A transmitting method includes: configuring a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating time resources and frequency resources to a plurality of transmission data; and transmitting the frame, wherein the frame includes a first period in which a preamble which includes information on a frame configuration of the frame is transmitted, and a second period in which the plurality of transmission data are transmitted by at least one of time division and frequency division, and among the plurality of OFDM symbols, OFDM symbols included in the second period include pilot symbols arranged along a time axis with a predetermined spacing therebetween, and a predetermined number of data symbols.

Apparatuses and methods in a communication system are provided. The solution comprises utilizing a given number of parallel subbands in communication, where the transmission timing in each of the subbands is time-shifted by a predetermined time offset.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for multiple discrete Fourier transforms for transmission and reception. An apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a first configuration from a network to apply multiple discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-based waveforms at one or more of a transmitter and a receiver, receives a second configuration from the network for a physical channel, the second configuration comprising DFT configuration information, and receives a third configuration from the network for determining, based on the second configuration, an inverse-DFT (IDFT) configuration. An apparatus includes a processor that performs multiple DFT-based transmissions on a time-domain symbol transmitted to the network based on the first and second configurations and performs multiple IDFT-based receptions of a time-domain symbol received from the network, based on the IDFT configuration.

An embedded system is described. The embedded system includes a processing circuit comprising at least one processor configured to support an implementation of a non-power-of-2 fast Fourier transform of length N using a multiplication of at least two smaller FFTs of a respective first length N1 and second length N2, where N1 and N2 are whole numbers; and a memory, operably coupled to the processing circuit and comprising at least input data. The processing circuit is configured to: receive an input data complex number sequence; adapt the input data complex number sequence by inserting at least one zero into every X.sup.th data point that results in an excess number of data points above N, where X=N1, such that the inserted zeroes enables a use of a multiple-of-Q FFT; perform a first decomposed FFT of a respective first length N1 on the adapted input data complex number sequence and produce a first output complex number sequence; restore a number of data points of the first output complex number sequence to N after performing the first decomposed FFT; and perform a second decomposed FFT of a respective second length N2 on the first output complex number sequence that produces a second output complex number sequence.

Techniques and apparatus for transmission and reception with partial allocation in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)/single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) systems are provided. One technique includes determining first parameter(s) to apply to transmission/receive processing of a signal, based in part on a resource allocation for the signal. The resource allocation is partitioned out of a larger system bandwidth. Second parameter(s) to apply to the transmission/receive processing are determined based at least in part on the first parameter(s). Transmission/receive processing of the signal is performed in accordance with the first and second parameters.

A transmitting method includes: configuring a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating time resources and frequency resources to a plurality of transmission data; and transmitting the frame, wherein the frame includes a first period in which a preamble which includes information on a frame configuration of the frame is transmitted, and a second period in which the plurality of transmission data are transmitted by at least one of time division and frequency division, and among the plurality of OFDM symbols, OFDM symbols included in the second period include pilot symbols arranged along a time axis with a predetermined spacing therebetween, and a predetermined number of data symbols.

Provided are a frame configuring unit configured to configure a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating time resources and frequency resources to a plurality of transmission data, and a transmitter which transmits the frame. The frame includes a first period in which a preamble which includes information on a frame configuration of the frame is transmitted, a second period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by time division, a third period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by frequency division, and a fourth period in which a plurality of transmission data are transmitted by time division and frequency division.

In 60 GHz WiGig/IEEE 802.11ad, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is used to achieve higher throughput. However, OFDM has one problem of high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) caused by the summing up of the large number of subcarriers. A high PAPR signal degrades the efficiency of power amplifier (PA) and may cause spurious emissions because of the PA non linearity. In order to reduce PAPR, Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing (GFDM) which has the characteristics of both single carrier and multi carrier transmission has been studied. By introducing GFDM, the number of subcarriers can be decreased while still maintaining a high throughput.

Various embodiments of carrier aggregation are provided that increase communications capacity and throughput. According to some embodiments, a receiver may be configured with a plurality of receiver chains and, responsive to an aggregate bandwidth of an overall signal that is to be received by the receiver, a plurality of components of the overall signal, each comprising a bandwidth that is less than a frequency span of the overall signal, are received by a respective plurality of receiver chains. Accordingly, each component of the plurality of components of the overall signal may be received by a respective receiver chain of the plurality of receiver chains of the receiver thus avoiding bandwidth limitations associated with receiver elements.

Various embodiments of carrier aggregation are provided that increase communications capacity and throughput. According to some embodiments, a transmitter is configured with a plurality of transmitter chains and, responsive to an aggregate bandwidth and/or frequency content of an overall signal that is to be transmitted by the transmitter, the overall signal is segmented into a plurality of components, each one of which comprises a bandwidth that is smaller than the bandwidth of the overall signal, and is thus transmitted by the plurality of transmitter chains of the transmitter. Accordingly, each component of the plurality of components of the overall signal is processed by a respective transmitter chain of the plurality of transmitter chains. Systems/methods of spatial multiplexing are also provided further increasing network capacity and throughput.