Motorola Mobility LLC

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Motorola Corporation

Google Inc.

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Google Technology Holdings LLC

Lenovo Limited

Colin D Frank

Sandeep H Krishnamurthy

Robert T Love

Vijay Nangia

Tyler A Brown

Hyejung Jung

Kenneth Anderson Stewart

Ravi Kuchibhotla

Hossein Bagheri

Ebrahim MolavianJazi

Xiangyang Zhuang

Phillip D Rasky

Ravikiran Nory

Ajit Nimbalker

Udar Mittal

Yuda Yehuda Luz

Ron Rotstein

Robert J Corke

Fuyun Ling

Murali Narasimha

Krishna Kamal Sayana

Steven C Jasper

Upamanyu Madhow

Hugh Kennedy Smith

Isam Robert Makhlouf

Md Rashidul Islam

Michael A Eberhardt

Jialing Liu

Armin Werner Klomsdorf

Amitava Ghosh

Randy L Ekl

Eugene Visotsky

Jorge Seoane

Aparna Pandey

Michael J Carney

David E Borth

Brian David Storm

Christopher G Ware

Nicholas William Whinnett

James Robert Kelton

Christopher John Becker

James F Kepler

John Mura

Jean-Aicard Fabien

Shmuel Silverman

Christopher P La Rosa

Christopher P Larosa

Keith A Tenbrook

Pallav Sudarshan

Ravi Nory

Jiangnan (Jason) Chen

Emanuel Kahana

Jennifer Ann Honkisz

Jason Jiangnan Chen

John Touvannas

Prashant Choudhary

Dennis Ray Schaefer

Sandeep H Krishnamruthy

Yevgeny Visotsky

Rahul Singh

Christopher J Becker

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for calculating an EVM of a transmitter. One apparatus includes a processor and a receiver that receives a multiple-layer MIMO signal from a transmitter via a propagation channel. The processor measures the received multiple-layer MIMO signal using an unbiased linear MMSE MIMO equalizer and calculates an EVM of the transmitter, where the EVM for each transmission layer is calculated as 100 times the square root of the mean square error of the layer estimate at the output of the unbiased linear MMSE MIMO equalizer.

Calculating an EVM of a transmitter

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a magnitude of a composite zero-forcing equalizer. One method includes measuring a first frequency response at a first antenna connector. The method includes determining a first zero-forcing equalizer for the first antenna connector as an inverse of the first frequency response. The method includes measuring a second frequency response at a second antenna connector. The method includes determining a second zero-forcing equalizer for the second antenna connector as an inverse of the second frequency response. The method includes determining a magnitude of a composite zero-forcing equalizer as a square root of a weighted combination of squares of magnitudes of the first zero-forcing equalizer and the second zero-forcing equalizer. A first weight applied for the first antenna connector is a square of a first power measured at the first antenna connector.

Determining a magnitude of a composite zero-forcing equalizer

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a composite zero-forcing equalizer. One method includes measuring a first frequency response at a first antenna connector. The method includes determining a first zero-forcing equalizer for the first antenna connector as an inverse of the first frequency response. The method includes measuring a second frequency response at a second antenna connector. The method includes determining a second zero-forcing equalizer for the second antenna connector as an inverse of the second frequency response. The method includes determining a composite zero-forcing equalizer as a normalized power weighted linear combination of absolute value magnitudes of the first zero-forcing equalizer and the second zero-forcing equalizer.

Determining a composite zero-forcing equalizer

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for calculating an EVM of a transmitter. One apparatus includes a processor and a receiver that receives a signal via a propagation channel from an antenna port at a transmitter, the antenna port comprising multiple antennas and with an antenna connector for each antenna. The processor measures the received signal using an unbiased linear MMSE equalizer and calculates an EVM of the antenna port, where the EVM is calculated as 100 times the square root of the mean square error of the symbol estimate at the output of the unbiased linear MMSE equalizer.

Calculating an EVM of an antenna port

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a signal quality using an error vector magnitude. One method includes receiving an output of a user equipment antenna port. The user equipment antenna port includes a linear combination of two or more transmit antennas. The method includes performing normalized maximum ratio combining on the output of the user equipment antenna port to produce a normalized output. The method includes determining a signal quality of the output of the user equipment antenna port. Determining the signal quality includes determining an error vector magnitude using the normalized output.

Determining a signal quality using an error vector magnitude

A communication device, method, and computer program product provide power efficient transmit diversity using two transmit chains to meet a transmit power level for an uplink signal when one transmit chain is insufficient. In response to determining that the first transmit power level is equal to or less than the transmit power capability of at least one of a first transmit chain and a second transmit chain, the communication device configures a corresponding one of the first transmit chain and the second transmit chain to transmit the uplink channel with at least the first transmit power level.

Power efficient transmit diversity

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink power control. One method includes: receiving a message that configures a set of resources that each includes a downlink resource or an uplink sounding resource and is associated with an uplink transmission beam pattern; receiving scheduling information for an uplink transmission that is associated with a resource of the set of resources; determining an uplink transmission beam pattern associated with the resource; determining a configured maximum output power for the uplink transmission beam pattern that is based on an antenna array property associated with the uplink transmission beam pattern; determining a transmit power for the uplink transmission based on the configured maximum output power; and performing the uplink transmission using the uplink transmission beam pattern based on the transmit power.

Uplink power control

Reference symbols can be received. A first received power of the reference symbols on a first antenna port can be measured. A second received power of the reference symbols on a second antenna port that is coupled to and uses the same transmit power amplifier as the first antenna port can be measured. A received power difference can be determined based on a relationship between the second received power and the first received power. A value of the received power difference can be transmitted.

Communication apparatus and method for communicating using a transmit power difference between antennas

A method and apparatus are provided. an indication of a first uplink resource allocation of resource blocks for a transmission on a first carrier, and an indication of a second uplink resource allocation of resource blocks for a transmission on a second carrier are received. An indication of a downlink allocation for receiving a downlink signal is further received. A higher order intermodulation product, which is co-located with a lower order intermodulation product for the first and second allocations resulting from any respective higher order and lower order transceiver nonlinearities is identified. A determination is then made as to whether the co-located higher order intermodulation products have a region of overlap with the downlink allocation. When the co-located higher order intermodulation products have a region of overlap with the downlink allocation, adjustments in the operation are made to account for the overlap of the higher order intermodulation product and the downlink allocation.

Method and apparatus for adjusting for higher order intermodulation products co-located with lower order intermodulation products

Managing use of dynamic power sharing for dual carrier operation is provided. An allowed tolerance is identified () corresponding to a maximum expected possible deviation between a power level at which the user equipment requests that a communication via the master cell group be set and an actual power level at which the corresponding communication via the master cell group is transmitted. A lower bound of a maximum configured power of the secondary cell group is determined (), which enables the user equipment to meet emission requirements during the dual carrier operation, as well as the total power constraints for any overall communications of the user equipment, while accounting for the allowed tolerance identified. The lower bound of the maximum configured power for the carrier of the secondary cell group is set () at the determined level.

Method and apparatus for dynamic power sharing and managing the maximum power for a secondary carrier

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink power control. One method includes: operating a network entity with multiple antenna arrays; determining a first closed-loop power control process for a first set of uplink beam patterns based on a first antenna array of the multiple antenna arrays, wherein at least one receive beam pattern of the first antenna array is used to receive a first uplink transmission using at least one uplink beam pattern; determining a second closed-loop power control process for a second set of uplink beam patterns based on a second antenna array of the multiple antenna arrays, wherein the second antenna array is different from the first antenna array; and indicating to the device in a configuration message the first closed-loop power control process and the second closed-loop power control process.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting signals with delays. One method includes determining, at a user equipment, a first transmit signal based on a set of modulation symbols. The method includes determining a second transmit signal based on the first transmit signal, wherein the second transmit signal is a delayed copy of the first transmit signal that is delayed by a delay, and the delay is less than a maximum value. The method includes transmitting the first transmit signal from a first antenna of the user equipment. The method includes transmitting the second transmit signal from a second antenna of the user equipment.

Transmitting signals with delays

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for calculating an EVM of a transmitter. An apparatus includes a transceiver that receives, using an unbiased linear minimum mean square error ('MMSE') equalizer, a transmission signal transmitted via a propagation channel, the signal generated and transmitted using an antenna port at a transmitter, the antenna port comprising a plurality of antennas (N) and an antenna connector for each of the plurality of antennas. The apparatus includes a processor that determines an EVM for the antenna port of the transmitter based on an output of the unbiased linear MMSE equalizer.

Managing use of dynamic power sharing for dual carrier operation is provided. A power head room report is received () from the master cell group. An allowed tolerance is identified () from the received power head room report, which includes a maximum expected possible deviation between a power level at which the user equipment requests that a communication be set and an actual power level at which the corresponding communication is transmitted. A lower bound of a maximum configured power of the secondary cell group is determined (), which enables the user equipment to meet emission requirements during the dual carrier operation, as well as the total power constraints, while accounting for the allowed tolerance identified. The lower bound of the maximum configured power for the carrier of the secondary cell group is set () at the determined level.

A method and apparatus are provided, where a data sequence for transmission is identified () as part of evaluating transmitter performance involving multiple physical antennas. The data sequence is mapped () to the multiple physical antennas to be involved in the transmission. The data sequence is then transmitted () using the multiple physical antennas from which a signal quality metric of a transmitter corresponding to a difference between a received signal associated with the transmission of each respective data symbol of the data sequence and a respective ideal location of a predefined constellation point associated with the data symbol that was transmitted can be determined, wherein an error vector magnitude involving an aggregated difference associated with the data sequence involving the transmission via the multiple physical antennas is determined.

Method and apparatus including error vector magnitude definition and testing for antenna ports and multi-layer transmissions

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Colin D Frank