Power grid surveillance via topology detection system using power line communications (PLC) is provided by observing, at first and second times, first and second signals, respectively, sent via PLC between a plurality of nodes in an electrical grid; generating first and second lists for a given node of the plurality of nodes of channel impulses responses (CIRs) for the given node to communicate with other nodes in the plurality of nodes respectively based on the first and second signals as observed; identifying from the first list and the second list a certain node with a highest variation in CIR between the first time and the second time; sending a first token for the given node from the given node to the certain node via PLC; and in response receiving a second token from the certain node at the given node, generating a topology change alert.

An interference cancellation circuit includes finite impulse response (FIR) filter configured to set a channel impulse response (CIR) coefficient for each transmission path for a transmission signal and obtain a CIR-adapted transmission signal by applying the CIR coefficient to the transmission signal, a kernel generation circuit configured to generate an interference model based on the CIR-adapted transmission signal, an adaptive filter configured to estimate an interference signal for each reception path by estimating an interference model coefficient for the interference model and generate an interference-cancelled signal by filtering out the interference signal from a reception signal, and a CIR estimation circuit configured to estimate the CIR coefficient in a next sample period based on the interference-cancelled signal through a backpropagation method and transmit the estimated CIR coefficient to the FIR filter.

Disclosed are techniques for aliasing removal for wireless channel captures. In an aspect, a wireless station (STA) may estimate a wireless channel to produce a first frequency domain (FD) channel estimate. The STA may anti-alias the first FD channel estimate to produce a second FD channel estimate, wherein anti-aliasing the first FD channel estimate to produce a second FD channel estimate comprises removing, from the first FD channel estimate, signal energy associated with signals having a delay spread larger than a maximum tolerable delay spread. The STA may tone-decimate the second FD channel estimate to produce a third FD channel estimate. The STA may store the third FD channel estimate as a channel capture. In some aspects, the STA may send the channel capture to another entity as channel capture feedback, may performing a sensing operation using the channel capture, or both.

A channel information processing method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving first information and second information from a terminal, where the first information includes a first parameter without uplink/downlink channel reciprocity, the first parameter is determined based on downlink channel estimation, the second information is used to indicate a deviation between a second parameter and a third parameter that have uplink/downlink channel reciprocity, the second parameter is determined based on uplink channel estimation, and the third parameter is determined based on downlink channel estimation; and determining channel information of a downlink channel based on the first information, the second information, and the second parameter.

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing a determination of indoor or outdoor wireless operation. In various examples, a computing system may receive a wireless signal. In some instances, the wireless signal is at least one of a first signal that is received by a target device. The computing system may analyze one or more radio frequency (RF) parameters associated with the wireless signal to identify presence of indicators of indoor or outdoor signal characteristics in the wireless signal. The computing system may determine whether the target device is located indoors or outdoors based on the analysis, and may generate a confidence score associated with the determination. The computing system may perform a first set of tasks based on the determined indoor or outdoor location of the target device and the associated confidence score.

A method of operating a wireless communication device (102) connectable to a communications network is provided. The communications network includes an access node (101, 101-1, 101-2, 101-3). The method includes: monitoring for a plurality of reference signals (121, 122, 123) of a transmission (351) in a plurality of resources, the transmission being provided by the access node (101, 101-1, 101-2, 101-3); and based on said monitoring: participating in positioning of the wireless communication device (102) depending on an indicator indicative of at least one of a magnitude or a phase of at least one first path component (810) of an impulse response (800, 801) of a radio channel, the at least one first path component being associated with at least one reference signal (121, 122, 123) of the plurality of reference signals (121, 122, 123) of the transmission (351).

A system includes one or more ultra-wideband (UWB) transmit apparatuses configured to communicate an UWB signal that encodes radio packets that includes at least a preamble and a start frame delimiter (SFD) enabling a receiver to recover a reception timestamp and a channel impulse response (CIR) of the transmission, wherein the one or more UWB transmit apparatuses are located in a fixed position and configured to divide a space into a plurality of subspaces configured to be assigned an attribute associated with the subspaces, including one or more UWB receivers configured to extract CIR information from the one or more radio packets received from a UWB transceiver, and trigger an event in response to a determination of the receiver being either located in one of a plurality of subspaces, or leaving or entering the one of the plurality of subspaces, wherein the determination is made utilizing at least the CIR information.

A method for determining an angle from an ultra-wideband (UWB) device, including the following operations. A first frame fragment is received from the UWB device containing a first ternary sequence of chips by a first antenna, and another first frame fragment is received from the UWB device containing the first ternary sequence of chips by a second antenna. A first channel impulse response estimate (CIRE) is determined corresponding to the first frame fragment and another first CIRE is determined corresponding to the other first frame fragment. A phasor value is determined based on the first CIRE and the other first CIRE. A phase difference of arrival (PDoA) from the UWB device is determined based on the phasor value.

A method for detecting a change in a transmission channel system of a vehicle. The method includes: transmitting a broadband transmission signal; receiving a signal; determining in-phase data and quadrature-phase data of a channel pulse response of the transmission channel system; determining a respective actual phase angle of the plurality of channel pulse responses at a characteristic location; determining a respective phase rotation angle of the plurality of channel pulse responses; rotating the plurality of channel pulse responses in a limited viewing area of a delay time direction; and detecting the change in the transmission channel system based on a change in the in-phase data and/or the quadrature-phase data.

This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for adjacent channel interference (ACI) mitigation techniques for ultra-wideband (UWB) systems. Some aspects more specifically relate to ACI mitigation for UWB systems. In some implementations, a wireless communication device may receive control information that identifies a preamble for communications to the wireless communication device in a UWB system. The wireless communication device may receive, via a signal in the UWB system, a data packet that includes the preamble. The wireless communication device may estimate a channel impulse response (CIR) of the signal and determine an interference metric that is based on the estimated CIR. The wireless communication device may process the data packet based on the interference metric.