37 results about "Cellular radio" patented technology

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Systems and methods described herein may allow an information handling system to utilize a plurality of cellular radio connections simultaneously. A proxy server may enable concurrent connections using cellular networks of multiple operators, including public and private cellular networks. An information handling system may leverage this multi-link connectivity to allocate the optimal connection based on a plurality of factors such as an application's quality of service requirements and radio frequency environment. Other aspects are also disclosed.

A method of communicating between an aerial vehicle and a cellular radio access network is described. In some cases, the method includes determining a current location of the aerial vehicle; determining, in response to the current location, a location of a nearest cell of the cellular radio access network; and processing communications between the aerial vehicle and the cellular radio access network, using the nearest cell as a serving cell. When the method is performed on-board an aerial vehicle, the method further includes orienting a directional antenna of the aerial vehicle toward the location of the nearest cell.

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for partial offloading of protocol processing. An apparatus for partially offloading processing from a user equipment (UE) to a cellular radio access network (RAN) node is disclosed. An apparatus for a UE includes at least one processor configured to perform transmission control protocol and internet protocol (TCP / IP) processing and to offload only a portion of the TCP / IP processing to a cellular RAN node while maintaining the TCP protocol running end-to-end between the UE and a remote host.

An apparatus configured to generate data for transmission to a base station via a direct cellular radio link in a cellular network, and to process data received from the base station via the direct cellular radio link, where the apparatus is configured to support a finite set of cellular functionality, the limited set is less than a complete set of cellular functionalities of the cellular network, and wherein the device or a user of the device does not have an active cellular subscription for enabling cellular services with the cellular network.

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 method for adjusting the bandwidth of a carrier signal providing access to a cellular radio network via a high-altitude platform (HAP), the carrier signal being transmitted within a predetermined spectrum channel, the HAP transmitting a first carrier signal of a first bandwidth in a first portion of the predetermined spectrum allocation, the method comprising: configuring the transmission of a second carrier signal of a second bandwidth in a second portion of the predetermined spectrum allocation, the second bandwidth being different from the first bandwidth; and configuring a service switch from the first carrier signal to the second carrier signal.

5 The present disclosure relates to a core-independent cellular radio access network (RAN) system and method thereof. To enable core-independent cellular RAN, a User Equipment (UE) (102) is authenticated based on a Subscription Concealed Identifier (SUCI). Based on authentication, a direct data path is established between the UE (102) and a local network (302). Registration of the UE (102) includes receiving a request through a base station (104), 0 creating or retrieving the UE context, and performing authentication using parameters from a RAN data management entity (314). By generating keys and verifying UE identity based on permanent equipment identifiers or subscription identifiers, secure communication is ensured.

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 method of monitoring blood pressure in a plurality of modes is provided. The method includes generating a blood pressure reading data via a blood pressure monitoring apparatus detachably attached to a user by measuring a blood pressure of the user, and time-stamping and saving the reading in a memory of the blood pressure monitoring apparatus. The method includes establishing a connection with a remote server using a cellular radio unit of the blood pressure monitoring apparatus. The method includes transmitting the blood pressure reading data to the remote server, and receiving a configuration information from the remote server, the configuration information includes of at least one or more security certificates, cloud connection details, and a setup data including activation / deactivation instruction and a multimode operation setting. The method includes operating by the blood pressure monitoring apparatus in one or more modes for monitoring the blood pressure of the user.

A method includes the monitoring of one or more marshaling-related characteristics, the detection of at least one cellular-related disruption corresponding to a cell of a plurality of cells associated with a marshaling environment, the analysis of the one or more marshaling-related characteristics associated with the at least one cellular-related disruption, and the receipt of an adjustment to one or more marshaling commands.

A processing system deployed in a cellular network may detect capability information of an uncrewed aerial vehicle, the capability information including carrier aggregation capability information, where the uncrewed aerial vehicle includes at least one cellular radio for communication with the cellular network, select, in accordance with the carrier aggregation capability information, a primary cell of the cellular network to serve the uncrewed aerial vehicle, where the selecting comprises selecting the primary cell from among a plurality of cells within a communication range of the uncrewed aerial vehicle based on the primary cell having a largest coverage range for the uncrewed aerial vehicle as compared to other cells, and transmit at least a first instruction to assign at least a first portion of data traffic of the uncrewed aerial vehicle to the primary cell, the at least the first portion of the data traffic comprising command and control traffic.