A method for quantizing data representative of a radio signal received by a radio antenna of a mobile network. The method includes: demodulating the radio signal received by the antenna, providing a demodulated signal; scalar quantizing each value of the demodulated signal using a quantization table selected according to a channel coding level used to transmit the radio signal, providing a quantized demodulated signal; and transmitting the quantized demodulated signal to a channel decoding module.

Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes sending a first training signal by a first device to a second device on a reflection path. The first device sends a second training signal to the second device on the reflection path. The reflection path is a transmission path formed after the first training signal and the second training signal are reflected by a surrounding object. An interval between the first training signal and the second training signal is used to indicate to decode data.

A system and method for including multiple data rate sub-blocks within a single data block includes dividing data blocks based on a priority or intended set of recipients. The sub-blocks are modulated at increasing data rates and the modulated sub-blocks are appended together and bounded by the known symbol blocks during transmission. The sub-blocks are organized in order of increasing data rate. During decoding, detected symbols of a first, low data rate sub-block are included in the detection process of higher data rate sub-blocks in place of additional symbols that would otherwise be needed for higher data rate transmissions. Alternatively, the sub-blocks may be organized with low data rate sub-block at the periphery and higher data rate sub-blocks in the interior such that the data block may be decoded from both ends.

A device may receive measurement reports for a target device, where the measurement reports include information regarding cells. The device may process the measurement reports and determine whether the target device is airborne. The device may determine, based on determining whether the target device is airborne, whether the target device is authorized to be airborne. The device may determine, based on determining whether the target device is authorized to be airborne, an altitude of the target device to confirm whether the target device is airborne. The device may perform, based on a result of confirming whether the target device is airborne, an action to identify the target device as an unauthorized airborne device and/or manage the target device.

A method includes determining a delivery performance of a data flow being transmitted from a first network equipment to a second network equipment over a network; determining whether the network is congested based on the determined delivery performance of the data flow being transmitted to the second network equipment; and pacing delivery of the data flow to the second network equipment by reducing a rate at which the data flow is delivered to the second network equipment when the network is determined to be congested.

Methods and systems for a monitoring system for data collection in an industrial environment including a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels connected to data collection points related to machine components, wherein at least one of the plurality of input channels is connected to a data collection point on a rotating machine component; a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the collected data, each of the plurality of detection values corresponding to at least one of the plurality of input channels; and an expert system analysis circuit structured to analyze the collected data, wherein the expert system analysis circuit determines a failure state for the rotating machine component based on analysis of the plurality of detection values, wherein upon determining the failure state the expert system analysis circuit provides the failure state to a data storage.

An implantable medical device, external device and method for managing a wireless communication are provided. The IMD includes a transceiver configured to communicate wirelessly, with an external device (ED), utilizing a protocol that utilizes multiple physical layers. The transceiver is configured to transmit information indicating that the transceiver is configured with first, second, and third physical layers (PHYs) for wireless communication. The IMD includes memory configured to store program instructions. The IMD includes one or more processors configured to execute instructions to obtain an instruction designating one of the first, second and third PHY to be utilized for at least one of transmission or reception, during a communication session, with the external device and manage the transceiver to utilize, during the communication session, the one of the first, second and third PHY as designated.

A communication apparatus that includes a first communication unit for connecting to another communication apparatus and communicating by using a PCR (Primary Connectivity Radio) function in compliance with the IEEE802.11ba standard and a second communication unit for communicating with the other communication apparatus by using a WUR (Wake Up Radio) function in compliance with the IEEE802.11ba standard, the apparatus obtains, from a signal received from the other communication apparatus by the second communication unit, a value indicating a signal intensity or a signal quality of the signal, and sets, based on the obtained value, a transmission rate of the first communication unit.

A consumption meter (M1) arranged to determine a consumed quantity of a utility at the consumer site. The meter (M1) has a communication unit with a transmitter and a receiver arranged for communication via a network, preferably an RF network. The meter can autonomously transmit data frames (DF) in accordance with a set of transmission parameters, e.g. data frames with data indicative of a consumed quantity. The meter can receive, within a limited time window (TW) following transmission of said data frame (DF), an acknowledgement frame comprising link data indicative of receipt of said data frame by an associated collector which has received the data frame (DF). Finally, the meter can adjust the set of transmission parameters for transmission of a subsequent data frame (DF) in response to said link data.

Regarding a first radio frequency (RF) carrier, a network node of a wireless communication network configures two or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) in the first RF carrier, each BWP aligning with a respective one of two or more other RF carriers positioned within the RF spectrum spanned by the first RF carrier. The node determines a frequency-sharing configuration for each BWP, in dependence on radio resource usage of the respective other RF carrier and configures wireless communication devices to use respective ones of the BWPs. For example, the node determines a resource-usage pattern for control-related signaling conveyed on the other RF carriers and transmits rate-matching information for the BWPs of the first RF carrier. Each BWP occupies RF spectrum used by a respective one of the other RF carriers, and the rate-matching information transmitted for each BWP depends on the resource-usage pattern determined for the respective other RF carrier.