The present disclosure provides a resource mapping and transmission method and a corresponding base station and user equipment. The method comprises: generating radio frames for NB-IoT TDD, and in the radio frames for NB-IoT TDD, mapping a Narrowband Primary Synchronization Signal “NPSS,” a Narrowband Secondary Synchronization Signal “NSSS,” a Narrowband Physical Broadcast Channel “NPBCH,” and a Narrowband System Information Block Type 1 “SIB1-NB” to subframes selected from subframes 0, 4, 5, and 9 of the radio frames, wherein the NPSS, the NSSS, the NPBCH, and the SIB1-NB are respectively mapped into different subframes and are not respectively mapped into the subframes 5, 9, 0, and 4; and transmitting the generated radio frames. According to embodiments of the present invention, user equipment supporting NB-IoT TDD can exit a search for an NB-IoT TDD cell as early as possible.

Embodiments of the present application disclose an information transmission method, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving a first synchronization signal block and a physical downlink control channel sent by a network device in a first time slot or a first mini-slot, wherein the first time slot or the first mini-slot comprises N symbols, the first synchronization signal block occupies M consecutive symbols in the first time slot or the first mini-slot, the first synchronization signal block comprises a synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel, M and N are positive integers, and M≤N. The method, terminal device and network device of the embodiments of the present application can achieve efficient multiplexing of synchronization signals, broadcast channels, and downlink control channels while meeting the high-frequency band and multi-beam transmission requirements of NR, reducing control signaling overheads and terminal complexity, and improving resource utilization and flexibility of a communication system.

Provided are an initial access method and apparatus of a wireless communication system. The initial access method of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes: detecting at least one synchronization signal included in a plurality of synchronization signal blocks; selecting at least one synchronization signal among the detected at least one synchronization signal; and performing an initial access procedure based on the selected at least one synchronization signal.

A method and apparatus of a UE in a wireless communication system supporting a shared spectrum channel access is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: identifying a frequency location of a synchronization signals and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block; receiving the SS/PBCH block; determining whether the frequency location of the SS/PBCH block corresponds to a global synchronization channel number (GSCN) of a synchronization raster entry; and determining an offset as a sum of a first offset and a second offset, if the frequency location of the SS/PBCH block does not correspond to the GSCN of the synchronization raster entry, wherein the offset is a difference from a smallest resource block (RB) index of a control resource set (CORESET) for Type0 physical downlink control channel (Type0-PDCCH) common search space (CSS) set to a smallest RB index of a common RB overlapping with a first RB of the SS/PBCH block.

A method of a base station (BS) for transmitting synchronization signals in a wireless communication system. The method comprises generating a primary synchronization signal (PSS) including one of multiple PSS sequences that is generated based on a M-sequence of length 127 in a frequency domain, wherein the PSS indicates part of cell identification (ID) information using a cyclic shift performed on the M-sequence generating the PSS; generating a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) including one of multiple SSS sequences that is generated based on multiple BPSK modulated M-sequences of length 127 in the frequency domain, wherein the SSS indicates the cell ID information using cyclic shifts performed on the M-sequences generating the SSS; and transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), the PSS and SSS over downlink channels.

The present invention relates to a method for generating a downlink frame including generating a first short sequence and a second short sequence indicating cell group information, generating a first scrambling sequence determined by the first synchronization signal, generating a second scrambling sequence determined by the first short sequence, scrambling the first short sequence with the first scrambling sequence, scrambling the second short sequence with at least the second scrambling sequence, and mapping a second synchronization signal including the scrambled first short sequence and the scrambled second short sequence in the frequency domain.

A method is provided to generate and control transmission of reference symbols in a synchronization subframe, wherein a reference symbol includes reference values mapped to a block of K subcarriers. The method includes generating data corresponding to a basic subsequence of K−R1−R2 reference values, where R1 and R2 are integers such that 1≤R1+R2<K, and mapping the data corresponding to the basic subsequence to an original range of K−R1−R2 contiguous subcarriers in the block such that there is a first set of R1 unmapped subcarriers above the original range of subcarriers and a second set of R2 unmapped subcarriers below the original range of subcarriers. Data corresponding to last R1 values in the basic subsequence is mapped to the first set of unmapped subcarriers. Data corresponding to first R2 values in the basic subsequence is mapped to the second set of unmapped subcarriers.

Techniques providing opportunistic frequency switching for frame based equipment (FBE), such as may be configured to minimize opportunistic frequency switching delay in FBE new radio (NR) unlicensed (NR-U) networks and/or to provide frequency diversity FBE access based on offset sequences of medium sensing occasions for the carrier frequencies are disclosed. Within the FBE mode network, a base station may configure a pattern of sensing locations in each frame for each frequency transmission unit of the plurality of frequency transmission units, wherein an inter-unit delay of sensing locations between a first frequency transmission unit and a next adjacent frequency transmission unit and between a last frequency transmission unit and the first frequency transmission unit is a fixed duration. Opportunistic frequency switching of embodiments may utilize the medium sensing locations for opportunistically switching between a sequence of the frequency transmission units for implementing frequency diversity FBE access.

A terminal apparatus for a device-to-device (D2D) terminal in a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises a transmission device and a reception device; and a processor, wherein the processor generates and transmits a primary sidelink synchronization signal (PSSS) and a secondary sidelink synchronization signal (SSSS), wherein, if a PSBCH is transmitted in a subframe in which the PSSS and the SSSS are being transmitted and is normal CP, the PSSS and a PSBCH on power is the average power of a period, in the subframe in which the PSSS and the SSSS are being transmitted, not including a transient period, wherein the transient period of a starting part of the period for the PSSS and PSBCH ON power is not overlapped with an OFDM symbol on which the PSSS is transmitted.

A method for detecting base stations is shown comprising steps of determining an assumed primary synchronization signal with the strongest peak in a signal set; finding an associated secondary synchronization signal; shifting the assumed primary synchronization signal and the secondary synchronization signal at the same point and time; subtracting the signals from one another obtaining a residual signal; and determining whether a peak of the residual signal is present which is larger than a predetermined threshold. Further, a search device is shown.