Data transmissions are scheduled from internet of things (IoT) user equipment (UEs) to a base station (BS) that serves those IoT UEs in a cellular network. A BS may broadcast synchronization information to the IoT UEs that allows the BS to calculate and use a schedule for receiving data transmissions from the UEs. This information can include a total number of the IoT UEs being serviced, a length of a spreading code to use in the schedule, a time domain periodicity of available resources, and a maximum number of the IoT UEs that can send data to the BS at one time. Each IoT UE can independently apply a mathematical operation to the broadcast information it receives to calculate and use the schedule. The BS can receive the data transmissions from each of the IoT UEs according to that schedule.

A DL control channel candidate can be decoded. A determination can be made for which DL OFDM symbol the decoded DL control channel candidate is received in. A determination can be made for a DL resource assignment from the decoded DL control channel candidate. Data can be received based on the DL resource assignment. A determination can be made for a time-frequency resource for transmitting a HARQ-ACK at least based on the determined DL OFDM symbol. The HARQ-ACK can be transmitted in the determined time-frequency resource. The transmitted HARQ-ACK can correspond to the received data.

In order to perform UL transmission in a future radio communication system, a user terminal comprising: a generating section that generates an uplink (UL) signal to transmit to a radio base station; and a control section that controls transmission of the UL signal. The control section switches between OFDMA based transmission and SC-FDMA based transmission to apply to the UL signal. In addition, the user terminal controls the OFDMA based transmission and the SC-FDMA based transmission autonomously or based on information transmitted from the radio base station.

A transmitting method includes: configuring a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating a plurality of transmission data to a plurality of areas; and transmitting the frame. The plurality of areas are each identified by at least one time resource among resources and at least one frequency resource among frequency resources. The frame includes a first period in which a preamble is transmitted, and a second period in which the plurality of transmission data are transmitted by at least one of time division and frequency division. The second period includes a first area, and the first area includes a data symbol generated from first transmission data, a data symbol generated from second transmission data and subsequent to the data symbol generated from the first transmission data, and a dummy symbol subsequent to the data symbol generated from the second transmission data.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for transmitting and receiving self-contained transmissions for enhanced machine type communications (eMTC) in unlicensed spectrum (eMTC-U). An exemplary method includes a BS determining, based on a listen before talk (LBT) procedure, that a first portion of unlicensed radio frequency spectrum is available for a frame, transmitting, on the first portion of the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum, a control channel indicating a frame format of the frame or a grant of the first portion of the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum for the frame, and communicating with a user equipment (UE) according to the frame format or the grant during the frame.

A channel access process method in a wireless local area network is provided. The method includes: generating, by a station, a backoff counter value; then performing, by the station, a backoff operation after receiving a first trigger frame, where the backoff operation includes: deducting, from the backoff counter value, a quantity N of subchannels for random access, to obtain a new backoff counter value; and when the new backoff counter value is 0 or a negative number, randomly selecting, by the station, one subchannel from the subchannels for random access, and then accessing the subchannel to send an uplink frame. The present application further provides a corresponding channel access apparatus. Applying the method and the apparatus of the embodiments of the present application improves system access efficiency and avoids a waste of system resources.

Systems and methods for mixed space time and space frequency block coding are provided. In some embodiments, a method of operating a first node in a wireless communication network for providing time and frequency diversity includes precoding modulation symbols intended for a second node according to two antenna ports on which they are to be transmitted. In a first subset of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, mapping the precoded modulation symbols to resource elements starting first with indices corresponds to frequency. In a different subset of OFDM symbols, mapping the precoded modulation symbols to resource elements in any two adjacent OFDM symbols starting first with indices corresponds to time. In this way, transmission efficiency may be increased by not having any resource elements unused. Additional flexibility for precoding may also be provided when there is no symbol pair mapped to resource elements across two resource blocks.

Disclosed are a method for device-to-device communication in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method for performing device-to-device (D2D) communication by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) resource pool setting information; receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) including the PSCCH resource allocation information; and sending the PSCCH on the basis of the PSCCH resource allocation information, wherein a first PSCCH time-frequency resource and a second PSCCH time-frequency resource for sending the PSCCH are determined on the basis of a value indicated in the PSCCH resource allocation information within the PSCCH resource pool, and the PSCCH may be sent in the first PSCCH time-frequency resource and the second PSCCH time-frequency resource.

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5.sup.th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4.sup.th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a base station, a user equipment (UE), and a method for uplink resource allocation and a method for uplink transmission, which are applied in the field of communication technologies. The method includes that: a base station allocates Bandwidth Part (BWP) resources and intra-BWP Physical Resource Block (PRB) resources to a UE, and then transmits BWP resource indication information and intra-BWP PRB resource indication information to the UE. The BWP resource indication information is used for indicating the BWP resources allocated by the base station to the UE. The intra-BWP PRB resource indication information is used for indicating the intra-BWP PRB resources allocated by the base station, and then the UE receives the BWP resource indication information and the intra-BWP PRB resource indication information transmitted by the base station, and then determines the BWP resources and the intra-BWP PRB resources allocated by the base station according to the BWP resource indication information and the intra-BWP PRB resource indication information so as to perform uplink transmission.

A method for a terminal, in a wireless communication system, receiving a downlink signal from a cell in which a plurality of beams are multiplexed according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: generating a quasi-orthogonal scrambling sequence that is used for scrambling the downlink signal; and receiving the downlink signal through one or more beams of the plurality of multiplexed beams using the generated quasi-orthogonal scrambling sequence, wherein the terminal can initialise the quasi-orthogonal scrambling sequence using a beam-specific parameter corresponding to one or more beams for transmitting the downlink signal when generating the quasi-orthogonal scrambling sequence.