US 12,231,215 B2
Forwarding a wireless signal using a digital repeater
Navid Abedini, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); Junyi Li, Fairless Hills, PA (US); and Ashwin Sampath, Skillman, NJ (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/305,923.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/706,187, filed on Aug. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0045745 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/15507 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0617 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
one or more memories; and
one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors configured to cause the apparatus to:
receive, from a control node, a configuration that indicates to convert an incoming signal from an analog domain to a digital domain and indicates a plurality of digital processing operations comprising a processing of digital information, wherein the plurality of digital processing operations is selected from a plurality of digital processing options comprising two or more of:
a conversion of the incoming signal from the analog domain to the digital domain,
a performance of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on a plurality of time domain in-phase and quadrature (IQ) samples associated with the incoming signal,
a performance of a resource element (RE) demapping procedure on a plurality of tones associated with the incoming signal,
a demodulation of a set of stabilized REs associated with the incoming signal, or
a decoding of a set of descrambled REs associated with the incoming signal;
receive a first signal;
perform the plurality of digital processing operations on the first signal to generate a second signal, wherein the second signal comprises a re-generated version of the first signal; and
transmit the second signal.