Methods of operating a position network center, which includes at least one server, may include receiving timing-error data corresponding to a plurality of unsynchronized or loosely synchronized transmitters from at least one position network receiver. Moreover, the methods may include transmitting data indicating a plurality of timing errors by the plurality of unsynchronized or loosely synchronized transmitters to a wireless user device that receives signals from the plurality of unsynchronized or loosely synchronized transmitters. Related position network centers, position network receivers, and wireless user devices are also described.

Method and apparatus for signal detection in dynamic channels with high carrier frequency offset are provided. A coherent detector and a non-coherent detector are operated in parallel on a block of samples of an input signal to determine respective time offset candidates of the input signal. The time offset candidate obtained from the non-coherent detector is used to determine a frequency offset candidate of the input signal.

Apparatuses (including user equipment (UE) and modem chips for UE), systems, and methods for calculating more accurate Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurements and/or detecting/eliminating ghost cells from a list of (supposed) neighboring cells are described. In one method, the cross-correlations between adjacent Cell-specific Reference Signals (CRSs) are used to calculate the RSRP and to detect any ghost cells in a list of (supposed) neighboring cells. Any detected ghost cell may be deleted from any searches and measurements by the UE, and may also be reported to the network.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method is implemented by a first Radio Network Controller (RNC). The first RNC determines a communication link delay of a base station supported by the first RNC. Subsequent to the determining, a request is received from a different, second RNC to add a call leg that includes the base station as a call leg for a call supported by the second RNC. Based on the request, the first RNC transmits a response to the second RNC that indicates the determined communication link delay. According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the second RNC uses the response to perform transport channel synchronization.

A technique for deriving the locations of one or more wireless base stations is disclosed. After initializing values for the base station location coordinates, a server acquires reference coordinates of a wireless terminal, which are provided from an independent source, and also acquires values for one or more time-of-occurrences of events associated with signals that travel between the wireless terminal and the base stations. The server generates predicted coordinates of the wireless terminal, based in part on the current base station coordinates, by using trilateration. The server then generates updated base station coordinate values, based on a method of least squares, in which each residual is a difference between the reference and predicted coordinates of each wireless terminal location, for one or more wireless terminals. The server modifies the base station coordinate values so as to minimize the least-squares function.

A method performed by a first base station for positioning in a cellular communication system includes receiving, at the first base station, a signal transmitted by a second base station and estimating a Time of Arrival (TOA) of the received signal at the first base station according to a clock of the first base station. The method further includes determining a delta value that is a function of an amount of time between the TOA of the received signal at the first base station and a time reference at the first base station and performing either, (a) providing the delta value to a positioning estimation entity within the cellular communications system or (b) using the delta value at the first base station to reduce a time synchronization error between the first base station and the second base station, or (c) passing the delta value to a User Equipment (UE).

The present disclosure provides a cell measurement method and apparatus, and a device and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving a first measurement configuration, the first measurement configuration including a frequency point to be measured, first configuration information of a first measurement window corresponding to said frequency point, and a whitelist neighbors list, as well as a first starting time offset corresponding to neighbor cells in the whitelist neighbors list; determining a synchronizing signal block (SSB) receiving window corresponding to the neighbor cells in the whitelist neighbors list according to the first configuration information of the first measurement window corresponding to said frequency point and the first starting time offset corresponding to the neighbor cells in the whitelist neighbors list; and measuring each neighbor cell in the whitelist neighbors list based on the SSB receiving window corresponding to the neighbor cells in the whitelist neighbors list.

In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a communication device is provided, comprising: a communication unit configured to execute a time-of-flight ranging session with an external communication counterpart; a clock offset measurement unit configured to measure a frequency offset of a device clock, wherein said device clock is configured to be used by the communication unit when said ranging session is executed; a processing unit configured to determine whether the measured frequency offset of the device clock has a predefined correlation with a frequency offset of a counterpart clock, wherein said counterpart clock is configured to be used by the external communication counterpart when said ranging session is executed. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of operating a communication device is conceived. In accordance with a third aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding computer program is provided.

Provided are a measurement method and apparatus, and devices. The method comprises: a terminal device acquiring a plurality of measurement parameters of a network device; and the terminal device determining a first measurement parameter from the plurality of measurement parameters, and performing measurement on a TN cell according to the first measurement parameter. The communication performance between the terminal device and the network device is improved.

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support enhanced positioning operations using a repeater. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, by the UE, an instruction from a base station (BS) to perform a first signal measurement at a first time and a second signal measurement at a second time; determining, by the UE and based on the instruction, a first signal characteristic of a first signal during the first time corresponding to a time when a first repeater is repeating the first signal from a base station; determining, by the UE and based on the instruction, a second signal characteristic of a second signal during the second time corresponding to a time when the first repeater is not repeating the second signal; and a location of the UE is determined based on the first signal characteristic and the second signal characteristic.