Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to receiving one or more downlink transmissions from a base station, and transmitting, based on comparing one or more parameter values of the one or more downlink transmissions to one or more threshold values, a sounding reference signal (SRS) to the base station over uplink resources. Other aspects relate to receiving, from a user equipment (UE), feedback related to decoding one or more downlink transmissions, wherein the feedback includes an indication that the UE is transmitting a SRS, and receiving, based on the indication, the SRS from the UE over uplink resources.

Abstract: A method of operating a network server, such as a mobile application gateway, connect devices on a cellular or carrier network with individual networks, such as enterprise voice and data networks or residential networks. The effects of the present invention are far reaching in terms of transferring effective call control from the cellular network into the control of the individual network, such as the enterprise, and enabling new business models for the purchase of cellular service from a public cellular carrier by an enterprise.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for communicating data acoustically. The method includes segmenting the data into a sequence of symbols; encoding each symbol of the sequence into a plurality of tones; and acoustically generating the plurality of tones simultaneously for each symbol in sequence. Each of the plurality of tones for each symbol in the sequence may be at a different frequency.

Abstract: The invention provides a radio frequency (RF) module and associated method with envelope tracking (ET) power supply in a device. The RF module may comprise a plurality of transmitters, an ET output, and an ET multiplexer. Each said transmitter may comprise an ET port and one or more RF outputs, and may be configured for providing an RF signal to one of said one or more RF outputs, and providing an ET signal, which reflects an envelope of the RF signal, to the ET port. The ET multiplexer may be coupled between said ET ports of the plurality of transmitters and the ET output, for selectively relaying one of said ET ports to the ET output.

Abstract: Base station and UE and methods therein for broadcast in a wireless communication network. The method in the base station comprises determining a set of transmission resources, out of a number of sets of transmission resources, based on a property associated with a synchronization signal of the base station, and further transmitting the synchronization signal and/or system information, such as a MIB, in the determined set of transmission resources.

Abstract: A method for configuring a guard period includes: determining a target guard duration value corresponding to a guard period; and when data burst transmission is to be performed, sending target data of the data burst transmission to a receiver in the Internet of Vehicles starting from a first time point, where the first time point is a time point having an interval of the target guard duration value from a start time point, and the start time point is a time point at which the data burst transmission is determined to be performed. A guard period can be placed before sending target data, and a number of valid symbols in a subframe for data transmission can be increased by controlling a target guard duration value corresponding to the guard period, reducing performance loss of a terminal and improving performance in the Internet of Vehicles.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for uplink (UL) data channel design. An example method is provided for operations which may be performed by a first apparatus. The example method generally comprises determining a number of pilot symbols to transmit for one or more slots of a first subframe based, at least in part, on a coverage enhancement (CE) level, and transmitting at least one uplink data channel having the determined number of pilot symbols in the one or more slots of the first subframe.

Abstract: A communications device transmitting/receiving signals to/from a mobile communications network includes one or more network elements providing a wireless access interface for the communications device. The wireless access interface includes plural communications resource elements across a host frequency range of a host carrier, and a first section of the communications resources within a first frequency range for preferable allocation to reduced capability devices forming a first reduced bandwidth carrier and a second section of the communications resources within a second frequency range for preferable allocation to the reduced capability devices forming a second reduced bandwidth carrier. Each of the first and second frequency ranges is within the host frequency range.

Abstract: A faulted message element in 5G or 6G can often be identified according to its modulation parameters, including a large deviation of the branch amplitudes from the predetermined amplitude levels of the modulation scheme, and/or the SNR of the branch amplitudes, and/or an amplitude variation of the raw signal or the branches during the message element, and/or an inconsistency between the modulation state as determined by the amplitude and phase of the raw waveform versus the amplitudes of the orthogonal branch signals, among other measures of modulation quality. An AI model may be necessary to correlate the various quality measures, and optionally to determine the correct demodulation of faulted message elements. Costly, time-consuming retransmissions may be avoided by determining the correct demodulation of each message element at the receiver, thereby improving throughput and reliability with fewer delays.

Abstract: An embedded GPU-based wideband parallel channelized receiving method includes: constructing an OpenCL platform; decimating a wideband signal read in the OpenCL platform at an interval indicated by the number of channels; assigning data in each row to one of multiple work groups for processing; filtering data on each of channels based on a coefficient of a polyphase filter on a branch; multiplying the filtered data by a factor; and performing an FFT on the formed two-dimensional matrix by columns to obtain data outputted from each of the channels.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computing system. The computing system comprises a data input configured to receive an input data signal, a computation unit having an input coupled with the data input, the computation unit being operative to apply a weight to a signal received at its input to generate a weighted output signal, and a controller. The controller is configured to monitor a parameter of the input signal and/or a parameter of the output signal and to issue a control signal to the computation unit to control a level of accuracy of the weighted output signal based at least in part on the monitored parameter.

Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling pre-compensation of timing offsets in OFDM receivers without invalidating channel estimates are described. Timing offset estimations may be sent along with the received OFDM symbols for FFT computation and generating a de-rotated signal output. The timing offset estimation may provide a reference point for dynamic tracking of timing for an OFDM signal and estimated based on an integral value associated with the OFDM signal.

Abstract: In order to allow for accommodating different services having different demands while suppressing interference, a first apparatus of the present invention includes: an information obtaining unit configured to obtain guard band information which indicates a guard band within a frequency band including a first band with a first subcarrier spacing and a second band with a second subcarrier spacing; and a communication processing unit configured to transmit the guard band information to a terminal apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for improving the accuracy of a phase associated with the radar signal by identifying a spectral signature associated with a radio frequency (RF) impairment and performing digital predistortion to enhance the radar performance and to compensate for the impairment that causes offset or imbalance of the phase rotator output cause signal distortion or otherwise degrade of the phase of the signal. The self-calibrating mechanism of the present disclosure is configured to identify the impairments, determine a spectral signature associated with the impairment, and optimize the phase error through digital predistortion of the RF signal based at least in part on the spectral signature associated with the impairment.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.

Abstract: A scheme for noise floor de-embedding by identifying a link or relationship between noise floor from an oscilloscope and phase jitter impact on a toggling signal. The scheme uses phase or electrical spectrum and phase detection for noise floor recognition. The scheme de-embeds the impact from random noise and also removes deterministic noise or jitter from the oscilloscope. The scheme provides accurate jitter analysis for a circuit (e.g., clock data recovery circuit) after de-embedding noise floor for the oscilloscope.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wake-up resource randomization for discontinuous reception operation. An example method generally includes obtaining configuration information for receiving at least one wake up signal (WUS) during an OFF duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode of the UE; monitoring, during a WUS monitoring occasion occurring during the OFF duration of the DRX mode, the one or more resources for the at least one WUS based on the configuration information; and transitioning to an ON state of the DRX mode when the at least one WUS is detected in the one or more resources during the monitoring; or remaining in an OFF state of the DRX mode when the at least one WUS is not detected in the one or more resources during the monitoring.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an uplink multiple access scheme and technique to enhance the overall spectral efficiency of wireless systems. The scheme and technique exploits an index modulation concept in orthogonal multiple access systems. A first subblock of transmitted data for a user is conventionally modulated, while a second subblock of the data determines the index of the active channel that will be used to communicate the modulated symbol. The scheme and technique enables all available orthogonal resources to be used for an arbitrary number of users as an extra source of information that is used to enhance the overall spectral efficiency in terms of error efficiency and energy efficiency.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for transmitting and receiving signals between a user equipment and a base station in a wireless communication system and device for supporting the same. More specifically, the invention discloses a signal transmission method applicable when a user equipment simultaneously transmits uplink control information and a reference signal to a base station.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a time division duplex (TDD) subframe structure that supports both single and multiple interlace modes of operation. In a single interlace mode, control information, data information corresponding to the control information and acknowledgement information corresponding to the data information are included in a single subframe. In a multiple interlace mode, at least one of the control information, the data information corresponding to the control information or the acknowledgement information corresponding to the data information is included in a different subframe. Both single and multiple interlace modes can be multiplexed together within the TDD subframe structure.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for wireless communications. A first method includes transmitting a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communications signal to a wireless node in a licensed spectrum, and transmitting, concurrently with the transmission of the first OFDMA communications signal, a second OFDMA communications signal to the wireless node in an unlicensed spectrum. A second method includes receiving a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communications signal from a wireless node in a licensed spectrum, and receiving, concurrently with the reception of the first OFDMA communications signal, a second OFDMA communication signal from the wireless node in an unlicensed spectrum.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic device, method for a wireless communication system and storage medium. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a plurality of terminal devices are grouped based on respective data configuration parameters of the plurality of terminal devices; and for each group, data packets for terminal devices in the group are integrated into a composite data packet to be sent to the terminal devices in the group.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may apply one or more spreading sequences to a set of modulation symbols of a data set to generate spread modulation symbols; apply a scrambling sequence to the spread modulation symbols to generate a set of scrambled symbols; and transmit a waveform based at least in part on the set of scrambled symbols. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for providing configurable reference signal timing difference (RSTD) search windows for positioning. In an aspect, an RSTD search window is configured based on a positioning reference signal (PRS) configuration. The RSTD search window is provided to the UE. A plurality of PRS is transmitted from a network entity to a user equipment (UE), each PRS having the PRS configuration. The plurality of PRS are transmitted in a subset that is less than all subcarriers over a given bandwidth.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described herein for dynamic allocation of multiple channels and data streams for multi-channel transmission and multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO). For example, a station (STA) may receive an enhanced poll (EPoll) frame that includes a time offset, a channel offset and antenna/sector settings from an access point (AP). The STA may transmit, based on the received EPoll frame, an enhanced service period request (ESPR) frame that includes a MIMO control field and a multi-channel control field. The MIMO control field may indicate whether the STA supports MIMO transmission. The multi-channel control field may indicate whether the STA supports multi-channel transmission. Upon transmitting the ESPR frame, the STA may receive an enhanced grant frame from the AP. The enhanced grant frame may include an antenna configuration and a multi-channel allocation to enable the STA to perform the MIMO transmission and the multi-channel transmission.

Abstract: A method for calculating a time-of-arrival of a multicarrier uplink signal includes: accessing a multicarrier reference signal including a subcarrier reference signal for each subcarrier frequency in a set of subcarrier frequencies; receiving the multicarrier uplink signal transmitted from a user device, the multicarrier uplink signal including a subcarrier uplink signal for each subcarrier frequency in the set of subcarrier frequencies; for each subcarrier frequency in the set of subcarrier frequencies, calculating a phase difference, in a set of phase differences, between the subcarrier reference signal for the subcarrier frequency and a subcarrier uplink signal for the subcarrier frequency; calculating a time-of-arrival of the multicarrier uplink signal at the transceiver based on the set of adjusted phase differences; and transmitting the time-of-arrival of the multicarrier uplink signal to a remote server.

Abstract: A recursive discrete Fourier transform (RDFT) of this invention uses an input-decimation technique to reduce the number of input sequences for a recursive-filter so as to decrease the computation cycle of the recursive-filter. Therefore, the time complexity of the RDFT can be minimized, namely, increasing the throughput of the RDFT.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for mitigating inter-cluster interference in clusters where one or more network nodes are transmitting in coordination using several transceiver antennas. In particular the disclosure relates to improved precoder algorithms to be used for coordinated multipoint transmission applications. The disclosure also relates to corresponding computer programs. The disclosure proposes a method, performed in a communication system, of mitigating inter-cluster interference, wherein the communication system is configured to coordinate transmissions of one or more wireless devices within two or more wireless device categories and one or more network nodes, wherein the one or more network nodes are transmitting in coordination to the wireless devices in the cluster using several transceiver antennas.

Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to reference signal channel estimation. A wireless communication channel between two nodes can be estimated based on a received reference signal, such as a Sounding Reference Signal. Techniques are disclosed to improve performance of reference signal channel estimation and make channel estimates more robust in the presence of one or more of a variety of impairments. Frequency domain processing and/or time domain processing can be performed to reduce distortion in channel estimates.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter may determine a first modulation order for a first layer of a communication and a second modulation order for a second layer of the communication, wherein the first modulation order and the second modulation order are different; interleave bits for one or more of the first layer or the second layer based at least in part on the first modulation order and the second modulation order; and transmit the interleaved bits via the one or more of the first layer or the second layer. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method includes determining, based at least in part on a number of downlink component carriers (CCs) scheduled for a user equipment (UE) during a reporting interval, a number of bits to be included in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) acknowledgement/non-acknowledgement (ACK/NAK) payload for the reporting interval; and selecting, based at least in part on the determined number of bits, a format of the PUCCH ACK/NAK payload.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Described is a method for providing a Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS) in a wireless communication system. The method comprises transmitting, by a base station to a plurality of mobile devices, the PTRS in a wide beam transmission at a first power level. The first power level is set such that at least some of the mobile devices receive the PTRS with a sufficiently high signal strength to enable the PTRS to be correctly received and such that at least some of the mobile devices receive the PTRS with a sufficiently low signal strength to enable the PTRS to be processed as manageable interference. A first mobile device may estimate the Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) of the received PTRS, and transmit, to the base station, feedback information based on the estimated SINR.

Abstract: A phase spectrum based delay estimating method of tracking channel responses, extracting phase responses from the tracked channel responses, and generating a delay estimate, wherein the delay estimate is based on a slope and intercept estimates of the extracted phase responses with high quality metric to improve delay estimation, and a system thereof.

Abstract: An example according to the present disclosure relates to a technique for identifying a wireless LAN (WLAN) packet. For example, when a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) includes a legacy signal field, a field contiguous to the legacy signal field may be used to identify a type of the PPDU. A field contiguous to the legacy signal field may include information indicating that the PPDU is an extreme high throughput (EHT) PPDU. The field contiguous to the legacy signal field may include at least one of information related to a frame format, a transmission opportunity, an STA ID, and/or a bandwidth.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses of resource allocation for wireless communication are presented. In an example, a user equipment may contain radio circuitry and processing circuitry such that the user equipment is configured to obtain a set of multiple indices, where each index in the set of multiple indices corresponds to a different uplink resource allocation from a set of uplink resource allocations formed from twelve contiguous subcarriers. In an aspect, the set of uplink resource allocations includes an allocation of the twelve contiguous subcarriers, two allocations of six contiguous subcarriers, four allocations of three contiguous subcarriers, and twelve allocations of a single subcarrier. In a further aspect, the user equipment can receive an index indication corresponding to an index from the set of multiple indices from the base station. Also, the user equipment can transmit data to the base station using the resource allocation corresponding to the received index indication.

Abstract: A disclosure of the present specification provides a new PUCCH format for allowing increased UCI HARQ-ACK; including CSI to be transmitted in an environment in which an enhanced carrier aggregation technology is used so that cells, the number of which exceeds five and is a maximum of X e.g., 32, can be aggregated.

Abstract: An information sending method, including obtaining, by a network device, first indication information, where the first indication information indicates a magnitude relationship between a transmit power of a first signal received by a terminal device and a transmit power of a reference signal received by the terminal device, and the first signal is a synchronization signal, and sending the first indication information from the network device to the terminal device.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for phased-based pre-carrier signal detection in a communication system are described. In embodiments, inphase and quadrature (IQ) data is generated from a received signal. A current phase delta value is determined from the IQ data and combined with existing phase delta value, such as an averaged phase delta value, which is compared with a threshold value to determine if a pre-carrier signal in the received signal has ended.

Abstract: A system facilitating compact signaling design for reserved resource configuration via a multi-dimensional bitmap is provided for a wireless communication system. A method comprises: determining a multi-dimensional bitmap (MDB) in time and frequency domains, wherein the time domain is represented by an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbol and the frequency domain is represented by an OFDM subcarrier. The determining comprises: selecting a group of reserved resource allocations of the MDB in which data information is not to be communicated; assigning a first value for the OFDM multiplexed symbol and the OFDM subcarrier according to a location of elements of the group of reserved resource allocations; and assigning, to other portions of the MDB other than the group of reserved resource allocations, a second value distinct from the first value. The method also comprises facilitating, by the device, transmitting the MDB to a mobile device.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to downlink (DL) control channel communications are provided. A wireless communication device identifies a search space set including a plurality of PDCCH candidate search spaces for a downlink control channel. The wireless communication device determines that a first resource associated with a first PDCCH candidate search space of the plurality of PDCCH candidate search spaces overlaps with a preconfigured resource. The wireless communication device monitors for a downlink control message over the downlink control channel by excluding monitoring in at least the first PDCCH candidate search space based on the determining.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reporting explicit channel state information (CSI) with spatial and time domain compression.

Abstract: A method for designing a system on a target device includes identifying a length for a carry chain that is supported by predefined quanta of a resource on the target device. A plurality of logical adders is mapped onto a single logical adder implemented on the carry chain subject to the identified length to increase logic utilization in a design for the system.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Pre-discrete Fourier transform (DFT) time-domain spreading codes may be applied for UE multiplexing for uplink control information (e.g., over shared resources of an uplink slot). For example, a moderate number of UEs may be multiplexed within the same slot by having each UE spread modulation symbols before DFT-spreading by different spreading code. For orthogonality across UEs, the pre-DFT spreading codes may be selected as orthogonal cover codes (OCCs). The spreading sequences can be generated from a set of any orthogonal sequences or generated from unitary matrices. In some cases, orthogonality in the time domain may be kept as well as a frequency division multiplexed (FDM) structure in the frequency domain. For such property, a Fourier basis OCC design may be used. In some other examples, a Hadamard matrix based OCC design may be used.

Abstract: A method, network node and wireless device for waveform selection are provided. A method includes selecting a waveform based on one of a modulation and coding scheme, MCS, a resource allocation, and transport block size, TBS, and transmitting using the selected waveform.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a network node in a radio access network. The method includes transmitting first numerology information indicating a first numerology for a carrier, the first numerology having a first subcarrier spacing and a first frequency reference. The method also includes transmitting a frequency shift indication indicating a second frequency reference for a second numerology for the same carrier, the frequency shift indication indicating the second frequency reference in relation to the first frequency reference. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, including receiving CSI-RS resource information about a CSI-RS resource location having the CSI-RS mapped thereto, from a base station and receiving the CSI-RS through a CSI-RS resource at a location determined based on the CSI-RS resource information, wherein the CSI-RS resource information includes an index value indicating a location of a CSI-RS resource element where the CSI-RS is transmitted, a period and offset information of a subframe where the CSI-RS is transmitted, and information on a number of antenna ports where the CSI-RS is transmitted, wherein when the index value indicates locations of different CSI-RS resource elements by types of the subframe where the CSI-RS is transmitted and the CSI-RS is set to be transmitted alternately through a normal subframe and a special subframe within one wireless frame, the location of the CSI-RS resource i

Abstract: Upon receiving a communications signal conveying symbols at a symbol period T, a receiver applies filter coefficients to a digital representation of the communications signal, thereby generating filtered signals characterized by a substantially raised cosine shape in the frequency domain with a roll-off factor ?, where components of the filtered signals correspond to angular frequencies ? = - ? ? ( 1 + ? ) T ? … - ? ? ( 1 - ? ) T , + ? ? ( 1 - ? ) T ? … + ? ? ( 1 + ? ) T . The receiver calculates first-order components from a first phase derivative of the components at a first differential distance, second-order components from a second phase derivative of the first-order components at a second differential distance, and composite second-order components from an average of the second-order components over multiple time intervals.

Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for efficient configuration of demodulation reference signals in beamformed wireless communications systems. In an embodiment, the transmitter can signal the location of demodulation reference signals (DMRS) by including an indicator bit in downlink control information indicating which DMRS scheme is used in the transmission. A first DMRS scheme can let the user equipment (UE) device know that the DMRS position for the PDSCH carrying the RMSI is as signaled on the master information block (MIB)—referred to as PDSCH Mapping Type A. A second DMRS scheme can let the UE device know that the DMRS position for the PDSCH carrying the RMSI is the first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of said PDSCH allocation—referred to as PDSCH mapping type B).

Abstract: Provided is a control device that controls flight vehicles having an antenna for forming a cell on the ground to provide a wireless communication service to a user terminal in the cell. The control device includes a replacement control unit that controls replacement of a first flight vehicle covering an object area on the ground by means of a cell with a second flight vehicle. The replacement control unit controls the first flight vehicle and the second flight vehicle such that the second flight vehicle moves to a location corresponding to the location of the first flight vehicle, the second flight vehicle and the first flight vehicle start providing a wireless communication service to a user terminal by Coordinated Multiple Point transmission/reception (CoMP), and then the first flight vehicle stops forming its cell.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting an uplink signal, which can efficiently utilize uplink frequency-selectiveness, thereby improving uplink spectral efficiency. The method includes: determining, by a first terminal device, an uplink multiple access scheme for an uplink control signal according to whether a time domain resource unit used for transmitting the uplink control signal is also used for transmitting uplink data; and transmitting, by the first terminal device, the uplink control signal by using the determined uplink multiple access scheme.