SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TIME SYNCHRONIZATION USING A SINGLE GNSS SATELLITE

    公开(公告)号:US20210226763A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-22

    申请号:US16748053

    申请日:2020-01-21

    IPC分类号: H04L7/00 G01S19/13

    摘要: A system for time synchronization of a network element including a GNSS receiver operative to receive at least one signal from at least one but less than four GNSS satellites, a locator operative to supply a location of a network element including the GNSS receiver to the GNSS receiver and a time synchronization calculator operative to time synchronize the network element with the GNSS satellites based on the at least one signal and the location.

    HANDOVER ANALYSIS FOR A MOVING VEHICLE
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200296649A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-17

    申请号:US16814563

    申请日:2020-03-10

    摘要: An apparatus and method are provided for performing a handover analysis. The apparatus comprises base station location identifying circuitry to obtain base station location information for a plurality of base stations that provide a wireless network for communication with a moving vehicle. In addition, moving vehicle tracking circuitry is provided to obtain position and velocity information for the moving vehicle. Handover metrics computation circuitry is then used to generate at least one handover metric computed from the position and velocity information for the moving vehicle and the base station location information, for use in determining a target base station in said plurality to be used when performing a handover procedure to transition communication with the moving vehicle from the current base station in said plurality to the target base station. By such an approach, this enables a variety of handover metrics to be generated that take into account the deployment of the wireless network, which can be useful in systems such as Air to Ground (ATG) systems where the moving vehicles have a relatively high velocity, and the base stations may be relatively far apart. Such an approach can enhance the algorithms used to evaluate the decision to trigger handover from one base station to another base station.

    APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NETWORK CONFIGURABILITY IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20190141619A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-09

    申请号:US15802804

    申请日:2017-11-03

    IPC分类号: H04W48/16 H04L12/24

    摘要: A node is provided to operate in a wireless network. The node comprises scanning circuitry to perform a scanning process to detect one or more upstream nodes of said wireless network; connection circuitry to form a connection to one of said one or more upstream nodes in response to said scanning circuitry completing said scanning process, wherein said connection is broken as a consequence of said scanning process; storage circuitry to store one or more triggers; and processing circuitry to cause said scanning circuitry to perform said scanning process in response to one of said one or more triggers

    ACCESS NODE CONFIGURATION IN A NETWORK
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190028343A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-24

    申请号:US15655035

    申请日:2017-07-20

    IPC分类号: H04L12/24

    摘要: An apparatus, method of operating the apparatus, and system comprising the apparatus are provided. The apparatus has a backhaul sub-node to provide a backhaul connection to a communications network and an access sub-node to provide an access cell to which user equipment can connect. In response to a configuration trigger a configuration procedure is performed, in which the backhaul sub-node gathers information about the network environment and transmits at least a portion of the information about the network environment to a network management node. The the network management node then generates an access sub-node configuration which it transmits to the access sub-node, where the configuration is dependent on the information about the network environment transmitted to the network management node by the backhaul sub-node. The backhaul sub-node's greater ability to gather information about the network environment thus supports an improved configuration for the access sub-node, without technical input from the user being required.

    APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING CONNECTIVITY FOR ITEMS OF USER EQUIPMENT IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20180317153A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-01

    申请号:US15499027

    申请日:2017-04-27

    摘要: An apparatus and method are provided for improving connectivity for items of user equipment in a wireless network. The apparatus has a first antenna system for providing a first sector of a network, and a second antenna system for providing a second sector of the network. Further, the apparatus has a third antenna system for communicating with a base station of the network to provide a common wireless backhaul link for the first sector and the second sector. In addition, an interface is provided to an internet connection of a building in which the apparatus is deployed, and backhaul management circuitry is then arranged, in at least one mode of operation, to control utilisation of both the internet connection and the common wireless backhaul link to provide backhaul connectivity to the network for items of user equipment connected to the apparatus via the first and second antenna systems. Through the use of such an apparatus, it has been found that significant improvements in network coverage can be readily obtained, and further the overall spectral efficiency of the network can be enhanced to improve network capacity, with the backhaul management circuitry maintaining an efficient backhaul connection through the combined use of the common wireless backhaul link and the internet connection.

    Cooperative components in a wireless feeder network
    8.
    发明授权
    Cooperative components in a wireless feeder network 有权
    无线馈线网络中的协作组件

    公开(公告)号:US09560676B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-31

    申请号:US13783023

    申请日:2013-03-01

    摘要: A wireless feeder network comprises feeder base stations coupled to the communications network and feeder terminals coupled to associated access base stations of the access network. A group of wireless network components form elements of a feeder cluster and the elements of the feeder cluster are connected by an additional communications resource configured to be operated in parallel with the wireless resource of the wireless feeder network. Both a primary and secondary element of the feeder cluster seek to decode at least one resource block allocated to the primary element for reception of data. Information derived from the secondary decoded data is transmitted from the secondary element to the primary element via the additional communications resource. The primary element then performs a revised decoding process additionally using the information received from said secondary element to improve its own decode probability.

    摘要翻译: 无线馈线网络包括耦合到通信网络的馈线基站和耦合到接入网络的相关联的接入基站的馈线终端。 一组无线网络组件形成馈线集群的元件,并且馈线集群的元件通过被配置为与无线馈线网络的无线资源并行操作的附加通信资源连接。 馈线集群的主要和次要组件都寻求对分配给主要元件的至少一个资源块进行解码以接收数据。 从辅助解码数据导出的信息经由附加通信资源从次要元件发送到主要元件。 然后,主要元件另外使用从所述次要元件接收的信息来执行修改的解码处理,以改善其自身的解码概率。

    Managing External Interference in a Wireless Network
    9.
    发明申请
    Managing External Interference in a Wireless Network 审中-公开
    管理无线网络中的外部干扰

    公开(公告)号:US20160381590A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-29

    申请号:US15187602

    申请日:2016-06-20

    IPC分类号: H04W24/10 H04L12/26 H04L12/24

    摘要: A method and apparatus configures a wireless network comprising a plurality of nodes to mitigate effects of an external interference source. A subset of the nodes simultaneously participate in an external interference sampling process in which each node of the subset samples signals received by an antenna array of that node. A measurement report, comprising a signal source angle and a received signal strength, is received from a node. A location of the external interference source is estimated using the measurement report. The external interference source is then characterised using the estimated location of the external interference source and the received signal strength to calculate for the external interference source at least one of: a source power; a beam width; an antenna bearing; and a front-to-back transmission ratio. The nodes are configured to mitigate effects of the external interference source in dependence on a result of the characterising step.

    摘要翻译: 方法和装置配置包括多个节点的无线网络以减轻外部干扰源的影响。 节点的子集同时参与外部干扰采样过程,其中该子集的每个节点采样由该节点的天线阵列接收的信号。 从节点接收包括信号源角度和接收信号强度的测量报告。 使用测量报告估算外部干扰源的位置。 然后使用外部干扰源的估计位置和接收信号强度来表征外部干扰源,以便为外部干扰源计算源功率中的至少一个; 梁宽度 天线轴承; 和前后传动比。 这些节点被配置为根据特征步骤的结果来减轻外部干扰源的影响。