Embodiments provide a terminal point of a communication system, wherein a control signal is emitted in the communication system for coordinating the participants of the communication system, wherein the control signal is transferred distributed in correspondence with a frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by a control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point has a receiver, wherein a receive bandwidth of the receiver is smaller at least by the factor 3 than a bandwidth of the frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by the control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive a reference signal, the reference signal having information on the control signal, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive the control signal based on the information on the control signal.

Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating a frequency hopping arrangement are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes calculating a number of useable frequency channels between a starting frequency channel and a stopping frequency channel for a frequency hopping arrangement for a communication session; calculating a frequency channel step value based at least in part on a predetermined required minimum number of frequency channels for the frequency hopping arrangement; selecting frequency channel values to be used in the communication session by iterating through frequency channel values for the useable frequency channels between the starting frequency channel and the stopping frequency channel at intervals of a random frequency channel selection offset value; and establishing the frequency hopping arrangement based at least in part on the selected frequency channel values.

Aspects presented herein may enable a UE to determine whether phase continuity is to be maintained for one or more uplink transmissions when the UE is configured with a frequency-hopping with zero frequency offset. In one aspect, a UE receives, from a network entity, an indication of frequency hopping with zero frequency offset. The UE determines whether phase continuity is to be applied to UL transmissions based on the indication of the frequency hopping with zero frequency offset. The UE transmits, to the network entity, at least one uplink channel with no phase continuity based on the determination to not apply phase continuity to the UL transmissions.

A method of a first device which performs ranging by using an ultra-wide band (UWB) and the first device are provided. The method of the first device includes performing ranging with a second device in a first ranging round among a plurality of ranging rounds included in a first ranging block, determining whether to perform hopping, based on a result of the performing of the ranging, when it is determined to perform the hopping, determining an index of a second ranging round for performing ranging with a second device, based on a random-number generation function, and performing the ranging with the second device in the second ranging round of a second ranging block.

Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating a frequency hopping arrangement are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes determining a starting frequency channel for a frequency hopping arrangement to be used in a communication session by a group of devices; calculating a frequency channel step value based at least in part on a predetermined required minimum number of frequency channels; and selecting the frequency channel values to be used in the communication session by iterating through frequency channel values for the useable frequency channels at intervals of a random frequency channel selection offset value until a number of frequency channel values equal to the frequency channel step value are selected.

Embodiments provide a terminal point of a communication system, wherein a control signal is emitted in the communication system for coordinating the participants of the communication system, wherein the control signal is transferred distributed in correspondence with a frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by a control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point has a receiver, wherein a receive bandwidth of the receiver is smaller at least by the factor 3 than a bandwidth of the frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by the control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive a reference signal, the reference signal having information on the control signal, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive the control signal based on the information on the control signal.

A method of a first device which performs ranging by using an ultra-wide band (UWB) and the first device are provided. The method of the first device includes performing ranging with a second device in a first ranging round among a plurality of ranging rounds included in a first ranging block, determining whether to perform hopping, based on a result of the performing of the ranging, when it is determined to perform the hopping, determining an index of a second ranging round for performing ranging with a second device, based on a random-number generation function, and performing the ranging with the second device in the second ranging round of a second ranging block.

Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating a frequency hopping arrangement are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes determining a starting frequency channel for a frequency hopping arrangement to be used in a communication session by a designated group of devices; calculating a frequency channel step value based at least in part on a predetermined required minimum number of frequency channels and the number of devices in the designated group; and selecting the frequency channel values to be used in the communication session by iterating through frequency channel values for the useable frequency channels at intervals of a random frequency channel selection offset value until a number of frequency channel values equal to the frequency channel step value are selected.

A base station for a wireless communications system operating in an unlicensed target band of a wireless medium includes a receiver configured to wirelessly (i) receive non-cooperative carrier data within the target band from a user equipment, and (ii) detect an operation of at least one spread spectrum channel within the target band. The station further includes a transmitter configured to wirelessly send non-cooperative carrier data within the target band to the user equipment, a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions, and a processor configured to (i) execute the computer-executable instructions, (ii) determine, based on the detection operation of the receiver, at least one sequence of the at least one spread spectrum channel, and (iii) perform at least one corrective action to mitigate interference between the transmitter and an operation of the at least one spread spectrum channel based on the determination of the at least one sequence.

Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for pairing multiple devices into a designated group for a communication session are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes processing, via a first processing device, information input by a user in connection with a request to pair the first processing device to one or more additional processing devices, wherein the information comprises a number of additional processing devices to which the first processing device is attempting to pair; implementing, via the first processing device, a pairing algorithm which comprises searching for additional processing devices, in accordance with temporal values associated with the input of the first processing device, that carried out a request to pair to the same number of additional processing devices as the first processing device; and configuring the first processing device to a pairing mode configuration upon successful completion of the pairing algorithm.