Systems and methods for a non-data-aided (NDA) approach to advanced OFDM timing are provided. This approach allows for accurate OFDM symbol timing and synchronization by avoiding inter-symbol interference (ISI) in multipath environments where an earliest arriving signal may not be the strongest signal. The NDA approach may rely on generating and applying a bias correction to a combined correlation result of the multi-path signals.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device (e.g., a base station or a user equipment (UE)) may identify a sequence length corresponding to a number of resource blocks, and select a modulation scheme based on the sequence length. The device may select, from a set of sequences associated with the modulation scheme, a sequence having the sequence length. In some examples, the set of sequences may include at least one of a set of time domain phase shift keying computer-generated sequences or a set of frequency domain phase shift keying computer-generated sequences. The device may generate a reference signal for a data transmission based on the sequence and transmit the reference signal within the number of resource blocks.

An operating method for an electronic device and a signal processor included in the electronic device are provided. The operating method for an electronic device comprises a descrambling a synchronization signal received from a cell, acquiring a time domain average signal on the descrambled synchronization signal, executing a differential correlation on the time domain average signal by a predetermined reference, and measuring a power of the synchronization signal provided from the cell, using the differential.

A method for packet detection in a wireless communication network employing time based scheduling of packets. The method is performed by a packet receiver in the wireless communication network. The method includes receiving a packet from a packet transmitter. The packet includes a preamble that is composed of a single orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and represented by a sequence of samples. T least part of the preamble is received within a packet detection window. Packet detection is performed in order to find a start of the packet only on those samples received within the packet detection window.

According to one embodiment, a method for a terminal to detect a sidelink signal in a wireless communication system comprises: a step in which the terminal performs sweeping on a predetermined signal by using a predetermined window for correlation; and a step for determining that the predetermined signal is a sidelink signal on the basis of a peak detected at a portion corresponding to a predetermined cyclic prefix (CP) while performing the sweeping, wherein the size of the predetermined window corresponds to the longest symbol duration among the respective symbol durations of a plurality of subcarrier spacings.

A radio receiver comprises a matched filter bank and a decision unit. The matched filter bank has a plurality of filter modules for generating correlation-strength data from a sampled radio signal, each filter module being configured to cross-correlate the sampled signal with data representing a respective filter sequence. The decision unit is configured to use the correlation-strength data to generate a sequence of decoded symbols from the sampled signal. The matched filter bank and/or decision unit are configured to determine the value of each symbol in the sequence in part based on the value of a respective earlier decoded symbol from the sequence of decoded symbols.

Provided are a method of operating a communication system using physical layer division, the method comprises extracting an initial random access signal from an uplink signal, in a first physical layer of a first communication node of the communication system reducing a data amount of the extracted initial random access signal in the first physical layer and calculating a time synchronization error using the initial random access signal with a reduced amount of data, in a second physical layer of a second communication node of the communication system.

A frequency offset estimation method, device, communication device and storage medium are provided. The method comprises: acquiring a main peak and a secondary peak of a PRACH signal when detecting that an access signal is in the PRACH signal sent by the signal sending end, wherein the PRACH signal is composed of a preset number of identical leader sequences; determining a first frequency offset according to a peak value of the main peak and a peak value of the secondary peak; performing a frequency offset compensation on the PRACH signal according to the first frequency offset, to obtain a compensation sequence after the frequency offset compensation; and calculating a frequency offset between the compensation sequence and the leader sequences, to obtain a second frequency offset, so as to estimate a time delay of the access signal according to the second frequency offset.

A base station apparatus provided with a function of performing communication using multiple beams implements appropriate beamforming while reducing interference power, thereby communication quality becomes stable and frequency efficiency or throughput is improved. The base station apparatus according to the present invention is a base station apparatus for communicating with a terminal apparatus, the base station apparatus including: a transmitter configured to transmit a synchronization signal block including a synchronization signal in a prescribed transmission window; and a controller configured to configure a size of the prescribed transmission window in which the synchronization signal block is transmitted, in which the transmitter notifies the terminal apparatus of information associated with QCL between two of the synchronization signal blocks transmitted in the prescribed transmission window.

A method includes calculating first correlation values corresponding to a first symbol duration based on input samples, the input samples being generated from a received signal; calculating phase differences respectively corresponding to the input samples based on the first correlation values and second correlation values corresponding to a second symbol duration preceding the first symbol duration; updating accumulative phase differences respectively corresponding to the input samples based on the phase differences; and detecting a symbol boundary based on the updated accumulative phase differences.