H04W56/0055

User Equipment Capabilities for Time Sensitive Networking

According to some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device capable of operating in a time sensitive network (TSN) comprises obtaining a time synchronization capability of the wireless device and transmitting an indication of the time synchronization capability to a network node. In particular embodiments, the time synchronization capability comprises one or more of a downlink receive tracking accuracy supported by the wireless device, a receive to transmit relative timing accuracy supported by the wireless device, an internal timing accuracy supported by the wireless device, and a propagation delay (PD) compensation method selection capability supported by the wireless device.

Group delay calibration for carrier aggregation / multi-radio access technology
11658756 · 2023-05-23 · ·

Disclosed are techniques for handling of radio frequency (RF) front-end group delays for roundtrip time (RTT) estimation. In an aspect, a network node transmits first and second RTT measurement (RTTM) signals to a user equipment (UE) and receives first and second RTT response (RTTR) signals from the UE. The network node measures the transmission times of the RTTM signals and the reception times of the RTTR signals, and the UE measures the transmission times the RTTM signals and the transmission times of the RTTR signals. The group delays of the transmit/receive chains of the network node and the UE are determined for one set of transmit/receive chains based on the first RTTM signal and first RTTR signal. The group delays of the transmit/receive chain used for the second RTTM signal and the second RTTR signal are determined relative to the group delay of the one set of transmit/receive chains.

Channel Access Method for Multi-Link Device and Related Apparatus
20230209600 · 2023-06-29 ·

This application relates to the field of wireless communication, for example, being applied to a wireless local area network supporting the 802.11be standard, and in particular, relates to a channel access method for a multi-link device and a related apparatus. The method includes: when a length of a first PPDU transmitted on a first link by a first multi-link device is less than or equal to a first value, skipping starting, by the first multi-link device, a medium synchronization delay timer on a second link, where the first multi-link device is not allowed to perform simultaneous transmitting and receiving on the first link and the second link.

CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION
20170367060 · 2017-12-21 ·

A circuit arrangement may include an analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) configured to convert an analog signal into a digitized signal having an ADC frequency, a decimation circuit configured to provide a first signal having a sampling frequency based on the digitized radio signal having the ADC frequency. The sampling frequency is smaller than the ADC frequency. The circuit arrangement may further include a timer circuit providing a second signal having a timer frequency and a timing control signal to control the timing of the decimation circuit, and a difference determination circuit configured to determine a phase difference between the second signal and the first signal.

PREDICTING CLOCK DRIFTING

Disclosed is a method comprising obtaining a plurality of previous clock skews, a reported temperature and a reported time, based on the plurality of previous clock skews, the reported temperature and the reported time, obtaining a prediction of the current clock skew, determining a current clock offset based on the predicted current clock skew, determining a clock adjustment based on the current clock offset and the reported time, and determining a corrected time based on the clock adjustment.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DOWNLINK SMALL DATA RECEPTION

Methods and apparatus for downlink small data reception in wireless communications are provided. In an example, a method includes receiving configuration information for small data transmission (SDT), and the configuration information indicates one or more uplink (UL) configured grants (CGs), one or more downlink (DL) CGs, and a Transport Block Size (TBS) threshold for SDT; receiving a DL data transmission using a DL CG of the one or more DL CGs; determining a TBS, a HARQ feedback, and a Data Radio Bearer (DRB) associated with the received DL data transmission; and transmitting, using an UL CG of the one or more UL CGs, the HARQ feedback associated with the received DL data transmission, based on a determination that the TB S associated with the received DL data transmission is less than the TBS threshold and/or the DRB associated with the received DL data transmission supports SDT.

LTE-NR RELATIVE TIMING INDICATION

Two or more base stations may share relative timing information. For example, a first cell may determining a cell level system frame number (SFN) and frame timing difference (SFTD) between the first cell and a second cell. At least one user equipment (UE) can be configured with dual connectivity with the first cell and the second cell. The first cell may send an indication of the cell level SFTD to the second cell via a backhaul with the second cell. The indication of the cell level SFTD may be the determined SFTD or a SFN reference time. In some implementations, the first cell may send a the SFTD measurement result and assistance information to the second cell via a backhaul to the second cell. The second cell may determine the cell level SFTD. In some implementations, a positioning network entity may determine the cell level SFTD.

RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, RADIO BASE STATION AND USER TERMINAL

The present invention is designed to establish synchronization between transmission points when downlink signals are transmitted from a plurality of transmission points to a user terminal. A radio communication system has a first radio base station that forms a first cell, a second radio base station that forms a second cell, which is placed on the area of the first cell in an overlapping manner, and a user terminal that is capable of carrying out radio communication with the first radio base station and the second radio base station, and the second radio base station has a receiving section that receives synchronization correction information, which is for establishing synchronization with a synchronization target, from the user terminal, and a synchronization correction section that corrects synchronization based on the synchronization correction information.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NETWORK DEVICE
20230179345 · 2023-06-08 ·

Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a network device, applicable to the technical field of communications. The embodiments of the present invention comprise: when a terminal device receives a first PDSCH transmitted by a network device by scheduling a first HARQ process, before a first moment, the terminal device does not expect to receive, again, a second PDSCH transmitted by the network device by scheduling the first HARQ process, wherein the first moment is determined according to a second moment, and the second moment is a transmission end moment when the terminal device sends, to the network device, first hybrid automatic repeat-request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback information corresponding to the first PDSCH, or the second moment is a transmission end moment when the terminal device receives the first PDSCH.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

In performing wireless communication between terminals to perform time difference measurement and propagation time measurement, first and second terminals that transmit a signal at least once in attempting space-time synchronization are included. The first terminal measures a reception phase of a locally transmitted signal, and a reception phase of a signal transmitted by the second terminal, adds a positive or negative phase to the measured reception phase, and makes a report to the second terminal. The second terminal measures a reception phase of a locally transmitted signal, and a reception phase of a signal transmitted by the first terminal, and makes a report to the first terminal. The first and second terminals obtain a time difference or propagation time according to a reception phase measured by a local device and reported from a counterpart, and obtain additional information based on a phase reflected in the time difference or propagation time.