This document generally relates to wireless communication systems that involve one or more intelligent reflecting devices. A plurality of second nodes that communicate with a first node may be grouped into node groups based on one or more communication parameters between the plurality of second nodes and an intelligent reflecting device. In turn, the first node may transmit signals to the plurality of second nodes via the intelligent reflecting device according to a time schedule based on the node grouping. In addition or alternatively, an intelligent reflecting device may include surface elements that are divided into multiple surface element regions. The first node may communicate with the multiple surface element regions independently in order to service the plurality of second nodes.

Example methods of advanced DBVC for WiFi relate to one or more of avoiding beacon collisions between a repeater and a root AP, optimizing traffic flows based on buffers queued within hardware, optimizing TCP throughput through DPI and prioritization of TCP ACK packets, or optimizing transmissions through a trigger-based mechanism. An example method may include receiving a transmission from a root AP. The method may include obtaining a next root AP TBTT of a next beacon to be sent by the root AP from the transmission. The method may include determining an amount of time to delay a next repeater TBTT of a next beacon to be sent by a repeater to avoid conflict between the next root AP TBTT and the next repeater TBTT. The method may include delaying the next repeater TBTT based on the determined amount of time.

A first infrastructure equipment configured to communicate with a core network part of a wireless communications network via a first central unit node communicatively coupled to the core network part, wherein the first central unit node controls a first zone of the wireless communications network. The first infrastructure equipment configured to perform measurements on signals received from one or more of the first central unit node and the one or more of the plurality of other infrastructure equipment, to transmit, to the first central unit node, a measurement report comprising an indication of the measurements performed on the received signals, to receive, from the first central unit node, a command signal comprising an indication that the first infrastructure equipment should communicate with the core network part via a second central unit node communicatively coupled to the core network part instead of the first central unit node.

An apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a mobile relay station mounted on a vehicle, including: an antenna system capable of transmitting and receiving radio waves both inside and outside the vehicle; and a wireless control station capable of controlling directivity of the antenna system and having a function of switching between a first relay mode and a second relay mode described below, wherein the wireless control station switches the first and second relay modes on or off based on predetermined control information. First relay mode: mode for relaying communication between a wireless communication device outside the vehicle and a wireless communication device inside the vehicle. Second relay mode: mode for relaying communication between a wireless communication device outside the vehicle and another wireless communication device outside the vehicle.

An electronic device according to the present disclosure includes a processing circuit configured to: determine an interference user according to multiple available passive signal reflection apparatuses of user equipment; determine a set of available beam pairs according to the multiple available passive signal reflection apparatuses of the user equipment; select an available beam pair from the set of available beam pairs according to the reception signal quality of the user equipment and the reception signal quality of the interference user; and adjust, into two beams, the reflecting directions of two available passive signal reflection apparatuses to which the two beams in the selected available beam pair belong. By using the electronic device, the wireless communication method and the computer-readable storage medium according to the present disclosure, the reflecting direction of a passive signal reflection apparatus can be reasonably selected, thereby reducing interference to cell users while improving communication quality.

An assisting network device receives an incoming signal from a transmitting device. The assisting network device forwards the incoming signal to a receiving device in a beam direction based on a frequency of the incoming signal. A method of wireless communication by a first wireless device includes determining an indication of a frequency domain beam sweeping configuration of an assisting network device. The method communicates a signal with a second wireless device via the assisting network device in a beam direction based on a frequency of the signal. A method of wireless communication by a controlling entity determines a frequency domain beam sweeping configuration of an assisting network device. The method indicates the frequency domain beam sweeping configuration to a first wireless device, via the assisting network device, for communication with a second wireless device in a beam direction based on a frequency of an incoming signal.

A method for shaping a mmWave wireless channel in a wireless network is presented. The method includes enabling communication between a multi-antenna transmitter and a multi-antenna receiver, positioning a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in a vicinity of the multi-antenna transmitter and the multi-antenna receiver, constructing the RIS as a uniform planar array (UPA) structure forming a multi-beamforming framework, a surface of the UPA defining an array of discrete elements arranged in a grid pattern, wherein parameters of the discrete elements of the UPA are controllable to achieve multiple disjoint beams covering different solid angles, and enabling the plurality of users of the plurality of mobile devices positioned in blind spots of a coverage map to communicate with the multi-antenna transmitter by employing the MS to generate sharp and effective beams having almost uniform gain in a desired angular coverage interval (ACI).

A wireless communication network such as a 5G communication network can use MIMO technologies to enhance bandwidth between a wireless communications base station and one or more user equipment devices within a service area of the base station. RF signal repeaters can be utilized to provide one or more additional physical channels for communication between the MIMO base station and the MIMO user equipment. These RF signal repeaters can be regarded as increasing the MIMO channel diversity within the ambient environment.

A wireless communication system comprises a source node, a destination node, and a plurality of half-duplex relay nodes disposed between the source node and the destination node. The half-duplex relay nodes are configured in two disjoint paths each comprising an equal number of hops from the source node to the destination node. The source node is configured to alternately transmit information via the two disjoint paths in alternating time slots, and the destination node is configured to alternately receive information via the two disjoint paths in alternating time slots.

A wireless communication system based on millimeter wave (mmWave) radio frequency (RF) repeaters includes a first communication device. The first communication device includes a digital signal processor configured to provide access to a first type of communication network to a plurality of communication systems that are communicatively coupled to the first communication device via a plurality of different type of wireless networks. A plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals corresponding to different communication protocols is obtained via the plurality of different type of wireless networks. The obtained plurality of RF signals corresponding to different communication protocols are merged into a mmWave RF signal of a specified frequency. The mmWave RF signal of the specified frequency is transmitted to a second communication device.