Abstract: Path-loss measurements are determined for a test client device moving along a path in a field test environment in which field Wi-Fi mesh network nodes are distributed. The path-loss measurements are reproduced in a field-to-lab test environment that includes a test client device disposed in an electromagnetically-isolated chamber and field test Wi-Fi mesh network nodes disposed in respective electromagnetically-isolated chambers. The test client device and the field test Wi-Fi mesh network nodes are in wired or wireless communication with each other via signal lines. A programmable attenuator is electrically coupled to each signal line. The attenuation of each programmable attenuator is varied to reproduce the path-loss measurements from the field test environment. Path-loss measurements at the location of each field Wi-Fi mesh network node are also reproduced with the programmable attenuators to reproduce the field Wi-Fi mesh network node configuration.

Abstract: Example embodiments of systems and methods for contactless card verification include a contactless card including a substrate, a processor, and a memory, wherein the memory contains a first applet and a second applet, and a recipient device in data communication with the contactless card, wherein the second applet is configured to retrieve one or more parameters from the first applet via an interface; and wherein the second applet is configured to transmit the one or more parameters to the recipient device for verification.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. An embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting data in a next-generation mobile communication system.

Abstract: A computer system for optimizing an application for monitoring operation of a network is provided. The application may utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI). The computer system may be configured to detect a network transaction volume level that exceeds a first threshold level. In response to a detection of the network transaction volume level that exceeds a first threshold level, the system may utilize the AI to determine whether to implement one or more over-threshold-level mitigation techniques. When the AI instructs the processor to implement the one or more over-threshold-level mitigation techniques, the system may query the AI for an instruction directing an implementation of the over-threshold-level mitigation techniques.

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 user equipment (UE) operates in a network. The UE receives, from the network, a paging area comprising a plurality of cells of the network. When the UE is in one of a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state or RRC idle state with respect to the network, the UE transmits a message to a first cell of the paging area based on the UE moving into a first coverage area of the first cell from a second coverage area of a second cell of the paging area. The UE then monitors the first cell for a page from the network.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for use in a frequency division duplex (FDD) wireless network including a base station (BS) and a user equipment controller (UE) communicating through a medium having an uplink communication channel supporting communications from the UE to the BS, and a downlink communication channel supporting communications from the BS to the UE. The method includes identifying an uplink frequency spectrum in the uplink communication channel affected by an interfering signal, and determining the uplink power level of the interfering signal and whether the interfering signal is caused by passive intermodulation distortion (PIM). In response to determining that that the interfering signal is caused by PIM, the method includes adjusting, based on the uplink frequency spectrum and the uplink power level of the interfering signal, one or more of a downlink power level of a downlink transmission signal and a downlink frequency range in the downlink communication channel.

Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing the impact of outage events in a wireless communications network are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes obtaining outage data that indicates that an outage event occurred at a base station. A first set of either expected or real time connected user devices prior to the outage event are identified. A first subset of the first set of user devices that are wirelessly connected to any of the plurality of base stations other than the first base station during the outage event are identified. Furthermore, a second subset of the first set of user devices that are not connected to any of the plurality of base stations during the outage event are identified. In this manner, the impact of the outage event can be analyzed to allow for service providers to reduce the negative effects of future outage events.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system for data mapping and storing in digital three-dimensional oscilloscope, wherein the fixed coefficients, which are calculated according the parameters and settings of a digital oscilloscope, are stored into a fixed coefficient memory CO RAM, the fixed coefficients are outputted to N fractional operation units through N?1 D flip-flop delay units to multiply with the acquired data x(n) and then be accumulated, thus N fractional calculus results are obtained. In this way, N fractional calculus results can be obtained by performing L/N fractional calculus operations. N fractional calculus results are sent to a signal processing and display module, in which they are converted into a display data through a drawing thread, and the display data are sent to LCD for displaying, thus the fractional calculus operation and display of a input signal in a digital oscilloscope is realized.

Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for providing DRX enhancements in LTE systems are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a system control module is provided for controlling communications via a communications interface. A processor is coupled to the system control module and is arranged to implement an inactivity timer and an on-duration timer for determining an active time for monitoring subframes on the physical downlink control channel for control signals, the processor further monitoring subframes after the active time.

Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit that receives a reference signal from a secondary cell; a transmitting unit that transmits a result of a measurement of the reference signal; and a control unit that selects, when the secondary cell is deactivated after the transmitting unit transmits the result of the measurement and the secondary cell is reactivated, and when a time interval from a timing at which the transmitting unit transmits the result of the measurement until a timing at which the secondary cell is reactivated is within a predetermined time interval, a receiving beam that is applied to the secondary cell upon transmitting the result of the measurement by the transmitting unit, as a receiving beam to be applied to the reactivated secondary cell.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described related to timer-based sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX). A UE may receive configuration information for a sidelink DRX mode from a base station or another UE, which may indicate one or more parameters of the sidelink DRX mode. When operating in the sidelink DRX mode, a group of UEs may have shared active durations and inactive durations for coordinating sidelink communications. In a timer-based sidelink DRX mode, if a UE receives or transmits a sidelink communication, the UE may initiate an inactivity timer, and the UE may continue to monitor a sidelink channel for other sidelink communications while the timer is running. One or more rules may govern the operation of an inactivity timer with respect to the shared inactive durations.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) network transmissions can be based on an application sub-class or a user class. Systems and methods can include inspecting the information packet having a network level QoS field having a first network level QoS portion and a second network level QoS portion, determining an application sub-class or user class associated with the information packet, tagging the first network level QoS portion of the information packet according to a first network level QoS value, tagging the second network level QoS portion of the information packet according to a traffic priority indication and to a determined application sub-class or user class, and queuing the information packet for transmission from a network element based on the tagged first network level QoS portion and the second network level QoS portion.

Abstract: Enclosed are embodiments for sampling driving scenarios for training machine learning models. In an embodiment, a method comprises: assigning, using at least one processor, a set of initial physical states to a set of objects in a map for a set of simulated driving scenarios, wherein the set of initial physical states are assigned according to one or more outputs of a random number generator; generating, using the at least one processor, the set of simulated driving scenarios in the map using the initial physical states of the objects in the set of objects; selecting, using the at least one processor, samples of the simulated driving scenarios; training, using the at least one processor, a machine learning model using the selected samples; and operating, using a control circuit, a vehicle in an environment using the trained machine learning model.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for improving the DRX operation of a UE by introducing an additional DRX wake-up cycle, which runs in parallel to the short and/or long DRX cycle. The DRX wake-up cycle defines time intervals after which the UE starts monitoring the PDCCH for a wake-up duration of time; the UE does not perform any other operation during the wake-up duration apart from monitoring the PDCCH. The time intervals of the wake-up cycle between the wake-up durations are preferably shorter than the one of the DRX long cycle, and may have the same or a shorter length than the ones of the DRX short cycle. The wake-up duration may be as long as the on-duration of the DRX short/long cycle, or may be preferably much shorter, such as only one or a few subframes.

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable mesh network capacity management via network metering using a processor an integrated roofing mesh network node in a mesh network to receive and transmit data packets in the mesh network. Each data packet includes a source address, a destination address, and a payload of data. The processor determines passthrough traffic including a subset of data packets routed between radio nodes of the mesh network through the gateway based on the source address and the destination address of each data packet and an address associated with the gateway. The processor determines a passthrough data capacity based on the payload of each data packet in the subset and determines a metric based on the passthrough data capacity to signify an amount of mesh network bandwidth provided by the integrated roofing mesh network node.

Abstract: Discontinuous transmission method and device Disclosed are a discontinuous transmission method and device, capable of improving the discontinuous transmission performance of a terminal device and further reducing the power consumption of the terminal device. The method comprises: the terminal device determines at least one DRX configuration in multiple DRX configurations; and the terminal device detects a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) according to the at least one DRX configuration.

Abstract: A diagnosis supporting system according to embodiments includes a memory that stores medical information including patient information relating to a condition of a patient, and intervention information relating to an intervention for the patient; and processing circuitry that extracts a change point in the medical information, that calculates a first change amount indicating a change in the patient information between before and after the change point, and a second change amount indicating a change in the intervention information between before and after the change point, and that performs display based on the first change amount and the second change amount in a display mode set according to at least one of the first change amount and the second change amount.

Abstract: An example of the present disclosure provides a wakeup method, including: determining user equipment (UE) to be waked up; sending a wakeup signal block to the UE, wherein the wakeup signal block includes a wakeup signal and a physical channel, the physical channel is used to transmit assistance information and the assistance information is used to assist the UE in receiving or sending a signal.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform a physical layer measurement on a non-serving cell of the UE. The UE may report a measurement value of the physical layer measurement to a serving cell of the UE based at least in part on the physical layer measurement satisfying a threshold. The UE may receive, based at least in part on reporting the physical layer measurement, a physical layer reference signal measurement configuration for the non-serving cell. The UE may transmit a measurement report based at least in part on the physical layer reference signal measurement configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for measuring downlink positioning of an SCell in a dormant state. The apparatus receives, from a base station, a dormancy state configuration of an SCell associated with the base station. The apparatus measures downlink positioning measurements associated with at least one frequency corresponding to the SCell in a dormant state based on the dormancy state configuration. The apparatus may measure downlink positioning measurements associated with at least one frequency corresponding to at least one active cell associated with the base station. The apparatus may report the downlink positioning measurements of the SCell in the dormant state to an active cell associated with the base station.

Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic manager apparatuses, and systems includes receiving a plurality of network packets. Metadata comprising state information for the received plurality of network packets is generated. The generated metadata is inserted into the received plurality of network packets or a cloned version of the plurality of network packets. A network diagnostic operation is performed on the received plurality of network packets based on the inserted metadata into the received plurality of network packets or the cloned version of the plurality of network packets.

Abstract: A counting device includes processing circuitry configured to store rectangular area definition information indicating positions and sizes of rectangular areas obtained by dividing an area where a number of mobile devices is counted, count the number of mobile devices present in each of the rectangular areas indicated in the rectangular area definition information, every predetermined time, based on position information of each of the mobile devices, and when it is determined based on a counting result of the number of mobile devices present in each of the rectangular areas that there are rectangular areas where the number of mobile devices is smaller than a first threshold, integrate the rectangular areas to generate a new rectangular area, when it is determined based on the counting result that there is a rectangular area where the number of mobile devices exceeds a second threshold, divide the rectangular area to generate new rectangular areas.

Abstract: A method of transmitting a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) frame in a Very High Throughput (VHT) Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system includes generating a MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) to be transmitted to a destination station (STA), generating a PLCP Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) by adding a PLCP header, including an L-SIG field containing control information for a legacy STA and a VHT-SIG field containing control information for a VHT STA, to the MPDU, and transmitting the PPDU to the destination STA. A constellation applied to some of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbols of the VHT-SIG field is obtained by rotating a constellation applied to an OFDM symbol of the L-SIG field.

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an uplink classifier and branching point service is provided. The service may include the management of user plane function devices or uplink classifier devices according to various architectures and connectivity among the user plane function devices or uplink classifier devices. The service may allow end devices situated in different locations to connect to different application service host devices and application service layer networks based on such management.

Abstract: This disclosure describes various methods, systems, and devices related to identifying an issue in a network using a probe packet. An example method includes identifying an expired data packet transmitted in a network and addressed to a destination; generating a probe packet addressed to the destination; and forwarding the probe packet. When the probe packet is received, a report indicating a routing loop in the network can be transmitted to an administrator.

Abstract: A softAP bridge is created to support a mesh network that also works seamlessly with any home Wi-Fi AP routers by using Layer-3 techniques to simulate a Layer-2 bridge. With this softAP bridge, Wi-Fi chipsets with integrated special Wi-Fi MAC Layer-2 mesh network support (e.g., 802.11s), or external gateway hubs, are not required. To accomplish this solution, one of the wireless devices may be designated as a relay device for communicating IPv6 data packets between a home AP router and the remaining wireless devices designated as client devices.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system, a method and a device for switching between different communications protocols. A head wearable display can transmit, to a console during a first session interval, a first request to switch from a first link using a first communication protocol to a second link using a second communication protocol. The first request can include at least one characteristic of the first link. The head wearable display can receive, from the console, a first response to the first request, to perform a switch from the first link to the second link. The first response can indicate a wake up time and a second session interval to perform the switch. The head wearable display can switch from the first link to the second link in the second session interval and after the wake up time.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enhancing beam failure indications and detections. In particular, the present disclosure provides techniques for identifying and indicating reasons associated with beam failures. For example, in aspects, a user equipment (UE) may evaluate multiple beam failure indicator (BFI) trigger conditions based on beam failure detection (BFD) reference signal (RS) measurements. The UE logs different types of BFIs based on the evaluating. If a logged number of BFIs exceeds a threshold value within a measurement period, the UE declares a beam failure and transmits, to a network entity, an indication of the beam failure and a reason for the beam failure based on the different types of BFIs detected.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A data layer at a user equipment (UE) may provide information associated with an uplink message to a modem power manager to determine whether to keep resources which are brought up by the scheduler or to power them off for transmitting the uplink message. For example, the data layer may indicate a radio access technology, a subscriber identifier, and a bearer type associated with the uplink message, which may enable the modem power manager to identify which radios to wake up (e.g., or avoid putting to sleep). Utilizing the information may enable the modem power manager to determine whether the wakeup is related to uplink data, acquire information to support the wakeup with resources indicated by the information, and avoid putting resources to sleep if the scheduled and the unscheduled wakeup resource requirements match.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for centralized containerized deployment of network traffic sensors to network sensor hosts for deep packet inspection (DPI) that supports various other cybersecurity operations. A network sensor package containing a pre-configured network sensor container is received by a network sensor host from a network sensor deployment server. Installation of the network sensor package on the network sensor host causes execution of the network sensor container that further causes deployment of an on-premise network sensor along with a network sensor management system, a DPI system, and an intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) system. The configurable on-premise network sensor is deployed on multiple operating system distributions of the network sensor host and generates actionable network metadata using DPI techniques for optimized log search and management and improved intrusion detection and response (IDR) operations.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a loop in a domain comprising a plurality of overlay tunnel fabrics is provided. The apparatus can include an indicator logic block that can insert a predetermined value, which can be unique for the apparatus in the domain, into an egress tunnel header of a packet of a data flow. The header's destination address can correspond to a remote apparatus of an overlay tunnel fabric that includes the apparatus. Tunnel encapsulation can be initiated and terminated within the corresponding overlay tunnel fabric. The indicator logic block can determine, for a respective packet of the data flow from a remote overlay tunnel fabric of the domain, whether the predetermined value is present in an ingress tunnel header. Upon identifying the predetermining value in the ingress tunnel header, a loop logic block of the apparatus can determine that a loop is present in the domain.

Abstract: Provided are a multipath separation method and device, and a storage medium.

Abstract: A data stream classification method includes obtaining, based on a packet feature of a current data stream and a behavior classification model, at least one first confidence that is of the current data stream and that corresponds to at least one data stream class, where the behavior classification model is based on a plurality of data stream samples; obtaining, based on feature information of the current data stream and a content classification model, at least one second confidence that is of the current data stream and that corresponds to the at least one data stream class, where the content classification model is based on one or more historical data streams; and determining a data stream class of the current data stream based on the at least one first confidence and the at least one second confidence.

Abstract: A method and a device for configuring a relay resource are provided. The method is applied to a target device accessed by a relay device and includes: transmitting a relay resource configuration message to the relay device, where the relay resource configuration message carries at least one of: information of a resource of a time window, information of a resource for a backhaul or information of a resource for an access link, of the relay device.

Abstract: An apparatus, method, system and machine-readable medium. The apparatus may be an apparatus of a New Radio (NR) gNodeB or of a NR User Equipment (UE), and may include a memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry for the apparatus of the gNodeB is to: configure a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) associated with respective numerologies; determine a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including downlink control information (DCI), the DCI including information on scheduled resources including BWP index for a data transmission to or from a User Equipment (UE), the data transmission to occupy one of the plurality of BWPs or multiple ones of the plurality of BWPs; encode the PDCCH for transmission; and process the data transmission based on the DCI.

Abstract: The present invention provides an integrated, context-aware, security system that provides an adaptive endpoint security agent architecture model for a continuously monitoring and recording activity across an enterprise, specifically monitoring activity on endpoints, and subsequently detecting and blocking any malicious processes that may otherwise invade the enterprise and cause issues. The endpoint security agent architecture exposes a well-defined, public interface to the event data generated by the endpoint security agent in the form of a custom programming language by which a user can define the logic that the endpoint security agent executes in response to event data to perform detection of and response to suspicious activity.

Abstract: Configuration data is obtained and is useable by a decoder to reconstruct a first representation of an image at a first level of quality using a second representation of the image at the first level of quality. The second representation is based on a representation of the image at a second, lower level of quality. The configuration data comprises a value of a configuration parameter, the value having a variable bit-length. The configuration data is arranged into a sequence of bytes comprising a variable-length element arranged to store the value of the configuration parameter. The variable-length element comprises at least one given byte having one or more predetermined bits arranged to indicate whether or not the variable-length element comprises one or more additional bytes to the at least one given byte. The sequence of bytes is output for processing by the decoder.

Abstract: A UE may enter a dormant state, e.g., for power savings. The systems, methods, and apparatus described herein may provide ways for the UE to transition between an active state and a dormant state, as well as UE behavior in a dormant state. The apparatus may be a UE configured to receive downlink control information (DCI) comprising an indication of a bandwidth part (BWP) switch for a secondary cell to a dormant BWP and transition the secondary cell from an active state to a dormant state based on the indication of the BWP switch of the secondary cell to a dormant BWP.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an anomaly detection system. Some aspects of this disclosure include a method for detecting anomaly in a network device. The method includes determining one or more similarity values between a flow vector corresponding to a flow associated with the network device and one or more flow clusters associated with the network device. The method further includes determining a maximum similarity value as a maximum of the one or more similarity values and comparing the maximum similarity value to a threshold. The method also includes, in response to the maximum similarity value being equal to or greater than the threshold, updating a flow cluster associated with the maximum similarity value. The method also includes, in response to the maximum similarity measure being less than the threshold, detecting the anomaly in the network device.

Abstract: It is provided a method, comprising monitoring if a firewall receives a first packet and a second packet, wherein the first packet is directed to a IP address and a first port number; the second packet is directed to the IP address and a second port number; a hole through a firewall is punched for the IP address a hole port number different from the first port number and the second port number; the first packet has a first payload; the second packet has a second payload; and the method comprises checking if the first payload is substantially the same as the second payload; causing the firewall to block the first packet and the second packet if the firewall receives the first packet and the second packet and the first payload is substantially the same as the second payload.

Abstract: A method and/or a communications apparatus controls a monitoring of a physical downlink control channel. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a first message sent by a network device, where the first message includes M sleep time sets, and the sleep time is used to indicate a time length in which monitoring the PDCCH is stopped; receiving, by the terminal device, a second message sent by the network device, where the second message includes sleep time indication information, the sleep time indication information is used to indicate a target sleep time index, and the target sleep time index is an index in the M sleep time sets; and stopping, by the terminal device, monitoring the PDCCH in a target time period.

Abstract: During a positioning session, a wake up signal (WUS) configuration for a user equipment (UE) operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode may be adapted to avoid dormant secondary serving cells (SCells) for positioning. The location server, for example, may configure positioning assistance data and scheduling of uplink sounding reference signals (SRS) to exclude SCells that are included in a dormancy list for the UE. The location server, alternatively, may provide to a serving base station supporting a primary serving cell (PCell) for the UE an indication of the SCells to be used for positioning. The SCells may be removed from the dormancy list during the positioning session or may be brought out of dormancy for all or selected monitoring occasions during the positioning session.

Abstract: System and method embodiments are provided for signaling reference signals and Channel State Information (CSI) feedback for wireless communications. An embodiment method implemented by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communications measurements and CSI feedback includes receiving, from a network, at least one of a first index that indicates a corresponding non-zero-power CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resource, a second index that indicates a corresponding zero-power CSI-RS resource, a third index that indicates a corresponding CSI-RS resource for interference measurement, and a fourth index that indicates a corresponding channel quality indicator (CQI) report configuration.

Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus may provide one or more tangible, nontransitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon executable instructions to instruct a processor to: stripe an outgoing network message into two or more pieces; send a first piece to a receiver via a first network interface card (NIC), and a second piece to the receiver via a second NIC; and upon determining that the receiver failed to receive a piece of the outgoing network message, replay the piece that the receiver failed to receive via a third NIC.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a technique for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE implements the technique to select a number of component carriers (CCs) in both a first frequency range and a second frequency range. The UE determines a schedule for performing search and measurement in the selected number of CCs. The UE performs search and measurement in the selected CCs according to the determined schedule.

Abstract: A method for detecting information, a method for transmitting information, a user equipment and a network device are provided. The method includes: obtaining a time gap between a first occasion and a second occasion; and determining an occasion of an early indication signal or an occasion of a PDCCH corresponding to the early indication signal based on the time gap. The first occasion is the occasion of the early indication signal, and the second occasion is the occasion of the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) corresponding to the early indication signal.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product for performing dynamic spectrum sharing in a wireless communication system. A control plane message identifying a radio resource in a plurality of radio resources for controlling transmission of a data packet in a plurality of data packets between a plurality of communication devices is generated. The generated control plane message is transmitted. Using the identified radio resource, transmission of the data packet is controlled in a user plane.

Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for configuring a plurality of field devices enables a user to perform both device parameter editing and marking device parameters for bulk transfer in a simple an easy manner. The system and method provide a single application or utility that enables a user to view and make configuration changes as well as to view and change bulk transfer status for individual field device parameters while providing the user contextual information regarding the field device components to which the field device parameters belong or relate. The system and method provide the user with typical or standard configuration screens that enable the user to perform configuration activities in a simple and well-known format, but that include contextual indications of the various field device components to which the displayed field device parameters relate.

Abstract: Described are mechanisms and methods for supporting Channel State Information (CSI) measurement and reporting, and for supporting Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurement and reporting, under License Assisted Access (LAA) with dynamic power sharing. An eNB may comprise one or more processors to generate a maximum number of Component Carriers (CCs) and a number of active CCs to a UE. The eNB may then be operable to process a reported quality rating from the UE and generate a scaled quality rating based upon the reported quality rating, the maximum number of CCs, and the number of active CCs. A UE may comprise one or more processors to process a reference signal transmission from an eNB, to generate an unfiltered reference signal transmission based upon the reference signal transmission, and to calculate a quality rating based upon the unfiltered reference signal transmission.