Antenna systems are provided. In one example, an antenna system includes a first antenna array having a plurality of first antenna elements. The first antenna elements are operable to communicate one or more signals via a communication protocol tin a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) mode. The antenna system includes a second antenna array having a plurality of second antenna elements. The antenna system includes a control circuit configured to control operation of one or more of the second antenna elements of the second antenna array in a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, one or more of the second antenna elements are configured to provide a secondary function to support communication of the first antenna elements via the communication protocol. In a second mode. One or more of the second antenna elements are configured to support beam forming or beam steering of the first antenna elements.

Provided is a mechanism capable of reducing a burden on a beam selection procedure on a plurality of frequency bandwidths. A communication device includes: a setting section (151) that performs setting of beam groups defined in a plurality of frequency bandwidths, respectively; and a notification section (153) that notifies a terminal device of information regarding identicalness between the beam groups defined in the frequency bandwidths different from each other.

A system and method for performing robust beam reporting is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first communication node includes: receiving at least one reference signal; determining at least one reference signal received power (RSRP) value associated with the at least one reference signal; generating a RSRP report in accordance with a predetermined format that groups the at least one RSRP value into N sets of RSRP values, each set containing at least one RSRP value, and associates each of the N sets of RSRP values with a respective one of N sets of resource groups, wherein each set of resource groups contains at least one resource group, and N is a positive integer; and transmitting the RSRP report.

An apparatus as described herein may include an antenna array that receives radio frequency signals and outputs analog signals. The apparatus may also include analog to digital signal converters that convert the analog signals into digital sample streams. Also, the apparatus may include a sample buffer that buffers subsets of the digital sample streams and a beamformer that uses the digital sample streams to generate one or more beam signals. Additionally, the apparatus may include a processor that determines a spatial characteristic or a spectral characteristic for the radio frequency signals based on the subsets of the digital sample streams.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, downlink control information (DCI) that includes a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) activation indication. The UE may receive, from the network node, an SPS physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based at least in part on the SPS activation indication, wherein the SPS PDSCH is associated with one or more transmission parameters that are based at least in part on an antenna adaptation configuration applicable to the SPS PDSCH. Numerous other aspects are described.

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for beam failure recovery are provided. Beam failure recovery may include detecting and/or declaring, by a user equipment, UE, secondary cell, Scell, beam failure at MAC layer and e.g. determining and/or selecting CSI-RS and/or SSB indexes for transmission to a network node.

An operating method of a base station in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a terminal, information related to a first beam switching time for transmission of an uplink signal, determining a second beam switching time for transmission of the uplink signal, based on configuration information related to the uplink signal and the first beam switching time, transmitting the configuration information related to the uplink signal and the second beam switching time to the terminal, and receiving the uplink signal from the terminal, wherein the uplink signal includes at least one of a sounding reference signal (SRS), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), or a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH).

A communication apparatus for a vehicle according to an embodiment and a control method therefor are disclosed. The communication apparatus for a vehicle comprises: an antenna unit including a first antenna and a plurality of second antennas; a first switch for switching a first path to the first antenna and a second path to each of the plurality of second antennas; a second switch for switching a second path to any one of the plurality of second antennas; a length adjustment unit that is connected to the second path to the one second antenna connected to the second switch and adjusts the resonance length of the connected second antenna; and a communication control unit that generates a switching signal for connection to any one of the plurality of second antennas according to the state of the first antenna.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a first configuration for a first sounding reference signal (SRS) set and a second configuration for a second SRS set, the first SRS set to be transmitted using a first group of antennas of the UE and the second SRS set to be transmitted using a second group of antennas of the UE; determine a size of a downlink control information (DCI) field to be included in an uplink DCI communication scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, the DCI field to indicate a selected SRS set; receive the uplink DCI communication scheduling the PUSCH transmission; and identify the selected SRS set based at least in part on the determined size of the DCI field and information carried in the DCI field. Numerous other aspects are provided.

There is provided an antenna arrangement having unequally many physical antenna elements for transmission and reception. The antenna arrangement comprises physical antenna elements. All physical antenna elements are configured for signal reception but less than all of the physical antenna elements are configured for both signal transmission and signal reception. A first portion of those physical antenna elements configured for both signal transmission and signal reception and a second portion of those physical antenna elements configured for both signal transmission and signal reception are in the antenna arrangement placed to, during operation of the antenna arrangement, be vertically separated by physical antenna elements configured for only signal reception.