In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), data from one or more beam pairs of a plurality of beams at least partially concurrently; determining, by the UE, one or more signal parameters for the one or more beam pairs; determining, by the UE, one or more joint quasi co-located (QCL) indicators for the one or more beam pairs and one or more non-joint QCL indicators for the one or more beam pairs; and transmitting, by the UE, a measurement report including the one or more joint QCL indicators and the one or more non-joint QCL indicators. In another aspect, a method of wireless communication includes determining a particular beam or beams for transmitting second data based on the measurement report; and transmitting the second data using the particular beam or beams. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

The wireless communication device (200) according to the present disclosure includes the control unit (260). The control unit (260) acquires the temperatures of a plurality of antennas (2110) having different directivities. The control unit (260) acquires information regarding the communication quality of the plurality of antennas (2110). In a case where the temperature of the antenna which is being used for communication is equal to or higher than the second temperature threshold which is lower than the first temperature threshold for determining whether or not to stop using the antenna (2110), the control unit (260) switches the antenna which is being used to an antenna selected on the basis of the communication quality among the antennas whose temperatures are lower than the second temperature threshold.

A method of selecting a reception resource of a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, with the UE, multiple predetermined signals from a base station (BS) using multiple reception resources, measuring, with the UE, reception quality of the predetermined signals, and selecting, with the UE, at reception resource used for reception of a downlink signal from the multiple reception resources based on the measured reception quality. The method further includes receiving, with the UE, the downlink signal using the selected reception resource. The selecting selects the reception resource used for reception of the predetermined signal of which reception quality is higher than reception quality of the other predetermined signals.

An apparatus and a system comprising at least one power integrator, method performed by an apparatus comprising at least one power integrator and computer program product for causing an apparatus comprising at least one power integrator to perform: receiving a measure of power level of at least one radio beam detected by an antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements, accumulating the received measure of power level over a period of time, determining a representative output signal corresponding to the accumulated measure of received power level and providing the representative output signal to a controller.

A communication method includes receiving first signaling. The first signaling indicates a first reference signal resource. The first reference signal resource corresponds to P antenna ports. The method also includes receiving first indication information. The method further includes determining, by a processor, based on the first indication information, Q antenna ports that are in the P antenna ports and that are used to determine channel state information (CSI). Both P and Q are positive integers and P>Q.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting device capability information. The method includes operating a device with multiple antenna port groups for communication between the device and a network. The method includes transmitting, by the device, device capability information to the network. The device capability information includes a number of antenna port groups of the multiple antenna port groups, a number of antenna ports for each of the antenna port groups, a maximum number of supported spatial layers for each of the antenna port groups, or some combination thereof.

A method for adjusting a half-power angle of an antenna, to adjust a maximum half-power angle or a maximum beam gain of an individual transceiver channel, includes: first determining that M antenna elements in N antenna elements connected to a first transceiver channel of an access network device need to be turned on or off, where N>M≥1, and both N and M are integers, that is, a quantity of antenna elements driven by the first transceiver channel needs to be adjusted; and then sending first indication information to the access network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate to turn on or off the M antenna elements.

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an antenna switching method, a terminal device and a communication device. The method comprises: a first terminal device receives a configuration message; the configuration message indicates M sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set groups, each SRS resource set group contains at least one SRS resource set, and M is a positive integer; each SRS resource set group corresponds to a corresponding antenna switching configuration, and the antenna switching configuration supports the first terminal device to have more than four receiving antennas. Embodiments of the present disclosure can achieve antenna switching for a terminal device having many (e.g., more than four) receiving antennas.

The present application relates to a method for indicating an antenna switching capability, a terminal device and a communication device, where the method includes: sending, by a first terminal device, a first UE capability, where the first UE capability indicates at least one antenna switching capability supported by the first terminal device; at least part of the at least one antenna switching capability supports that the first terminal device has more than 4 receiving antennas. Embodiments of the present application can achieve indication of an antenna switching capability for a terminal device with more (such as more than 4) receiving antennas.

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.