H04B7/0848

CLOCK SYNCHRONISATION IN WIRELESS MESH COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
20170359789 · 2017-12-14 · ·

A technique for providing a synchronised clock signal across a wireless mesh network is described. The technique includes choosing one of a plurality received radio frequency signals to provide a synchronisation signal to which a local clock signal can be synchronised.

CLOCK SYNCHRONISATION IN WIRELESS MESH COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
20170359792 · 2017-12-14 · ·

A technique for providing a synchronised clock signal across a wireless mesh network is described. The technique includes choosing one of a plurality received radio frequency signals to provide a synchronisation signal to which a local clock signal can be synchronised.

Transmission method, reception method, transmitter, and receiver

When transmitting signals from a plurality of base stations (broadcasting stations), the base stations include at least a first base station having a first antenna with a first polarization and a second base station having a second antenna with a second polarization that is different from the first polarization. Then, when the first base station transmits a signal from the first antenna having the first polarization, the second base station transmits the same signal as the first antenna of the first base station from a second antenna having the second polarization, at the same time.

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING COOPERATIVE TRANSMISSION

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for supporting cooperative transmission, the apparatus including a controller configured to determine detection bits with respect to a plurality of relay terminals based on channel states between a source terminal and the plurality of relay terminals, the relay terminals configured to detect sub-data corresponding to the detection bits from data when the data is transmitted from the source terminal, an interface configured to receive the sub-data from the relay terminals, respectively, in response to the relay terminals detecting the sub-data, and a restorer configured to restore the data by combining the received sub-data.

LEVERAGING SPECTRAL DIVERSITY FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED ESTIMATION OF RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL PARAMETERS

An example method for estimating the angle-of-arrival (AoA) and other parameters of radio frequency (RF) signals that are received by an antenna array comprises: receiving a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signal power measurements by a plurality of antenna elements at a plurality of RF channels; computing, by applying a machine learning model to the plurality of RF signal power measurements, an estimated RF signal parameter value; and outputting the RF signal parameter value.

Network Architecture, Methods, and Devices for a Wireless Communications Network
20170331577 · 2017-11-16 ·

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes receiving a downlink signal comprising an uplink access configuration index, using the uplink access configuration index to identify an uplink access configuration from among a predetermined plurality of uplink access configurations, and transmitting to the wireless communications network according to the identified uplink access configuration. The example method further includes, in the same wireless device, receiving, in a first subframe, a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission formatted according to a first numerology and receiving, in a second subframe, a second OFDM transmission formatted according to a second numerology, the second numerology differing from the first numerology. Variants of this method, corresponding apparatuses, and corresponding network-side methods and apparatuses are also disclosed.

Feedback method and acquisition method for grouping indication information and device

The present invention provides a method and device for feeding back grouping indication information and a method and device for acquiring grouping indication information. The method for feeding back grouping indication information includes: determining M resources from a candidate resource set and dividing the M resources into N first-type resource groups, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and N is a positive integer less than or equal to M; and feeding back indication information for indicating the M resources and first-type grouping indication information for indicating that the M resources are divided into the N first-type resource groups to a first communication node. Resources in the candidate resource set include at least one of: a transmission beam resource, a transmission antenna resource, a transmission port resource, a transmission frequency domain resource, a transmission sequence resource and a transmission time domain resource.

Diversity receiver

A diversity receiver synchronizes and mixes multiple input signals. In one embodiment, the receiver demodulates the multiple input signals prior to synchronizing, converts the demodulated multiple input signals from analog signals to digital signals, synchronizes the demodulated digital signals, converts the synchronized demodulated digital signals to analog signals and mixes the synchronized demodulated analog signals based on a characteristic of the input signals existing prior to the demodulating.

CONFIGURING COMPONENTS OF A BASE STATION TO IMPLEMENT DIVERSITY RECEPTION AND BEAMFORMING TRANSMISSION
20170310369 · 2017-10-26 ·

A base station may comprise a first antenna connected to a first transceiver, a first multiplexer, and a second multiplexer. The base station may comprise a second antenna connected to a second transceiver, the first multiplexer, and the second multiplexer. The base station may comprise a first circulator connected to the first transceiver and the first multiplexer. The base station may comprise a second circulator connected to the second transceiver and the first multiplexer. The base station may comprise a third circulator connected to the first transceiver and the second multiplexer. The base station may comprise a fourth circulator connected to the second transceiver and the second multiplexer.

BEAM ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ARRAY ANTENNA
20170302357 · 2017-10-19 ·

The embodiments of the present invention provide an array antenna beam adjustment device; before combining and analog-digital conversion, the array antenna beam adjustment device couples an N-way reception signal, and performs low-speed small-bandwidth analog-digital conversion on the N-way reception signal; according to the analog-digital converted signal, spatial filtering is performed and a filtering coefficient is adjusted; according to the filtering coefficient, the weight of the reception signal is adjusted, and thus the reception beam is adjusted. In the embodiments of the present invention, beam control is carried out according to the N-way reception signal, and the speed and flexibility of the beam control are greatly improved.