254 results about "Baseband processor" patented technology

Systems, methods, and devices are provided for processing potentially overlapping measurement gaps. In one example, a baseband processor of a user equipment (UE), includes one or more processors configured to receive a first measurement gap configuration configuring a first measurement gap and a second measurement gap configuration configuring a second measurement gap. A measurement gap (MG) proximity between the first measurement gap and the second measurement gap is determined and evaluated with respect to a proximity condition. The proximity condition defines a minimum time between measurement gaps. In response to the MG proximity violating the proximity condition, the one or more processors are configured to determine that the first measurement gap and the second measurement gap are overlapping, and in response, select one of the first measurement gap or the second measurement gap for receiving reference signals.

A user equipment (UE), including a vehicle to everything (V2X) device, a pedestrian UE, or other UE, a baseband processor or other network device can operate to receive an indication of a sidelink (SL) discontinuous reception (DRX) parameter (e.g., an SL DRX active time) of a receiver UE for SL communication (e.g., Mode-2 SL communication). A resource selection procedure can be performed of a set of candidate resources within a resource selection window (RSW) based on the SL DRX parameter of the receiver UE so that at least a subset of candidate resources of the set of candidate resources satisfies a threshold to be within the SL DRX parameter of the receiver UE. A report of the set of candidate resources can then be transmitted from the physical (PHY) layer to a higher layer to enable the SL communication. The SL communication, for example, can include an autonomous determination of SL resources for a Mode-2 sidelink communication.

A repeater device for New Radio (NR) communication, includes a baseband processor that establishes a communication link with a base station and decodes control information that is received from the base station through a control channel. The baseband processor further aligns a timing reference of the repeater device with that of an NR cell frame for an uplink or a downlink time division duplex (TDD) switching, based on the decoded control information. The baseband processor further selects and forms one or more donor beams of RF signals at a donor side of the repeater device and one or more service beams of RF signals at a service side of the repeater device, based on the decoded control information and the aligned timing reference with that of the NR cell frame for the uplink or the downlink TDD switching for communication in an NR frequency band.

Methods and apparatuses for using a single downlink control information (DCI) and supporting simultaneous transmission simultaneous Physical Uplink Shared Channels (PUSCHs) using multiple user equipment (UE) antenna panels are described. In some embodiments, a baseband processor is configured to perform operations comprising: receiving configuration information from a base station, wherein the configuration information comprises a single downlink control information (DCI) that specifies an uplink resource allocation for a plurality of Physical Uplink Shared Channels (PUSCHs), wherein the uplink resource allocation for the plurality of PUSCHs is specified, per user equipment (UE) antenna panel. Once configured, the baseband processor transmits the plurality of PUSCHs simultaneously via the plurality of antenna panels, with one PUSCH of the plurality of PUSCHs being transmitted on a different one of the plurality of PUSCHs.

Techniques discussed herein can facilitate neighbor cell measurements with non-cell-defined synchronization signal blocks (NCD-SSB). One example aspect is a baseband processor of a user equipment (UE), including one or more processors configured to receive an indication of a NCD-SSB and a cell-defined (CD)-SSB (CD-SSB) configuration. The one or more processors further perform a measurement procedure to obtain a cell measurement value associated with a SSB wherein the SSB is one of the NCD-SSB or the CD-SSB. Subsequently, the one or more processors compare the cell measurement value with a threshold value; and perform measurement of a neighbor cell when the cell measurement value does not satisfy the threshold value.

A baseband processor, user equipment (UE), and network device are described. The baseband processor and UE can perform receiving control signaling that indicates a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration of a set of SRS ports associated with a set of antenna ports, where the UE can perform antenna switching using the antenna ports. The SRS configuration identifies at least a first and second SRS resources. The baseband process can provide SRSs for transmission from the UE using the first and second SRS resources, and transmit a control message that includes power headroom reports that indicate first and second power values for the first and second SRS resources, for example indicating an antenna imbalance at the UE. Examples are further described for a UE to maintain a same phase for SRS transmissions during a window, and flexibly SRS rate match around uplink shared channel signals.

This application sets forth techniques for dynamically managing a shared provisioning electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) for a wireless device. A shared (non-unique) provisioning eSIM is installed in the wireless device to provide limited functionality connectivity to services, such as for device activation and user eSIM provisioning. The shared provisioning eSIM includes records of IMSI values organized into groups of IMSI pools and priorities for selecting IMSI values for configuring the shared provisioning eSIM. An on-device shared provisioning SIM / eSIM controller resident on a cellular baseband processor of the wireless device selects and configures the shared provisioning eSIM with IMSI values based on the priorities and on results from scanning for available public land mobile networks (PLMNs). The shared provisioning eSIM can be re-configured with different IMSI values selected from different IMSI pools until successful registration using the configured provisioning eSIM occurs or a maximum number or retries occurs.

An apparatus of a next generation Node B (gNB) comprises one or more baseband processors to generate an indication for a user equipment (UE) to indicate which synchronization signal block (SSB) based measurement timing configuration (SMTC) occasion can be used by the UE for one or more measurements, and to send the indication to the UE. The apparatus can include a memory to store the indication.

Methods and apparatuses for using a single downlink control information (DCI) and supporting simultaneous transmission simultaneous Physical Uplink Shared Channels (PUSCHs) using multiple user equipment (UE) antenna panels are described. In some embodiments, a baseband processor is configured to perform operations comprising: receiving an RRC configuration information from a base station, wherein the RRC configuration information comprises an uplink transmission scheme using multiple antenna panels for transmitting multiple PUSCHs simultaneously using the plurality of the UE antenna panels, wherein the uplink transmission scheme using multiple antenna panels comprises transmission of a single transport block (TB) without repetition, transmission of a single TB with repetition, or transmission of a plurality of TBs, based on a user equipment (UE) capability; receiving a single downlink control information (DCI) that specifies an uplink resource allocation for a plurality of Physical Uplink Shared Channels (PUSCHs); and transmitting the plurality of PUSCHs.

A UE, baseband processor, and network device are described. The UE or baseband processor can receive an indication of a configuration of a subband full duplex (SBFD) serving cell. The configuration may identify one or more subcarriers for downlink resources of the SBFD serving cell that are frequency domain multiplexed with one or more subcarriers for uplink resources of the SBFD serving cell. The UE or baseband processor may then receive a cross-link interference (CLI) measurement configuration indicating a set of resources for CLI measurements for the SBFD serving cell. The UE or baseband processor then performs, according to the CLI measurement configuration, the CLI measurements using at least a portion of the downlink resources, and transmits, to the network device serving the SBFD serving cell, a report based at least in part on the performed CLI measurements.

A user equipment (UE), including a vehicle to everything (V2X) device, other UE, a baseband processor or other network device can perform sensing of candidate resources on a Long Term Evolution (LTE) sidelink resource pool of an LTE sidelink channel and a new radio (NR) resource pool of an NR sidelink channel for a sidelink (SL) communication on an NR sidelink channel based on sensing results of the sensing of the candidate resources. According to the sensing results, the SL communication can be transmitted on the NR sidelink channel based on LTE candidate resources of the LTE sidelink channel and NR candidate resources of the NR sidelink channel in a co-channel coexistence.

A baseband processor includes at least one processor core, and memory coupled with the at least one processor core. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor core, cause the baseband processor to at least receive configuration signaling that indicates a channel measurement resource (CMR) configuration identifying a set of channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) resources. The set of CSI-RS resources include different subsets of one or more CSI-RS resources for different TRPs in a set of TRPs identified for a coordinated joint transmission (CJT) between the set of TRPs and a user equipment (UE). Execution of the instructions further causes the baseband processor to measure at least some of the CSI-RS resources in the set of CSI-RS resources, and generate, for transmission, a CSI report based at least in part on the measurement of the at least some of the CSI-RS resources.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for using shared radio frequency resources for multiple subscriber identification module transmission and reception. An example method includes receiving, using a shared set of receive (RX) chains, a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals in a set of time-frequency resources, wherein the plurality of RF signals include: first RF signals corresponding to first subscription of the UE, and second RF signals corresponding to a second subscription of the UE: processing the first RF signals using a first baseband processor of the UE associated with the first subscription; and processing the second RF signals using a second baseband processor of the UE associated with the second subscription.

The invention provides a same-time same-frequency-band full duplex communication device with rapid and agile frequency. Comprising a duplexer, a first frequency hopping wave trap, a first radio frequency amplifier, a first frequency hopping filter, a second frequency hopping wave trap, a second radio frequency amplifier, a second frequency hopping filter, a third radio frequency amplifier, a band-pass filter, an analog-to-digital converter, a standard frequency, a channel controller, a baseband processor, a digital-to-analog converter, a fourth radio frequency amplifier and a third frequency hopping filter. A fifth radio frequency amplifier; and a fourth frequency hopping filter. According to the simultaneous same-frequency-band full-duplex communication device with the fast and agile frequency, the working frequency of the full-duplex communication device covers 100 MHz to 1 GHz, the frequency range is wide, the communication efficiency is high, time delay is small, self-interference generated by a local transmitter is effectively restrained, application of a full-duplex communication system in the wide-frequency-band simultaneous same-frequency-band high-speed frequency hopping process can be met, and the full-duplex communication device is suitable for wide-frequency-band simultaneous same-frequency-band high-speed frequency hopping. The transceiving isolation of the system duplexer is greater than 30dBc, and the notch suppression capability of the receiving path is greater than 65dBc.

Techniques discussed herein can facilitate autonomous user equipment beam failure recovery abort aspects. One example aspect is baseband processor configured to, when executing instructions stored in a memory, perform operations including initiating, in response to detecting a beam failure of a downlink (DL) beam, a beam recovery procedure. The operations further include determining that the DL beam is valid after initiating the beam recovery procedure. The operations further include aborting the beam recovery procedure in response to determining that the DL beam is valid. The operations further include receiving, via a radio frequency (RF) interface, and after aborting the beam recovery procedure, a communication sent on the DL beam.

The invention discloses a wide-narrow band fusion carrier communication processing circuit suitable for long-distance track communication. Comprising a power line interface connector ACIN, a wide-narrow band fusion carrier communication processing circuit, an analog front end H-AFE, an analog front end L-AFE, a digital baseband processor DBB, a FLASH memory, a gigabit Ethernet PHY, a gigabit Ethernet interface, an RS-485 transceiver, an RS-485 interface, an AC-DC power conversion and PMIC power management. The invention can effectively solve the problem of mutual interference between simultaneous transmission of wide and narrow bands and the problem of bandwidth reduction during communication of multiple groups of equipment in the same power supply line. The system can be widely applied to specific application scenes where network cables or optical fibers are inconvenient to lay in the field of rail robots, and transmission of broadband Ethernet data such as video monitoring and transmission of terminal equipment control signals are achieved through a power supply line. The overall design is simple, easy to use, safe and reliable.

A user equipment (UE) for handling slice information with single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) mapping for universal integrated circuit card (UICC) processor is provided. The UE operates by determining whether a baseband processor of the UE is in a busy state. Based on a determination that the baseband processor is not in the busy state, the baseband processor sends a fetch message to a UICC processor of the UE, where the fetch message is sent in response to receipt of a proactive-command-pending message from the UICC processor. The baseband processor receives a proactive-command message from the UICC processor, where the proactive-command message corresponds to a request for single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) information corresponding to one or more network slices. Finally, the baseband processor sends a response message with the S-NSSAI information to the UICC processor.

The invention discloses an interphone power saving method and device for dynamically adjusting a low noise amplifier working point, and the method comprises the following steps: S1, periodically collecting a digital intermediate frequency signal in a receiving stage, and calculating a first parameter and a second parameter, the first parameter being a current received signal strength indication value, and the second parameter being a current signal-to-noise ratio estimation value; s2, when the first parameter is higher than a first threshold value and the second parameter is higher than a second threshold value, it is judged that a low-power-consumption access condition is met; s3, when N continuous cycles all meet the low-power-consumption access condition, the baseband processor outputs a first control signal, and the bias working point of the low-noise amplifier is switched to a low-power-consumption mode; and S4, in a low-power-consumption mode, if the first parameter is lower than a third threshold value or the second parameter is lower than a fourth threshold value, outputting a second control signal, and switching the bias working point of the low-noise amplifier to a high-performance mode, thereby solving the problem of high static power consumption of the interphone receiving link on the premise of ensuring the communication reliability.

Techniques are described for dynamically managing a shared deployed electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) for a wireless device. A shared (non-unique) provisioning eSIM is installed in the wireless device to provide limited function connections to services, such as for device activation and user eSIM provisioning. The shared provisioning eSIM includes a record of IMSI values organized into a plurality of sets of IMSI pools and a priority for selecting IMSI values for configuring the shared provisioning eSIM. A shared provisioning SIM / eSIM controller on a device residing on a cellular baseband processor of the wireless device selects an IMSI value based on the priority and based on a result of scanning for an available public land mobile network (PLMN) and configures the shared provisioning eSIM with the IMSI value. The shared provisioning eSIM may be reconfigured with different IMSI values selected from different IMSI pools until a successful registration with the configured provisioning eSIM occurs or a maximum number of retries occurs.

Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, baseband processors, and methods for performing uplink communications and vehicle-to-everything sidelink communication. A wireless device receives first control information through a sidelink control channel specifying one or more first time slots for the wireless device to transmit a sidelink acknowledgment message over a sidelink feedback channel. The wireless device receives a resource grant through a downlink control channel, wherein the resource grant specifies one or more second time slots for the wireless device to transmit an uplink transmission over an uplink channel. The first and second time slots at least partially overlap, and it is selectively determined whether to transmit the sidelink acknowledgment message or the uplink transmission during the overlapping time slots.

In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a baseband processor to generate a baseband signal and a digital pre-distortion (DPD) circuit to pre-distort the baseband signal with compensation information obtained from a lookup table. The lookup table may have a plurality of entries each to store a pre-distortion value, the lookup table to be addressed based on a target output power level of the baseband signal. The apparatus also may include a converter to convert the pre-distorted baseband signal to an analog signal and radio frequency (RF) circuitry comprising: a mixer to upconvert the analog signal to a pre-distorted RF signal, and a power amplifier to amplify the pre-distorted RF signal.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for reporting user equipment (UE) capabilities for carrier aggregation sessions. Instead of, or in addition to, reporting maximum bandwidth processing capabilities, the present disclosure utilizes an information element reported by the UE that includes the maximum number of resource blocks or subcarriers that can be processed by the baseband processor of the UE.

A mobile communication base station for joint communication and sensing and method of operation of a mobile communication base station is described. The mobile communication base station includes a baseband processor configurable to transmit and receive sensing and communication signals via one or channels. Each channel is configurable in one or more of a communications-transmit mode, a communications-receive mode, a sense-transmit mode and a sense-receive mode. For each channel, the baseband processor includes a carrier mapping-demapping module and a sense module. The baseband processor includes a controller coupled to the carrier mapping-demapping module and configured to control the carrier mapping-demapping module of the one or more channels to map the plurality of transmit-OFDM-symbols to a bandwidth part of an available OFDM bandwidth in the sense-transmit mode and the communications-transmit mode.

A short-range communications apparatus, a chip, and a control method are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a gain unit, coupled to an antenna; a first radio frequency (RF) receive channel, coupled to the gain unit; a first baseband processor, coupled to the first RF receive channel, and configured to receive a first signal from the antenna through the first RF receive channel; a second RF receive channel, coupled to the gain unit; and a second baseband processor, coupled to the second RF receive channel, and configured to receive a second signal from the antenna through the second RF receive channel.

Systems, methods, and devices are provided for transmitting and receiving sidelink positioning reference signals (SL-PRS). In one example, a user equipment (UE), includes a memory and a baseband processor. The baseband processor is configured to, when executing instructions stored in the memory, cause the UE to select a sidelink positioning reference signal (SL-PRS) resource from a configured or preconfigured dedicated resource pool. The dedicated resource pool includes candidate physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) resources configured to carry single stage sidelink control information (SCI) and candidate SL-PRS resources, wherein the dedicated resource pool does not include candidate resources for physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmission. The baseband processor is configured to cause the UE to transmit the SL-PRS in the selected SL-PRS resource.

Techniques discussed herein can facilitate multi-slot sidelink transmissions in the unlicensed spectrum. One example aspect is a baseband processor of a user equipment (UE), comprising a memory and one or more processors configured to, when executing instructions stored in the memory, cause the UE to determine a resource block (RB) set configuration for a multi-slot sidelink transmission with n slots. The one or more processors are further configured to determine a sidelink control information (SCI) configuration, based on the RB set configuration and generate SCI for the multi-slot sidelink transmission based on the SCI configuration. The SCI configuration includes a first stage SCI in a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) and a second stage SCI in a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). Subsequently, the one or more processors are further configured to transmit the multi-slot sidelink transmission over the n slots where the multi-slot sidelink transmission includes the PSCCH and the PSSCH.

A user equipment (UE), baseband processor, and network device are described. The UE and / or baseband processor can perform transmitting capability signaling indicating a processing time within which the UE is capable of processing a control message modifying a synchronization signal block (SSB) burst period from a first period used for a first set of SSB bursts to be a second period for a second set of SSB bursts. The UE and / or baseband processor then receives, responsive to the transmitted capability signaling, the control message modifying the SSB burst period. The UE and / or baseband processor then processes, after receiving the control message modifying the SSB burst period, measurements of one or more SSB bursts received during the second set of SSB bursts, and transmits a measurement report based on the processed measurements of the one or more SSB bursts.

A chip comprises a plurality of signal receiving circuits, a transceiver circuit and a memory circuit. The plurality of signal receiving circuits are set at different locations on the chip. The transceiver circuit includes a dynamic switch circuit and a baseband processor. The dynamic switch circuit is configured to output a to-be-analyzed signal from the one of the plurality of signal receiving circuits. The baseband processor is configured to obtain a frequency spectrum and magnitude of the to-be-analyzed signal, and obtain a data packet of an input radio-frequency signal received by an external antenna. The memory circuit is configured to store the frequency spectrum and magnitude of the to-be-analyzed signal, and transmit the frequency spectrum and magnitude to an external computing device, so as to determine an interference path, an interference source or a combination thereof of an interference signal of the transceiver circuit through the external computing device.

A user equipment (UE), a base station, a baseband processor or other network device can operate to perform an initial access to a satellite base station (e.g., a non-terrestrial network (NTN) ). The UE can perform a cell search during the initial access on an NTN band based on one of a plurality of synchronization signal block (SSB) periodicities that each map to a different NTN band ID, respectively, where the UE is an idle or inactive mode. A number of candidate values of the SSB periodicities can correspond to a different NTN band ID, or NTN region ID, respectively, according to a predefined association in one or more data sets.

A user equipment (UE), including a non-terrestrial network (NTN) UE, a baseband processor, or other network device, may operate in a new radio (NR) unlicensed network to determine (in advance) whether a collision or overlap occurs between a first set of synchronization signal (SS) / physical block channel (PBCH) block (SSB) measurement timing configuration (SMTC) occasions and a second set of SMTC occasions based on a proximity threshold of proximity distance. In response to determining that a collision occurs, the UE or other component may measure one of: a first set of SMTC occasions or a second set of SMTC occasions, otherwise measure the first set of SMTC occasions and the second set of SMTC occasions without a collision or overlap. The threshold may be based on a different SMTC associated or not associated with one or more measurement gaps.