Patents by Inventor Paolo Baracca

Paolo Baracca has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240089787
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method including identifying a service availability requirement and a survival time requirement for a terminal device, estimating a reliability level of a feedback channel associated with the terminal device based at least partly on a link quality and one or more physical control channel attributes associated with the terminal device, and determining a first target block error rate value for a first operation mode of the terminal device and a second target block error rate value for a second operation mode of the terminal device based at least partly on the service availability requirement, the survival time requirement, and the estimated reliability level of the feedback channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Saeed Reza KHOSRAVIRAD, Olav Emerik TIRKKONEN, Mikko Aleksi UUSITALO, Paolo BARACCA, Dani Johannes KORPI, Ulo PARTS, Liang ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20230284152
    Abstract: A method including: determining a respective first amount of resources each with a respective first power and a non-aggressive MCS such that a target value is guaranteed for a BLER of a transmission to a terminal under a channel estimate of a channel and a SINR estimate; and instructing a transmission device to perform the transmission using the non-aggressive MCS on the first amount of the resources each with the first power, wherein the transmission device may perform hypothetically the transmission using an aggressive MCS on a second amount of the resources each with a respective maximum available power such that the target value is guaranteed for the BLER under the assumed conditions; the first amount of the resources is larger than the second amount of the resources, the respective first power is less than the respective maximum available power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Silvio MANDELLI, Alessandro LIETO, Paolo BARACCA, Thorsten WILD
  • Publication number: 20230254833
    Abstract: A solution for radio jamming detection is disclosed. The solution comprises determining M subcarriers in a time-frequency resource grid to be blanked and outputting the M subcarriers in the time-frequency resource grid to be blanked by performing at least one of the following operations: first determination of a number M of subcarriers in a time-frequency resource grid to be blanked based on probability of detecting a jammer attack or on channel quality of subcarriers in the time-frequency resource grid, second determination of which M subcarriers in the time-frequency resource grid are blanked taking into account the channel quality of subcarriers in the time-frequency resource grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Paolo BARACCA, Leonardo CHIARELLO, Karthik UPADHYA
  • Publication number: 20230246728
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to device, method, apparatus and computer readable storage media of reactive jamming detection. The method comprises in accordance with a determination that an interference to the first device is to be detected, determining at least one set of actual receiving powers at the first device on a bandwidth and a frequency of a channel associated with a transmission of the first device within a time interval; determining at least one set of reference receiving powers at the first device on the bandwidth and the frequency; and in accordance with a determination that a difference between the at least one set of reference receiving powers and the at least one set of actual receiving powers exceeds a threshold difference, determining the first device is interfered by reactive jamming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Paolo BARACCA, Karthik UPADHYA, Saeed KHOSRAVIRAD, Tao TAO, Lorenzo GALATI GIORDANO
  • Patent number: 11632188
    Abstract: A modulation and coding scheme for a transmission to an apparatus may be selected by at least sampling a posteriori probability distribution that has been calculated using a first probability distribution and a second probability distribution. The first probability distribution is calculated using at least a newest first feedback and a plurality of older first feedbacks, a first feedback indicating channel quality. The second probability distribution is calculated using at least a newest second feedback and a plurality of older second feedbacks, a second feedback indicating a success or failure of an earlier transmission transmitted from the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Jafar Mohammadi, Paolo Baracca, Mahmoud Ramezani-Mayiami, Silvio Mandelli, Andreas Weber
  • Publication number: 20230094649
    Abstract: A modulation and coding scheme for a transmission to an apparatus may be selected by at least sampling a posteriori probability distribution that has been calculated using a first probability distribution and a second probability distribution. The first probability distribution is calculated using at least a newest first feedback and a plurality of older first feedbacks, a first feedback indicating channel quality. The second probability distribution is calculated using at least a newest second feedback and a plurality of older second feedbacks, a second feedback indicating a success or failure of an earlier transmission transmitted from the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Jafar MOHAMMADI, Paolo BARACCA, Mahmoud RAMEZANI-MAYIAMI, Silvio MANDELLI, Andreas WEBER
  • Publication number: 20220311538
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising obtaining information indicating at least a mode of a plurality of terminal devices, and allocating a set of radio resources to the plurality of terminal devices based at least partly on the mode of the plurality of terminal devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Liang ZHOU, Ülo PARTS, Saeed Reza KHOSRAVIRAD, Paolo BARACCA, Dani Johannes KORPI, Mikko Aleksi UUSITALO, Olav Emerik TIRKKONEN
  • Publication number: 20220303041
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for at least detecting that a radio communication of a distributed unit might be jammed with at least a predefined first jamming probability threshold; and informing a higher layer function of the radio communication that the radio communication might be jammed with at least the predefined first jamming probability threshold, wherein the radio communication comprises a lower layer function and the higher layer function controlling at least partly the lower layer function, the distributed unit provides the lower layer function, and the distributed unit does not provide the higher layer function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Silvio Mandelli, Paolo Baracca, Leonardo Chiarello
  • Publication number: 20220286260
    Abstract: A spreading sequence is determined (S301) based on a candidate of a control channel of a control resource set, the candidate comprising a sequence of control information. The sequence of control information and the determined spreading sequence are multiplied (S303), thereby obtaining a spread series of control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Volker BRAUN, Paolo BARACCA
  • Publication number: 20220286405
    Abstract: The present subject matter relates to a method comprising: determining that a communication of data in a cyber-physical system may not fulfil an availability criterion. An emergency schedule of resources may be determined for enabling a communication of further data in the system in compliance with the availability criterion. The emergency schedule of resources may be used for communication of further data in the system in case the communication of the data does not fulfill the availability criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Saeed Reza KHOSRAVIRAD, Paolo BARACCA, Torsten FAHLDIECK
  • Patent number: 11431435
    Abstract: This document discloses a solution for performing anti-jamming procedures. According to an aspect, a method for a terminal device comprises: receiving a first reference signal allocation from an access node, wherein the first reference signal is unique to the terminal device in a cell managed by the access node; receiving a second reference signal allocation from the access node, wherein the second reference signal is shared with at least one other terminal device in the cell; causing transmission of payload data together with the first reference signal according to a regular transmission pattern; and breaking the regular transmission pattern by transmitting dummy data together with the second reference signal in a time-frequency resource shared with the at least one other terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Karthik Upadhya, Tero Johannes Ihalainen, Dani Johannes Korpi, Martti Johannes Moisio, Mikko Aleksi Uusitalo, Paolo Baracca, Saeed Reza Khosravirad
  • Publication number: 20220247511
    Abstract: This document discloses a solution for performing anti-jamming procedures. According to an aspect, a method for a terminal device comprises: receiving a first reference signal allocation from an access node, wherein the first reference signal is unique to the terminal device in a cell managed by the access node; receiving a second reference signal allocation from the access node, wherein the second reference signal is shared with at least one other terminal device in the cell; causing transmission of payload data together with the first reference signal according to a regular transmission pattern; and breaking the regular transmission pattern by transmitting dummy data together with the second reference signal in a time-frequency resource shared with the at least one other terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Karthik UPADHYA, Tero Johannes IHALAINEN, Dani Johannes KORPI, Martti Johannes MOISIO, Mikko Aleksi UUSITALO, Paolo BARACCA, Saeed Reza KHOSRAVIRAD
  • Patent number: 11387930
    Abstract: There is provided a method for a first network element of a wireless communication network, the method comprising: obtaining blanked subcarrier index data indicating one or more blanked subcarriers in a time-frequency resource grid; initiating reception of a transmission from a second network element of the wireless communication network on said time-frequency resource grid; causing performing an interference measurement on said one or more blanked subcarriers to obtain interference measurement data on said one or more blanked subcarriers; and outputting the interference measurement data for detecting a presence of radio jamming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Paolo Baracca, Thorsten Wild
  • Patent number: 11240765
    Abstract: A method for modifying an electromagnetic field distribution of a node in a telecommunication network, comprising determining the presence of an entity within a region of interest, and regulating transmission power to the region of interest from the node by varying a spatio-temporal transmission profile of the node in response to determining the presence of the entity in the region for a period of time longer than a predetermined threshold value, wherein modifying the electromagnetic field distribution of the node comprises modifying an average electromagnetic field distribution of said node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Paolo Baracca, Adrian Garcia Rodriguez, Lorenzo Galati Giordano, Giovanni Geraci, David Lopez-Perez
  • Publication number: 20210344437
    Abstract: There is provided a method for a first network element of a wireless communication network, the method comprising: obtaining blanked subcarrier index data indicating one or more blanked subcarriers in a time-frequency resource grid; initiating reception of a transmission from a second network element of the wireless communication network on said time-frequency resource grid; causing performing an interference measurement on said one or more blanked subcarriers to obtain interference measurement data on said one or more blanked subcarriers; and outputting the interference measurement data for detecting a presence of radio jamming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Paolo BARACCA, Thorsten WILD
  • Publication number: 20210289527
    Abstract: Examples relate to a method for a mobile communication system. The mobile communication system includes a base station communicating with a plurality of associated mobile stations using a downlink radio frame comprising a plurality of subframes. Further, the method includes generating a master sub-frame of the downlink radio frame by the base station. The master sub-frame includes scheduling information indicating which of the mobile stations are candidates for scheduling in sub-frames other than the master sub-frame of the downlink radio frame, and which of the mobile stations are scheduled by the base station in the master sub-frame. Additionally, the method includes transmitting the master sub-frame to the plurality of associated mobile stations by the base station. Further, the method includes reading the scheduling information of the master sub-frame by at least one mobile station of the plurality of associated mobile stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Paolo Baracca, Ilaria Malanchini, Vinay Suryaprakash
  • Publication number: 20210051604
    Abstract: A method for modifying an electromagnetic field distribution of a node in a telecommunication network, comprising determining the presence of an entity within a region of interest, and regulating transmission power to the region of interest from the node by varying a spatio-temporal transmission profile of the node in response to determining the presence of the entity in the region for a period of time longer than a predetermined threshold value, wherein modifying the electromagnetic field distribution of the node comprises modifying an average electromagnetic field distribution of said node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Paolo Baracca, Adrian Garcia Rodriguez, Lorenzo Galati Giordano, Giovanni Geraci, David Lopez-Perez
  • Publication number: 20190281473
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for haptic augmented reality (AR) based feedback for user-centric wireless network may include a mobile device including a display device configured to display an AR user interface of a user's physical location, a location sensor configured to obtain real-time physical location information related to the mobile device, at least one wireless transceiver configured to determine characteristics of at least one wireless network, a camera configured to obtain at least one image of the user's physical location, a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon, and at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions to provide haptic AR based feedback for user-centric wireless networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Nokia Technologies OY
    Inventors: Qi LIAO, Stefan WESEMANN, llaria MALANCHINI, Paolo BARACCA
  • Patent number: 10117113
    Abstract: Embodiments provide beamforming apparatuses, methods and a computer programs for a base station transceiver and a mobile transceiver. An apparatus (10) operable in a base station transceiver (100) of a mobile communication system comprises a transceiver module (12) comprising interfaces to a plurality (15) of antennas. The transceiver module (12) is operable to subdivide the plurality (15) of antennas in a plurality of subgroups using the interfaces, and to form a first beam pattern (16) using one or more antennas of a subgroup. The apparatus (10) further comprises a control module (14), which is operable to transmit a synchronization signal using the transceiver module (12) and the first beam pattern (16). The control module (14) is further operable to receive a response signal after transmission of the synchronization signal from a mobile transceiver (200) using the transceiver module (12), to determine a second beam pattern (18) based on the response signal from the mobile transceiver (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Volker Braun, Cornelis Hoek, Federico Boccardi, Hardy Halbauer, Paolo Baracca
  • Publication number: 20180123906
    Abstract: A method for a radio communication network is provided. The method includes displaying, to a user, a real-world environment view which is augmented with information about at least one access point of the radio communication network located in the real-world. Further, the method includes receiving a user input which indicates a desired interaction between the user and the access point. The method also includes transmitting information about the desired interaction to a management node of the radio communication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Qi Liao, Ilaria Malanchini, Vinay Suryaprakash, Paolo Baracca