A modem configured to communicatively connect a terminal device to a field device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a wireless communicator configured to operate by power supplied in a noncontact manner from the terminal device and to perform short-range wireless communication with the terminal device, a wired communicator configured to operate by power supplied in a noncontact manner from the terminal device and to perform wired communication with the field device, and a controller configured to operate by power supplied in a noncontact manner from the terminal device and to control data exchanged between the wireless communicator and the wired communicator.

A modem configured to communicatively connect a terminal device to a field device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a wireless communicator configured to operate by power supplied in a noncontact manner from the terminal device and to perform short-range wireless communication with the terminal device, a wired communicator configured to operate by power supplied in a noncontact manner from the terminal device and to perform wired communication with the field device, and a controller configured to operate by power supplied in a noncontact manner from the terminal device and to control data exchanged between the wireless communicator and the wired communicator.

Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to adjust a receiver timing is disclosed. The UE can decode a plurality of channel-state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) received from a plurality of cooperating nodes, wherein the plurality of cooperating nodes are included in a coordination set of a Coordinated MultiPoint (CoMP) system. The UE can generate a plurality of received RS timings from the plurality of CSI-RSs, wherein the received RS timings represent timings from the plurality of cooperating nodes. The UE can determine a composite received RS timing from the plurality of received RS timings. The UE can adjust the receiver timing based on the composite received RS timing.

Techniques are described for wireless communication. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, to a network access device, a first indication of a supported radio frequency (RF) bandwidth capability of the UE and a second indication of an RF component configuration of the UE associated with the supported RF bandwidth capability of the UE; and communicating with the network access device based at least in part on the supported RF bandwidth capability of the UE and the RF component configuration of the UE. A method for wireless communication at a network access device includes receiving the first indication and the second indication from the UE, and communicating with the UE based at least in part on the supported RF bandwidth capability of the UE and the RF component configuration of the UE.

There is provided a communication apparatus capable of performing first communication with a first other communication apparatus in a first duration which comes at a predetermined time interval, and performing, based on the first communication, second communication with the first other communication apparatus by setting a second duration different from the first duration. The communication apparatus identifies one or more third durations during which the first communication is performed by each of one or more second other communication apparatuses, and identifies, as the second duration, at least part of a duration usable for the second communication based on the one or more third durations.

An apparatus including control circuitry; first radio circuitry for communicating with a first radio circuitry of a first base station; second radio circuitry for communicating with second radio circuitry of a second base station; wherein the control circuitry is configured to use information received from a user equipment, for configuring the second radio circuitry of the apparatus such that a connection can be established between the second radio circuitry of the apparatus and the second radio circuitry of a base station.

TDD access equipment modified by introducing a frequency change at the normal TDD guard point, with respective downlink or uplink periods for individual subscriber stations offset to form overlapping frames. Cyclo-stationary processing, block equalization, and burst timing coordination allow the boundary between downlink and uplink portions of both frames to be set dynamically, improving spectral efficiency. Fast frequency switching within an allotted physical slot enables synchronization of time-sharing the dedicated frequencies to be maintained among subscriber stations. Duplex spacing between downlink and uplink frequencies for individual subscriber stations, combined with in-depth filtering of received signals, prevents spurious out-of-band transmission signal strength from reaching an interference level.

TDD access equipment modified by introducing a frequency change at the normal TDD guard point, with respective downlink or uplink periods for individual subscriber stations offset to form overlapping frames. Cyclo-stationary processing, block equalization, and burst timing coordination allow the boundary between downlink and uplink portions of both frames to be set dynamically, improving spectral efficiency. Fast frequency switching within an allotted physical slot enables synchronization of time-sharing the dedicated frequencies to be maintained among subscriber stations. Duplex spacing between downlink and uplink frequencies for individual subscriber stations, combined with in-depth filtering of received signals, prevents spurious out-of-band transmission signal strength from reaching an interference level.

Wireless consumer premises equipment (CPE) devices are provisioned with their wireless functionality disabled. Selected wireless CPE devices have their wireless functionality turned on, and testing of the selected wireless devices, including testing of their wireless functionality, is performed. After testing has been completed, the selected wireless devices are placed in a predetermined default operational profile suitable for subsequent end consumer deployment. A wireless interference and wireless channel saturation minimization action is performed in relation to the selected wireless devices so that their wireless functionality does not affect subsequent testing of the wireless functionality of other wireless CPE devices. Testing can be performed using a system including a primary test platform, a wireless interface communicatively connected to the primary test platform, and a mobile and/or stationary test rack(s) communicatively connected to the primary test platform and that has individual slots into which corresponding wireless devices are connected.

A method of operating a telecommunications network (100), said telecommunications network being accessible to a User Equipment (UE) (102) and comprising a cellular telecommunications network (104-2) and a fixed-access telecommunications network (104-1), the method comprising the steps of: providing a set of user plane functions for processing user traffic for the UE, said set comprising at least two user plane functions; providing a combined user plane function (210) for processing user traffic for the UE according to the set of user plane functions; following establishing a network connection between the UE and the cellular telecommunications network via the fixed-access telecommunications network (510), identifying inefficient routing of user traffic associated with the UE (520), said inefficient routing comprising routing user traffic to at least the set of user plane functions; in response to identifying inefficient routing, re-routing user traffic associated with the UE to the combined user plane function so as to process the user traffic at the combined user plane function instead of at the set of user plane functions (530).