An apparatus for wireless communication in a millimeter wave (mmW) mesh network is described. The apparatus may include a processor, memory in electronic communication with the processor, a radio component including a plurality of mmW radios in electronic communication with the processor, each mmW radio configured to establish a mmW connection with a node in the mmW mesh network, and a pole mount component coupled with a first section of the radio component.

The base station that is configured to transmit in a beamformed manner may set different transmission rates for different directions of the beams. During an initial access stage, the base station may set different transmission rates for different transmission directions, and may transmit initial access signals based on the transmission rates in the different transmission directions The apparatus may be a base station. The base station determines transmission rates for a plurality of transmission directions, where each transmission rate is determined for a respective transmission direction of the plurality of transmission directions. The base station transmits at least one initial access signal in each of one or more of the plurality of transmission directions based on a corresponding transmission rate of the transmission rates.

A media system comprises one or more non-wearable playback devices, a gateway device, and a wearable playback device. The one or more non-wearable playback devices are configured to receive media content and to play the media content in synchrony with one another. The gateway device is commutatively coupled with at least one of the non-wearable playback devices and is configured to receive the media content. The wearable playback device comprises a microphone and a transducer and is commutatively coupled to the gateway device. The wearable playback device is configured to receive the media content and to simultaneously play ambient audio received via the microphone and the media content via the transducer while the one or more non-wearable playback devices play the media content.

A system can comprise a radio unit comprising a digital front end, wherein the digital front end comprises a group of tap points that are configured to receive a first custom signal. The system can also comprise a first component that is configured to originate the first custom signal. The system can also comprise a second component that is configured to select a first tap point of the group of tap points, and inject the first custom signal into the first tap point.

Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. Disclosed are a signal, a channel structure, and an operation method and device for supporting initial access for a system expected to remarkably increase M communication capacity, by using beamforming on a wide frequency band in next-generation communication for supporting a millimeter-wave (mmWave) band.

A network transmitting a duration of a subframe of a first type to a communication device; transmitting a multiplexing scheme for the subframe of the first type and a subframe of a second type to the communication device, wherein the duration of the subframe of the first type is shorter than a duration of the subframe of the second type; determining a duration of a subframe of a third type, wherein the duration of the subframe of the second type is not an integral multiple of the duration of the subframe of the first type; transmitting the duration of the subframe of the third type to the communication device; and performing the communication operation in a plurality of subframes of the first type in at least one subframe of the third type according to the multiplexing scheme via a physical channel.

A wireless system includes an active oscillator and a front-end circuit. The active oscillator is used to generate and output a reference clock. The active oscillator includes at least one active component, and does not include an electromechanical resonator. The front-end circuit is used to process a transmit (TX) signal or a receive (RX) signal according to a local oscillator (LO) signal. The LO signal is derived from the reference clock.

Some techniques and apparatuses described herein provide synchronization signal numerology, coverage extension/repetition schemes, and synchronization signal burst set periodicities for 5G IoT user equipment (UEs). For example, some techniques and apparatuses described herein provide a sequence of slots and/or particular symbols within a slot for transmission of a synchronization signal and/or a broadcast channel. Furthermore, some techniques and apparatuses described herein define minimum bandwidths of IoT UEs in relation to non-IoT UEs, and define synchronization signal burst set periodicities that may be different for IoT UEs than for non-IoT UEs.

A system can comprise a radio unit comprising a digital front end, wherein the digital front end comprises a group of tap points that are configured to receive a first custom signal. The system can also comprise a first component that is configured to originate the first custom signal. The system can also comprise a second component that is configured to select a first tap point of the group of tap points, and inject the first custom signal into the first tap point.

Various aspects of the disclosure relate to communication using a data unit that includes a payload with synchronization information. In some aspects, a first apparatus may transmit a data unit that includes at least one synchronization symbol in the payload. A second apparatus that receives the data unit may thereby recover synchronization information from the data unit even if interference at the second apparatus prevents the second apparatus from recovering synchronization information in a preamble of the data unit. In some aspects, the second apparatus may determine, based on information in the at least one synchronization symbol, whether and/or when to conduct a spatial reuse transmission. In some aspects, the second apparatus may determine, based on information in the at least one synchronization symbol, an amount of time to defer transmission.