A method and terminal device for executing a radio application is disclosed. The method for executing a radio application is a method for executing a radio application independent of a modem in a terminal device, comprising the steps of: communicating with each other using a reconfigurable radio frequency interface (RRFI) by a unified radio application (URA), which operates on a radio computer of the terminal device, and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, which operates in a radio platform on the radio computer; and supporting, by the RRFI, at least one service among a spectrum control service, a power control service, an antenna management service, a transmission/reception chain control service, and a radio virtual machine protection service.

A receiver and method for identifying the frequency of an RF component in an RF signal are disclosed. The receiver includes a first mixer that receives an RF signal and mixes that RF signal with a first multi-tone LO signal that includes a plurality of tones to generate a mixed signal. The output of the first mixer is filtered by a first filter that removes signals outside of a predetermined band to generate a first IF signal. A processor determines the RF frequency of the component utilizing the first IF signal and a second IF signal generated using a second multi-tone LO signal having a different plurality of tones from said first multi-tone signal. The first and second multi-tone LO signals can be generated by clocking suitable digital sequences into the mixer either by using different sequences or by using the same sequence clocked at a different rate.

An aspect includes a filtering method including operating a first filter to filter a first input signal to generate a first output signal; operating a second filter to filter a second input signal to generate a second output signal; and merging at least a portion of the second filter with the first filter to filter a third input signal to generate a third output signal. Another aspect includes a filtering method including operating switching devices to configure a filter with a first set of pole(s); filtering a first input signal to generate a first output signal with the filter configured with the first set of pole(s); operating the switching devices to configure the filter with a second set of poles; and filtering a second input signal to generate a second output signal with the filter configured with the second set of poles.

Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a band-pass filter of a radio frequency front end (RFFE) of a user equipment (UE) receives an analog radio frequency (RF) signal having a first bandwidth associated with a first sampling rate, the analog RF signal comprising a positioning reference signal (PRS). An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of the UE samples the analog RF signal at a second sampling rate to generate a digital RF signal representing the analog RF signal, wherein the ADC operates at a second bandwidth lower than the first bandwidth, and wherein the second sampling rate is lower than the first sampling rate by an inverse of a folding factor for the first bandwidth. The digital RF signal is then output to a baseband processor of the UE.

A Radio Frequency (RF) receiver is provided. The RF receiver is configured to simultaneously receive at least two radio frequency bands with a single receiver path. The RF receiver comprises a single local oscillator (LO), and the RF receiver is configured to filter a received signal using a complex filter having a variable center frequency. in accordance with another aspect, many RF receivers are combined to form an aggregate carrier receiver.

Two inventive contributions are made for improvement of communications systems. A first derives the channel capacity of a Time-Limited (TL) system across a communications channel contaminated by interference and by noise. The potential increase in channel capacity compared to current communications systems is due to the availability of an arbitrarily large number of Degrees of Freedom (DOF) with finite access Time (FAT) in a TL system. A second takes advantage of the theory established in the first objective to design novel systems, referred to as Mask-Matched TL systems with FAT DOF, or MTF systems for short. The disclosure shows several embodiments of MTF systems where it is possible to improve the capacity of current communications systems, without having to modify or alter their Power Spectral Density, merely by taking advantage of their existing but unexploited FAT DOF through the 3 MTF design steps introduced in this disclosure.

Methods and devices are disclosed that derive an IQ magnitude parameter, and then determine the optimum IQ magnitude for wanted signals with negative signal to noise values. For each device installation, a calibration routine may be carried out that sets the baseband gain to produce this optimum IQ magnitude for each frequency channel.

A Radio Frequency (RF) receiver is provided. The RF receiver is configured to simultaneously receive at least two radio frequency bands with a single receiver path. The RF receiver comprises a single local oscillator (LO), and the RF receiver is configured to filter a received signal using a complex filter having a variable center frequency. In accordance with another aspect, many RF receivers are combined to form an aggregate carrier receiver.

An apparatus includes a plurality of signal processing stages configured to convert a digital baseband signal into an analog radio frequency signal for transmission. The signal processing stages are configured to be operatively coupled to a positive supply voltage and a negative supply voltage. At least one signal processing stage of the plurality of signal processing stages is configured to generate an analog voltage signal which comprises a voltage level that is outside of a voltage range defined by the positive supply voltage and the negative supply voltage.

A communication management resource implements an iterative process to derive settings for digital precoder W, analog precoder A, and decode function D with a bandwidth-limited fronthaul link between the application of digital precoder W and the application of analog precoder A. The iterative process includes: for a first instance of digital precoder W and decode function D, optimize an instance of the analog precoder A; and based on the optimized instance of the analog precoder A, optimize a second instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D. In one implementation, for each iteration of multiple iterations, the communication management resource: i) optimizes an instance of the analog precoder A based on an instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D, and ii) optimizes an instance of the digital precoder W and the decode function D based on the instance of the analog precoder A.