A method for predicting channel state information includes determining, by a user equipment, channel prediction information based on a reference signal from a network device, and sending channel prediction information. The channel prediction information is useable to predict the channel information.

A reference sequence may be transmitted in wireless communication, e.g. in order to perform channel estimation. The use of a reference sequence introduces overhead. In some embodiments, the subcarrier spacing (SCS) of the multi-carrier symbols (e.g. OFDM symbols) used to transmit one or more reference sequences is different from the SCS of the multi-carrier symbols used to transmit information (e.g. data). In some embodiments, an original reference sequence may be spread over multiple multi-carrier symbols, with each multi-carrier symbol carrying a respective reference sequence that is a portion of the original reference sequence. The technical benefit is possibly improved channel estimation because the original reference sequence is spread in time, but with the same overhead (in terms of total occupied time of reference symbols) as transmitting all of the original reference sequence at the same time.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that tone reservation is to be applied to one or more subcarriers for one or more downlink communications. The UE may transmit one or more uplink signals, using the one or more subcarriers, for measurement by a base station. The UE may receive the one or more downlink communications having the tone reservation applied to the one or more subcarriers, the one or more subcarriers having tone reservation applied based at least in part on the measurement of the one or more uplink signals on the one or more subcarriers. Numerous other aspects are described.

Capability of a user equipment to support machine learning adaptation by a base station of a reference signal pattern is signaled between the base station and the user equipment. Configuration information from the base station indicates one or more of enabling or disabling of machine learning adaptation of the reference signal pattern, a machine learning model used for machine learning adaptation of the reference signal pattern, updated model parameters for the machine learning model, or whether model parameters received from the user equipment will be used for machine learning adaptation of the reference signal pattern. Model training may be performed or model parameters received, and reference signals are received from the base station. Information on a reference signal pattern may be transmitted by the user equipment to the serving base station. Assistance information may be transmitted by the user equipment to the base station, which configures a reference signal pattern.

A repetition unit (212) performs a repetition for mapping a data signal and a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) repeatedly at a symbol level over a plurality of subframes. A signal allocation unit (213) maps, in the a plurality of subframes, the repeated DMRS to symbols other than symbols corresponding to an SRS resource candidate, which is a candidate for a resource to which a sounding reference signal (SRS) to be used to measure an uplink received signal quality is to be mapped. A transmission unit (216) transmits an uplink signal (PUSCH) including the DMRS and the data signal over the a plurality of subframes.

A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, at a first infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of a wireless communications network, signals representing data from one or more others of infrastructure equipment, the data having been received at the one or more others of the infrastructure equipment from one or more communications devices or from other infrastructure equipment, and transmitting, by the first infrastructure equipment, the data from the one or more others of the infrastructure equipment to the core network part of the wireless communications network. At least one of the infrastructure equipment uses at least one spectral efficiency enhancing technique to receive the signals, the at least one spectral efficiency enhancing technique allowing the at least one infrastructure equipment to receive the signals in the backhaul communications link.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine to bundle or not bundle demodulation reference signals (DMRS) of multiple downlink data transmissions using an indication from a base station. The indication may be transmitted via control signaling, such as downlink control information (DCI) from the base station to the UE. For example, a bit of the DCI may be used to dynamically indicate a current precoding in relation to a preceding precoding. For example, the bit may indicate if the current precoding is the same as a previous precoding (e.g., UE may bundle the DMRS), or the bit may indicate that the current precoding is different than the previous precoding (e.g., UE may not bundle DMRS).

Enhanced transmission opportunities are disclosed for sounding reference signals (SRS). The enhancements may provide more flexibility in scheduling SRS transmission and more SRS transmission opportunities. An additional offset may be defined and dynamically communicated to a user equipment (UE) to use either to override or in additional to a semi-statically communicated standard offset when scheduling the SRS transmission opportunity based on an SRS trigger slot or another granted slot. The UE may further treat each combination of timing information as a separate SRS opportunity or may define a window between two signaled timing offsets within which the UE may attempt SRS transmissions.

The present disclosure relates to a channel estimation method of a wireless communication device. The channel estimation method includes descrambling a pilot signal having a unit symbol, dividing the descrambled pilot signal, and estimating a channel value of the wireless communication device. The descrambled pilot signal may be divided into a plurality of frequency resources with a first frequency resource and a second frequency resource and generating a first signal chunk with the first frequency resource and a second signal chunk with the second frequency resource. The channel value of the wireless communication device may be estimated based on the first signal chunk and the second signal chunk.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to methods and apparatuses for PT-RS mapping. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method includes transmitting a first set of phase-tracking reference signals in a first plurality of subcarriers within a first resource block set associated with a first TCI state with a first frequency density; transmitting a second set of phase-tracking reference signals in a second plurality of subcarriers within a second resource block set associated with a second TCI state with a second frequency density, where the first resource block set and the second resource block set are frequency division multiplexed in a time interval and a third resource block set composed of the first resource block set and the second resource block set is scheduled by a DCI.