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The invention provides a test method and a test system for a digital optical fiber repeater, an external signal source is not needed, the resource occupation is low, and the independent test of each part of the digital optical fiber repeater is supported, the test method comprises the following steps: a waveform data packet is pre-stored, and the waveform data packet comprises waveform data intercepted from a standard test signal; in response to the test instruction, performing signal reconstruction based on a pre-stored waveform data packet, and generating a test waveform conforming to a communication standard; outputting the test waveform to a radio frequency hardware link of the digital optical fiber repeater, processing the test waveform through the radio frequency hardware link, converting the test waveform into a testable radio frequency signal, and outputting the testable radio frequency signal; and demodulating the output radio frequency signal through the test equipment, and carrying out radio frequency parameter calibration.

Embodiments of this disclosure provide an information transmitting method, an information receiving method, a repeater and a network device. The information receiving method includes: receiving by a repeater first indication information for indicating an access link beam, the first indication information including an information field for indicating a beam on an access link and an information field for indicating a time resource; and performing forwarding by using a first backhaul link beam on a first time resource, and / or performing forwarding by using a second backhaul link beam on a second time resource, and / or performing forwarding by using a third backhaul link beam on a third time resource, and / or not performing forwarding on a fourth time resource, by the repeater.

Embodiments of this disclosure provide a forwarding control method, an information transmission method, a repeater and a network device. The repeater includes: a mobile termination configured to perform beam failure detection; and a forwarding entity configured to be turned off / not to perform forwarding in case of beam failure.

A control method for a network-controlled repeater includes: determining that the repeater transmits a physical random access channel to the base station, in which the physical random access channel is configured to recover a control link between the repeater and the base station; and causing the repeater to cease forwarding a signal between the base station and a user equipment. Causing the repeater to cease forwarding the signal may include causing the repeater to cease forwarding the signal between the base station and the user equipment on all carrier components or selected carrier components.

A repeater device receives a first configuration that associates reference signal (RS) resources and receive / transmit (Rx / Tx) beam pairs configurable at the repeater device for repeating one of: (i) a downlink (DL) radio frequency (RF) signal received on a backhaul link from the base station to a user equipment (UE) over an access link; and (ii) an uplink (UL) RF signal from the UE to the base station. The device: receives a second configuration for measuring and reporting self-interference of a first list of the RS resources; configures the repeater device with Rx / Tx beam pairs identified in the first list of RS resources; measures self-interference received on an Rx beam of first Rx / Tx beam pairs; and generates and forwards, to the base station, a self-interference measurement report comprising a second list of Rx / Tx beam pairs from the first list of Rx / Tx beam pairs that cause self-interference above a threshold value.

The utility model relates to a detection system. The detection system comprises a plurality of control hosts; each slave unit comprises at least one slave, the at least one slave comprises a to-be-detected device and / or a detection device for detecting the to-be-detected device, the central repeater is in communication connection with each control host through an SPI communication link, and the central repeater is provided with a plurality of storage modules in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of control hosts; and the plurality of edge repeaters are respectively in communication connection with the central repeater through SPI communication links, and each edge repeater is respectively connected with all slave machines in one slave machine set through communication interfaces. According to the utility model, signal attenuation and interference in long-distance transmission can be effectively relieved, and the reliable transmission distance of the SPI is expanded; the plurality of control hosts can realize independent and reliable communication with the to-be-detected devices in the different slave units or the detection equipment thereof, and the detection reliability of the to-be-detected devices can be improved.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, communicating, with a parent cell of a wireless communications system, beamforming information; receiving, from the parent cell, first parent downlink (DL) communications, wherein the first parent DL communications are associated with first user equipment (UE); transmitting, to the first UE, first repeater DL communications, wherein the first repeater DL communications are based upon the first parent DL communications; receiving, from the first UE, first UE uplink (UL) communications; and transmitting, to the parent cell, first repeater UL communications, wherein the first repeater UL communications are based upon the first UE UL communications; wherein the beamforming information is used to control the transmitting of the first repeater DL communications, the transmitting of the first repeater UL communications, or any combination thereof. Other embodiments are disclosed.

The invention discloses a 5G signal-based repeater signal processing system and method, and belongs to the technical field of communication, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the signal strength of a 5G signal received by a repeater, a transmission distance target value, a topographic sign value of a transmission destination, weather data of a transmission link, and state data of a signal transmission candidate frequency band; generating a signal transmission loss value according to the transmission distance target value of the 5G signal received by the repeater, the topographic sign value of the transmission destination and the weather data of the transmission link; generating a final gain demand prediction value of the 5G signal according to the signal transmission loss value and the signal strength of the 5G signal received by the repeater, and judging whether the 5G signal transmission needs frequency band switching; according to the state data of the signal transmission candidate frequency band, generating an optimal candidate frequency band, and processing the 5G signal; according to the invention, the gain compensation precision is improved, dynamic frequency band switching can be realized, the signal processing accuracy of the repeater is improved, and the poor user experience is optimized.

Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and a computer program that enhance spectrum utilization efficiency in an effective manner.An information processing device of the present disclosure includes a processing unit that calculates, on the basis of position information regarding a first receiver and arrangement information regarding a repeater that reflects a first radio wave transmitted from a first transmitter to relay the first radio wave to the first receiver, an interference source region for determining whether or not a second transmitter that makes a secondary use of a spectrum identical to or adjacent to a spectrum used by the first transmitter and the first receiver is located at a position where there is a possibility that a second radio wave transmitted by the second transmitter is reflected by the repeater to cause interference affecting the first receiver.

The invention discloses an acoustic optical communication positioning method for an autonomous adjustment channel of an underwater robot, and the method comprises the steps: constructing an underwater dynamic acousto-optic fusion repeater, achieving the wide-area guaranteed-bottom connection with the underwater robot through an acoustic link, and providing meter-scale precision coarse positioning covering a whole operation region; the method provides prior information for rapid establishment of a subsequent optical link, further dynamically compresses an optical search area to realize rapid and accurate link establishment, and performs autonomous and smooth switching among acoustic, optical and acousto-optic hybrid transmission modes according to real-time link quality assessment (signal-to-noise ratio), thereby realizing acousto-optic deep coupling and cooperative scheduling, and improving the reliability of the system. The system has the advantages of long-distance reliable connection, short-distance high-speed data return, high-precision positioning and the like, and solves the core technical problems that the distance and the speed cannot be obtained at the same time and the positioning precision and the coverage range are mutually restricted in the prior art.

A method for a network controlled repeater (NCR) is disclosed. The NCR has a control link and a backhaul link, to an access network node, and an access link to a user equipment, UE. Transmission via the control link is terminated at the NCR and transmission via the backhaul link is forwarded via the NCR to the access link. The method includes: transmitting, to the access network node, capability information indicating capability for dealing with interference among transmission of the control link, the backhaul link, and the access link; and receiving, from the access network node via the control link, control information for controlling the NCR to deal with the interference based on the capability information.

Devices and methods where a repeater device determines that a failure event has occurred, and in response to this determining, stops performing a forwarding operation. The failure event may be with respect to a control link between a network-controlled repeater and a base station, such as a radio link failure or failure to comply with a configuration.

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to a device and method for a network-controlled repeater (NCR) device to detect, indicate, and recover from a backhaul failure. The method includes communicating, by the NCR device with: (i) base station(s) via a control link or a backhaul link and (ii) a user equipment (UE) via an access link. A beam association is determined of the control link and the backhaul link. The method includes determining that the control link is communicated on a first beam and the backhaul link is communicated on a second beam of the base station(s). In response, the method includes monitoring a reference signal received on the backhaul link for an indication of failure of the backhaul link. The method includes transmitting a request for backhaul beam recovery on the control link in response to detecting the indication of failure of the backhaul link.

A communication method using a relay apparatus including a relay device that performs relay operation of relaying a radio signal transmitted between a network and a user equipment, and a control terminal that receives a control signal used for control of the relay device from the network, the communication method including the steps of: starting, by the control terminal in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state in a first cell, an RRC connection re-establishment procedure to a second cell based on detection of a radio link failure (RLF) in the first cell; and controlling, by the relay apparatus, the relay operation based on whether the second cell is the same cell as the first cell when the RRC connection re-establishment to the second cell is successful.

A system for enhanced time division duplexing (TDD) synchronization in a wireless mesh network includes a master access point device and a plurality of repeater devices. The master access point device propagates a first extended wireless local area network (WLAN) beacon to plurality of repeater devices in a specific order based on network topology mapping information. The first extended WLAN beacon includes a first synchronization pattern. A first repeater device receives the first extended WLAN beacon and compares the first synchronization pattern with a prestored synchronization pattern. The first repeater device iteratively adjusts the timing of a local oscillator based on signal strength or signal-to-noise ratio measurements until the patterns match with the prestored synchronization pattern. The first repeater device locks TDD signal timing at the first repeater device based on the first synchronization pattern that matches with the prestored synchronization pattern.

The invention discloses an SAR interference suppression method based on echo asynchronous pulse detection, and the method comprises the steps: constructing a local odd-even channel comparison mode or a global reference pulse comparison mode, directly carrying out the processing in a time domain of an SAR echo data matrix, determining a corresponding mode through the energy characteristics of an interference signal, and carrying out the detection of the interference signal. Constructing a channel difference mask and an outlier mask in the corresponding mode, and finally obtaining an interference mask in each mode; establishing a mask matrix based on the interference mask, and processing the amplitude matrix to obtain an amplitude matrix after interference suppression processing; and combining the phase matrix to obtain a final non-interference SAR echo data matrix. According to the method, interference artifacts brought to SAR image data by the forwarding type coherent interference can be suppressed, and the phenomenon of sidelobe deterioration of strong scattering points in the image after frequency domain notch is eliminated, so that the forwarding type coherent interference existing in the SAR echo data is effectively suppressed.

A method for wireless communication at a network node and related apparatus are provided. In the method, the network node transmits, to a wireless device, a downlink (DL) signal for amplification and transmission of an amplified DL signal to a user equipment; determine an operating region of the wireless device for amplifying the DL signal. The operating region is one of a power-limited region in which a DL output power of the wireless device reaches a maximum DL output power, and a linear region, in which the DL output power of the wireless device is less than the maximum DL output power. The network node further adjusts the DL output power of the wireless device to cause the wireless device to operate at the linear region when amplifying the DL signal. The method improves the energy efficiency of the wireless device when transmitting the signals.

The present disclosure provides an apparatus, method and system for use with a vehicle having passive keyless entry and start (PKES) system including a vehicle unit and a key fob storage unit. The vehicle unit is to be installed with the vehicle having a first transceiver, a first relay transceiver an authentication unit, a first controller for controlling said first relay transceiver allowing said transmission if said user is authenticated. The key fob storage unit comprises at least one housing for securely holding at least one key fob associated with said PKES systems of said vehicles, a second, said second wireless relay w wherein said first relay transceiver and said second relay transceiver allows said PKES system and said key fob to communicate from a distance larger than a range of said PKES system signals.

The invention provides a multi-chip system interrupt transmission method, chips and a multi-chip system, and aims to solve the problems of complex design and low efficiency caused by lack of an effective interrupt transmission mechanism in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps: receiving and collecting a local interrupt message which needs to be reported to the basic core particle by controlling an interrupt action of a first interrupt repeater arranged in the functional core particle; the first interrupt relay initiates an AXI write request, and writes a local interrupt message containing a global interrupt identifier into a specific target address pre-allocated by system software; and packaging the AXI write request into a data packet in a core grain interconnection protocol format through a core grain interconnection protocol controller of the functional core grain, and triggering the processor of the basic core grain to interrupt in response to the write-in of the local interrupt message.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable media of communication. A network device determines information of a repeater device and an indication indicating whether the repeater device is used for communication between the network device and a terminal device, and transmits the information of the repeater device and the indication to a positioning device for positioning the terminal device. In this way, positioning accuracy may be improved.

A relay node may receive a pattern index indicating a beam pattern. Further, the relay node may receive resource information indicating a beam type. Also, the relay node may receive one or more first beam indexes associated with the indicated beam pattern. On a condition that the indicated beam type is narrow and a beam index of the one or more first beam indexes corresponds to a wide beam type, the relay node may determine second beam indexes for a set of narrow beams associated with the beam index of the one or more first beam indexes corresponding to the wide beam type. Moreover, the relay node may determine a beam and time-domain resources for each of the determined second beam indexes based on the pattern index and resource information. Accordingly, the relay node may transmit data using the determined beam and at least one of the determined time-domain resources.

Methods and apparatus are provided for configuring a dynamic hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook for a network-controlled repeater (NCR). A first HARQ-ACK group is configured for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmissions from a base station to the NCR. The PDCCH transmissions include first side control information. A second HARQ-ACK group is configured for scheduled physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions from the base station to the NCR. The scheduled PDSCH transmissions include second side control information. A third HARQ-ACK group is configured for downlink (DL) channels or signals from the base station for the NCR to forward to a user equipment (UE). The dynamic HARQ-ACK codebook includes a combination of the first HARQ-ACK group, the second HARQ-ACK group, and the third HARQ-ACK group.

The present disclosure relates to a network-controlled repeater for a mobile telecommunications network, wherein the network-controlled repeater includes circuitry configured to detect a radio link failure in a connection between the network-controlled repeater and a cell provided by a base station of the mobile telecommunications network; and release, based on the detected radio link failure, a first configuration of a forwarding function of the network-controlled repeater.

A communication method and apparatus may be applied to a communication scenario in which a network controlled repeater (NCR) is deployed. The method includes: a first terminal device receives system information, wherein the system information indicates whether a first cell supports access of an NCR-MT and the first terminal device sends first information via a first NCR, wherein the first information indicates a first public land mobile network PLMN, and the first PLMN is a PLMN selected by the first terminal device in an initial access procedure.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a repeater network node may obtain a measurement gap configuration that indicates a measurement gap to be used by the repeater network node for performing a measurement. The repeater network node may receive a downlink signal from a transmitter network node. The repeater network node may transmit the downlink signal, to a user equipment (UE), based at least in part on the downlink signal being received during the measurement gap. Numerous other aspects are described.

The invention provides an automatic test system and method for a third-party high-power repeater, and relates to the technical field of automatic test equipment, and the system comprises an integrated reconfigurable passive link box, a control host, a vector signal generator and a vector signal analyzer. The integrated reconfigurable passive link box comprises a box body, a radio frequency switch matrix network, an embedded function network, a control port, an input port, an output port, an uplink interface and a downlink interface. The radio frequency switch matrix network and the embedded function network are arranged in the box body. The input port, the output port, the uplink interface and the downlink interface are arranged on the surface of the box body. The vector signal generator is connected with the input port, the vector signal analyzer is connected with the output port, and a third-party high-power repeater to be tested is arranged between the uplink interface and the downlink interface. According to the invention, the radio frequency switch matrix network and the embedded function network are packaged in the integrated reconfigurable passive link box, and the control host is utilized to carry out automatic testing on the third-party high-power repeater according to the preset process, so that frequent operation processes are avoided, and damage to instruments is reduced.

Methods and apparatus are provided for wireless communication performed by a network-controlled repeater (NCR) configured to forward downlink (DL) channels or signals from a base station to a user equipment (UE). The NCR determines a duration for which hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback is configured. The NCR determines a number of measurements of the DL channels or signals for which a single HARQ-ACK bit is reported. The NCR determines, based on the number of measurements and a comparison with a success threshold for each of the measurements, an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NACK) for each configured HARQ-ACK bit in a first sequence of HARQ-ACK bits. The NCR constructs a dynamic HARQ-ACK codebook to send to the base station. The dynamic HARQ-ACK codebook includes at least the first sequence of HARQ-ACK bits.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for determining network-controlled repeater (NCR) behavior over flexible symbols in TDD schemes, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond. An NCR may receive, from a base station, side control information (SCI). The SCI may include an indication of time-domain resources. The NCR may be configured to determine, based, at least in part, on the SCI, a direction for one or more flexible symbols and / or flexible slots (flexible symbols / slots) on an access link with a user equipment device (UE). The NCR may be configured to treat the one or more flexible symbols / slots as uplink symbols / slots or downlink symbols / slots based on the determination. In other words, the NCR may determine that the flexible symbols / slots are uplink symbols / slots and / or downlink symbols / slots and forward data received on the flexible symbols / slots accordingly.

The technology described herein is directed towards a transcoder that can be deployed and used to couple non-terrestrial network satellites to user equipment, including by decoding and reencoding data packets at the packet level. A metasurface (reconfigurable intelligent surface, or RIS) redirects signals from the satellite to a satellite radio frequency (RF) interface of the transcoder, with the transcoder also coupled by a user equipment (UE) RF interface to user equipment, such as a computing device or cellphone. The transcoder converts satellite-originating signals to UE-compliant signals, and converts UE-originating signal to satellite-compliant signals. The transcoder performs various additional conversion-related functions to facilitate such satellite direct-to-device service, including via frequency conversion, doppler manipulation, a repeater, frequency equalization / negative-slope compensation and RIS-related conversion in both the receive mode and transmit mode of the RIS. Various example form factors for implementing and deploying the transcoder and metasurface can be used.

Examples pertaining to repeater gain control for device collaboration in distributed MIMO systems are described. An apparatus (e.g., a repeater) may determine a first compensation value for a first path loss on a first link between the apparatus and a UE, and determine a second compensation value for a second path loss on a second link between the apparatus and a network node of a wireless network. The apparatus may also determine a repeater gain for uplink power control according to the first compensation value and the second compensation value. The apparatus may further forward a radio signal from the UE to the network node according to the repeater gain.