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.

An OFDM modulation device includes a communication use specifying unit to specify a communication use of a communication frame, a header generating unit to generate a header of the communication frame in which communication use specifying information indicating the communication use specified by the communication use specifying unit is stored, a payload generating unit to generate a payload of the communication frame, and an inverse fast Fourier transform unit to generate a communication frame of time domain by executing an inverse fast Fourier transform of a size corresponding to the communication use specified by the communication use specifying unit on data of frequency domain including the header generated by the header generating unit and the payload generated by the payload generating unit.

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.

A method (100) of route selection in a wireless communication system and a control system (40) is provided. The method includes selecting a route between a first node (1) and a second node (2) and comprises: —evaluating (110) a plurality of possible routes (R1, R2, R3, R4), at least one route (R2, R3, R4) including a third node (3, 4) between the first and the second node; and —selecting (160) the route that has the lowest latency among the possible routes. Especially the method (100) includes: —selecting (120) parameter settings for each link of the possible routes, said selecting (120) comprising; —selecting (130) the length of the cyclic prefix, —evaluating (140) combinations of the selected cyclic prefix and different settings of the at least one further parameter of the physical layer; —selecting (150) the parameter settings that has lowest estimated latency and fulfils at least one communication quality criterion.

Physical layer processing methods for network acquisition by remote nodes in wireless communication systems are described herein. New methods for wireless network discovery and synchronization by remote nodes are described herein that utilize spatial (e.g., antenna array) processing algorithms which may achieve enhanced functioning in challenging radio frequency environments, such as those containing interference and multipath distortion effects. These methods may include advantageous use of spatial whiteners and associated pluralities of adaptive beamformers to detect network reference and synchronization signals and estimate their parameters.

An OFDM signal transmission apparatus is provided, which includes a mapping unit configured to map first signals into N subcarriers and second signals into M subcarrier(s) to form an OFDM signal, wherein N is larger than M. The first signals are each indicating a same bit of retransmission information and the second signals are each indicating a same bit of information other than retransmission information. The OFDM signal transmission apparatus further includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit the formed OFDM signal.

A new layer tailored for Artificial Intelligence-based communication systems to limit the instantaneous peak power for the signals that relies on manipulation of complementary sequences through neural networks. Disclosed is a method for providing non-linear distortion in end-to-end learning communication systems, the communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver. The method includes mapping transmitted information bits to an input of a first neural network; controlling, by an output of the neural network, parameters of a complementary sequence (CS) encoder, producing an encoded CS; transmitting the encoded CS through an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal; processing, by Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), the encoded CS, to produce a received information signal in a frequency domain; and processing, by a second neural network, the received information signal.

A method is provided. In some examples, the method includes performing, by processing circuitry, a first transform operation on a first time-domain data set to generate a frequency-domain data set. In addition, the method includes determining, by the processing circuitry, that at least one portion of the frequency-domain data set satisfies a first threshold magnitude. The method also includes performing, by the processing circuitry, an inverse transform operation on the at least one portion of the frequency-domain data set to generate a second time-domain data set. The method further includes identifying, by the processing circuitry and based on the second time-domain data set, a region of interference in the first time-domain data set.

Transmission quality is improved in an environment in which direct waves dominate in a transmission method for transmitting a plurality of modulated signals from a plurality of antennas at the same time. All data symbols used in data transmission of a modulated signal are precoded by hopping between precoding matrices so that the precoding matrix used to precode each data symbol and the precoding matrices used to precode data symbols that are adjacent to the data symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain all differ. A modulated signal with such data symbols arranged therein is transmitted.

A method for an uplink transmission delay estimation between a user equipment and a base station in a wireless communication network is disclosed. At least one random access preamble is received by the base station. The cyclic prefix is first removed (S402), an N-FFT is applied (S404) and the obtained sequence in the frequency domain is multiplied (S406) with a complex conjugate of a corresponding transmitted preamble sequence to obtain for each subcarrier k, a sequence of values Z.sub.k. A set of sums S[s] is computed (S408) from Z.sub.k. C candidate values Γ[c] are calculated (S414), each being a weighted linear combination of (1) where l[c,s] is a phase correcting factor. The candidate C.sub.opt among the C candidates with a smallest associated error calculated with respect to the sums S[s] is selected. A phase is determined responsive to the selected candidate. A delay is determined (S420) responsive to the determined phase.