Disclosed is a coverage enhancement method for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a wireless communication system related to a communication technique for converging a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate after a 4G system with IoT technology. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety related services, etc.) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology.

Disclosed are a method and device for transmission or reception based on a default spatial parameter in a wireless communication system, which may include receiving from the base station configuration information for at least one of a spatial parameter configured for at least one codepoint or a spatial parameter configured for a control resource set (CORESET); receiving downlink control information (DCI) from the base station in a first time unit; and receiving downlink transmission from the base station based on at least one default spatial parameter in a second time unit, and based on the at least one codepoint not including a codepoint that a plurality of spatial parameters are configured, the at least one default spatial parameter may be determined based on at least one of a plurality of spatial parameters configured for the CORESET.

A first communication apparatus receives first indication information, used to determine an operating mode and/or operating configuration information of the first communication apparatus in a backhaul network, the first communication apparatus includes a first antenna array. The first antenna array is an electromagnetic metasurface antenna array. The first communication apparatus establishes the backhaul network based on the first indication information. A backhaul network is established by using an electromagnetic metasurface antenna array, to implement a flexible and high-performance D-MIMO transmission solution.

A communication device 100 transmits a frame to be transmitted from the communication device 100 toward a plurality of communication networks 101 to 103 and to be transmitted so that the communication device 100 receives information on a channel state from a plurality of communication devices 107 and 108. The frame includes at least sets of AIDs of the respective plurality of communication devices 107 and 108 and pieces of identification information of communication networks to which the communication devices 107 and 108 belong, or at least sets of AIDs of the respective plurality of communication devices 107 and 108 and MAC addresses of the respective plurality of communication devices 107 and 108. The communication device 100 receives the channel state from the plurality of communication devices 107 and 108 that have received the transmitted frame.

Disclosed are a method and device for performing beam failure recovery in a wireless communication system. In a method by which a terminal transmits an uplink or receives a downlink according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the method comprises the steps of: transmitting a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) to a base station on the basis of detection of a beam failure in at least one resource group from among a plurality of resource groups; receiving a response to the BFRQ from the base station; and transmitting information related to the beam failure to the base station, wherein the information related to the beam failure may indicate a specific resource group in which the beam failure is detected or the plurality of resource groups in which the beam failure is detected.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive synchronization signal block (SSB) information that indicates, for each respective SSB of one or more SSBs, a quantity of how many beams are associated with the respective SSB. The UE may monitor SSBs, determine one or more beams that provide an SSB based at least in part on the SSB information, and direct one or more reception beams toward the one or more beams. Numerous other aspects are provided.

A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver receives information about an antenna system of a base station. The information includes a number of collocated antenna groups, and a number of antenna modules for each type of antenna modules in each of the collocated antenna groups. A collocated antenna group has at least two types of antenna modules: a first module with first antenna type and a second module with second antenna type. The transceiver also receives configuration information for a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resource. The transceiver also receives a CSI-RS based on the configuration information and acquires measurements. The processor determines a subset of antenna modules based on a comparison between the measurements and a criterion. The processor generates CSI for the subset of antenna modules. The transceiver transmits a CSI report comprising the CSI.

Provided is a terminal device that is capable of improving the characteristics of a response signal having poor transmission characteristics when ARQ is utilized in communication using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. At the time of channel selection, a control unit selects a resource used in sending a response signal from among specific PUCCH resources notified in advance from a base station and PUCCH resources mapped to a CCE, and controls the transmission of the response signal. A response signal generating unit supports implicit signaling with respect to any given response signal, and at the same time as supporting LTE fallback from 2CC, uses a mapping method that, between bits, smooths the number of PUCCH resources that can determine ACK/NACK simply by determining the PUCCH resource regarding which the response signal had notified.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method, device and computer readable medium for beam failure recovery. In example embodiments, a method implemented at a terminal device is provided. The method comprises determining a configuration for receiving Physical Downlink Control Channels (PDCCHs) from a network device, the network device communicating with the terminal device via first and second Transmission and Reception Points (TRPs), wherein the configuration indicates which one of the first and second TRPs are the PDCCHs to be received from. The method further comprises determining whether a beam failure occurs in at least one of the first and second TRPs. In addition, the method further comprises, in response to determining that a beam failure occurs in at least one of the first and second TRPs, performing beam failure recovery (BFR) for the first and second TRPs at least based on the configuration.

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5.sup.th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Described is a method for providing a Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS) in a wireless communication system comprising at least a first base station and a second base station, and a mobile device. The first and second base stations cooperate to jointly support the mobile device. The method comprises identifying at least two mutually exclusive sets of frequency resources. The method further comprises mapping, by the first base station, at least a portion of PTRS information of the first base station to a first set of the frequency resources, mapping, by the first base station, a zero-power PTRS to a second set of the frequency resources, or leaving, by the first base station, the second set of frequency resources empty, and transmitting, by the first base station, a signal comprising the PTRS information of the first base station according to the frequency resource mapping. The method further comprises mapping, by the second base station, at least a portion of PTRS information of the second base station to the second set of the frequency resources, mapping, by the second base station, a zero-power PTRS to the first set of the frequency resources, or leaving, by the second base station, the first set of frequency resources empty, and transmitting, by the second base station, a signal comprising the PTRS information of the second base station according to the frequency resource mapping.