A method and apparatus for performing satellite signal acquisition are described. In one embodiment, a method for using a satellite antenna comprises estimating antenna orientation when the antenna is in motion, including estimating yaw using one or more sensors; and performing signal acquisition to search for a satellite signal with the satellite antenna by interleaving a plurality of signal searches performed by the satellite antenna, the plurality of signal searches being based on an estimated yaw.

Location-aware software defined antenna management is described herein. A method as described herein can include generating, by a system comprising a processor, positioning data associated with movement of a vehicle, associated with the system, through an environment; obtaining, by the system from network equipment of a communication network operating in the environment, network data associated with the communication network; and altering, by the system, a configuration of antennas, associated with the vehicle, from a first configuration to a second configuration, distinct from the first configuration, based on the positioning data and the network data.

Provided are an electronic device and an operation method of the electronic device for finding a direction of a neighboring device effectively in a wireless communication system without additional hardware. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an electronic device for finding a direction of a neighboring device in a wireless communication system, the electronic device includes an antenna array including a first antenna and a second antenna for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal, an antenna switch configured to switch antennas for receiving the RF signal among the plurality of antennas, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the antenna switch to receive the RF signal from the neighboring device through the first antenna, control the antenna switch to switch from the first antenna to the second antenna to receive the RF signal during a time interval in which an error detection code is detected, and detect the direction in which the neighboring device is located based on a result of decoding the error detection code.

The wireless communication device (200) according to the present disclosure includes the control unit (260). The control unit (260) acquires the temperatures of a plurality of antennas (2110) having different directivities. The control unit (260) acquires information regarding the communication quality of the plurality of antennas (2110). In a case where the temperature of the antenna which is being used for communication is equal to or higher than the second temperature threshold which is lower than the first temperature threshold for determining whether or not to stop using the antenna (2110), the control unit (260) switches the antenna which is being used to an antenna selected on the basis of the communication quality among the antennas whose temperatures are lower than the second temperature threshold.

A communication system is a communication system provided in a mobile body and including an acquirer configured to acquire a destination of the mobile body and a position of the mobile body, and a communicator configured to communicate with a communication device outside the mobile body using an antenna, in which the communicator is configured to set a reception sensitivity of the antenna when the position of the mobile body approaches to within a predetermined distance from the destination of the mobile body to be higher than a reception sensitivity of the antenna before the position of the mobile body approaches to within the predetermined distance.

This disclosure relates to methods and devices for mitigating overheating in a user equipment device (UE). The UE is configured to communicate over each of LTE and 5G NR and may be configured to communicate through 5G NR over each of a Sub-6GHz and a millimeter Wave (mmW) frequency band. The UE is configured to establish an ENDC connection with an enB and one or more gNBs. The UE implements intelligent transmission modification and cell measurement adjustments to mitigate overheating and reduce battery drain.

A customer premise equipment is provided and includes: N antennas arranged along a peripheral direction of the customer premise equipment, radiating surfaces of the N antennas at least facing four different directions; a RF circuit connected to the N antennas and configured to control the antennas to transmit and receive an antenna signal and correspondingly measure network information of the antenna signal; and a processor connected to the RF circuit and configured to: configure multiple first transceiver antenna groups from the N antennas, wherein each first transceiver antenna group consists of M antennas, the M antennas have three sequentially adjacent radiating surfaces facing different directions; obtain network information corresponding to the multiple first transceiver antenna groups; determine a target first transceiver antenna group according to the largest network information; and configure the RF circuit to control the target first transceiver antenna group to transmit and receive the antenna signal.

An apparatus, comprising: means for obtaining radio environment information related to at least one downlink signal received by a user equipment using at least one currently-active reception antenna panel of a plurality of selectively-activatable reception antenna panels; and means for reconfiguring at least one of the plurality of selectively-activatable reception antenna panels to be used for performing radio measurements of a downlink signal to be one of active and inactive in response to a variation in the radio environment information.

A method and device for controlling a 5G antenna, and a 5G terminal are provided. The method includes: obtaining contacted situations of areas where a plurality of antennas are located on a terminal; determining whether a non-contacted area is present in the areas according to the contacted situations; in response to presence of the non-contacted area in the areas, selecting an antenna in the non-contacted area in a current scene for use; in response to absence of the non-contacted area in the areas, obtaining influenced degrees of the plurality of antennas and determining whether the influenced degrees are the same; in response to the influenced degrees being the same, selecting an antenna from the plurality of antennas in the current scene for use; in response to the influenced degrees being different, selecting an antenna having the least influenced degree from the plurality of antennas in the current scene for use.

Systems, methods, and apparatus for frequency routing based on orientation are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, by a playback device, an audio data stream. The example method includes determining, by the playback device, an orientation of the playback device. The example method includes routing, by the playback device, a first set of frequencies in the audio data stream to at least one of a plurality of speaker drivers based on the first orientation. The example method includes routing, by the playback device, a second set of frequencies in the audio data stream to the at least one of the plurality of speaker drivers based on the second orientation, wherein the first set of frequencies is different than the second set of frequencies.