Aspects are provided which allow coverage enhancement and support in NTNs for repetition, frequency hopping, and antenna switching during msgA transmissions based on a preamble-to-PO mapping. In one aspect, the base station provides and the UE obtains a RACH configuration associating a preamble with at least one PO for two-step random access, where the PO spans a time interval greater than one slot. In another aspect, the base station provides and the UE obtains a RACH configuration associating a preamble with a plurality of POs for two-step random access. In a further aspect, the base station provides the UE a plurality of configurations each indicating a PO for two-step random access. In an additional aspect, the base station provides the UE a configuration indicating a guard band for a PO for two-step random access, where the guard band is indicated in units of subcarriers spanning less than one PRB.

A Method of scrambling reference signals, device and user equipment using the method are provided. In the method, a plurality of layers of reference signals assigned on predetermined radio resource of a plurality of layers of resource blocks with the same time and frequency resources are scrambled, the method comprising: an orthogonalizing step of multiplying each layer of reference signal selectively by one of a plurality of orthogonal cover codes (OCCs) with the same length wherein the OCC multiplied to a first layer of reference signal can be configured as different from those multiplied to other layers of reference signals; and a scrambling step of multiplying all of symbols obtained from the OCC multiplied to each of the other layers of reference signals by a symbol-common scrambling sequence wherein the symbol-common scrambling sequences can be different from each other for reference signals multiplied by the same OCC.

A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.

A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.

For supporting higher data rates, resource configuration includes: acquiring, by a terminal, a configuration of physical resources; and performing, by the terminal, transmission according to the configured physical resources, wherein performing, by the terminal, transmission according to the configured physical resources comprises one of: neither performing, by the terminal, uplink transmission nor performing downlink reception on the configured physical resources; performing, by the terminal, only downlink reception on the configured physical resources; and performing, by the terminal, only uplink transmission on the configured physical resources.

In order to enable both a circuit scale of an apparatus that receives signals via antennas and a band of an interface between apparatuses to be small, a first communication apparatus according to the present invention includes: a reception processing unit configured to receive, from a second communication apparatus which receives signals via a plurality of antennas, channel related information related to a channel of signals received via the plurality of antennas; and a transmission processing unit configured to transmit, to the second communication apparatus, weight information related to receiving antenna weights by which the second communication apparatus multiplies signals received via the plurality of antennas, the weight information being generated based on the channel related information.

A wireless device or network node determines an evaluation period that is common to at least a portion of reference signal resources in a set of reference signal resources that are transmitted by the network node, with at least one of the reference signal resources in the set being of a different type or configuration than another of the reference signal resources in the set.

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system. A method for receiving a PDCCH, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information related to a control resource set (CORESET); and receiving, from the base station, a PDCCH within the CORESET. The configuration information may include transmission control indicator (TCI) state information related to the CORESET, the TCI state information may include information about one or more reference signals which are in a quasi-co-location (QCL) relationship with one or more antenna ports of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) of the PDCCH, and a plurality of TCI states may be configured for the CORESET.

Disclosed are a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU) transmission method and a related apparatus. The method includes: generating a PPDU, where the PPDU includes a universal signal field (U-SIG), and the U-SIG includes a subfield indicating that the PPDU is a null data packet (NDP); and sending the PPDU. In this way, a beamformee (Bfee) that receives the NDP can identify the NDP earlier. This helps improve efficiency of reading the NDP by the Bfee. The PPDU is an NDP used for a standard after 802.11ax. In a scenario in which wireless communication is performed by using the standard (for example, 802.11be) after 802.11ax, the Bfee can perform channel estimation based on the NDP.

This application discloses a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: determining, by a first device, a phase tracking reference signal PTRS pattern, where the PTRS pattern includes one or more PTRS chunks, and each PTRS chunk includes one or more PTRS samples; and mapping, by the first device, a PTRS to one or more symbols, and sending the one or more symbols to a second device.