Procedures are disclosed to enable a wireless device to determine its alignment direction toward a base station or another device in 5G or 6G, using a “phased beam-alignment pulse”, which is a transmitted pulse having phase modulation that varies with angle. For example, the pulse may be transmitted spanning 360 degrees of angle, and may be phase modulated varying from 0 to 360 degrees of phase in the same angular range. A user device can receive the phased beam-alignment pulse and immediately determine, from the phase, the alignment angle toward the transmitter. In another embodiment, the transmitter transmits a uniform, non-directional pulse, and the receiver receives it using an antenna configured to impose an angle-dependent phase shift, thereby indicating the alignment direction. With either method, wireless entities can align their beams rapidly and efficiently, using just one or two resource elements, without complex encoding or time-consuming handshaking.

An information handling system may include a processor; a memory; a power management unit (PMU); a wireless interface adapter to communicate via an antenna to a wireless network; an antenna controller to: receive, via a sideband wireless communication link, network telemetry data descriptive of network operating frequency bands and network frequency channels from a remote optimizing information handling system management system for a wireless protocol; receive operating characteristics associated with the operation of the information handling system indicating at least one detuning trigger for a network operating frequency band for a wireless protocol link for the wireless network; execute instructions of an antenna tuning algorithm to determine a tune state of the antenna, and issue instructions to a radio frequency switch including a resistor, inductor, and capacitor (RLC) circuit tuner at the antenna to tune the antenna to transceive data at the network operating frequency band to a target frequency commensurate with the network telemetry data descriptive of the wireless link according to the tune state.

A digital receiver/exciter (DREX) antenna calibration system includes a DREX antenna array, and an antenna probe configured to receive energy from the DREX antenna array and/or transmit energy to the DREX antenna array. A modular signal processing unit is in signal communication with the DREX antenna array. The modular signal processing unit includes a plurality of individual signal processing programmable integrated circuits configured to process the energy. A modular array controller is in signal communication with the probe controller, the DREX antenna array, and the modular signal processing unit. The modular array controller includes at least one modular array unit that includes an array programmable integrated circuit and a multicore processor.

Procedures are disclosed to enable a wireless device to determine its alignment direction toward a base station or another device in 5G or 6G, using a “phased beam-alignment pulse”, which is a transmitted pulse having phase modulation that varies with angle. For example, the pulse may be transmitted spanning 360 degrees of angle, and may be phase modulated varying from 0 to 360 degrees of phase in the same angular range. A user device can receive the phased beam-alignment pulse and immediately determine, from the phase, the alignment angle toward the transmitter. In another embodiment, the transmitter transmits a uniform, non-directional pulse, and the receiver receives it using an antenna configured to impose an angle-dependent phase shift, thereby indicating the alignment direction. With either method, wireless entities can align their beams rapidly and efficiently, using just one or two resource elements, without complex encoding or time-consuming handshaking.

A vehicle unit installable and usable in a vehicle, includes, at least one vehicle antenna transmitting and receiving a high-frequency signal, which is a signal carried on a high-frequency radio wave, and the vehicle antenna includes, a vertically polarized wave antenna capable of transmitting and receiving a polarized wave orthogonal to a target surface, which is a metal surface at a predetermined part of the vehicle, and first and second horizontally polarized wave antennas each capable of transmitting and receiving polarized waves that are horizontal to the target surface and mutually orthogonally polarized.

The present disclosure provides a method for determining a target initial phase, including: acquiring a voltage amplitude of a system direct-current offset signal of a phased array system corresponding to N target channels to be calibrated; respectively acquiring voltage amplitudes of a total direct-current offset signal under different initial phases; and calculating voltage amplitudes of a mixed direct-current offset signal of the N target channels under the different initial phases, and taking an initial phase of the N target channels, when the voltage amplitude of the mixed direct-current offset signal reaches the maximum value, as a target initial phase of the N target channels. The present disclosure further provides a phase calibration method, an apparatus for determining an initial phase, and an antenna system.

A calibration circuit includes a selection unit, a power detector, an analog-to-digital converter and a calibrator. The selection unit is connected to the plurality of channels, selects two channels from among the plurality of channels, provides a test signal to the selected two channels, and receives a test result signal from the selected two channels. The power detector detects power of the selected two channels. The analog-to-digital converter performs an A/D conversion on an output of the power detector. The calibrator calibrates the phases and the gains between the plurality of channels based on an output of the analog-to-digital converter. One of the plurality of channels is set as a reference channel, phases and gains of remaining channels other than the reference channel among the plurality of channels are sequentially optimized based on the reference channel, and a phase and a gain of the reference channel is optimized.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to a time-division duplex (TDD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that includes a plurality of nodes. The plurality of nodes collectively includes antennas divided into groups. Reference signals can be transmitted from each group of antennas to one or more other groups of antennas during respective time slots. Channel estimates can be generated based on the received reference signals. The channel estimates can be jointly processed to generate calibration coefficients. Each calibration coefficient can represent a ratio associated with a transmit coefficient and a receive coefficient. Example algorithms for the joint processing are disclosed.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to a time-division duplex (TDD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that includes a plurality of nodes. The plurality of nodes collectively includes antennas divided into groups. Reference signals can be transmitted from each group of antennas to one or more other groups of antennas during respective time slots. Channel estimates can be generated based on the received reference signals. The channel estimates can be jointly processed to generate calibration coefficients. Each calibration coefficient can represent a ratio associated with a transmit coefficient and a receive coefficient. Example algorithms for the joint processing are disclosed.

Beamforming is a critical element of 5G and especially 6G, but currently requires a series of time-consuming and resource-consuming messages. Disclosed are procedures by which base stations can transmit a phased beam pulse, having a phase that varies with angle, so that each user device can measure the received phase of the pulse and thereby determine its angle relative to the base station. Each user can then sequentially inform the base station of its orientation relative to the base station, or can append that information to another message such as an initial access message or an acknowledgement, for example. The user device and the base station can then exchange messages in narrow beams aimed at each other according to the alignment angle. Also disclosed are procedures to economically generate the wide-angle phased beam by combining overlapping beams of various phases.