An initiator device is provided with a generation circuit for supporting Single User (SU)-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) operation and generating a first signal including a value that indicates which of a reciprocal MIMO phase and a non-reciprocal MIMO phase is to be applied to SU-MIMO BF training, and a transmission circuit for transmitting the first signal to a responder device. The responder device is provided with a reception circuit for receiving the first signal from the initiator device, and a processing circuit for determining on the basis of the value which of the reciprocal MIMO phase and the non-reciprocal MIMO phase is to be applied to SU-MIMO BF training.

The present application relates to a method and apparatus for MPDCCH performance enhancement. One embodiment of the present disclosure provides an apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives a first reference signal, a second reference signal and a control signal; and a processer that decodes the control signal based on at least one of: the first reference signal and the second reference signal, wherein the second reference signal on an antenna port is associated with a precoder, and the antenna port of the second reference signal and the precoder for the antenna port of the second reference signal are adopted within a time duration and a frequency band.

An operating method of a base station includes receiving, from a terminal, a user equipment (UE) capability signal including panel-related information of the terminal, determining whether to generate a panel change signal based on the panel-related information, determining a panel change of the terminal based on the panel-related information when it is determined to generate the panel change signal, and transmitting, to the terminal, the panel change signal including information regarding the panel change.

A method for performing beam measurement, the method comprising: measuring at least one beam transmitted by at least one of a first network device and a second network device, and received by a first receiving unit of a terminal device, measuring at least one beam transmitted by at least one of the first network device and the second network device, and received by a second receiving unit of the terminal device, and determining, for the first and second receiving units (111, 112), the at least one best beam received by each receiving unit (111, 112).

A base station is disclosed that includes two separated antenna arrays. In a TDD mode of operation, both arrays are used for either transmit or receive. In a sub-band full-duplex mode of operation, one array is used to transmit downlink symbols while the remaining array is used to receive uplink symbols.

A method and system for optimizing the performance of spatial multiplexing techniques in MU-MIMO wireless systems comprising subsectors where the presence of significant correlation between antenna elements can impair the performance of MU-MIMO techniques. The proposed solution ensures optimum selection of a specific combination of transmit antenna elements and receive antenna elements that maximizes MU-MIMO performance

Disclosed is a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4th) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A device of a terminal, according to various embodiments of the disclosure, can comprise at least one processor and at least one transceiver, which: receives, from a base station, indication information which is determined according to whether channel reciprocity with the base station is satisfied and which is for controlling a beamforming operation of the terminal; and receives, from the base station, a reference signal and transmits uplink data to the base station on the basis of the indication information and the reference signal.

The present invention provides a wireless communication method performed by an AP, wherein the AP is an NSTR AP MLD, and the wireless communication method includes the steps of: establishing a primary link and an non-primary link with a first MLD; during a first period, transmitting data to the first MLD or receiving data from the first MLD via the primary link and the non-primary link; and during a second period following the first period, in response to a channel used by the non-primary link being busy, performing a dynamic radio chain switching mechanism to adjust an antenna configuration of the primary link, and using the primary link to communicate with the first MLD.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may use cover coding for sounding reference signal (SRS) resources for performing antenna switching. The UE may receive a configuration for a reference signal resource set for transmitting a reference signal for antenna switching, the configuration including an indication of a type of time division cover coding for repetitions of the reference signal and an indication of a type of frequency hopping. The UE may determine a reference signal resource for transmission of the reference signal based on the configuration and the type of frequency hopping. The UE may then transmit a set of repetitions of the reference signal over the determined reference signal resource according to the type of time division cover coding.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for hybrid beamforming. An example method can include determining digital beamforming weights associated with a plurality of digital beamforming paths between digital beamformers and groups of analog beamforming circuits in a phased array antenna, each digital beamforming path being coupled to a group of analog beamforming circuits and each analog beamforming circuit being coupled to a respective set of antenna elements of the phased array antenna; determining analog beamforming weights associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits, the analog beamforming weights comprising inverses of the digital beamforming weights; determining calibration offsets estimated to put analog beamforming paths associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits in a desired phase and gain relationship to each other; and varying, based at least partly on the calibration offsets, a signal phase shift across the analog beamforming paths associated with the groups of analog beamforming circuits.