Aspects of the present disclosure provide design that allows for assigning code sequences for UEs for use in RSMA.

Aspects herein describe determining a channel format for transmitting uplink communications in a slot, wherein the channel format is selected from multiple channel formats based at least in part on a payload size of the uplink communications, determining a starting symbol and an ending symbol of an uplink channel duration of the slot for transmitting the uplink communications, determining, based at least in part on the starting symbol and the ending symbol, a portion of the channel format to utilize in transmitting the uplink communications in the slot, and transmitting the uplink communications in the slot, wherein transmitting the uplink communications is based on the portion of the channel format.

Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving a channel state information reference signal in a wireless communication system and a device therefor. Specifically, a method for transmitting, by a base station, a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) in a wireless communication system includes: transmitting configuration information of the CSI-RS to user equipment (UE); and transmitting, to the UE, the CSI-RS through one or more antenna ports, in which the position of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol for transmitting the CSI-RS may be configured by the configuration information, and the position of a resource element (RE) for transmitting the CSI-RS may be determined by M RE units (M is 1 and/or 2 and/or 4 and/or 8).

Wireless communications systems and methods related to uplink control channel transmissions with user multiplexing and reference signal transmissions are provided. A first wireless communication device obtains an uplink control channel multiplex configuration. The first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a grant indicating a plurality of resource blocks spaced apart from each other by at least one other resource block in a shared radio frequency band, the plurality of resource blocks scheduled for multiple wireless communication devices based on the uplink control channel multiplex configuration. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, a first uplink control channel signal in one or more of the plurality of resource blocks based on the uplink control channel multiplex configuration.

Systems and methods for interlace PUCCH transmission in 5G networks are described. The gNB sends an RRC message to a UE. The RRC message provides one or more PUCCH interlace allocations within a BW. Each PUCCH interlace allocation has a PUCCH format for each PUCCH interlace. Each PUCCH format contains a different PUCCH interlace index. The UE sends a PUCCH interlace in the BWP based on the PUCCH interlace allocation. A PUCCH in the allocated PUCCH interlace has a cyclic shift that is dependent on a resource block number in the allocated PUCCH interlace within the BWP.

A method and apparatus for multiplexing demodulation reference signals and a communication system. The method for multiplexing includes: transmitting data and DM-RSs by using one or more time-frequency resource blocks; the DM-RSs of each UE or each data stream occupy a part of frequency-domain resources of the time-frequency resource blocks, the DM-RSs of a part of UEs or data streams are superimposed on identical time-domain resources in a manner of frequency-division multiplexing, and the DM-RSs of a part of the UEs or data streams are superimposed on identical time-frequency resources in a manner of code-division multiplexing. Hence, even if in a case of massive UEs access, the DM-RSs may be multiplexed within given time-frequency resources, while performance of transmission may still be ensured.

The present invention employs a pilot scheme for frequency division multiple access (FDM) communication systems, such as single carrier FDM communication systems. A given transmit time interval will include numerous traffic symbols and two or more short pilot symbols, which are spaced apart from one another by at least one traffic symbol and will have a Fourier transform length that is less than the Fourier transform length of any given traffic symbol. Multiple transmitters will generate pilot information and modulate the pilot information onto sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols in an orthogonal manner. Each transmitter may use different sub-carriers within the time and frequency domain, which is encompassed by the short pilot symbols within the transmit time interval. Alternatively, each transmitter may uniquely encode the pilot information using a unique code division multiplexed code and modulate the encoded pilot information onto common sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols.

Techniques and examples of channel multiplexing within interlace for New Radio (NR) unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) operation are described. An apparatus (e.g., user equipment (UE)) determines which sub-interlace of multiple sub-interlaces in each of a plurality of interlaces is assigned to the apparatus. The apparatus then performs an uplink (UL) transmission to a wireless network in an NR-U using the assigned sub-interlace in each of the plurality of interlaces. Each of the plurality of interlaces may be divided into respective multiple sub-interlaces with channel multiplexing.

The disclosed systems, structures, and methods are directed to a spectrally-efficient orthogonal code generation architecture. The configurations presented herein employ a full-set code generation module configured to generate a candidate code group, wherein the candidate code group contains 2.sup.L different codes for a given code length L, a frequency response calculation module configured to calculate frequency response of the codes within the candidate code group and a frequency code searching module configured to search the orthogonal codes within each frequency code group. In addition, the grouping of codes is done on the basis of number of frequency locations and positions, one or more code sets are formed within each frequency code group, codes within code sets are orthogonal in nature and orthogonal codes along with their identifier information are stored in a database forming an orthogonal code list.

The present invention employs a pilot scheme for frequency division multiple access (FDM) communication systems, such as single carrier FDM communication systems. A given transmit time interval will include numerous traffic symbols and two or more short pilot symbols, which are spaced apart from one another by at least one traffic symbol and will have a Fourier transform length that is less than the Fourier transform length of any given traffic symbol. Multiple transmitters will generate pilot information and modulate the pilot information onto sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols in an orthogonal manner. Each transmitter may use different sub-carriers within the time and frequency domain, which is encompassed by the short pilot symbols within the transmit time interval. Alternatively, each transmitter may uniquely encode the pilot information using a unique code division multiplexed code and modulate the encoded pilot information onto common sub-carriers of the short pilot symbols.