A user equipment that includes a radio transceiver that performs wireless communication in an unlicensed band, and circuitry that performs RLM using downlink physical signals, measures a radio link quality, evaluates the radio link quality against thresholds Qout and Qin, indicates out-of-sync to higher layers from a physical layer, indicates in-sync to the higher layers from the physical layer, starts a first timer when the out-of-sync is consecutively indicated to the higher layers from the physical layer, and determines that a radio link failure occurs in a case where the first timer expires without consecutive in-sync indications, and the first timer is different from a second timer used to determine whether a radio link failure occurs in a wireless communication in one or more serving cells in a licensed band.

Provided are a base station device and a mobile station device, which can lighten a cell-search processing. The base station device includes a frame constitution unit for forming a frame, in which a pilot symbol multiplied by a base station scrambling code and a plurality of sequences contained in the corresponding sequence set is arranged in at least the head or tail, and a radio transmission unit for sending the formed frame. On the receiving side, the frame timing can be detected from the position of a pilot symbol contained in that frame. Since the base station scrambling code and the sequence set containing the sequences are made to correspond to each other, candidates can be narrowed to at most the base station scrambling codes of the number of the combinations of the sequences contained in the sequence set, by detecting the sequences multiplied by the pilot symbol.

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present invention presents a method for efficiently estimating a physical channel and, according to the present invention, a terminal of a communication system receives a synchronization signal from a base station, receives a broadcast channel from the base station, and can estimate the broadcast channel on the basis of the synchronization signal.

A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes, but is not limited to, receiving a universal synchronization signal (USS) including a universal primary synchronization signal (UPSS) and a universal secondary synchronization signal (USSS), wherein the USS is coded using a mother code which is extended to m resource blocks (RBs) and n orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and a code cover of m RBs and n symbols is applied to the mother code, determining a cell identity based on the USS, determining a frame timing based on the USS, and connecting a user equipment to a network using the cell identity and the frame timing.

Various embodiments are generally directed to improved channel quality information feedback techniques. In one embodiment, for example, an evolved node B (eNB) may comprise a processor circuit, a communication component for execution by the processor circuit to receive a channel quality index for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), the channel quality index associated with a defined reference resource, and a selection component for execution by the processor circuit to select a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for transmission over the PDSCH of user equipment (UE) data in one or more resource blocks, the selection component to compensate for a difference between a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) overhead of the defined reference resource and a CRS overhead of the one or more resource blocks when selecting the MCS. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Disclosed are a robust method and device for estimating frequency offset in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication. The method includes: performing frequency-domain cyclic shift cross-correlation on preprocessed signal sequences with a short training field sequence in multiple symbol periods respectively in an initial signal receiving stage to obtain a cross-correlation result set; detecting a short training field signal according to the cross-correlation result set; when the short training field signal is detected, performing rough frequency offset estimation to obtain a rough frequency offset estimation value; performing rough frequency offset compensation according to the rough frequency offset estimation value; fixing the rough frequency offset estimation value, performing fine frequency offset estimation, and compensating residual frequency estimation; detecting a long training field signal to obtain a frame boundary; and performing channel estimation to obtain a final signal.

A method of operating a radio node in a wireless communication network in which the method includes performing cell search on a first frequency range based on at least a first selected bandwidth of a set of signaling bandwidths, the set comprising at least a first signaling bandwidth and a second signaling bandwidth. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

A wireless device receives message(s) comprising parameters of cells grouped into: a primary control channel group comprising a primary cell with a primary control channel, and a secondary control channel group comprising a control channel secondary cell with a secondary control channel. Parameters comprise RRC dedicated parameters. A secondary cell other than the control channel secondary cell is mapped to the secondary control channel group if a first control channel parameter is present in the RRC dedicated parameters of the secondary cell when the secondary cell is added to the cells. Otherwise the secondary cell is mapped to the primary control channel group. A secondary cell is considered to be the control channel secondary cell if second control channel parameters are present in the RRC dedicated parameters. First channel state information is transmitted via the secondary control channel. Second channel state information is transmitted via the primary control channel.

A wireless device receives message(s) comprising parameters of cells grouped into: a primary control channel group comprising a primary cell with a primary control channel, and a secondary control channel group comprising a control channel secondary cell with a secondary control channel. Parameters comprise RRC dedicated parameters. A secondary cell other than the control channel secondary cell is mapped to the secondary control channel group if a first control channel parameter is present in the RRC dedicated parameters of the secondary cell when the secondary cell is added to the cells. Otherwise the secondary cell is mapped to the primary control channel group. A secondary cell is considered to be the control channel secondary cell if second control channel parameters are present in the RRC dedicated parameters. First channel state information is transmitted via the secondary control channel. Second channel state information is transmitted via the primary control channel.

A base station can select orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) numerologies that define subcarrier spacing values based on attributes associated with one or more services that a user equipment (UE) is using. The base station can use the selected OFDM numerologies for transmission associated with the services. When the UE is using multiple services simultaneously, the base station can select the same or different OFDM numerologies for the multiple services.