A data processing apparatus and method, a base station, and a storage medium are provided. The apparatus includes: a processor, configured to determine a computation parallelism degree according to the number of antennas and pilot frequency information, acquire antenna data and channel estimation matrices of respective users, and store the antenna data and the channel estimation matrices in groups in a memory, and determine, according to the computation parallelism degree, target antenna data processed in parallel by an arithmetic unit in a single computation, wherein the target antenna data is part of the antenna data of the respective users; the memory, configured to store the antenna data and the channel estimation matrices in groups, and output the target antenna data and the channel estimation matrices to the arithmetic unit; and the arithmetic unit, configured to compute user data based on the target antenna data and the channel estimation matrices.

Disclosed are a communication device for performing beamforming and an operating method thereof. The communication device includes: an antenna array configured to simultaneously form a first vertical beam and a second vertical beam for an arbitrary time; a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a signal using a double beam including the first vertical beam and the second vertical beam; and a processor configured to determine a first optimal vertical tilting angle of the first vertical beam based on Inter-Beam Interference (IBI) of the second vertical beam, and determine a second optimal vertical tilting angle of the second vertical beam based on the IBI of the first vertical beam.

An apparatus may be configured to perform a time-sensitive communication via a Multi User (MU) Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) (MU-MIMO) transmission. For example, an Access Point (AP) may be configured to transmit MU-MIMO schedule information to schedule an MU-MIMO transmission including a plurality of spatial streams, the plurality of spatial streams including a first spatial stream allocated to a scheduled data transmission of a scheduled wireless communication station (STA), and a second spatial stream allocated as a reserved spatial stream, which is reserved for an unscheduled time-sensitive communication with a time-sensitive STA; and to communicate the scheduled data transmission with the scheduled STA over the first spatial stream.

An apparatus may be configured to perform a time-sensitive communication via a Multi User (MU) Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) (MU-MIMO) transmission. For example, an Access Point (AP) may be configured to transmit MU-MIMO schedule information to schedule an MU-MIMO transmission including a plurality of spatial streams, the plurality of spatial streams including a first spatial stream allocated to a scheduled data transmission of a scheduled wireless communication station (STA), and a second spatial stream allocated as a reserved spatial stream, which is reserved for an unscheduled time-sensitive communication with a time-sensitive STA; and to communicate the scheduled data transmission with the scheduled STA over the first spatial stream.

Provided is a communication system capable of suppressing, under communication environment including a plurality of cells, degradation in communication quality and decrease in communication rate and communication capacity due to interference from the other cells. Each of the cells includes a plurality of antenna elements, and performs radio communication with a communication terminal device through the antenna elements. Each of the cells notifies the other cells of settings for measuring channel information on a channel for performing radio communication of its own cell. Each of the cells may notify a communication terminal device being served thereby of the settings for measuring the channel information of its own cell. Here, the communication terminal device measures the channel information based on the settings notified from each of the cells, and reports a result of the measured channel information to a corresponding one of the cells when the result satisfies a predetermined reporting condition.

Provided is a communication system capable of suppressing, under communication environment including a plurality of cells, degradation in communication quality and decrease in communication rate and communication capacity due to interference from the other cells. Each of the cells includes a plurality of antenna elements, and performs radio communication with a communication terminal device through the antenna elements. Each of the cells notifies the other cells of settings for measuring channel information on a channel for performing radio communication of its own cell. Each of the cells may notify a communication terminal device being served thereby of the settings for measuring the channel information of its own cell. Here, the communication terminal device measures the channel information based on the settings notified from each of the cells, and reports a result of the measured channel information to a corresponding one of the cells when the result satisfies a predetermined reporting condition.

A method performed by a network node for handling data transmissions to two or more User Equipments, UEs, in a wireless communications network is provided. The network node decides that a first UE and a second UE are compatible for simultaneous data transmissions. The network node times the data transmissions to the first UE and the second UE in a common time resource, for simultaneous data transmissions comprising a first data transmission to the first UE and a second data transmission the second UE.

A method is provided for generating test data for testing radio equipment. The method includes: determining, by a test apparatus, one or more beam identifiers; selecting, by the test apparatus, based on the one or more beam identifiers, one or more radio channel models; receiving, by the test apparatus, a baseband signal representing I/Q data of one or more beamforming antennas; processing, by the test apparatus, the baseband signal representing I/Q data according to the selected radio channel model; and transmitting, by the test apparatus, the processed baseband signal representing I/Q data to a radio equipment under test.

A method is provided for generating test data for testing radio equipment. The method includes: determining, by a test apparatus, one or more beam identifiers; selecting, by the test apparatus, based on the one or more beam identifiers, one or more radio channel models; receiving, by the test apparatus, a baseband signal representing I/Q data of one or more beamforming antennas; processing, by the test apparatus, the baseband signal representing I/Q data according to the selected radio channel model; and transmitting, by the test apparatus, the processed baseband signal representing I/Q data to a radio equipment under test.

The present disclosure provides communication apparatus and communication method for resource unit allocation signalling. The communication apparatus comprises circuitry, which, in operation, generates a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) comprising two signal field content channels in each 80 MHz frequency segment, each of the two signal field content channels comprising a plurality of resource unit (RU) allocation subfields, wherein a value of each of the plurality of RU allocation subfields is able to indicate sizes of component RUs of a large-size RU combination; and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the generated PPDU.