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Improvements are needed to the control signal messaging interface between radio devices (RU)and the central unit or distributed units (DU) of an Open Radio Access Network wireless communication system (O-RAN). Without a clear definition of the zeropadding needed to create the O-RAN front-haul interface for certain scenarios such as Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS) It is not easy to determine how the zeropadding works for the inverse Fast Fourier Transform/Fast Transform bins.
A control plane section type message refers to a section extension message that includes a field numZeroPadBin indicating a number of padded bins that are zero to be added to an indication in the section header of the control plane section type message for FFT/iFFT. A control plane section type type message could be one of the following examples: a Section Type 1 message; it could also be a Section Type 3 or Section Type 5 message. It could also be associated with an MBSFN subframe. The numZeroPadBin number is calculated based on the SCS, FFT Size and CP combination NCP/ECP inside a subframe or a slot.
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