An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for generating a device-to-device (D2D) signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method for generating a D2D signal comprising: a step of mapping, onto one or more resource block (RB) groups, each of one or more modulation symbol groups generated from one or more transmission blocks; and a step for applying different beam vectors to each of the one or more RB groups, wherein the number of beam vectors is determined according to a channel state.

A method and apparatus are disclosed for utilizing UE beamforming in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the method includes the UE performing measurement to obtain a measurement result associated with a cell. The method also includes the UE determining whether to use the UE beamforming in the cell at least based on the measurement result, wherein the UE uses the UE beamforming in the cell if the measurement result is worse than a first threshold.

Various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device and a method for controlling a plurality of antennas in an electronic device. The electronic device may include: a plurality of antennas; a communication circuit configured to be connected to the plurality of antennas; and at least one processor, wherein the processor may be configured to: set a multi-antenna service using a second number of antennas; activate the second number of antennas among the plurality of antennas when a time to transmit channel state information comes; transmit channel state information on the second number of antennas to a network device; and switch to activate a first number of antennas among the plurality of antennas and the second number of antennas may include a greater number of antennas than the first number of antennas. Other exemplary embodiments are possible.

A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may receive a set of candidate resources, which may be used for transmission. The WTRU may periodically perform CCA on a channel (e.g., before transmitting on the channel). When the channel is determined to be free, the WTRU may determine a resource for transmission from the candidate resources. The resource may be determined based on the time remaining in the time period. For example, when the time remaining in the time period is shorter, the WTRU may determine to transmit on a resource that comprises more frequency resources. The WTRU may determine a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) scheme based on the number of frequency resources. The WTRU may send a transmission on the resource, which may include a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS). The DM-RS may indicate the resource used from transmission to a receiver of the transmission.

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, disclosed are a method and an apparatus for virtualizing an antenna. A method for reconfiguring an antenna of a terminal in the wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: the terminal transmitting an antenna reconfiguration request to a base station; the terminal receiving from the base station information indicating authorization of the antenna reconfiguration request; the terminal transmitting antenna reconfiguration information to the base station when the information indicating authorization indicates the authorization of the antenna reconfiguration request; and the terminal receiving from the base station information confirming the completion of reconfiguration.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device (e.g., an access point or a station) capable of supporting multiple chain configuration modes may monitor traffic on a wireless channel. The wireless device may, based on the monitoring, determine a series of values for a metric that is indicative of communication conditions. The metric may be a packet rate, channel congestion, or signal strength. The wireless device may dynamically select one of the supported chain configuration modes in which to operate based on the series of values for the metric. In some cases, the wireless device may compute a value for the metric based on the series of values and compare the value of the metric to a predetermined threshold. In such cases, selection of the chain configuration mode may be based on the results of the comparison. In some examples, one or metrics may be used.

A data transfer method for a wireless access point with a Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) function is disclosed. The data transfer method includes: receiving support function information and a data transfer request from each of electronic devices; determining whether each of the electronic devices supports MU-MIMO function according to the support function information; dividing the electronic devices into a first group supporting the MU-MIMO function and a second group without supporting the MU-MIMO function; allocating a first transferring time frame to the first group and allocating a second transferring time frame to the second group according to the data transfer requests; transferring data requested by the first group within the first transferring time frame via the MU-MIMO function; transferring data requested by the second group within the second transferring time frame.

A method for adjusting an antenna configuration of the terminal device (30) in a cellular communication system (10). The system (10) includes a base station (20) and a terminal device (30) having a plurality of antenna elements (40-43). In the terminal device (30) a plurality of preset antenna configurations is provided. Each antenna configuration defines at least one reception parameter for the plurality of antenna elements (40-43). For each antenna configuration of the plurality of preset antenna configurations the antenna configuration is applied to the plurality of antenna elements (40-43) and a reception characteristic of a signal transmission from the base station (20) is determined. Based on the plurality of reception characteristics one antenna configuration is selected and applied to the plurality of antenna elements (40-43) for further signal transmissions.

Various improvements are desired for point-to-multipoint (PTM) transmission, where a network sends the PTM transmission to multiple user equipments (UEs). The apparatus may be an UE. The UE receives, from a network, a downlink transmission configuration indicating a transmit diversity downlink transmission mode of a plurality of downlink transmission modes, configures downlink communication based on the transmit diversity downlink transmission mode according to the downlink transmission configuration, and receives a service via PTM downlink transmission based on the transmit diversity transmission mode. In another aspect, The UE receives, from a network, a downlink transmission configuration indicating one of a plurality of downlink transmission modes, configures downlink communication based on the one of the plurality of downlink transmission modes according to the downlink transmission configuration, and receives a service via PTM transmission based on the one of the plurality of downlink transmission modes that corresponds with the service.

Systems and methods are provided for millimeter-wave (MMW) communication, the system includes a transceiver chip to generate and to receive signals. An interface is used to communicate the signals between the transceiver chip and one or more active antenna modules. The signals include modulated MMW signals and control signals. The transceiver chip includes baseband circuitry, up and down conversion mixers, and RF front-end circuitry. An active antenna module receives a first modulated MMW signal from the interface for transmission via antennas and to receive a second modulated MMW signal from the antennas for transmission through the interface to the transceiver chip.