Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a process or apparatus for receiving, by a processing system including a processor, cell traffic reports for cells of a radio communication network, performing a reconfiguration analysis to identify reconfiguration information to reconfigure the radio communication network according to changing network conditions, and communicating the reconfiguration information defining a new cell configuration for the cells of the radio communication network and communicating information defining a new reconfiguration time for the cells to substantially synchronously switch to communicating according to the reconfiguration information. The receiving the cell traffic reports, the performing the reconfiguration analysis and the communicating the reconfiguration information occur in substantially real time. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A base station, a communication system and a time synchronization method between base stations are provided, which are capable of performing a time synchronization with another base station using a downlink signal of the other base station cell in which the own cell is located, without stopping transmission of the own base station even during operation. A base station 20 receives a downlink signal 255 that includes a downlink signal 11 including a synchronization signal transmitted from the other base station 10 and a downlink wraparound signal 22 transmitted from own base station 20, removes an interference of the wraparound signal from the downlink received signal, with respect to a predetermined subframe in which the downlink wraparound signal from own base station 20 interferes with the synchronization signal of the base station 10, among subframes of the downlink signal including the synchronization signal of the base station 10, performs a time synchronization processing with the base station 10 by detecting a synchronization signal timing of the base station 10 based on the downlink received signal from which the interference of wraparound signal is removed.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may identify a first synchronization sequence and generate a second synchronization sequence based at least in part on the first synchronization sequence. The base station may map the first synchronization sequence to a first resource block of a synchronization channel associated with a first frequency sub-band of a shared radio frequency spectrum band and the second synchronization sequence to a second resource block associated with a second frequency sub-band of the synchronization channel. The base station may then transmit the first synchronization sequence and the second synchronization sequence concurrently over the synchronization channel using the first resource block and the second resource block according to the mapping. In some cases, the second synchronization may be generated by applying a first phase shift to the first synchronization sequence.

Disclosed are a method for improving measurement performance of a terminal in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, in a method wherein a terminal performs measurement in a wireless communication system, a method performed by the terminal comprises the steps of: receiving, from a serving base station, configuration information for measurement of a reference signal receive power (RSRP) and/or a reference signal received quality (RSRQ), wherein the configuration information includes port configuration information related to an antenna port to which a reference signal is transmitted and measurement configuration information related to a correlation between a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) and a re-synchronization signal (RSS) for the measurement; receiving the CRS and/or the RSS from a neighbor base station; calculating the RSRP and/or the RSRQ according to the configuration information by using the CRS and the RSS; and reporting the RSRP and/or the RSRQ to the serving base station.

The scheduling flexibility of CSI reference signals enables time and frequency synchronization using multiple non-zero CSI-RSs transmitted in the same subframe, or using CSI-RSs transmitted in the same subframe with other synchronization signals. Also, multiple synchronization signals may be scheduled in the same subframe to enable fine time and frequency synchronization without cell-specific reference signals.

Wireless communications are described in which a wireless device may receive a message comprising: a timing advance command (TAC) for a secondary cell group, and a power control command. The wireless device may transmit one or more sounding reference signals via a secondary cell of the secondary cell group, after applying the TAC. The wireless device may use a transmission power that may be based on the power control command.

User equipment associated with a legacy network may utilize a bottom-to-top search technique to identify relevant control channel samples. Generating a control channel that is configured for the bottom-to-top search technique may lead to poor performance in a single-carrier waveform, which may be disadvantageous as networks move toward New Radio. In some aspects, described herein, a base station generates a control channel that is configured to minimize gaps in the control channel, and a user equipment performs a top-to-bottom search technique to identify relevant control channel samples. By using the top-to-bottom search technique, degradation of single-carrier waveforms is reduced and efficiency is improved.

A method of user equipment (UE) for system information transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), a synchronization signal/physical broadcasting channel (SS/PBCH) block comprising a PBCH that carries a master information block (MIB) including an SIB1 CORESET configuration, wherein the SIB1 CORESET configuration comprises a frequency location, a number of resource blocks (RBs) comprising an SIB1 CORESET associated with the SS/PBCH block, and information of time domain resources of the SIB1 CORESET, determining an initial active bandwidth part (BWP) comprising the frequency location, the number of RBs comprising the SIB1 CORESET, and a numerology of remaining minimum system information (RMSI), and receiving, from the BS, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) mapped to at least one time-frequency resource within the SIB1 CORESET, wherein the PDCCH includes scheduling information of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) containing an SIB 1.

The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a sidelink synchronization signal in a wireless communication system. A method of transmitting, by a first user equipment (UE), a sidelink synchronization signal to a second UE in a wireless communication system according to an example of the present disclosure may include determining values of N.sub.ID.sup.(1) and N.sub.ID.sup.(2) corresponding to a sidelink identifier (SLID) value based on a number of types of a physical layer sidelink synchronization identity set and a number of sequences included in each type of the physical layer sidelink synchronization identity set; generating a sidelink primary synchronization signal (PSS) sequence and a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (SSS) sequence based on a first primitive polynomial, a second primitive polynomial, and a cyclic shift (CS) value; and mapping, on physical resources, and thereby transmitting the sidelink PSS sequence and the sidelink SSS sequence.

One or more synchronization procedures in wireless communications are provided. A wireless user device may determine a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) as a synchronization reference source associated with a sidelink synchronization. The wireless user device may determine, based on the GNSS being the synchronization reference source associated with a sidelink synchronization and a subcarrier spacing index for sidelink, a slot number for sidelink communication. The wireless user device may transmit, based on the slot number, a sidelink synchronization signal from the wireless user device to a second wireless user device.