Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a sensor that acquires a position of an obstacle present between a transmitting station and a receiving station; an obstacle region detector that detects an obstacle region on the basis of the position acquired by the sensor; and a reflector region setter that sets, as a reflector setting region, a region on an opposite side of the obstacle region with reference to a tangent from the transmitting station toward the obstacle region and on an opposite side of the obstacle region with reference to a tangent from the receiving station toward the obstacle region. Further, there is a reflector selector that selects a reflector present in the reflector setting region among the plurality of reflectors, and a controller that controls communication such that the receiving station and the transmitting station perform wireless communication by radio waves reflected by the reflector selected by the reflector selector.

Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a sensing unit that detects an obstacle currently present between a transmitting station and a receiving station. There is an environment memory that stores information on a detection result of the sensing unit, an environment prediction unit that predicts a variation in a radio wave propagation environment between the transmitting station and the receiving station from the information stored in the environment memory. There is further a simulation calculation unit that simulates an environment in which a communication path between the receiving station and a reflector and a communication path between the transmitting station and the reflector are a line-of-sight environment on the basis of a prediction result of the environment prediction unit and calculates a control parameter of the reflector that achieves the environment. Further, a reflector control unit controls the reflector in accordance with the control parameter calculated by the simulation calculation unit.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus comprising: an antenna control unit; a variable characteristic antenna that receives MIMO signals transmitted from a plurality of antennas while switching an antenna characteristic on the basis of a control signal output from the antenna control unit; a conversion unit that samples reception signals received by the variable characteristic antenna at a predetermined sampling period; a signal division unit that extracts each signal from a plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of antenna characteristics obtained by the conversion unit; and a MIMO signal demodulation unit that performs MIMO demodulation processing on a signal output from the signal division unit, wherein the variable characteristic antenna includes a plurality of parasitic elements, and the antenna control unit outputs a control signal to each of the parasitic elements by providing a time difference among the control signals.

Abstract: A capture device which captures propagation path information communicated between the two or more wireless devices and transmits the propagation path information to a first detection device and a second detection device; and a learning model generation device which generates a learning model for object detection using supervised machine learning are provided. The first detection device performs object detection between the wireless devices using a learning model generated by the learning model generation device, the second detection device performs object detection with higher accuracy than the first detection device, and the learning model generation device generates and updates a learning model which is used by the first detection device as teacher data using determination data including object detection results of the second detection device. This makes it possible to easily generate a learning model using supervised machine learning without spending time or manpower.

Abstract: A wireless base station and a first wireless terminal include means for collecting first wireless performance information regarding wireless communication in both a downstream direction and an upstream direction and transmitting the first wireless performance information to a wireless performance measurement device. The wireless base station and a second wireless terminal include means for collecting second wireless performance information regarding wireless communication in both the downstream direction and the upstream direction and transmitting the second wireless performance information to the wireless performance measurement device.

Abstract: A wireless communication method according to an embodiment includes: capturing an image by each of relay devices; detecting a position of a person captured in the image on the basis of the image captured by each of the relay devices; determining whether or not a propagation path between a radiation unit and a wireless terminal is in a line of sight on the basis of the detected position of the person and the compass information transmitted by the wireless terminal; measuring each of strengths of radio waves transmitted by the wireless terminal each time the radiation unit changes a direction in which the radio waves are radiated; selecting the relay device in which the propagation path between the radiation unit and the wireless terminal is in the line of sight on the basis of each piece of line-of-sight information indicating a result of the determination; specifying, for each of the relay devices, a direction in which radio waves radiated by the radiation unit are strongest on the basis of each piece of stre

Abstract: A wireless communication method according to an embodiment includes: capturing an image by each of radio wave reflection devices; detecting a position of a person captured in the image on the basis of the image captured by each of the radio wave reflection devices; determining whether or not each of propagation paths between a reflection unit and a wireless terminal is in a line of sight on the basis of the detected position of the person and the compass information transmitted by the wireless terminal; selecting the radio wave reflection device in which the propagation path between the reflection unit and the wireless terminal is in the line of sight on the basis of each piece of line-of-sight information indicating a result of the determination; and performing control such that the wireless terminal and the base station perform wireless communication using radio waves reflected by the selected radio wave reflection device.

Abstract: A positioning system according to an aspect of the present invention includes a wireless base station device that communicates with a wireless terminal; one or more relay devices that relay a signal between the wireless terminal and the wireless base station device; and a positioning device that estimates a position of the wireless terminal on the basis of a first signal received by the wireless base station device from the wireless terminal via a first relay device, which is one of the one or more relay devices, a position of the one or more relay devices, and a position of the wireless base station device.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system that detects an object inside a communication area including: a base station device; and a terminal device, in which the base station device controls a timing for transmitting a reference signal for measuring a state of a propagation path on the basis of a pilot signal included in a wireless signal received from the terminal device during wireless communication and detects an object inside the communication area on the basis of propagation state information indicating a state of the propagation path received from the terminal device during wireless sensing, and the terminal device transmits, to the base station device, propagation state information measured on the basis of a reference signal received from the base station device. It is thus possible to transmit the reference signal for measuring a state of the propagation path without degrading a throughput of wireless communication.

Abstract: There are provided an information collecting device configured to collect a frame A transmitted and received between a wireless LAN base station that is an evaluation target and a wireless LAN terminal subordinate to the wireless LAN base station that is the evaluation target and a frame B transmitted and received between a wireless LAN base station that is a non-evaluation target and a wireless LAN terminal subordinate to the wireless LAN base station that is the non-evaluation target, and extract radio information on communication quality of each of the wireless LAN base stations from a header of a corresponding one of the frames A and B, and a wireless LAN communication quality estimation device configured to acquire, from the wireless LAN base station that is the evaluation target, information on the number of currently connected wireless LAN terminals, acquire, from the information collecting device, the radio information on the communication quality of each of the wireless LAN base stations, and analyze

Abstract: A wireless LAN frame capture method is to capture a wireless LAN frame transmitted from a target access point. The wireless LAN frame capture method includes: (A) channel scan processing of receiving a wireless LAN frame while sequentially switching a plurality of channels; (B) channel setting processing of setting the channel when an identifier of an access point included in the wireless LAN frame received in the channel scan processing matches a target identifier of the target access point, to a target channel; and (C) frame capture processing of capturing the wireless LAN frame of the target channel.

Abstract: A reflection direction control method includes an arrival direction estimation step of estimating an arrival direction of radio waves transmitted by a wireless terminal to one or more reflection units each including a plurality of reflection elements capable of dynamically changing phase characteristics when the radio wave is reflected, a phase control step of controlling a phase of a radio wave reflected by each of the plurality of reflection elements so that the reflection unit reflects, in a predetermined direction, the radio wave transmitted from the estimated arrival direction, and a switching step of switching between an antenna mode in which the reflection unit is caused to receive the radio wave of which the arrival direction is estimated and a reflection mode in which the reflection unit is caused to reflect the radio wave.

Abstract: The reflection direction control system includes a plurality of reflection units each including a plurality of reflection elements, a position estimation unit for estimating a position of each of the wireless terminals on the basis of radio waves transmitted to the plurality of reflection parts wireless terminals, a direction estimation unit for estimating an incident direction of the radio waves transmitted by each of the wireless terminals to the reflection units, a phase calculation unit for calculating a phase of the radio waves to be reflected so that the reflection unit reflects the radio waves made incident in the direction estimated by the direction estimation unit in a predetermined direction, and a phase control unit for controlling the phase of the radio waves reflected by each of the plurality of reflection elements on the basis of the phase calculated by the phase calculation unit.

Abstract: A reflection direction control system includes a reflection unit including a plurality of reflection elements, a direction estimation unit that estimates an incident direction of a radio wave transmitted by a base station to the reflection unit on the basis of base station position information indicating a preset position of the base station, a phase calculation unit that calculates a phase of the radio wave to be reflected by each of the plurality of reflection elements so that the reflection unit reflects the radio waves transmitted by the base station toward the wireless terminal on the basis of the position information of the wireless terminal received from the wireless terminal, and a phase control unit that controls the phase of the radio wave reflected by each of the plurality of reflection elements on the basis of the phase calculated phase calculation unit.

Abstract: A relay system includes: one or more radiation units configured to form a beam in a predetermined direction by radiating radio waves from each of a plurality of elements; a detection unit configured to detect a physical environment on a radio wave propagation path that affects the beam formed by the radiation unit; a direction determination unit configured to determine a direction in which the radiation unit should form the beam based on the physical environment detected by the detection unit; a phase calculation unit configured to calculate a phase of radio wave to be radiated by each of the plurality of elements such that the radiation unit forms a beam in the direction determined by the direction determination unit; and a phase control unit configured to control the phase of the radio wave radiated by each of the plurality of elements based on the phase calculated.

Abstract: There are provided a first wireless system, a second wireless system, an information collection terminal, and a wireless control apparatus. The first wireless system includes a fixed wireless access apparatus that performs communication with a movable wireless terminal. The second wireless system performs communication in a limited communication area using a frequency band that is the same as or overlaps a frequency band of the first wireless system. The information collection terminal is installed in the communication area of the second wireless system and collects information on the wireless communication of the first wireless system. The wireless control apparatus controls the communication of the first wireless system.

Abstract: A radio base station and a radio terminal perform radio communication based on a TDD scheme. A slot configuration includes allocation of a downlink period and an uplink period to the radio terminal. The relay reflects a signal transmitted from the radio base station or the radio terminal or receives and reradiates the signal to form a transmission path between the radio base station and the radio terminal. A relay characteristic includes a parameter determining a coverage area in which the transmission path is formed. A downlink relay characteristic during the downlink period and an uplink relay characteristic during the uplink period are not common but determined separately. Then, the relay characteristic during the downlink period is set to the downlink relay characteristic, and the relay characteristic during the uplink period is set to the uplink relay characteristic. In other words, the relay characteristic is switched between downlink communication and uplink communication.

Abstract: A wireless transmission device transmits a radio signal with a plurality of beam patterns and outputs transmission beam identifiers corresponding to the beam patterns to an object detection device, a wireless reception device receives the radio signal transmitted by the wireless transmission device with a plurality of beam patterns, measures received signal strength for each of the beam patterns and outputs reception beam identifiers and the received signal strength to the object detection device, and the object detection device detects an object within a detection area on the basis of the transmission beam identifiers, the reception beam identifiers and the received signal strength. This enables device-free object detection by utilizing a beamforming function, so that it is possible to achieve high detection accuracy while preventing increase in cost.

Abstract: Communication is performed between a radio base station and a radio terminal via a reflector. The radio base station transmits a measurement signal including a beam ID of a transmission beam for measuring communication quality between the radio base station and the radio terminal. The reflector reflects the measurement signal incident on the reflector in multiple reflection directions to generate multiple reflected measurement signals. Moreover, the reflector modulates the incident measurement signal during reflection to add information about a reflection direction ID being different for each of the multiple reflection directions to each of the multiple reflected measurement signals. The radio terminal demodulates a reflected measurement signal received from the reflector to acquire the reflection direction ID and the beam ID.

Abstract: A wireless communication system according to an embodiment includes: a wireless base station device configured to perform wireless communication of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) method; a plurality of dynamic control relay devices for which a reradiation direction of incoming waves is dynamically controllable; and a wireless terminal device configured to perform wireless communication with the wireless base station device. The wireless base station device performs wireless communication with the wireless terminal device using a plurality of propagation paths that go through or do not go through the dynamic control relay devices, and a CP control unit provided in the wireless base station device changes the cyclic prefix length based on whether or not a propagation route from the wireless base station device to the wireless terminal device uses any dynamic control relay device.