The present disclosure provides communication apparatus and communication method for control signaling. The communication apparatus comprises: circuitry, which, in operation, generates a transmission signal comprising a first signal field and a second signal field, wherein the first signal field comprises punctured channel information and the second signal field comprises supplemental punctured channel information, wherein when the transmission signal is used for punctured single-user (SU) or multi-user (MU) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission and the punctured channel information is able to indicate a channel puncturing pattern that is applied to the transmission signal, the second signal field does not comprise the supplemental punctured channel information; and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the transmission signal.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for decoding low-density parity check (LDPC) codes, for example, using a parity check matrix having full row-orthogonality. An exemplary method for performing low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding includes receiving soft bits associated to an LDPC codeword and performing LDPC decoding of the soft bits using a parity check matrix, wherein each row of the parity check matrix corresponds to a lifted parity check of a lifted LDPC code, at least two columns of the parity check matrix correspond to punctured variable nodes of the lifted LDPC code, and the parity check matrix has row orthogonality between each pair of consecutive rows that are below a row to which the at least two punctured variable nodes are both connected.

Various aspects of the disclosure relate to retransmission techniques for communication of information (e.g., for wireless communication). In some aspects, if a device's first transmission including punctured encoded data fails, the device's second transmission (e.g., in response to a NAK) may involve transmitting the punctured bits. In some aspects, the coding rate used for encoding the data for the first transmission is selected to meet an error rate (e.g., a block error rate) for the second transmission. The second transmission may also include at least some of the encoded data. In some aspects, the puncturing may be performed according to a puncture pattern that is generated based on bit error probabilities of bit positions for encoded data.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to rate-matching a stream of bits encoded using polar codes. An exemplary method generally includes determining a mother code size (N) for transmitting an encoded stream of bits based, at least in part, on a minimum supported code rate for transmitting the encoded stream of bits (Rmin), a control information size of the encoded stream of bits (K), a number of coded bits for transmission (E), and a maximum mother code size (Nmax), encoding a stream of bits using a polar code of size (N, K) and storing the encoded stream of bits in a circular buffer, and performing rate-matching on the stored encoded stream of bits based, at least in part, on a comparison among the mother code size (N), the control information size of the encoded stream of bits (K), and the number of coded bits for transmission (E).

A cellular modem processor can include dedicated processing engines that implement specific, complex data processing operations. To implement physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) decoding, a cellular modem can include a pipeline having multiple processing engines, with the processing engine including functional units that execute instructions corresponding to different stages in the PDSCH decoding process. Flow control and data synchronization between instructions can be provided using a hybrid of firmware-based flow control and hardware-based data dependency management.

Proposed are a method and a device for receiving a PPDU in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a reception STA receives a PPDU from a transmission STA through a broadband and decodes the PPDU. The broadband is a 320 MHz band or a 160+160 MHz band. The PPDU includes a first field and a second field. The first field includes an L-LTF. The first field is generated on the basis of a first phase rotation value. The first phase rotation value is [1 −1 −1 −1 −j j j j 1 −1 −1 −1 −j j j j]. One element of the first phase rotation value is a phase rotation value applied to each 20 MHz band of the 320 MHz band or the 160+160 MHz band.

Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling wireless signal transmissions, wherein problematic symbol patterns are relocated to an erasure region of a data packet prior to erasure encoding and transmission. Relocating the problematic symbol patterns is done so that, when the resulting erasure codeword is punctured and transmitted, the problematic patterns are not transmitted. Yet, those patterns can be restored by the decoder at the receiving device using an erasure decoder in accordance with erasure decoding techniques, e.g., punctured low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoding techniques. In this manner, problematic symbol patterns that may be corrupting during transmission due to noise are removed (punctured) prior to transmission, then restored by the decoder during decoding.

Proposed are a method and device for receiving a PPDU in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a reception STA receives the PPDU from a transmission STA through a wide band, and decodes the PPDU. The PPDU includes a legacy preamble, and first and second signal fields. The legacy preamble and the first and second signal fields are generated on the basis of a first phase rotation value. The first phase rotation value is acquired on the basis of a first preamble puncturing pattern in a wide band. When the wide band is a 240 MHz band, the first preamble puncturing pattern includes a pattern in which a 40 MHz or 80 MHz band in the wide band is punctured. The first phase rotation value is [1 1−1 1 −1 1 −1 −1 −1 −1 1 1].

Proposed are a method and device for receiving a PPDU in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a reception STA receives the PPDU from a transmission STA through a wide band, and decodes the PPDU. The PPDU includes a legacy preamble, and first and second signal fields. The legacy preamble and the first and second signal fields are generated on the basis of a first phase rotation value. When the wide band is the 320 MHz band, the first phase rotation value is [1 −1−1 −1 1 −1−1 −1 1 −1−1 −1 −1 1 1 1].

Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration, the SRS resource configuration indicating at least a comb pattern for at least one SRS resource allocated to the UE and a puncturing unit for the comb pattern, wherein the comb pattern is divided into one or more puncturing units, wherein each puncturing unit comprises one or more time units of the comb pattern, and wherein each of the one or more time units comprises two or more symbols, and refrains from transmitting all SRS transmissions of the at least one SRS resource within a first puncturing unit of the one or more puncturing units based on a determination that one or more SRS transmissions of the at least one SRS resource within the first puncturing unit are to be dropped.