A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented, particularly for use in a system according to IEEE 802.11. The apparatus comprises an encoder configured to encode input data into cell words according to a low density parity check code, LDPC, and a modulator configured to modulate said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation and to assign bit combinations to constellation values of the used non-uniform constellation, wherein said modulator is configured to use, based on the total number N of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate R, a particular non-uniform constellation, which has been optimized using the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR).

The disclosure relates to a pre-5.sup.th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4.sup.th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments, a transmission device in a wireless environment may include a transceiver, and a processor operatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor may be configured to generate a codeword related to transmission data, generate symbols from the codeword by using a plurality of transmission symbol vectors determined using a linear combination of vectors corresponding to respective rows of a lattice generation matrix, and transmit a signal generated based on the symbols via the transceiver.

Multi-user superposition transmissions (MUSTs) on non-aligned resources are described. A base station may schedule a transmission to an enhancement layer user equipment (UE) and a base layer UE. The transmission may include a base layer that spans a base layer resource set and an enhancement layer that spans an enhancement layer resource set, where the resource sets may be aligned or un-aligned. The base station may use a combined constellation to map symbols to the base layer resource set for communication with the enhancement layer and base layer UEs over overlapping portions of the resource sets, and an extended constellation to map symbols to an extended set of resources for which the enhancement layer resource set is exclusive of the base layer resource set. The extended constellation may be based on an extended modulation order determined based on a base modulation order and an enhancement modulation order.

A method for data transmission by a device in a communication system includes modulating a first data stream using a codebook to produce a second data stream, wherein the codebook is in correspondence with a multi-dimensional modulation map that includes a number of distinct projections per complex dimension that is smaller than a number of modulation points of the multi-dimensional modulation map, and transmitting the second data stream over allocated resources in the communication system.

A transmission method includes mapping processing, phase change processing, and transmission processing. In the mapping processing, a plurality of first modulation signals and a plurality of second modulation signals are generated using a first mapping scheme, and a plurality of third modulation signals and a plurality of fourth modulation signals are generated using a second mapping scheme. In the phase change processing, a phase change is performed on the plurality of second modulation signals and the plurality of fourth modulation signals using all N kinds of phases. In the transmission processing, the first modulation signals and the second modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from different antennas, and the third modulation signals and the fourth modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from the different antennas.

In some aspects, methods and apparatus for wireless communications are configured to generate a packet for wireless communication where the packet includes a mark symbol in a preamble of the packet where the mark symbol includes a signature or stamp field in the mark to provide protocol information that indicates the protocol of the packet, such as an 802.11 EHT packet. In some other aspects, a cyclic redundancy check field in the mark symbol may be manipulated in various ways to indicate the protocol of the packet in lieu of providing the signature or stamp field.

A system and method for receiving a quadrature amplitude modulation symbol. In some embodiments, the symbol has a plurality of bits and is associated with a point in a constellation of quadrature amplitude modulation points, each point of the constellation having associated with it a binary word. The method includes receiving a first analog signal carrying a modulation; performing initial estimation, to generate a first initial modulation estimate, for a portion of the first analog signal carrying a modulation; identifying, based on the first initial modulation estimate, a row of an initial candidate lookup table, the row corresponding to a region of the constellation; and reading from the row of the initial candidate lookup table a first plurality of initial candidate points of the constellation.

Systems for utilizing bandwidth of a wireless network in an efficient manner are disclosed. Bandwidth may be allocated between different types of devices by dividing a symbol constellation into subsets of points, where each of the subsets may be used for transmitting data from a different device to a base station on single frequency channel. The symbol constellation may be shared on the frequency channel by dynamic or static allocation of the subsets of points to different devices. A first device with high data speed requirements may be allocated a first subset of points of the symbol constellation fix transmitting data to the receiver, while a second device with lower data speed requirements may be allocated a second smaller subset of the symbol constellation for transmitting data to a receiver. The first and second devices may then transmit data to the receiver on the frequency channel.

A transmission method includes mapping processing, phase change processing, and transmission processing. In the mapping processing, a plurality of first modulation signals and a plurality of second modulation signals are generated using a first mapping scheme, and a plurality of third modulation signals and a plurality of fourth modulation signals are generated using a second mapping scheme. In the phase change processing, a phase change is performed on the plurality of second modulation signals and the plurality of fourth modulation signals using all N kinds of phases. In the transmission processing, the first modulation signals and the second modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from different antennas, and the third modulation signals and the fourth modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from the different antennas.

A method (C) for converting a data signal (U). The method comprises processes of (i) providing an input bit stream (IB) of input bits (IBj), the input bit stream (IB) being representative for the underlying data signal (U) to be converted, and (ii) applying to consecutive disjunct partial input bit sequences (IB.sup.k) of a number of k consecutive input bits (IBj) covering said input bit stream (IB) a distribution matching process (DM) to generate and output a final output bit stream (OB) or a preform thereof. The distribution matching process (DM) is formed by a quadrant constellation shaping process (QS) and configured to map a respective partial input bit sequence (IB.sup.k) to a constellation point of a four-dimensional 2.sup.4.Math.m-QAM constellationin particular conveying two distinct polarizations for each of an in-phase and a quadrature componentwith I and m being fixed natural numbers and with k and m fulfilling the relation 4.Math.mk.