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.

Disclosed are a method and a device for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The UCI transmission method comprises the steps of: generating an encoding information bit stream by performing channel coding for a UCI bit stream; generating complex modulation symbols by performing modulation for the generated encoding information bit stream; spreading the complex modulation symbols in block-wise on the basis of an orthogonal sequence; and transmitting the spread complex modulation symbols to a base station. The encoding information bit stream is generated by a channel coding for circularly repeating the UCI bit stream.

The present invention discloses a method for transmitting a scheduling request and a device therefor in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information related to SRS transmission, and transmitting, to the base station, at least one SRS indicating a specific SR of a plurality of SRs based on the SRS configuration information. The SRS configuration information includes at least one of cyclic shift (CS) index information of a sequence related to the SRS transmission, comb information representing a comb structure in which the sequence is transmitted, or hopping bandwidth information related to the SRS transmission. The specific SR is indicated according to at least one of an CS index selected based on the CS index information, a comb index selected based on the comb information, or a hopping pattern based on the hopping bandwidth information.

Provided are a frame configuring unit configured to configure a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating time resources and frequency resources to a plurality of transmission data, and a transmitter which transmits the frame. The frame includes a first period in which a preamble which includes information on a frame configuration of the frame is transmitted, a second period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by time division, a third period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by frequency division, and a fourth period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by time division and frequency division.

There is disclosed a method of operating transmitting radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes transmitting data signaling on multiple layers, wherein on each layer, there is transmitted a sequence of samples representing data, samples representing PT-RS being inserted into the sequence of samples in one or more groups, each group representing a PT-RS sample sequence; wherein further groups of PT-RS of different layers are shifted relative to each other based on OCC codes, wherein at each location of a group of PT-RS, on each of the layers, there is applied a different OCC code. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

A unified frame structure for filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) waveforms may allow FBMC and OFDM frames to be communicated over a common channel without significant inter-frame gaps. The unified frame structure may set an FBMC frame duration to an integer multiple of an OFDM frame element duration to enable alignment of FBMC frames and OFDM frames in the time domain. The unified frame structure may also map control channels in the FBMC and OFDM frames to common resource locations so that the respective control channels are aligned in the time and/or frequency domains. The unified frame structure may also share synchronization channels between FBMC and OFDM frames. Additionally, overhead in an FBMC time division duplexed (TDD) communications channel can be reduced by overlapping time windows appended to FBMC blocks.

The present invention relates to a method for operating, by a base station, multiple modulation schemes in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: calculating the number of terminals, among the terminals in a cell managed by the base station, of which a channel state is included in a state that is lower than a preset state; reporting information related to the calculated number of terminals to an upstream entity of the base station; receiving information about a band, assigned by the upstream entity, for a hybrid frequency shift keying (FSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) (FQAM) scheme on the basis of a QAM scheme and a FSK scheme; and transmitting downwardly the information about the band for the FQAM scheme to the terminals of which a channel state is included in a state that is lower than the preset state. Other modified embodiments on the basis of the technical concept of the present invention are also possible.

Embodiments can relate to transmitting or processing a demodulation reference signal; the method comprising generating a demodulation reference signal, spreading an instance of the demodulation reference signal using OCC-2 for a transmission associated antenna port 7, spreading an instance of the demodulation reference signal using OCC-4 for a transmission associated antenna port 11, and co-scheduling transmission or output of the spread instances of the demodulation reference signals.

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.

A signal sending method, a signal receiving method, and a device. The signal sending method includes: generating synchronization signals, where the synchronization signals include a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal; and sending the synchronization signals, where the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal overlap in time domain, and within a time domain resource in which the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal overlap, there is an intersection set between a frequency domain resource corresponding to the first synchronization signal and a frequency domain resource corresponding to the second synchronization signal. In this way, frequency domain resources occupied by the synchronization signals may be reduced, thereby saving frequency domain resources for another data transmission process. In addition, the two synchronization signals may further share a part of the frequency domain resources, thereby improving resource utilization.