Disclosed are a signal transmission method and apparatus for transmitting a PRS signal in a 5G NR system, enabling a PRS to be applied to terminal positioning in a 5G NR system. Provided are a signal transmission method, comprising: determining positioning reference signal (PRS) configuration information preset for a cell; and sending a PRS signal to a terminal according to the PRS configuration information.

Base stations, user equipment devices (UEs), and methods for a base station to supply service type-specific information to the UE. The base station may broadcast a first system information block (SIB) comprising scheduling information for a plurality of second SIBs, wherein each of the plurality of second SIBs corresponds to a respective service type of a plurality of service types, and wherein the second SIBs describe service type-specific capabilities of the base station. The plurality of service types may comprise two or more of enhanced mobile broadband, ultra-reliable low latency communications, and massive machine-type communications. The base station may broadcast the plurality of second SIBs according to the scheduling information of the first SIB, and may establish a connection and communicate with the UE using one or more service types and according to the service type-specific capabilities described by second SIBs corresponding to the one or more service types.

An electronic apparatus, and a corresponding wireless communication method and computer-readable medium, where the electronic apparatus for wireless communication includes a processing circuit which is configured to: determine a first position range of a user equipment on the basis of first measurement information from the user equipment and regarding first beam scanning; when the first position range is lower than a predetermined accuracy requirement, determine adjustment of a beam configuration on the basis of the first position range; and determine a second position range of the user equipment on the basis of second measurement information from the user equipment and regarding second beam scanning performed by means of the adjusted beam configuration.

Determining a location of a user equipment includes transmitting, by one or more processors from a network node, a first beam having a first frequency range in a first area and a second beam having a second frequency range in a second area. The first area is larger than and encompasses the second area. A request for determining the location of the user equipment is received. The one or more processors may then cause the second beam to sweep within the first area, receive a second signal from the user equipment indicating when the second beam is swept over the location of the user equipment and data related to signal measurements of the second beam at the user equipment, and determine the location of the user equipment based on a pointing direction of the second beam relative to a position of the node of the network and the received data.

A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically monitoring for possible infection or other physical health concerns, such as from Covid-19. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The method and system automatically uses and/or learns user location and activity patterns and determines and infection risk that can be communicated as a warning to community members.

A communication speed prediction apparatus (1) includes: a position prediction unit (111) for predicting a future positional relationship between first and second communication apparatuses (B, D); a speed prediction unit (112) for predicting the future communication speed between the first and second communication apparatuses by using a predicted result by the position prediction unit and a prediction model (PD) for predicting the future communication speed between the first and second communication apparatuses; an extraction unit (113) for extracting a training information from an information source (121) including information relating to a past positional relationship between the first and second communication apparatuses and information relating to a past communication speed between the first and second communication apparatuses; a training unit for training a parameter of the prediction model by using the training information; and a model update unit (115) for updating, by using the trained parameter, the prediction model used by the speed prediction unit, the model update unit changes, based on at least one of a state of the communication speed prediction apparatus and a state of the first and second communication apparatuses, an update frequency by which the prediction model is updated.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining anchor pairs from among a group of anchors and a first mobile device that is operating in an anchor mode, where the determining the anchor pairs is based at least in part on anchor locations, and where the anchor locations are known by the server for the group of anchors and for the first mobile device; generating a schedule for communications between the anchor pairs and one or more second mobile devices; and providing the schedule to the anchor pairs, wherein the communications between the anchor pairs and the one or more second mobile devices enables each of the one or more second mobile devices to determine its respective device position. Other embodiments are disclosed.

The present invention provides a method of communicating vehicle positioning information, wherein signals are transmitted from at least one vehicle mounted antenna for indicating a position of the vehicle to another entity, the signals including information concerning at least one of an identity of the at least one antenna and information providing a displacement between the at least one antenna and a boundary of the vehicle.

Systems and methods for using wireless beacons in point of purchase (“POP”) displays to facilitate the delivery of consumer oriented content to mobile devices is disclosed herein. Wireless beacons may be used to broadcast wireless signals from POP displays, where the wireless signals include data packets with unique identifiers for the wireless beacons. A wireless signal from a POP display may be received by a mobile device. The mobile device may provide the unique identifier in the wireless signal and a retail location of the mobile device to a remote server. The retail location of the mobile device may he provided by a mobile application (e.g., a retailer app) on the mobile device. The remote server may determine the retail location of the POP display by associating the retail location of the mobile device with the wireless beacon.

Systems and methods for providing unlicensed drone User Equipment (UE) detection in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In this regard, embodiments of a method of operation of a server for providing unlicensed drone UE detection in a cellular communications network are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, from a network node, a measurement report for a UE and predicting that the UE is an unlicensed drone UE based on the measurement report for the UE. The method further includes taking one or more actions upon predicting that the UE is an unlicensed drone UE. In this manner, an efficient unlicensed drone detection mechanism is provided.