There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node (10, 100, 200) in a wireless communication network, the method comprising receiving signaling indicating at least two sets of random access preambles available to access the same cell and/or communication connection; transmitting a random access preamble from one of the sets of random access preambles. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.

Methods and apparatus are provided for switching a waveform for UL transmissions in a communication network to optimize power usage of the UE. In exemplary embodiments, the UE can use either CP-OFDM waveform or DFT-S-OFDM waveform for UL transmissions. A mechanism is provided to prevent excessive switching in environments where the channel conditions are rapidly changing Further, a signaling mechanism is provided for switching waveforms for UL transmissions using Layer 1 (L1) signaling to reduce the transmission time needed to switch between CP-OFDM and DFT-S-OFDM waveforms.

A bandwidth part (BWP) switching method, a terminal and a network side device are provided. The BWP switching method performed by the terminal includes: receiving a BWP activation signaling, switching to a first BWP according to the received BWP activation signaling; and receiving a positioning reference signal (PRS) on the first BWP, wherein the first BWP meets at least one of the following: a numerology of the first BWP is consistent with a numerology of the PRS; or a bandwidth of the first BWP is not less than a bandwidth of the PRS.

A method and apparatus for wireless communication and storage medium are provided. The apparatus includes at least one processor; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine a guard band width associated with a symbol based on information about resource allocation to the apparatus; set a pulse-shaping parameter associated with the symbol based on the guard band width; and output the symbol having a waveform based on the pulse-shaping parameter.

Methods, systems, and devices are described for hierarchical communications and low latency support within a wireless communications system. An eNB and/or a UE may be configured to operate within the wireless communications system which is at least partially defined through a first layer with first layer transmissions having a first subframe type and a second layer with second layer transmissions having a second subframe type. The first subframe type may have a first round trip time (RTT) between transmission and acknowledgment of receipt of the transmission, and the second layer may have a second RTT that is less than the first RTT. Subframes of the first subframe type may be multiplexed with subframes of the second subframe type, such as through time division multiplexing. In some examples symbols of different duration may be multiplexed such that they different symbol durations coexist.

The present invention provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: transmitting physical downlink channel data according to a first-type reference signal (RS) or a second-type RS or a third-type RS. The method of the present invention ensures a balance between data transmission performance and RS overheads for different NarrowBand-Internet Of Things (NB-IOT) physical downlink channel data, thereby resolving the problem in the related art of not knowing which RS is to be used to transmit NB-IOT physical channel data.

An operating method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving configuration information for a guard band; determining whether the guard band is activated based on the configuration information; and when the guard band is activated, determining whether to transmit an uplink channel according to an uplink-downlink configuration in a time domain and a frequency domain.

Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a wireless device maps data, a unique word (UW) sequence, and a suppression signal to a set of reserved time-domain resources based on a time-domain resource mapping and reservation rule to produce DFT input data. DFT processing is performed on the DFT input data to produce IFFT input data. IFFT processing is performed on the IFFT input data to produce the GI-based waveform with a data part (e.g., non-zero part) and a tail part (e.g., zero tail part). The wireless device may further transmit the GI-based waveform.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support guard interval (GI) configurations for multiple links. For example, a user equipment (UE) may determine a first GI duration for a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second GI duration for a second TRP, when the UE is operating in a multi-TRP mode. The UE may determine the GI durations based on a difference in timing between signal reception from the first and second TRPs and may transmit a signal to one or both of the TRPs to indicate the GI durations. Based on the indicated GI durations, the first and second TRPs may transmit signaling to the UE that includes or implements the corresponding GI duration for each TRP. For example, the signaling may include a GI appended at the end of each symbol period that has a GI duration corresponding to the respective TRP.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may receive control signaling indicating multiple sidelink channels of a sidelink resource pool, a mapping between each sidelink channel of the multiple sidelink channels to a corresponding feedback channel of multiple feedback channels, and a time gap between sidelink channel transmission and feedback transmission with respect to a feedback channel sub-slot of multiple feedback channel sub-slots within a slot. Accordingly, the first wireless device may receive a sidelink data message on a first sidelink channel of the multiple sidelink channels and may transmit sidelink feedback information for the sidelink data message in the feedback channel sub-slot of the slot on a first feedback channel of the multiple feedback channels corresponding to the first sidelink channel. The described techniques may enable the first wireless device to transmit the sidelink feedback information with reduced latency and improved reliability.