Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications network, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes determining a reporting quality threshold for a parameter related to channel state information (CSI); performing a measurement for each of a plurality of beams from a first predetermined set of beams for evaluation; evaluating the measurement for each of the plurality of beams against the reporting quality threshold; discontinuing the performing and evaluating of measurements in response to determining that the reporting quality threshold is met for one of the beams, such that one or more beams in the first predetermined set of beams are not measured and evaluated; and reporting, to the wireless communications network, CSI for the one of the beams.

The present disclosure relates to a 5G or a pre5G communication system to be provided for supporting a higher data transmission rate after 4G communication systems, such as LTE. According to embodiments of the present invention, a method and an apparatus for receiving signals in a mobile communication system may be provided, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a second signal including an interference signal of a first signal transmitted by a first terminal and a first signal transmitted by a second terminal; obtaining information related to the interference signal; removing the interference signal on the basis of the obtained information; and decoding the first signal after removing the interference signal from the second signal, wherein the information related to the interference signal includes resource block allocation information with respect to the interference signal and/or a reference signal for demodulating the interference signal.

An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting a synchronization signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: generating a synchronization signal on the basis of a cell ID which is determined depending on whether a terminal for transmitting the synchronization signal is a terminal located outside of a coverage; and transmitting the synchronization signal.

A user equipment having a first mechanism to obtain a control region size of a sub-frame of a cell, the user equipment having a processor; and a communications subsystem, wherein the processor and communications subsystem are configured to cooperate to: determine having a first mechanism to obtain a control region size of a sub-frame of the first cell, second cell, or both, whether the user equipment is within an area of the second cell; and utilize, a second mechanism to obtain a control region size of a sub-frame of the second cell while the user equipment is within the area of the second cell.

Embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink interference processing method, device and system. The method includes: receiving, by a first network device, information about second UE that is transmitted by a second network device; reconstructing uplink air interface data of the second UE according to the information about the second UE when uplink air interface data of the first UE is parsed incorrectly after first uplink air interface data is received, and obtaining the reconstructed uplink air interface data of the second UE; clearing the reconstructed uplink air interface data of the second UE from the first uplink air interface data to obtain second uplink air interface data; and parsing the second uplink air interface data according to information about the first UE, and obtaining a parsing result of the uplink air interface data of the first UE.

Interference may be detected in a cellular network by receiving signals at a target base station in a quiet resource block in which no uplink transmissions to the target base station are scheduled to occur, identifying a plurality of user equipment attached to base stations neighboring a target base station as interfering user equipment, reconstructing signals transmitted by the interfering user equipment, removing the reconstructed signals from the signals received by the target base station in the quiet resource block, and determining interference in the signals from which the reconstructed signals are removed. Detected interference data can be used to create an interference cancelling receiver.

A method and a device for transmitting and receiving a signal on the basis of multiple antennas are provided. A transmitting device may include a radio frequency (RF) module transmitting a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal of a first symbol corresponding to a hybrid frequency shift keying and quadrature amplitude modulation (FQAM) mode and transmitting a QAM signal of a second symbol corresponding to a QAM mode through a second antenna; and a modulation module mapping the QAM signal of the first symbol to one frequency tone among the preset number of frequency tones according to a frequency shift keying (FSK) signal of the first symbol and mapping the second symbol to the frequency tone to which the first symbol is mapped.

Configuration of secondary cell timers is disclosed for long term evolution (LTE)/LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) having unlicensed spectrum. In order to save power at a user equipment (UE), secondary cells may be deactivated by configuring a secondary cell deactivation timer. Because of transmission uncertainties when operating in LTE/LTE-A systems having unlicensed spectrum, the deactivation timers for unlicensed spectrum may be provided in a clear channel assessment (CCA)-dependent configuration, a CCA-independent configuration, or an alternative threshold-driven configuration of both CCA-dependent and CCA-independent configurations.

Methods performed by a wireless device operating in a dormant mode comprise performing a measurement on each of a plurality of resources from a predetermined set of resources or demodulating and decoding information from each of a plurality of resources from a predetermined set of resources, such as a set of beams. The methods further include evaluating the measurement or the demodulated and decoded information for each of the plurality of resources against a predetermined criterion, and then discontinuing the performing and evaluating of measurements, or discontinuing the demodulating and decoding and evaluation of information, in response to determining that the predetermined criterion is met, such that one or more resources in the predetermined set of resources are neither measured nor demodulated and decoded. The methods further comprise deactivating receiver circuitry, further in response to determining that the predetermined criterion is met.

Method and apparatus for sidelink assisted interference cancellation. The apparatus receives a set of uplink transmission parameters of a second UE in a neighbor cell. The apparatus performs interference cancellation of an uplink transmission of the second UE on a downlink transmission received from a serving cell. The interference cancellation based at least on the set of uplink transmission parameters of the second UE. The apparatus may provide, to a base station, an indication indicating support for the interference cancellation. The apparatus may indicate, to the base station, a type of interference cancellation operation to be performed by the first UE.