The apparatus includes: a radar circuit including a set of antennas for transmission and reception, a transmitter, a receiver, and a medium access control (MAC) controller. The apparatus further includes a controller operably connected to the radar circuit, the controller configured to identify a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of a long constant amplitude zero autocorrelation (CAZAC) sequence including multiple segments, identify, via the MAC controller, time-frequency resources for the multiple segments, identify a set of time-frequency sub-channels in the time-frequency resources, and sequentially map each of the multiple segments to each of the set of time-frequency sub-channels. The radar circuit is configured to transmit, via the transmitter, a first signal based on the set of time-frequency sub-channels.