Techniques are described for supporting satellite wireless access for a user equipment (UE) using fixed tracking areas (TAs). TA identities (TAIs) are broadcast in a satellite radio cell by a base station indicating which TAs are covered by the radio cell. A UE can access a radio cell if at least one broadcast TAI is not forbidden for the UE. A base station provides the TAIs broadcast in a radio cell and a TAI for a TA in which a UE is located to a core network node to support access by the UE. The core network node uses the broadcast TAIs to decide whether UE access is allowed and uses the broadcast TAIs and the TAI to assign a UE registration area. The UE may transfer all the broadcast TAIs to a forbidden TAI list if UE access is rejected by the core network node.

A transition satellite system which includes a legacy satellite system and a new satellite system that incorporates gateway level transition, satellite level transition and carrier level transition. The transition satellite system allows new satellite systems with user terminals, satellites and gateways to be able to coexist with existing legacy systems allowing a gradual phase-out of legacy user terminals and systems.

Systems and methods for a non-data-aided (NDA) approach to advanced OFDM timing are provided. This approach allows for accurate OFDM symbol timing and synchronization by avoiding inter-symbol interference (ISI) in multipath environments where an earliest arriving signal may not be the strongest signal. The NDA approach may rely on generating and applying a bias correction to a combined correlation result of the multi-path signals.

A communication method and an apparatus. The method includes: a terminal device receives measurement configuration information from a first network device, where the measurement configuration information indicates the terminal device to measure a first cell. The terminal device sends a measurement result to a second network device, where the measurement result is obtained by the terminal device by measuring the first cell based on the measurement configuration information, and the measurement result indicates that the terminal device obtains a signal of the first cell through measurement or does not obtain a signal of the first cell through measurement. Based on the indication, of the measurement result, that the terminal device obtains the signal of the first cell through measurement or does not obtain the signal of the first cell through measurement, whether coverage of the first cell needs to be corrected may be further determined.

Methods, systems, and devices for satellite operations are described. A satellite communications system may include a transmitter that applies multiple spreading codes to a data signal to obtain multiple spread data signals. The transmitter may transmit the multiple spread data signals from multiple antenna elements in a composite signal. The satellite communications system may also include a receiver that receives the composite signal and applies multiple despreading codes to the composite signal to obtain multiple despread data signals. The receiver may combine the multiple despread data signals to obtain a combined data signal that corresponds to the data signal processed by the transmitter. To combine the multiple despread data signals, the receiver may estimate coefficients for each of the despread data signals.

A method for dispatching radio coverage drones to a geographical area of a failing node in a radio network, wherein the radio coverages drones are configured to re-establish operability of the failing node is disclosed. The method comprises steps being performed by a network node of generating (102) a radio coverage map, wherein the generated radio coverage map covers the geographical area of the failing node and geographical areas of adjacent nodes, identifies at least one mobile communication device having radio coverage from at least one of the adjacent nodes, and defines a size of the geographical area of the failing node, dynamically calibrating (103) the defined size of the geographical area of the failing node of the dynamically generated radio coverage map by: calculating (103a) a first distance between the identified mobile communication device and a selected one of the adjacent nodes, wherein the identified mobile communication device has coverage from the selected adjacent node while being geographically closer to the failing node than to the selected adjacent node, deducing (103b) a second distance between the failing node and the selected adjacent node, determining (103d) the actual size of the geographical area of the failing node based on the second and the first distance, and determining (104) a number of radio coverage drones to be dispatched to the geographical area of the failing node, wherein the number of radio coverage drones is based on to the actual size of the geographical area of the failing node. Corresponding computer program product, arrangement, network node, and system are also disclosed.

Embodiments of this disclosure provide a power adjustment method, apparatus, and system. A first access network device may obtain a power back-off value at a first moment, and compare the power back-off value at the first moment with a power back-off value at a second moment. The second moment is earlier than the first moment. When a difference between the power back-off value at the second moment and the power back-off value at the first moment is greater than or equal to a first threshold, the first access network device adjusts an output power based on the power back-off value at the first moment.

Techniques are provided for reacting to a notification of a timing source outage in a network node. An example method for reacting to an indication of a timing source outage includes receiving the indication of the timing source outage associated with a first node, and deactivating at least one transmission from the first node.

An improved air interface for satellite systems such as a 5G-based non-geostationary (NGSO) satellite system. The air interface includes an improved physical interface for efficient operation over NGSO satellite systems. The air interface includes an improved forward link for communicating from the satellite gateway to the user terminal and a return link for communicating from the user terminal to the satellite gateway.

A satellite IRD (Integrated Receiver Decoder) complies with DiSEqC protocol and is capable of receiving a program of a specific channel from a single cable interface device through a cable. The DiSEqC transmitter transmits a first command corresponding to the specific channel to the single cable interface device through the I/O interface and the cable. The DiSEqC receiver acquires a second command transmitted on the cable through the I/O interface in response to the DiSEqC transmitter transmitting the first command. The detecting circuit compares the second command with the first command to generate a comparison result. The DiSEqC receiver monitors the I/O interface in response to the comparison result indicating that the first command and the second command are different to determine whether there is a command other than the first command transmitted on the cable.