A method includes obtaining a channel impulse response (CIR) based on multiple ultrawide band (UWB) measurements between a mobile device and a target object. The method also includes estimating a first distance between the mobile device and the target object based on an energy of the CIR. The method also includes estimating a second distance between the mobile device and the target object based on a phase of the CIR. The method also includes obtaining an estimated distance between the mobile device and the target object based on at least one of the first distance and the second distance.

This application provides example ultra-wideband (UWB) signal synchronization methods and example communication apparatuses. One example method includes processing a narrowband signal to obtain time-frequency synchronization information of the narrowband signal. A synchronization signal of an UWB signal can be processed based on the time-frequency synchronization information of the narrowband signal to obtain time-frequency synchronization information of the UWB signal, where the UWB signal includes the synchronization signal and a ranging signal. The ranging signal can be received based on the time-frequency synchronization information of the UWB signal.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, the method may include a user equipment (UE) transmitting, to a base station, first reference signals. The base station may perform channel estimation using the first reference signals and estimate a value for an uplink channel based on the channel estimation. The base station may generate second reference signals such that a characteristic of a downlink channel seen by the UE is within a target value and transmit the second reference signals to the UE. The UE may estimate a value for the characteristic of the downlink channel and obtain the target value from the estimated value. Both the UE and the base station may generate a secret using the target value and utilize the secret key for physical layer protection.

An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a first antenna; a second antenna; a third antenna; a communication module comprising communication circuitry connected to the antennas and including a first receive port (RX) and a second RX; and at least one processor, comprising processing circuitry, wherein the communication module is configured to analyze a pattern of signals, based on signals received from the first RX and the second RX, and transmit information related to the analyzed pattern of signals to at least one processor, and at least one processor, individually and/or collectively, may be configured to perform a designated operation based on the information related to the pattern of signals from the communication module.

The present disclosure relates to signal transmission methods and apparatuses. One example method includes spreading a preamble symbol based on a first spreading code sequence to generate a first signal, and sending the first signal to a receiver. The first signal is used to determine a channel impulse response. The first spreading code sequence includes a plurality of spreading code groups, each spreading code group includes a plurality of same spreading codes and at least one guard symbol, at least one of a first bit or a last bit of each spreading code group is a guard symbol, and the plurality of spreading code groups include at least two spreading code groups with different spreading codes.

The present disclosure provides for methods and systems for improved channel information gathering mechanism. An aspect of the disclosure provides a method. The method includes sending, to one or more stations (STAs), a request for channel information. The channel information being related to one or more channels between an access point (AP) and the one or more STAs. The method further includes receiving, from the one or more (STA), one or more physical layer (PHY) protocol data units (PPDUs). The PPDUs includes channel feature information (CFI) associated with the one or more channels. In some embodiments, the request includes a beamforming report poll (BFRP) trigger frame having a user information field. The user information subfield indicating one or more thresholds associated with one or more parameters of the channel feature information.

A secure ranging method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: a receiving-end device and a transmitting-end device obtain a session key through a narrowband system. The devices of both parties further generate secure CTSs in a symmetric manner based on the session key in combination with CTS configuration information, and perform inter-device ranging in a UWB system by using the CTSs. According to this application, the CTS can be flexibly configured based on the CTS configuration information, to improve secure ranging performance. In addition, the narrowband system replaces the UWB system to perform key-related information negotiation, and ranging is performed in the UWB system, so that high-accuracy ranging is implemented while low power consumption is considered.

Disclosed in the present application are a signal detection method and device, and a storage medium. The signal detection method comprises: acquiring at least one group of historical signal samples, wherein the historical signal samples comprise historical channel estimation values, historical received signals and historical modulation signals; and when the current channel estimation value and a received signal to be subjected to detection have been acquired, inputting the current channel estimation value and said received signal into a pre-trained preset neural network for signal detection, so as to obtain a signal estimation value of said received signal, wherein the pre-trained preset neural network is obtained by training a preset neural network by means of the at least one group of historical signal samples.

Embodiments of this application disclose a user pairing method and a related device. The method includes: determining a first generation parameter of a first base sequence of a first user and a second generation parameter of a second base sequence of a second user, and the second base sequence is used to generate a second uplink reference signal of the second user; determining multiplexing evaluation information based on the first generation parameter and the second generation parameter, where the multiplexing evaluation information may include correlation strength between sequences and interference leakage width; determining, based on the multiplexing evaluation information, whether the first user and the second user are successfully paired; and determining, that the first user and the second user multiplex a same communication resource for communication based on being successfully paired.

This application provides example channel measurement methods and example communication apparatuses. One example method includes determining L weighting coefficients for determining channels of K moments based on channels of M moments, where L, M, and K are all positive integers. Information about the L weighting coefficients can then be sent.