A compact antenna test range equipment of the invention includes a microwave darkroom including a plurality of walls connected to each other, a reflector disposed in the microwave darkroom and comprising a reflecting surface having a polygon shape comprising a plurality of edges and a plurality of corners, each of the corners is located between two of the edges, wherein each of the corners aiming at one of the walls, a feeding antenna disposed in the microwave darkroom and corresponding to any position of the reflecting surface, and a test turning table disposed in the microwave darkroom and configured to bear a testing piece which is disposed in a quiet zone and exited by a plane electromagnetic wave. The feeding antenna transmits electromagnetic waves to the reflecting surface so as to generate a plane electromagnetic waves or receive electromagnetic waves from the quiet zone.

A transmission of a sounding reference signal by an electronic device is provided. A method of an electronic device includes transmitting a signal via a first antenna subset including at least one of a plurality of antennas, measuring an emission environment of the plurality of antennas, using the signal, determining at least one antenna to be used for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS), based on the emission environment, and transmitting the SRS via the at least one determined antenna. The emission environment includes a strength of a reflected signal that corresponds to the signal and is reflected by the first antenna subset, or a strength of a reception signal that corresponds to the signal and is received by a second antenna subset including at least one remaining antenna.

A method comprises: measuring reflected and forward power at a power amplifier output; determining if the reflected power equals to or exceeds a first level; if the reflected power is equal to or exceeds the first level, then reduce power of a power amplifier input signal; determining if a standing wave ratio at the power amplifier output equals or exceeds a second level; if the standing wave ratio at the power amplifier output equals or exceeds the second level, then reducing the power amplifier input signal power level and/or sending an alarm; determining if the power amplifier output power equals or exceeds a third level; and if the power output from the power amplifier equals or exceeds the third level, then reducing the power amplifier input signal power level until such power level is less than or equal to the third level and/or sending an alarm.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to a radio frequency system with a plurality of radio frequency modules. At least one of these radio frequency modules includes a coupler switching circuit that can pass an indication of radio frequency power received at a first input/output port to a second input/output port, and pass an indication of radio frequency power received at the second input/output port to the first input/output port.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to a radio frequency module with a radio frequency coupler and a coupler switching circuit. The coupler switching circuit can provide an indication of radio frequency power generated by the radio frequency coupler to a first input/output port. The coupler switching circuit can also pass an indication of radio frequency power received at the first input/output port to a second input/output port, and pass an indication of radio frequency power received at the second input/output port to the first input/output port.

The present disclosure provides a wireless communication method. The wireless communication method may be performed by a first apparatus and may include acquiring a transmit opportunity (TXOP) for transmitting a first physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) with a first transmission power, limiting a second transmission power of a second apparatus for sharing the TXOP with the second apparatus, and transmitting the first PPDU to a third apparatus with the transmission power in the shared TXOP.

According to an embodiment, a method in a closed-loop antenna impedance tuning (CL-AIT) system is provided. The method includes determining whether a transmitted power is above a pre-determined threshold, when the transmitted power is above the pre-determined threshold, determining a bypass input reflection coefficient, determining whether the bypass input reflection coefficient is greater than a bypass threshold, and when the bypass input reflection coefficient is greater than the bypass threshold, determining an optimal tuner code based on a tuner code search algorithm.

An apparatus and a method for transmission system are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) detection apparatus, comprising: a signal processing circuit with 1-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) functionality configured to receive a forward coupled signal in a transmission line of an antenna system, receive a reverse coupled signal in the transmission line of the antenna system, detect the forward coupled signal and the reverse coupled signal, convert the forward detected signal and the reverse detected signal to an analog voltage signal mapped to a return loss value, convert by the 1-bit ADC the analog voltage signal into a digital pulse train and output the digital pulse train to a digital interface of a processing device or unit.

A transceiver having quantization noise compensation is disclosed. The transceiver includes transmitter and receiver circuits. The transmitter is configured to receive and quantize a digital signal to generate a quantized signal. The quantized signal is then converted into an analog transmit signal and transmitted as a wireless signal. The receiver circuit is configured to receive a reflected version of the wireless signal and generate an analog receive signal based thereon. The analog receive signal is converted into a digital receive signal. Thereafter, the receiver cancels quantization noise from the digital receive signal to produce a digital output signal that can be utilized for further processing.

An electronic device is disclosed and may comprise: an amplifier for amplifying a signal; a filter circuit for filtering the amplified signal; a coupler for delivering a feedback signal with respect to the filtered signal; an antenna for radiating the filtered signal to the outside; and a communication circuit for generating the signal, wherein communication circuit: generates a signal, using designated information; delivers the generated signal to the amplifier; acquires, from the coupler, a first feedback signal and a second feedback signal with respect to signals amplified by the amplifier; and determines whether there is an error in a signal transmitted to an external apparatus, on the basis of the designated information, magnitude information of the first feedback signal, and frequency information of the second feedback signal. In addition, various embodiments recognized through the specification are possible.