Abstract: A portable device includes: a modem configured to perform power line communication with a charger external to the portable device; and a charging circuit configured to, from first power provided by the charger, charge a battery and supply power to an electrical load, wherein the charging circuit is further configured to cut off the supply of the first power to the electrical load and supply second power from the battery to the electrical load.

Abstract: An AP/PCP may perform user selection/pairing/grouping based on a measurement of an analog transmission (e.g., signal to noise ratio (SNR) or signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR)). The SNRs may be used, for example by the station, to determine best beams and/or beam pairs and/or worst beams and/or beam pairs. A station may feed back the best few beams and/or beam pairs for a Tx and Rx virtual antenna pair. A station may feed back the worst few beams for the Tx and Rx virtual antenna pair. The AP/PCP may receive the indication(s) and/or use the indication(s) to group the stations.

Abstract: Described herein is a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer-readable program code stored thereon for causing a computer system to perform a method for processing data, the method comprising: receiving data, processing the data at a fixed code processing engine, wherein operation of the fixed code processing engine is controlled according to stored parameters, and classifying processed data at a fixed code classification engine, wherein operation of the fixed code classification engine is controlled according to the stored parameters.

Abstract: In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a device. The device applies Nso sensing beam vectors to Nso received signals at Nant antennas to obtain Nso measurements, respectively, Nso and Nant each being an integer greater than or equal to 1. The device determines a beam vector based on the Nso measurements and the Nso sensing beam vectors.

Abstract: The present application provides an audio transmission method and an electronic device. When the audio transmission method is performed by a first electronic device, the audio transmission method includes: obtaining target audio; and transmitting an audio signal of the target audio to a first channel playback apparatus or a second channel playback apparatus of a second electronic device through an Ultra Wide Band transport protocol.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an encoder configured to encode source data and generate a codeword composed of a plurality of bits, and an interleaver configured to perform, on the codeword, block-based interleaving including a plurality of sub-blocks, wherein the interleaver is configured to generate a first reference input index of a first reference sub-block from among the sub-blocks, generate, based on the first reference input index, a first input index of a first sub-block from among the sub-blocks, the first sub-block being arranged to be adjacent to the first reference sub-block in a first direction, and store, in an internal memory, bits corresponding to the first reference sub-block and the first sub-block, according to the first reference input index and the first input index, respectively.

Abstract: A conductor track arrangement for high-frequency signals is provided. The arrangement has a carrier and a layered signal conductor arranged on the carrier. The layered signal conductor is delimited by a first end, a second end, an inner edge, and an outer edge. The layered signal conductor changes direction in a deflection area and has a minimum width in the deflection area. At least one of the inner and outer edges has a curvature in the deflection area. The deflection area is between the first and second ends.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there are provided methods and devices for utilizing controllable metasurface devices capable of redirecting a wavefront transmitted by a transmitter to a receiver in the wireless network to take advantage of the controllable metasurface device capabilities, intelligence, coordination and speed, and thereby enable solutions having different signaling details and capability requirements.

Abstract: A method is proposed for operating a re-configurable reflective device, RRD, the RRD being re-configurable to provide multiple spatial filters, each one of the multiple spatial filters being associated with a respective input spatial direction from which incident signals on a data radio channel are accepted and with a respective output spatial direction into which the incident signals are reflected by the RRD. The method comprises: receiving, by the RRD from a first communication node, CN1, on a positioning radio channel different from the data radio channel, a CN1 reference signal, determining, by the RRD, an estimated CN1 angle of arrival of the CN1 reference signal, and reconfiguring the RRD based on the estimated CN1 angle of arrival.

Abstract: According to one example embodiment, a method is provided including initializing a first recurrent neural network with a first vector; iteratively training a weight matrix for one or more layers of the first recurrent neural network, wherein W(t) is the weight matrix of the layer of the first recurrent neural network corresponding to iteration t, and wherein W(t) is based at least on a channel covariance matrix; the first vector; and an output from a previous layer of the first recurrent neural network corresponding to iteration, t?1: and determining a first eigenvector based on a converged output from the first recurrent neural network, wherein the first eigenvector is used to perform beamforming for multiple input multiple output reception and/or transmission.

Abstract: An improved carrier frequency offset synchronization method for the VDE-TER system includes matching and filtering the data at a receiver of the system, extracting a training sequence from an information data segment after matching and filtering; performing a carrier frequency offset estimation based on the training sequence to obtain a frequency offset estimated value; based on the frequency offset estimated value, performing a frequency offset compensation on the information data segment to obtain a first-level compensation data segment; performing a phase tracking on the first-level compensation data segment to obtain a cumulative phase compensation value, thereby obtaining a second-level compensation data segment; and demodulating the second-level compensation data segment to obtain the received information after synchronization.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for handling coordinated beamforming in wireless communications systems. An example method performed by a first access point (AP) generally includes outputting, for transmission to a second AP, at least one of a first indication that the first AP supports spatial reuse of transmission resources or a second indication that the first AP supports asymmetric coordinated beamforming (CBF); and outputting, for transmission, signaling to one or more stations (STAs) supported by the first AP without intent to form nulls directed toward other STAs supported by the second AP.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a signal relay apparatus having frequency locking mechanism that includes a receiving circuit, a frequency generation circuit, a frequency tracking circuit and a transmission circuit. The receiving circuit receives a receiving signal to retrieve data included therein according a corresponding receiving frequency signal. The frequency generation circuit receives a source clock signal and generates a target frequency signal according to a conversion parameter. The frequency tracking circuit calculates a frequency difference between the receiving frequency signal and the target frequency signal to adjust the conversion parameter accordingly. The transmission circuit generates a transmission signal that includes the data according to the target frequency signal.

Abstract: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system for a mobile cellular network and method is described. The MIMO antenna system includes an array of dual-polarization patch antennas each having first and second polarization feed-points, a first polarization radio chain and a second polarization radio chain. The MIMO antenna system includes a beamformer coupled to the first and second polarization radio chains. The beamformer includes a beamformer channel for a respective feedpoint and further includes a transmit amplifier and a detector (coupler) coupled to a transmit amplifier output. In one mode of operation, a signal is transmitted via the first polarization feed-point of a dual-polarisation patch antennas and a replica of the transmitted signal may be sensed using the coupler at the output of the transmit amplifier and routed via the second polarization radio chain to a digital predistortion module.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for calculating an EVM of a transmitter. An apparatus includes a transceiver that receives, using an unbiased linear minimum mean square error (“MMSE”) equalizer, a transmission signal transmitted via a propagation channel, the signal generated and transmitted using an antenna port at a transmitter, the antenna port comprising a plurality of antennas (N) and an antenna connector for each of the plurality of antennas. The apparatus includes a processor that determines an EVM for the antenna port of the transmitter based on an output of the unbiased linear MMSE equalizer.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes sending a first message to a network device includes capability information of a terminal device that indicates antenna ports supported by P frequency domain units of the terminal device, and an antenna port supported by an ith frequency domain unit in the P frequency domain units includes an antenna port associated with the ith frequency domain unit and an antenna port that can be switched to the ith frequency domain unit in antenna ports associated with Ni frequency domain units in the P frequency domain units; and receiving configuration information from the network device, where the configuration information configures at least two sounding reference signal (SRS) resources for a first frequency domain unit of the terminal device, and the first frequency domain unit is associated with first uplink transmission configuration information.

Abstract: Method for propagation channel estimation in an N×M Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system comprising a transmitter (202) comprising N transmit antennas and a receiver (204) comprising M receive antennas and a MIMO equalizer (206) comprising multiple taps, where N>1 and M>1. The method includes producing (s402) a single tap equalizer (Q) based on a multi-tap equalizer (Q). The method also includes producing (s404) an inverse effective-channel estimate (Qe) based on Q, The method also includes inverting (s406) Qe to produce an effective-channel estimate (He), The method also includes producing (s408) Ha based on He—wherein Ha can be used to determine one or more performance metrics.

Abstract: A base station may transmit beams to user equipment. The user equipment may receive the beams and transmit a signal to a base station. The base station may determine signal characteristics associated with the beams based on the signal and compare the signal characteristics with predefined signal characteristics that correspond to potential locations of the user equipment. Based on this comparison, the base station may determine a position of the user equipment and transmit a targeted beam based on the position of the user equipment. The base station may also track the position of the user equipment and provide an updated targeted beam based on an updated position of the user equipment. Accordingly, the base station may efficiently form and update the targeted beam based on the predefined signal characteristics, thereby reducing an amount of time required to establish and maintain communication with the user equipment.

Abstract: A method of configuring a multichannel uplink transmission comprising multiple channels between a wireless communication device and multiple receive panels of at least one network node is provided. The multiple receive panels and the at least one network node are connected via backhaul links. The method is carried out by the wireless communication device. The method comprises receiving, from the at least one network node, a downlink message encoding control data for the multichannel uplink transmission, the control data being associated with the backhaul links. The method further comprises configuring the multichannel uplink transmission based on the control data.

Abstract: This application discloses a decoding method, a decoding device, and a readable storage medium. The decoding method can perform a simple logic operation on the corresponding specified bits in the first bitstream, and generate the corresponding fourth bitstream accordingly to obtain information before encoding. The logic design of this decoding method is simple, which can reduce the complexity of logic circuit design and improve the reliability of decoding.