The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A transmission method for multiple access is provided. The transmission method including performing, by a transmitter, channel coding on a bit sequence to determine a coded sequence, performing, by the transmitter, symbol modulation on the coded sequence, performing, by the transmitter, grid mapping on the modulated symbol sequence to determine a mapped sequence, and transmitting the mapped sequence.

An OFDM modulator including a predistortion module configured to receive the N consecutive data carriers and configured to compensate for distortion subsequently introduced by a polyphase filter bank connectable to the output of the OFDM modulator, a transformation module configured to apply a discrete inverse Fourier transform of constant size N.sub.IDFT independently of the numbering and transmission band used by the OFDM transmitter including the OFDM modulator, a filling module, the input of which is connected to the output of the predistortion module, and the output of which is connected to the input of the transformation module, and configured to insert (N.sub.IDFT−N.sub.c) null carriers in succession to the N.sub.c consecutive data carriers independently of the parity of the index i associated with the OFDM modulator.

A receiver has an antenna to receive a pulse shaped transmit signal transmitted by a transmitter of a multi carrier (MC) pulse shaped transmission system. The pulse shaped transmit signal includes a predefined signal pattern. The predefined signal pattern is not subjected to pulse shaping. The receiver includes a filter to pulse shape filter the pulse shaped transmit signal to obtain data for the receiver. The predefined signal pattern is retrieved from the pulse shaped transmit signal prior to filtering the pulse shaped transmit signal.

System and methods for shaped single carrier orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with low peak to average power ratio are provided. The system receives an input signal and modulates the input signal to form Dirichlet kernels in a time domain to generate an offset Dirichlet kernel output time array where each Dirichlet kernel has a main lobe and a plurality of side lobes. Modulating the input signal suppresses a peak to average power ratio of the offset Dirichlet kernel output time array by reducing the plurality of side lobes of each Dirichlet kernel and respective amplitudes of the side lobes.

The present disclosure provides techniques for bandwidth constrained communication systems with frequency domain information processing. A bandwidth constrained equalized transport (BCET) communication system can include a transmitter, a communication channel, and a receiver. The transmitter can include a pulse-shaping filter that intentionally introduces memory into a signal in the form of inter-symbol interference, an error control code (ECC) encoder, a multidimensional fast Fourier transform (FFT) processing block that processes the signal in the frequency domain, and a first interleaver. The receiver can include an information-retrieving equalizer, a deinterleaver with an ECC decoder, and a second interleaver joined in an iterative ECC decoding loop. The communication system can be bandwidth constrained, and the signal can comprise an information rate that is higher than that of a communication system without intentional introduction of the memory at the transmitter.

Circuit for wake-up receivers are provide. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers include self-mixers that receive a gate bias voltage. Some of the self-mixers are single ended and some are differential. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers include a matching network that is connected to the input of the self-mixer. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers include a low frequency path connected to the output of the self-mixer. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers include a high frequency path connected to the output of the self-mixer. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers are configured to receive an encoded bit stream. In some embodiments, the wake-up receivers are configured to wake-up another receiver.

Different filtered-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (f-OFDM) frame formats may be used to achieve the spectrum flexibility. F-OFDM waveforms are generated by applying a pulse shaping digital filter to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal. Different frame formats may be used to carry different traffic types as well as to adapt to characteristics of the channel, transmitter, receiver, or serving cell. The different frame formats may utilize different sub-carrier (SC) spacings and/or cyclic prefix (CP) lengths. In some embodiments, the different frame formats also utilize different symbol durations and/or transmission time interval (TTI) lengths.

A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided, the method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information including a number of total beam quantities (N) and a number of selected beam quantities (L), wherein L≤N; calculating an index indicating L selected beam quantities out of N total beam quantities based on the configuration information and a predefined mapping table including combinatorial binomial coefficient values, $C\left(x,y\right)=\left(\begin{array}{c}x\\ y\end{array}\right)$
(i.e., x choose y); and transmitting, to the BS, the index indicating the L selected beam quantities.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods to generate a signal in a communication network. The method comprises filtering a discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) data signal, and one of a DFT-S-OFDM and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) reference signal (RS) using a data filter and a RS filter respectively, to produce filtered data signal and filtered RS. The RS filter has one to one relationship with the data filter. Thereafter, port mapping the filtered RS to a corresponding port assigned to the transmitter to obtain port mapped filtered RS, wherein the port mapped filtered RS comprises a first subset of non-zero locations comprising of the filtered RS values and a second subset of zero locations comprising of zero values.

According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus comprising for performing the following. The apparatus receives a stream of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols and associated cyclic prefixes produced by at least one orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing modulator of a radio transmitter or transceiver. The apparatus divides said stream into a plurality of overlapping processing blocks of a first length. At least one of the plurality of overlapping processing blocks comprises a non-overlapping section having values corresponding to a segment of said stream. The dividing comprises adjusting a length of the non-overlapping section at least based on whether a cyclic prefix is comprised in said segment and, if this is true, on a length of said cyclic prefix. The apparatus filters the plurality of overlapping processing blocks using fast convolution processing and concatenates filtered processing blocks to form an output signal for transmission using the radio transmitter or transceiver.