A communication system includes an OFDMA transmitter (Tx) at an optical line terminal (OLT) generating an OFDMA signal by assigning orthogonal subcarriers to different cell sites through digital logic, an electrical multiplexer combining the electrical OFDMA signal with two electrical clock signals, and an optical intensity modulator intensity-modulating the resulting joint electrical OFDMA+clocks signal; an optical multiplexer receiving aggregate OFDMA signals on multiple wavelengths with tight DWDM λ-spacing; a remote node (RN) receiving the OFDMA signals, such that each wavelength is distributed by a de-multiplexer (Demux) to designated general small cell area, to which cell sites are connected by optical splitters; and an optical network unit (ONU) to directly photodetect and digitize received OFDMA signal, wherein downstream (DS) information for each cell is digitally extracted and prepared for wireless radio frequency (RF) transmission over an air interface, and an electrical splitter and bandpass filters to separate the OFDMA and clock signals for DSP-free clock recovery.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink (DL) signal from a base station on DL beam(s). The UE may identify a selected DL beam of the DL beam(s) for communications from the base station to the UE. The UE may transmit a random access channel (RACH) message to the base station using at least one of a resource or a RACH waveform selected based at least in part on the selected DL beam.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink (DL) signal from a base station on one or more DL beam(s). The UE may identify a selected DL beam of the one or more DL beam(s) for communications from the base station to the UE. The UE may transmit a scheduling request message to the base station using at least one of a resource or a waveform selected based at least in part on the selected DL beam.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink (DL) signal from a base station on one or more DL beam(s). The UE may identify of a nature of correspondence between one or more receive beams at the UE and one or more transmit beams at the UE. The UE may identify a selected DL beam of the one or more DL beam(s) for communications from the base station to the UE. The UE may transmit a random access channel (RACH) message to the base station using a resource and/or a RACH waveform selected based on the selected DL beam based at least in part on the selected DL beam and the nature of correspondence.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink (DL) signal from a base station on one or more DL beam(s). The UE may identify a selected DL beam of the one or more DL beam(s) for communications from the base station to the UE. The UE may transmit a scheduling request message to the base station using at least one of a resource or a waveform selected based at least in part on the selected DL beam.

The present disclosure describes a method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for use in providing reverse time alignment in a wireless network. For example, the method may include obtaining a first timing value from a serving node and a second timing value from each of one or more non-serving nodes of the UE, computing one or more timing differences between the first timing value and each of one or more second timing values, and reporting the one or more timing differences to the serving node. Additionally, the disclosure describes a method, an apparatus and a computer-readable medium for use in providing time alignment in a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission network by obtaining of a CoMP transmission network timing information from a plurality of user equipments (UEs) and storing the timing information for each of the plurality of UEs for communicating with the first node.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink (DL) signal from a base station on one or more DL beam(s). The UE may identify a selected DL beam of the one or more DL beam(s) for communications from the base station to the UE. The UE may transmit a scheduling request message to the base station using at least one of a resource or a waveform selected based at least in part on the selected DL beam.

Methods and systems for coordinating simultaneous transmission by two or more access points over a single channel of a wireless medium are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes determining, by a first access point, a time when the first access point and a second access point will transmit simultaneously over the channel, and transmitting, by the first access point, over the channel at the time.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink (DL) signal from a base station on one or more DL beam(s). The UE may identify a selected DL beam of the one or more DL beam(s) for communications from the base station to the UE. The UE may transmit a beam recovery or beam tracking message to the base station using at least one of a resource or a waveform selected based at least in part on the selected DL beam.

Methods and systems for coordinating simultaneous transmission by two or more access points over a single channel of a wireless medium are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes determining, by a first access point, a time when the first access point and a second access point will transmit simultaneously over the channel, and transmitting, by the first access point, over the channel at the time.