Patent classifications
H04B7/0617
Environment aware node redundancy and optimized roaming
In one embodiment, a supervisory service for a wireless network obtains frequency-time Doppler profile information for an endpoint node attached to a first access point in the wireless network. The supervisory service uses the frequency-time Doppler profile information for the endpoint node as input to a machine learning model. The machine learning model is trained to output an action for the endpoint node with respect to the wireless network. The supervisory service causes the action for the endpoint node with respect to the wireless network to be performed.
Downlink (DL) coordinated beamforming protocols for WIFI
Certain aspects relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus generally includes a first interface configured to output one first frame for transmission to solicit CSI feedback from each of one or more first wireless nodes associated with a first BSS and from each of one or more second wireless nodes associated with a second BSS, a second interface configured to obtain the CSI feedback solicited from the first and second wireless nodes, and a processing system configured to generate data frames for the first wireless nodes based on the CSI feedback solicited from the first wireless nodes, and one or more nulling frames based on the CSI feedback solicited from the second wireless nodes. The first interface is configured to simultaneously output the data frames for beamformed transmission to the first wireless nodes, and the nulling frames for beamformed transmission to the second wireless nodes.
Control of Transmission from an Antenna Panel
There is provided mechanisms for controlling transmission from an antenna panel. The method is performed by a network apparatus. A method comprises performing time-domain beamformed communication with terminal devices served by the network apparatus using the antenna panel split into N>1 subpanels. Each subpanel has two input ports and is fed, via the input ports, by signals and configured to generate beams by application of antenna element weights to its antenna elements. The subpanels are at least phase-wise synchronized with each other. When one and the same signal is fed into the input ports of all the subpanels, signals as transmitted from the subpanels add up coherently to represent a 1-layer transmission by a time reference being shared between the subpanels. The time-domain beamformed communication is performed by the network apparatus using from 1 to 2N layers per symbol of a transmission time interval according to a mapping between the input ports and the signals as transmitted from the subpanels.
DOPPLER SPREAD BASED BEAM MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING FOR HIGH SPEED MOBILITY
A terminal is disclosed including a processor that measures for beam management: a Doppler spread or a coherence time associated with a beam and one or more reporting quantities. The terminal also includes a transceiver that reports the Doppler spread or the coherence time. In other aspects, a method for a terminal and a base station are also disclosed.
METHOD TO BEAMFORM MULTICAST TRANSMISSION
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a network node is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to receive channel state information, CSI, from each of a plurality of wireless devices and determine at least one null space based on the received CSI from each of the plurality of wireless devices. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine a common precoding matrix index, PMI, where a common beamforming vector is not in the at least one null space and cause a multicast broadcast transmission to the plurality of wireless devices using at least the common PMI.
BEAMFORMING CALIBRATION
A method of beamforming calibration is disclosed for a multi-antenna transceiver configured to communicate with one or more other transceivers. The multi-antenna transceiver has a plurality of transceiver chains connectable to respective antenna elements of the multi-antenna transceiver. Each transceiver chain comprises a transmitter path and a receiver path. The method comprises (for each transceiver chain) feeding an analog signal from the transmitter path to the receiver path via connection circuitry between the transmitter path and the receiver path to provide a digital calibration signal, and determining a beamforming calibration factor for the transceiver chain based on the digital calibration signal. Corresponding apparatus, multi-antenna transceiver, wireless communication node, and computer program product are also disclosed.
Network Assisted Discovery for Wireless Communication
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, including receiving, from a radio access network device, a beam sweeping configuration indicative of spatial limitation in relation to a reference, and performing beam sweeping configured spatially based on the received beam sweeping configuration for extending connectivity via the network device outside coverage of the network device.
METHOD FOR UNIFIED UPLINK AND DOWNLINK BEAM INDICATION
This document generally relates to unified beam indication and/or unified transmission frameworks for wireless communication. In some implementations, a first communication node, such as a mobile station, associates a least one of a power control parameter, a port parameter, or a first reference signal (RS) resource with a communication parameter set, where the communication parameter set comprises at least a second RS resource and at least a quasi co-location (QCL) type parameter. Also, the first communication node may transmit an uplink signal according to the communication parameter set and the association.
CHANNEL RECIPROCITY-BASED PRECODING MATRIX CONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS
The present application relates to communication technology. Disclosed are a channel reciprocity-based precoding matrix configuration method and apparatus. The method comprises: in downlink transmission, a network side separately sends, on each antenna port associated with each transmission layer, a CSI-RS subjected to beamforming to a terminal by using beams calculated according to angle information and delay information determined on the basis of uplink channel state information, and determines a precoding matrix for downlink transmission of the terminal according to beams sent on K0 antenna ports selected by the terminal on the basis of the CSI-RS, and a beam combination coefficient set. In this way, both angle information reciprocity and delay information reciprocity between uplink and downlink channels can be used to directly calculate formed beams for transmitting the CSI-RS, without performing SVD calculation for effective channel information of each PMI subband, thereby reducing the calculation complexity of the terminal, reducing the feedback overhead of the terminal, and also improving system performance.
Interference Management for Measurements Gap
Interference management in calibration of a pre-distorter for a power amplifier of a user device. The method includes measuring strength of signals received via of beams of one or more antenna arrays of a user equipment; ordering the beams on the basis of the measurement strengths; selecting from the ordered beams at least one beam for calibration of a pre-distorter for a power amplifier of the user equipment; obtaining information of available measurement resources for the calibration; transmitting a calibration signal using the selected beam at the time of the available measurement resources; receiving the calibration signal by another radio frequency chain of the antenna array which is not used in the transmission of the calibration signal; obtaining calibration information on the basis of the transmitted calibration signal and the received calibration signal; and calibrating the pre-distorter based on the calibration information.