A method includes transmitting, at an access point configured to transmit data over an unlicensed band, a single message prior to transmitting data over a channel of the unlicensed band. The method further includes receiving, at the access point, a plurality of responses from a plurality of user equipment acknowledging the single message in response to the single message.

Inventive concepts and embodiments associated therewith are provided wherein a first device may solicit a processing capability from at least one second device that may be proximate to the first device. In some embodiments, the processing capability comprises receiving data by the at least one second device from the first device, processing the data and transmitting by the at least one second device a processed version of said data to a destination device. In some embodiments, the first device comprises a smartphone that is configured to perform operations comprising wirelessly soliciting the processing capability from the at least one second device. In some embodiments, the at least one second device comprises at least one smartphone and the destination device comprises a base station.

The present invention discloses a method of transmitting an SSS (secondary synchronization signal), which is transmitted by a base station, in a wireless communication system. The method includes the steps of determining a first shift based on a first and a second cell identifiers for identifying a cell, and determining a second shift index based on the first cell identifier and transmitting the SSS using a first sequence which is generated based on the first shift index and a second sequence which is generated based on the second shift index. In this case, the first shift index can be determined as K times a value determined based on the first and second cell identifiers, where K is an integer equal to or greater than 3.

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for narrowband communications using frequency hopping in an unlicensed frequency band. In some implementations, a base station (BS) may transmit downlink (DL) data using a sequence of DL hopping frames on a corresponding sequence of unique hopping channels associated with a DL frequency hopping pattern. In some implementations, each user equipment (UE) of one or more UEs may transmit uplink (UL) data using a sequence of UL hopping frames on a corresponding sequence of unique hopping channels associated with a different UL frequency hopping pattern.

Embodiments provide a method for generating a random access channel ZC sequence, and an apparatus. A method for generating a random access channel ZC sequence includes: generating, by a base station, notification signaling, where the notification signaling instructs user equipment (UE) to generate a random access ZC sequence by using a second restricted set in a random access set; and sending, by the base station, the notification signaling to the UE, so that the UE generates the random access ZC sequence by using the second restricted set, where the random access set includes an unrestricted set, a first restricted set, and the second restricted set; and the second restricted set is a random access set that the UE needs to use when a Doppler frequency shift of the UE is greater than or equal to a first predetermined value.

A method for a base station to control inter-cell interference in a wireless communication system comprises: a step in which a base station receives, in a predefined physical resource region, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) or a sounding reference symbol (SRS) from a terminal in a cell to which the base station belongs; a step of measuring interference in a resource on which the DMRS or the SRS has been transmitted, on the basis of an interference measurement method corresponding to the predefined physical resource region; and a step of determining the terminal as a victim terminal associated with the predefined physical resource region, if the intensity of the interference measured is greater than a predetermined threshold, wherein the predefined physical resource region may be a first physical resource region for an uplink data transmission in the cell to which the base station belongs, or a second physical resource region for uplink beam sweeping in the cell to which the base station belongs, the first and second physical resource regions corresponding to a physical resource region for uplink beam sweeping in a neighboring cell to which a neighboring base station belongs.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the communications field, and disclose a method and an apparatus for device-to-device inter-cell interference coordination. The method in the present disclosure includes: receiving, by a first terminal when the first terminal becomes a detection terminal, configuration information sent by a first base station, where the configuration information includes a resource usage detection parameter, and the resource usage detection parameter is used to configure a resource usage detection manner for the first terminal; detecting, by the first terminal based on the resource usage detection parameter, resource usage information corresponding to a resource location; reporting, by the first terminal, the resource usage information to the first base station, so that the first base station adjusts, based on the resource usage information, a D2D data transmission mode for the first terminal or a second terminal using the resource location.

Provided are a method for supporting a variable bandwidth and an apparatus using the same. In the apparatus, a wireless device receives a synchronization signal in a first bandwidth, and acquires a second bandwidth for a downlink (DL) channel on the basis of the synchronization signal. The apparatus receives the DL channel in the second bandwidth.

The disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system which will be provided to support a higher data rate beyond a 4G communication system such as LTE. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method performed by a terminal in a wireless cellular communication system is provided. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a serving base station, network deployment information of a neighboring cell, which includes information on the type of the neighboring cell; and receiving data from the serving base station on the basis of the network deployment information of the neighboring cell.

Inventive concepts and embodiments associated therewith are provided wherein an auxiliary device, that is attached to a person, is configured to function in cooperation with a destination device that is on the person. In some embodiments, the auxiliary device is uniquely associated with specific information that is to be conveyed to the destination device following reception of a signal by the auxiliary device. Embodiments are disclosed wherein, following reception of the signal by the auxiliary device, the auxiliary device processes the signal and then conveys the specific information that is uniquely associated therewith to the destination device without direct human interaction with the auxiliary device. In some embodiments, the auxiliary device comprises a personal wearable device and the destination device comprises a smartphone.