A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface, the processing circuitry to: encode for transmission, to a User Equipment (UE), a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) including a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) and a channel estimation signal that is time division multiplexed with the PBCH, the channel estimation signal to allow the UE to estimate a channel for the PBCH and including one of a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) or a Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PT-RS); and apply Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) to the PBCH prior to sending the SSB to the RF interface for transmission.

The present 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). A method for operating a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprises determining a time-frequency structure of a downlink reference signal, and receiving, from a base station, the downlink reference signal according to the time-frequency structure.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for managing sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions in shared radio frequency spectrum. Described techniques provide for increased occasions at which a SRS may be transmitted, enhance likelihood of a successful listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure, or any combinations thereof. Increased occasions for SRS may be provided through multiple transmission times that are available in the event of an earlier LBT failure. Enhanced likelihood of successful LBT may be provided through one or more timing offsets that may be randomly selected from a set of available timing offsets, selection of a cyclic prefix length for a SRS based on whether the SRS transmission is within or outside of a channel occupancy time of a base station, providing an initial SRS transmission time for an initial periodic time interval, triggering of an aperiodic SRS within the channel occupancy time, or any combinations thereof.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network entity, a configuration of a cyclic prefix (CP) frame structure associated with a CP-based waveform and a guard interval (GI) frame structure associated with a GI-based waveform, wherein the CP frame structure includes multiple CP slots arranged in a half subframe, wherein the GI frame structure includes multiple GI slots arranged in the half subframe, and wherein a first GI slot is associated with one of an extra portion, a truncated portion, or a removed portion such that a boundary of the first GI slot aligns with a boundary of a first CP slot. The UE may transmit or receive a first message in the half subframe via the GI-based waveform using the first GI slot. Numerous other aspects are described.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, terminal devices, network nodes and apparatus for random access process in a wireless network. The method at the terminal device may comprise: receiving additional information related to a terminal device together with a random access preamble. With embodiments of the present disclosure, the additional information related to a terminal device can be transmitted to the network node together with a random access preamble; in such a case, further useful information is available for the eNB, which might substantially facilitate the random access process for either initial access or non-initial access.

Provided is a transmission bandwidth configuration method. The method includes: configuring a first channel bandwidth (CB) of a carrier; and in response to determining that the first CB is greater than a first preset bandwidth, configuring subcarriers in a first TBC according to a preset percentage X of the first TBC in the first CB and the first CB, so as to complete a subcarrier configuration in a transmission bandwidth configuration. The preset percentage X is within a range of [a preset lower limit value, a preset upper limit value], the preset lower limit value is greater than 90% and the preset upper limit value is less than 100%. Also provided is a transmitting node.

This application provides a signal generation method and an apparatus. In the method, a first communication apparatus generates a first signal, and sends the first signal to a second communication apparatus, who receives the first signal, and then demodulates the first signal. A symbol included in the first signal is carried on K+2(M−1) subcarriers. Middle K subcarriers are valid subcarriers, start M−1 subcarriers and last M−1 subcarriers are redundant subcarriers, and a subcarrier spacing between adjacent subcarriers is related to a feature of a time domain pulse used to shape the subcarrier, wherein a width of each of some or all side lobes of a spectrum of the time domain pulse is equal to 1/M of a main lobe width of the time domain pulse, the subcarrier spacing is 1/M of the main lobe width. K is a positive integer, and M is a positive integer greater than 1.

A WLAN baseband chip and an FDMA PPDU generation method are disclosed. The WLAN baseband chip obtains a subcarrier coefficient corresponding to a subcarrier set, m LDR SYNC sequences, and n−m HDR SYNC sequences. The WLAN baseband chip performs duplicating processing on m data streams in n data streams, to obtain m data sequences on which the duplicating processing has been performed and n−m remaining data streams. The WLAN baseband chip obtains m pieces of to-be-modulated data based on the m LDR SYNC sequences and the m data sequences on which the duplicating processing has been performed, and obtains n−m pieces of to-be-modulated data based on the n−m HDR SYNC sequences and the n−m remaining data streams, to obtain n pieces of to-be-modulated data. The WLAN baseband chip performs postprocessing to obtain a frequency-domain symbol sequence, to obtain an FDMA PPDU.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring sidelink slots without symbols for automatic gain control. One aspect provides a method for wireless communication by a user equipment, including receiving a first cyclic prefix of a first symbol within a slot at the user equipment. The method further includes configuring a first automatic gain control setting based on a received power in the first cyclic prefix of the first symbol, and receiving a data portion of the first symbol using the first automatic gain control setting.

Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating symbol extension and windowing for beam switching are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at transmitter includes performing a beam change for communicating with a wireless communication device. The example method also includes extending a transmission for an extended period of time based on the beam change. Additionally, the method includes applying a windowing function to the transmission during the extended period of time.