Techniques are provide for neural network based positioning of a mobile device. An example method for determining a line of sight delay, an angle of arrival, or an angle of departure value includes receiving reference signal information, determining one or more windowed channel impulse responses based on the reference signal information and one or more window functions, processing the one or more windowed channel impulse responses with a neural network, and determining an output of the neural network.

The present invention is a transmission/reception method in which a reception device measures propagation path characteristics of a communication propagation path, a transmission device generates, based on a measurement result of the propagation path characteristics, a plurality of pseudo propagation path characteristics having propagation path characteristics similar to the propagation path characteristics so as to have low mutual correlation, the transmission device generates a data group including a plurality of parallel and independent data in the same number as the plurality of pseudo propagation path characteristics in a baseband on a transmitting side, obtains a transmission signal by synthesizing a plurality of superimposed data generated by superimposing the pseudo propagation path characteristics on the data one by one, and transmits a plurality of pseudo propagation path characteristic information relating to the plurality of pseudo propagation path characteristics and the transmission signal, and the reception device receives the plurality of pseudo propagation path characteristic information transmitted antecedently from the transmission device and a communication signal transmitted subsequently, and individually extracts the plurality of data from the communication signal based on the plurality of pseudo propagation path characteristic information.

A communication system is disclosed. The communication system includes a plurality of cloud radio access networks (C-RANs), each C-RAN comprising a baseband controller and a plurality of radio points (RPs). Each RP in the plurality of C-RANs is located at a site and is configured to exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with a plurality of wireless devices at the site. The communication system also includes a dynamic sectorization system communicatively coupled to each baseband controller. The dynamic sectorization system is configured to determine at least one signature vector for each of the wireless devices at the site. The dynamic sectorization system also is configured to map each RP in the plurality of C-RANs to one of a number of sectors (K) based on the at least one signature vector for each of the wireless devices at the site.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a repeater node may receive a first signal to be forwarded to a receiver node or a control node. The repeater node may generate a second signal that includes repeater node pilots and the first signal to be forwarded to the receiver node or the control node. The repeater node may transmit, to the receiver node or the control node, the second signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.

A communication device is configured to correlate a first signal with a second signal at a designated interval, the second signal corresponding to the first signal and being received by the communication device where the other communication device transmits a signal including a pulse as the first signal, convert a correlation computation result that is a result of correlating the first signal with the second signal at the designated interval into a format including a matrix product of an expanded modal matrix and an expanded signal vector, the expanded modal matrix including a plurality of elements indicating the correlation computation result obtained when assuming that the signals are received at respective set times, the expanded signal vector being a vector including a plurality of elements, each of which indicates whether or not there is a signal received at each of the set times and amplitude and phase of the signal.

a chaotic shape-forming and corresponding matched filter-based wireless communication method is provided, and the method includes that: 1) data to be transmitted is prepared; 2) chaotic shape-forming filter is performed on a digital symbol to be transmitted to generate a baseband signal; 3) the baseband signal is transmitted and transferred by use of a radio frequency component and transmitting antenna of a conventional wireless communication system; 4) a wireless signal is received by use of a conventional receiving antenna, and down-carrier process is performed on the received signal to obtain a received baseband signal; 5) matched filter is performed on the received baseband signal; 6) wireless channel estimation and multipath interference cancellation judgment threshold calculation are performed; and 7) sampling judgment is performed on an output signal of matched filter, symbol sampling is performed on the output signal of the matched filter in Step 5), and the sampled signal is judged by use of a judgment threshold calculated in Step 6) to obtain a decoded output signal.

The present disclosure provides a radio communication apparatus, a radio communication system, a radio communication method, and a program capable of demodulating signals at appropriate reception timings. A radio communication apparatus 11 includes: a measurement unit 111 configured to measure delay profiles of a plurality of frequency bands; and a determination unit 112 configured to determine a path timing of a first frequency band f.sub.1 based on a time difference between a first time t.sub.m1 indicating a time of a maximum amplitude in the first frequency band f.sub.1 of the plurality of frequency bands and a second time t.sub.m2 indicating a time of a maximum amplitude in a second frequency band f.sub.2 of the plurality of frequency bands.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to reference signal channel estimation. A wireless communication channel between two nodes can be estimated based on a received reference signal, such as a Sounding Reference Signal. Techniques are disclosed to improve performance of reference signal channel estimation and make channel estimates more robust in the presence of one or more of a variety of impairments. Frequency domain processing and/or time domain processing can be performed to reduce distortion in channel estimates.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for detecting the type of signal propagation, the method comprising: calculating a plurality of similarity values when a location base station in an ultra-wideband location system currently receives a pulse response from a location tag, wherein each of the similarity values represents the degree of similarity between the currently received pulse response and one of a plurality of reference pulse responses, and the plurality of reference pulse responses are pulse responses from at least one location tag that were previously received by the location base station where the type of signal propagation between the location base station and the at least one location tag is a specific type of signal propagation; and determining, based on the plurality of similarity values, a current type of signal propagation between the location base station and the location tag. The method and apparatus can be used to detect the type of signal propagation between the location base station and the location tag in the UWB location system.

An example method may include a processing system of a base station having a processor selecting a blank resource of a time and frequency resource grid of the base station for a transmission of a channel sounding waveform and transmitting the channel sounding waveform via the blank resource. Another example method may include a processing system of a channel sounding receiver receiving at a location, from a base station, a channel sounding waveform via a blank resource of a time and frequency resource grid of the base station, and measuring a channel property at the location based upon the channel sounding waveform.