69 results about "Cellular radio" patented technology

Extending cellular telecommunication service from a first UE to another device. The first UE may register for cellular telecommunication service with a cellular network using a first cellular service account, using a cellular communication link via a cellular radio. A second device may be discovered and a communication link may be established between the first UE and the second device. The second device may be registered to use cellular telecommunication capability provided by the first UE. Communications between the second device and the cellular network may be conveyed via the communication link between the first UE and the second device and the cellular communication link. Conveying communications between the second device and the cellular network may provide use of the first cellular service account for cellular telecommunication service to the second device.

A method carried out in a network node of a cellular radio network for configuring a User Equipment, UE, to monitor wake-up signal, WUS, reception in non-connected mode, wherein the method comprises: obtaining (500) information related to the UE, said information being indicative of a wake-up receiver, WUR, being comprised in the UE, and indicative of associated timing performance of the WUR; configuring (502) the UE with WUR configuration, based on the obtained information, said WUR configuration identifying resources for monitoring WUS reception at WUR Active times repeated with a WUR cycle, wherein the WUR cycle is configured without being restricted to a paging occasion, PO, cycle.

An automated system provides end-to-end (E2E) orchestration for machine learning (ML)-enabled and software-defined network (SDN)-enabled reactive and predictive (e.g., 5G) cell-on-drone (COD) dispatch and deployment. The system may be configured to detect or predict traffic surges (e.g., relative to typical or baseline levels) in a given cell site and orchestrate provisioning of resources, including COD deployment, to address the surge. COD deployment may involve one or more clusters or colonies of drones equipped with low-powered cellular radio access (or small cell) nodes, where each cluster includes (or is led by) one or more SDN-equipped drones that provide intelligent SDN-on-drone (SOD) functionality.

A radio device is provided that includes a housing having a lower surface, the housing including a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC). The radio device includes a plurality of millimeter wave (mmW) radios in electronic communication with the processor via the RFIC, the plurality of mmW radios detachably positioned at different locations on the housing of the radio device, each mmW radio of the plurality of mmW radios configured to establish a mmW connection with one or more nodes in a mesh network. The radio device includes a connection having a fastener positioned on the lower surface of the housing of the radio device. The radio device is removably coupled with a pole via the connection, the pole housing a second radio device including a cellular radio, the second radio device connects with the processor, via a connection to the RFIC included in the housing of the radio device.

The invention relates to the technical field of radio astronomy, and discloses a rapid radio storm and cellular radio frequency interference identification method, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a plurality of sub-band signals, and constructing a signal matrix and a broadband signal based on the plurality of sub-band signals; generating a dispersion curve matching degree based on the estimated time delay vector and the theoretical time delay vector of the signal matrix; generating a first decision value based on the dispersion curve matching degree; generating a second decision value based on the frequency domain narrowband entropy mean value; generating a third decision value based on the time domain broadband entropy and the short-time Fourier transform entropy; generating a fourth decision value based on the Welch power spectrum narrowband entropy mean value and the Welch power spectrum broadband entropy; generating a fifth decision value based on the frequency domain broadband entropy; and identifying fast radio storm or cellular radio frequency interference based on a weighted summation result. The method has the beneficial effect that the FRB misjudgment rate is reduced.

A cellular radio telecommunication system, radio apparatus, and method of operating the same are disclosed. The system includes a cellular network and a radio apparatus having a wake-up radio module and a main radio module. The cellular network transmits a wake-up signal in a first frequency band, the wake-up radio module detects the wake-up signal, and, in response to detecting the wake-up signal, activates the main radio module. After transmitting the wake-up signal, the cellular network transmits a paging signal including paging information and frequency-band indication information in the first frequency band, and the activated main radio module receives the paging signal. At least partly in dependence upon the received frequency-band indication information, the radio apparatus determines whether to start an initial access procedure with the cellular network on a channel in the first frequency band or on a channel in a second frequency band, different from the first frequency band. The main radio module thereafter starts the initial access procedure with the cellular network on the determined frequency band.

Techniques for wireless communications are disclosed. These techniques include identifying a change in at least one of: (i) a WiFi radio channel or (ii) a cellular radio channel for a wireless station (STA) supporting both WiFi and cellular radio access technologies. The techniques further include determining one or more WiFi radio channels subject to interference from the cellular radio for the STA, based on a network message received from the STA, and modifying one or more parameters for WiFi communication relating to the STA, based on the determined one or more WiFi radio channels subject to interference.

An industrial manufacturing system is described, the industrial manufacturing system comprising a plurality of machine tools (50a-50d; 102) for mounting on a machine tool (50a-50d; 102), one or more measurement probes (54a-54d; 120) for a motor vehicle. The system comprises an industrial communication network (100) and a cellular radio network (60; 106), which is connected to each machine tool (50a-50d; 102) for controlling a machine tool control (52a-52d; 118), which has a plurality of channels for communicating with each measurement probe (54a-54d; 120), a plurality of cellular base stations (62a-62c; 110) is provided. The cellular positioning unit (66; 108) is provided for calculating a position of each measurement probe (54a-54d; 120), and a measurement control unit (70; 122) uses each measurement probe (54a-54d; 120) to determine a position of the measurement probe (54a-54d; 120) is mounted on which machine tool (50a-50d; 102) on the substrate (100). Thus, the measurement control unit (70; 122) in such a way that a measurement signal from each measurement probe (54a-54d; 120) to which the measuring probe is mounted can be measured with respect to the measurement data from a machine tool (50a-50d; 102) of the machine (102) is used together with the corresponding machine position data. A method of operation of such an industrial manufacturing system is also described.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for application aware cellular radio activation / deactivation, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond. The UE may receive, while operating in a power savings mode in which a cellular modem of the UE is disabled, inputs associated with an application of the UE. The UE may determine, based on the inputs, to activate the cellular modem to support the application of the UE. The inputs may include an indication of an application state or status, an indication of an application category, an indication of a state or status of an AI assistant of the UE, an indication of whether an application is a session application, an indication of network assertions, an indication of proximity information, an indication of a WiFi state or a WiFi status, and / or indications associated with one or more timers.

A portable container has a payload chamber for holding medicines, vaccines, biological samples or other medical goods and a lid operable to access the payload chamber. The portable container also has an electronic system with one or more power storage devices, circuitry that wirelessly communicates via a cell radio with a cloud-based data storage system or a remote electronic device, and an electronic display screen. The electronic system can a) automatically switch sender and recipient information on the electronic display screen to facilitate return of the portable container to the sender or b) automatically contact a parcel carrier to alert the parcel carrier that the portable container is ready for pickup.

Apparatuses for partially offloading processing from a user equipment (UE) to a cellular Radio Access Network (RAN) node are disclosed. An apparatus for a UE includes at least one processor configured to perform Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP / IP) processing and offload only a portion of the TCP / IP processing to a cellular RAN node while maintaining TCP protocols running end-to-end between the UE and a remote host.

As described herein, a wireless locating device is equipped with a Bluetooth radio, global positioning system (GPS) radio, WiFi radio, cellular radio, and battery. Based on an update frequency, the wireless locating device activates the Bluetooth radio which then broadcasts a message. A user equipment (UE) receiving that message may connect with the wireless locating device, which may then send to the UE at least a battery indicator. The UE may then add a UE location to the battery indicator and provide both to a service that maintains information about wireless locating devices. When no UE connects to the wireless locating device, the wireless locating device second activates the GPS radio and WiFi radio, which obtain a location or location information of the wireless locating device, and the cellular radio. The wireless locating device then sends its location and battery indicator to the service via a cellular connection.

A method of operating a cellular radio system that comprises a base station and a radio device is disclosed. The method comprises, for a predetermined uplink transmission length and for a predetermined set of uplink resource parameters, the base station transmitting, for receipt by the radio device, a plurality of different sets of values for the uplink resource parameters. The radio device receives the plurality of sets of values and the radio device selects a set of values from the plurality of sets of values. The radio device then transmits a radio packet in accordance with the selected values of the uplink resource parameters.

The application relates to the technical field of Internet of Things, in particular to a WiFi non-inductive detection method and system for cellular Internet of Things DRX cycle adaptation; the method comprises the following steps: constructing a continuous time modeling cellular monitoring function and a radio frequency priority model by analyzing DRX cycle parameters of an Internet of Things terminal, identifying a safe time window for radio frequency switching, and generating a scheduling decision in combination with hardware switching overhead; a dynamic safe window prediction mechanism is designed, a WiFi scanning window sequence is generated through weighted history correction and multi-cycle sliding prediction; a complete WiFi scanning task is split into multiple micro scanning fragments, executable fragments are dynamically matched according to the length of each safe window, and the scanning task is incrementally completed across multiple DRX cycles; and through an asynchronous cache and fragment fusion mechanism, scanning results are reliably integrated into a complete scanning view. The application effectively guarantees the cooperative scheduling of terminal cellular radio frequency resources and the reliable execution of a WiFi scanning task.

There is provided a method to operate a first apparatus (100) of a cellular radio communications network, wherein the method comprises: receiving a plurality of PUCCH, Physical Uplink Control Channel, configuration parameters; and transmitting UCI, Uplink Control Information, via a PUCCH, wherein the PUCCH is configured according to at least one of the received plurality of PUCCH configuration parameters.

A portable container has a payload chamber for holding medicines, vaccines, biological samples or other medical goods and a lid operable to access the payload chamber. The portable container also has an electronic system with one or more power storage devices, circuitry that wirelessly communicates via a cell radio with a cloud-based data storage system or a remote electronic device, and an electronic display screen. The electronic system can a) automatically switch sender and recipient information on the electronic display screen to facilitate return of the portable container to the sender or b) automatically contact a parcel carrier to alert the parcel carrier that the portable container is ready for pickup.

This application relates to the field of radio astronomy and discloses a method for identifying fast radio bursts (FRBs) and cellular radio frequency interference (RFI). The method includes: acquiring multi-subband signals and constructing a signal matrix and a broadband signal based on the multi-subband signals; generating a dispersion curve matching degree based on the estimated and theoretical time delay vectors of the signal matrix; generating a first decision value based on the dispersion curve matching degree; generating a second decision value based on the mean of the frequency domain narrowband entropy; generating a third decision value based on the time domain broadband entropy and the short-time Fourier transform entropy; generating a fourth decision value based on the mean of the Welch power spectrum narrowband entropy and the Welch power spectrum broadband entropy; generating a fifth decision value based on the frequency domain broadband entropy; and identifying the FRB or cellular RPI based on the weighted summation result. Its beneficial effect is a reduction in the FRB misclassification rate.

An industrial manufacturing system includes multiple machine tools and one or more measurement probes for mounting on the machine tools. The system includes an industrial communications network that is interfaced to the machine tool controller of each machine tool and a cellular radio network having a plurality of cellular base stations for wireless communication with a radio transceiver of each measurement probe. A cellular locating unit is provided for calculating a cellular location of the radio transceiver of each measurement probe and a measurement control unit uses the calculated cellular location of each measurement probe to determine which machine tool that measurement probe is mounted on. The measurement control unit thus enables the measurement data from each measurement probe to be used with corresponding machine position data from the machine tool on which it is mounted. A method of operation of such an industrial manufacturing system is also described.

A portable container has a payload chamber for holding medicines, vaccines, biological samples or other medical goods and a lid operable to access the payload chamber. The portable container also has an electronic system with one or more power storage devices, circuitry that wirelessly communicates via a cell radio with a cloud-based data storage system or a remote electronic device, and an electronic display screen. The electronic system can a) automatically switch sender and recipient information on the electronic display screen to facilitate return of the portable container to the sender or b) automatically contact a parcel carrier to alert the parcel carrier that the portable container is ready for pickup.

Embodiments described herein include wireless control of a welding power supply via portable electronic devices, such as dedicated original equipment manufacturer (OEM) welding remote devices, cellular radio telephones, satellite radio telephones, laptops computers, tablet computers, and so forth. In particular, operating parameters and statuses of the welding power supply may be modified by the portable electronic device, as well as be displayed on the portable electronic device. A pairing procedure may be used to pair the welding power supply and the portable electronic device in a wireless communication network. Furthermore, in certain embodiments, a method of providing location services for the welding power supply includes utilizing location data for the portable electronic device controlling the welding power supply as an approximation for the location of the welding power supply.

A primary device configured to communicate with a radio access network (RAN) according to a cellular radio access technology (RAT) determines (505B) respective connectivity status for each of multiple secondary devices configured to communicate with the RAN only via the primary device. The primary device transmits (511, 520), to the RAN, a message indicating the respective connectivity status for each of the multiple secondary devices.

Non-terrestrial cellular wireless communication networks may be provided in areas with no (or limited) conventional terrestrial network coverage, using satellite or High Altitude Platforms (HAP) opera

The described embodiments relate to latency estimation of a cellular wireless access link by a wireless device. In one embodiment, a wireless device determines a maximum grant assignment (e.g., a maximum transport block size value) for time slots based on channel conditions, monitors grant assignments to the wireless device, and classifies time slots with non-zero grant assignments based on a comparison of these grant assignments to a maximum possible grant to determine traffic bursts. A wireless device measures a time period within a traffic burst with a zero grant allocation slot to estimate a latency value for the traffic burst. The wireless device statistically processes the latency values to generate a composite (e.g., weighted moving average) latency value to compare to a threshold to determine whether to initiate a latency mitigation action.

Facilitating interference avoidance at coexistence of cellular radio access technologies in same channel is provided herein. Operations of a system include evaluating respective traffic signals received from a group of equipment operating in a defined area. The evaluating comprises determining that the first group of equipment and the second group of equipment utilize an overlapping portion of a radio frequency spectrum. The operations can also include, based on a determination that an interference level of the overlapping portion of the radio frequency spectrum satisfies a defined interference level, reserving, by the system, the overlapping portion of the radio frequency spectrum for usage by the first group of equipment.

The invention provides a wireless communication method and a wireless communication device, which can be applied to a cellular wireless network scene and a time division duplex (TDD) scene, in particular to a scene for measuring the quality of a sounding reference signal (SRS) channel. According to the method, the later SRS channel processing scheme is determined according to the previous SRS channel processing result, the dynamic and flexible segmentation and deployment of the channel can be supported, the processing capability of the communication device on the channel is fully utilized, and the wireless communication performance can be improved.

Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for locating sources of potential interference in frequency bands of carrier signals used by cells of a plurality of base stations of a cellular radio communication system are disclosed. The method comprises receiving data representative of power spectral density, PSD, in carrier signals across different frequency bands received at the base stations for cells of the communication system over time intervals. The cells are clustered based on features of the received PSD data that distinguish between a normal received signal and an abnormal received signal subject to potential interference. For each cell assigned to a cluster having features indicative of an abnormal received signal, a correlation coefficient is determined between a matrix of the signal strength values in the received PSD data for that cell in the different frequency bands over the time intervals with the signal strength values in the received PSD data for all other cells in the respective frequency bands over the same time intervals. Cells having correlation coefficients above a threshold value are grouped as being members of interference groups. For each interference group, the cell having the highest received power in a correlated frequency band is identified as the cell causing or nearest that cause of the interference affecting the cells in the interference group.

Methods, systems, and apparatus for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may establish a cellular connection with a base station associated with a cellular radio network. The UE may receive an access policy of the cellular radio network, the access policy identifying an access preference rule for the UE to employ for connecting to a core network function of the cellular radio network, the access preference rule indicating to the UE that connection to the core network function is preferably via a non-cellular radio network. The UE may determine that a gateway between the non-cellular radio network and the core network function of the cellular radio network is not configured. The UE may determine that a gateway selection policy for the cellular radio network is not configured. The UE may establish a connection to a legacy core network function of a legacy cellular radio network via a legacy gateway.

A mobile device may be configured for scanning cellular communications networks or other non-satellite connectivity networks while the mobile device is connected with the satellite communications network. In some examples, processing circuitry- of the mobile device initiates a cellular network scan. In some examples, the network scan includes at least a scan for any accessible cellular communication networks. In some examples, the network scan includes determining whether at least one cellular communications network is accessible via a cellular radio of the mobile device. In some examples, in response to determining that the at least one cellular communications network is accessible, processing circuitry initiates a new cellular communications session with the at least one cellular communications network determined to be accessible.

An example method includes receiving, by a mobile computing device and from a cellular node, a plurality of radio frames; selectively maintaining, by the mobile computing device and based on information of the cellular node, a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) clock based on temporal spacing of the plurality of cellular radio frames; receiving, by a GNSS processor of the mobile computing device, a GNSS time via the GNSS clock; and acquiring, by the GNSS processor and based on the GNSS time received via the GNSS clock, a first fix for the mobile computing device.