Co-existence between an Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation system and a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system is achieved by generating a number of transmission beams for a first group of user equipment operating using LTE, and a second group of user equipment operating using the OTFS protocol, and transmitting a first group of data packets formatted according to the LTE protocol to the first group of user equipment and a second group of data packets formatted according to the OTFS protocol to the second group of user equipment. The transmissions are performed by precoding and modulating the first group of data packets according to an LTE modulation scheme, and precoding and modulating the second group of data packets according to an OTFS modulation scheme.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may obtain an indication to switch from a first waveform to a second waveform based at least in part on a condition. The UE may communicate with a base station using the second waveform. Numerous other aspects are described.

Methods and apparatus for providing a demapping system with phase compensation to demap uplink transmissions. In an embodiment, a method is provided that includes detecting a processing type associated with a received uplink transmission, and when the detected processing type is a first processing type then performing the following operations: removing resource elements containing reference signals from the uplink transmission; layer demapping remaining resource elements of the uplink transmission into two or more layers; phase compensating all layers to generate phase compensated layers; and soft-demapping all phase compensated layers to produce phase compensated soft-demapped bits.

A base station 100 in a radio transmission system that performs multicast/broadcast transmission comprises a multiplexing unit 110 configured to multiplex a plurality of types of transmission data transmitted in schemes different in error tolerance; and a transmitter 120 configured to transmit multiplexed data obtained by the multiplexing unit 110, by multicast/broadcast. The plurality of types of transmission data includes basic transmission data transmitted, by the transmitter, in a scheme having a first error tolerance and additional transmission data transmitted, by the transmitter, in a scheme having a second error tolerance lower than the first error tolerance. The additional transmission data is utilized in a terminal 200 by being combined with the basic transmission data.

A wireless device includes a first modem circuit, a second modem circuit, and one or more processor circuits. The first modem circuit supports wireless local area network (WLAN) communications. The second modem circuit supports long term evolution (LTE) and licensed assisted access (LAA) communications. The processor circuits determine free time intervals during which the second modem circuit is not engaged with a medium. The wireless device provides measurement reports to a base station. The first modem circuit enables the wireless device to perform the WLAN communications using the free time intervals without signaling to the base station.

Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a carrier phase tracking method and device for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multi-carrier system. The method includes: performing frequency domain tracking on a received current OFDM symbol and determining a phase of each subcarrier; analyzing a phase curve of all subcarriers and determining an inter-symbol phase average offset, and the inter-symbol phase average offset is used to characterize an estimated value of a difference obtained by subtracting a second value from a first value, the first value is a carrier phase value of the current OFDM symbol, and the second value is an estimated value of a carrier phase of a previous OFDM symbol; and performing time domain tracking by using the inter-symbol phase average offset as an input phase and determining an estimated value of a carrier phase of the current OFDM symbol.

A method, system and apparatus for audio communication modulation mode self-adaptation, and an electronic signature token are provided. The method includes generating a first audio detection frame; if the first audio detection frame is correct, selecting the modulation mode supported by the second device corresponding to the identifier of the modulation mode supported by the second device from pre-stored modulation modes supported by the second device according to the identifier of modulation mode supported by the second device carried in the first audio detection frame, and generating a first audio detection feedback frame; if the first audio detection feedback frame is correct, demodulating an audio data frame from the second device using a demodulation mode corresponding to the modulation mode supported by the second device, and demodulating an audio data frame from the first device using a demodulation mode corresponding to the modulation mode supported by the first device.

A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises an encoder for encoding service data corresponding to each of a plurality of data transmission path, wherein each of the data transmission path carries at least one service component, a frame builder for building at least one signal frame included in a super frame, wherein each of signal frames includes the encoded service data and the encoded signaling data, a modulator for modulating the at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, wherein each of the modulated signal frame includes a preamble having basic transmission parameters, wherein a length of the preamble is extendable and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals carrying the at least one modulated signal frame.

According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless network element of transmitting a transport block comprises determining a modulation coding scheme for a transmission of the transport block; determining a category type of a wireless device that will transmit or receive the transport block; determining, using the category type of the wireless device, an encoding soft buffer size (N.sub.IR) for the transport block; adjusting, using the modulation coding scheme. the encoding soft buffer size (N.sub.IR) by a factor (K.sub.H); encoding the transport block according to the determined modulation coding scheme and the adjusted encoding soft buffer size; and transmitting the transport block. In particular embodiments, the determined modulation coding scheme is 256 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (256 QAM) and the factor (K.sub.H) is 4/3.

A communication unit receiver comprising: a multi-section analogue to digital converter, ADC, configured to receive an analogue signal and convert at least a first portion of the analogue signal into a digital signal using a first ADC dynamic range. A modem, coupled to the multi-section ADC, is configured to: process the digital signal; determine a signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, for sub-carriers of the analogue signal; and output an ADC selection signal to the multi-section ADC that selects a subset of sections of the multi-section ADC, where the selection signal is based at least partly on the determined SNR. Only the subset of sections of the multi-section analogue to digital converter, ADC is configured to convert a second portion of the analogue signal into a digital signal using a second ADC dynamic range that is less than the first dynamic range.