Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter device may transmit, using a frequency-domain beam sweeping configuration, a wideband signal, wherein a pointing direction of a first beam conveying the wideband signal changes continuously with respect to a frequency domain, and wherein each resource element of the wideband signal has a different pointing direction. The transmitter device may receive a report associated with a set of measurements of the wideband signal performed by a receiver device. The transmitter device may communicate using a second beam that has a beam direction determined based at least in part on the received report. Numerous other aspects are described.

A communication device, computer program product, and method mitigate interference during mobility management of antenna beam selection. A controller of the communication device determines a first direction to a first downlink from a base station downlink that is beam steered toward the communication device. The controller determines a second direction to a second downlink from the base station that is beam steered toward a second communication device. The controller determines a scan cone of two or more beam entries oriented generally in the first direction and being at least one of angularly narrowed or directed away from the second direction to avoid receiving the second downlink. The controller configures the RF frontend of the communication device with a reduced codebook based on a subset of the two or more beam entries within the scan cone for mobility management of the communication device.

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/or viral variant information, and determines an infection risk that can be communicated as a warning to the user or community members.

Satellite access to a PLMN with a Fifth Generation (5G) core network (5GCN) is supported by a serving satellite NodeB (gNB). The gNB determines or verifies the country in which a user equipment (UE) is located to ensure that the UE is located in the same country as the PLMN. The gNB may determine the country of the UE based on UE measurements from broadcast satellite signals and a positioning ID (PID) broadcast for each radio cell. The PID frequently changes to prevent spoofing. The gNB may use multiple UE measurements from a moving radio cell over a period of time to generate a more accurate location for the UE. The gNB may indicate to a 5GCN whether the country of the UE has been verified. The 5GCN will determine the location and country of the UE if the gNB indicates that the country is not fully verified.

Disclosed are various embodiments for restricting usage of a mobile device when a user is driving a vehicle. In one embodiment, it is determined that a mobile device is in use by a driver of an active vehicle. A functionality of the mobile device is then restricted based at least in part on determining that the mobile device is in use by the driver of the active vehicle. For example, a touch screen of the mobile device may be disabled, and the use of a hands-free interface may be made mandatory.

A wireless device, network node and network management node are disclosed. The wireless device, network node and management node may cooperate to facilitate monitoring of the wireless device and detection of an incident involving a user of the wireless device. The wireless device is operable to connect to a network and comprises processing circuitry configured to cause the wireless device to enter an enhanced monitoring mode, receive, from a network node, configuration information specifying a measuring configuration for measuring signal strength, and measure signal strength in accordance with the received configuration information.

Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.

Proposed is a method of operating a first terminal in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise: a step for transmitting a first PRS to a second terminal; a step for receiving a second PRS from the second terminal; a step for receiving a first time difference from the second terminal; and a step for determining a location of the first terminal on the basis of the first time difference and a second time difference.

A Precise Point Positioning (PPP) system is disclosed in which one or more Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are obtained by a mobile device. The mobile device can obtain position information based on one or more position sources, where the position information is indicative of a location of the mobile device. One or more PPP positions of the mobile device can be determined based on the position information and the one or more GNSS signals, where a position uncertainty of the position information meets or is below an uncertainty threshold. A determination of whether at least one PPP position meets or is below one or more convergence thresholds can be made. In response to determining that at least one PPP position meets or is below the one or more convergence thresholds, the at least one PPP position can be provided.

Techniques are provided for network mode selection based on positioning system information blocks (SIBs). An example method for measuring positioning reference signals with a user equipment includes receiving one or more system information blocks containing positioning reference signal information, determining band and frequency information for positioning reference signals based on the one or more system information blocks, determining at least one operational constraint for the user equipment, determining a network mode for the user equipment based at least on the band and frequency information and the at least one operational constraint, and measuring one or more positioning reference signals based at least in part on the network mode.