Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter or a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter is for use with a base station and includes a primary module configured to provide a primary synchronization signal. The transmitter also includes a secondary mapping module configured to provide a secondary synchronization signal derived from two sequences taken from a same set of N sequences and indexed by an index pair (S.sub.1, S.sub.2) with S.sub.1 and S.sub.2 ranging from zero to N−1, wherein the index pair (S.sub.1, S.sub.2) is contained in a mapped set of index pairs corresponding to the same set of N sequences that defines a cell identity group. Additionally, the transmitter further includes a transmit module configured to transmit the primary and secondary synchronization signals.

The present application is at least directed to an apparatus on a 5G network. The apparatus includes a non-transitory memory including instructions stored thereon for performing configuration of an initial access signal in the 5G network. The apparatus also includes a processor, operably coupled to the non-transitory memory, capable of executing an instruction of monitoring transmission of a downlink sweeping subframe including a beam sweeping block carrying a downlink initial access signal. The processor is capable of also executing the instruction of detecting the downlink initial access signal carrying a synchronization channel. The processor is capable of also executing the instruction of determining, based on the synchronization channel, an identity of the beam sweeping block associated with the downlink initial access signal. The present application is also directed to an apparatus configured to perform downlink synchronization of a cell in the 5G network.

The present specification provides a method for obtaining downlink synchronization in a machine type communication (MTC) apparatus. The MTC apparatus may comprise the steps of: receiving an MTC-dedicated synchronization signal from a base station on the subframe before a subframe which attempts to receive a paging message; obtaining a downlink synchronization of the base station through the synchronization signal; and after obtaining the downlink synchronization, attempting to receive the paging message. Here, the MTC-dedicated synchronization signal may be received on the same sub-band as a sub-band on which the paging message is received, from among the entire system band of the base station.

A multi-carrier cellular wireless network (400) employs base stations (404) that transmit two different groups of pilot subcarriers: (1) cell-specific pilot subcarriers, which are used by a receiver to extract information unique to each individual cell (402), and (2) common pilots subcarriers, which are designed to possess a set of characteristics common to all the base stations (404) of the system. The design criteria and transmission formats of the cell-specific and common pilot subcarriers are specified to enable a receiver to perform different system functions. The methods and processes can be extended to other systems, such as those with multiple antennas in an individual sector and those where some subcarriers bear common network/system information.

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for determining transport block size (TBS) for joint transmissions involving multiple transmission reception points (TRPs).

A transmitter transmits payload data using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols. The transmitter comprises a frame builder configured to receive the payload data to be transmitted and to receive first signalling data for use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver, and to form the payload data and the first signalling data into frames for transmission, the first signalling data forming a part of the frames with the payload data. A modulator is configured to modulate a first OFDM symbol with the first signalling data and to modulate one or more second OFDM symbols with the payload data. A signature sequence processor provides a signature sequence, a combiner combines the signature sequence with the first OFDM symbol, and a transmission unit transmits the first and second OFDM symbols. The signature sequence provided by the signature sequence processor comprises at least one of a first synchronization sequence or a second message sequence, the first synchronization sequence and/or the second message sequence being combined by the combiner with the first OFMD symbol. The first synchronization sequence is provided for a receiver to detect and to recover the first signalling data from the first OFDM symbol and the second message sequence provides message information to the receiver. The message information may be used to convey a specific message to a user such as an emergency warning relating to a natural disaster such as an earthquake or a tsunami warning.

A mobile station communicates with a base station controlling over a cell containing a plurality of sectors. The mobile station also receives, from a base station, data of synchronization channels which includes sector specific codes respectively corresponding to sector identification numbers for identifying the sectors. In addition, the mobile station performs synchronization detection with reference to the data of synchronization channels, where the data of the synchronization channels mapped to a plurality of predetermined symbols at intervals of a half period of a frame and a plurality of predetermined subcarriers are specific to respective sectors in the same cell and common among adjacent cells.

Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting a message through a terminal in a wireless communication system. The terminal receives positioning reference signals (PRS) from a reference cell and at least one of the neighbor cells, receives an auxiliary data provision message including a reference cell PRS muting sequence for indicating a muting pattern of the PRS transmitted through the reference cell and a neighbor cell PRS muting sequence for indicating the muting pattern of the PRS transmitted through at least one of the neighbor cells from an enhanced serving mobile location center (E-SMLC), and transmits a reference signal time difference (RSTD) measured on the basis of the PRS received from the reference cell and the at least one of the neighbor cells to the E-SMLC.

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of a base station in a wireless communication system, including: determining a signal transmission mode to be used by each of antennas based on a channel condition between each of the antennas and a terminal; and transmitting signals to one or more terminals from each of the antennas based on the signal transmission mode.

Disclosed is a data transmission method in a mobile communication system. The data transmission method through a code sequence in a mobile communication system includes grouping input data streams into a plurality of blocks consisting of at least one bit so as to map each block to a corresponding signature sequence, multiplying a signature sequence stream, to which the plurality of blocks are mapped, by a specific code sequence, and transmitting the signature sequence stream multiplied by the specific code sequence to a receiver.