Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Ezer Melzer

Doron Ezri

Shimon Shilo

Yoav Levinbook

Yaron Ben-Arie

Jian Yu

Genadiy Tsodik

Oded Redlich

Mengshi Hu

Leonid Epstein

Ming Gan

Hao Tang

Xi Zhang

Zongjie Wang

Jiehua Xiao

Jianmin Lu

Minghui Xu

Wei Lin

Xingfeng Jiang

Avi Weitzman

Nadav Basson

Shahar Patury

Ori Shental

Mor Reich

A positioning method and apparatus, a WLAN device, and a storage medium are disclosed, and relates to the field of positioning technologies. The positioning method includes: a WLAN device obtains an uplink scheduling parameter sent by another WLAN device to a plurality of to-be-positioned WLAN devices, where the uplink scheduling parameter is used to indicate radio resources allocated to the plurality of to-be-positioned WLAN devices; the WLAN device receives uplink signals; and the WLAN device measures respective positioning data of the plurality of to-be-positioned WLAN devices based on the radio resources of the plurality of to-be-positioned WLAN devices and the received uplink signals. The embodiments can improve positioning timeliness of the to-be-positioned WLAN devices.

Wireless transmitter and a method for transmitting data

This application relates to the field of communications technologies, in particular Wireless Local Area Network technologies, and provides a method and apparatus for reducing a peak to average power ratio (PAPR) for transmitting a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU), in particular reducing the PAPR for the U-SIG field. Methods are disclosed for both an access point (AP) and stations (STA).

Method and apparatus for reducing a peak to average power ratio in the transmission of physical layer protocol data units

A transmitting device for supporting Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) includes scrambling and encoding, in which the order of scrambling and encoding is changed compared to the conventional transmitter. Likewise, a receiving device for supporting HARQ includes descrambling and decoding, in which the order of descrambling and decoding is changed compared to the conventional receiver. In particular, the transmitting device is configured to encode at least one data unit using Forward Error Correction (FEC) coding, scramble the encoded data unit based on a scrambling seed, provide an indication of the scrambling seed that is separate from the scrambled and encoded data unit, and transmit the indication of the scrambling seed and then the scrambled and encoded data unit to the receiving device.

Device and method for supporting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)

A communication transmitter retransmits a Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data unit (MPDU) to a communication receiver over a communication channel using a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) retransmission scheme. The MPDU includes a plurality of information bits. The communication transmitter includes a processor configured to determine the MPDU to be retransmitted based on a Block ACK frame received from the communication receiver, the Block ACK frame indicating previously correctly decoded MPDUs at the communication receiver, and to generate a bit sequence to be transmitted to the communication receiver, wherein the bit sequence comprises the plurality of information bits. The communication transmitter further comprises a communication interface configured to transmit the bit sequence to the communication receiver for retransmitting the MPDU to the communication receiver.

Communication transmitter for retransmitting medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU)

The present disclosure relates to Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) in wireless communication technologies, particularly HARQ for IEEE 802.11, i.e. HARQ for Wi-Fi. One example transmitting device is configured to encapsulate a data unit in a container unit, and encode the container unit into a codeword set of one or more codewords. One example receiving device is configured to receive, from a transmitting device, at least one codeword set of one or more codewords, decode the codewords of the codeword set to obtain a container unit, and decapsulate the container unit to obtain a data unit. A bit-size of the container unit is equal to a bit-size of the codeword set in the transmitting device and the receiving device.

Devices and methods for supporting HARQ for Wi-Fi

This application relates to the field of communications technologies, in particularly related to wireless fidelity (WIFI) technologies, and provides a method and apparatus for reducing peak to average power ratio (PAPR) for transmitting a physical layer protocol data units (PPDUs). The method can be used for both an access point (AP) and a station (STA). The method comprises: operating on a first disregard bits sequence to obtain a second disregard bits sequence, wherein the first disregard bits sequence is with all bits set to '1', and transmitting the PPDU, wherein the PPDU comprises the second disregard bits sequence.

Method and apparatus for reducing peak to average power ratio

An apparatus for constructing a pre-DFT sample sequence for an OFDM-signal is provided. The apparatus comprises: a processor configured to construct a pre-DFT sample sequence with a pre-defined length such that it comprises data; and a PTRS-group, wherein the last sample of the PTRS-group is placed within the pre-DFT sample sequence at a pre-defined position located B samples before the end of the pre-DFT sample sequence.

Method, apparatus, and device for determining phase tracking reference signal resource location

A transmitter includes a processor configured to convert a primary sequence of modulation symbols into a primary signal using a universal pulse shape. The processor is further configured to convert an auxiliary sequence of modulation symbols, created from the primary sequence, to an auxiliary signal using an altered version of the universal pulse shape. In addition, the processor is configured to combine the primary signal and the auxiliary signal to create a joint output signal.

Efficient design and implementation of synthesis of near-constant modulus (STORM) waveform

A transmitter, comprising a processor adapted to convert a primary sequence of modulation symbols into a primary signal, using a primary pulse shape, convert an auxiliary sequence of modulation symbols, created from the primary sequence, to an auxiliary signal using an auxiliary pulse shape and create a joint output signal based on the primary signal and on the auxiliary signal.

Synthesis of near-constant modulus waveform for high frequency transmission

An apparatus for band-limited frequency division multiplexing for uplink transmission to a base station or access point, particularly from an IoT device, comprises a signal modulator to transmit a signal over a set of contiguous equally spaced frequency sub-carriers ranging from a lowest frequency sub-carrier via intermediate sub-carriers to a highest frequency sub-carrier. The signal modulator contains a filter to apply asymmetric filtering over the range of the frequency sub-carriers, thereby to reduce a peak-to-average power ratio of the transmitted signal.

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Ezer Melzer