First and second communication devices shape symbol constellation in wireless transmissions. The first communication device obtains a second symbol constellation based on the first symbol constellation and the set of weights, where the first symbol constellation is based on a radiating pattern in a set of radiating patterns for the first communication device and the weights are derived based on the first symbol constellation. Thereafter, the set of antenna elements are controlled according to the radiating pattern for transmitting a set of information bits mapped onto the second symbol constellation. Thereby, the second symbol constellation is customized to the radio environment to enable smart radio that enjoys improved signal design and thereby better performance.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication that one or more channel condition parameters that are associated with uplink channel estimations are to be signaled to the UE to be used for downlink channel estimations. The UE may receive, from the base station, a report of the one or more channel condition parameters that are associated with the uplink channel estimations. Numerous other aspects are described.

A wireless communication method includes receiving a reference signal and a data signal, based on a coverage enhancement level represented by a number of transmission repetitions; processing the reference signal and the data signal received by the receiving; setting a number of resource elements for transmitting the reference signal based at least on a channel type; and setting usage of resource elements indicated by a System Information Block (SIB). The reference signal is a Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS) or a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS).

The apparatus may be a UE. The UE may be configured to measure, over a time interval, a plurality of instances of a signal received from a serving device (e.g., a base station or serving UE). The UE may further be configured to adjust, based on at least two previously measured instances of the signal, a sampling rate associated with the signal received from the serving device. The UE may further be configured to maintain a particular number (e.g., 2-10) of previously measured instances of the signal, where adjusting the sampling rate is based on the maintained particular number of previously measured instances. The particular number of previously measured instances of the signal may be used to calculate a gradient of the measurements to identify a sampling rate associated with the calculated gradient.

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present invention presents a method for efficiently estimating a physical channel and, according to the present invention, a terminal of a communication system receives a synchronization signal from a base station, receives a broadcast channel from the base station, and can estimate the broadcast channel on the basis of the synchronization signal.

A receiving device for use in a wireless OFDM communication system comprises two or more receive antennas for receiving OFDM signals received over a channel from a transmission device having two or more transmit antennas and applying transmit beamforming, and circuitry configured to perform channel estimation to estimate the channel, generate transmit beamforming information based on the channel estimation, the transmit beamforming information comprising beamforming information per subcarrier or time domain tap, determine a reduced set of transmit beamforming information from the transmit beamforming information, wherein the reduced set comprises beamforming information for a reduced set of subcarriers in the frequency domain or for a reduced set of taps in the time domain, wherein the subcarriers of the reduced set or the taps of the reduced set are determined based on an error criterion, and feed back the reduced set of transmit beamforming information to the transmission device.

There is provided mechanisms for decoding data received from a terminal device. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises receiving data, from the terminal device, during a set of user conditions prevailing for the terminal device. The set of user conditions comprises a rank indicator value reported by the terminal device and a measurement performed by the network node on at least one reference signal received from the terminal device. The method comprises selecting, by providing the set of user conditions as input to a database, a channel matrix from the database. The database comprises a set of offline trained channel matrices. The method comprises decoding the received data for the terminal device using the selected channel matrix.

The present inventive concept relates to a multi-antenna channel estimation apparatus and method for performing beamforming in a communication system in which only single channel estimation is possible, and relates to a channel estimation apparatus and method for beamforming in which the transmitter generates pilot signals based on the Zadoff-chu sequence and transmits the generated pilot signals to the receiver, the receiver estimates a channel based on the pilot signal, and feeds back information for beamforming to the transmitter based on the estimated channel information, and it is configured to enable beamforming by converting and setting the signal phase for each antenna according to the feedback received from the transmitter.

In order to achieve both of reduction of peak power and reduction of a transmission rate, an apparatus includes a reception processing unit configured to receive transmission signals from a transmission apparatus, the transmission apparatus performing precoding processing and clipping processing on the transmission signals and outputting a plurality of the transmission signals simultaneously in an identical frequency band; a signal separating unit configured to separate reception data sets from the transmission signals; and a transmission signal estimating unit configured to estimate a signal distortion component and a noise component due to the clipping processing and an interference component between the transmission signals, based on the reception data sets and gain information related to a channel for transmitting the transmission signals, and estimate transmission data sets by removing the signal distortion component, the noise component, and the interference component being estimated from the reception data sets.

A receiver circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a decision feedback equalizer (DFE), a slicer, and a timing error detector (TED). The DFE is coupled to the ADC, and includes a first tap and a second tap. The slicer is coupled to the DFE. The TED is coupled to the slicer. The TED is configured to initialize timing of a sampling clock provided to the ADC while initializing the second tap of the DFE and holding the first tap of the DFE at a constant value.