Macrocell communication resources are assigned for device-to-device (D2D) communication between two wireless communication user equipment (UE) devices. A scheduler in a communication system schedules (assigns) scheduled downlink communication resources for downlink transmission of signals from a base station, schedules (assigns) scheduled uplink communication resources for uplink communication from wireless communication UE devices to base stations, and schedules (assigns) D2D communication resources for D2D communication between wireless communication UE devices. The D2D communication resources are selected from either defined downlink communication resources or defined uplink communication resources that are defined by communication specification. The base station sends communication resource allocation (CRA) information to at least one of the wireless communication UE devices where the communication resource allocation information identifies the D2D communication resources for use by the wireless communication UE devices to communicate through a device-to-device (D2D) communication link.

A system and method for partial bandwidth communication. The system includes a device that has a transceiver configured to connect to a network, a memory storing an executable program and a processor. The program causes the processor to perform operations including receiving data to be transmitted to second device, determining if the data uses less than a predetermined bandwidth used as a unit for a carrier aggregation, determining a plurality of sub-bands in the predetermined bandwidth, each sub-band including at least one pilot and a plurality of frequency tones, receiving network information from the second device, the network information indicating a preferred sub-band of the sub-bands, assigning one of the sub-bands to the second device based upon the network information, generating a packet including an indication, the indication indicating the assigned sub-band; transmitting the packet to the second device and transmitting the data in the assigned sub-band.

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses and methods for signal designs for device-to-device (D2D) subframes. Various embodiments may include a UE with a radio transceiver to communicate with another UE via D2D communications. The UE may further include processing circuitry to generate a cyclic prefix (CP) for a first or second symbol of a D2D subframe at an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) resource block or a single-carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) resource block. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting acknowledgement/negative ACK (ACK/NACK) in a wireless communication system which supports carrier aggregation, and to an apparatus for the method. A method in which a terminal transmits ACK/NACK in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation comprises the following steps: receiving one or more physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs); and transmitting ACK/NACK for said one or more PDSCHs via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). A PUCCH format for transmitting ACK/NACK is selected by taking the type of the carrier in which said one or more PDSCHs are received into account.

A method is provided for transmission control of a user terminal utilizing half-duplex frequency division duplex operation. The method includes defining a transmission qap pattern for at least one user terminal. The transmission gap pattern indicates 1) sub-frames during which the user terminal is to perform uplink transmission, 2) sub-frames during which the user terminal is to expect to perform downlink reception including at least reference symbols for performing downlink tracking, and 3) at least one of a Tx-to-Rx switching sub-frame during which the user terminal is to switch from the uplink transmission to the downlink reception, and a Rx-to-Tx switching sub-frame during which the user terminal is to switch from the downlink reception to the uplink transmission. The transmission qap pattern is provided to the user terminal, and the user terminal is operated according to the transmission qap pattern.

Embodiments described herein relate generally to efficient transmission of data over a radio network between a user equipment (UE) and a network node. The UE may adapt packets from TCP to a private protocol and transmit those data packets to the network node. The UE may use ARQ data from link layer circuitry to locally generate TCP ACK data for TCP layer circuitry. At the network node, the private-protocol data packets may be adapted to TCP and transmitted to a remote host over the Internet so that the TCP semantic may be maintained between the UE and the remote host. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

A communications node operable to communicate with another communications node over a communications channel having a plurality of frequency resources, the communications node includes data defining a division of the communications channel into a plurality of contiguous sub-bands each having N frequency resources, wherein each frequency resource in a sub-band has a corresponding frequency resource in each of the other sub-bands, data defining an initial allocation of the frequency resources, a resource determination module operable to apply a frequency shift to the initially allocated frequency resources in accordance with a frequency hopping sequence to determine frequency resources to use for communicating information with the other communications node, wherein the frequency shift applied moves the initially allocated frequency resources to corresponding frequency resources in another sub-band, a transceiver for communicating information with the other communications node using the determined frequency resource.

A method and apparatus transmits data with voice-encoded data units on a wireless communications channel with a voice transmission. The arrangement determines a number of audio bits available for stealing by analyzing at least one parameter that affects voice quality selected from the group of: a movement velocity of the mobile communication radio, a signal strength or fading rate of the radio channel, a location of the mobile communication radio with respect to a coverage map, whether the mobile communication radio is disposed in an indoor location, and a distance from the communication radio to the base radio. The determination is provided to an audio and data coding profile. The profile is applied to substitute data bits for the determined number of audio bits in one or more voice-encoded data units and the mobile radio transmits the voice-encoded data units with the voice transmission.

The present invention relates to a method for transceiving a signal in a wireless communication system. A method for transceiving a signal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: transmitting a downlink signal from a base station to a terminal; receiving an uplink signal transmitted from the terminal; and cancelling a self-interference signal on the basis of the transceived downlink signal or the uplink signal, wherein the transmission periods for the downlink signal and the uplink signal comprise dedicated transmission periods, and in the dedicated transmission period, signal transmission periods of the base station and the terminal are differentiated.

A pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system, such as a long term evolution (LTE), is provided. A method for performing a beamforming operation in a communication system supporting a frequency division-multiple input multiple output (FD-MIMO) scheme is provided. The method includes detecting a rough beam of a first dominant beam, detecting at least two codeword candidates based on the rough beam of the first dominant beam, and selecting one of the at least two codeword candidates as a final codeword.