Techniques are provided for informing a network of a timing source outage in a node and reestablishing a synchronized time in the node. An example method for providing a timing source outage notification includes detecting an outage of a timing source, determining one or more impacted nodes, generating one or more notification messages based at least in part on a communication context for each of the one or more impacted nodes, and transmitting the one or more notification messages.

Techniques are provided for utilizing sidelink communications in response to a timing source outage. An example method for utilizing sidelink communications in response to a timing source outage according to the disclosure includes detecting the timing source outage associated with a first node, determining a second node experiencing a loss of services due to least in part on the timing source outage in the first node, determining a third node with a valid timing source, determining one or more relay nodes based at least in part on a location of the second node and a location of the third node, and providing one or more services to the second node via the one or more relay nodes.

Techniques are provided for reacting to a notification of a timing source outage in a network node. An example method for reacting to an indication of a timing source outage includes receiving the indication of the timing source outage associated with a first node, and deactivating at least one transmission from the first node.

Techniques are provided for handling positioning sessions in response to a timing source outage. An example method for configuring a positioning method based on a timing source outage includes receiving an indication of the timing source outage from a station, determining the positioning method based at least in part on the indication of the timing source outage, and sending an indication of the positioning method to one or more network entities.

Method and UE are provided for scheduling for PDCCH PEI detection. In particular, a BS can transmit a higher layer signaling to a UE. The higher layer signaling includes a configuration of at least one configurable PDCCH candidate number for PEI procedure used under a non-active mode. After receiving the higher layer signaling, the UE performs blind decoding under the non-active mode according to the configuration of the at least one configurable PDCCH candidate number.

Technologies for managing internal time synchronization include an internet-of-things (IoT) device configured to determine a transport delay value as a function of a transmit path delay corresponding to a first message transmitted from an I/O device of the IoT device to a central timer of the IoT device and a receive path delay corresponding to a second message transmitted from the central timer to the I/O device. The IoT device is further configured to update, in response to having received a broadcast message from the central timer subsequent to having determined the transport delay value, a timestamp value of the received broadcast message as a function of the transport delay value. Other embodiments are described herein.

Methods and transceivers transmit communication frames that comprise a sequence of N symbols, ensuing payload header symbols, and ensuing payload message symbols. The sequence of N symbols encodes information according to signal-to-noise ratio associated with the communication frame.

Systems and associated methods for reciprocity calibration of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for reciprocity calibration of the MIMO system includes transmitting a pilot symbol by a transmitter (TX) of the reference antenna and receiving the pilot symbol by receivers (RXes) of antennas of a base station as r.sub.i,0 pilot symbols. (Index “i” denotes individual antenna “i” of the base station, and “0” denotes the reference antenna.) The method further includes transmitting the received pilot symbols by TXes of the antennas of the base station, receiving the pilot symbols transmitted by the antennas of the base station by the reference antenna as r.sub.0,i pilot symbols, and calculating non-reciprocity compensation factors as

[00001]$\frac{r_{i,0}}{r_{0,i}}.$

A communication device constitutes a management node that manages at least one of a first base station and a second base station provided on fronthaul. The communication device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a delay profile of the second base station, a control unit that determines a window parameter used to specify at least one of a Reception window and a Transmission window used in the first base station based on the delay profile of the second base station and a delay parameter defined by the fronthaul, and a notification unit that notifies the first base station of the window parameter.

A method and a communication apparatus for determining a timing advance. A downlink signal is received from a network device. A first reference moment of a signal period of the downlink signal is determined, where the first reference moment includes a start receiving moment of the signal period. A first time interval between the start receiving moment and a start moment of a first period in which the terminal is located is determined. Based on the first time interval, determining whether a start sending moment of the signal period is within the first period, and determining the start sending moment, where a period is a duration distributed at an equal interval on a time axis. A timing advance is determined based on the start receiving moment and the start sending moment, and an uplink signal is sent based on the timing advance.