H04L25/0212

HIGH DIMENSIONAL (HIDI) RADIO ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERIZATION AND REPRESENTATION
20180175984 · 2018-06-21 · ·

A device comprises a memory that stores instructions executed by one or more processors to obtain a plurality of received signals transmitted by a user equipment from a plurality of antenna elements in a cellular network. A plurality of complex channel values are calculated in an angle domain for a horizontal arrival angle and a vertical arrival angle per a received ray in a plurality of received rays in response to the plurality of received signals. A frequency-offset estimation is calculated and applied to the plurality of complex channel values. The plurality of offset complex channel values are transformed to a plurality of channel values in a time domain. A time-offset estimation is calculated and applied to the plurality of channel values. An expected value of the plurality of channel values is obtained to obtain a power angle delay profile for the geographical location of the user equipment.

RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL BROADCAST SIGNAL IN THE RECEIVING SYSTEM
20180167636 · 2018-06-14 ·

A transmitting system, a receiving system, and a method of processing broadcast signals are disclosed. The method for processing a broadcast signal in a broadcast receiver comprises receiving a DTV signal including a data group, the data group including mobile service data, segmented known data sequences, long known data sequences and transmission parameter data, compensating carrier frequency offset of the DTV signal and channel-equalizing the carrier frequency offset compensated DTV signal using at least one of the long known data sequences and segmented known data sequences in the data group of the DTV signal, wherein the channel-equalizing includes performing a Error Correction (FEC) decoding on data located between the segmented known data sequences, and estimating Channel Impulse Response (CIR) using the FEC decoded data as known data.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
20180167954 · 2018-06-14 · ·

Sub-band CQI reports are introduced for LTE systems having system bandwidth of narrow band, e.g. less than or equal to 6 resource blocks, which address issues pertinent to such narrowband systems. Three related methods are described: fixed, semi-static and adaptive sub-band size. To varying degrees they are each specified in accordance with the channel condition.

WIDEBAND RESPONSE ACQUISITION FROM MULTIPLE NARROWBAND ANALOG OBSERVATIONS
20240364564 · 2024-10-31 ·

Wideband response acquisition from multiple narrowband analog observations is provided. A method for wideband response acquisition from multiple narrowband analog observations may include estimating an impulse response of a transmission path of each of a plurality of frequency subbands in an analog domain and estimating an impulse response of a digital pre-distortion observation path of each of the subbands based on the estimated impulse responses of the transmission path of the frequency subbands. The method may further include modifying at least one frequency subband using an alias component to increase a bandwidth of the at least one frequency subband and reconstructing a wideband impulse response by aggregating the modified at least one frequency subband and the remaining frequency subbands.

Apparatus and methods for adaptively resuming radio channel estimation

Methods and apparatus for resuming radio channel measurements and estimations after an interruption in reception. In one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, an adaptive solution is provided for channel estimation based at least in part on the reception interruption duration. In one variant, an LTE UE determines a windowing length and/or shape for a time domain channel estimation algorithm based on at least the interruption duration. In an alternate variant, an LTE UE determines the interpolation coefficients for a filter based on the interruption duration.

METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR MOBILE SYSTEMS OF INSUFFICIENT CYCLIC PREFIX LENGTH

A method of estimating a channel for mobile systems with insufficient cyclic prefix length, wherein the channel comprises a plurality of multipath components (,), includes: receiving a signal (y.sub.n) comprising a plurality of contributions of a transmit signal (x.sub.n[k], x.sub.n-1[k]) transmitted during a plurality of transmission time intervals (n, n-1) on a plurality of sub-carriers of known pilots (kP.sub.b) and a plurality of sub-carriers of unknown data (k.Math.P.sub.b); determining an estimate of the plurality of multipath components (,) based on a probabilistic relation between the plurality of first contributions (x.sub.n[k], x.sub.n-1[k]) of the transmit signal, wherein the plurality of first contributions are transmitted during adjacent transmission time intervals (n, n-1), and an observation of the received signal (y.sub.n[k]) at a subcarrier (kP.sub.b) of the known pilots, wherein the probabilistic relation is based on statistical properties of the plurality of first contributions (x.sub.n[k], x.sub.n-1[k]) of the transmit signal.

Reference signal patterns for multi-path channel estimation

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device may receive a set of demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) over a multi-path channel on a set of resources in accordance with a reference signal pattern. The reference signal pattern may be associated with a non-uniform frequency spacing that results in a row-sampled Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) matrix associated with the reference signal pattern having a lower coherence than other row-sampled DFT matrices. Additionally or alternatively, the device may receive a set of tracking reference signals (TRSs) over the multi-path channel. The set of TRSs may be specific to wide-area terrestrial broadcast services, single frequency network (SFN)-based broadcast services, multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMSs), or the reference signal pattern. The device may perform channel estimation based on receiving one or both of the set of DMRSs or the set of TRSs over the multi-path channel.

Physical broadcast channel precoding in high-doppler scenarios

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. For example, a wireless device may support physical broadcast channel (PBCH) precoding in high-doppler scenarios. In some cases, a base station may generate a synchronization signal block (SSB) including synchronization signals and PBCH signaling. The base station may transmit, to a UE, the PBCH signaling in accordance with an orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) precoding and the synchronization signals in accordance with a non-OTFS precoding. The UE may monitor for the SSB and receive the PBCH signaling in accordance with the OTFS precoding and the synchronization signals in accordance with a non-OTFS precoding. The UE may establish or modify a connection with the base station according to the PBCH signaling.

COMPRESSING AND REPORTING PRS/SRS MEASUREMENTS FOR LMF-SIDED AI/ML POSITIONING

Aspects presented herein may improve the efficiency and performance of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) (AI/ML) positioning by enabling a user equipment (UE) to compress downlink (DL) reference signal measurements to reduce reporting overhead for the DL reference signal measurements. In one aspect, a UE performs at least one channel impulse response (CIR) measurement or at least one channel frequency response (CFR) measurement for a set of positioning reference signals (PRSs). The UE compresses the at least one CIR measurement or the at least one CFR measurement for the set of PRSs. The UE reports, for a network entity, one or more of the at least one compressed CIR measurement or the at least one compressed CFR measurement for the set of PRSs.

RADIO FREQUENCY SENSING CONTROL FOR AN ULTRA-WIDEBAND SYSTEM

This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for radio frequency sensing control for an ultra-wideband system. Some aspects more specifically relate to setting up one or more sensing instances (sensing rounds) for one or more respective sensing operations. In some implementations, a first wireless device (for example a controller, an initiator) may transmit a sensing session setup request frame that indicates a set of parameters for the one or more sensing instances. For each of the sensing instances, the first wireless device may transmit a sensing control information element that includes at least a common sensing control configuration and a channel impulse response report configuration. The first wireless device may participate in the sensing operations with at least a second wireless device (for example one or more responders or controlees) during the respective sensing instances.