Disclosed herein are apparatuses, systems, and methods for reference signal design for initial acquisition, by receiving a first primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a first secondary synchronization signal (SSS) from a first transmit (Tx) beam, in first contiguous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a downlink subframe. A UE can receive at least a second PSS and a second SSS from a second Tx beam in contiguous OFDM symbols of the downlink subframe. A UE can then detect beamforming reference signals (BRSs) corresponding to the first Tx beam and the second Tx beam, based on identification of physical cell ID information and timing information processed from the first PSS, the second PSS, the first SSS, and the second SSS. The UE can select the first Tx beam or the second Tx beam that was received with the highest power, based on the BRSs. Other embodiments are described.

A wireless communication terminal for wireless communication is disclosed. The wireless communication terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit a non-legacy physical layer frame including a legacy signaling field including information decodable by a legacy wireless communication terminal by using the transceiver.

This application provides a method including: receiving first configuration information of an SRS resource from a network device, where the first configuration information includes a repetition factor of the SRS resource, and the repetition factor of the SRS resource is a quantity N of positions at which the SRS resource is mapped to a same subcarrier and mapped to at least one continuous symbol in one time unit, where N≥1 and is an integer; determining at least one first frequency domain resource to which the SRS resource is mapped in a first time unit.

An apparatus and method for broadcast signal frame using layered division multiplexing are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a bootstrap and a preamble using the time-interleaved signal.

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for indicating a data rate of a packet. The transmitting device may select the data rate of a data field of the packet to be transmitted to the receiving device, and may select a pattern to embed within a preamble of the packet based on the selected data rate. In some implementations, the transmitting device may select a first structure including a first number of instances of a sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a low data rate, and may select a second structure including a second number of instances of the sequence or its logical complement if the selected data rate is a high data rate.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may determine a relationship between preamble sequences of a preamble portion of a random access message and resources for demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequences and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) occasions of a payload portion of a random access message. The base station may map some preamble sequences to some of the DMRS sequences and PUSCH payloads within a mapping period. The base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), an indication of the mapping rule between the preamble sequences and the DMRS sequences and payloads. The UE may transmit, based on determining the relationship, at least one preamble sequence in a preamble occasion and at least one DMRS sequence and one payload of the random access message in a PUSCH occasion based on the configured mapping rule.

This application provides a method for sending and receiving control information, an apparatus, and a system. A transmit end sends control information on a data channel, so that a receive end does not need to monitor a control channel through blind detection within a period of time that is after the receive end receives the control information. This can reduce power consumption of the receive end, and also reduce detection complexity caused by blind detection. In addition, attribute information of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), a start position of a time domain resource and/or a frequency domain resource occupied by the data channel, or a parameter in semi-persistent transmission (SPS) information is used to indicate whether the control information is carried on the data channel. In this way, the receive end can correctly receive the control information, and signaling overheads can be effectively reduced.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A communication device, such as, a base station and a UE may support transmitting and receiving information bits according to one or more index modulation schemes. For example, the communication device may support conveying information bits using a reference signal index modulation scheme, which uses reference signals transmissions using particular resources or reference signal sequences, or both, to convey the information bits. The communication device may improve reference signal resource usage by supporting a multi-mode reference signal index modulation scheme, which utilizes all reference signal resources to convey the information bits. By using the multi-mode reference signal index modulation scheme, the communication device may, as a result, include features for improvements to conveying information bits, among other benefits.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that support communication of information buts based on reference signal index modulation (RS-IM). A base station and a UE may transmit a number of downlink and uplink information bits (e.g., downlink control bits, uplink control bits) using index modulation schemes applied on references signals. A base station and a UE may transmit reference signal transmissions using reference signal index modulation, in which a set of information bits may be encoded using one or more coding techniques, in conjunction with RS-IM techniques, to enhance reliability of some or all of the information bits. Error detection bits may be added to the information bits, and included when coding is performed. Coding may include channel coding, repetition of reference signals for combining at a receiving device, or any combinations thereof.

An example wireless communication method for a reference signal includes determining first type signaling, where the first type signaling carries a first type set and the first type set includes a plurality of index elements; and sending the first type signaling to a second communication node. The first-type set may include a set of M candidate transmission configuration indication (TCI) states.