Abstract: Disclosed herein are related to a communication device. In one aspect, the communication device includes a wireless interface and a processor coupled to the wireless interface. In one aspect, the processor is configured to determine an absence of content data remaining to transmit to a base station for an uplink configured grant, and cause the wireless interface to bypass transmission of a padding data for the uplink configured grant, responsive to the absence of the content data remaining for the uplink configured grant.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating wireless communication of a wearable device. In one aspect, a wireless device receives a paging message from a cellular network, via a wireless link between the wireless device and a companion device. The paging message can be received while a cellular modem of the wireless device is operating in reduced power mode and not registered with the cellular network, and the companion device is registered with the cellular network. The wireless device can transition the cellular modem from the reduced power mode to an active mode in response to receiving the paging message via the wireless link with the companion device. The wireless device can register with the cellular network after the modem has transitioned to active mode, to establish a cellular link directly with the cellular network.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are related to reducing network congestion of wireless communication. In one aspect, a base station of a wireless cellular network determines a level of a network congestion from a plurality of candidate levels of the network congestion. In one aspect, the base station determines whether a type of the network congestion comprises an uplink congestion or a downlink congestion. In one aspect, the base station determines one or more processes to reduce the network congestion, according to the determined level of the network congestion and the determined type of the network congestion. In one aspect, the base station performs the determined one or more processes.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing power consumption of device subsystems include a device which maintains one or more constraint metric tables for applications executable on the device. Each of the one or more constraint metric tables may specify respective power levels for subsystems of the device according to a respective application or an application type of the respective application. The device may determine to operate the device at a reduced power level for a first application, based on a condition for the device satisfying at least one of a thermal threshold criteria or a power threshold criteria when the device operates at full power level. The device may apply a constraint metric responsive to determining to operate at the reduced power level, to cause a subset of the plurality of subsystems to adjust a power consumption level according to a first constraint metric table corresponding to the first application.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects related to a device including a wireless communication interface and one or more processors. In an aspect, the wireless communication interface can establish a wireless connection with a remote device. In an aspect, the one or more processors can determine a signal indicative of a value of a discard timer according to at least one of a type of an application implemented by the one or more processors, a type of data communicated over the wireless connection, or a hardware capability of the device. In an aspect, the discard timer can be for discarding data packets from one or more buffers. In an aspect, the one or more processors can provide the signal to the remote device.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an approach for improving energy efficiency of a wireless communication device by reducing power distributed to receiver chain circuits (RCCs) based on determining whether the incoming wireless data is to be received and processed by the RCCs within an upcoming time duration. A device can identify a plurality of RCCs for processing data to be received by the device from a network. The device can determine that a first RCC of the plurality of RCCs is to receive the data within a time duration and that a second RCC of the plurality of RCCs is to receive no data within the time duration. The device can cause, responsive to the determination, power to be reduced to the second RCC and not be reduced to the first RCC, within the time duration.

Abstract: Described embodiments provide systems and methods for adjusting an operating mode for a wireless device's communications with a network. The wireless device may determine a communication profile of an application of the wireless device with the network. The wireless device may determine a type of motion of the wireless device. The wireless device may determine an operating mode for the wireless device's communications with the network, according to the communication profile and the type of motion. The wireless device may transmit a message to the network to cause the operating mode to be configured for the wireless device's communications with the network.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to encode channel state information (CSI), e.g., enhanced type II CSI. A common frequency basis may be selected. Spatial-frequency coefficients, frequency basis related information, and/or spatial basis related information may be determined. At least a portion of the coefficients and/or information may be encoded in a CSI report.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for network traffic shaping and/or adjustment of discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles. A wireless device determines a delay between a time at which a packet is transmitted from a server, to a time of arrival of the packet at the wireless device. The wireless device determines jitter of packets arriving at the wireless device from the server. The wireless device sends a message corresponding to the determined delay and the determined jitter, to the server to perform shaping of packet traffic from the server to the wireless device according to a latency budget of the packet traffic. The wireless device adjusts a length of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle of the wireless client device, to align with and to receive the packet traffic shaped by the server.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to an apparatus, system, and method for providing aperiodic uplink grants to a UE for aperiodic communications from the UE to a base station. In some embodiments, the UE may be configured to communicate information to the base station, which may be useable by the base station to determine an uplink grant schedule for subsequent communications between the base station and the UE. This uplink grant schedule may be aperiodic, i.e., the uplink grants may be issued at non-uniform intervals of time. The UE may receive the uplink grants from the base station according to the uplink grant schedule. The UE may transmit uplink communications to the base station in response to the received uplink grants.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating wireless communication of a wearable device. In one aspect, a wireless device receives a paging message from a cellular network, via a wireless link between the wireless device and a companion device. The paging message can be received while a cellular modem of the wireless device is operating in reduced power mode and not registered with the cellular network, and the companion device is registered with the cellular network. The wireless device can transition the cellular modem from the reduced power mode to an active mode in response to receiving the paging message via the wireless link with the companion device. The wireless device can register with the cellular network after the modem has transitioned to active mode, to establish a cellular link directly with the cellular network.

Abstract: Described embodiments provide systems and methods for adjusting an operating mode for a wireless device's communications with a network. The wireless device may determine a communication profile of an application of the wireless device with the network. The wireless device may determine a type of motion of the wireless device. The wireless device may determine an operating mode for the wireless device's communications with the network, according to the communication profile and the type of motion. The wireless device may transmit a message to the network to cause the operating mode to be configured for the wireless device's communications with the network.

Abstract: A system and method for operation of a user equipment (UE) to determine a cellular network bottleneck in a downlink channel, and an apparatus for use in a UE for determining the same. A UE may determine a burst of network traffic from network traffic received from the cellular network during a series of transmission time intervals. The UE may analyze resource allocations to the UE during the burst to determine an extent to which the cellular network is busy. The UE may determine that the cellular network is experiencing a bottleneck based at least in part on the analysis of the resource allocations to the UE in the burst.

Abstract: A system and method for operation of a user equipment (UE) to determine a cellular network bottleneck in a downlink channel, and an apparatus for use in a UE for determining the same. A UE may determine a burst of network traffic from network traffic received from the cellular network during a series of transmission time intervals. The UE may analyze resource allocations to the UE during the burst to determine an extent to which the cellular network is busy. The UE may determine that the cellular network is experiencing a bottleneck based at least in part on the analysis of the resource allocations to the UE in the burst.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured with a carrier aggregation (CA) functionality and UE connected to a network via a base station that serves as a primary serving cell (PCell) providing a primary component carrier (PCC) to the UE. The UE determines a plurality of bands that are supported by the UE for use in the CA functionality, generates an individual band information element (IE) including band information for the bands, determines at least one representative CA combination having an order, the order indicating a total number of component carriers (CCs), the at least one representative CA combination forming a basis to extrapolate a plurality of CA combinations having the order based on the band information, generates a representative CA combination IE including the at least one representative CA combination and transmits the individual band IE and the representative CA combination IE to the base station.

Abstract: The disclosed systems may include systems and methods for clock synchronization under random transmission delay conditions. Additionally, systems and methods for horizon leveling for wrist captured images may be disclosed. In addition, the disclosed may include methods, systems, and devices for batch message transfer. The disclosed methods may also include a mobile computing device receiving an indication to initiate an emergency voice call by a user of the mobile computing device and initiating an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) emergency call. In addition, systems, methods, and devices for automatic content display may be disclosed. Various other related methods and systems are also disclosed.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to encode channel state information (CSI), e.g., enhanced type II CSI. A common frequency basis may be selected. Spatial-frequency coefficients, frequency basis related information, and/or spatial basis related information may be determined. At least a portion of the coefficients and/or information may be encoded in a CSI report.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to encode channel state information (CSI), e.g., enhanced type II CSI. A common frequency basis may be selected. Spatial-frequency coefficients, frequency basis related information, and/or spatial basis related information may be determined. At least a portion of the coefficients and/or information may be encoded in a CSI report.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for opportunistically depowering receiver chains of a wireless device. Based on control information, a device may determine whether the current number of active receiver chains can be reduced while maintaining a target achievable code rate for a period of data reception associated with the control information. Additionally, the device may generate and use a lookup table to determine whether to depower receiver chains, and which receiver chains to depower.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing grouped MIMO communications in a cellular communication system. A cellular base station may select a precoding matrix for transmitting a downlink signal to a wireless device via a MIMO channel. The selected precoding matrix may have unequal weights for different MIMO subchannels. The downlink signal may be precoded using the selected precoding matrix. The precoded downlink signal may be transmitted to the wireless device via the MIMO channel. The wireless device may receive and decode the downlink signal.