H04B7/0691

USER EQUIPMENT ANTENNA PANEL REPORTING AND CONFIGURATION
20220369306 · 2022-11-17 ·

A multi-panel (MP) user equipment (UE) (MP-UE) includes a plurality of physical antennas configurable as one of a plurality of antenna panels. The MP-UE identifies at least one of a capability and a status of each of a plurality of antenna panels of the MP-UE. The MP-UE then reports, to a base station in uplink, the identified at least one of the capability and the status of the plurality of antenna panels in accordance with an antenna panel reporting configuration for the MP-UE.

Adaptation of transmit and receive antennas
11588560 · 2023-02-21 · ·

An antenna adaptation is provided for a communication node as controlled by a antenna adaptation command. The antenna adaptation command adjusts the number of active transmit antennas and/or the number of active receive antennas in the communication node such as for reducing interference at the communication node.

Operating communication devices

A method includes receiving (402) a plurality of reference signals (301-303) at an antenna port of a communication device (101). Each reference signal (301-303) is sent using a corresponding precoder. The precoder is selected from a first set of precoders. The method further includes determining (403) a channel estimate based on the received plurality of reference signals (301-303), and selecting (404) a precoder from a second set of precoders based on the determined channel estimate. The second set of precoders comprises at least one precoder in addition to the precoders of the first set of precoders. The method includes sending (405) an indication (304) relating to the selected precoder.

UPLINK MULTI-USER TRANSMISSION BEAMFORMING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
20220361159 · 2022-11-10 ·

Systems and methods are provided for determining, at a beamformee, to transmit data signals from transmitting spatial streams at one or more beamformers. Next, a gain resulting from an uplink transmit beamforming protocol may be determined to exceed an overhead of the transmit beamforming protocol. In response to the determination, the uplink transmit beamforming protocol may be conducted. This protocol includes, transmitting trigger frames to the beamformers to obtain channel data regarding channels between each of the transmitting antennae and the active receiving antennae, receiving responses to the trigger frames from each of the beamformers, generating the channel data based on the received responses, feeding back the channel data to each of the beamformers, scheduling the uplink transmit beamforming protocol based on the channel data, and receiving an integrated data signal from the beamformers based on a processing of the data signals via the uplink transmit beamforming protocol.

ANTENNA APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING DRONE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF

An antenna apparatus for drone identification and an operating method thereof are provided. The antenna apparatus includes: a plurality of horizontal directional antennas; a vertical directional antenna positioned at a center of an area surrounded by the plurality of horizontal directional antennas; a beamforming unit controlling beamforming of the vertical directional antenna and the plurality of horizontal antennas to transmit and receive signals in all directions; and a power supply unit for suppling power.

Assigning carriers to radio ports of a split radio head

Assigning carriers to radio ports communicably coupled to a corresponding plurality of antennae of a radio head, wherein the radio head is split into at least first and second split portions, determining a difference between a first power level available to the first carrier via the first set of radio ports and a second power level available to the second carrier via the second set of radio ports, and changing a split of the radio head such that the difference between the first and second power levels is minimized.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS INDICATION
20230098488 · 2023-03-30 ·

A method and apparatus for random access indication. The serving base station sends a random access indication signaling to a terminal. The random access indication signaling is configured to indicate, to the terminal, a target antenna panel and/or a target beam for sending a random access preamble. The terminal receives the random access indication signaling, and determines, according to the random access indication signaling, the target antenna panel and/or target beam for sending the random access preamble.

NETWORK DEVICE, USER EQUIPMENT, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM
20230102698 · 2023-03-30 · ·

The present invention relates to a network device, a user equipment, a wireless communication method and a storage medium. The network device comprises a processing circuit, configured to: provide to the user equipment a transmitted beam for sending an uplink signal from a plurality of transmitted beams on a plurality of antenna boards of the user equipment, and generate configuration information which indicates the transmitted beam for sending the uplink signal. By means of the network device, the user equipment, the wireless communication method and the storage medium, the network device can inform the user equipment of the selected uplink transmitted beam in the case that the user equipment is provided with a plurality of antenna boards, so as to optimize the process of determining the uplink transmitted beam.

Method for uplink data transmission, terminal device and network device

A method for uplink data transmission, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method may include: receiving subset constraint indication information of an SRS resource sent by a network device, wherein the subset constraint indication information is used for indicating at least one available SRS resource subset; according to the subset constraint indication information, determining the length of an SRI, sent by the network device, in DCI for scheduling uplink data transmission; according to the length of the SRI, determining a target SRI from the DCI; determining, in the at least one available SRS resource subset, a target SRS resource subset corresponding to the target SRI; and according to the target SRS resource subset, determining a transmission parameter used for the uplink data transmission.

ANTENNA HOPPING FOR SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR) REDUCTION

A method comprising: retrieving a predefined power threshold; determining a transmission power of a transmitting antenna, wherein the transmitting antenna is actively transmitting a signal; retrieving a predefined transmission time interval; determining that the transmission power exceeds the predefined power threshold; determining a duration of transmitting the signal; comparing the duration with the predefined transmission time interval; and switching transmitting the signal from the transmitting antenna to a further antenna when the duration equals the predefined transmission time interval.