A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first network node served by a second network node. In one embodiment, the method includes the first network node performs a transmission to the second network node with a timing advance, wherein the timing advance is set to transmission delay between the first network node and the second network node or is set to the transmission delay with a timing reduction.

A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first network node served by a second network node. In one embodiment, the method includes the first network node performs a transmission to the second network node with a timing advance, wherein the timing advance is set to transmission delay between the first network node and the second network node or is set to the transmission delay with a timing reduction.

In a multiuser (MU) multiple antenna system (MAS), a central processing unit is communicatively coupled to multiple distributed wireless terminals (WTs) via a network. The central processing unit processes channel measurements indicative of channel conditions between the multiple distributed WTs and a plurality of user devices and selects a plurality of WTs from the multiple distributed WTs to enhance channel space diversity within the MU-MAS. The central processing unit calculates (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) MIMO weights from the channel measurements for precoding a plurality of data streams that are transmitted concurrently from the plurality of WTs to the plurality of users, wherein the MIMO weights provide for a plurality of independent MIMO channels.

A node may activate, in each iteration of a plurality of iterations, a respective segment of a plurality of segments of an IRS of the node. Each iteration of the plurality of iterations may correspond to one segment of the plurality of segments. The apparatus may receive, from the first wireless device, an indication of a second configuration for the node to generate one or more reflected beams toward the first wireless device or the second wireless device. The second configuration may be based on an interpolation process based on a plurality of phases or phase derivatives associated with the plurality of segments. The apparatus may forward, from the first wireless device to the second wireless device or from the second wireless device to the first wireless device, communications via the IRS based on the second configuration and the one or more reflected beams.

The present invention is applicable to the field of communications technologies, and provides a repeating method of a wireless repeating device and a wireless repeating device. The method includes the following steps: synchronizing network connection information of an upstream AP to a downstream WLAN AP interface of the wireless repeating device; obtaining, according to the downstream WLAN AP interface corresponding to the synchronized upstream AP, downstream wireless STA MAC address information, and establishing an upstream WLAN Client interface which is in a mapping relationship with an STA MAC address; and performing, according to the mapping relationship between the STA MAC address and the established upstream WLAN Client interface, management on data forwarded between the upstream AP and a downstream wireless STA.

The present invention is applicable to the field of communications technologies, and provides a repeating method of a wireless repeating device and a wireless repeating device. The method includes the following steps: synchronizing network connection information of an upstream AP to a downstream WLAN AP interface of the wireless repeating device; obtaining, according to the downstream WLAN AP interface corresponding to the synchronized upstream AP, downstream wireless STA MAC address information, and establishing an upstream WLAN Client interface which is in a mapping relationship with an STA MAC address; and performing, according to the mapping relationship between the STA MAC address and the established upstream WLAN Client interface, management on data forwarded between the upstream AP and a downstream wireless STA.

This invention presents methods comprising a BS with a plural of antennas capable of beamforming two or more spatial multiplexed streams with two or more antennas on UEs; using one or more of relays to project the capacity of the BS to cover one or more UEs; the BS estimating the uplink channel state information (CSI) between each antenna on the BS and each antenna on the one or more UEs using pilots transmitted from the UE antennas in the presence of the relays which amplifies and forwards the one or more pilots; and, the BS making use of the perseverance of the reciprocity of the over the air channel by the symmetry of the DL and UL paths of the relays to obtain the downlink CSI using the estimated uplink CSI that includes the effect of the relays.

This invention presents methods comprising a BS with a plural of antennas capable of beamforming two or more spatial multiplexed streams with two or more antennas on UEs; using one or more of relays to project the capacity of the BS to cover one or more UEs; the BS estimating the uplink channel state information (CSI) between each antenna on the BS and each antenna on the one or more UEs using pilots transmitted from the UE antennas in the presence of the relays which amplifies and forwards the one or more pilots; and, the BS making use of the perseverance of the reciprocity of the over the air channel by the symmetry of the DL and UL paths of the relays to obtain the downlink CSI using the estimated uplink CSI that includes the effect of the relays.

Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus of communication between a terminal and a base station. The communication method between a terminal and a base station performed by the terminal includes: sending, by the terminal, a network access request frame with a first preamble to a relay device. The relay device may be configured to receive the network access request frame according to the first preamble, send the network access request frame with a second preamble to the base station, and receive a network access response frame returned by the base station. The length of the second preamble may be smaller than that of the first preamble. The communication method may further includes receiving, by the terminal, the network access response frame sent by the relay device.

A communication method executed by a communication system, the communication method includes determining, by a first node that requests to execute an application, a policy for selecting a node to execute the application from the plurality of relay nodes based on an amount of an output data which is an execution result of the application and an amount of an input data for executing the application; transmitting a request message including identification information indicating the policy and requesting to execute the application via the path; receiving, by a third node, the request message; acquiring data for executing the application from a second node, when it is determined that the third node is able to execute the application based on the identification information; executing the application using at least the acquired data; and transmitting a response message including the execution result of the application to the first node.