Intel Corporation

Intel Deutschland Gmbh

Apple Inc.

Intel IP Corporation

Tian Yan Pu

Honglei Miao

Zhibin Yu

Gunnar Nitsche

Michael Horvat

Yang Tang

Rui Huang

Christian Drewes

Thuyen Le

Lars Melzer

Matthias Weiss

Chenbo Liu

Reporting techniques for reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurements are described. In one embodiment, for example, user equipment (UE) may comprise at least one radio frequency (RF) transceiver, at least one RF antenna, and logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to measure a received signal strength indicator (RSSI), determine a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measured quantity value based on the measured RSSI, and map the RSRQ measured quantity value to an RSRQ reporting value according to an RSRQ measurement report mapping scheme comprising an extended RSRQ reporting range according to which one or more defined RSRQ reporting values correspond to RSRQ measured quantity values exceeding &#x2212;3 dB. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Reporting techniques for reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurements

A mobile communications device is described including a wireless transceiver, a radio resource control (RRC) circuit connected to the transceiver, the RRC circuit including at least one timer configured to measure at least one mode trigger, a mode selector responsive to said timer, the mode selector configured to transition among a plurality of support modes, each of the support modes corresponding to at least one task, wherein each of the tasks is associated with a task frequency, a context detection circuit configured to detect at least one context information, a task frequency adaptation circuit configured to adjust at least one of said task frequency to an adjusted task frequency, responsive to the at least one context information.

Radio communication device and method for operation thereof

A method of processing a plurality of received digitized signals may include determining a plurality of cross-correlation coefficients for the plurality of received digitized signals; forming a cross-correlation coefficient vector including the plurality of cross-correlation coefficients; and determining an evaluation value for at least some of the plurality of cross-correlation coefficients. The determining the evaluation value may include: pre-selecting a predefined number of cross-correlation coefficients from the cross-correlation coefficient vector and deleting the pre-selected number of cross-correlation coefficients from the cross-correlation coefficient vector; after the pre-selection, determining an averaging value using at least one of the non-preselected cross-correlation coefficients of the cross-correlation coefficient vector; and determining the evaluation values based on the respective value of the pre-selected cross-correlation coefficient and the averaging value. The method may further include selecting one or more cross-correlation coefficients based on the determined evaluation values; and further processing based on the selected one or more cross-correlation coefficients.

Method of processing received digitized signals and mobile radio communication terminal device

The present disclosure relates to a method and related mobile device for estimating a channel by choosing a subset of correlated channel coefficients and estimating the reference signal received power of the subset of correlated channel coefficients based on a cross-correlation between channel coefficients of the subset of correlated channel coefficients.

Method and related mobile device for determining a reference signal received power

A method for performing a mobile radio cell search may include receiving one or more wireless signals from one or more mobile radio cells as part of a first partial mobile radio cell search; determining a reliability metric and a mobile radio cell detection occurrence count for each of the one or more mobile radio cells based on the one or more received wireless signals; and performing a second partial mobile radio cell search for one or more mobile radio cells having a reliability metric or mobile radio cell detection occurrence count that satisfies a predefined condition. Alternatively, a method for performing a mobile radio cell search may include performing a second partial mobile radio cell search only for mobile radio cells having a reliability metric that satisfies a predefined condition.

Acquisition and tracking modes for a mobile device assisted multilateration based localization are disclosed. A relative time difference is determined between a positioning reference cell and at least two other detectable positioning cells. A reference signal of a positioning cell is detected to determine timing of a detectable positioning cell by either applying sliding window approach to acquire the positioning cell or a single window approach to track the positioning cell. The sliding window approach within a search window is applied to acquire the positioning cell when a coarse timing of the positioning cell has not yet been achieved. A single window approach is applied to track the positioning cell when a coarse timing of the positioning cell has been achieved or when the search window is not larger than a capture range capability of the mobile device.

Method and related mobile device for reference signal time difference based localization

A method includes receiving a signal including a two-dimensional signal pattern in a time-frequency representation, the two-dimensional signal pattern including reference signals at first predetermined positions in the two-dimensional signal pattern. The method further includes determining a frequency-time transformation based on the reference signals to obtain a time-domain signal. The method further includes determining a first cell identification information based on a threshold criterion with respect to the time-domain signal.

Method for determining cell identification information

Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for determining a power consumption of a circuit block in an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include first and second power supply networks. In some embodiments, the integrated circuit may include a plurality of instances of a circuit block under test. A first instance of the circuit block may be coupled to the first power supply network during a first test run, and a second instance of the circuit block may be coupled to the second power supply network during a second test run. In other embodiments, a single instance of a circuit block under test may be coupled with the first power supply network during a first test run and coupled with the second power supply network during a second test run. The power consumption of the circuit block may be determined based on the first and second test runs.

Integrated circuit with on-chip power profiling

A mobile radio communication terminal device may include at least one circuit configured to perform a method of processing received digitized signals, the method including determining a plurality of cross-correlation coefficients for the received digitized signal. Each of the plurality of cross-correlation coefficients may be determined by cross-correlating the received digitized signal with a respective candidate mobile radio local reference signal out of a plurality of pre-stored candidate mobile radio local reference signals. The at least one circuit may be further configured to select one or more cross-correlation coefficients from the determined plurality of cross-correlation coefficients and perform a mobile radio cell scan based on one or more of the selected cross-correlation coefficients, thereby determining a mobile radio communication network to connect to.

The present solution relates to a method for searching for a cell in a cellular mobile communication system having low memory requirement. The method comprises: receiving in a receiver a signal carrying a reference signal having a first data rate, decimating the signal to generate a down-sampled signal having a second data rate, phase-compensating a phase distortion introduced by the decimating, and correlating the down-sampled signal against a phase-compensated local reference signal or a phase-compensated down-sampled signal against a local reference signal. When buffering the down-sampled signal prior or subsequent to phase-compensating, the buffer size is minimized as 1&#xd7; oversampling is employed compared to 2&#xd7; oversampling of current solutions.

Method and related mobile device for cell searching with low memory requirement

A method for performing mobile communications may include comparing a received digitized signal with a local reference synchronization sequence to generate a plurality of candidate timing estimates. Each of the plurality of candidate timing estimates may represent an estimated temporal location of a synchronization sequence in the received digitized signal. The method may further include demodulating the received digitized signal according to each of the plurality of candidate timing estimates to produce a plurality of reliability metrics, wherein each of the plurality of reliability metrics may be associated with one of the plurality of candidate timing estimates. The method may additionally include selecting one of the plurality of candidate timing estimates as a selected timing estimate based on a comparison between one or more of the plurality of reliability metrics and performing synchronized mobile communications using the selected timing estimate and a frequency offset value associated with the selected timing estimate.

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