Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless communications system may support techniques for using non-staggered reference signals to increase the efficiency of the system and reduce the complexity of channel estimation. A base station may schedule a transmission to a user equipment (UE) including pilot tones mapped to a first symbol and a second symbol. In some cases, the pilot tones on the first and second symbols may be non-contiguous, and the base station may scramble the pilot tones on the first and second symbols according to the same scrambling sequence. In other cases, the pilot tones on the first and second symbols may be contiguous, and the pilot tones may be scrambled according to the same or different scrambling sequences. These techniques may result in reduced complexity for interference estimation and channel estimation at a UE.

The invention relates to a technique for performing a random access procedure over a radio interface, for example between a mobile terminal and a radio base station of a mobile network. A method aspect of the invention comprises the steps of transmitting a synchronization request for synchronization information; receiving synchronization information in response to the synchronization request; and transmitting, based on at least one transmission parameter adjusted in accordance with the synchronization information, a resource request for data transmission resources.

A method and apparatus may be used in wireless communications. The apparatus may be an access point (AP), and may transmit a power save frame. The power save frame may include one or more Uplink (UL) Transmission Times (ULT)s. The apparatus may determine that a station (STA) did not transmit during its respective ULT. The AP may transmit another power save frame. The other power save frame may include a modified ULT. The modified ULT may be for a STA that did not transmit during its respective ULT. The other power save frame may include an unmodified ULT. The unmodified ULT may be for a STA that did not transmit.

One of the plurality of first slave receiving apparatuses which serves as a reference first slave receiving apparatus repeatedly transmits a wireless control signal for controlling synchronization between a first receiving apparatus segment and a second receiving apparatus segment. One of the plurality of second slave receiving apparatuses which serves as a reference second slave receiving apparatus transmits a reference timing signal for performing synchronization in the second receiving apparatus segment including the reference second slave receiving apparatus to the second master receiving apparatus in synchronization with the wireless control signal. The second master receiving apparatus transmits a synchronization timing signal for performing synchronization in the second receiving apparatus segment including the second master receiving apparatus to another one of the plurality of second slave receiving apparatuses in the second receiving apparatus segment including the second master receiving apparatus, in response to the reference timing signal.

The present invention discloses a method for processing a preamble sequence and header for a data packet, comprising the following steps of: using a bit sequence of a fixed pattern to replace a scrambled pseudo-random bit sequence in a SYNC field in the preamble sequence, and spreading the SYNC field by a Barker code; extending a length of a spreading code and spreading an SFD field in the preamble sequence by the extended spreading code; and extending a length of a spreading code and spreading a header field by the extended spreading code. The present invention may significantly improve the performance of reception and detection for the preamble sequence (the SYNC field and the SFD field) and the PLCP header field, better overcome long-distance channel conditions, enhance the signal stability of transmission; and meanwhile the present invention is easy to implement and only requires little modifications to the circuit of a conventional Wi-Fi device.

A transmitter includes a memory, and a processor configured to generate a first clock parallel signal by performing serial-parallel conversion of a first clock signal acquired by using a reference clock and generate a second clock parallel signal by performing serial-parallel conversion of a second clock signal acquired by using the reference clock, generate first compressed information by compressing the first clock parallel signal on the basis of clock periodicity and generate second compressed information by compressing the second clock parallel signal based on the clock periodicity, generate a serial signal by adding a synchronization signal indicating a top of a multiplexed signal to the multiplexed signal generated by time-division multiplexing of the first compressed information and the second compressed information, and transmit the serial signal to a receiver.

A method and apparatus may be used in wireless communications. The apparatus may be an access point (AP), and may transmit a power save frame. The power save frame may include one or more Uplink (UL) Transmission Times (ULT)s. The apparatus may determine that a station (STA) did not transmit during its respective ULT. The AP may transmit another power save frame. The other power save frame may include a modified ULT. The modified ULT may be for a STA that did not transmit during its respective ULT. The other power save frame may include an unmodified ULT. The unmodified ULT may be for a STA that did not transmit.

A baseline difference is determined between a slave line card time stamp corresponding to a slave line card frame sync signal and a master line card time stamp corresponding to a master line card frame sync signal. The slave line card generates subsequent slave line card time stamps for subsequent slave line card frame sync signals and the master line card generates subsequent master line card time stamps for subsequent master line card frame sync signals. Current differences are determined between subsequent slave line card time stamps and the subsequent master line card time stamps and the current differences are compared to the baseline difference. When a mismatch difference occurs (current difference differs from the baseline difference), the mismatch difference causes a phase-locked loop in the master line card to be adjusted or an offset to be provided to the master line card time of day counter.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for determining to not transmit a portion of a second signal that overlaps in time with a first signal. A user equipment (UE) may identify a first signal to be communicated during a first time duration using a first beam pair link (BPL) and identify a second signal that is scheduled to be communicated during a second time duration using a second BPL. The UE may identify a misalignment between timing advance values for the BPLs, the misalignment causing an overlap in time between the first signal scheduled during the first time duration and the second signal scheduled during the second time duration. The UE may determine whether to drop part of the second signal and communicate the first signal and a remaining portion of the second signal based at least in part on the determining.

According to an embodiment, a signal conversion apparatus includes a control information generator and a selector. The control information generator generates first control information based on rate information indicating transmission rates of original signals. The first control information designates a first timing at which each of the original signals is sampled. The selector selects each of the sampled signals at a timing based on the first timing. The original signal group includes a first original signal at a first transmission rate and a second original signal at a second transmission rate. The first transmission rate is higher than the second transmission rate. The frequency of allocating the first timing to the first original signal is higher than a frequency of allocating the first timing to the second original signal.