An apparatus for transmitting broadcasting signal using transmitter identification scaled by 4-bit injection level code and method using the same are disclosed. An apparatus for transmitting broadcasting signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a waveform generator configured to generate a host broadcasting signal; a transmitter identification signal generator configured to generate a transmitter identification signal for identifying a transmitter, the transmitter identification signal scaled by an injection level code; and a combiner configured to inject the transmitter identification signal into the host broadcasting signal in a time domain so that the transmitter identification signal is transmitted synchronously with the host broadcasting signal.

A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface, the processing circuitry to: encode for transmission, to a User Equipment (UE), a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) including a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) and a channel estimation signal that is time division multiplexed with the PBCH, the channel estimation signal to allow the UE to estimate a channel for the PBCH and including one of a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) or a Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PT-RS); and apply Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) to the PBCH prior to sending the SSB to the RF interface for transmission.

Devices, systems and methods for a fifth generation (5G) or new radio (NR) system comprising multiplexing, by a gNodeB (gNB), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) and an associated demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a time division multiplexing (TDM) manner; and transmitting, by the gNB, the PBCH by employing a Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) waveform and its associated DMRS.

The present disclosure relates to a method for a terminal device to determine demodulation reference signal (DMRS), comprising: obtaining (211) a DMRS configuration and a corresponding signature assigned by a network side node; constructing (212) a DMRS according to the DMRS configuration; mapping (213) the DMRS to a physical channel assigned to the terminal device. The signature indicates a processing configuration for the physical channel. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the signature, and DMRS configuration may be configured correspondingly, to obtain low-crosstalk DMRS signals for different terminal devices, thus, the number of the supported terminal devices may be improved.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for signal source identification and determination. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, in response to detecting a signal, a device identifies at least one unit sequence from the signal. A bandwidth of each unit sequence is a common divisor of overlapping system bandwidths among a plurality of devices. The at least one unit sequence uniquely identifies a further device transmitting the signal. The device determines, based on the at least one unit sequence, the further device from the plurality of devices. As such, a device suffering interference due to atmospheric ducting can find out an interference source and perform an action to avoid the interference.

The present disclosure provides a time-and-frequency synchronization method, a network device, and a terminal. The time-and-frequency synchronization method for the terminal includes: subsequent to determining that the terminal in an idle state or a DRX state needs to be woken up to receive a downlink signal, receiving a physical signal for time-and-frequency synchronization from the network device; and performing time-and-frequency synchronization in accordance with the physical signal.

An apparatus for transmitting broadcasting signal using transmitter identification and method using the same are disclosed. An apparatus for transmitting broadcasting signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a waveform generator configured to generate a host broadcasting signal; a transmitter identification signal generator configured to generate a transmitter identification signal for identifying a transmitter; and a combiner configured to inject the transmitter identification signal into the host broadcasting signal in a time domain so that the transmitter identification signal is transmitted synchronously with the host broadcasting signal.

This application provides a reference signal sequence transmission method. The method includes: generating a reference signal sequence based on a frame number of a radio frame; mapping at least a part of reference signals in the reference signal sequence to a resource position that corresponds to the radio frame and that is used to transmit the at least a part of reference signals; and sending the at least a part of reference signals or an orthogonal reference signal at the resource position, where the orthogonal reference signal is obtained by multiplying the at least a part of reference signals by a preset orthogonal code.

A wireless node, such as an access point or a user equipment, includes a transceiver configured to transmit during a first frame in a first time interval and a second frame in a second time interval. The first and second time intervals are separated by an interframe space (IFS). The wireless node also includes a processor configured to generate a sensing waveform. The transceiver transmits the sensing waveform during the IFS. In some cases, the processor is configured to switch the transceiver from a transmit mode during the first time interval to a receive mode during the IFS. The transceiver receives a sensing waveform from a wireless node during the IFS.

Technology is disclosed for a user equipment (UE) operable for wake-up signal (WUS) communication in a fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) network. The UE can be configured to: identify a resource set for a WUS with a repetition level, wherein: the resource set for the WUS includes a mapping of the WUS that associates the WUS with one or more physical resource blocks and one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and the repetition level identifies a number of base sequences for the WUS in the resource set; and switch to a network access mode (NAM) from a power saving mode (PSM) based on a detection of the WUS in the resource set.