A technique for performing channel tracking and/or channel estimation in a wireless communication device includes receiving a reference signal and one or more non-error propagation physical channel signals. In general, the one or more non-error propagation physical channel signals must be correctly decoded before a data channel can be decoded. Channel tracking and/or channel estimation are/is then performed based on the reference signal and at least one of the one or more non-error propagation physical channel signals.

A wireless communication device according to an embodiment has an interface and a sleep controller. The interface transmits and receives a wireless signal. The sleep controller sets a sleep period equal to or shorter than a predetermined interrupt period when a first period from a current time to a start timing of a next one of the task is longer than the interrupt period.

A communication control method according to the present embodiment comprises: a step of transmitting, by a user terminal located inside a cell, detection information indicating that a D2D synchronization signal is detected, to a base station that manages the cell, when receiving the D2D synchronization signal from another user terminal; and a step of transmitting, to the user terminal, by the base station, on the basis of the detection information received from the user terminal, setting information for setting the user terminal to a D2D synchronization source.

Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) and methods for determination of a side-link reference signal received power (S-RSRP) are disclosed herein. The UE may receive a signal from a second UE as part of a device-to-device (D2D) communication. The UE may determine a resource element (RE) block size to be used for a determination of the S-RSRP. The RE block size may be based on a delay spread of a channel between the UE and the second UE. The UE may determine the S-RSRP based on multiple summations, sizes of which may be based on the determined RE block size.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device (WCD) may perform a clock tracking procedure that comprises: transmitting, to an access point (AP), an extended personal area network (XPAN) synchronization message pair that is addressed to a peripheral device associated with the WCD, and receiving, from the AP, an XPAN synchronization response message pair that is associated with the XPAN synchronization message pair. The WCD may transmit, to the AP, user data that is addressed to the peripheral device at a time that is based at least in part on an estimated awake window, the estimated awake window being based at least in part on the XPAN synchronization response message pair. Numerous other aspects are described.

Systems and methods for operating a 5G NR. In particular, a reduced capability (RedCap) user equipment (UE) can be configured to traverse a synchronization raster to locate a cell-defining synchronization signal block (CD-SSB). The CD-SSB can be used to derive, calculate, or otherwise obtain time/frequency information of a non-cell-defining synchronization signal block (NCD-SSB) which may be monitored and/or measured by the RedCap UE in a more power efficient manner.

Various solutions for an artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) positioning model using relative time input with respect to an apparatus in mobile communications are described. The apparatus may measure a first channel delay profile with a first path timing according to a first reference signal associated with a first network node. The apparatus may adjust the first path timing by a timing difference associated with a reference network node. The apparatus may: (1) generate a model output by a positioning model based on the first channel delay profile with the adjusted first path timing used as model inputs; or (2) report the first channel delay profile with the adjusted first path timing to a network.

The present invention addresses challenges associated with making timing measurements involving multifarious radio links. Such measurements are referred to herein as enhanced to connote that such timing determinations are being made across multifarious radio links. A radio link will be understood as connecting two radio nodes, and two radio links are considered to be multifarious with respect to each other if they are opposite in terms of uplink and downlink transmit directions, and further if they are associated with different cell identifiers and/or if the two links are between different pairs of radio nodes. The sharing of enhanced timing measurement capability information, e.g., between radio nodes and positioning nodes is disclosed. Such information indicates the enhanced timing measurement capability of a radio node. Sharing such information enables another node to determine an enhanced timing measurement configuration to be used by a radio node.

Examples disclosed herein relate to the scheduling, generation, and transmission of propagation measurements between mobile computing devices to aid the location detection of the devices. A bulk propagation fine timing measurement (BFTM) allocation message is generated by a scheduling mobile computing device that identifies other mobile computing devices in the area. The BFTM allocation message generated by the scheduling mobile computing device indicates a scheduling order for the identified mobile computing devices, and contention-free periods for the mobile computing devices to transmit the timing measurement messages. The responding mobile computing devices generate bulk propagation timing measurement (BFTM) messages that include propagation times between pairs of mobile computing deviceseither two other devices or the responding device and another device. These BFTM messages are then transmitted during scheduled times frames indicated in the scheduling order.

A method is proposed for verification of time data from a time signal modulated on a continuous carrier signal with steps to receive a first time signal with a first reference time, to receive a second time signal with a second reference time, which follows the first reference time in time, for calculation of the target time interval lying between the reference times from the time data contained in the received time signal, to determine a time interval and determine a reference time interval, using counting of periods of the continuous carrier signal within the time interval, for comparison of the target time interval with the reference time interval and to send an error signal, if the deviation determined by the comparison surpasses a stipulated tolerance value.