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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2021
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Fumihiro Hasegawa, Westmount, CA;
Paul Marinier, Brossard, CA;
Virgil Comsa, Montreal, CA;
Moon-Il Lee, Melville, NY (US);
Faris Alfarhan, Montreal, CA;
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed herein associated with transmission of demodulation reference signals (DMRS) in wireless systems. DMRS symbols may be placed in a slot for channel estimation operations. For example, channel estimation performance may be enhanced based on using an increased number of DMRS symbols. Channel estimation enhancements may be performed by transmitting DMRS symbols in an extended slot, for example, to avoid data degradation (e.g., which may result from replacing data transmission symbols with DMRS symbols). An extended slot may be a slot that includes symbols spanning across multiple slots (e.g., two slots, consecutive slots), for example, such as a slot n and a slot n+1.