Abstract: A method for detecting times-of-arrival of signals comprising, at a receiving node: during a time slot, receiving a signal comprising a carrier signal characterized by a carrier frequency and modulated by a template signal defining a code sequence characterized by a transmitter chip period; demodulating the signal according to a local oscillator frequency to generate a received baseband signal, the local oscillator frequency and the carrier frequency defining a desynchronization ratio characterized by a denominator greater than a threshold denominator; sampling the received baseband signal at the transmitter chip period to generate a set of digital samples; generating a reconstructed baseband signal based on the set of digital samples; calculating a cross-correlation function comprising a cross-correlation of the reconstructed baseband signal and the template signal; and calculating, on the fine time grid, a time-of-arrival of the signal based on the cross-correlation function.

Abstract: A method and system for minimizing the control overhead in a multi-carrier wireless communication network that utilizes a time-frequency resource is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more zones in the time-frequency resource are designated for particular applications, such as a zone dedicated for voice-over-IP (VoIP) applications. By grouping applications of a similar type together within a zone, a reduction in the number of bits necessary for mapping a packet stream to a portion of the time-frequency resource can be achieved. In some embodiments, modular coding schemes associated with the packet streams may be selected that further reduce the amount of necessary control information. In some embodiments, packets may be classified for transmission in accordance with application type, QoS parameters, and other properties. In some embodiments, improved control messages may be constructed to facilitate the control process and minimize associated overhead.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine separate uplink (UL) power limitations for multiple transmission time interval (TTI) durations based on distinct power control parameters. In some cases, an adjustment factor or a power backoff may be applied to communications using one TTI duration to ensure that total transmit power does not exceed a threshold. The UE and the serving base station may also identify one or more demodulation reference signal (DMRS) windows. UL data transmissions may be demodulated based on a DMRS sent during the same window. Transmit power control (TPC) commands may be applied at the beginning of each window. However, if an UL transmission is scheduled at the beginning of the window, the UE may wait until a DMRS transmission or until no more transmissions are scheduled for the window before applying the TPC adjustment.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus comprises circuitry that generates a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) that contains a legacy signal field and a first signal field wherein both of the legacy signal field and the first signal field comprise an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, and the first signal field is derived from the legacy signal field, and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the PPDU. A format of the PPDU is indicated based on whether a part of bits of the first signal field is inverted or not. The format of the PPDU is a first format or a second format, and data subcarriers of the first signal field in the second format have inverted values of corresponding values in the legacy signal field, and pilots of the first signal field in the second format are not inverted and have same values of corresponding values in the legacy signal field.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for power saving in a wireless network are disclosed. A Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) may comprise a transmitter, a receiver, and a processor. The processor may determine a processing state pertaining to behavior of the WTRU and determine a minimum amount of resources to be processed for one or more sets of physical resources based on the determined processing state. Each respective set of physical resources may comprise resources in time, and any of frequency or space. For each respective set of physical resources, the time may comprise a frame structure associated with a numerology applicable to the respective set of physical resources, the frequency may comprise any of a frequency location, a bandwidth, or the numerology, and the space may comprise one or more beams. The processor may process the determined minimum amount of resources of the one of more sets of physical resources.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for dynamic acknowledgement repetition for a downlink medium access control packet data unit transmission ‘MAC PDU’ requiring multiple acknowledgements, the method having the steps of: receiving the downlink MAC PDU requiring multiple acknowledgements; and utilizing a differentiating factor and acknowledgement scheme, sending the multiple acknowledgements.

Abstract: One or more techniques for beamformed paging are disclosed. A transmission/reception point (TRP) may transmit a paging inquiry signal using beam sweeping in a paging inquiry (PI) block with a different time, frequency resource set and/or sequence configuration associated with the same paging occasion (PO), for example, to randomize and/or distribute WTRUs into different monitoring groups. A WTRU may transmit an uplink paging inquiry response indicating a downlink beam for a paging data transmission and/or a WTRU ID. A downlink control and/or a data channel transmission may be triggered by a paging inquiry response transmission. Paging downlink control information may be transmitted in a WTRU-specific control channel, which may contain CRC bits masked by a temporary paging identity, e.g., based on a WTRU ID that may be reported in a paging inquiry response transmission. A WTRU paging procedure may be based on a paging inquiry signal and/or response transmission.

Abstract: The invention relates to a solution for determining an allowable round trip time for a communication between a base station and a terminal device served by the base station in an asynchronous communication system, At least some aspects of the solution relate to a method performed by a controller, the method comprises: determining round trip times of terminal devices served by the base station; selecting a maximum round trip time among the determined round trip times of the terminal devices served by the base station as the allowable round trip time; and delivering the selected allowable round trip time to the base station. The solution also relates to applying the determined round trip time by a base station and a terminal device as well as to a system comprising the mentioned entities and to computer program products.

Abstract: In response to detecting, at the first time period, that the available amount of the first resource on the computing device is below the first threshold level, the computer system switches the computing device to a first low resource mode, wherein the switching the computing device to the first low resource mode includes intercepting a first data intended to be transmitted to the computing device, the first data corresponding to a first set of one or more applications on the computing device. In response to detecting, at a second time period that is after the first time period, that the available amount of the first resource on the computing device meets or exceeds the first threshold level, the computer system switches the computing device back to a normal operating mode.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein that may be used for reduced complexity polar encoding and decoding. There may be a set of encoding nodes to be used for polar encoding. An encoding node may be associated with a bit index and/or a relaxation level. A relaxation attribute may be selected for the encoding node. A relaxation group may be determined based on the relaxation attributes. The relaxation group may include two encoding nodes associated with consecutive bit indexes, an initial relaxation level, and the first relaxation attribute. A final relaxation level may be determined. Relaxation may be performed on the encoding nodes in the relaxation group. For example, an XOR operation between the encoding nodes may be omitted. Relaxation may be performed on the encoding nodes associated with each relaxation level up to the final relaxation level.

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) unit, a digital unit, and methods of transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system are provided. The digital unit may include: a transceiver configured to receive compressed data from an RF unit, a processor configured to divide a frequency domain and a time domain into a plurality of blocks, set a compression parameter to be applied to each of the plurality of blocks, and expand the received data in units of the blocks based on the set compression parameter, and a memory storing the compression parameter.

Abstract: Reduced transmission power time intervals for wireless communications are described. A node may transmit a time interval allocation bitmap indicating a configuration of reduced transmission power time intervals. The configuration of reduced transmission power time intervals may change based on traffic load at the node.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for SIB1-NB transmission. In one embodiment, a method performed by a network node configured to include a scheduling information parameter in a master information block, MIB, and communicate the MIB to a wireless device, the scheduling information parameter usable to schedule a system information block type 1 for narrow band communication, SIB1-NB, for a time division duplex, TDD transmission is provided. The method comprising indicating the SIB1-NB scheduling information for TDD at least in part by a value of the scheduling information parameter being associated with a predefined entry in at least one TDD-specific table, the indicated SIB1-NB scheduling information including: at least one subframe to use for the SIB1-NB transmission; a number of repetitions of the SIB1-NB transmission; and a transport block size, TBS, to use for the SIB1-NB transmission.

Abstract: A physical layer transceiver and a network node including the transceiver. The transceiver includes a media independent interface, a converter circuit block comprising circuitry configured to convert digital signals to analog signals for transmission over a network communications medium and convert analog signals received over the medium to digital signals, and one or more processing blocks configured to process digital data communicated between the media independent interface and the converter circuit block according to a network protocol. Management and control circuitry including power management circuitry and reset circuitry are provided. The transceiver further includes at least one single event effect (SEE) monitor, such as an ambience monitor, a configuration register monitor, a state machine monitor, or a phase locked loop (PLL) lock monitor, configured to detect and respond to an SEE event in the transceiver.

Abstract: A packet processing method includes generating, by a processor of a network device, a first encoding task based on M original packets in a to-be-processed first data stream, where M is a positive integer, and where the first encoding task instructs to encode the M original packets; and performing, by a target hardware engine of the network device and based on the first encoding task, forward error correction (FEC) encoding on the M original packets to obtain R redundant packets, where R is a positive integer.

Abstract: Multi-threaded processing of search responses returned by search peers is disclosed. An example method may include transmitting, by a computer system, a search request to a plurality of search peers of a data aggregation and analysis system; receiving, by a first processing thread, a plurality of data packets from the plurality of search peers; parsing, by a second processing thread, one or more data packets of the plurality of data packets to produce a first partial response to the search request; parsing, by a third processing thread, the one or more data packets to produce a second partial response to the search request; and generating, based on the first partial response and the second partial response, an aggregated response to the search request.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting ACK/NACK bits with dual list-RM decoder and symbol regeneration for PUCCH format 3. In an exemplary embodiment, a method is provided for detected ACK/NACK bits received in a long-term evolution (LTE) physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) Format 3 uplink transmission. The method includes generating Top-M ACK candidates from a descrambled bit stream, regenerating Top-M candidate symbols from the Top-M ACK candidates, calculating channel estimates for the Top-M candidate symbols, combining to the channel estimates generate a combined metric; and searching the combined metric to determine detected ACK bits.

Abstract: A method for rapidly evaluating inequality expressions for electromagnetic propagation includes obtaining a threshold loss value establishing a maximum electromagnetic (EM) path loss between a first geographical point and a second geographical point. The method also includes, for each of a plurality of EM paths between the first geographical point and the second geographical point, obtaining a minimum EM loss value for the corresponding EM path and a maximum EM loss value for the corresponding EM path and determining whether the maximum EM loss value for the corresponding EM path satisfies the threshold loss value. Additionally, the method includes, when the maximum EM loss value for the corresponding EM path satisfies the threshold loss value, determining that an actual EM path loss value for the corresponding EM path between the first geographical point and the second geographical point satisfies the threshold loss value.

Abstract: A system, according to one embodiment, includes: an enclosure, a bay coupled to the enclosure, the bay being for storing at least one solid state drive therein, and a computer coupled to the enclosure. The computer includes a central processing unit, and a wireless access point coupled to the enclosure, the wireless access point being coupled to the central processing unit. Moreover, the wireless access point is for wirelessly transferring data received from the central processing unit to at least one solid state drive stored in the bay. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to wireless communications and, more particularly, to systems and methods for uplink signaling using blind channel estimation at a base station. In one embodiment, a method performed by a communication device, includes: associating a time slot with a data packet comprising a head portion and a tail portion, wherein the head portion comprises a communication device identifier and the tail portion comprises user data associated with the head portion; spreading the head portion into a first predetermined transmission format; spreading the tail portion into a second predetermined transmission format; and transmitting the spreaded head portion with the spreaded tail portion to a communication node, wherein the spreaded head portion comprises information to be used by the communication node for channel estimation and for decoding the tail portion to retrieve the user data.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a demapping system with phase compensation to demap uplink transmissions. In an embodiment, a method is provided that includes detecting a processing type associated with a received uplink transmission, and when the detected processing type is a first processing type then performing the following operations: removing resource elements containing reference signals from the uplink transmission; layer demapping remaining resource elements of the uplink transmission into two or more layers; phase compensating all layers to generate phase compensated layers; and soft-demapping all phase compensated layers to produce phase compensated soft-demapped bits.

Abstract: A method of performing a random access procedure includes randomly selecting a backoff time from within a backoff window ranging from 0 to a specified multiple of a random access preamble unit, waiting until a time initialized with the backoff time expires, and retransmitting a random access preamble.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for performing, by UE, decoding in a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, there may be a method and an apparatus for decoding data in which a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) configured by a base station according to a specific pattern is received from the base station through a DMRS symbol, the demodulation reference signal is transmitted on a specific antenna port and located on the same one or two time-axis symbols as at least one other demodulation reference signal transmitted on another antenna port, the specific pattern is determined according to characteristics of a frequency band in which the demodulation reference signal is transmitted, the demodulation reference signal is mapped to the one or two time-axis symbols using at least one of a first code division multiplexing (CDM) on a frequency axis or a second CDM on a time axis, and the data are decoded using the demodulation reference signal.

Abstract: A method for wirelessly calibrating/testing RF and digital components of a multi-antenna device under test includes the step of wirelessly transmitting a first signaling information between the device under test and a device tester, the first signaling information indicating a calibration request, wherein the first signaling information is transmitted by the device under test or the device tester. Further, the method includes the step of estimating, in response to the first signaling information, channel transfer function matrices between active antenna ports/RF ports of the device under test and antenna ports of the device tester using reference signals wirelessly transmitted between the device tester and the device under test or vice versa.

Abstract: Communicating in a wireless telecommunications system comprising a communications device and one or more infrastructure equipment, wherein the communications device is configured to communicate with the infrastructure equipment via a first wireless access interface in accordance with a first radio access technology (RAT) and to communicate with the infrastructure equipment via a second wireless access interface in accordance with a second RAT.

Abstract: A wireless communication system wirelessly communicates through a physical barrier using beamforming. A serving transceiver determines and transfers downlink beamforming and power information to a network transceiver. The serving transceiver may determine the downlink power information based on the beamforming information to increase downlink power based on a beamforming aperture. The network transceiver wirelessly receives the downlink beamforming and power information from the serving transceiver. The network transceiver wirelessly receives a downlink signal from a wireless access node. The network transceiver beamforms and amplifies the downlink signal based on the downlink beamforming and power information. The network transceiver wirelessly transfers the beamformed and amplified downlink signal to the serving transceiver. The serving transceiver wirelessly receives the beamformed and amplified downlink signal from the network transceiver.

Abstract: A mobile station may comprise a receiver to receive, from a base station, a broadcast signal indicating a TDD configuration of uplink OFDM symbols and downlink OFDM symbols. The receiver may receive an indication of a symbol range and a subchannel range for use in transmission of CQI feedback. The mobile station may receive first downlink data and transmit first uplink data, using the TDD configuration, wherein the first uplink data comprises CQI feedback information transmitted in accordance with the symbol range and the subchannel range. The receiver may receive second downlink data, from the base station, on a different frequency as the first uplink data is transmitted, while the first uplink data is transmitted.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes the generation of long sequences from short sequences to support concurrent transmissions of large numbers of machine-type communication devices operating in a wireless communication system. These long sequences may be assigned to devices so that the devices can use the long sequences scramble their transmissions. The use of such long sequences permits many machine-type communication devices to transmit during the same time and frequency resource.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a gateway-signaling method for Multiple-Input Single-Output (MISO) operation and an apparatus for the same. An apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a predistortion unit for performing predistortion for decorrelating signals corresponding to transmitters using the number of transmitters used for MISO and a transmitter coefficient index that are identified using a timing and management packet transmitted through a Studio-to-Transmitter Link (STL), thereby generating a pre-distorted signal; and an RF signal generation unit for generating an RF transmission signal using the pre-distorted signal corresponding to the transmitter coefficient index.

Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication at a receiver. The apparatus is configured to receive a non- coherent signal and determine a first differential of the received non-coherent signal on each of one or more receive antennas for a set of binary vectors to obtain a lower order representation of the non-coherent signal. The apparatus is configured to combine the differentials across antennas, decode the lower order representation of the non-coherent signal based on the first differential of the non-coherent signal and to reconstruct a higher order representation of the non-coherent signal based on the decoded lower order representation of the non-coherent signal.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a method, performed by a network node, for selection of uplink control information (UCI) transmission format, comprises determining whether to use a coherent transmission; upon determining to use a coherent transmission, selecting a coherent transmission format for UCI transmission. Upon determining not to use a coherent transmission the method further includes determining whether to use an orthogonal sequence: upon determining to use an orthogonal sequence, the method includes selecting a non-coherent transmission format with an orthogonal sequence for UCI transmission; upon determining not to use an orthogonal sequence, the method includes selecting a non-coherent transmission format with a non-orthogonal sequence for UCI transmission. The method further includes using the selected format for UCI transmission.

Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises a host device (110) and mobile devices (120) arranged for wireless communication and for distance (140) measurement. The host device has a user interface (113) comprising a connect button (115), and is arranged to execute a connection sequence upon a user activating the connect button. The connection sequence first determines respective distances between the host and respective mobile devices. A first mobile device is identified exhibiting a movement. Then a connection action is executed regarding a connection between the first mobile device and the host device. The mobile device is arranged for executing a ranging protocol and, upon subsequently receiving a connection message, executing a connection action regarding a connection between the first mobile device and the host device. Effectively a connection may be established upon the user of a mobile device pressing a single button on a selected host device and moving the mobile device.

Abstract: Handling of UE capability information in a mobile telecommunications network wherein an eNodeB receives information regarding the UE capability information from the UE and stores the information. The eNodeB sends the UE capability information to the EPC, i.e., to an MME, which receives and stores the UE capability information. When the UE transits from idle to active state, does an initial attach, or when a part of the UE capabilities have changed, it sends a message to the eNodeB regarding the update. The eNodeB forwards the message to the MME, which sends a response associated with the previously stored UE capability information to the eNodeB. The eNodeB decides whether the UE capabilities stored in the MME is up-to-date based on the message from the UE and the response from the MME. If the UE holds updated UE capabilities the eNodeB can request updated UE capability information from the UE.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may transmit, to a user equipment, an indication of a temporary resource change, wherein the temporary resource change is associated with at least one of a resource configuration, a repetition configuration, or a combination thereof. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A disclosed example method involves, when a device is operating in a stationary mode and before a need of the device to communicate data, determining whether a stored timing advance is valid. When the stored timing advance is not valid, a valid timing advance is determined before the need of the device to communicate the data.

Abstract: A data processing device includes a restoration unit that performs a conversion operation on an input signal to convert the input signal into a signal having no distortion caused by an external factor, and a selection unit that selects and outputs either an unrestored signal, which is the input signal, or a restored signal, which is a signal obtained by the restoration unit by performing the conversion operation, based on a feature quantity of the unrestored signal and on a feature quantity of the restored signal.

Abstract: Cellular communications, such as 5G cellular, may be a primary link between cell phones and a base station. Such cellular communications may be desirable, due to a high link rate. When the cellular communications are denied, a tactical waveform may be used to bridge communications between the cell phones and the base station. The tactical waveform may be transmitted between tactical radios coupled with the cell phones. The tactical radios may include an application layer coupled with an application layer of the cell phone, such that an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) of the cell phone may remain unchanged.

Abstract: An optical link channel auto-negotiation method and apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The optical link channel auto-negotiation method may include at least one of the following: configuring a receiving rate, determining whether a receive clock recovered from received data by a physical layer (PHY) module is locked, and in response to determining that the receive clock recovered from the received data by the PHY module is locked, determining that the receiving rate is configured correctly; configuring a first predetermined parameter in response to determining that the receiving rate is configured correctly, determining whether code block data of the PHY module is in a synchronized state, and in response to determining that the code block data of the PHY module is in a synchronized state, determining that the first predetermined parameter is configured correctly.

Abstract: An eNodeB (eNB), user equipment (UE) and method of providing a flexible Radio Access Technology (FRAT) are generally described. The information (resource allocation, partition information and numerology) of at least one of a plurality of RATs used by the eNB is provided to a UE. Each RAT has a flexible subcarrier spacing and symbol duration, which are integer multiples of a base subcarrier spacing and symbol duration, and is associated with at least one of different temporal and frequency resources. The symbol and/or frame structure of each RAT are independent. A Transmission Time Interval (TTI) boundary between the RATs is common, and the RATs comprise a common reference TTI duration. The information of the RATs is provided either via a different RAT than the RAT used by the UE for communication or via a dedicated carrier in the RAT used by the UE for communication.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for dynamically reallocating resources to users of a coaching service. The method can include initially allocating resources to users of the coaching service, receiving indications of activities of the users relative to their allocated resources, and comparing the activities relative to a reference value to produce an outcome including a likelihood that a target user will benefit from a target resource. Upon identifying the target user, a dynamic reallocation process deallocates the target resource from another user and reallocates the target resource to the target user.

Abstract: Methods and devices for transmitting data in an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) wireless local area network, comprising: selecting, for a first resource unit assigned to the target station, a first modulation type; selecting, for a second resource unit assigned to the target station, a second modulation type different from the first modulation type; and modulating coded data and mapping the modulated data onto subcarriers associated with the assigned resource units based on the respective modulation types selected for each of the assigned resource units.

Abstract: An efficient return channel spectrum utilization technique for communication systems supporting adaptive spread spectrum. Requests for bandwidth allocation using a spread factor are analyzed to determine if there are any channels capable of supporting the spread factor. The request is acknowledged if at least one channel is capable of supporting the request. Adjacent channels required to accommodate the requested spread factor are reserved, and additional bandwidth requests are allocated on non-reserved channels.

Abstract: A wireless access point (WAP) supports one or more physical layer (PHY) operational parameters which can be restricted from use to lessen congestion within a wireless network (WN). The WAP periodically transmits a management frame to enable one or more communication devices to establish and/or maintain communication with the WAP. The wireless network can restrict one or more of the one or more PHY operational parameters, such as PHY data rates to provide an example, that are supported by the WAP from being utilized for communicating the management frame. This restriction of the one or more PHY operational parameters allows the WAP to periodically transmit the management frame at an increased PHY data rate thereby decreasing time needed for communicating the management frame which can lessen the congestion within the WN.

Abstract: A method to operate a transmitting radio device of a radio communications network is provided, wherein the method comprises: transmitting (102), towards a receiving radio device, first data according to a first transmit mode; determining (104) a last reception time when a positive acknowledgment was received from the receiving radio device, the positive acknowledgement indicating a successful reception of the transmitted first data at the side of the receiving radio device; and transmitting (106), towards the receiving radio device, second data according to a second transmit mode, wherein the second transmit mode is activated upon expiry of a first transmit mode time period since the determined last reception time.

Abstract: Responsive to receiving a probe request at an idle transceiver over a first channel from a Wi-Fi client and a determination that the Wi-Fi client is not currently associated with the access point for service, a second channel being used for client service is identified. A probe response frame is generated including a CSA (channel switch announcement) indicating the second channel and transmitted to the Wi-Fi client causing authentication over the second channel. The Wi-Fi client is then serviced over the at least one non-idle transceiver over the second channel.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes receiving at least one first packet of a sequence of packets from a source cell, the at least one first packet being dependent on at least one second packet of the sequence of packets for decoding, performing a handover from the source cell to a target cell, determining that the at least one second packet of the sequence of packets was not received from the source cell, generating a message requesting a retransmission from the target cell for the at least one first packet and the at least one second packet based on the determination, and transmitting the message to the target cell.

Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a system comprising a plurality of controllers and a plurality of radio points that provide wireless service to user equipment. The system is configured to serve a plurality of logical cells. The system is configured so that each logical cell is served by a respective group of the radio points. The system is configured to associate each group of radio points with a respective one or more controllers in order for the respective one or more controllers to serve the respective logical cell associated with that group of radio points while associated therewith. The system is configured to use a protection scheme in which the respective group of radio points that serves each logical cell does not change in the event of a fail-over that causes the one or more controllers associated with that group of radio points to change.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for routing modification based on handover detection in UEs and network equipment. According to the principles of the present specification, communication between a User Equipment (UE) and a network equipment may be established over a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT, and a coupling between the first RAT and the second RAT may be identified in the communication between the UE and the network equipment. A handover event associated with at least one of the RATs may be identified, and network traffic routing may be adapted based at least in part on the identified handover event and the coupling between the first RAT and the second RAT.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method is performed by a wireless device for transmitting uplink data. The method comprises determining a predetermined configuration according to which to transmit uplink data and one or more repetitions of the uplink data. The method further comprises determining a cyclic shift for one or more reference signals transmitted with the uplink data and the one or more repetitions of the uplink data. The method further comprises transmitting the uplink data, the one or more repetitions, and the one or more references signals to a network node. The uplink data and the one or more repetitions are transmitted according to the predetermined configuration. The one or more references signals are transmitted according to the cyclic shift.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure are generally directed to a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes receiving a configuration of resources on a plurality of signaling entities for reception of a plurality of control messages, wherein each of the plurality of control messages schedules resources on a different signaling entity than one of the plurality of signaling entities on which the control message is to be received, and monitoring the configured resources on the plurality of signaling entities for the plurality of control messages.