| CPC H04L 27/2613 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0051 (2013.01); H04L 27/2614 (2013.01)] | 6 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
receiving, with a user device from a network node, information indicating a set of frequency resources assigned to the user device for uplink transmission and a spectrum shaping configuration indicating at least spectrum shaping with spectrum extension for transmission of reference signals via the set of frequency resources, wherein receiving the information further comprises:
receiving, with the user device from the network node, information indicating at least the set of frequency resources for uplink transmission and the spectrum shaping configuration that indicates spectrum shaping without spectrum extension for data transmission and spectrum shaping with spectrum extension for reference signal transmission; and
receiving, with the user device from the network node, an uplink scheduling grant indicating at least the set of frequency resources for uplink transmission and the spectrum shaping configuration that indicates spectrum shaping without spectrum extension for data transmission and spectrum shaping with spectrum extension for reference signal transmission;
performing, with the user device, spectrum shaping with spectrum extension for a reference signal based on the following: a frequency domain filter; a filter having a predefined roll-off; a raised cosine (RC) filter; a root raised cosine (RRC) filter; a truncated filter; and a filter adapted according to a frequency location on a carrier or a location within a frequency band or a location within a bandwidth part of the set of frequency resources assigned to the user device for uplink transmission, and wherein performing the spectrum shaping with spectrum extension comprises:
performing a spectrum extension for the reference signal to cause one or more frequency domain values associated with the reference signal to extend to one or more frequency resources that are beyond the set of frequency resources assigned to the user device;
performing, with the user device, spectrum shaping without spectrum extension for a block of data based on the following: a time domain precoding and a time domain filter, a (1+D) or a (x 1 x) filter; the frequency domain filter; the RC filter; the RRC filter; the truncated filter; and the filter adapted according to the frequency location on the carrier or the location within the frequency band or the location within the bandwidth part of the set of frequency resources assigned to the user device for uplink transmission; and
transmitting the spectrum shaped and extended reference signal via an interlaced frequency division multiplex (IFDM) comb using every nth subcarrier within a first set of frequency resources assigned to the user device and one or more subcarriers of every nth subcarrier within a second set of frequency resources, wherein n is an integer greater than 1, wherein the second set of frequency resources is assigned to a second user device and is adjacent to the first set of frequency resources.
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