Intel Corporation

Apple Inc.

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Intel IP Corporation

Kerstin Johnsson

Alexandre Saso Stojanovski

Muthaiah Venkatachalam

Shilpa Talwar

Nageen Himayat

Jaroslaw Sydir

Carlos Cordeiro

Vivek G Gupta

Kamran Etemad

RongZhen Yang

Wendy C Wong

Hyunjeong Hannah Lee

Alexander Pyattaev

Christian Maciocco

Srikathyayani Srikanteswara

Achim Luft

Xue Yang

Feng Xue

Pingping Zong

Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram

Shu-Ping Yeh

Anthony George LaMarca

Jeffrey R Foerster

Jaideep Moses

Karthik Narayanan

Meiyuan Zhao

Vinayak Honkote

Wen-Ling Huang

Dibyendu Ghosh

Namyoon Lee

Vasuki Narasimha Swamy

Ganeshram Nandakumar

Vivek Gupta

Yevgeni Koucheryavy

Jaroslaw J Sydir

Sergey Andreev

Hyunjeong Lee

Various methods and devices for positioning autonomous agents including verifying a reported agent location using physical attributes of the received signal; improving agent formation for iterative localization; selecting agents for distributed task sharing; intelligent beacon-placement for group localization; relative heading and orientation determination utilizing time of flight; and secure Instrument Landing System (ILS) implementation for unmanned agents.

Unmanned vehicle positioning, positioning-based methods and devices therefor

The techniques introduced here provide for network assisted device-to-device communication for peer-to-peer applications. The techniques include registering a user's peer-to-peer application identifier with a peer-to-peer application server, registering a peer-to-peer application with a device-to-device server, sending a peer-to-peer service request to the peer-to-peer application server, and receiving network assistance in discovering a peer with the desired P2P content/service and establishing a device-to-device communication arrangement for exchange of peer-to-peer services.

Network assisted device-to-device discovery for peer-to-peer applications

Apparatuses, computer readable media, and methods for extending association beamforming training are disclosed. An apparatus is disclosed including processing circuitry. The processing circuitry being configured to decode an enhanced directional multi-gigabit (EDMG) beacon comprising a multiplier field and a length field of an association beamforming training (A-BFT) interval. The processing circuitry may be further configured to determine a count of sector sweep (SSW) slots based on a value of the multiplier field and a value of the length field of the A-BFT interval, and select a SSW slot of the count of SSW slots. The processing circuitry may be further configured to encode a SSW frame, and configure the station to transmit the SSW frame during the selected slot of the count of SSW slots.

Extending association beamforming training

The techniques introduced here provide for network assisted device-to-device communication for peer-to-peer applications. The techniques include registering a user's peer-to-peer application identifier with a peer-to-peer application server, registering a user's peer-to-peer application ID with a device-to-device server, sending a peer-to-peer service request to the peer-to-peer application server, and receiving network assistance in discovering a peer with the desired P2P content/service and establishing a device-to-device communication arrangement for exchange of peer-to-peer services. The network assistance is provided over the user plane.

A first user equipment (UE) operable to perform wireless wide area network (WWAN) operator-assisted device-to-device (D2D) communications with a second UE is disclosed. The first UE can process D2D discovery and wireless local area network (WLAN) configuration information received from a WWAN when the first UE and the second UE are within a WLAN direct communications range. The first UE can initiate operator-assisted WLAN direct communications with the second UE within the WLAN direct communications range using the D2D discovery and WLAN configuration information received from the WWAN.

Operator-assisted device-to-device (D2D) discovery

Certain embodiments herein are directed to managing wireless spectrum, which may include recommending or transmitting spectrum usage changes to one or more wireless devices. A spectrum management system comprising one or more computers may receive spectrum usage information associated with one or more wireless devices. The spectrum management system may generate a spectrum usage map based on the received information. Based on the spectrum usage map, a spectrum usage change is determined and transmitted to one or more wireless devices. The wireless devices may change their operation in accordance with the spectrum usage change.

Cloud based spectrum management

Embodiments of system and method configurations for device discovery and connection establishment in connection with use of device-to-device (D2D) and proximity-based services are generally described herein. In some examples, an evolved packet core (EPC) of a 3GPP Long Term Evolution or 3GPP Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE/LTE-A) network is arranged to assist D2D identification and discovery procedures at user equipment (UEs) connected to the LTE/LTE-A network. Various identification and discovery procedures may be implemented in connection with proximity detection and the establishment of communication times for the establishment of the D2D communication link, between the UEs. Accordingly, the EPC of the LTE/LTE-A network may assist the establishment of a device-to-device communication link between UEs on a wireless network employing a distinct wireless protocol (for example, a direct wireless network connection via a wireless local area network (WLAN) or wireless personal area network (WPAN)).

Network assistance for device-to-device discovery

A user equipment (UE) operable to communicate in a peer to peer (P2P) network is described. The UE can encode a proximity detection request for transmission to a ProSe server in an Evolved Packet Core (EPC). The proximity detection request can include one or more of: a time period window parameter, identification information of a second UE, or a proximity detection signal indicating when the proximity detection request is for proximity detection of the second UE. The UE can decode a proximity alert message received from the ProSe server in accordance with the time period window parameter.

Proximity detection in a device to device network

A method and system for operator-assisted device-to-device (D2D) discovery is disclosed, which method may be executed as instructions on a machine, where the instructions are included on at least one computer readable medium. The method can include a transmission station in an operator network receiving a request for data service from a requesting wireless device. The transmission station can identify a serving wireless device to provide the data service for the requesting wireless device. The transmission station can transmit a device discovery message to the requesting wireless device and the serving wireless device. The device discovery message provides a device discovery period for communication via an ad-hoc, D2D network between the requesting wireless device and the serving wireless device. The ad-hoc, D2D network provides for device-to-device communication.

In various embodiments, two wireless communication devices may communicate with each other using multiple protocols, by dividing the data to be communicated into multiple portions, and using each protocol to communicate different portions. The different protocols may be used simultaneously or concurrently. This multi-protocol technique may be used in several different ways to provide different types of advantages in wireless communications.

Multi-radio communication between wireless devices

A technology for a user equipment (UE) that is operable to communicate in a device to device (D2D) network. A proximity detection request can be communicated to an evolved packet core (EPC). The proximity detection request can include a window parameter, an identification information of a second UE, and a proximity detection signal indicating whether the proximity detection request is for proximity detection of the second UE or for establishing a D2D connection with the second UE. A proximity alert message can be received from the EPC at the window parameter.

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Kerstin Johnsson