A repeater generates repetition signals by repeating an uplink signal over a plurality of subframes. If the plurality of subframes do not include a transmission candidate subframe of a sounding reference signal used to measure uplink reception quality, a controller sets a first transmission format to all the plurality of subframes, and if the plurality of subframes include the transmission candidate subframe, the controller sets a second transmission format to all the plurality of subframes. A transmitter transmits the repetition signals using the set transmission format.

A wireless transmission device includes a repetition coding unit that prepares a basic waveform having a length less than a frequency conversion length that is used in a wireless reception device, generates a repetition waveform having a length greater than or equal to the frequency conversion length by repeating the basic waveform a plurality of times, and generates a data frame including the repetition waveform and a known signal.

A bit-level operation may be implemented prior to modulation and resource element (RE) mapping in order to generate a NoMA transmission using standard (QAM, QPSK, BPSK, etc.) modulators. In this way, the bit-level operation is exploited to achieve the benefits of NoMA (e.g., improved spectral efficiency, reduced overhead, etc.) at significantly less signal processing and hardware implementation complexity. The bit-level operation is specifically designed to produce an output bit-stream that is longer than the input bit-stream, and that includes output bit-values that are computed as a function of the input bit-values such that when the output bit-stream is subjected to modulation (e.g., m-ary QAM, QPSK, BPSK), the resulting symbols emulate a spreading operation that would otherwise have been generated from the input bit-stream, either by a NoMA-specific modulator or by a symbol-domain spreading operation.

A telecommunication method which includes: mapping, with a mapper, input data to points of a constellation in order to generate symbols, repeating symbols according to a pattern, modulating the symbols, with a modulator, in order to generate multi-carrier symbols, and transmitting a radio signal representative of the multi-carrier symbols.

Methods and devices are provided to enable a cluster of user equipments (UEs) to receive a multicast signal over a first spectrum band and access a second spectrum band as a single virtual entity for device-to-device (D2D) mutual broadcast within the cluster. In an embodiment, a first UE in a cluster receives a multicast signal from a wireless network over the first spectrum band, the multicast signal including downlink information targeted to a second UE in the cluster. The first UE performs in a contention procedure for a transmission opportunity (TXOP) in the second spectrum band in accordance with group listen-before-talk (LBT) parameters configured for the cluster. If the contention procedure has acquired a TXOP in the second spectrum band for the cluster, the first UE sends at least a portion of the downlink information to the second UE over the second spectrum band during the TXOP.

Various communication systems may benefit from improved uplink data transmission. A method may include determining an assignment, at a user equipment, of a first set of physical resource blocks in an unlicensed spectrum to a physical random access channel. The physical random access channel occupies at least one of the physical resource blocks, and wherein the at least one of the physical resource blocks occupied by the physical random channel are distributed into clusters in a frequency domain. The method may also include determining an assignment, when the user equipment transmits data, of a second set of at least one remaining physical resource block of the physical resource blocks to at least one uplink channel. In addition, the method can include transmitting random access preambles through the physical radio access channel or data through of the at least one the uplink channel from the user equipment to a network entity.

An apparatus for use in an eNB, the apparatus includes circuitry to generate an assignment of one or more interlaces to a UE within a cell managed by the eNB, where the one or more interlaces are selected from a total number of interlaces, and an interlace of the total number of interlaces may include multiple resource blocks spanning within a system bandwidth. The circuitry included in the apparatus is further to encode the assignment by a bit string including one or more bits, which may be a bitmap or an encoding bit string. The circuitry included in the apparatus is further to transmit the bit string to the UE. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.

An encoder architecture for UF-OFDM is provided, in which samples are first processed sub-band wise, and then resorted for sub-carrier-wise processing. The sub-carrier processing may comprise separate processing for the two extremity parts of the base band signal corresponding to the transient state of the UF-OFDM data stream and for a core part of the base band signal corresponding to the non-transient state of the UF-OFDM data stream, and then concatenated to obtain a UF-OFDM data stream. In certain embodiments a first extremity part of the base band signal corresponding to the transient state of the UF-OFDM data stream is calculated directly, and the other extremity part inferred from the core part and the first extremity part. The core and extremity part processors may be implemented with filters adapted to multiply each sample by a respective filter coefficient. Modifying these coefficients can introduce a frequency shift or convert the encoder for OFDM encoding.

A base station transmits, during a first period, a first plurality of voice packets of a first talking period on a first plurality of subcarriers of a first carrier. The base station transmits, during a second period, a second plurality of voice packets of a second talking period on a second plurality of subcarriers of a second carrier. The base station transmits, in the first period and the second period, data traffic packets on a third plurality of subcarriers. There is at least one guard band between at least two subcarriers in the third plurality of subcarriers.

A method for a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, includes receiving channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for at one antenna port from a network in a subframe, wherein the CSI-RS is mapped to at least one pair of resource elements (REs) per physical resource block (PRB) pair in consecutive orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the subframe, and wherein the subframe includes two slots, and each slot includes six OFDM symbols based on an extended cyclic prefix (CP).