Disclosed are a reference signal processing method and apparatus, a first communication node, and a second communication node. The reference signal processing method may include: creating w sequences, wherein different first communication nodes do not all take a same value of w, and w is a positive integer; generating a reference signal based on the w sequences; and sending the reference signal and a data signal which corresponds to the reference signal.

A system and method of DFT-S-OFDM modulation is provided that uses a set of frequency domain patterns. For a given transmitter, for a set of DFT-S-OFDM symbols, the frequency domain pattern changes according to a time domain hopping pattern. Advantageously, the time domain hopping patterns are defined to allow only a certain amount of overlap, for example for only one DFT-S-OFDM symbol, between any two time domain hopping patterns. This functions to reduce the effect of a collision, when two transmitters use the same frequency pattern, they will do so only for part of the overall transmission. Optionally, frequency domain spectral spreading is used in the transmitter. This can further reduce the PAPR. In the receiver, successive interference cancellation may be employed to reduce the effect of colliding transmissions.

An apparatus for receiving non-orthogonal transmissions in a wireless communication system includes a processor configured to determine a first superposed symbol from a plurality of superposed symbols, based on superposition information and a first set of decoding information, wherein the first superposed symbol is corresponding to a first user equipment. The processor generates a residual signal based on the first superposed symbol and the superposition information, and determines a second superposed symbol based on the residual signal and a second set of decoding information, wherein the second superposed symbol is corresponding to a second user equipment. The superposition information comprises a quantity of the plurality of superposed symbols and an ordering of the plurality of superposed symbols.

A data transmission method and a data transmission device are provided. A transmission device classifies data symbols for each scheduled user into groups based on logic resource element groups determined based on encoding matrices each multiplexed by multiple users, encodes respective groups of data symbols for each user in accordance with the encoding matrices to determine groups of encoded data symbols for each user, subjects respective groups of encoded data symbols for each user to a mapping treatment based on logic resource elements, maps respective logic resource element groups to a physical resource block in accordance with a mapping mode, and transmits data to a reception device based on the physical resource block.

Real-time selection of interference cancellation schemes based on transmission parameters and amount of resource overlap between the desired payload and the interfering payload. Codeword level interference cancellation may be performed where the signal quality of the interfering signal indicates that the interfering payload will be decoded correctly. When performed, codeword level interference cancellation may be monitored to determine if decoding the interfering payload is converging. Other interference cancellation schemes may be selected based on the signal quality of the interfering signal or non-converging decode of the interfering payload. The number of iterations for iterative decoding in codeword level interference cancellation may be dynamically selected. The decoder output (e.g., soft bits) may be used to perform interference cancellations before the decoder is fully converged. Iterative decoding may be performed in multiple passes and soft decision output form one pass may be used to initialize the decoder for a subsequent pass.

The present invention relates to a method for assigning transmission resources (101) to communications between an access node (11) and a plurality of subscriber devices (41 to 46) coupled to a shared transmission medium.

In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the method comprises characterizing interference between respective ones of the plurality of subscriber devices over the shared transmission medium, grouping highly-interfering subscriber devices into respective interfering groups (G1, G2, G3, G4) based on the so-characterized interference, and assigning disjoint transmission time intervals to upstream communication from any one subscriber device of any one interfering group and to downstream communication towards any other subscriber device of the same interfering group.

The present invention also relates to a resource controller.

For each UE, a base station determines the number of streams for transmitting a data signal, performs different precoding on the data signal depending on the UE, and allocates different transmission powers to at least two UEs. The base station transmits streams addressed to the at least two UEs in a form in which these streams are non-orthogonally mixed, with transmission powers that are different for the UEs. For each of the streams addressed to these UEs, the base station estimates predictive indices for these UEs from channel state information determined by the UEs to which those streams are addressed, and, based on the predictive indices, allocates different transmission powers to those UEs such that the better the predictive index is, the lower the transmission power is.

An apparatus for receiving wireless communication at a first UE from a first wireless device may include a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The memory and the at least one processor may be configured to receive a user grouping identifying a second UE that communicates with a second wireless device. The memory and the at least one processor may be further configured to receive a control transmission between the second UE and the second wireless device indicating a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and allocated resources for the second wireless device. The memory and the at least one processor may be further configured to apply interference cancellation on at least one of a resource element (RE) or a resource block (RB) received from the first wireless device based on the MCS and allocated resources for the second wireless device.

A system and method of DFT-S-OFDM modulation is provided that uses a set of frequency domain patterns. For a given transmitter, for a set of DFT-S-OFDM symbols, the frequency domain pattern changes according to a time domain hopping pattern. Advantageously, the time domain hopping patterns are defined to allow only a certain amount of overlap, for example for only one DFT-S-OFDM symbol, between any two time domain hopping patterns. This functions to reduce the effect of a collision, when two transmitters use the same frequency pattern, they will do so only for part of the overall transmission. Optionally, frequency domain spectral spreading is used in the transmitter. This can further reduce the PAPR. In the receiver, successive interference cancellation may be employed to reduce the effect of colliding transmissions.

An adaptive receiver system for UEs using NOMA. For example, a network node (e.g, an access point, such as a base station) obtains a first set of data points for a first decoding scheme, each data point included in the first set of data points identifying a maximum achievable rate for the first UE and a maximum achievable rate for the second UE. The network node uses the first set of data points, a first rate demand for a first UE, and a second rate demand for a second UE to determine a decoding scheme for decoding a message transmitted by one of the first UE and a transmission point of the network node.