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.

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5.sup.th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4.sup.th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments, a device of a terminal, in a wireless communication system, can comprise at least one processor and at least one transceiver operatively coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one transceiver configured to receive, from a base station, a first signal transmitted using a first beam of the base station and including system information and receive, from the base station, a second signal transmitted using a second beam of the base station and including the system information, and the at least one processor is configured to decode the second signal in combination with the first signal, thereby enabling the system information to be acquired.

A wireless communication system with scalable diversity and multi-transceiver diversity deployment is disclosed. An example communication system includes a first wireless transceiver, having a first bandwidth and a first center frequency, a second transceiver, having a second bandwidth and a second center frequency, and a processor. The processor is configured to operate the wireless communication system in a first mode when a difference between the first center frequency and the second center frequency is greater than or equal to half of the first bandwidth plus the second bandwidth. The processor is also configured to operate the wireless communication system in a second mode when a difference between the first center frequency and the second center frequency is less than half of the first bandwidth plus the second bandwidth.

A data receiving method, a terminal device, and a system are provided. The terminal device can be connected to an external antenna device, and when the terminal device is connected to the external antenna device, first antennas of the terminal device and second antennas of the external antenna device form a MIMO antenna array. The method includes: acquiring, by the terminal device, first data received by at least one of the first antennas and a composite signal sent by the external antenna device; demultiplexing the composite signal by a demultiplexer to obtain second data corresponding to at least one of the second antennas; and processing the first data and the second data by a processor, so as to obtain target data.

An electronic device may include wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antenna arrays coupled to baseband processing circuitry by parallel radio-frequency signal (receive) chains. To more efficiently perform beam measurements, and thereby more efficiently determine cell status, beam measurements may be performed by the radio-frequency receive chains in a parallel manner. If desired, beam measurements for one or more inter-frequency and/or intra-frequency layers may each be parallelized. If desired, beam measurements during a discontinuous reception mode of operation may be parallelized.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first device may receive, from a second device, a sounding reference signal (SRS) prior to a scheduled communication. The first device may transmit, to the second device, an indication that a measurement of the SRS does not satisfy a threshold, if the measurement of the SRS does not satisfy the threshold. The first device may activate, based at least in part on the transmitting the indication and before the scheduled communication, a multi-point communication mode. Numerous other aspects are described.

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.

This invention is a transmission device capable of enhancing the reception characteristics of a terminal when employing transmit diversity using two antenna ports in an ePDCCH. In a base station (100) that transmits a reference signal to a terminal (200) using two antenna ports, a setting unit (102), on the basis of the reception quality of the terminal, sets as the aforementioned two antenna ports either a first antenna port pair for which DMRS (reference signals) do not undergo mutual code multiplexing, or a second antenna port pair for which the DMRS do undergo code multiplexing. A transmitter (109) transmits the DMRS from the two antenna ports set in the setting unit (102).

A communication apparatus capable of wireless communication with another communication apparatus via a first communication path and a second communication path sets a directivity of an antenna to a first directivity capable of wireless communication via the first communication path and receives data from the another communication apparatus via the first communication path. When the communication apparatus sends an acknowledgement signal to the another communication apparatus via the first communication path in response to reception of the data, the communication apparatus sets the directivity of the antenna to a second directivity capable of wireless communication via the first communication path and wireless communication via the second communication path for a set period thereafter.

This invention is a transmission device capable of enhancing the reception characteristics of a terminal when employing transmit diversity using two antenna ports in an ePDCCH. In a base station (100) that transmits a reference signal to a terminal (200) using two antenna ports, a setting unit (102), on the basis of the reception quality of the terminal, sets as the aforementioned two antenna ports either a first antenna port pair for which DMRS (reference signals) do not undergo mutual code multiplexing, or a second antenna port pair for which the DMRS do undergo code multiplexing. A transmitter (109) transmits the DMRS from the two antenna ports set in the setting unit (102).