Method and apparatus for optical wireless communication

    公开(公告)号:US11757530B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-12

    申请号:US16326766

    申请日:2016-08-30

    摘要: A method (100) for managing Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) in a User Equipment (UE) is disclosed, the UE being configured for Radio Frequency (RF) communication with a network and comprising at least two OWC receivers. The method comprises monitoring a captured luminous flux intensity at the OWC receivers (1 10) and, if a captured luminous flux intensity at at least one of the OWC receivers is above a viability threshold (120), selecting the OWC receiver having the highest captured luminous flux intensity (130) and extracting client data from an optical signal received on the selected OWC receiver (140). Also disclosed are a UE (300, 700) configured for RF communication with a network and for OWC, the UE comprising at least two OWC receivers, and a controller (500, 600) for managing OWC in a UE.

    Methods and apparatus for maintenance in an optical communication network

    公开(公告)号:US11196483B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-07

    申请号:US16617871

    申请日:2018-05-15

    IPC分类号: H04B10/079 H04Q11/00

    摘要: A method for monitoring a passive optical network, the passive optical network comprising a plurality of network components, comprises receiving an alert message (200) from a fault detection system associated with the passive optical network, the alert message comprising an indication of one or more candidate locations for a detected fault in the passive optical network. The method further comprises accessing an inventory (202) of the plurality of network components, the inventory storing, for each of the plurality of network components, information comprising the network component location. The method further comprises identifying (204), based on the one or more candidate locations and the network component locations, one or more network components of the plurality of network components as candidates for the cause of the detected fault.

    Method and Apparatus for Optical Wireless Communication

    公开(公告)号:US20190238227A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-01

    申请号:US16326766

    申请日:2016-08-30

    摘要: A method (100) for managing Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) in a User Equipment (UE) is disclosed, the UE being configured for Radio Frequency (RF) communication with a network and comprising at least two OWC receivers. The method comprises monitoring a captured luminous flux intensity at the OWC receivers (1 10) and, if a captured luminous flux intensity at at least one of the OWC receivers is above a viability threshold (120), selecting the OWC receiver having the highest captured luminous flux intensity (130) and extracting client data from an optical signal received on the selected OWC receiver (140). Also disclosed are a UE (300, 700) configured for RF communication with a network and for OWC, the UE comprising at least two OWC receivers, and a controller (500, 600) for managing OWC in a UE.