TECHNIQUES FOR CONVEYING ON-OFF KEYING SIGNALING VIA ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING WAVEFORMS

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a network entity may map on-off keying (OOK) symbols of an OOK sequence to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform including at least one OFDM symbol with a cyclic prefix. Each OOK symbol of the OOK sequence may be mapped to at least one segment of an integer quantity of segments of the OFDM waveform based on an OOK data rate. A duration of each segment of the integer quantity of segments of the OFDM waveform may be based on the OOK data rate and a ratio between a duration of the cyclic prefix and a duration of a remainder of the OFDM symbol. The network entity may transmit the OFDM waveform via a set of frequency resources. A user equipment (UE) may receive and decode the OFDM waveform to obtain the OOK sequence.