Wireless communication apparatus and method

The present technology relates to a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method that make it possible to achieve an improvement in the number of multiplexes on a non-orthogonal axis. The wireless communication apparatus transmits a signal including information for setting an occupancy period of a wireless transmission path on the basis of an extraction processing time required for a process of extracting desired data from a received signal (including an interference cancellation process in communication using non-orthogonal multiplexing). The present technology is applicable to a wireless communication system. 本技术涉及使得有可能在非正交轴上的多路复用数量方面实现改进的无线通信装置和无线通信方法。所述无线通信装置基于从接收信号中提取所期望的数据的处理(包括在使用非正交多路复用的通信中的干扰抵消处理)所需的提取处理时间发送包括用于设定无线发送路径的占用时段的信息的信号。本技术适用于无线通信系统。