The present disclosure provides a method for receiving a synchronization signal block by a UE in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method includes receiving at least one SSB mapped to a plurality of symbols, wherein two regions for candidate SSBs in which the at least one SSB can be received are allocated in a specific time duration including the plurality of symbols, and a time between the two regions, a time before the two regions and a time after the two regions are identical in the specific time duration.

Methods and apparatus for subframe configuration and generation in a multi-cell multi-carrier system. A frame for radio transmission in the system consists of multiple subframes, and each subframe consists of multiple Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. Training symbols, frequency-domain data scrambling, size of Fast-Fourier Transform (FFT), or length of cyclic prefix can be configured differently for each subframe to facilitate different applications, such as unicasting or broadcasting.

A method and apparatus for Time Division Duplex (TDD) operation in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. The method includes receiving a first TDD uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration for a serving cell, receiving a second TDD UL/DL configuration for the serving cell, receiving an indication of directions to use for subframes with conflicting directions between the first TDD UL/DL configuration and the second TDD UL/DL configuration, using the first TDD UL/DL configuration for timing of UL scheduling and UL Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ), using the second TDD UL/DL configuration for timing of DL scheduling and DL HARQ, and determining a direction for each subframe with conflicting directions based on the received indication, wherein on a condition that the determined direction for a subframe with conflicting directions is DL, receiving in the subframe in the DL.

The present disclosure discloses a communication method performed by a User Equipment (UE) (301) in a mixed cellular and Device-to-Device (D2D) network (300) and the UE. The method comprises the step of communicating in the mixed network according to a radio frame structure, wherein the radio frame structure comprises at least one D2D subframe having a Guard Period (GP) at an end or at a beginning of the D2D subframe.

An object of the disclosed invention is to provide a polling-based multihop communication system capable of achieving robust communication. Solving means thereof is a (multihop communication) wireless transmission system including, as wireless stations, a base station, a plurality of relay stations connected at multiple stages by using the base station as a root, and a plurality of terminals connected to the relay stations, in which the base station and the relay stations perform communication using polling in one or more service periods which have been allocated to each of the base and relay stations in time division in advance in a system cycle.

The disclosure relates to a DRX method with TRM limitation. In one embodiment, the DRX method comprises steps of detecting a DRX wake sub-frame to be set for a first BS at least partially overlaps with a sub-frame allocated to a second BS, and removing a collision of the DRX wake sub-frame to the sub-frame allocated to the second BS without change to the sub-frame allocated to the second BS. There is also provided a user equipment using the DRX method. By removing the collision without change to the sub-frames allocated in accordance with TDM, the user equipment may work in the DRX mode well.

A method at a first device for enabling a device-to-device wireless link, the method detecting whether a presence signal of a second device is received over a first time period, the presence signal of the second device having a time-slot boundary; and if the presence signal of the second device is not detected, initiating a time-slot boundary by the first device including: transmitting a first presence signal of the first device in a selected time-slot; and checking for an acknowledgment to the first presence signal.

A method of handling an uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration for a communication device includes receiving a first UL/DL configuration in first system information from a first cell in an idle mode; applying the first UL/DL configuration; receiving a second UL/DL configuration on a physical DL control channel from the first cell in a connected mode; applying the second UL/DL configuration; receiving a third UL/DL configuration in second system information from the first cell in the connected mode; and applying the third UL/DL configuration.

A method and an apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus configured for time division multiplex (TDM) between time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD), comprises a radio frequency (RF) unit for transmitting and receiving a radio signal, and a processor operatively coupled to the RF unit, wherein the processor is configured for transmitting signals via the RF unit based on a scheduling for UL and/or DL, wherein the RF unit receives signal from at least one cell and transmits signal to at least one cell with carrier aggregation, and wherein the processor performs single transmission of signal on uplink and single reception of signal on downlink at one subframe via the RF unit.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to specifying possible default spatial reuse (SR) modes and signaling of the default spatial reuse modes. Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications. The method generally includes generating a frame that provides an indication, to a secondary recipient of the frame, of how to use spatial reuse (SR) information and transmitting the frame. Another provided method for wireless communications generally includes receiving, from a first node, a first frame that provides an indication of how to use spatial reuse (SR) information, determining if a signal strength of the first frame exceeds a threshold, generating a second frame for transmission to a second node, and if the signal strength of the first frame does not exceed the threshold, transmitting the second frame during a period when the first frame is being transmitted.