H04B7/18517

ELECTRONIC DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
20220329314 · 2022-10-13 · ·

The present invention relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer readable medium. The electronic device for wireless communication according to one embodiment comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to determine, according to the capability of a user equipment and/or a channel situation between the user equipment and a base station for non-terrestrial network communication, an uplink transmission mode for the user equipment from two or more uplink transmission modes respectively corresponding to different acquisition manners of an uplink transmission parameter. The processing circuit is further configured to perform control so as to perform uplink transmission from the user equipment to the base station on the basis of the determined uplink transmission mode.

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
20230123805 · 2023-04-20 ·

An earth station transmitter device is arranged for generating a signal to be transmitted to a plurality of earth station receiver devices of a satellite communication system. The device includes a plurality of shapers, such that each shaper is arranged for shaping for data traffic to a different subset of earth station receiver devices a symbol rate; a modulator includes a time slice selector arranged for receiving and storing the groups of time slices outputted by the plurality of shaping means; and a controller is adapted to monitor the modulator and to convey to at least one of the shaping means based on the monitoring an update of the symbol rate shaped by the at least one shaping means.

METHOD AND DEVICE IN NODES USED FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

The present application provides a method and a device in a node used for wireless communications. The node receives first information, the first information being used to determine a first time length; transmits a first signal, time-frequency resources occupied by the first signal being used to indicate a first identifier; and monitors a first signaling in a first time window, the first identifier being used for monitoring the first signaling; the first signal comprises X sub-signals, where X is a positive integer greater than 1, a first symbol set is used to generate any one of the X sub-signals, the X sub-signals are respectively X repetitions of the first symbol set; X is used to determine a second time length. The present disclosure can reduce the power consumption.

Devices, methods, and systems for uplink synchronization in time division multiple access (TDMA) satellite network

Devices, methods, and systems for uplink synchronization in time division multiple access (TDMA) satellite network. In one embodiment, an earth-based satellite terminal is configured to communicate with a satellite hub through a satellite using the TDMA communication protocol. The earth-based satellite terminal is configured to determine its own location, a location of the satellite, estimate a distance between the location of the terminal and the location of the satellite, determine a Coarse Timing Advance based on the distance that is estimated, and transmit data to the satellite based on the Coarse Timing Advance and the TDMA communication protocol. The Coarse Timing Advance may allow uplink TDMA communication without a preamble transmission on a random access channel, the preamble transmission being required in many conventional systems.

Data communication method, hub station, and earth station

One earth station transmits an address of a source to another earth station (or HUB station), and the other earth station (or HUB station) stores the address in an address management table in association with the one earth station that has transmitted the address of the source and reads, from destination packet data that is packet data including an address of a destination, the address of the destination, and the other earth station (or HUB station) transmits the destination packet data to the associated earth station with reference to the address management table.

Efficient adaptive coding and modulation

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for determining a set of communication parameters for receiving data transmissions. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a first data transmission sent according to a first communication parameter scheme that includes at least one of a first modulation or a first coding. A second data transmission is received. A second communication parameter scheme of the second transmission is determined. This determination includes identifying a subset of multiple candidate communication parameter schemes determined based on the first communication parameter scheme, identifying, in the second data transmission, a first identifier that corresponds to the second communication parameter scheme, comparing the first identifier to a respective identifier for each communication parameter scheme in the subset, and determining, as the second communication parameter scheme, a communication parameter scheme in the subset that has an identifier that matches the first identifier.

Hub communication with a satellite network or a terrestrial network

Apparatuses, methods, and systems of hub communication with a satellite network or a terrestrial network are disclosed. One method includes detecting presence of the satellite network, detecting, by the hub, presence of a terrestrial network, selecting to connect to one of the satellite network or the terrestrial network based on a priority ruleset, estimating a propagation delay between the hub and a base station of the satellite network when the satellite network is selected, adjusting a timing offset between transmit and receive radio frames at the hub based on whether the satellite network or the terrestrial network is selected, and based at least on the propagation delay and a frame offset between uplink and downlink frames at base station, and communicating with the base station of the satellite network or a base station of the terrestrial network.

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION EARTH STATION AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD

A satellite communication earth station includes a detection unit that detects a longitude, a latitude, an altitude, an azimuth, and an inclination of the antenna, a drive unit that drives the antenna to adjust the azimuth angle, the elevation angle, and the polarization angle of the antenna to the communication satellite, a determination unit that determines whether the longitude, the latitude, the altitude, the azimuth, or the inclination detected by the detection unit or the azimuth angle, the elevation angle, or the polarization angle driven by the drive unit makes a change from an initial setting value to a predetermined threshold value or more, and a minimum control calculation unit that calculates control to minimize a drive amount driven by the drive unit to adjust the current azimuth angle, the elevation angle, and the polarization angle of the antenna to the communication satellite.

METHODS AND INTERFACES FOR INITIATING COMMUNICATIONS

The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for establishing communications.

SELECTION, DIVERSITY COMBINING OR SATELLITE MIMO TO MITIGATE SCINTILLATION AND/OR NEAR-TERRESTRIAL MULTIPATH TO USER DEVICES
20230114183 · 2023-04-13 ·

A ground station processes downlink signals received from respective satellites. The ground station has a plurality of signal conditioning devices each receiving a respective one of the downlink signals and providing a conditioned downlink signal. A plurality of Doppler and/or Delay compensator devices each receive a respective conditioned downlink signal from a respective one of the plurality of signal conditioning devices. The compensator devices conduct Doppler and/or Delay compensation on the received conditioned downlink signal, and provide a compensated downlink signal output. A selector or diversity combiner receives the compensated downlink signal from each of the plurality of Doppler and/or Delay compensators. The selector or diversity combiner selects one of the received compensated downlink signals based on received signal strength of each received compensated downlink signal to provide a selected downlink signal, or diversity combines all of the received compensated downlink signals to provide a diversity combined signal. The selector or diversity combiner provides the selected downlink signal or the diversity combined signal to an eNodeB.