Abstract: An operation method of a communication node supporting a coordinated multi-point transmission and reception (CoMP) of a terminal based on a plurality of transmission points (TPs) included in a communication network may comprise allocating a resource for transmitting a pilot signal of the terminal; receiving quality measurement information of the pilot signal of the terminal from the plurality of TPs; determining a TP cluster supporting the CoMP of the terminal based on channel states among the plurality of TPs; transmitting information on the allocated resource and information on the TP cluster to the terminal and the TP cluster; and supporting the CoMP of the terminal based on the allocated resource and the TP cluster.

Abstract: An operation method of a base station in an IFD scheme may comprise receiving position information of each of a plurality of downlink (DL) terminals and a plurality of uplink (UL) terminals; determining a guard zone corresponding to each of the plurality of DL terminals based on the position information of each of the plurality of DL terminals; determining whether at least one UL terminal is located in the guard zone based on the position information of each of the plurality of UL terminals; determining a scheduling priority of each of the plurality of DL terminals according to whether at least one UL terminal is located in the guard zone; generating DL control information including frequency-time resource allocation information and interference control information based on the determined scheduling priority; and transmitting data signals and the DL control information to the plurality of DL terminals.

Abstract: Disclosed are a frame transmission method and a communication device performing the same. The communication device may transmit a null data packet (NDP)-announcement (NDP-A) including information on a plurality of communication devices participating in interference alignment and transmit an NDP including a common signal field and a common training field commonly applied to the plurality of communication devices.

Abstract: Provided is a data communication method performed at a transmission node, the method including collecting a node list including nodes communicable with the transmission node, exchanging the node list with each of the communicable nodes, determining an allowance of a space recycling transmission to a reception node by determining that the transmission node is a corresponding node as an exposed node in response to an occurrence of a clear-to-send (CTS) timeout, and transmitting data to the reception node based on a result of determining the allowance of the space recycling transmission.

Abstract: An operation method of an in-band full duplex (IFD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transceiver, including a reception part, a transmission part, an analog self-interference (SI) generator, and a self-interference cancellation (SIC) controller, may comprise generating, at the SIC controller, a control signal for analog SIC and digital SIC and outputting the control signal to the reception part and the analog SI generator; cancelling, at the SIC controller, SI of a transmission signal of the transmission part based on the control signal; and cancelling, at the reception part, SI of a signal of the reception part based on the control signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a protocol for transmitting data through cooperation between access points in an overlapped basic service set (OBSS) environment. A cooperative beamforming communication method may include negotiating, by a first access point, a cooperative transmit beamforming with a second access point having an OBSS area with the first access point; transmitting, by the first access point, a clear-to-send (CTS) to the second access point; and performing, by the first access point, the cooperative transmit beamforming with the second access point during a cooperative transmit beamforming duration determined through the negotiation after a predetermined time interval is elapsed, when transmission of the CTS is completed.

Abstract: Provided is an operation method of a station (STA) in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The operation method includes generating a legacy preamble, generating a high efficiency (HE) preamble including scheduling information for a plurality of receiving STAs, and generating a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) including the legacy preamble, the HE preamble, and a payload.

Abstract: Provided is a data frame transmission method of a communication apparatus, the method including determining whether a transmission allowance condition of a data frame of the communication apparatus is satisfied when another communication apparatus occupies a channel, verifying an end time of another data frame transmitted by the other communication apparatus based on a result of the determining, and transmitting the data frame based on the verified end time.

Abstract: Disclosed is a protocol for transmitting data through cooperation between access points in an overlapped basic service set (OBSS) environment. A cooperative beamforming communication method may include negotiating, by a first access point, a cooperative transmit beamforming with a second access point having an OBSS area with the first access point; transmitting, by the first access point, a clear-to-send (CTS) to the second access point; and performing, by the first access point, the cooperative transmit beamforming with the second access point during a cooperative transmit beamforming duration determined through the negotiation after a predetermined time interval is elapsed, when transmission of the CTS is completed.

Abstract: A transmitter in a mobile communication system configures a short transmission time interval (TTI) using some transmission symbols in a subframe including a plurality of transmission symbols, multiplexes and transmits a reference signal and some of transmission data in a first symbol of the transmission symbols having the short TTI, and transmits the remainder of the transmission data in the remaining symbols except the first symbol.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and an apparatus for transmitting an uplink signal. The method for transmitting an uplink signal includes: transmitting an uplink data in at least one symbol included in a short transmit time interval (sTTI) including 7 symbols or less; and transmitting a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for the uplink data through an even-numbered subcarrier or an odd-numbered subcarrier in one symbol in which the uplink data is not transmitted, among the symbols included in the sTTI.

Abstract: Disclosed is a base station that grants the same shared resource to a plurality of terminals, identifies a terminal transmitting uplink data in the same transmission time interval (TTI), when each of the plurality of terminals starts an initial transmission of the uplink data using the shared resource by distributed scheduling, allows each of the plurality of terminals to recognize not-acknowledgement (NACK) as a response signal to the uplink data if the number of terminals transmitting the uplink data is equal to or more than 1; and grants a contention-free resource as a retransmission resource to each of at least some terminals among the first number of terminals transmitting data that fail to receive among the identified terminals.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for configuring a subframe by a transmitting apparatus in a mobile communication system, including: configuring the subframe consisting of a downlink control information transmission interval in which control information of a downlink is transmitted, a data transmission interval in which data are transmitted, an uplink control information transmission interval in which control information of an uplink is transmitted, and a response signal transmission interval in which a response signal to data reception is transmitted; and transmitting the subframe.

Abstract: A terminal executes a random access procedure with a target base station depending on a pre-random access channel (pre-RACH) command in a handover preparation step executed between a source base station currently accessed by the terminal and the target base station when the terminal receives the pre-RACH command from the source base station through layer2 (L2) signaling in the handover preparation step.

Abstract: A method for cooperative beamforming communication, is described including negotiating, at a first access point, a cooperative transmit beamforming with a second access point having an overlapped basic service set (OBSS) area with the first access point, and transmitting, from the first access point, a clear-to-send (CTS) signal to the second access point. The method, upon detecting at the first access point a completion of transmission of the CTS signal, performs at the first access point the cooperative transmit beamforming with the second access point during a time duration of the cooperative transmit beamforming and after a predetermined time interval has elapsed.

Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for requesting uplink persistent scheduling in a mobile communication system. A terminal generates a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) buffer status report (BSR) including a size of data and further including at least one of an SPS transmission point in time and an SPS period after configuring SPS between the terminal and a base station, and requests SPS allocation while transmitting the SPS BSR to the base station. The size of the data indicates a size of data that are to be transmitted per SPS period.

Abstract: Disclosed are a frame transmission method and a communication device performing the same. The communication device may transmit a null data packet (NDP)-announcement (NDP-A) including information on a plurality of communication devices participating in interference alignment and transmit an NDP including a common signal field and a common training field commonly applied to the plurality of communication devices.

Abstract: A base station defines a short TTI (transmission time interval) equal to the length of one subslot as the minimum unit of a time resource for data transmission in a subframe including a plurality of subslots, determines the RS type the terminal will use for transmission, among a plurality of RS types, based on the positions of RSs (reference signals) within the short TTI, and sends information on the RS type the terminal will use for transmission to the terminal.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transmitting the physical uplink control channel including an uplink control channel expressed by product of a uplink control information and a sequence and demodulation reference signal expressed by a sequence having different cyclic shift values through a short resource block are provided.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication method performed at an access point to enhance the transmission efficiency in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, the method including scheduling a transmission time of an enhanced traffic indicator map (TIM) frame based on a type of a station, and transmitting a second beacon including the enhanced TIM frame to the station at a point in time aside from a transmission point in time of a first beacon.