RATE MATCHING UNDER IRREGULAR, SPARSE, OR NARROWBAND SIGNALS

摘要

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques that may be utilized to perform rate matching in networks which utilize sparsely or irregularly transmitted signals/channels. Especially, a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) is disclosed, the method comprising: receiving signaling providing an indication of whether the UE is to perform rate matching around one or more signals when decoding a downlink transmission, wherein the one or more signals occupy a fraction of a system bandwidth and the one or more signals are based on one or more different configurations, and wherein the one or more signals comprise at least one of a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), an evolved PBCH (EPBCH), or a control channel; and decoding the downlink transmission with or without rate matching around the one or more signals, based at least in part on the indication of the fraction of the system bandwidth occupied by the one or more signals, and the one or more different configurations of the one or more signals.