Type Communication (MTC) UE) to transmit and receive signaling are provided. The Downlink Control Information (DCI) formats scheduling a transmission of a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) or a reception of a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel (PDSCH) are designed and have a smaller size than respective DCI formats for conventional UEs. DCI formats scheduling PUSCHs to or PDSCHs for a group of MTC UEs are also designed and can have a same size as DCI formats scheduling PUSCH or PDSCH for an individual MTC UE.

Abstract: One disclosure of the present specification provides a method by which a communication device, which performs a measurement through multiple antenna panels, reports the measurement. The method may include the steps of: transmitting capability information to a base station; receiving measurement setting information from the base station; powering on a powered-off antenna panel among the multiple antennal panels in order to perform a measurement; performing the measurement through the multiple antenna panels; and transmitting a measurement report message including information indicating whether the corresponding antenna panel was in a powered-on state or a powered-off state prior to the measurement, and information on the measurement result.