The present invention provides an electronic device for mitigating inter-cell interference in a dynamic TDD environment, the electronic device including: at least one antenna array including antenna elements; and a processor configured to use the antenna array and form a plurality of reception beams having mutually different directions, wherein at least one processor may enable: a first beam pair link to be formed with a first transmission beam emitted from a first base station by using a first reception beam having a first direction; information about a first TDD pattern indicating a TDD sequence set in a serving cell formed by the first base station and information about a second TDD pattern indicating a TDD sequence set in an adjacent cell adjacent to a serving cell formed by a second base station to be acquired; a first portion of the first TDD pattern to be selected on the basis of the information about the first TDD pattern and the information about the second TDD pattern; the detection of whether interference has occurred in the first portion; and a second beam pair link to be formed with one among transmission beams emitted from the second base station by using a second reception beam having a second direction different from the first direction, when the interference is determined to have occurred.

A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a UE (User Equipment). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE receiving and/or monitoring a first control region via a first link. The method further includes the UE transmitting a first request if the first link fails. The method also includes the UE receiving and/or monitoring a second control region for a response via a second link within a time window associated with the first request. In addition, the method includes the UE receiving and/or monitoring the first control region after the time window associated with the first request is over.

A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a UE (User Equipment). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE receiving and/or monitoring a first control region via a first link. The method further includes the UE transmitting a first request if the first link fails. The method also includes the UE receiving and/or monitoring a second control region for a response via a second link within a time window associated with the first request. In addition, the method includes the UE receiving and/or monitoring the first control region after the time window associated with the first request is over.

Techniques for differentiating orthogonally modulated symbols from different transmitters using one or more antenna arrays are described. According to some techniques, symbols received at one or more antenna arrays are grouped together by matching respective sets of receive beams for each symbol. In this manner, symbols received from a first transmitter at a first location can be differentiated from symbols received from a second transmitter at a second location, and both sets of symbols can be successfully decoded. When the symbols are received using frequency hopping, the receive beams for each symbol can be sorted according to path length, which improves performance, and also enables precise location of the transmitter(s).

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmission skipping based on a beam correspondence. One method (400) includes receiving (402) information corresponding to skipping uplink transmissions on at least one beam, at least one panel, or a combination thereof. The method (400) includes determining (404) whether a downlink transmission beam is blocked, a signal strength corresponding to the downlink transmission beam is less than a threshold signal strength, or a combination thereof. The method (400) includes, in response to the downlink transmission beam being blocked, the signal strength corresponding to the downlink transmission beam being less than the threshold signal strength, or a combination thereof, skipping (406) one or more uplink transmissions on the at least one beam, the at least one panel, or the combination thereof that corresponds to the downlink transmission beam based on the information corresponding to skipping uplink transmissions.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmission skipping based on a beam correspondence. One method (400) includes receiving (402) information corresponding to skipping uplink transmissions on at least one beam, at least one panel, or a combination thereof. The method (400) includes determining (404) whether a downlink transmission beam is blocked, a signal strength corresponding to the downlink transmission beam is less than a threshold signal strength, or a combination thereof. The method (400) includes, in response to the downlink transmission beam being blocked, the signal strength corresponding to the downlink transmission beam being less than the threshold signal strength, or a combination thereof, skipping (406) one or more uplink transmissions on the at least one beam, the at least one panel, or the combination thereof that corresponds to the downlink transmission beam based on the information corresponding to skipping uplink transmissions.

A wireless device may increment a beam failure instance counter based on detecting a first beam failure instance associated with one or more first reference signals, RSs, for beam failure detection. The wireless device may receive a medium access control control element, MAC CE, activating one or more second RSs for beam failure detection. The wireless device may resetting the beam failure instance counter in response to receiving the MAC CE. increment the beam failure instance counter based on detecting a second beam failure instance associated with the one or more second RSs. The wireless device may initiate a beam failure recovery based on the beam failure instance counter being equal to or greater than a first value.

One innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a method for wireless communication. The method includes determining a configuration of reference signal (RS) resources to be used by a user-equipment (UE) to perform beam measurements, transmitting, to the UE, an indication of the configuration of the RS resources, and receiving, from the UE, a report indicating a plurality of RS resource indicators based on the beam measurements, each of the RS resource indicators being associated with one of the RS resources. In some aspects, the BS selects a subset of the RS resources based on the report from the UE, transmits, to the UE, an indication to provide channel measurement information for the subset of the RS resources, and receives a report including the channel measurement information from the UE. The BS may also perform joint precoding of signals for transmission via the RS resources based on the channel measurement information.

An electronic device and a method for performing beam searching by using a multi-polarization array antenna are provided. To this end the electronic device controls one or a plurality of antenna modules to operate such that at least two antenna elements among the plurality of antenna elements use beams having different directions at a specific time period, and control the at least two antenna elements to receive, in a corresponding beam direction, reference signals having a unique polarization characteristic supported by the at least two antenna elements.

An electronic device and a method for performing beam searching by using a multi-polarization array antenna are provided. To this end the electronic device controls one or a plurality of antenna modules to operate such that at least two antenna elements among the plurality of antenna elements use beams having different directions at a specific time period, and control the at least two antenna elements to receive, in a corresponding beam direction, reference signals having a unique polarization characteristic supported by the at least two antenna elements.