An apparatus is disclosed, the apparatus comprising a means for receiving selection of a relay system associated with a base station (10) of a communications network, the relay system comprising a first antenna (15) for substantially fixed orientation towards an antenna (12) of the base station and a second antenna (16) which is mechanically movable about one or more axes responsive to the control data to provide one of a range of possible orientations. The apparatus may also comprise a means for sending control data to the selected relay system for controlling the orientation of the second antenna, the control data comprising at least positioning instructions received from a node of the communications network for causing positioning of the second antenna to a particular orientation associated with a mobile target object (19).

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmitted by a base station. The UE may receive system information that includes reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) or repeater assisted initial access information that identifies a set of SSBs that are associated with an RIS or a repeater and a modulation signature associated with the RIS or the repeater. The UE may selectively perform initial access using the SSB or search for another SSB based at least in part on the RIS or repeater assisted initial access information. Numerous other aspects are described.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an in-coverage user equipment (UE) relaying broadcast messages to out-of-coverage UEs using one or more messaging techniques over a sidelink channel. The in-coverage UE may monitor for broadcast messages to relay the broadcast messages to out-of-coverage UEs. In some cases, the in-coverage UE may determine to relay broadcast messages to the out-of-coverage UEs based on one or more metrics. Additionally, the in-coverage UE may determine whether the broadcast message is to be included in a groupcast, broadcast, or unicast signaling. Based on the determination to relay broadcast messages, as well as whether the alert message is to be included in a groupcast, broadcast, or unicast signaling, the in-coverage UE may leverage sidelink communications to relay broadcast messages to the out-of-coverage UEs.

A wireless relay station to be included in a ladder-type wireless relay network along a moving route of a moving object includes a relay control unit that includes station identification information in the wireless relay network assigned sequentially along the moving route to each of the wireless relay stations included in the wireless relay network and deployed along the moving route, configures and updates, using a first routing table that provides an address of a destination wireless relay station, a second routing table including the address, the station identification information, and an information update time, being associated with one another, of the destination wireless relay station, and provides control to share, among the wireless relay stations included in the wireless relay network, the second routing table configured and updated by each wireless relay station; and a relay communication unit that performs wireless relay communication with other wireless relay stations.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station via a first connection and with a second UE via a sidelink connection. The base station may transmit, to the first UE, configuration information including information for one or more relay connections, such as a relay connection between the first UE and the base station via the second UE using the sidelink connection. The first UE may activate (e.g., based on an indication from the base station) the relay connection(s) according to the configuration information. The first UE, the second UE, and the base station may communicate on the relay connection(s) according to the configuration information. In some examples, the base station may transmit, to a UE, configuration information and/or an activation indication for multiple relay connections, where each respective relay connection may be separately configured, activated, or deactivated.

A relay communication method, includes: a relay node receives data from a second network node; the relay node performs first-part processing and second-part processing on the data; and the relay node sends to a third network node, data obtained after the first-part processing and the second-part processing. In one non-limiting example, thy first-part processing includes at least one of: physical layer function processing, media access control layer function processing, and adaptation function processing. In another non-limiting example, the second-part processing includes at least one of simplified radio link control layer function processing, adaptation function processing, media access control layer function processing, and physical layer function processing.

A hub for supporting a voice relay between wearable terminals in a vehicle includes a reception processing device that receives a voice signal from at least one transmission terminal among two or more wearable terminals in the vehicle, a transmission processing device that transmits the voice signal to at least one reception terminal among the wearable terminals, and a controller that establishes a communication channel with each of the wearable terminals, selects a target terminal based on a voice signal obtained from a conversation attempt terminal attempting to transmit voice, and controls the reception processing device and the transmission processing device to relay bidirectional voice information transfer between the conversation attempt terminal and the target terminal.

This document describes methods, devices, and systems for configuring a smartphone (102) for network connectivity via a charging station (120), in which the smartphone (102) detects a connection or a coupling to the charging station (120). In response to the detection of the connection or coupling to the charging station (120), the smartphone (102) configures a WLAN transceiver (228) as a WLAN access point and forms a mesh WLAN network with one or more other WLAN access points (114). In other aspects, the charging station (120) detects the presence of the smartphone (102) that is connected or coupled to the charging station (120). In response to sensing the presence of the smartphone (102), the charging station (120) configures power and charging circuitry (244) to charge a battery of the smartphone (102) and configures WLAN radio circuitry (232) to relay WLAN communications for the smartphone (102).

A communication system includes multiple repeater wireless stations and communication management hardware. The multiple repeater wireless stations receive first wireless signals from a wireless base station. The multiple repeater wireless stations transmit second wireless signals from the multiple repeater wireless stations to a mobile communication device. The second wireless signals are reproductions of the first wireless signals. The communication management hardware controls phase shifts of the second wireless signals in time such that the second wireless signals received by the mobile communication device are phase aligned.

A relay selection method and apparatus and a system. The method includes: relay equipment broadcasts relay discovery information, the relay discovery information including identifier information (a relay UE ID) of the relay equipment and identifier information (a cell ID) of a serving cell of the relay equipment, so that remote terminal receiving the relay discovery information selects relay equipment according to the relay discovery information or transmits relay information of discovered relay equipment to an eNB, thus the eNB may select relay equipment for the remote terminal. With certain embodiments, the serving cell may learn a cell where a relay to which the terminal accesses is located, so as to perform configuration for the terminal or perform path switching of downlink data.