Antenna beam sweeping according to the present disclosure involves different communication devices that are within an interference range of each other transmitting beam sweeping signals using different communication resources. This allows a receiver to distinguish between beam sweeping signals that are received from different transmitters, and may facilitate antenna beam alignment in multi-connection scenarios. Beam indices could be used to identify antenna beams for antenna beam management, in control signaling between base stations and User Equipment (UE), for example. Beam tracking and other aspects of antenna beam management are also disclosed.

Methods and an apparatus for reference signal (RS) configuration. A method implemented in a network device is provided in which a plurality of reference signal (RS) ports to be used for RS transmission are determined based on at least one of different RS configuration patterns, different port multiplexing types and different number of symbols to be used for RS transmission. Each of the plurality of RS ports is indexed with a respective port index and at least two of the plurality of RS ports share a same port index. A plurality of RS configurations are determined at least based on the plurality of RS ports. In addition, at least one RS configuration from the plurality of RS configurations is allocated for a terminal device served by the network device. The at least one RS configuration indicates at least one RS port to be used for RS transmission.

A method for a first device to perform wireless communication and a device supporting same. The method may include the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a time division duplex uplink-downlink (TDD UL-DL) configuration including information related to a UL resource; receiving, from the base station, information related to the start of sidelink (SL) symbols, information related to the number of the SL symbols, and a bitmap indicating one or more slots included in an SL resource pool; and determining the SL resource pool.

A method and a device for dividing short TTIs of a special subframe are provided. The method includes: in a case that a configuration of a special subframe having a normal CP is used in downlink, and a DwPTS of the special subframe is used for short TTI transmission, dividing short TTIs in the DwPTS based on a predefined division pattern of short TTIs in a case that based on the configuration of the special subframe having the normal CP used in downlink and a length of a control region in the DwPTS, the DwPTS is determined to satisfy a division condition corresponding to the predefined division pattern of short TTIs.

A transmission apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure incudes: a correction value calculation unit (130) configured to calculate a correction value for correcting an initial standby time of a direct wave signal or an indirect wave signal based on a reception time of the direct wave signal and a reception time of the indirect wave signal that follows the direct wave signal, and a transmission time fluctuation compensation unit (140) configured to calculate the standby time by correcting the initial standby time using the correction value and cause the direct wave signal or the indirect wave signal to stand by in accordance with the standby time. The correction value calculation unit (130) calculates a correction value for increasing the standby time of the direct wave signal or reducing the standby time of the indirect wave signal.

A transmission apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure incudes: a correction value calculation unit (130) configured to calculate a correction value for correcting an initial standby time of a direct wave signal or an indirect wave signal based on a reception time of the direct wave signal and a reception time of the indirect wave signal that follows the direct wave signal, and a transmission time fluctuation compensation unit (140) configured to calculate the standby time by correcting the initial standby time using the correction value and cause the direct wave signal or the indirect wave signal to stand by in accordance with the standby time. The correction value calculation unit (130) calculates a correction value for increasing the standby time of the direct wave signal or reducing the standby time of the indirect wave signal.

An equalizer can connect with N receiving antennas that receive single carrier transmission signals transmitted from M transmitting antenna(s) in the same frequency band at the same time, and receives as input L signals sampled in a sampling period T from each of the N receiving antennas, the equalizer comprising, a first selection part that selects K signal(s) from the L signals for each of the N receiving antennas as signals to be multiplied by a first tap coefficient(s), and a second selection part selects L-K signal(s) to be multiplied by a second tap coefficient(s), from the L signals obtained by multiplying signals in the same sampling period for each of the N receiving antennas by the tap coefficient(s) and performing addition thereof.

An equalizer can connect with N receiving antennas that receive single carrier transmission signals transmitted from M transmitting antenna(s) in the same frequency band at the same time, and receives as input L signals sampled in a sampling period T from each of the N receiving antennas, the equalizer comprising, a first selection part that selects K signal(s) from the L signals for each of the N receiving antennas as signals to be multiplied by a first tap coefficient(s), and a second selection part selects L-K signal(s) to be multiplied by a second tap coefficient(s), from the L signals obtained by multiplying signals in the same sampling period for each of the N receiving antennas by the tap coefficient(s) and performing addition thereof.

A method for modulating data for transmission within a communication system. The method includes establishing a time-frequency shifting matrix of dimension N×N, wherein N is greater than one. The method further includes combining the time-frequency shifting matrix with a data frame to provide an intermediate data frame. A transformed data matrix is provided by permuting elements of the intermediate data frame. A modulated signal is generated in accordance with elements of the transformed data matrix.

A method for modulating data for transmission within a communication system. The method includes establishing a time-frequency shifting matrix of dimension N×N, wherein N is greater than one. The method further includes combining the time-frequency shifting matrix with a data frame to provide an intermediate data frame. A transformed data matrix is provided by permuting elements of the intermediate data frame. A modulated signal is generated in accordance with elements of the transformed data matrix.