A method for receiving downlink signal and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. A method for enabling a user equipment (UE) to receive a downlink signal from an eNB including a plurality of antenna ports in a wireless communication system includes: receiving a precoded reference signal according to a precoded reference signal configuration for the plurality of antenna ports; measuring receive (Rx) power of the reference signal for each of the plurality of antenna ports; and reporting, to the eNB, at least one of Rx power values of the reference signal, measured for the plurality of antenna ports. The reference signal is for serving cell search of the UE and precoding is applied to the plurality of antenna ports through which the reference signal is transmitted.

A method for transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) in a specific downlink subframe having an extended cyclic prefix (CP) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: generating a CSI-RS sequence and mapping the CSI-RS sequence to CSI-RS complex-valued modulation symbols; and mapping the CSI-RS complex-valued modulation symbols to at least one pattern of a first CSI-RS pattern set composed of a plurality of CSI-RS patterns and a second CSI-RS pattern set composed of a plurality of CSI-RS patterns, the CSI-RS patterns being composed of REs to which CSI-RS complex-valued modulation symbols are mapped, wherein the second CSI-RS pattern set is available when 2 OFDM symbols are used for a physical downlink control channel in the downlink subframe or a specific downlink control information format is configured.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for implementing a data transmission scheme for Narrow-Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT). A User Equipment (UE) combines pairs of antenna ports to generate at least first and second combined antennas ports. The UE receives reference signals transmitted in a narrow band region of a larger system bandwidth, and for each combined port, adds the references signals received on resource elements (REs) of each of the combined pair of antenna ports. The UE determines channel estimates for each combined antenna port based on the added reference signals for the combined port.

In one example aspect, a method of transmitting signals is provided, the method comprising transmitting signals using one or more first subcarriers only from a first antenna, wherein the signals transmitted from the first antenna comprise first signals based on data, and transmitting signals using one or more second subcarriers different from the one or more first subcarriers only from a second antenna, wherein the signals transmitted from the second antenna comprise second signals based on the data.

Facilitating frequency selective scheduling in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) with multiple transmission points is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise facilitating an activation of a frequency selective scheduling based on identification of control channel elements used for a downlink control channel. The operations also can comprise instructing a user equipment device to report a subband channel quality indicator and a subband precoding matrix index based on a result of an evaluation of a metric determined based on channel conditions. Further, the operations can comprise scheduling the user equipment device with a subband based on the subband channel quality indicator and the subband precoding matrix index reported by the user equipment device.

A wireless communication device includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter transmits a first frame containing notification information to specify first and second wireless terminals and a second frame for channel estimation. The receiver receives a third frame transmitter from the first wireless terminal and a fourth frame transmitted from the second wireless terminal. The third frame and the fourth frame are transmitted in a multiplexing scheme by the first and the second wireless terminals. The third frame contains first channel information estimated based on the second frame. The fourth frame contains second channel information estimated based on the second frame. The first frame contains at least either information to specify a preamble of the third frame and a preamble of the fourth frame or information to specify a subcarrier used for transmission of the third frame and a subcarrier used for transmission of the fourth frame.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to transmit sounding reference signals (SRSs) on a first carrier over multiple symbols within a slot, the first carrier being different from a second carrier on which the UE communicates with a base station during the slot. For example, the base station may transmit, to the UE, an SRS configuration for the UE to transmit the SRSs. In accordance with the control message, the UE may tune to the first carrier and may transmit the SRSs over the multiple symbols within the slot on the first carrier before tuning back to the second carrier. In some examples, the UE may transmit a capability message to the base station indicating that the UE supports transmitting SRSs over multiple symbols within a slot before tuning back to a different carrier.

A wireless audio system including a transmitter using multiple antenna diversity techniques for different signal types is provided. Multipath performance may be optimized, along with improved spectral efficiency of the system.

A communication apparatus includes a circuitry and a transmitter. In operation, the circuitry generates a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) and generates downlink control information indicating a mapping pattern of the DMRS from a plurality of mapping patterns, and the transmitter transmits the DMRS and the downlink control information. The plurality of mapping patterns include a first mapping pattern and a second mapping pattern. Resource elements used for the DMRS of the second mapping pattern are same as a part of resource elements used for the DMRS of the first mapping pattern. A number of the resource elements used for the DMRS of the first mapping pattern is larger than a number of the resource elements used for the DMRS of the second mapping pattern.

Disclosed herein is a method for signal configuration. The method may include evenly dividing, by a signal-bit configuration block, data or information forming signal bits or a signal bitstring and transferring the same to N multiple channels; mapping, by a first spatial path configuration block, a coded bitstring, which is generated through coding and signal processing of the data or information forming the signal bits or the signal bitstring, to cells corresponding to M antennas; and configuring, by a frequency path configuration block, the transmission paths of the cells.