Cyclic prefix for reference signal
By ensuring consistent on/off values and chip lengths for OFDM symbols, the ambiguity and timing errors in OOK-modulated OFDM symbols are resolved, improving communication performance for IoT devices.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- PCT/CN2024/086148
- Authority / Receiving Office
- WO · WO
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-04-04
- Publication Date
- 2025-10-09
AI Technical Summary
In wireless communication systems, particularly for passive and semi-passive IoT devices using OFDM symbols with OOK modulation, the ambiguity in cyclic prefix interpretation and timing acquisition errors lead to performance degradation due to varying chip durations and on/off values across OFDM symbols.
Configuring the first and second chips of an OFDM symbol to have the same on/off value or chip length, and ensuring consistent cyclic prefix lengths across a set of OFDM symbols to mitigate ambiguity and timing errors.
This configuration eliminates ambiguity in symbol boundary timing and reduces timing acquisition errors, enhancing communication performance for IoT devices.
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CYCLIC PREFIX FOR REFERENCE SIGNAL
[0001] FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE
[0002] Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication and specifically relate to techniques, apparatuses, and methods for cyclic prefixes for a reference signal.BACKGROUND
[0003] Wireless communication systems are widely deployed to provide various services that may include carrying voice, text, messaging, video, data, and / or other traffic. The services may include unicast, multicast, and / or broadcast services, among other examples. Typical wireless communication systems may employ multiple-access radio access technologies (RATs) capable of supporting communication with multiple users by sharing available system resources (for example, time domain resources, frequency domain resources, spatial domain resources, and / or device transmit power, among other examples) . Examples of such multiple-access RATs include code division multiple access (CDMA) systems, time division multiple access (TDMA) systems, frequency division multiple access (FDMA) systems, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems, single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) systems, and time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) systems.
[0004] The above multiple-access RATs have been adopted in various telecommunication standards to provide common protocols that enable different wireless communication devices to communicate on a municipal, national, regional, or global level. An example telecommunication standard is New Radio (NR) . NR, which may also be referred to as 5G, is part of a continuous mobile broadband evolution promulgated by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) . NR (and other mobile broadband evolutions beyond NR) may be designed to better support Internet of things (IoT) and reduced capability device deployments, industrial connectivity, millimeter wave (mmWave) expansion, licensed and unlicensed spectrum access, non-terrestrial network (NTN) deployment, sidelink and other device-to-device direct communication technologies (for example, cellular vehicle-to-everything (CV2X) communication) , massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) , disaggregated network architectures and network topology expansions, multiple-subscriber implementations, high-precision positioning, and / or radio frequency (RF) sensing, among other examples. As the demand for mobile broadband access continues to increase, further improvements in NR may be implemented, and other radio access technologies such as 6G may be introduced, to further advance mobile broadband evolution.SUMMARY
[0005] In some aspects, a method of wireless communication performed by a device includes receiving, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an on-off keying (OOK) sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, and wherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of: a same on or off (on / off) value, or a same chip length; and synchronizing with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal.
[0006] In some aspects, an apparatus configured for wireless communication includes one or more memories comprising processor-executable instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the processor-executable instructions and cause the apparatus to: receive, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an OFDM symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an OOK sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, and wherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of: a same on / off value, or a same chip length; and synchronize with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal.
[0007] In some aspects, a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for wireless communication includes one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the device to: receive, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an OFDM symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an OOK sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, and wherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of: a same on / off value, or a same chip length; and synchronize with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal.
[0008] In some aspects, an apparatus for wireless communication includes means for receiving, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an OFDM symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an OOK sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, and wherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of: a same on / off value, or a same chip length; and means for synchronizing with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal.
[0009] Aspects of the present disclosure may generally be implemented by or as a method, apparatus, system, computer program product, non-transitory computer-readable medium, user equipment, base station, network node, network entity, wireless communication device, and / or processing system as substantially described with reference to, and as illustrated by, the specification and accompanying drawings.
[0010] The foregoing paragraphs of this section have broadly summarized some aspects of the present disclosure. These and additional aspects and associated advantages will be described hereinafter. The disclosed aspects may be used as a basis for modifying or designing other aspects for carrying out the same or similar purposes of the present disclosure. Such equivalent aspects do not depart from the scope of the appended claims. Characteristics of the aspects disclosed herein, both their organization and method of operation, together with associated advantages, will be better understood from the following description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0011] The appended drawings illustrate some aspects of the present disclosure, but are not limiting of the scope of the present disclosure because the description may enable other aspects. Each of the drawings is provided for purposes of illustration and description, and not as a definition of the limits of the claims. The same or similar reference numbers in different drawings may identify the same or similar elements.DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0012] Various aspects of the present disclosure are described hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, aspects of the present disclosure may be embodied in many different forms and is not to be construed as limited to any specific aspect illustrated by or described with reference to an accompanying drawing or otherwise presented in this disclosure. Rather, these aspects are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art. One skilled in the art may appreciate that the scope of the disclosure is intended to cover any aspect of the disclosure disclosed herein, whether implemented independently of or in combination with any other aspect of the disclosure. For example, an apparatus may be implemented or a method may be practiced using various combinations or quantities of the aspects set forth herein. In addition, the scope of the disclosure is intended to cover an apparatus having, or a method that is practiced using, other structures and / or functionalities in addition to or other than the structures and / or functionalities with which various aspects of the disclosure set forth herein may be practiced. Any aspect of the disclosure disclosed herein may be embodied by one or more elements of a claim.
[0013] Several aspects of telecommunication systems will now be presented with reference to various methods, operations, apparatuses, and techniques. These methods, operations, apparatuses, and techniques will be described in the following detailed description and illustrated in the accompanying drawings by various blocks, modules, components, circuits, steps, processes, or algorithms (collectively referred to as “elements” ) . These elements may be implemented using hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software. Whether such elements are implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the overall system.
[0014] Some wireless communication devices may be considered Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as ambient IoT devices (sometimes referred to as ultra-light IoT devices) , or similar IoT devices. Ambient IoT (A-IoT) technology may include passive IoT (e.g., NR passive IoT for 5G Advanced) , semi-passive IoT, or ultra-light IoT, among other examples. In passive IoT, a terminal (e.g., a radio frequency identification (RFID) device, a tag, or a similar device) may not include a battery, and the terminal may accumulate energy from radio signaling. Additionally, the terminal may accumulate solar or other energy to supplement accumulated energy from radio signaling. Passive IoT devices may have a relatively small communication range and may have a minimal power consumption to support operation without a battery.
[0015] Passive IoT may be useful in connection with industrial sensors, for which battery replacement may be prohibitively difficult or undesirable (e.g., for safety monitoring or fault detection in smart factories, infrastructures, or environments) . Additionally, features of passive IoT devices, such as low cost, small size, maintenance-free, durable, long lifespan, or the like, may facilitate smart logistics / warehousing (e.g., in connection with automated asset management by replacing RFID tags) . Furthermore, passive IoT may be useful in connection with smart home networks for household item management, wearable devices (e.g., wearable devices for medical monitoring for which patients do not need to replace batteries) , and / or environment monitoring. To achieve further cost reduction and zero-power communication, 5G+ / 6G wireless networks may utilize a type of passive IoT device referred to as an “ambient backscatter device” or a “backscatter device. ” A backscatter device may communicate with a reader (e.g., a user equipment (UE) or a network node) by modulating a reflecting radio signal from an RF source. In some examples, the RF source and the reader may be the same device and / or may be co-located. For example, in some cases, the reader and the RF source may be associated with the same network node.
[0016] To facilitate communication of the backscatter device, the RF source may transmit an energy harvesting wave to the backscatter device. Once energy is sufficiently accumulated at the backscatter device, the backscatter device may begin to reflect the radio wave that is radiated onto the backscatter device. The backscatter device may have reflection-on periods and reflection-off periods that follow a pattern that is based at least in part on the transmission of information bits by the backscatter device. The backscatter device may use an information modulation scheme, such as amplitude shift keying (ASK) modulation or on-off keying (OOK) modulation. For ASK or OOK modulation, the backscatter device may switch on reflection when transmitting an information bit “1” and switch off reflection when transmitting an information bit “0. ” The reader may detect the reflection pattern of the backscatter device and obtain the backscatter communication information.
[0017] Some IoT devices may be referred to as semi-passive IoT devices. At a semi-passive IoT device, communication between a reader and the IoT device does not need to be preceded by an energy harvesting waveform. For example, semi-passive IoT devices may include a battery or similar energy source that can power the receiver and / or logic circuit. For such devices, energy harvesting may still be triggered in some cases, such as for long-range communications. In that regard, passive and semi-passive IoT devices may be inherently limited for certain applications. In addition to passive devices and semi-passive devices, some IoT devices may be active IoT devices. An active IoT device may have a battery or similar energy source and an active radio, allowing for active transmission and reception without energy harvesting or backscattering.
[0018] An A-IoT communication link may include a forward link and a backward link. “Forward link” (or “FL” ) refers to a communication direction from a reader device to a tag device (e.g., an RFID device or a terminal device) , and “backward link” (or “BL” ) refers to a communication direction from a tag device to a reader device. The FL may be referred to as a downlink and the BL may be referred to as an uplink.
[0019] Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communications may use a cyclic prefix to reduce inter-symbol interference (ISI) and enable simplified signal processing at the receiver. A cyclic prefix may involve duplicating one or more samples at an end of an OFDM symbol by placing the one or more samples at the end of the OFDM symbol and at a beginning of the OFDM symbol.
[0020] In some examples, a reference signal for an A-IoT device, such as a low-power wakeup signal, a synchronization signal, or a timing acquisition signal, may be transmitted using OFDM. However, the reference signal, as transmitted, may be structured so that a receiver (such as an A-IoT device) can detect a given sequence using OOK modulation. In OOK, information is conveyed by providing a first amplitude (e.g., a non-zero amplitude) for a time interval to represent a first bit or providing a second amplitude (e.g., a zero amplitude) for the time interval to represent a second bit. The time interval that corresponds to a single bit may be referred to as a “chip. ” OOK modulation can convey various amounts of information in a given time interval. For example, in OOK-1, a single chip may be conveyed in an OFDM symbol, whereas in OOK-4, four chips may be conveyed in an OFDM symbol.
[0021] Transmitting a reference signal using an OFDM waveform, when the reference signal conveys a sequence using OOK modulation, may present certain challenges with regard to signal processing. For example, if an ending segment of an OFDM symbol is moved to a beginning of the OFDM symbol, ambiguity may arise as to whether an initial chip of the OFDM symbol has a first value or a second value. This may cause an unintentional change or failure to decode the first chip. For example, an A-IoT device may be unable to identify a cyclic prefix of the OOK sequence, and may thus attempt to interpret the cyclic prefix as a separate chip. This may cause performance loss for A-IoT communications. Furthermore, for a reader-to-device timing acquisition, an unintentional “on” and / or “off” value, if present, may cause a timing acquisition error at an A-IoT device receiver, which may case loss of timing and / or misidentification of a chip / symbol boundary, thereby degrading performance. Additionally, or alternatively, in some radio access technologies (RATs) , different OFDM symbols of a slot may have different cyclic prefix lengths. Thus, OOK chip durations may be different for different OFDM symbols, leading to inaccurate timing acquisition.
[0022] Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to configuring a reference symbol using OOK modulation and an OFDM waveform. Some aspects more specifically provide configuration of the reference signal to mitigate or eliminate errors in OOK processing at the receiver. For example, in some aspects, a first chip (e.g., an initial chip) and a second chip (e.g., a final chip) of an OFDM symbol of the reference signal may be configured to have the same on / off value. Additionally, or alternatively, in some aspects, a set of OFDM symbols for the reference signal may be selected such that the first chip and the second chip are associated with a same chip length (or such that each OFDM symbol of the set of OFDM symbols is associated with the same cyclic prefix length) . Additionally, or alternatively, in some aspects, a first (e.g., initial) portion of an OFDM symbol and a second (e.g., final) portion of the OFDM symbol may be configured such that the first portion and the second portion have the same on / off value. For example, the first portion and the second portion may each be equal in length to a normal cyclic prefix size for a first OFDM symbol of a subframe.
[0023] Particular aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented to realize one or more of the following potential advantages. In some examples, by configuring the first chip and the second chip to have the same on / off value, the described techniques can be used to eliminate ambiguity regarding a value of the first chip and to eliminate ambiguity regarding symbol boundary timing. By selecting the set of OFDM symbols such that the first chip and the second chip are associated with a same chip length, ambiguity resulting from different cyclic prefix lengths for different OFDM symbols is eliminated. Furthermore, by configuring the first (e.g., initial) portion of an OFDM symbol and the second (e.g., final) portion of the OFDM symbol such that the first portion and the second portion have the same on / off value, constraints in resource selection for the reference signal are relaxed relative to only selecting OFDM symbols that have a same cyclic prefix length.
[0024] Multiple-access radio access technologies (RATs) have been adopted in various telecommunication standards to provide common protocols that enable wireless communication devices to communicate on a municipal, enterprise, national, regional, or global level. For example, 5G New Radio (NR) is part of a continuous mobile broadband evolution promulgated by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) . 5G NR supports various technologies and use cases including enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) , ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) , massive machine-type communication (mMTC) , millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, beamforming, network slicing, edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and management, and network function virtualization (NFV) .
[0025] As the demand for broadband access increases and as technologies supported by wireless communication networks evolve, further technological improvements may be adopted in or implemented for 5G NR or future RATs, such as 6G, to further advance the evolution of wireless communication for a wide variety of existing and new use cases and applications. Such technological improvements may be associated with new frequency band expansion, licensed and unlicensed spectrum access, overlapping spectrum use, small cell deployments, non-terrestrial network (NTN) deployments, disaggregated network architectures and network topology expansion, device aggregation, advanced duplex communication, sidelink and other device-to-device direct communication, IoT (including passive or ambient IoT) networks, reduced capability (RedCap) UE functionality, industrial connectivity, multiple-subscriber implementations, high-precision positioning, radio frequency (RF) sensing, and / or artificial intelligence or machine learning (AI / ML) , among other examples. These technological improvements may support use cases such as wireless backhauls, wireless data centers, extended reality (XR) and metaverse applications, meta services for supporting vehicle connectivity, holographic and mixed reality communication, autonomous and collaborative robots, vehicle platooning and cooperative maneuvering, sensing networks, gesture monitoring, human-brain interfacing, digital twin applications, asset management, and universal coverage applications using non-terrestrial and / or aerial platforms, among other examples. The methods, operations, apparatuses, and techniques described herein may enable one or more of the foregoing technologies and / or support one or more of the foregoing use cases.
[0026] Fig. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communication network 100 in accordance with the present disclosure. The wireless communication network 100 may be or may include elements of a 5G (or NR) network or a 6G network, among other examples. The wireless communication network 100 may include multiple network nodes 110, shown as a network node (NN) 110a, a network node 110b, a network node 110c, and a network node 110d. The network nodes 110 may support communications with multiple UEs 120, shown as a UE 120a, a UE 120b, a UE 120c, a UE 120d, and a UE 120e.
[0027] The network nodes 110 and the UEs 120 of the wireless communication network 100 may communicate using the electromagnetic spectrum, which may be subdivided by frequency or wavelength into various classes, bands, carriers, and / or channels. For example, devices of the wireless communication network 100 may communicate using one or more operating bands. In some aspects, multiple wireless communication networks 100 may be deployed in a given geographic area. Each wireless communication network 100 may support a particular RAT (which may also be referred to as an air interface) and may operate on one or more carrier frequencies in one or more frequency ranges. Examples of RATs include a 4G RAT, a 5G / NR RAT, and / or a 6G RAT, among other examples. In some examples, when multiple RATs are deployed in a given geographic area, each RAT in the geographic area may operate on different frequencies to avoid interference with one another.
[0028] Various operating bands have been defined as frequency range designations FR1 (410 MHz through 7.125 GHz) , FR2 (24.25 GHz through 52.6 GHz) , FR3 (7.125 GHz through 24.25 GHz) , FR4a or FR4-1 (52.6 GHz through 71 GHz) , FR4 (52.6 GHz through 114.25 GHz) , and FR5 (114.25 GHz through 300 GHz) . Although a portion of FR1 is greater than 6 GHz, FR1 is often referred to (interchangeably) as a “Sub-6 GHz” band in some documents and articles. Similarly, FR2 is often referred to (interchangeably) as a “millimeter wave” band in some documents and articles, despite being different than the extremely high frequency (EHF) band (30 GHz through 300 GHz) , which is identified by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as a “millimeter wave” band. The frequencies between FR1 and FR2 are often referred to as mid-band frequencies, which include FR3. Frequency bands falling within FR3 may inherit FR1 characteristics or FR2 characteristics, and thus may effectively extend features of FR1 or FR2 into mid-band frequencies. Thus, “sub-6 GHz, ” if used herein, may broadly refer to frequencies that are less than 6 GHz, that are within FR1, and / or that are included in mid-band frequencies. Similarly, the term “millimeter wave, ” if used herein, may broadly refer to frequencies that are included in mid-band frequencies, that are within FR2, FR4, FR4-a or FR4-1, or FR5, and / or that are within the EHF band. Higher frequency bands may extend 5G NR operation, 6G operation, and / or other RATs beyond 52.6 GHz. For example, each of FR4a, FR4-1, FR4, and FR5 falls within the EHF band. In some examples, the wireless communication network 100 may implement dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) , in which multiple RATs (for example, 4G / LTE and 5G / NR) are implemented with dynamic bandwidth allocation (for example, based on user demand) in a single frequency band. It is contemplated that the frequencies included in these operating bands (for example, FR1, FR2, FR3, FR4, FR4-a, FR4-1, and / or FR5) may be modified, and techniques described herein may be applicable to those modified frequency ranges.
[0029] A network node 110 may include one or more devices, components, or systems that enable communication between a UE 120 and one or more devices, components, or systems of the wireless communication network 100. A network node 110 may be, may include, or may also be referred to as an NR network node, a 5G network node, a 6G network node, a Node B, an eNB, a gNB, an access point (AP) , a transmission reception point (TRP) , a mobility element, a core, a network entity, a network element, a network equipment, and / or another type of device, component, or system included in a radio access network (RAN) .
[0030] A network node 110 may be implemented as a single physical node (for example, a single physical structure) or may be implemented as two or more physical nodes (for example, two or more distinct physical structures) . For example, a network node 110 may be a device or system that implements part of a radio protocol stack, a device or system that implements a full radio protocol stack (such as a full gNB protocol stack) , or a collection of devices or systems that collectively implement the full radio protocol stack. For example, and as shown, a network node 110 may be an aggregated network node (having an aggregated architecture) , meaning that the network node 110 may implement a full radio protocol stack that is physically and logically integrated within a single node (for example, a single physical structure) in the wireless communication network 100. For example, an aggregated network node 110 may consist of a single standalone base station or a single TRP that uses a full radio protocol stack to enable or facilitate communication between a UE 120 and a core network of the wireless communication network 100.
[0031] Alternatively, and as also shown, a network node 110 may be a disaggregated network node (sometimes referred to as a disaggregated base station) , meaning that the network node 110 may implement a radio protocol stack that is physically distributed and / or logically distributed among two or more nodes in the same geographic location or in different geographic locations. For example, a disaggregated network node may have a disaggregated architecture. In some deployments, disaggregated network nodes 110 may be used in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network, in an open radio access network (O-RAN) (such as a network configuration in compliance with the O-RAN Alliance) , or in a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) , also known as a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) , to facilitate scaling by separating base station functionality into multiple units that can be individually deployed.
[0032] The network nodes 110 of the wireless communication network 100 may include one or more central units (CUs) , one or more distributed units (DUs) , and / or one or more radio units (RUs) . A CU may host one or more higher layer control functions, such as radio resource control (RRC) functions, packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) functions, and / or service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) functions, among other examples. A DU may host one or more of a radio link control (RLC) layer, a medium access control (MAC) layer, and / or one or more higher physical (PHY) layers depending, at least in part, on a functional split, such as a functional split defined by the 3GPP. In some examples, a DU also may host one or more lower PHY layer functions, such as a fast Fourier transform (FFT) , an inverse FFT (iFFT) , beamforming, physical random access channel (PRACH) extraction and filtering, and / or scheduling of resources for one or more UEs 120, among other examples. An RU may host RF processing functions or lower PHY layer functions, such as an FFT, an iFFT, beamforming, or PRACH extraction and filtering, among other examples, according to a functional split, such as a lower layer functional split. In such an architecture, each RU can be operated to handle over the air (OTA) communication with one or more UEs 120.
[0033] In some aspects, a single network node 110 may include a combination of one or more CUs, one or more DUs, and / or one or more RUs. Additionally or alternatively, a network node 110 may include one or more Near-Real Time (Near-RT) RAN Intelligent Controllers (RICs) and / or one or more Non-Real Time (Non-RT) RICs. In some examples, a CU, a DU, and / or an RU may be implemented as a virtual unit, such as a virtual central unit (VCU) , a virtual distributed unit (VDU) , or a virtual radio unit (VRU) , among other examples. A virtual unit may be implemented as a virtual network function, such as associated with a cloud deployment.
[0034] Some network nodes 110 (for example, a base station, an RU, or a TRP) may provide communication coverage for a particular geographic area. In the 3GPP, the term “cell” can refer to a coverage area of a network node 110 or to a network node 110 itself, depending on the context in which the term is used. A network node 110 may support one or multiple (for example, three) cells. In some examples, a network node 110 may provide communication coverage for a macro cell, a pico cell, a femto cell, or another type of cell. A macro cell may cover a relatively large geographic area (for example, several kilometers in radius) and may allow unrestricted access by UEs 120 with service subscriptions. A pico cell may cover a relatively small geographic area and may allow unrestricted access by UEs 120 with service subscriptions. A femto cell may cover a relatively small geographic area (for example, a home) and may allow restricted access by UEs 120 having association with the femto cell (for example, UEs 120 in a closed subscriber group (CSG) ) . A network node 110 for a macro cell may be referred to as a macro network node. A network node 110 for a pico cell may be referred to as a pico network node. A network node 110 for a femto cell may be referred to as a femto network node or an in-home network node. In some examples, a cell may not necessarily be stationary. For example, the geographic area of the cell may move according to the location of an associated mobile network node 110 (for example, a train, a satellite base station, an unmanned aerial vehicle, or an NTN network node) .
[0035] The wireless communication network 100 may be a heterogeneous network that includes network nodes 110 of different types, such as macro network nodes, pico network nodes, femto network nodes, relay network nodes, aggregated network nodes, and / or disaggregated network nodes, among other examples. In the example shown in Fig. 1, the network node 110a may be a macro network node for a macro cell 130a, the network node 110b may be a pico network node for a pico cell 130b, and the network node 110c may be a femto network node for a femto cell 130c. Various different types of network nodes 110 may generally transmit at different power levels, serve different coverage areas, and / or have different impacts on interference in the wireless communication network 100 than other types of network nodes 110. For example, macro network nodes may have a high transmit power level (for example, 5 to 40 watts) , whereas pico network nodes, femto network nodes, and relay network nodes may have lower transmit power levels (for example, 0.1 to 2 watts) .
[0036] In some examples, a network node 110 may be, may include, or may operate as an RU, a TRP, or a base station that communicates with one or more UEs 120 via a radio access link (which may be referred to as a “Uu” link) . The radio access link may include a downlink and an uplink. “Downlink” (or “DL” ) refers to a communication direction from a network node 110 to a UE 120, and “uplink” (or “UL” ) refers to a communication direction from a UE 120 to a network node 110. Downlink channels may include one or more control channels and one or more data channels. A downlink control channel may be used to transmit downlink control information (DCI) (for example, scheduling information, reference signals, and / or configuration information) from a network node 110 to a UE 120. A downlink data channel may be used to transmit downlink data (for example, user data associated with a UE 120) from a network node 110 to a UE 120. Downlink control channels may include one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) , and downlink data channels may include one or more physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) . Uplink channels may similarly include one or more control channels and one or more data channels. An uplink control channel may be used to transmit uplink control information (UCI) (for example, reference signals and / or feedback corresponding to one or more downlink transmissions) from a UE 120 to a network node 110. An uplink data channel may be used to transmit uplink data (for example, user data associated with a UE 120) from a UE 120 to a network node 110. Uplink control channels may include one or more physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs) , and uplink data channels may include one or more physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs) . The downlink and the uplink may each include a set of resources on which the network node 110 and the UE 120 may communicate.
[0037] Downlink and uplink resources may include time domain resources (frames, subframes, slots, and / or symbols) , frequency domain resources (frequency bands, component carriers, subcarriers, resource blocks, and / or resource elements) , and / or spatial domain resources (particular transmit directions and / or beam parameters) . Frequency domain resources of some bands may be subdivided into bandwidth parts (BWPs) . A BWP may be a continuous block of frequency domain resources (for example, a continuous block of resource blocks) that are allocated for one or more UEs 120. A UE 120 may be configured with both an uplink BWP and a downlink BWP (where the uplink BWP and the downlink BWP may be the same BWP or different BWPs) . A BWP may be dynamically configured (for example, by a network node 110 transmitting a DCI configuration to the one or more UEs 120) and / or reconfigured, which means that a BWP can be adjusted in real-time (or near-real-time) based on changing network conditions in the wireless communication network 100 and / or based on the specific requirements of the one or more UEs 120. This enables more efficient use of the available frequency domain resources in the wireless communication network 100 because fewer frequency domain resources may be allocated to a BWP for a UE 120 (which may reduce the quantity of frequency domain resources that a UE 120 is required to monitor) , leaving more frequency domain resources to be spread across multiple UEs 120. Thus, BWPs may also assist in the implementation of lower-capability UEs 120 by facilitating the configuration of smaller bandwidths for communication by such UEs 120.
[0038] As described above, in some aspects, the wireless communication network 100 may be, may include, or may be included in, an IAB network. In an IAB network, at least one network node 110 is an anchor network node that communicates with a core network. An anchor network node 110 may also be referred to as an IAB donor (or “IAB-donor” ) . The anchor network node 110 may connect to the core network via a wired backhaul link. For example, an Ng interface of the anchor network node 110 may terminate at the core network. Additionally or alternatively, an anchor network node 110 may connect to one or more devices of the core network that provide a core access and mobility management function (AMF) . An IAB network also generally includes multiple non-anchor network nodes 110, which may also be referred to as relay network nodes or simply as IAB nodes (or “IAB-nodes” ) . Each non-anchor network node 110 may communicate directly with the anchor network node 110 via a wireless backhaul link to access the core network, or may communicate indirectly with the anchor network node 110 via one or more other non-anchor network nodes 110 and associated wireless backhaul links that form a backhaul path to the core network. Some anchor network node 110 or other non-anchor network node 110 may also communicate directly with one or more UEs 120 via wireless access links that carry access traffic. In some examples, network resources for wireless communication (such as time resources, frequency resources, and / or spatial resources) may be shared between access links and backhaul links.
[0039] In some examples, any network node 110 that relays communications may be referred to as a relay network node, a relay station, or simply as a relay. A relay may receive a transmission of a communication from an upstream station (for example, another network node 110 or a UE 120) and transmit the communication to a downstream station (for example, a UE 120 or another network node 110) . In this case, the wireless communication network 100 may include or be referred to as a “multi-hop network. ” In the example shown in Fig. 1, the network node 110d (for example, a relay network node) may communicate with the network node 110a (for example, a macro network node) and the UE 120d in order to facilitate communication between the network node 110a and the UE 120d. Additionally or alternatively, a UE 120 may be or may operate as a relay station that can relay transmissions to or from other UEs 120. A UE 120 that relays communications may be referred to as a UE relay or a relay UE, among other examples.
[0040] The UEs 120 may be physically dispersed throughout the wireless communication network 100, and each UE 120 may be stationary or mobile. A UE 120 may be, may include, or may be included in an access terminal, another terminal, a mobile station, or a subscriber unit. A UE 120 may be, include, or be coupled with a cellular phone (for example, a smart phone) , a personal digital assistant (PDA) , a wireless modem, a wireless communication device, a handheld device, a laptop computer, a cordless phone, a wireless local loop (WLL) station, a tablet, a camera, a gaming device, a netbook, a smartbook, an ultrabook, a medical device, a biometric device, a wearable device (for example, a smart watch, smart clothing, smart glasses, a smart wristband, and / or smart jewelry, such as a smart ring or a smart bracelet) , an entertainment device (for example, a music device, a video device, and / or a satellite radio) , an XR device, a vehicular component or sensor, a smart meter or sensor, industrial manufacturing equipment, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) device (such as a Global Positioning System device or another type of positioning device) , a UE function of a network node, and / or any other suitable device or function that may communicate via a wireless medium.
[0041] A UE 120 and / or a network node 110 may include one or more chips, system-on-chips (SoCs) , chipsets, packages, or devices that individually or collectively constitute or comprise a processing system. The processing system includes processor (or “processing” ) circuitry in the form of one or multiple processors, microprocessors, processing units (such as central processing units (CPUs) , graphics processing units (GPUs) , neural processing units (NPUs) and / or digital signal processors (DSPs) ) , processing blocks, application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) , programmable logic devices (PLDs) (such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) ) , or other discrete gate or transistor logic or circuitry (all of which may be generally referred to herein individually as “processors” or collectively as “the processor” or “the processor circuitry” ) . One or more of the processors may be individually or collectively configurable or configured to perform various functions or operations described herein. A group of processors collectively configurable or configured to perform a set of functions may include a first processor configurable or configured to perform a first function of the set and a second processor configurable or configured to perform a second function of the set, or may include the group of processors all being configured or configurable to perform the set of functions.
[0042] The processing system may further include memory circuitry in the form of one or more memory devices, memory blocks, memory elements or other discrete gate or transistor logic or circuitry, each of which may include tangible storage media such as random-access memory (RAM) or read-only memory (ROM) , or combinations thereof (all of which may be generally referred to herein individually as “memories” or collectively as “the memory” or “the memory circuitry” ) . One or more of the memories may be coupled (for example, operatively coupled, communicatively coupled, electronically coupled, or electrically coupled) with one or more of the processors and may individually or collectively store processor-executable code (such as software) that, when executed by one or more of the processors, may configure one or more of the processors to perform various functions or operations described herein. Additionally or alternatively, in some examples, one or more of the processors may be preconfigured to perform various functions or operations described herein without requiring configuration by software. The processing system may further include or be coupled with one or more modems (such as a Wi-Fi (for example, IEEE compliant) modem or a cellular (for example, 3GPP 4G LTE, 5G, or 6G compliant) modem) . In some implementations, one or more processors of the processing system include or implement one or more of the modems. The processing system may further include or be coupled with multiple radios (collectively “the radio” ) , multiple RF chains, or multiple transceivers, each of which may in turn be coupled with one or more of multiple antennas. In some implementations, one or more processors of the processing system include or implement one or more of the radios, RF chains or transceivers. The UE 120 may include or may be included in a housing that houses components associated with the UE 120 including the processing system.
[0043] Some UEs 120 may be considered machine-type communication (MTC) UEs, evolved or enhanced machine-type communication (eMTC) , UEs, further enhanced eMTC (feMTC) UEs, or enhanced feMTC (efeMTC) UEs, or further evolutions thereof, all of which may be simply referred to as “MTC UEs” ) . An MTC UE may be, may include, or may be included in or coupled with a robot, an uncrewed aerial vehicle, a remote device, a sensor, a meter, a monitor, and / or a location tag. Some UEs 120 may be considered IoT devices and / or may be implemented as NB-IoT (narrowband IoT) devices. An IoT UE or NB-IoT device may be, may include, or may be included in or coupled with an industrial machine, an appliance, a refrigerator, a doorbell camera device, a home automation device, and / or a light fixture, among other examples. Some UEs 120 may be considered Customer Premises Equipment, which may include telecommunications devices that are installed at a customer location (such as a home or office) to enable access to a service provider's network (such as included in or in communication with the wireless communication network 100) .
[0044] Some UEs 120 may be classified according to different categories in association with different complexities and / or different capabilities. UEs 120 in a first category may facilitate massive IoT in the wireless communication network 100, and may offer low complexity and / or cost relative to UEs 120 in a second category. UEs 120 in a second category may include mission-critical IoT devices, legacy UEs, baseline UEs, high-tier UEs, advanced UEs, full-capability UEs, and / or premium UEs that are capable of URLLC, enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) , and / or precise positioning in the wireless communication network 100, among other examples. A third category of UEs 120 may have mid-tier complexity and / or capability (for example, a capability between UEs 120 of the first category and UEs 120 of the second capability) . A UE 120 of the third category may be referred to as a reduced capacity UE ( “RedCap UE” ) , a mid-tier UE, an NR-Light UE, and / or an NR-Lite UE, among other examples. RedCap UEs may bridge a gap between the capability and complexity of NB-IoT devices and / or eMTC UEs, and mission-critical IoT devices and / or premium UEs. RedCap UEs may include, for example, wearable devices, IoT devices, industrial sensors, and / or cameras that are associated with a limited bandwidth, power capacity, and / or transmission range, among other examples. RedCap UEs may support healthcare environments, building automation, electrical distribution, process automation, transport and logistics, and / or smart city deployments, among other examples.
[0045] In some examples, two or more UEs 120 (for example, shown as UE 120a and UE 120e) may communicate directly with one another using sidelink communications (for example, without communicating by way of a network node 110 as an intermediary) . As an example, the UE 120a may directly transmit data, control information, or other signaling as a sidelink communication to the UE 120e. This is in contrast to, for example, the UE 120a first transmitting data in an UL communication to a network node 110, which then transmits the data to the UE 120e in a DL communication. In various examples, the UEs 120 may transmit and receive sidelink communications using peer-to-peer (P2P) communication protocols, device-to-device (D2D) communication protocols, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication protocols (which may include vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) protocols, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) protocols, and / or vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) protocols) , and / or mesh network communication protocols. In some deployments and configurations, a network node 110 may schedule and / or allocate resources for sidelink communications between UEs 120 in the wireless communication network 100. In some other deployments and configurations, a UE 120 (instead of a network node 110) may perform, or collaborate or negotiate with one or more other UEs to perform, scheduling operations, resource selection operations, and / or other operations for sidelink communications.
[0046] In various examples, some of the network nodes 110 and the UEs 120 of the wireless communication network 100 may be configured for full-duplex operation in addition to half-duplex operation. A network node 110 or a UE 120 operating in a half-duplex mode may perform only one of transmission or reception during particular time resources, such as during particular slots, symbols, or other time periods. Half-duplex operation may involve time-division duplexing (TDD) , in which DL transmissions of the network node 110 and UL transmissions of the UE 120 do not occur in the same time resources (that is, the transmissions do not overlap in time) . In contrast, a network node 110 or a UE 120 operating in a full-duplex mode can transmit and receive communications concurrently (for example, in the same time resources) . By operating in a full-duplex mode, network nodes 110 and / or UEs 120 may generally increase the capacity of the network and the radio access link. In some examples, full-duplex operation may involve frequency-division duplexing (FDD) , in which DL transmissions of the network node 110 are performed in a first frequency band or on a first component carrier and transmissions of the UE 120 are performed in a second frequency band or on a second component carrier different than the first frequency band or the first component carrier, respectively. In some examples, full-duplex operation may be enabled for a UE 120 but not for a network node 110. For example, a UE 120 may simultaneously transmit an UL transmission to a first network node 110 and receive a DL transmission from a second network node 110 in the same time resources. In some other examples, full-duplex operation may be enabled for a network node 110 but not for a UE 120. For example, a network node 110 may simultaneously transmit a DL transmission to a first UE 120 and receive an UL transmission from a second UE 120 in the same time resources. In some other examples, full-duplex operation may be enabled for both a network node 110 and a UE 120.
[0047] In some examples, the UEs 120 and the network nodes 110 may perform MIMO communication. “MIMO” generally refers to transmitting or receiving multiple signals (such as multiple layers or multiple data streams) simultaneously over the same time and frequency resources. MIMO techniques generally exploit multipath propagation. MIMO may be implemented using various spatial processing or spatial multiplexing operations. In some examples, MIMO may support simultaneous transmission to multiple receivers, referred to as multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) . Some RATs may employ advanced MIMO techniques, such as mTRP operation (including redundant transmission or reception on multiple TRPs) , reciprocity in the time domain or the frequency domain, single-frequency-network (SFN) transmission, or non-coherent joint transmission (NC-JT) .
[0048] In some aspects, the UE 120 may be an Ambient IoT device. Ambient IoT devices 125 may be categorized into at least three types of devices: device 1, device 2a, and device 2b. Device 1 type ambient IoT devices may include at least some passive and / or semi-passive devices. A device 1 type ambient IoT device may have approximately 1 μW peak power consumption, support energy storage, use an initial sampling frequency offset (SFO) up to 10X ppm (for example, where X can be any suitable value) , and communicate uplink transmissions by backscattering externally-provided CWs.
[0049] Device 2a type ambient IoT devices may include at least some semi-passive devices, and device 2b type ambient IoT devices may include active devices. Both device 2a and device 2b type ambient IoT devices may have less than or equal to a few hundred μW peak power consumption, support energy storage, and use an initial SFO up to 10X ppm. A device 2a type ambient IoT device may communicate uplink transmissions by backscattering externally-provided CWs. A device 2b type ambient IoT device may communicate uplink transmissions by internally generating the uplink transmission.
[0050] In some aspects, the UE 120 or an A-IoT device may include a communication manager 140. As described in more detail elsewhere herein, the communication manager 140 may receive, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an on-off keying (OOK) sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, and wherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of: a same on or off (on / off) value, or a same chip length; and synchronize with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal. Additionally, or alternatively, the communication manager 140 may perform one or more other operations described herein.
[0051] As indicated above, Fig. 1 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 1.
[0052] Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example network node 110 in communication with an example UE 120 in a wireless network in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0053] As shown in Fig. 2, the network node 110 may include a data source 212, a transmit processor 214, a transmit (TX) MIMO processor 216, a set of modems 232 (shown as 232a through 232t, where t ≥ 1) , a set of antennas 234 (shown as 234a through 234v, where v ≥ 1) , a MIMO detector 236, a receive processor 238, a data sink 239, a controller / processor 240, a memory 242, a communication unit 244, a scheduler 246, and / or a communication manager 150, among other examples. In some configurations, one or a combination of the antenna (s) 234, the modem (s) 232, the MIMO detector 236, the receive processor 238, the transmit processor 214, and / or the TX MIMO processor 216 may be included in a transceiver of the network node 110. The transceiver may be under control of and used by one or more processors, such as the controller / processor 240, and in some aspects in conjunction with processor-readable code stored in the memory 242, to perform aspects of the methods, processes, and / or operations described herein. In some aspects, the network node 110 may include one or more interfaces, communication components, and / or other components that facilitate communication with the UE 120 or another network node.
[0054] The terms “processor, ” “controller, ” or “controller / processor” may refer to one or more controllers and / or one or more processors. For example, reference to “a / the processor, ” “a / the controller / processor, ” or the like (in the singular) should be understood to refer to any one or more of the processors described in connection with Fig. 2, such as a single processor or a combination of multiple different processors. Reference to “one or more processors” should be understood to refer to any one or more of the processors described in connection with Fig. 2. For example, one or more processors of the network node 110 may include transmit processor 214, TX MIMO processor 216, MIMO detector 236, receive processor 238, and / or controller / processor 240. Similarly, one or more processors of the UE 120 may include MIMO detector 256, receive processor 258, transmit processor 264, TX MIMO processor 266, and / or controller / processor 280.
[0055] In some aspects, a single processor may perform all of the operations described as being performed by the one or more processors. In some aspects, a first set of (one or more) processors of the one or more processors may perform a first operation described as being performed by the one or more processors, and a second set of (one or more) processors of the one or more processors may perform a second operation described as being performed by the one or more processors. The first set of processors and the second set of processors may be the same set of processors or may be different sets of processors. Reference to “one or more memories” should be understood to refer to any one or more memories of a corresponding device, such as the memory described in connection with Fig. 2. For example, operation described as being performed by one or more memories can be performed by the same subset of the one or more memories or different subsets of the one or more memories.
[0056] For downlink communication from the network node 110 to the UE 120, the transmit processor 214 may receive data ( “downlink data” ) intended for the UE 120 (or a set of UEs that includes the UE 120) from the data source 212 (such as a data pipeline or a data queue) . In some examples, the transmit processor 214 may select one or more MCSs for the UE 120 in accordance with one or more channel quality indicators (CQIs) received from the UE 120. The network node 110 may process the data (for example, including encoding the data) for transmission to the UE 120 on a downlink in accordance with the MCS (s) selected for the UE 120 to generate data symbols. The transmit processor 214 may process system information (for example, semi-static resource partitioning information (SRPI) ) and / or control information (for example, CQI requests, grants, and / or upper layer signaling) and provide overhead symbols and / or control symbols. The transmit processor 214 may generate reference symbols for reference signals (for example, a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) , a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) , or a channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) ) and / or synchronization signals (for example, a primary synchronization signal (PSS) or a secondary synchronization signals (SSS) ) .
[0057] The TX MIMO processor 216 may perform spatial processing (for example, precoding) on the data symbols, the control symbols, the overhead symbols, and / or the reference symbols, if applicable, and may provide a set of output symbol streams (for example, T output symbol streams) to the set of modems 232. For example, each output symbol stream may be provided to a respective modulator component (shown as MOD) of a modem 232. Each modem 232 may use the respective modulator component to process (for example, to modulate) a respective output symbol stream (for example, for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) ) to obtain an output sample stream. Each modem 232 may further use the respective modulator component to process (for example, convert to analog, amplify, filter, and / or upconvert) the output sample stream to obtain a time domain downlink signal. The modems 232a through 232t may together transmit a set of downlink signals (for example, T downlink signals) via the corresponding set of antennas 234.
[0058] A downlink signal may include a DCI communication, a MAC control element (MAC-CE) communication, an RRC communication, a downlink reference signal, or another type of downlink communication. Downlink signals may be transmitted on a PDCCH, a PDSCH, and / or on another downlink channel. A downlink signal may carry one or more transport blocks (TBs) of data. A TB may be a unit of data that is transmitted over an air interface in the wireless communication network 100. A data stream (for example, from the data source 212) may be encoded into multiple TBs for transmission over the air interface. The quantity of TBs used to carry the data associated with a particular data stream may be associated with a TB size common to the multiple TBs. The TB size may be based on or otherwise associated with radio channel conditions of the air interface, the MCS used for encoding the data, the downlink resources allocated for transmitting the data, and / or another parameter. In general, the larger the TB size, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted in a single transmission, which reduces signaling overhead. However, larger TB sizes may be more prone to transmission and / or reception errors than smaller TB sizes, but such errors may be mitigated by more robust error correction techniques.
[0059] For uplink communication from the UE 120 to the network node 110, uplink signals from the UE 120 may be received by an antenna 234, may be processed by a modem 232 (for example, a demodulator component, shown as DEMOD, of a modem 232) , may be detected by the MIMO detector 236 (for example, a receive (Rx) MIMO processor) if applicable, and / or may be further processed by the receive processor 238 to obtain decoded data and / or control information. The receive processor 238 may provide the decoded data to a data sink 239 (which may be a data pipeline, a data queue, and / or another type of data sink) and provide the decoded control information to a processor, such as the controller / processor 240.
[0060] The network node 110 may use the scheduler 246 to schedule one or more UEs 120 for downlink or uplink communications. In some aspects, the scheduler 246 may use DCI to dynamically schedule DL transmissions to the UE 120 and / or UL transmissions from the UE 120. In some examples, the scheduler 246 may allocate recurring time domain resources and / or frequency domain resources that the UE 120 may use to transmit and / or receive communications using an RRC configuration (for example, a semi-static configuration) , for example, to perform semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) or to configure a configured grant (CG) for the UE 120.
[0061] One or more of the transmit processor 214, the TX MIMO processor 216, the modem 232, the antenna 234, the MIMO detector 236, the receive processor 238, and / or the controller / processor 240 may be included in an RF chain of the network node 110. An RF chain may include one or more filters, mixers, oscillators, amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) , and / or other devices that convert between an analog signal (such as for transmission or reception via an air interface) and a digital signal (such as for processing by one or more processors of the network node 110) . In some aspects, the RF chain may be or may be included in a transceiver of the network node 110.
[0062] In some examples, the network node 110 may use the communication unit 244 to communicate with a core network and / or with other network nodes. The communication unit 244 may support wired and / or wireless communication protocols and / or connections, such as Ethernet, optical fiber, common public radio interface (CPRI) , and / or a wired or wireless backhaul, among other examples. The network node 110 may use the communication unit 244 to transmit and / or receive data associated with the UE 120 or to perform network control signaling, among other examples. The communication unit 244 may include a transceiver and / or an interface, such as a network interface.
[0063] The UE 120 may include a set of antennas 252 (shown as antennas 252a through 252r, where r ≥ 1) , a set of modems 254 (shown as modems 254a through 254u, where u ≥ 1) , a MIMO detector 256, a receive processor 258, a data sink 260, a data source 262, a transmit processor 264, a TX MIMO processor 266, a controller / processor 280, a memory 282, and / or a communication manager 140, among other examples. One or more of the components of the UE 120 may be included in a housing 284. In some aspects, one or a combination of the antenna (s) 252, the modem (s) 254, the MIMO detector 256, the receive processor 258, the transmit processor 264, or the TX MIMO processor 266 may be included in a transceiver that is included in the UE 120. The transceiver may be under control of and used by one or more processors, such as the controller / processor 280, and in some aspects in conjunction with processor-readable code stored in the memory 282, to perform aspects of the methods, processes, or operations described herein. In some aspects, the UE 120 may include another interface, another communication component, and / or another component that facilitates communication with the network node 110 and / or another UE 120.
[0064] For downlink communication from the network node 110 to the UE 120, the set of antennas 252 may receive the downlink communications or signals from the network node 110 and may provide a set of received downlink signals (for example, R received signals) to the set of modems 254. For example, each received signal may be provided to a respective demodulator component (shown as DEMOD) of a modem 254. Each modem 254 may use the respective demodulator component to condition (for example, filter, amplify, downconvert, and / or digitize) a received signal to obtain input samples. Each modem 254 may use the respective demodulator component to further demodulate or process the input samples (for example, for OFDM) to obtain received symbols. The MIMO detector 256 may obtain received symbols from the set of modems 254, may perform MIMO detection on the received symbols if applicable, and may provide detected symbols. The receive processor 258 may process (for example, decode) the detected symbols, may provide decoded data for the UE 120 to the data sink 260 (which may include a data pipeline, a data queue, and / or an application executed on the UE 120) , and may provide decoded control information and system information to the controller / processor 280.
[0065] For uplink communication from the UE 120 to the network node 110, the transmit processor 264 may receive and process data ( “uplink data” ) from a data source 262 (such as a data pipeline, a data queue, and / or an application executed on the UE 120) and control information from the controller / processor 280. The control information may include one or more parameters, feedback, one or more signal measurements, and / or other types of control information. In some aspects, the receive processor 258 and / or the controller / processor 280 may determine, for a received signal (such as received from the network node 110 or another UE) , one or more parameters relating to transmission of the uplink communication. The one or more parameters may include a reference signal received power (RSRP) parameter, a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) parameter, a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) parameter, a CQI parameter, or a transmit power control (TPC) parameter, among other examples. The control information may include an indication of the RSRP parameter, the RSSI parameter, the RSRQ parameter, the CQI parameter, the TPC parameter, and / or another parameter. The control information may facilitate parameter selection and / or scheduling for the UE 120 by the network node 110.
[0066] The transmit processor 264 may generate reference symbols for one or more reference signals, such as an uplink DMRS, an uplink sounding reference signal (SRS) , and / or another type of reference signal. The symbols from the transmit processor 264 may be precoded by the TX MIMO processor 266, if applicable, and further processed by the set of modems 254 (for example, for DFT-s-OFDM or CP-OFDM) . The TX MIMO processor 266 may perform spatial processing (for example, precoding) on the data symbols, the control symbols, the overhead symbols, and / or the reference symbols, if applicable, and may provide a set of output symbol streams (for example, U output symbol streams) to the set of modems 254. For example, each output symbol stream may be provided to a respective modulator component (shown as MOD) of a modem 254. Each modem 254 may use the respective modulator component to process (for example, to modulate) a respective output symbol stream (for example, for OFDM) to obtain an output sample stream. Each modem 254 may further use the respective modulator component to process (for example, convert to analog, amplify, filter, and / or upconvert) the output sample stream to obtain an uplink signal.
[0067] The modems 254a through 254u may transmit a set of uplink signals (for example, R uplink signals or U uplink symbols) via the corresponding set of antennas 252. An uplink signal may include a UCI communication, a MAC-CE communication, an RRC communication, or another type of uplink communication. Uplink signals may be transmitted on a PUSCH, a PUCCH, and / or another type of uplink channel. An uplink signal may carry one or more TBs of data. Sidelink data and control transmissions (that is, transmissions directly between two or more UEs 120) may generally use similar techniques as were described for uplink data and control transmission, and may use sidelink-specific channels such as a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) , a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) , and / or a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) .
[0068] One or more antennas of the set of antennas 252 or the set of antennas 234 may include, or may be included within, one or more antenna panels, one or more antenna groups, one or more sets of antenna elements, or one or more antenna arrays, among other examples. An antenna panel, an antenna group, a set of antenna elements, or an antenna array may include one or more antenna elements (within a single housing or multiple housings) , a set of coplanar antenna elements, a set of non-coplanar antenna elements, or one or more antenna elements coupled with one or more transmission or reception components, such as one or more components of Fig. 2. As used herein, “antenna” can refer to one or more antennas, one or more antenna panels, one or more antenna groups, one or more sets of antenna elements, or one or more antenna arrays. “Antenna panel” can refer to a group of antennas (such as antenna elements) arranged in an array or panel, which may facilitate beamforming by manipulating parameters of the group of antennas. “Antenna module” may refer to circuitry including one or more antennas, which may also include one or more other components (such as filters, amplifiers, or processors) associated with integrating the antenna module into a wireless communication device.
[0069] In some examples, each of the antenna elements of an antenna 234 or an antenna 252 may include one or more sub-elements for radiating or receiving radio frequency signals. For example, a single antenna element may include a first sub-element cross-polarized with a second sub-element that can be used to independently transmit cross-polarized signals. The antenna elements may include patch antennas, dipole antennas, and / or other types of antennas arranged in a linear pattern, a two-dimensional pattern, or another pattern. A spacing between antenna elements may be such that signals with a desired wavelength transmitted separately by the antenna elements may interact or interfere constructively and destructively along various directions (such as to form a desired beam) . For example, given an expected range of wavelengths or frequencies, the spacing may provide a quarter wavelength, a half wavelength, or another fraction of a wavelength of spacing between neighboring antenna elements to allow for the desired constructive and destructive interference patterns of signals transmitted by the separate antenna elements within that expected range.
[0070] The amplitudes and / or phases of signals transmitted via antenna elements and / or sub-elements may be modulated and shifted relative to each other (such as by manipulating phase shift, phase offset, and / or amplitude) to generate one or more beams, which is referred to as beamforming. The term “beam” may refer to a directional transmission of a wireless signal toward a receiving device or otherwise in a desired direction. “Beam” may also generally refer to a direction associated with such a directional signal transmission, a set of directional resources associated with the signal transmission (for example, an angle of arrival, a horizontal direction, and / or a vertical direction) , and / or a set of parameters that indicate one or more aspects of a directional signal, a direction associated with the signal, and / or a set of directional resources associated with the signal. In some implementations, antenna elements may be individually selected or deselected for directional transmission of a signal (or signals) by controlling amplitudes of one or more corresponding amplifiers and / or phases of the signal (s) to form one or more beams. The shape of a beam (such as the amplitude, width, and / or presence of side lobes) and / or the direction of a beam (such as an angle of the beam relative to a surface of an antenna array) can be dynamically controlled by modifying the phase shifts, phase offsets, and / or amplitudes of the multiple signals relative to each other.
[0071] Different UEs 120 or network nodes 110 may include different numbers of antenna elements. For example, a UE 120 may include a single antenna element, two antenna elements, four antenna elements, eight antenna elements, or a different number of antenna elements. As another example, a network node 110 may include eight antenna elements, 24 antenna elements, 64 antenna elements, 128 antenna elements, or a different number of antenna elements. Generally, a larger number of antenna elements may provide increased control over parameters for beam generation relative to a smaller number of antenna elements, whereas a smaller number of antenna elements may be less complex to implement and may use less power than a larger number of antenna elements. Multiple antenna elements may support multiple-layer transmission, in which a first layer of a communication (which may include a first data stream) and a second layer of a communication (which may include a second data stream) are transmitted using the same time and frequency resources with spatial multiplexing.
[0072] While blocks in Fig. 2 are illustrated as distinct components, the functions described above with respect to the blocks may be implemented in a single hardware, software, or combination component or in various combinations of components. For example, the functions described with respect to the transmit processor 264, the receive processor 258, and / or the TX MIMO processor 266 may be performed by or under the control of the controller / processor 280.
[0073] Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example disaggregated base station architecture 300 in accordance with the present disclosure. One or more components of the example disaggregated base station architecture 300 may be, may include, or may be included in one or more network nodes (such one or more network nodes 110) . The disaggregated base station architecture 300 may include a CU 310 that can communicate directly with a core network 320 via a backhaul link, or that can communicate indirectly with the core network 320 via one or more disaggregated control units, such as a Non-RT RIC 350 associated with a Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) Framework 360 and / or a Near-RT RIC 370 (for example, via an E2 link) . The CU 310 may communicate with one or more DUs 330 via respective midhaul links, such as via F1 interfaces. Each of the DUs 330 may communicate with one or more RUs 340 via respective fronthaul links. Each of the RUs 340 may communicate with one or more UEs 120 via respective RF access links. In some deployments, a UE 120 may be simultaneously served by multiple RUs 340.
[0074] Each of the components of the disaggregated base station architecture 300, including the CUs 310, the DUs 330, the RUs 340, the Near-RT RICs 370, the Non-RT RICs 350, and the SMO Framework 360, may include one or more interfaces or may be coupled with one or more interfaces for receiving or transmitting signals, such as data or information, via a wired or wireless transmission medium.
[0075] In some aspects, the CU 310 may be logically split into one or more CU user plane (CU-UP) units and one or more CU control plane (CU-CP) units. A CU-UP unit may communicate bidirectionally with a CU-CP unit via an interface, such as the E1 interface when implemented in an O-RAN configuration. The CU 310 may be deployed to communicate with one or more DUs 330, as necessary, for network control and signaling. Each DU 330 may correspond to a logical unit that includes one or more base station functions to control the operation of one or more RUs 340. For example, a DU 330 may host various layers, such as an RLC layer, a MAC layer, or one or more PHY layers, such as one or more high PHY layers or one or more low PHY layers. Each layer (which also may be referred to as a module) may be implemented with an interface for communicating signals with other layers (and modules) hosted by the DU 330, or for communicating signals with the control functions hosted by the CU 310. Each RU 340 may implement lower layer functionality. In some aspects, real-time and non-real-time aspects of control and user plane communication with the RU (s) 340 may be controlled by the corresponding DU 330.
[0076] The SMO Framework 360 may support RAN deployment and provisioning of non-virtualized and virtualized network elements. For non-virtualized network elements, the SMO Framework 360 may support the deployment of dedicated physical resources for RAN coverage requirements, which may be managed via an operations and maintenance interface, such as an O1 interface. For virtualized network elements, the SMO Framework 360 may interact with a cloud computing platform (such as an open cloud (O-Cloud) platform 390) to perform network element life cycle management (such as to instantiate virtualized network elements) via a cloud computing platform interface, such as an O2 interface. A virtualized network element may include, but is not limited to, a CU 310, a DU 330, an RU 340, a non-RT RIC 350, and / or a Near-RT RIC 370. In some aspects, the SMO Framework 360 may communicate with a hardware aspect of a 4G RAN, a 5G NR RAN, and / or a 6G RAN, such as an open eNB (O-eNB) 380, via an O1 interface. Additionally or alternatively, the SMO Framework 360 may communicate directly with each of one or more RUs 340 via a respective O1 interface. In some deployments, this configuration can enable each DU 330 and the CU 310 to be implemented in a cloud-based RAN architecture, such as a vRAN architecture.
[0077] The Non-RT RIC 350 may include or may implement a logical function that enables non-real-time control and optimization of RAN elements and resources, AI / ML workflows including model training and updates, and / or policy-based guidance of applications and / or features in the Near-RT RIC 370. The Non-RT RIC 350 may be coupled to or may communicate with (such as via an A1 interface) the Near-RT RIC 370. The Near-RT RIC 370 may include or may implement a logical function that enables near-real-time control and optimization of RAN elements and resources via data collection and actions via an interface (such as via an E2 interface) connecting one or more CUs 310, one or more DUs 330, and / or an O-eNB with the Near-RT RIC 370.
[0078] In some aspects, to generate AI / ML models to be deployed in the Near-RT RIC 370, the Non-RT RIC 350 may receive parameters or external enrichment information from external servers. Such information may be utilized by the Near-RT RIC 370 and may be received at the SMO Framework 360 or the Non-RT RIC 350 from non-network data sources or from network functions. In some examples, the Non-RT RIC 350 or the Near-RT RIC 370 may tune RAN behavior or performance. For example, the Non-RT RIC 350 may monitor long-term trends and patterns for performance and may employ AI / ML models to perform corrective actions via the SMO Framework 360 (such as reconfiguration via an O1 interface) or via creation of RAN management policies (such as A1 interface policies) .
[0079] As indicated above, Fig. 3 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 3.
[0080] The network node 110, the controller / processor 240 of the network node 110, the UE 120, the controller / processor 280 of the UE 120, the CU 310, the DU 330, the RU 340, or any other component (s) of Figs. 1, 2, or 3 may implement one or more techniques or perform one or more operations associated with CP design for reference signals, as described in more detail elsewhere herein. For example, the controller / processor 240 of the network node 110, the controller / processor 280 of the UE 120, any other component (s) of Fig. 2, the CU 310, the DU 330, or the RU 340 may perform or direct operations of, for example, process 1000 of Fig. 10, or other processes as described herein (alone or in conjunction with one or more other processors) . The memory 242 may store data and program codes for the network node 110, the network node 110, the CU 310, the DU 330, or the RU 340. The memory 282 may store data and program codes for the UE 120. In some examples, the memory 242 or the memory 282 may include a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions (for example, code or program code) for wireless communication. The memory 242 may include one or more memories, such as a single memory or multiple different memories (of the same type or of different types) . The memory 282 may include one or more memories, such as a single memory or multiple different memories (of the same type or of different types) . For example, the set of instructions, when executed (for example, directly, or after compiling, converting, or interpreting) by one or more processors of the network node 110, the UE 120, the CU 310, the DU 330, or the RU 340, may cause the one or more processors to perform process 1000 of Fig. 10, or other processes as described herein. In some examples, executing instructions may include running the instructions, converting the instructions, compiling the instructions, and / or interpreting the instructions, among other examples.
[0081] In some aspects, a device, such as the UE 120, includes means for receiving, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an OFDM symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an OOK sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, and wherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of: a same on / off value, or a same chip length; and / or means for synchronizing with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal. In some aspects, the means for the device to perform operations described herein may include, for example, one or more of communication manager 140, antenna 252, modem 254, MIMO detector 256, receive processor 258, transmit processor 264, TX MIMO processor 266, controller / processor 280, or memory 282.
[0082] As indicated above, Fig. 3 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 3.
[0083] Figs. 4 and 5 are diagrams illustrating examples 400 and 500 of transmission of a reference signal using an OFDM waveform and OOK modulation, in accordance with the present disclosure. Example 400 shows OOK-1, in which a single OOK chip (which may also be referred to as a state or bit) is modulated per OFDM symbol. Example 500 shows OOK-4, in which four OOK chips of equal length (or substantially equal length) are modulated per OFDM symbol.
[0084] As shown in example 400 in Fig. 4, a transmitter may obtain, for example, a low-power wakeup signal (LP-WUS) 405 and may map the LP-WUS 405 on a first number of resource elements (denoted 0 through N-1) . The transmitter may map another signal 410 (such as an NR signal) on a second number of resource elements (denoted N through K-1) . The transmitter may perform inverse fast Fourier transformation (IFFT) 415 and cyclic prefix (CP) addition 420, and may thus generate one or more OFDM symbols. In example 400, an OFDM symbol 425 may include a single OOK chip.
[0085] In example 500 in Fig. 5, a transmitter may obtain an LP-WUS 505. The LP-WUS 505 may include an OOK sequence with 4 bits. In example 500, the 4 bits include “0110. ” The transmitter 505 may perform signal generation and modification 510 on the LP-WUS 505, time domain transformation 515 via least square determination or discrete Fourier transform (DFT) precoding, and truncation and modification 520. As shown, the transmitter may perform IFFT 525 and CP addition 530 to generate an OFDM symbol 535 that includes a CP. The OFDM symbol 535 may include an OOK sequence corresponding to the 4-bit LP-WUS 505.
[0086] As indicated above, Figs. 4 and 5 are provided as examples. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Figs. 4 and 5.
[0087] Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example 600 of ambiguity in OOK modulation when using an OFDM waveform with cyclic prefixes. Example 600 includes OFDM symbols 605, 610, and 615. The OFDM symbols 605, 610, and 615 may be modulated, using OOK modulation, with a three-symbol reference signal having the OOK sequence “101001101010. ” Example 600 illustrates OOK-4 modulation with 4 OOK chips per OFDM symbol. However, the issues described with regard to example 600, and the techniques described with regard to Figs. 7-9, can be implemented for any number of OOK chips per OFDM symbol and any number of input bits for precoding prior to OOK modulation. OOK-1 may carry one OOK chip per OFDM symbol. OOK-4 with M may carry M OOK chips per OFDM symbol. Fig. 6 illustrates OOK-4 with M = 4. If Manchester coding is adopted, multiple (e.g., two) consecutive OOK chips may carry 1 bit. OOK-1 with Manchester coding may carry 1 bit per two consecutive OFDM symbols. OOK-4 with Manchester coding may carry 1 bit per two OOK chips in an OFDM symbol.
[0088] OFDM symbols prior to CP addition are illustrated by reference number 620. Each OFDM symbol includes four OOK chips. Each OOK chip has a value of 0 (denoted by a shorter vertical bar) or 1 (denoted by a longer vertical bar) . In example 600, a segment of a fourth OOK chip (denoted by a dotted fill) is added to a beginning of each OFDM symbol. For example, a segment of a payload of an OFDM symbol (which includes the segment of the fourth OOK chip) may be added to the beginning of the OFDM symbol. Thus, the cyclic prefix may be derived from the segment of the payload.
[0089] The addition of the segment of the fourth OOK chip as a cyclic prefix may cause ambiguity with regard to (1) a value of the first OOK chip and / or (2) a symbol boundary of each OFDM symbol, among other examples. For example, as shown by reference number 625, the segment of the fourth OOK chip may have a different value than a first OOK chip. Thus, CP addition for an OFDM symbol 605 / 610 / 615 may create an unintentional ON or OFF state for an OOK sequence, leading to a situation where an A-IoT device may not be able to identify a CP of the OOK sequence and may consider the CP as an OOK chip, leading to performance loss for A-IoT communications. Furthermore, for a reader-to-device timing acquisition signal, an unintentional ON and / or OFF (as illustrated by reference number 625) may cause timing acquisition error at an A-IoT device receiver, which causes losses of timing and / or chip / symbol boundary, and degrades performance. Furthermore, inconsistent length of OOK chips, as may be caused by CP addition, may lead to failures of A-IoT devices to successfully detect a reference signal for the reasons described above. Aspects described herein provide designs for OOK modulation based reference signals such that unintentional on / off identification is reduced or eliminated for OOK based OFDM waveform reference signals.
[0090] As indicated above, Fig. 6 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 6.
[0091] Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example 700 of a reference signal design that provides OOK chips with a same on / off state and / or chip length for OFDM waveforms incorporating a CP, in accordance with the present disclosure. Example 700 illustrates a reference signal 705 that uses OOK modulation with OOK-4 and M = 2, 4, or 8 (that is, 4 OOK chips per OFDM symbol and 2, 4, or 8 input bits) . For example, the reference signal 705 may include a timing acquisition signal (e.g., a reader-to-device timing acquisition signal for A-IoT communication) . In example 700, the reference signal 705 is designed such that the reference signal 705 has a cyclic property per OFDM symbol after CP addition. For example, the reference signal 705 uses an OOK sequence that spans OFDM symbols 710a, 710b, and 710c. Each OFDM symbol 710 includes a CP 715. The CP 715 occurs in a first OOK chip 720a / 720b / 720c of each OFDM symbol 710a / 710b / 710c. Within an OFDM symbol 710a, a first (e.g., earliest) OOK chip 720a has a same on / off state as a last (e.g., final) OOK chip 725 of the OFDM symbol 710a, as shown by reference number 730. Additionally, or alternatively, a first (e.g., earliest) OOK chip of the reference signal 705 may have a same on / off state as a last (e.g., final) OOK chip of the reference signal 705 (in the OFDM symbol 710c) . Thus, addition of the CP 715 does not lead to a situation where a portion of an OOK chip that includes the CP 715 has a different value than a portion of the OOK chip that does not include the CP 715, as illustrated, for example, by reference number 625 of Fig. 6.
[0092] As shown by reference number 730, after CP addition, the first (e.g., initial) OOK chip 720b and the final OOK chip 735 within an OFDM symbol 710b may have a same chip length. Additionally, or alternatively, the first (e.g., initial) OOK chip 720b and the final OOK chip 735 within an OFDM symbol 710b may have chip lengths that differ from one another by less than a threshold difference (e.g., 2%) . This may be accomplished, as shown by reference number 740, by providing a first OOK chip 720b that has a shorter chip length, prior to CP addition, than a last OOK chip 735. Thus, once CP addition is performed, the first OOK chip 720b and the last OOK chip 735 have a same or substantially equal (e.g., within a threshold difference) chip length.
[0093] As indicated above, Fig. 7 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 7.
[0094] Fig. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example 800 of selection of OFDM symbols for a reference signal in accordance with CP lengths of the OFDM symbols, in accordance with the present disclosure. Example 800 shows 7 OFDM symbols of a slot with a subcarrier spacing of 15 kHz. These OFDM symbols are denoted #0 through #6. Different OFDM symbols may be associated with different CP lengths. A CP length of an OFDM symbol may be in terms of samples, and may be a function of an index of the OFDM symbol and a numerology of a slot (where a 15 kHz subcarrier spacing, for example, is associated with a numerology of 0) . For example, OFDM symbols with index 0 or 7*2μ in a slot may include 144κ*2-μ + 16κ samples, whereas a remainder of OFDM symbols of the slot may include 144κ*2-μ + 16κ samples. κ may be defined as Ts / Tc, where Tc is equal to 1 / (480*103 Hz *4096) , and where Ts is equal to 1 / (15*103 Hz *2048) . Thus, a CP of OFDM symbol #0 may include 160 samples, and CPs of other OFDM symbols #1 through #6 may include 144 samples. These differences in CP length may lead to differences in OOK chip lengths of different OFDM symbols, leading to inaccurate timing acquisition.
[0095] Example 800 provides selection of OFDM symbols such that each OFDM symbol selected for a reference signal 805 (such as a reader-to-device timing acquisition symbol) has a same CP length. For example, the M OOK chips of a given OFDM symbol may have the same chip length (as described with regard to Fig. 7) . Across OFDM symbols of the reference signal 805, OOK chips may have the same chip length. For example, a transmitter may map the reference signal 805 to OFDM symbols that are associated with a same CP length, and may not select OFDM symbols having a different CP length than the same CP length. Example spans of the reference signal 805 are illustrated. Each of these spans is across OFDM symbols that all have the same CP length, leading to equal chip lengths in each OFDM symbol. Further, each of these spans omits OFDM symbol #0, which is associated with a different CP length than OFDM symbols #1 through #6. Thus, errors in symbol boundary processing are reduced or eliminated, improving timing acquisition and reliability of A-IoT communication.
[0096] Fig. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example 900 of configuring OOK modulation of a reference signal to accommodate different CP lengths of different OFDM symbols, in accordance with the present disclosure. Example 900 shows 7 OFDM symbols of a slot with a subcarrier spacing of 15 kHz. These OFDM symbols are denoted Symbol #0 through Symbol #6. Different OFDM symbols may be associated with different CP lengths. A CP length of an OFDM symbol may be in terms of samples, and may be a function of an index of the OFDM symbol and a numerology of a slot (where a 15 kHz subcarrier spacing, for example, is associated with a numerology of 0) . For example, OFDM symbols with index 0 or 7*2μ in a slot (that is, a first OFDM symbol in the slot) may include 144κ*2-μ + 16κ samples, whereas a remainder of OFDM symbols of the slot may include 144κ*2-μ + 16κ samples. Each of these is referred to as a normal cyclic prefix length. κ may be defined as Ts / Tc, where Tc is equal to 1 / (480*103 Hz *4096) , and where Ts is equal to 1 / (15*103 Hz *2048) . Thus, a CP of OFDM symbol #0 may include 160 samples, and CPs of other OFDM symbols #1 through #6 may include 144 samples. μ is a numerology index corresponding to a subcarrier spacing Δf, where a relationship between the numerology index and subcarrier spacing is defined as Δf = 2μ*15 kHz. These differences in CP length may lead to differences in OOK chip lengths of different OFDM symbols, leading to inaccurate timing acquisition.
[0097] In example 900, a reference signal 905 may be designed such that a first portion 910 and a second portion 915 of the reference signal 905 have a same on / off value. Furthermore, a length of the first portion 910 and a length of the second portion 915 may be configured such that the lengths are at least as long as a CP length of any OFDM symbol of the reference signal 905. For example, in example 900, the length of the first portion 910 and the length of the second portion 915 may be 144κ*2-μ + 16κ samples, such that a portion of the OFDM symbol that is used to generate the CP is fully included in the second portion 915 and the CP is fully included in the first portion 910, irrespective of whether the OFDM symbol has a CP length of 160 samples or 144 samples. By providing the same on / off value in the first portion 910 and the second portion 915, ambiguity regarding chip or symbol boundaries is avoided.
[0098] In some aspects, a device receiving the reference signal 905 may identify a timing and / or boundary (e.g., an OOK chip boundary, a symbol boundary, or the like) using a portion 920 of the reference signal 905 other than the first portion 910 or the second portion 915. For example, the device may identify the timing and / or boundary using the portion 920. In this example, the reference signal 905 may include one or more OOK chips 925 in the portion 920, and the device may identify the timing and / or boundary by detecting those one or more OOK chips 925. The device may exclude the first portion 910 and / or the last portion 915 from timing and / or boundary determination. Thus, ambiguity regarding chip or symbol boundaries is avoided. In some aspects, the first portion 910 may include an OOK chip and / or the second portion 915 may include an OOK chip. In some other aspects, OOK chips of the reference signal 905 may be included only in the portion 920.
[0099] Reference is made herein to different OOK chips having “the same chip length. ” It should be understood that reference to the same chip length can include (1) two OOK chips having the exact same chip length, or (2) , two OOK chips having chip lengths that differ from one another by less than a threshold, such as 2%.
[0100] Fig. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example process 1000 performed, for example, at a device or an apparatus of a device, in accordance with the present disclosure. Example process 1000 is an example where the apparatus or the device (e.g., UE 120, an ambient IoT device) performs operations associated with CP design for a reference signal.
[0101] As shown in Fig. 10, in some aspects, process 1000 may include receiving, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an OFDM symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an OOK sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, and wherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of: a same on or off (on / off) value, or a same chip length (block 1010) . For example, the device (e.g., using reception component 1102 and / or communication manager 1106, depicted in Fig. 11) may receive, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal (e.g., reference signal 705, reference signal 805, reference signal 905) that includes an OFDM symbol. The OFDM symbol may include a cyclic prefix and a payload. The reference signal may use an OOK sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol. The OOK sequence may be configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of: a same on / off value (described with regard to Figs. 7 and 9) , or a same chip length (described with regard to Figs. 7, 8, and 9) .
[0102] As further shown in Fig. 10, in some aspects, process 1000 may include synchronizing with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal (block 1020) . For example, the device (e.g., using communication manager 1106, depicted in Fig. 11) may synchronize with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal, as described above. Synchronizing with the wireless communication device may include, for example, identifying a symbol boundary of the wireless communication device, aligning a communication with a symbol or slot timing of the wireless communication device, or monitoring a particular resource for a subsequent communication from the wireless communication device.
[0103] Process 1000 may include additional aspects, such as any single aspect or any combination of aspects described below and / or in connection with one or more other processes described elsewhere herein.
[0104] In a first aspect, the wireless communication device is a reader (such as UE 120 or network node 110) and the device is an ambient Internet of Things (IoT) device.
[0105] In a second aspect, alone or in combination with the first aspect, the first chip overlaps with the cyclic prefix, and the second chip overlaps with a portion of the payload from which the cyclic prefix is derived.
[0106] In a third aspect, alone or in combination with one or more of the first and second aspects, the first chip and the second chip have the same on / off value and the same chip length.
[0107] In a fourth aspect, alone or in combination with one or more of the first through third aspects, the reference signal includes a plurality of OFDM symbols including the OFDM symbol, and each OFDM symbol, of the plurality of OFDM symbols, includes a respective cyclic prefix of a same cyclic prefix length.
[0108] In a fifth aspect, alone or in combination with one or more of the first through fourth aspects, the same cyclic prefix length is a first cyclic prefix length, and the plurality of OFDM symbols include only OFDM symbols that use the first cyclic prefix length and no OFDM symbols that use a second cyclic prefix length different than the first cyclic prefix length.
[0109] In a sixth aspect, alone or in combination with one or more of the first through fifth aspects, the OFDM symbol comprises a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion comprises the first chip, wherein the second portion comprises the second chip, and wherein the first portion and the second portion have the same on / off value.
[0110] In a seventh aspect, alone or in combination with one or more of the first through sixth aspects, the first portion and the second portion have a same length.
[0111] In an eighth aspect, alone or in combination with one or more of the first through seventh aspects, the first portion and the second portion are each equal in length to a normal cyclic prefix size for a first OFDM symbol of a slot.
[0112] Although Fig. 10 shows example blocks of process 1000, in some aspects, process 1000 may include additional blocks, fewer blocks, different blocks, or differently arranged blocks than those depicted in Fig. 10. Additionally, or alternatively, two or more of the blocks of process 1000 may be performed in parallel.
[0113] Fig. 11 is a diagram of an example apparatus 1100 for wireless communication, in accordance with the present disclosure. The apparatus 1100 may be a device, or a device may include the apparatus 1100. In some aspects, the apparatus 1100 includes a reception component 1102, a transmission component 1104, and / or a communication manager 1106, which may be in communication with one another (for example, via one or more buses and / or one or more other components) . In some aspects, the communication manager 1106 is the communication manager 140 described in connection with Fig. 1. As shown, the apparatus 1100 may communicate with another apparatus 1108, such as a reader (e.g., a UE or a network node, such as a CU, a DU, an RU, or a base station) , using the reception component 1102 and the transmission component 1104.
[0114] In some aspects, the apparatus 1100 may be configured to perform one or more operations described herein in connection with Figs. 4-9. Additionally, or alternatively, the apparatus 1100 may be configured to perform one or more processes described herein, such as process 1000 of Fig. 10, or a combination thereof. In some aspects, the apparatus 1100 and / or one or more components shown in Fig. 11 may include one or more components of the device described in connection with Fig. 2. Additionally, or alternatively, one or more components shown in Fig. 11 may be implemented within one or more components described in connection with Fig. 2. Additionally, or alternatively, one or more components of the set of components may be implemented at least in part as software stored in one or more memories. For example, a component (or a portion of a component) may be implemented as instructions or code stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium and executable by one or more controllers or one or more processors to perform the functions or operations of the component.
[0115] The reception component 1102 may receive communications, such as reference signals, control information, data communications, or a combination thereof, from the apparatus 1108. The reception component 1102 may provide received communications to one or more other components of the apparatus 1100. In some aspects, the reception component 1102 may perform signal processing on the received communications (such as filtering, amplification, demodulation, analog-to-digital conversion, demultiplexing, deinterleaving, de-mapping, equalization, interference cancellation, or decoding, among other examples) , and may provide the processed signals to the one or more other components of the apparatus 1100. In some aspects, the reception component 1102 may include one or more antennas, one or more modems, one or more demodulators, one or more MIMO detectors, one or more receive processors, one or more controllers / processors, one or more memories, or a combination thereof, of the device described in connection with Fig. 2.
[0116] The transmission component 1104 may transmit communications, such as reference signals, control information, data communications, or a combination thereof, to the apparatus 1108. In some aspects, one or more other components of the apparatus 1100 may generate communications and may provide the generated communications to the transmission component 1104 for transmission to the apparatus 1108. In some aspects, the transmission component 1104 may perform signal processing on the generated communications (such as filtering, amplification, modulation, digital-to-analog conversion, multiplexing, interleaving, mapping, or encoding, among other examples) , and may transmit the processed signals to the apparatus 1108. In some aspects, the transmission component 1104 may include one or more antennas, one or more modems, one or more modulators, one or more transmit MIMO processors, one or more transmit processors, one or more controllers / processors, one or more memories, or a combination thereof, of the device described in connection with Fig. 2. In some aspects, the transmission component 1104 may be co-located with the reception component 1102 in one or more transceivers.
[0117] The communication manager 1106 may support operations of the reception component 1102 and / or the transmission component 1104. For example, the communication manager 1106 may receive information associated with configuring reception of communications by the reception component 1102 and / or transmission of communications by the transmission component 1104. Additionally, or alternatively, the communication manager 1106 may generate and / or provide control information to the reception component 1102 and / or the transmission component 1104 to control reception and / or transmission of communications.
[0118] The reception component 1102 may receive, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an OFDM symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an OOK sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, and wherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of: a same on / off value, or a same chip length. The communication manager 1106 may synchronize with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal.
[0119] The number and arrangement of components shown in Fig. 11 are provided as an example. In practice, there may be additional components, fewer components, different components, or differently arranged components than those shown in Fig. 11. Furthermore, two or more components shown in Fig. 11 may be implemented within a single component, or a single component shown in Fig. 11 may be implemented as multiple, distributed components. Additionally, or alternatively, a set of (one or more) components shown in Fig. 11 may perform one or more functions described as being performed by another set of components shown in Fig. 11.
[0120] Fig. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of an implementation of code and circuitry for a communications device 1200, in accordance with the present disclosure. The communications device 1200 may be a device, or a device may include the communications device 1200.
[0121] The communications device 1200 includes a processing system 1202 coupled to a transceiver 1208 (e.g., a transmitter and / or a receiver, and which may include a single transceivers or multiple transceivers which may perform different operations described as being performed by the transceiver 1208) . The transceiver 1208 is configured to transmit and receive signals for the communications device 1200 via an antenna 1210, such as the various signals as described herein. The processing system 1202 may be configured to perform processing functions for the communications device 1200, including processing signals received and / or to be transmitted by the communications device 1200.
[0122] The processing system 1202 includes one or more processors 1220. In various aspects, the one or more processors 1220 may include one or more of receive processor 258, transmit processor 264, TX MIMO processor 266, and / or controller / processor 280, as described with respect to Fig. 2. The one or more processors 1220 are coupled to a computer-readable medium / memory 1230 via a bus 1206. In various aspects, the computer-readable medium / memory 1230 may include one or more memories such as memory 282, as described with respect to Fig. 2. In certain aspects, the computer-readable medium / memory 1230 is configured to store instructions (e.g., computer-executable code, processor-executable code) that when executed by the one or more processors 1220, cause the one or more processors 1220 to perform the process 1000 described with respect to Fig. 10, or any aspect related to it. Note that reference to a processor performing a function of communications device 1200 may include one or more processors performing that function of communications device 1200. Note also that reference to one or more processors performing multiple functions may include a first processor performing a first function of the multiple functions and a second processor performing a second function of the multiple functions.
[0123] As shown in Fig. 12, the communications device 1200 may include circuitry for receiving, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal (circuitry 1235) . The reference signal may be transmitted in an OFDM symbol (or multiple OFDM symbols) . The OFDM symbol may include a cyclic prefix and a payload. The reference signal may use an OOK sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol. The OOK sequence may be configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of: a same on / off value (described with regard to Figs. 7 and 9) , or a same chip length (described with regard to Figs. 7, 8, and 9) .
[0124] As shown in Fig. 12, the communications device 1200 may include, stored in computer-readable medium / memory 1230, code for receiving, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal (code 1240) .
[0125] As shown in Fig. 12, the communications device 1200 may include circuitry for synchronizing with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal (circuitry 1245) .
[0126] As shown in Fig. 12, the communications device 1200 may include, stored in computer-readable medium / memory 1230, code for synchronizing with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal (code 1250) .
[0127] Various components of the communications device 1200 may provide means for performing the process 1000 described with respect to Fig. 10, or any aspect related to it. For example, means for transmitting, sending, or outputting for transmission may include the modem 254 and / or antenna (s) 252 of the UE 120 and / or transceiver 1208 and antenna 1210 of the communications device 1200 in Fig. 12. Means for receiving or obtaining may include the modem 254 and / or antenna (s) 252 of the UE 120 and / or transceiver 1208 and antenna 1210 of the communications device 1200 in Fig. 12.
[0128] Fig. 12 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described in connection with Fig. 12.
[0129] The following provides an overview of some Aspects of the present disclosure:
[0130] Aspect 1: A method of wireless communication performed by a device, comprising: receiving, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an on-off keying (OOK) sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, and wherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of: a same on or off (on / off) value, or a same chip length; and synchronizing with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal.
[0131] Aspect 2: The method of Aspect 1, wherein the wireless communication device is a reader and the device is an ambient Internet of Things (IoT) device.
[0132] Aspect 3: The method of any of Aspects 1-2, wherein the first chip overlaps with the cyclic prefix, and wherein the second chip overlaps with a portion of the payload from which the cyclic prefix is derived.
[0133] Aspect 4: The method of Aspect 3, wherein, after addition of the cyclic prefix, the first chip and the second chip have the same chip length.
[0134] Aspect 5: The method of Aspect 3, wherein, after addition of the cyclic prefix, a first chip length of the first chip differs from a second chip length of the second chip by less than a threshold difference.
[0135] Aspect 6: The method of any of Aspects 1-5, wherein the first chip and the second chip have the same on / off value and the same chip length.
[0136] Aspect 7: The method of any of Aspects 1-6, wherein the reference signal includes a plurality of OFDM symbols including the OFDM symbol, and wherein each OFDM symbol, of the plurality of OFDM symbols, includes a respective cyclic prefix of a same cyclic prefix length.
[0137] Aspect 8: The method of Aspect 7, wherein the same cyclic prefix length is a first cyclic prefix length, and wherein the plurality of OFDM symbols include only OFDM symbols that use the first cyclic prefix length and no OFDM symbols that use a second cyclic prefix length different than the first cyclic prefix length.
[0138] Aspect 9: The method of any of Aspects 1-8, wherein the OFDM symbol comprises a first portion and a second, and wherein the first portion and the second portion have the same on / off value.
[0139] Aspect 10: The method of Aspect 9, wherein the first portion and the second portion have a same length.
[0140] Aspect 11: The method of Aspect 9, wherein the first portion and the second portion are each equal in length to a normal cyclic prefix size for a first OFDM symbol of a subframe.
[0141] Aspect 12: An apparatus for wireless communication at a device, the apparatus comprising one or more processors; one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors; and instructions stored in the one or more memories and executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-11.
[0142] Aspect 13: An apparatus for wireless communication at a device, the apparatus comprising one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors configured to cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-11.
[0143] Aspect 14: An apparatus for wireless communication, the apparatus comprising at least one means for performing the method of one or more of Aspects 1-11.
[0144] Aspect 15: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communication, the code comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-11.
[0145] Aspect 16: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for wireless communication, the set of instructions comprising one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-11.
[0146] Aspect 17: A device for wireless communication, the device comprising a processing system that includes one or more processors and one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors, the processing system configured to cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-11.
[0147] Aspect 18: An apparatus for wireless communication at a device, the apparatus comprising one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors individually or collectively configured to cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-11.
[0148] The foregoing disclosure provides illustration and description but is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the aspects to the precise forms disclosed. Modifications and variations may be made in light of the above disclosure or may be acquired from practice of the aspects.
[0149] As used herein, the term “component” is intended to be broadly construed as hardware or a combination of hardware and at least one of software or firmware. “Software” shall be construed broadly to mean instructions, instruction sets, code, code segments, program code, programs, subprograms, software modules, applications, software applications, software packages, routines, subroutines, objects, executables, threads of execution, procedures, or functions, among other examples, whether referred to as software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description language, or otherwise. As used herein, a “processor” is implemented in hardware or a combination of hardware and software. It will be apparent that systems or methods described herein may be implemented in different forms of hardware or a combination of hardware and software. The actual specialized control hardware or software code used to implement these systems or methods is not limiting of the aspects. Thus, the operation and behavior of the systems or methods are described herein without reference to specific software code, because those skilled in the art will understand that software and hardware can be designed to implement the systems or methods based, at least in part, on the description herein. A component being configured to perform a function means that the component has a capability to perform the function, and does not require the function to be actually performed by the component, unless noted otherwise.
[0150] As used herein, “satisfying a threshold” may, depending on the context, refer to a value being greater than the threshold, greater than or equal to the threshold, less than the threshold, less than or equal to the threshold, equal to the threshold, or not equal to the threshold, among other examples.
[0151] As used herein, a phrase referring to “at least one of” a list of items refers to any combination of those items, including single members. As an example, “at least one of: a, b, or c” is intended to cover a, b, c, a + b, a + c, b + c, and a + b + c, as well as any combination with multiples of the same element (for example, a + a, a + a + a, a + a + b, a + a + c, a + b + b, a + c + c, b + b, b + b + b, b + b + c, c + c, and c + c + c, or any other ordering of a, b, and c) .
[0152] No element, act, or instruction used herein should be construed as critical or essential unless explicitly described as such. Also, as used herein, the articles “a” and “an” are intended to include one or more items and may be used interchangeably with “one or more. ” Further, as used herein, the article “the” is intended to include one or more items referenced in connection with the article “the” and may be used interchangeably with “the one or more. ” Furthermore, as used herein, the terms “set” and “group” are intended to include one or more items and may be used interchangeably with “one or more. ” Where only one item is intended, the phrase “only one” or similar language is used. Also, as used herein, the terms “has, ” “have, ” “having, ” and similar terms are intended to be open-ended terms that do not limit an element that they modify (for example, an element “having” A may also have B) . Further, the phrase “based on” is intended to mean “based on or otherwise in association with” unless explicitly stated otherwise. Also, as used herein, the term “or” is intended to be inclusive when used in a series and may be used interchangeably with “and / or, ” unless explicitly stated otherwise (for example, if used in combination with “either” or “only one of” ) . It should be understood that “one or more” is equivalent to “at least one. ”
[0153] Even though particular combinations of features are recited in the claims or disclosed in the specification, these combinations are not intended to limit the disclosure of various aspects. Many of these features may be combined in ways not specifically recited in the claims or disclosed in the specification. The disclosure of various aspects includes each dependent claim in combination with every other claim in the claim set.
Claims
1.An apparatus configured for wireless communication, comprising:one or more memories comprising processor-executable instructions; andone or more processors configured to execute the processor-executable instructions and cause the apparatus to:receive, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an on-off keying (OOK) sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, and wherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of:a same on or off (on / off) value, ora same chip length; andsynchronize with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal.2.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication device is a reader and the device is an ambient Internet of Things (IoT) device.3.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first chip overlaps with the cyclic prefix, and wherein the second chip overlaps with a portion of the payload from which the cyclic prefix is derived.4.The apparatus of claim 3, wherein, after addition of the cyclic prefix, the first chip and the second chip have the same chip length.5.The apparatus of claim 3, wherein, after addition of the cyclic prefix, a first chip length of the first chip differs from a second chip length of the second chip by less than a threshold difference.6.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first chip and the second chip have the same on / off value and the same chip length.7.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the reference signal includes a plurality of OFDM symbols including the OFDM symbol, and wherein each OFDM symbol, of the plurality of OFDM symbols, includes a respective cyclic prefix of a same cyclic prefix length.8.The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the same cyclic prefix length is a first cyclic prefix length, and wherein the plurality of OFDM symbols include only OFDM symbols that use the first cyclic prefix length and no OFDM symbols that use a second cyclic prefix length different than the first cyclic prefix length.9.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the OFDM symbol comprises a first portion and a second portion, and wherein the first portion and the second portion have the same on / off value.10.The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the first portion and the second portion have a same length.11.The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the first portion and the second portion are each equal in length to a normal cyclic prefix size for a first OFDM symbol of a slot.12.A method of wireless communication performed by a device, comprising:receiving, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an on-off keying (OOK) sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, andwherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of:a same on or off (on / off) value, ora same chip length; andsynchronizing with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal.13.The method of claim 12, wherein the wireless communication device is a reader and the device is an ambient Internet of Things (IoT) device.14.The method of claim 12, wherein the first chip overlaps with the cyclic prefix, and wherein the second chip overlaps with a portion of the payload from which the cyclic prefix is derived.15.The method of claim 14, wherein, after addition of the cyclic prefix, the first chip and the second chip have the same chip length.16.The method of claim 14, wherein, after addition of the cyclic prefix, a first chip length of the first chip differs from a second chip length of the second chip by less than a threshold difference.17.The method of claim 12, wherein the first chip and the second chip have the same on / off value and the same chip length.18.The method of claim 12, wherein the reference signal includes a plurality of OFDM symbols including the OFDM symbol, and wherein each OFDM symbol, of the plurality of OFDM symbols, includes a respective cyclic prefix of a same cyclic prefix length.19.The method of claim 18, wherein the same cyclic prefix length is a first cyclic prefix length, and wherein the plurality of OFDM symbols include only OFDM symbols that use the first cyclic prefix length and no OFDM symbols that use a second cyclic prefix length different than the first cyclic prefix length.20.A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for wireless communication, the set of instructions comprising:one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the device to:receive, from a wireless communication device, a reference signal that includes an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, wherein the OFDM symbol includes a cyclic prefix and a payload, wherein the reference signal uses an on-off keying (OOK) sequence with a plurality of chips in the OFDM symbol, and wherein the OOK sequence is configured such that, after the cyclic prefix is added, a first chip of the plurality of chips and a second chip of the plurality of chips have at least one of:a same on or off (on / off) value, ora same chip length; andsynchronize with the wireless communication device in accordance with the reference signal.
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