Abstract: An apparatus and method for broadcast signal frame using a bootstrap and a preamble are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving on a BICM output signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a bootstrap and a preamble using the time-interleaved signal.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for hybrid beamforming.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network entity may map a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), a truncated sequence, and data in a delay-Doppler domain in accordance with a control signal. The network entity may apply a Fourier transform on the mapped DMRS, the truncated sequence, and the data to generate a signal in the time domain. The network entity may output, and a user equipment (UE) may receive, the signal in the time domain, including the DMRS, the truncated sequence, and the data. The UE may apply a Fourier transform on the received signal in the time domain to generate a mapping of the DMRS and the data in the delay-Doppler domain. The UE may perform channel estimation based on applying the Fourier transform on the received signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing method and apparatus. A terminal device encodes uplink control information (UCI) to obtain coded bits of the UCI, and encodes data to obtain coded bits of the data. The terminal device multiplexes the coded bits of the UCI and the coded bits of the data to obtain a multiplexed bit sequence. The terminal device then transmits the multiplexed bit sequence to a network device via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). A length of a transmission time interval of the UCI is less than or equal to 0.5 millisecond. In this way, data transmission latency can be reduced.

Abstract: A transmitter apparatus wherein a simple structure is used to successfully suppress the degradation of error rate performance that otherwise would be caused by fading or the like. There are included encoding parts that encode transport data; a mapping part that performs such a mapping that encoded data sequentially formed by the encoding parts are not successively included in the same symbol, thereby forming data symbols; and a symbol interleaver that interleaves the data symbols. In this way, a low computational complexity can be used to perform an interleaving process equivalent to a bit interleaving process to effectively improve the reception quality at a receiving end.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting and receiving control information. A method in a base station includes transmitting, to a terminal, information associated with a resource region carrying a control channel; transmitting, to the terminal, a plurality of values associated with control channel candidates, each of the plurality of values corresponding to each of a plurality of numbers associated with CCEs constituting one control channel candidate, wherein the each of the plurality of values indicates a number of control channel candidates to be monitored by the terminal; determining a set of control channel candidates based on an ID of the terminal and at least one of the plurality of values associated with the control channel candidates; selecting at least one control channel candidate from among the set of control channel candidates; and transmitting the control information to the terminal through the at least one selected control channel candidate in the resource region.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure may involve use of a radio frequency receiver and in such a receiver, tracking multipath gains and delays of multipath reflections corresponding to an OFDM multipath transmission channel. The gains and delays are based on time-domain evolution of the channel impulse response. Multipath reflections are searched for and then used to calculate channel correlation information to provide channel estimations to aid in mitigating or cancelling distortion of the received signal.

Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for automatically decoding and demodulating radio signals in a communication network. Embodiments utilize a one-dimensional (1D) convolutional neural network (CNN) as the key architecture of a decoder that utilizes one or more 1D convolution windows to perform convolution operations on to-be-decoded or demodulated input signals received by the communication network. In embodiments, this may be achieved by receiving, at a CNN correlator implemented in a decoder, an input signal that comprises unknown data and applying to the input signal, in the discrete time domain, a convolution to obtain a CNN correlator output to which an activation may be applied to decode the input signal and output the decoded signal.

Abstract: Accordingly embodiments herein disclose a quarter rate speculative DFE. The quarter rate speculative DFE includes a plurality of sampler circuits connected to an input terminal. The plurality of sampler circuits are configured to sample an input signal into a plurality of data samples in parallel. A plurality of quarter rate look ahead circuit connected to the plurality of sampler circuits. The plurality of quarter rate look ahead circuit is configured to simultaneously perform an align operation and a look ahead operation on the plurality of data samples based on the different clock phases to obtain a plurality of latched outputs. A plurality of multiplexers connected to the plurality of quarter rate look ahead circuit. The plurality of multiplexers is configured to generate two speculative data streams by multiplexing respective correction coefficients of each of the plurality of latched outputs.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and computer program product embodiments for remotely controlling a media device. An embodiment includes an apparatus including a radio frequency (RF) communications chip, a memory, and at least one processor coupled to the RF communications chip and the memory. The at least one processor is configured to receive an electronic signal indicative of a user command and generate, based on the electronic signal, an action frame packet configured to instruct a media device to perform a function associated with the user command. Subsequently, the at least one processor is configured to transmit, using the RF communications chip, the action frame packet to the media device.

Abstract: This application provides an apparatus for correcting a deviation between a plurality of transmission channels, which includes a first transmission channel and a second transmission channel. The first transmission channel and the second transmission channel are respectively connected to a first endpoint and a second endpoint of a correction coupling channel. The apparatus includes a vector detection unit, configured to: when a first signal is fed at the first endpoint and a second signal is fed at the second endpoint, respectively detect a plurality of signal vectors based on a plurality of feedback signals of the first transmission channel and the second transmission channel; and a processing unit, configured to determine a deviation correction value between the first transmission channel and the second transmission channel based on the detected signal vectors.

Abstract: A method of transmitting data via a unipolar signal comprises allocating a symbol to one or more signals among a plurality of signals, applying pulse shaping to the plurality of signals to obtain a plurality of filtered signals, wherein the filtered signals are orthogonal signals, and transmitting the sum of the filtered signals as a unipolar signal, wherein the transmitted signal is a weighted sum of the filtered signals. The data can be recovered at the receiver by applying a plurality of orthogonal matched filters to the received unipolar signal to obtain a plurality of filtered signals, and performing symbol detection on the plurality of filtered signals to determine the received symbol. Apparatus for transmitting and receiving unipolar signals are also disclosed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for classifying baseband signals with respect to modulation type include receiving, at a consolidated neural network whose objective is modulation classification performance, a complex quadrature vector of interest including multiple samples of a baseband signal derived from a radio frequency signal of unknown modulation type, generating multiple data representations of the vector of interest, providing each data representation to one of multiple parallel neural networks in the consolidated neural network, and receiving a classification result for the baseband signal based on combined outputs of the parallel neural networks.

Abstract: A signal generating device includes a digital signal processing unit, M sub DACs of which an analog bandwidth is fB, M being an integer equal to or greater than 2, a broadband analog signal generating unit configured to generate a broadband analog signal that includes a component of a frequency of (M-1)fB or more by using M analog signals output from the M sub DACs. The digital signal processing unit includes components for generating M original divided signals that correspond to signals obtained by dividing a desired output signal into M portions on a frequency axis and down-converting the portions to the baseband, components for generating M folded divided signals by folding back the M original divided signals on the frequency axis, and a 2M×M filter that takes the original divided signals and the folded divided signals as inputs and outputs M composite signals to be transmitted to the M sub DACs. The 2M×M filter can set a response function independently for each of 2M2 combinations of input and output.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to enable a base station to configure additional reference signals, which may be referred to as configured reference signals, to include in a transmission to a user equipment (UE). The UE may transmit a report to the base station, indicating a UE capability for supporting configured reference signals, and the base station may configure a pattern for the configured reference signals. The base station may transmit an indication of the pattern to the UE, where the indication may include one or more characteristics associated with the configured reference signals. The base station may transmit the configured reference signals to the UE according to the pattern, along with one or more baseline reference signals, within an associated transmission. The UE may use the configured reference signals and the baseline reference signals to receive a transmission from the base station.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to system structured for integration of communication channels and active cross-channel communication transmission, such that the user can utilize disparate electronic communication channels via a central user application. The system is configured to configured to construct a secure dynamic integrated interface in real-time structured for performing electronic activities associated with electronic communications. The system is also structured for dynamically transform electronic communications in response to the type of invoking communication channel and the authentication credential level of the communication channel. The system is also structured for, in response to determining a first user activity, in real-time, dynamically modifying the one or more graphical UI elements presented at the central user interface.

Abstract: A millimeter-wave communication system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is configured to be connected to a waveguide that is transmissive at millimeter-wave frequencies, the waveguide having a propagation parameter that varies with frequency at the millimeter-wave frequencies. The transmitter is configured to generate a millimeter-wave signal comprising multiple sub-carriers that are modulated with data, wherein each sub-carrier is modulated with a respective portion of the data and is subjected to only a respective fraction of a variation in the propagation parameter, and to transmit the millimeter-wave signal into a first end of the waveguide. The receiver is configured to receive the millimeter-wave signal from a second end of the waveguide, and to extract the data from the multiple sub-carriers.

Abstract: A phase calibration method includes: segmenting a received measurement sequence according to a preset rule; respectively determining a phase calibration factor of each of segmented measurement sequences, wherein the each of the segmented measurement sequences respectively corresponds to a segmented phase; and when performing a phase calibration on a sequence to be verified, according to a matching relation between a phase of the sequence to be verified and the each of the segmented phases, using the phase calibration factor corresponding to a matched segmented phase to perform the phase calibration on the sequence to be verified. The embodiments of the phase calibration method and the device are equivalent to dividing a non-linear measurement sequence into several approximately linear measurement sequences, and then calibrating each of the several approximately linear measurement sequences using a corresponding phase calibration factor respectively.

Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, performing a matrix operation of zeroing a matrix in response to a single instruction. For example, a processor detailed which includes decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode and a source/destination matrix operand identifier; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to zero each data element of the identified source/destination matrix.

Abstract: In some examples, a system includes a receiver configured to receive signals encoding first, second, and third messages in first, second, and third frequency bands. The system also includes a mixer configured to down-convert the received signals to intermediate-frequency (IF) signals based on a local oscillator signal. The system further includes at least one analog-to-digital converter configured to sample the IF signals at a sampling rate. A frequency band of the IF signals encoding the first message falls within a first Nyquist region, and a frequency band of the IF signals encoding the second message falls within a second Nyquist region. The first and second Nyquist regions are frequency ranges bounded by multiples of one-half of the sampling rate, and the second Nyquist region is different from the first Nyquist region. The system includes processing circuitry configured to determine data in the first, second, and third messages based on an output of the at least one analog-to-digital converter.

Abstract: An apparatus of user equipment (UE) includes a radio integrated circuit (IC), an adjustable external low noise amplifier (eLNA) external to the radio IC, and processing circuitry. The radio IC includes a receive signal circuit path including an adjustable gain internal low noise amplifier (iLNA), and a transmit signal circuit path including a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit configured to convert digital signals to analog baseband signals for transmitting. The processing circuitry is configured to provide digital values of the digital signals to the DAC circuit and initiate adjusting gain of one or both of the iLNA and the eLNA according to the digital values.

Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an encoded multichannel signal includes: a base channel decoder for decoding an encoded base channel to obtain a decoded base channel; a decorrelation filter for filtering at least a portion of the decoded base channel to obtain a filling signal; and a multichannel processor for performing a multichannel processing using a spectral representation of the decoded base channel and a spectral representation of the filling signal, wherein the decorrelation filter is a broad band filter and the multichannel processor is configured to apply a narrow band processing to the spectral representation of the decoded base channel and the spectral representation of the filling signal.

Abstract: A communication system includes a transmitting module. The transmitting module is configured to send at least one preamble to a receiver module operating alternatively in an idle mode or a transmission mode during a synchronization time period (Tsync). The synchronization time period (Tsync) is greater than an idle time period of the idle mode of the receiving module.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to position, navigation and timing (PNT) methods, systems, and transmitters. A method comprises receiving radio-frequency (RF) signals from a plurality of virtual transmitters and determining PNT information of a target object based on information obtained from the RF signals. A system comprises a plurality of virtual transmitters and a receiver. The plurality of virtual transmitters is configured to transmit radio-frequency (RF) signals that include PNT information. The receiver is configured to determine PNT information of a target object based on the PNT information. A transmitter comprises a high-frequency (HF) carrier generator, a waveform generator, and an antenna system. The HF carrier generator generates an HF carrier signal. The waveform generator generates a waveform that includes PNT information. The antenna system transmits the HF carrier signal to generate a subject ionospheric duct.

Abstract: Capturing, extracting and storing narrowband IQ data for later processing enables timely and efficient analysis. As wideband capture of RF information includes noise and non-signal elements, the present invention detects, extracts and stores narrowband IQ signals for later assessment. By transforming a high-volume data stream to a collection of smaller narrowband signals with greatly reduced storage and on-board processing requirements the present invention facilitates the capability to analyze signals of interest in an otherwise denied environment.

Abstract: A UE transmits to a BS an indication of a number of PTRS ports. The number of PTRS ports is a suggestion to the BS for allocating the indicated number of PTRS ports to the UE for transmission of PTRS from the BS to the UE to enable the UE to perform phase tracking. The method also includes allocating, by the BS, PTRS ports to the UE based on the indication of the number of PTRS ports. The indication may be included in a UCI message, MAC CE, or RRC message transmitted by the UE to the BS. The BS may map the allocated PTRS ports to DMRS ports corresponding to spatial streams transmitted by the BS. The UE may estimate CPE of each spatial stream, measure correlations of the estimated CPE among the spatial streams, and use the correlations to determine the suggested number of PTRS.

Abstract: The present subject matter relates to wireless VR devices. In an example implementation of the present subject matter, wireless VR devices are described. In an example, a wireless VR device includes a first array antenna disposed on a headband of the wireless VR device to communicate wirelessly. The wireless VR device also includes a second array antenna disposed on a display unit of the wireless VR device to wirelessly communicate with the docking station. In an example implementation, the first array antenna and the second array antenna have an omni-directional radiation pattern.

Abstract: Methods, computer readable media, and wireless apparatuses are disclosed for virtual carrier sensing with two network allocation vectors (NAV). An apparatus of a wireless device is disclosed. The apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: determine a duration of a frame, determine whether the frame is an intra basic service set (Intra-BSS) frame, an inter-BSS frame, or an unclassified frame. The processing circuitry may be further configured to set an intra-BSS network allocation vector (NAV) to the duration of the frame, if the frame is determined to be the intra-BSS frame, and if a receiver address is decoded from the frame and the receiver address is not an address of the wireless device. The processing circuitry may be further configured to set a regular NAV to the duration of the frame, if the frame is determined to be the inter BSS frame or the unclassified frame.

Abstract: A linear amplifier outputs differential signals corresponding to differential signals input to a first signal input terminal and a second signal input terminal, and includes a first resistor, a second resistor, a third resistor, a fourth resistor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a differential amplifier, and a signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor, and includes a resistor as a common voltage output part that outputs a common voltage. The differential amplifier receives the common voltage and a reference voltage, and applies a voltage corresponding to the voltage difference between the common voltage and the reference voltage to the control terminals of the transistors.

Abstract: A resampling circuit converts first data updated synchronously with a first clock signal into second data updated synchronously with a second clock signal asynchronous with the first clock signal and outputs the second data. The resampling circuit calculates and outputs the second data with a time resolution of a third clock signal having a higher frequency than the first clock signal and the second clock signal, based on the first data.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for tracking of signals. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes filtering a first segment of an input signal, associated with a first time interval, into a first plurality of frequency bins. The method also includes detecting a signal of interest (SOI) in one of the first plurality of frequency bins. The method further includes filtering a second segment of the input signal, associated with a second time interval, into a second plurality of frequency bins. The method further includes determining movement of the SOI from a first frequency bin, of the first plurality of frequency bins, to a second frequency bin, of the second plurality of frequency bins. The method further includes tracking the SOI based on the movement determination. In some cases, the method further includes creating a composite signal based on the tracking over multiple frequency bins and multiple time intervals.

Abstract: Provided is an aerial-floating type communication relay apparatus capable of reducing a size and suppressing a movement of a cell footprint. The communication relay apparatus comprises an array antenna that has plural antenna elements forming a cell for performing a radio communication of a service link with a terminal apparatus, an information acquisition section that acquires information on at least one of a position and an attitude of the communication relay apparatus, and a control section that controls phases and amplitudes of plural transmission/reception signals transmitted/received via each of the plural antenna elements of the array antenna so as to fix the position of the cell footprint, based on the information on at least one of the position and the attitude of the communication relay apparatus.

Abstract: A word boundary detection method includes receiving a data stream from a data channel of a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI), and performing pattern matching upon the data stream to identify a word boundary between two consecutive codewords transmitted via the data stream. Known codewords of scrambled control vectors are involved in the pattern matching.

Abstract: In described examples, a sample and hold circuit is configured to periodically connect one input of an op-amp to a reference voltage through a switch while a second input of the op-amp is connected to an output of the op-amp. Offset cancellation is performed by storing a sampled offset on a sampling capacitor coupled to the second input of the op-amp.

Abstract: One example includes a phased array antenna system. The system includes a beamforming network to receive a beam signal to generate a plurality of element signals, each being provided to a respective one of a plurality of antenna elements. The system also includes a plurality of modulation controllers, each associated with a respective one of the plurality of antenna elements. Each of the modulation controllers can generate a beam code in response to a beamforming signal and a data code in response to a data signal. The system further includes a plurality of element adjustment circuits, each associated with a respective one of the plurality of antenna elements. Each of the plurality of element adjustment circuits can modulate the beam code and the data code onto a respective one of the plurality of element signals to generate a respective adjusted element signal that is provided to a respective radiating element.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a device, playback content. The playback content is associated with an ATSC signal. The method also includes identifying, by the device, one or more markers in the playback content, communicating, by the device, information associated with the one or more markers to an advertisement decision engine, and receiving, by the device, a URL for an addressable targeted programmatic advertisement from the advertisement decision engine. The method further includes inserting, by the device, the addressable targeted programmatic advertisement URL into the playback content.

Abstract: Length matching and phase matching between circuit paths of differing lengths is disclosed. Two signals are specified to arrive at respective path destinations at a predetermined time and with a predetermined phase. An IC provides a first electronic signal over a first conductive path to a first destination and a second electronic signal over a second conductive path to a second destination. A first slow wave structure comprises the first conductive path and a second slow wave structure comprises the second conductive path. The effective relative permittivity of the first slow wave structure is tuned such that the first electronic signal arrives at its destination at a first time and at a first phase, and the effective relative permittivity of the second slow wave structure is tuned such that the second electronic signal arrives at its destination at a second time and at a second phase.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that may enable a user equipment (UE) or base station (e.g., a next-generation NodeB (gNB)) to identify that a waveform to be generated for a scheduled transmission is formed by one or more reference signal symbols and one or more data symbols. The waveform may be contained between a beginning boundary and an ending boundary with a duration equal to a total length of the one or more reference signal symbols and the one or more data symbols. The UE, base station, or both may generate the waveform by inserting a guard internal in the one or more reference signal symbols and the one or more data symbols to enable a receiver to perform a fast Fourier transform (FFT) for each of the one or more reference signal symbols and the one or more data symbols.

Abstract: A method and device for processing a broadcast content are discussed. The method includes receiving a broadcast content of a broadcast service; displaying the broadcast content on a display screen; and detecting a first user input, in response to the first user input that is to display an ESG: displaying the ESG overlaid on the broadcast content being displayed on the display screen; determining whether information for controlling execution of an application, that is embedded in an audio component of the broadcast content, is received; and controlling the execution of the application based on the determination; or in response to the first user input that indicates a mute mode to mute sound of the broadcast content: determining whether information for controlling execution of the application, that is embedded in a video component of the broadcast content, is received; and controlling the execution of the application based on the determination.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method obtains raw data from one or more packets received over a wireless channel via an antenna. The raw data comprises raw amplitude values and raw phase values. Each raw amplitude value and raw phase value corresponds to a respective OFDM symbol and subcarrier of a respective packet. The method further comprises processing the raw data according to an interference mitigation process and using the resulting calibrated amplitude values and calibrated phase values to determine weighted phase values. Each weighted phase value corresponds to a respective subcarrier. The method determines a phase variance for the antenna based on comparing the plurality of weighted phase values across the plurality of subcarriers. The method determines whether the wireless channel experiences line-of-sight propagation or non-line-of-sight propagation based at least in part on the phase variance.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a network access method and a device. In accordance with the method, a preamble sequence may be received by a second network device from a terminal device on a time-frequency resource occupied by the preamble sequence. A transmit beam may be determined for sending an access response message to the terminal device. The access response message can be sent to the terminal device using the transmit beam. The second access device can send the access response message to the terminal device through beamforming, so that a coverage area of the second access device can be enlarged, directivity of data sent to the terminal device can be improved, and a probability that the terminal device receives the access response message is improved. Therefore, a rate that the terminal device succeeds in accessing the second access device is improved.

Abstract: A phased array antenna is provided. The phased array antenna includes a dome shaped substrate. The phased array antenna further includes a plurality of antenna elements disposed on the substrate.

Abstract: A modified orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system based on virtual decomposition of the channel is proposed. The system is fully compatible with standard OFDM transmitters and maintains several blocks of standard OFDM receivers. The proposed approach achieves also incoherent reception of multicarrier signals even with a simple autocovariance DPSK detector. This novel system substantially surpasses the performance of current approaches while requiring low computational complexity. Two preferred embodiments are described; one with coherent reception using pilot signals, and the second with incoherent receiver of differentially encoded signals.

Abstract: An ad-hoc wireless network is implemented by a plurality of wireless access points to detect and report failure of a concurrently implemented conventional network. The wireless access points collect and store network status information of the conventional network and send the network status information to a centralized emergency manager when failure of the conventional network is detected. The ad-hoc wireless network may also provide backhaul connectivity to a wireless access point of the failed conventional network for emergency communication.

Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform improved channel estimates for sensing applications such as ranging. The wireless device may determine noise characteristics, e.g., a spectrum of the variance of noise on a channel and may use the noise characteristics to estimate a response of an analog front end of the wireless device. The wireless device may correct a channel estimate based on the estimated response of the analog front end.

Abstract: A controller configured to perform a training process of sampling data using multi-phase signals which are internally generated according to a data strobe signal, and compensating for a delay time of the data strobe signal using a control code which is generated according to the sampling result.

Abstract: An operation method of a signal receiver includes sequentially receiving 0-th and first bits through one signal line, and adjusting a width of any one of a first high duration and a first low duration of a first signal corresponding to the first bit, based on values of the 0-th and first bits, when the values of the 0-th and first bits are identical to each other.

Abstract: Disclosed are a spread-spectrum decoding method for a transmitted signal and a display apparatus. The method comprises: acquiring a fixed input frequency of an input signal, and taking the fixed input frequency as a decoding frequency; performing a calculation according to the fixed input frequency to obtain a cycle number N of the input signal within a pre-set time range; determining whether, during the pre-set time range, the ratio of the number of cycles corresponding to the input frequency after the spread-spectrum processing, which is greater than or less than the decoding frequency, to the cycle number N is greater than or equal to a pre-set percentage; if so, adding a one stage pre-set adjustment frequency value to the decoding frequency or subtracting same from the decoding frequency so as to obtain a new decoding frequency; and taking the new decoding frequency as an updated decoding frequency.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a receiver buffer, a phase compensation circuit, a data sampler circuit, and an error sampler circuit. The receiver buffer may generate an equalized signal on a signal node using an input signal received via a channel. The phase compensation circuit may, in response to an initiation of a training mode, replace the equalized signal on the signal node with a reference signal. The data sampler circuit may sample, using a data clock signal, the reference signal to generate a plurality of data samples. The error sampler circuit may sample, using an error clock signal, the reference signal to generate a plurality of errors samples. The phase compensation circuit may also adjust a phase difference between the data clock signal and the error clock signal using at least some of the plurality of data samples and at least some of the plurality of error samples.

Abstract: A radio station comprises means for allocating resources for communication with at least one other station, and including means for mapping data to be transmitted from at least the radio station to the at least one other station, and means for applying a cyclic shift to the data mapping, wherein this cyclic shift is adjusted depending on the number of data blocks to be mapped. A possible implementation concerns the mapping of the DVRB (Distributed Virtual Resource Block) in OFDM.