A method and a communication device are described for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation. At least one of a plurality of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) indicating downlink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) release or physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) is received in a plurality of downlink subframes according to an uplink (UL)- downlink (DL) configuration for time division duplex (TDD);. A PDCCH with a downlink control information (DCI) format for UL scheduling including a 2-bit field is received. Acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) information corresponding to the at least one PDCCH indicating downlink SPS release or the PDSCHs is transmitted through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on the received PDCCH with the DCI format for UL scheduling.

A transmission apparatus that transmits a block signal that includes a plurality of data symbols, includes: a symbol generation unit that generates data symbols; a fixed-symbol arrangement unit that generates a block symbol by arranging data symbols and fixed symbols such that the fixed symbols are inserted at predetermined positions in a block signal; a time-frequency conversion unit that converts the block symbol to a frequency domain signal that includes N samples; an interpolation processing unit that performs interpolation processing on the frequency domain signal; and a CP insertion unit that generates the block signal by inserting a Cyclic Prefix into a signal that has undergone the interpolation processing.

Method and device for configuring a waveform at a transmitter are provided. The method includes: receiving at least one input signal, each input signal corresponding to a subcarrier spacing setting; performing IDFT pre-processing to each input signal, the IDFT pre-processing including DFT pre-coding or offset modulation; performing IDFT to each input signal which is subjected to the IDFT pre-processing, the IDFT including an IDFT with parameters including resource mapping and a corresponding IDFT size; performing IDFT post-processing to each input signal which is subjected to the IDFT to obtain at least one output signal, the IDFT post-processing including cyclic extension and time-domain windowing; adding the at least one output signal in time domain; and transmitting the added signal through a corresponding antenna port. Waveforms are configured flexibly according to practical scenarios at the transmitter to determine a most suitable waveform for current scenario, which meets practical requirements of 5G technology.

A transmitter in a wireless communication network comprises a Carrier Interferometry (CI) coder and a multicarrier modulator communicatively coupled to the CI coder. The CI coder encodes a plurality of data symbols with a plurality of CI codes to produce a plurality of CI symbol values, wherein each of the plurality of CI symbol values equals a sum of information-modulated CI code chips. Each information-modulated CI code chip equals a CI code chip multiplied by one of the plurality of data symbols. The modulator modulates each CI symbol value onto a different subcarrier frequency to produce a multicarrier signal.

A method for transmitting a reference signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The UE generates an uplink reference signal in a subframe comprising first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in time domain and a plurality of subcarriers in frequency domain. The UE transmits the uplink reference signal to a base station in the third, fourth and fifth OFDM symbols. The transmitted uplink reference signal is hopped in the frequency domain, based on a cell specific hopping parameter.

Methods, apparatus, systems, architectures and interfaces for reference signal (RS) configuration, generation, and/or transmission in a transmitter/receiver. The method includes receiving information indicating any of at least first and second modes of operation for transmitting a discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-spread-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) symbol including a reference signal (RS), and transmitting the DFT-s-OFDM symbol including: (1) the RS and data tones, on condition that the information indicates the first mode; or (2) the RS and null tones, on condition that the information indicates the second mode, wherein the DFT-s-OFDM symbol is divided into a number of segments, each including a chunk of RS tones, and wherein any of a size or a location of the chunk is determined according to any of the first or second modes.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may multiplex reference signal (RS) transmissions for different antenna ports over a set of resource elements using a code division multiplexing (CDM) group spreading in a time dimension and a frequency dimension. The base station may transmit the RS transmissions over the set of resource elements based at least in part on the multiplexing to a user equipment (UE). The UE may demultiplex the RS transmissions based at least in part on a CDM group and may select at least one of the time dimension or the frequency dimension over which to demultiplex the RS transmissions based on a determination or other information.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may modulate a first binary sequence using binary phase shift keying on a first axis of a complex plane. The device may modulate a second binary sequence using binary phase shift keying on a second plane of a complex axis. The first axis and the second axis may be orthogonal. The device may transmit the first binary sequence and the second binary sequence according to the modulation of the first binary sequence and the second binary sequence.

Provided is a recursive method and apparatus for processing a signal for determining a plurality of frequency components of the signal, the signal being a chirp-like polyphase sequence. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) determining a first frequency component of the plurality of frequency components, (2) determining a component factor by accessing a factor table, (3) determining the second frequency component using the determined first frequency component and the determined component factor. If there is at least one further frequency component of the signal, the method further comprising for each of the further frequency components: (4) determining a respective further component factor by accessing the factor table, and (5) determining the further frequency component using a previously determined frequency component and the determined further component factor, wherein the previously determined frequency component is the frequency component determined most recently prior to determining each respective further frequency component.

A discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal time frequency space modulation method comprises the steps of performing DFT preceding processing and delay-Doppler domain mapping processing on the transmit data symbols, OTFS modulator, and performing delay-Doppler domain demapping processing and IDFT decoding processing on a received signal to realize demodulation; compared with the existing waveforms, including OFDM and DFT-s-OFDM, the proposed DFT-s-OTFS can reduce the bit error rate under high Doppler spread and the peak-to-average power ratio of the transmitted signal at the same time.