Drone-based systems and methods are described for providing an airborne relocatable communication hub within a delivery vehicle for broadcast-enabled devices maintained within the delivery vehicle. Such a method has an aerial communication drone paired with the delivery vehicle transitioning to an active power state, uncoupling from a secured position on an internal docking station fixed within the delivery vehicle and then moving to a first deployed airborne position within the delivery vehicle. At a first position, the method has the aerial communication drone establishing a first wireless data communication path to a first broadcast-enabled device within the delivery vehicle, then establishing a second wireless data communication path to a second broadcast-enabled device within the delivery vehicle. The drone then couples the first and second wireless data communication paths it established operating as the airborne relocatable communication hub for the devices.

Techniques are provided for enabling user equipment (UE) positioning based on angle estimation in millimeter wave (mmW) bands. An example method for determining a location of a mobile device includes transmitting array gain information to a network entity, the array gain information including beam pattern information based at least in part on a sub-band and a state of the mobile device, receiving one or more reference signals in one or more sub-bands, wherein a receive beam for each of the one or more reference signals is based at least in part on the sub-band the one or more reference signals are being received in, and on a current state of the mobile device, determining measurement values based on the one or more reference signals, and determining the location of the mobile device based at least in part on the measurement values.

An apparatus for determining a position of a user device, UE, of a wireless communication network is described. The wireless communication network includes a radio access network, RAN, and a plurality of non-terrestrial network, NTN, components, like an airborne vehicle or a spaceborne vehicle, operating on a bent pipe principle for a transmission between the UE and the RAN. The wherein the apparatus is to receive (1) for bent pipe transmissions between the UE and the RAN via at least two different NTN components respective values indicative of a distance between the UE and the RAN, or (2) one or more Doppler values for each link between the UE and the at least two NTN components. The apparatus is to obtain positions of the at least two NTN components, and determine the position of the UE using the obtained positions of the at least two NTN components and the values or one or more Doppler values.

Disclosed are various techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) determines one or more angle-based measurements of one or more reference signal resources transmitted by or received at the UE on one or more antennas of the UE and reports, to a positioning entity, the one or more angle-based measurements, a beam pattern associated with the one or more reference signal resources, a type of the one or more antennas, locations of the one or more antennas on the UE, an orientation of the one or more antennas, or any combination thereof.

A method for minimizing aircraft collisions, includes detecting a flight of an unmanned aerial system (UAS) in a restricted area and determining a location of a radio frequency (RF) emitter in communication with the UAS. The method includes, at each of a plurality of RF sensors of a network of wireless RF sensors, receiving RF emissions within an RF band pertaining to UAS control, processing the received RF emissions, and transmitting data derived from the processed RF emissions. The method further includes at a designated one of the plurality of RF sensors, receiving the transmitted data from the RF sensors, a processor computing, using the transmitted data received from the RF sensors, a location estimate for the RF emitter and to predict the UAS is flying, and based on the prediction, the processor generating an alert.

A telemetry data computing engine may receive the telemetry data of a user device, via a network, and it may apply a machine learning algorithm to at least one telemetry data and generate a predicted location for the user device. The predicted location may be used to generate a location pattern for the user device and a user device profile for the user device. The user device profile may be routed to the wireless carrier core network.

Techniques for supporting positioning for a terminal (sometimes referred to herein as a target device) in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, positioning for a target device includes receiving a Request Location Information message, for a server, that includes a first information element and a second information element, wherein the first information element includes at least one field that is common to multiple positioning methods and wherein the at least one field comprises a quality-of-service (QoS), an indication of whether periodic location information is requested, an indication of whether triggered location information is requested, or any combination thereof, wherein the second information element includes at least one field that is specific to a first positioning method, and performing positioning in response to the Request Location Information message.

Object tracking anti-jitter filtering systems and methods. A plurality of raw location points for a tracking tag attached to a tracked object is received. The raw location points are stored within a raw location points buffer. Raw location points within an averaging window are averaged to generate an averaged location point. The averaged location point is stored within an averaged location points buffer for use within the object tracking system.

Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network entity comprising a location server and/or base station, a positioning capability report that includes a set of positioning capability parameters for a radio resource control (RRC) connected state. The UE may enter an RRC unconnected state, the RRC unconnected state comprising an RRC inactive state or an RRC idle state. The UE may perform positioning reference signal (PRS) processing during the RRC unconnected state according to one or more positioning capability parameters from the set of positioning capability parameters for the RRC connected state.

Systems and methods include a method for detecting and identifying access points. Signals transmitted by access points in one or more mobile telecommunications networks within range of a mobile wireless scanning system are received by the mobile wireless scanning system. A presence of the access points is detected by the mobile wireless scanning system. Locations of the access points are determined by the mobile wireless scanning system using the signals transmitted by the access points. The locations of the access points are logged by the mobile wireless scanning system. Location and identifying information for the access points are provided by the mobile wireless scanning system to a receiving client.