Method and apparatus for timing advance prediction

A user equipment (UE) comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory having stored thereon machine executable instructions which when executed by the processor configure the UE to:
• determine a set of timing advances (TAs), each TA corresponding to a particular distance from the base station;
• receive from the base station, one or more signals;
• measure a set of instances of a power metric, each instance of the power metric associated with a respective distance from the base station, the measuring based at least in part on the one or more signals;
• determine a set of differences between each of the instances of the power metric;
• and
• determine a new TA at least in part using the set of TAs and the set of differences.

A method for predicting timing advance (TA) with respect to a base station, the method comprising:

• determining, by a user equipment (UE), a set of TAs, each TA corresponding to a particular distance from base station;
• receiving, by the UE from the base station, one or more signals;
• measuring, by the UE, a set of instances of a communication metric, each instance associated with a particular distance from the base station, the measuring based at least in part on the one or more signals;
• determining, by the UE, a set of differences between each of the instances of the communication metric;
• and
• determining, by the UE, a new TA at least in part using the set of TAs and the set of differences.

A user equipment (UE) comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory having stored thereon machine executable instructions which when executed by the processor configure the UE to:
• determine a set of time advances (TAs), each TA corresponding to a particular distance from base station;
• receive, from the base station, one or more signals;
• measure a set of instances of a communication metric, each instance associated with a particular distance from the base station, the measuring based at least in part on the one or more signals;
• determine a set of differences between each of the instances of the communication metric;
• and
• determine a new TA at least in part using the set of TAs and the set of differences.

A user equipment (UE) comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory having stored thereon machine executable instructions which when executed by the processor configure the UE to:
• determine a set of time advances (TAs), each TA corresponding to a particular distance from base station;
• measure a set of instances of a communication metric, each instance associated with a particular distance from the base station;
• determine a set of differences between each of the instances of the communication metric;
• and
• determine, by a machine learning regressor, a new TA at least in part using the set of TAs and the set of differences.