Abstract: Systems and techniques relating to wireless networking, namely employing power management (PM) indication mechanisms in addition to ROM indication mechanisms so as to support ROM related outage period enhancements, include: transmitting a first data frame, wherein a format of the first data frame comprises: (i) a field indicating a change in receive operation mode (ROM) settings, and (ii) a subfield having a value indicating a power management mode of the wireless device; receiving an acknowledgement frame to enable a power management mode associated with the subfield in the first frame, the acknowledgement frame having been transmitted by a second wireless device in response to receiving the first frame by the second wireless device, wherein the power management mode delays transmission of additional frames to the first wireless device until receiving a second data frame having a value indicating a change in the power management mode.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a wireless electronic device including a primary wireless transceiver and a secondary wireless transceiver. An electronic processor is configured to operate the wireless device and communicate through the primary wireless transceiver when in an active mode and to monitor the secondary wireless receiver for a wake-up signal when in a sleep mode. The electronic processor transitions from the sleep mode into the active mode in response to detecting the wake-up signal through the secondary wireless receiver.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a processor, at least one transceiver, a sensor configured to sense the presence of a user, wherein the processor is configured to cause the at least one transceiver to transmit information indicative of a user status only when the proximity sensor senses the presence of a user.

Abstract: An apparatus may include an interval timer; a power control; a subscriber identity module (SIM); an SMS packetizer; a geo-locator; an RF communicator; and logic to operate the interval timer cooperatively with the power control to cause a transition of the geo-locator from a sleep state to a wake state after a defined time interval, and to operate the geo-locator to receive signal levels and cell ids from a group of cellular base stations.

Abstract: A wireless device is disclosed that can support carrier aggregation uplink (“CAUL”) communication using a single wideband coupler. A single wideband coupler that can operate or support some or all of the communication bands of the wireless device can be used in conjunction with one or more diplexers and/or filters to measure the power of individual communication bands involved in the transmission process. Further, the use of a wideband coupler and switching network to measure the transmit power from the one or more transmit paths or main paths of a wireless device can reduce the size of a transceiver and reduce the insertion loss attributed to the power measurement components compared to systems that use separate measurement systems for each transmit path. The power measurement system may occur in a separate path in electrical connection with the wideband coupler, which may therefore be termed a coupler path.

Abstract: A method for wireless communication may comprise, for example, automatically determining first power settings for a first radio access technology (RAT) based on second power settings for a second RAT, and automatically applying the first power settings as power settings for the first RAT.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wireless communication device that can suppress an increase in power consumption of a terminal while preventing the degradation of SINR measurement precision resulting from TPC errors in a base station. A terminal controls the transmission power of a second signal by adding an offset to the transmission power of a first signal; an offset-setting unit sets an offset correction value in response to a transmission time gap between a third signal transmitted the previous time and the second signal transmitted this time; and a transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of the second signal using the correction value.

Abstract: A wireless device receives message(s) comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells for communication with a base station. The message(s) comprise a first information element (IE) indicating a new extended power headroom report is configured. The first IE is configured as setup when: a secondary cell is configured with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and a second IE indicates that a power headroom report is configured as setup. The wireless device transmits a media-access-control (MAC) packet comprising one or more power headroom reports.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power control method applicable to a system configured with serving cells having D2D sub-frames. The method includes: a user equipment (UE) calculates transmission power required by each of serving cells configured for the UE; the UE determines a signal or channel that is possible to be transmitted in each of the serving cells and allocates transmission power to the signal or channel according to conditions of the serving cells configured for the UE and a relation between the amount of total transmission power required by all of the serving cells configured for the UE and the amount of maximum transmission power configured in the UE; the UE transmits the signal or channel of a serving cell configured for the UE according to the transmission power allocated to the signals or channels. The present disclosure also provides an user equipment. According to the present disclosure, important signals or channels can have priority in power allocation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a TPC command generating method, device, and system, and relates to the field of communications. The TPC command generating device includes: a first determining unit, configured to determine a target cell in at least one non-serving high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) cell included in an active set of user equipment; and a first generating unit, configured to generate a TPC command of the target cell according to a measurement result of a downlink channel of the target cell. The present invention can solve a problem that no valid TPC command can be generated for any non-serving HS-DSCH cell, thereby achieving an effect of at least generating a TPC command corresponding to a target cell. The TPC command generating method, device, and system that are provided in the present invention TPC command are used for generating a TPC command.

Abstract: Aspects and features are directed to an uplink integrity detection sub-system. In one aspect, a distributed antenna system is provided that includes at least one master unit; a plurality of remote antenna units each in communication with the at least one master unit; and a system controller configured to: determine a noise figure for an uplink path from at least one of the plurality of remote antenna units; and modify a gain of the uplink path when the noise figure exceeds a desired threshold, wherein the noise figure is determined as a function of a measured signal power of an undesirable signal component in the uplink path from the remote antenna unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for transmitting a synchronization signal of device-to-device (D2D) communication. The method for transmitting a D2D synchronization signal of the present application may indicate the state of a terminal, the purpose of transmission of a primary D2D synchronization signal (PD2DSS), or whether to transmit a physical D2D shared channel (PD2DSCH), on the basis of an order in which root indexes of PD2DSSs are transmitted or the value of a root index used by a PD2DSS.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an Access Point (AP) for implementing timing synchronization by one or more root timing reference APs in a radio communication network. Each of the one or more root timing reference APs selects an external timing reference source from existing networks that at least partially overlap with the radio communication network, derives a reference timing from the external timing reference source, and propagates the reference timing to neighboring APs in the radio communication network.

Abstract: This closure relates to narrowband communication supporting an Internet of Things (IoT) service in a next-generation wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving narrowband synchronization signals. A base station transmits a narrowband secondary synchronization signal indicating a narrowband cell identity, a specific sequence generated by performing phase rotation with respect to a base sequence generated through a second Zadoff-Chu sequence having a predetermined length L in a frequency domain and multiplying the base sequence by a cover sequence in element units is used for the narrowband secondary synchronization signal, and a specific root index is selected from among M (M<L) root indices as a root index of the second Zadoff-Chu sequence and the specific root index is selected in a range from k to k+M?1 in terms of a predetermined offset k.

Abstract: A station (STA) receives a schedule from a reference device in a wireless network. The schedule provides a measurement time for each of one or more wireless channels. The STA tunes to a first channel of the one or more wireless channels in accordance with the schedule. While tuned to the first channel in accordance with the schedule, the STA receives a first message from a first access point (AP). The first message, which includes a time-of-departure timestamp from the reference device, is time-stamped with a time-of-arrival timestamp. The STA receives an indication of a time at which the reference device received the first message from the first AP. The STA determines its position based in part on the time-of-departure timestamp, the time-of-arrival timestamp, and the time at which the reference device received the first message.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for tracking a mobile device. A reference position of the mobile device and a frequency offset between the mobile device and another device are estimated. Samples are then fetched at various frequencies from the receivers. The fetched signals are mixed with a pseudo transmitted signal. A relative distance between the mobile device and the other device is computed based on a change in frequency of the mixed signal at a current location, a velocity of the mobile device and the estimated frequency offset. An absolute distance between the mobile device and the other device is determined using the reference position and the computed relative distance. A location of the mobile device is then determined based on the mobile device's velocity and the determined absolute difference.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for processing a device trigger message, a network element of a bearer network, an M2M node and a system, which relate to the field of communications. The method comprises: receiving a device trigger authorization request which is sent by a CSE and comprises an identifier of the CSE; according to the device trigger authorization request, sending a device trigger authorization permission to the CSE; receiving a device operation request instruction which is set and sent by the CSE and comprises a device operation attribute value pair; according to the device operation request instruction, conducting an authorization check on the CSE, so as to acquire an internal identifier of a trigger device and routing information thereabout; and according to the internal identifier and the routing information, sending a trigger request message to the trigger device. Also disclosed at the same time are three computer storage mediums.

Abstract: A method of management notifications on a mobile communication device includes pairing a wearable smart device with the mobile communication device, and automatically disabling notifications on the mobile communication device in response to determining that the paired wearable smart device has moved away from the mobile communication device. For example, the mobile communication device may be a smartphone and the wearable smart device may be a smartwatch. Optionally, the mobile communication device and the wearable smart device may pair using a wireless personal area network standard, such as Bluetooth™, and may also communicate using a wireless local area network, such as Wi-Fi™.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (300) in a terminal device for camping on sectors. The method (300) comprises: detecting (S310) a broadcast signal from an access node, the broadcast signal being associated with a first sector and having a signal strength higher than a first threshold; adding (S320) the first sector to a set of sectors for the terminal device to camp on; and monitoring (S330) a system message from each sector in the set.

Abstract: A wireless communication system having a base station communicating with a plurality of terminals using a plurality of frequency bands, the wireless communication system includes a controller configured to perform a transmission assignment for each of the plurality of terminals based on a bandwidth in which each terminal is able to communicate; and a communication device configured to enable the base station to communicate with a terminal according to a result of the transmission assignment.

Abstract: A method of operating first and second terminal devices for transmitting data in a device-to-device communication mode in a wireless telecommunications system supporting communications on a first carrier operating over a first frequency band and a second carrier operating over a second frequency band. The first terminal device transmits control signalling on the first carrier and this is received by the second terminal device. The control signalling comprises an indication of an allocation of radio resource blocks on the second carrier to be used for transmitting user-plane data from the first terminal device to the second terminal device. The first terminal device then proceeds to transmit the user-plane data to the second terminal device on the second carrier using the radio resource blocks on the second carrier identified by the control signalling.

Abstract: In one aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments provide a method that includes, when in a time division duplex mode of operation with a user equipment, allocating physical uplink control channel resources by reserving physical uplink control channel resources with a granularity of one acknowledge/negative acknowledge (ACK/NACK) bundle; and sending an indication of the allocated physical uplink control channel resources from a network access node to the user equipment.

Abstract: A method for managing spectrum resources by a network node in a wireless communication system may include determining an availability of a first channel of a spectrum, and assigning a second channel to a secondary carrier in response to determining that the first channel is available. In the alternative, or in addition, the method may include unassigning the second channel to the secondary carrier in response to determining that the first channel is unavailable. The spectrum may be, or include, Authorized Shared Access (ASA) spectrum. The method may be performed by one or more nodes of a network that is a secondary user of the spectrum. The channel may be deemed unavailable when in use by a primary user of the ASA spectrum. A wireless communication apparatus include a processor coupled to a memory holding instructions for execution by the processor to cause the apparatus to perform operations as described above.

Abstract: A wireless communications system includes a base station and a mobile station. The base station transmits a second control signal used for configuring a first interval during which a first control signal having a plurality of formats is monitored and a second interval that is different from the first interval. The mobile station monitors the first control signal for the plurality of the formats during the first interval, and monitors the first control signal for formats fewer than the plurality of the formats during the second interval.

Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of reporting resource block allocation information with no waste when an allocated resource block is reported, because in the current LTE downlink, the waste of the amount of resource allocation information increases in some cases since a restriction is imposed such that 37-bit fixed scheduling information is transmitted. A resource block group consisting of at least one or more resource blocks continuous on the frequency axis is allocated to a terminal, and the number of controlling signals for reporting allocation information indicating the allocated resource blocks is determined.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may receive an uplink control configuration indication in a downlink control portion of a first slot. The first slot may include the downlink control portion, a second portion, and an uplink short burst portion. The second portion may be located between the downlink control portion and the uplink short burst portion. The apparatus may configure a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), on at least one of the second portion or the uplink short burst portion of the first slot, for transmission of first uplink control information (UCI) based at least in part on the uplink control configuration indication. The first UCI may correspond to second UCI to be transmitted in the first slot or a second slot. The apparatus may transmit the first UCI on the configured UCI.

Abstract: A wireless communications system includes a base station, a plurality of intermediate devices, and a terminal device. Downlink communications may be provided directly from the base station to the terminal device, including control signals which instruct the terminal device where to send uplink data. This enables the base station to directly control scheduling of uplink communications, and in particular to define an uplink route from the terminal device to the base station via one or more intermediate devices. Power is conserved at the terminal device on the uplink because a lower power transmission can be used which although insufficient to reach the base station can reach the intermediate device. The terminal device is not required to determine the uplink path itself and therefore does not require complex, expensive, and power consuming control logic.

Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. An exemplary method includes receiving, at a first device, a pre-scheduling message for a downlink transmission from a second device; transmitting a scheduling message to the second device in response to receiving the pre-scheduling message; and receiving the downlink transmission in accordance with the at least one downlink transmission parameter of the scheduling message. The scheduling message may include at least one downlink transmission parameter. Another exemplary method includes transmitting, to a first device, a pre-scheduling message for a downlink transmission; receiving, from the first device, a scheduling message comprising at least one downlink transmission parameter; and transmitting the downlink transmission to the first device in accordance with the at least one downlink transmission parameter of the scheduling message.

Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for transmitting a downlink (DL) grant and DL data to a wireless device. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises obtaining an indication for providing the DL data to the wireless device. The method comprises transmitting, in a transmission time interval (sTTI) frequency band, the DL grant for the wireless device and the DL data for the wireless device. A position of the DL grant in the sTTI frequency band identifies a position of the DL data in the sTTI frequency band. There is also provided a network node configured to perform such a method. There is further provided mechanisms for receiving a DL grant and DL data from a network node, as performed by a wireless device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting information in a communication system. The present invention relates to a millimeter wave beamforming-based 5G or pre-5G wireless communication system for supporting a higher data rate beyond a 4G network or LTE system.

Abstract: A radio station (1) transmits, to a radio terminal (3) on a licensed frequency (Cell #1), control signaling (S102) associated with at least one of a measurement timing and a measurement period of terminal measurement on an unlicensed frequency (Cell #2) and receives, from the radio terminal (3) on the licensed frequency (Cell #1), a result of the terminal measurement that is executed in response to the control signaling (S102) and in accordance with at least one of the measurement timing and the measurement period (S105). This contributes, for example, to acquisition of information useful for the radio station to determine whether to allow the radio terminal to perform communication on the unlicensed frequency.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for triggering aperiodic feedback in coordinated multipoint transmission. The method includes: transmitting, by an eNB to UE, dynamic control information (DCI) and preconfigured feedback sets corresponding to the DCI, so that the UE aperiodically feeds back corresponding channel state information (CSI) according to the DCI and the feedback sets corresponding to the DCI; wherein the preconfigured feedback sets corresponding to the DCI are classified according to a triggered transmitting point or a CSI-RS of non-zero power, or are classified according to configured CSI, or are classified according to an interference type. With the method and apparatus of the embodiments of the present invention, a relatively good tradeoff between flexibility of aperiodic CSI feedback and signaling load in a CoMP transmission process or a joint transmission process of CoMP and CA may be achieved.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication method, base station and user equipment for configuring a parameter table in a wireless communication system including a base station and a user equipment, the communication method comprising: defining at both the base station and the user equipment a parameter table which includes whole entries of a legacy parameter table and extended entries; and transmitting from the base station to the user equipment a bitmap indication which indicates a sub-table selected from the parameter table, wherein the number of the entries in the sub-table is the same as in the legacy parameter table.

Abstract: System and method embodiments are provided for configuring a network to forward traffic from a first network zone to a second network zone. In an embodiment, a first zone controller of the first zone receives information indicating network capability. The information includes a plurality of parameters of a constraint function. The first network controller provisions a network node, e.g., at the second zone, to forward traffic from the first zone to the second zone in accordance with the received information. The information indicating network capability includes one or more variables relating to the constraint. The constraint relates to at least one current traffic level or at least one wireless link in the second zone.

Abstract: A perturbation is made to contents and/or locations in time and frequency of Reference Signals transmitted by a cell, such that the perturbation implies information regarding a capability or configuration of the cell as regards availability or configuration of a network functionality, in particular a facility to offer a narrowband virtual carrier operation. The contents and/or locations in time and frequency of the reference signals used are typically based on physical cell identity. In certain embodiments the PCI carried by some identifiable RS resources is changed, in others, the RS is transmitted in unexpected resources. The network functionality configuration information is inferred from various relationships between these transmissions and the cell's actual PCI and/or expected RS transmission resources.

Abstract: A data transmission method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining, by a base station, a time-domain interval of available time-frequency resources in an unlicensed spectrum, where the available time-frequency resources are continuous time-frequency resources in a time domain; sending, by the base station, a preamble signal in a first subframe in the interval, where the first subframe is an initial subframe in the interval; and sending, by the base station, downlink control information and data after sending the preamble signal, where the data is in the first subframe, the downlink control information includes scheduling indication information, and the scheduling indication information is used to indicate a frequency-domain location of the data. According to the present invention, spectrum utilization can be improved.

Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of dynamic allocation using a grant frame. For example, a wireless station may be able to generate a grant frame including a duration field and a Dynamic Allocation Info field, the Dynamic Allocation Info field including an allocation duration subfield and an access mode subfield, the access mode subfield to indicate an access mode of an allocation according to the grant frame; and to transmit the grant frame.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses providing a visual metric of the efficiency of a network of devices communicating through a wireless access point (AP). These apparatuses and methods may also determine and display pseudo-dynamic error vector magnitude (EVM) information for a network of wireless stations, including displaying a pseudo-dynamic constellation diagrams using EVM information. These methods and apparatuses may transmit a plurality of sounding packets from each of one or more radio devices different modulation types (e.g., BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM and 1024QAM), and receiving at least some of the sounding packets at a second radio device (e.g., an access point) and determining EVM information from the received sounding packets, and displaying (or providing for display) a constellation diagram including pseudo-dynamic EVM information that is a constrained approximation of actual EVM information.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes a channel estimation (CE) module, including a first input for receiving pilot resource element (RE) observations, a second input for receiving data RE observations, a third input for receiving log-likelihood ratios (LLRs), and an output; a detector, including a first input connected to the output of the CE module, a second input for receiving data RE observations, and an output connected to the third input of the CE module; and a decoder, including an input connected to the third input of the CE module, and an output.

Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless LAN. A transmitter receives, from an access point (AP), allocation information about at least one subband from among a plurality of subbands, and transmits a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) in the at least one allocated subband. A guard area is defined on both ends of at least any one of the plurality of subbands.

Abstract: A method of operating a terminal device and network infrastructure equipment in a wireless telecommunications system for communicating on a primary cell supporting a primary component carrier on radio resources within a first frequency band and a secondary cell supporting a secondary component carrier on radio resources within a second frequency band. The infrastructure equipment establishes plural configuration settings for the secondary carrier based on measurements of radio usage in the second frequency band, which are conveyed to the terminal device. The terminal device makes channel quality measurements for the secondary component carrier according to the different configuration settings and reports these to the infrastructure equipment.

Abstract: A method and a device for performing communication by using various RUs in a wireless LAN are presented. If a center resource unit located in the vicinity of a DC frequency band exists, whether the corresponding center resource unit is used can be determined according to whether a discontinuous channel allocation is applied. The center resource unit can be used as a null subcarrier for canceling the interference, which becomes a problem due to the discontinuous channel allocation. If the center resource unit is used as the null subcarrier, the center resource unit is inserted into different frequency chunks, thereby mitigating the interference that can be generated for each frequency chunk.

Abstract: A user terminal configured to perform communication with an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network. The user terminal including a receiver configured to receive signals transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in accordance with a wireless access interface and a transmitter configured to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment in accordance with the wireless access interface. The user terminal is configured to receive an indication on a downlink of the wireless access interface of one of a plurality of different subcarrier spacing which the communications device should use to transmit or to receive the signals representing the data.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a signal transmission method, user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: determining a feature parameter of UE; and according to the feature parameter of the UE and a preset correspondence, determining a coverage enhancement technology used to transmit a first signal, and/or determining a second signal that the UE supports transmitting, and/or determining a function, supported by the UE, of a third signal. The present invention can optimize resource utilization of a system, decrease processing complexity, and reduce power consumption.

Abstract: A method 10 is presented for controlling resource usage performed in a first network node 2. The first network node 2 has a first uplink connection UL1 and a first downlink connection DL1 with a wireless device 5. The method 10 comprises transmitting 11, to a wireless device 5, configuration instructions instructing the wireless device 5 to enter a dual connectivity mode with a second network node 3 on a second uplink connection UL2 and a second downlink connection DL2 between the wireless device 5 and the second network node 3; and when one or more of the uplink and/or downlink connections UL1, DL1, UL2, DL2 to the first and/or second network nodes 2, 3 is determined to be able to operate on a reduced set of resources, transmitting 12 to the wireless device 5 configuration instructions instructing the wireless device 5 to operate on a reduced set of resources for the one or more uplink and downlink connections UL1, DL1, UL2, DL2.

Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of selecting a wireless communication channel to communicate in a wireless communication network. For example, an apparatus may include a channel selector to select at a network controller of a first wireless communication network a first wireless communication channel to communicate between the network controller and one or more wireless communication devices, to detect on the first wireless communication channel a frame from a second wireless communication network, and based on a medium access control (MAC) address of the frame, to select between remaining on the first wireless communication channel and selecting a second wireless communication channel to communicate between the network controller and the one or more wireless communication devices.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a receiver for processing a received signal, the method dividing a plurality of resource elements (RE) to create RE groups by considering the inter-relationships between the channels of the plurality of REs, selecting a reference RE for each RE group, and generating, for each RE group, a detection signal from a received signal on the basis of channel information of the reference RE.

Abstract: Disclosed is a network interference coordination method in a co-primary spectrum sharing scenario. The method comprises the following steps: a first network and a second network negotiate an inter-network shared band, the shared band being in a shared spectrum pool; the first network evaluates inter-network interference; the first network determines whether to perform internal coordination, if internal coordination is performed, the first network performs internal coordination; if internal coordination is not performed, request the second network to perform inter-network interference coordination; the second network determines whether to perform internal coordination, if internal coordination is performed, the second network performs internal coordination; and if internal coordination is not performed, go back to the step of negotiating, by a first network and a second network, an inter-network shared band.

Abstract: A scheduling node (600), a transmitting node (602), a receiving node (604), and methods therein, for communication of data on a shared radio resource. The scheduling node (600) divides wireless devices into multiple groups, and assigns group-specific rotation angles to the groups so that the transmitting node (602) should apply a group-specific rotation angle when transmitting data to or from a wireless device in the corresponding group. In addition, a repetition factor is assigned to each wireless device such that the data is repeated consecutively according to the repetition factor, before transmission. The repetition factor may correspond to the number of groups.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method for mitigating inter-cell interference (ICI) by scheduling user equipments. The method comprises estimating inter-cell interference tolerance of each of at least one neighboring cell during uplink transmission of the user equipment; and coordinating uplink scheduling of the user equipment in accordance with the inter-cell interference tolerance. The present application also discloses a base station, a radio network controller and relevant signaling for mitigating inter-cell interference (ICI) by scheduling user equipments.