Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may transmit an indication of a type of a beam failure recovery request. A wireless device may detect a beam failure and transmit a beam failure recovery requested based on the type.

New sequences have been proposed and/or adopted for short Physical Uplink Control Channel communications between base stations and UEs. In an exemplary embodiment, a UE communicates with a base station based on sequence groups that include the new sequences, where the new sequences are allocated to different sequence groups based, at least in part, on correlations with other existing sequences included in individual sequence groups.

Provided is a synchronization method and apparatus in a wireless communication system. A synchronization method according to an aspect of the present disclosure may include: receiving a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal; determining a priority order of the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal; and performing synchronization based on a synchronization signal having a higher priority between the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal.

Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for transmitting a synchronization signal for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication in a wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving, at a first UE, a D2D synchronization signal transmitted from a second UE, the D2D synchronization signal comprising a primary D2D synchronization signal (PD2DSS) and a secondary D2D synchronization signal (SD2DSS); determining a root index based on the received PD2DSS; and determining a type of a synchronization source based on the root index. The root index corresponds to an integer value X when the type of synchronization source is associated with D2DSSue_net. The root index corresponds to an integer value Y when the type of synchronization source is associated with D2DSSue_oon. Each of the integer value X and integer value Y is not an element of a set {25, 29, 34}.

A wireless user device comprises an antenna; a transceiver; a processor; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the wireless user device to: select, among a plurality of synchronization signal (SS) blocks, a first SS block comprising a first synchronization signal and comprising a first physical broadcast channel (PBCH); determine, from the first PBCH of the selected first SS block, a value of a first subcarrier offset between the first SS block and an RB grid; determine, based on the value of the first subcarrier offset and a frequency location of the first SS block, a frequency location of the RB grid; and decode, based on the determined frequency location of the RB grid, one or more of: a reference signal, a control channel, or a data channel.

A method, performed by a user equipment (UE), of transmitting an uplink (UL) reference signal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving first information indicating whether to apply transform precoding and pi/2 binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation to a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), receiving second information indicating whether to apply the pi/2 BPSK modulation to an UL demodulation reference signal (DMRS), and identifying a sequence having characteristics of a first peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) based on the first information and the second information.

The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE first receives a first radio signal and a second radio signal, and then transmits a third radio signal. The first radio signal is used for determining a first signature sequence, and a receiving timing of the second radio signal is used for determining a transmitting timing of the third radio signal. The first signature sequence is used for generating the third radio signal. The first radio signal and the second radio signal are associated with a first synchronization sequence and a second synchronization sequence respectively, and the first synchronization sequence is different from the second synchronization sequence. According to the disclosure, through the designs of the first radio signal and the second radio signal, thereby improving system performances and transmission efficiency.

Embodiments of the present application provide a random access sequence generation method, and an apparatus. The method includes: generating, by a base station, notification signaling, where the notification signaling includes indication information, the indication information is used to instruct user equipment UE to select a shift sequence number from a range of 0 to (n.sub.shift.sup.RAn.sub.group.sup.RA+n.sub.shift.sup.RA+n.sub.shift.sup.RA+.sub.shift.sup.RA−1), the shift sequence number is an integer, n.sub.shift.sup.RA is a quantity of UE candidate sequence shifts in a group, n.sub.group.sup.RA is a quantity of groups, n.sub.shift.sup.RA is a quantity of UE candidate sequence shifts in the last length that is insufficient for a group, n.sub.shift.sup.RA is a quantity of UE candidate sequence shifts in first remaining sequence shifts, and .sub.shift.sup.RA is a quantity of UE candidate sequence shifts in second remaining sequence shifts; and sending, by the base station, the notification signaling to the UE, so that the UE generates a random access sequence according to the indication information.

New sequences have been proposed and/or adopted for short Physical Uplink Control Channel communications between base stations and UEs. In an exemplary embodiment, a UE communicates with a base station based on sequence groups that include the new sequences, where the new sequences are allocated to different sequence groups based, at least in part, on correlations with other existing sequences included in individual sequence groups.

Various aspects provide for communicating a first set of broadcast reference signals (RSs) in a first subframe that includes a synchronization (SYNC) channel and communicating a second set of broadcast RSs in a second subframe that follows the first subframe. The second subframe may immediately follow the first subframe. A portion of the SYNC channel may include information indicating a configuration of broadcast RSs in one or more other subframes. The broadcast RSs may be configured for timing-error estimation, frequency-error estimation, and/or channel estimation. Additional and alternative aspects, embodiments, and features are also provided herein.