Radio-unlicensed (NR-U) interlace-based resource allocations

An apparatus comprising:

• a transceiver configured to:
• communicate, with a second wireless communication device, a first interlace configuration indicating a first set of interlaced frequency resources in a frequency band based on a power spectral density (PSD) parameter, wherein the first set of interlaced frequency resources includes a predetermined number of frequency resources based on a subcarrier spacing of the first set of interlaced frequency resources;
• communicate, with the second wireless communication device, a first frequency resource exclusion configuration;
• communicate, with the second wireless communication device, a first allocation including a plurality of frequency resources from the first set of interlaced frequency resources based on the first frequency resource exclusion configuration;
• and
• a processor configured to:
• exclude one or more interlaced frequency resources from the first allocation based on the first frequency resource exclusion configuration such that a number of remaining frequency resources in the first allocation is of a predetermined integer multiple based on the first frequency resource exclusion configuration,
• wherein the processor is further configured to:
• communicate, with the second wireless communication device, a first communication signal based on the first allocation using the remaining frequency resources in the first allocation.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program code recorded thereon, the program code comprising:

• code for causing a first wireless communication device to communicate, with a second wireless communication device, a first interlace configuration indicating a first set of interlaced frequency resources in a frequency band based on a power spectral density (PSD) parameter, wherein the first set of interlaced frequency resources includes a predetermined number of frequency resources based on a subcarrier spacing of the first set of interlaced frequency resources;
• code for causing the first wireless communication device to communicate, with the second wireless communication device, a first frequency resource exclusion configuration;
• code for causing the first wireless communication device to communicate, with the second wireless communication device, a first allocation including a plurality of frequency resources from the first set of interlaced frequency resources based on the first frequency resource exclusion configuration;
• code for causing the first wireless communication device to exclude, by the first wireless communication device, one or more interlaced frequency resources from the first allocation based on the first frequency resource exclusion configuration such that a number of remaining frequency resources in the first allocation is of a predetermined integer multiple based on the first frequency resource exclusion configuration;
• and
• code for causing the first wireless communication device to communicate, with the second wireless communication device, a first communication signal based on the first allocation using the remaining frequency resources in the first allocation.