Methods and apparatus are disclosed for processing interference due to passive non-linear products of transmitted signals in a wireless network, and more specifically, but not exclusively, to reduction of interference caused to a receiver due to passive intermodulation (PIM) products generated from at least a first Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) signal comprising first and second MIMO component streams at a first carrier frequency. In other scenarios, there may be two or more carrier frequencies combining to cause PIM, and each carrier frequency may have two or more MIMO component streams.

Receivers for coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexed (COFDM) signals conveying the same coded data both in lower-frequency and upper-frequency sidebands thereof. Apparatus for performing a complex synchrodyne of COFDM signal to baseband is followed by apparatus for extracting the COFDM subcarriers of the lower-frequency and upper-frequency sidebands of the COFDM signal from the in-phase and quadrature-phase results of the complex synchrodyne. The COFDM subcarriers of the lower-frequency sideband as converted to baseband are supplied to apparatus for demodulating and demapping those subcarriers to recover a first set of coded data. The COFDM subcarriers of the upper-frequency sideband as converted to baseband are supplied to apparatus for demodulating and demapping those subcarriers to recover a second set of coded data. A diversity combiner combines the first and second sets of coded data for subsequent decoding.

A reception device including reception antennas is provided. In the reception device, a demodulation unit is configured to calculate, for each of a plurality of antenna combinations of the reception antennas, log likelihood ratios of coded bits of error correction code obtained from reception signals of the reception antennas. A mutual information amount calculation unit is configured to calculate an average mutual information amount based on the log likelihood ratios corresponding to each of the antenna combinations. An antenna combination selection unit is configured to output determination information for specifying one of the antenna combinations for which the average mutual information amount is the maximum. A signal selection unit is configured to select the log likelihood ratios corresponding to the specified antenna combination based on the determination information, and a decoding unit is configured to decodes the selected log likelihood ratios.

A wireless base station that includes: a transmitter that employs a plurality of antenna elements to form a beam in each of a plurality of transmission directions and transmit a reference signal; a receiver that receives a value representing reception quality of the reference signal for a user device that has received the reference signal; a memory; and a processor connected to the memory, the processor being configured to employ an indicator value, representing reception quality for a user device group computed from values received by the receiver that represent reception quality for each of a plurality of user devices, in order to select a combination of beams to employ in user data transmission from the plurality of beams transmitted by the transmitter.

A reception device including reception antennas is provided. In the reception device, a demodulation unit is configured to calculate, for each of a plurality of antenna combinations of the reception antennas, log likelihood ratios of coded bits of error correction code obtained from reception signals of the reception antennas. A mutual information amount calculation unit is configured to calculate an average mutual information amount based on the log likelihood ratios corresponding to each of the antenna combinations. An antenna combination selection unit is configured to output determination information for specifying one of the antenna combinations for which the average mutual information amount is the maximum. A signal selection unit is configured to select the log likelihood ratios corresponding to the specified antenna combination based on the determination information, and a decoding unit is configured to decodes the selected log likelihood ratios.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive, from a base station (BS), an indication of an inter-beam phase factor tracking reference signal configuration for inter-beam phase factor tracking, wherein at least one of the wireless communication device or the BS performs multi-beam combining over at least two static directions or beams from one or more antenna panels. The wireless communication device may perform one or more measurements of an inter-beam phase factor tracking reference signal based at least in part on the inter-beam phase factor tracking reference signal configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Adjusting automatic gain control of a receiver, in a short-range wireless system having a plurality of channels and a plurality of receiving antennas, includes setting initial gain to be set by receiver AGC based on signals received at a receiver reference antenna, receiving, at each of the receiving antennas, a signal on a current channel, and adjusting gain to be set by AGC for the signal to prevent saturation. Angle-of-arrival estimation may be performed following adjusting of the AGC. Adjusting AGC may include backing off the AGC, changing the reference antenna prior to deriving gain to be set by AGC, or determining gain to be set by AGC at additional receiving antennas, and for each antenna that is not the reference antenna and is not one of the additional antennas, selecting gain to be set by AGC from a closest one of the reference antenna and the additional antennas.

A wireless microphone or wireless in-ear monitoring system. The system has at least one transmitting and/or receiving unit, which comprises at least two antenna modules, each of the antenna modules having an output plug unit, as well as a combining unit with an input interface. Output signals of the at least two antenna modules are received via the input interface of the combining unit. This is done for those input plug units that are inserted into the input interface of the combining unit. This is carried out in order to execute diversity processing of the signals of the antenna modules.

The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication node comprising at least one array antenna configured to receive a radio signal, said array antenna comprising a plurality of receiving antenna devices, each of said antenna devices being connected to a respective receiving circuit which is configured for processing said radio signal. Each receiving circuit comprises a demodulator, an analog-to-digital converter and a decoder, the demodulator being configured to receive an analog signal from the corresponding receiving antenna device and to output a demodulated analog signal to said analog-to-digital converter which outputs a converted digital signal to the decoder. Furthermore, the node is configured for adding a direct current, DC, offset value to said demodulated analog signal wherein the combined offset values of said node follow a predetermined distribution of values, having a variance, over the analog-to-digital converters.

A radio device receives data from a base station that transmits a first radio signal, carrying a first data block, in a first time window, and a second radio signal, also carrying the first data block, in a different, second time window. The radio device comprises first and second antennas, receive circuitry, and a switch for selectively connecting the receive circuitry to the first antenna or to the second antenna. It is configured to sample the first radio signal, received by the first antenna in the first time window, to generate first sampled data; disconnect the first antenna from the receive circuitry and connect the second antenna; sample the second radio signal, received by the second antenna in the second time window, to generate second sampled data; and use both the first sampled data and the second sampled data to decode the first data block.