Provided is control information related to polarizations of antennas for MISO communication. The control signal generator generates polarization information indicating whether antennas used for transmission by MISO have only a first polarization or have a second polarization as well as the first polarization. With this structure, the present invention allows for the use of combinations of SISO, MISO and MIMO, taking the polarization of antennas. Furthermore, the present invention enables the receiver to reduce the power consumption.

Method and device for feeding back channel state information (CSI) and method and device for determining CSI are provided. The method for feeding back CSI includes feeding back CSI according to a determined structure of the CSI, where the structure of the CSI includes M CSI subsets; an m-th CSI subset among the M CSI subsets includes km channel information components. The M CSI subsets include N CSI subsets, and an n-th CSI subset among the N CSI subsets includes Ln channel information components which are determined by transforming a group of base vectors.

There is provided mechanisms for performing a beam management procedure. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises obtaining configuration information from a terminal device for which the network node provides network access. The configuration information specifies that the terminal device is in need for evaluating different polarization states in different time units during the beam management procedure. The method comprises performing the beam management procedure with the terminal device. The beam management procedure involves the network node to, per slot, transmit reference signals according to a reference signal transmission scheme. The reference signal transmission scheme depends on the obtained configuration information.

Methods and apparatuses for codebook based UL transmission are provided. A method for operating a UE comprises transmitting a UE capability information about a UL codebook for 8 antenna ports; receiving an indication indicating a TPMI for a transmission of a PUSCH; and transmitting the PUSCH based on the indicated TPMI, wherein the TPMI indicates a precoding matrix from the UL codebook for the 8 antenna ports, the UL codebook includes full-coherent (FC) precoding matrices comprising all non-zero entries, and an l-th column of a FC precoding matrix is associated with an l-th layer of the PUSCH transmission.

The present invention provides an information processing method, comprising: generating signaling comprising configuration information of channel state information process (CSI process); and sending the signaling comprising the configuration information of the CSI process. The present invention resolves the problem in the related art of being unable to use one CSI-RS resource overhead to meet the transmission requirements of multiple CSI-RSs having different port numbers, thereby achieving the technical effect of reducing resource overheads. The present invention also provides an information processing device and a storage medium.

A user equipment (UE) for channel state information (CSI) feedback comprises a transceiver configured to receive, from a base station (BS), configuration information for the CSI feedback, the configuration information indicating a number of antenna panels (N.sub.g) at the BS and a codebook mode, wherein N.sub.g>1 and each of the antenna panels comprises antenna ports with a first polarization (P.sub.1) and antenna ports with a second polarization (P.sub.2). The UE further comprises a processor operably connected to the transceiver, the processor configured to identify the number of antenna panels (N.sub.g) at the BS, identify a codebook for the CSI feedback based on the codebook mode configured between a first codebook mode and a second codebook mode, and generate the CSI feedback using the identified codebook. The transceiver is further configured to transmit the generated CSI feedback to the BS.

A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) mode configuration method is applied to a terminal, and includes: determining a triggering factor, the triggering factor including terminal information that triggers MIMO mode adjustment; sending a first instruction, the first instruction being used for requesting a network device to configure an MIMO mode matched with the triggering factor for the terminal; and obtaining a second instruction, the second instruction being used for representing the MIMO mode configured by the network device for the terminal.

A non-personal basic service set control point/access point (non-PCP/AP) communication apparatus includes a reception circuit, an estimation circuit, and a transmission circuit. The reception circuit receives a Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) Beacon frame including a sector sweep (SSW) field, the SSW field including a Parameter subfield indicating a value obtained by using a transmission Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of a PCP/AP communication partner apparatus and a reception antenna gain of the PCP/AP communication partner apparatus. The estimation circuit estimates an expected reception power at the PCP/AP communication partner apparatus by using the value of the Parameter subfield, and checks inequality between the estimated expected reception power and a receiver sensitivity value. The transmission circuit transmits a frame for Association Beamforming Training (A-BFT) if the estimated expected reception power is larger than the receive sensitivity value.

A method for performing, by a UE, precoding using a codebook in a wireless communication system includes: receiving a reference signal for channel estimation from an eNB; estimating a channel through the received reference signal; determining a precoding matrix related to the estimated channel in a codebook; and feeding back, to the eNB, a precoding matrix index (PMI) corresponding to the determined precoding matrix, wherein the codebook is generated in consideration of at least one of a region to which the UE belongs and the position of the UE.

A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving configuration information for a CSI report. The configuration information includes information to: configure a codebook and parameters for the codebook, the codebook comprising a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) indicating a set of components S to represent N.sub.3 precoding matrices, where N.sub.3≥1; and partition the PMI into two subsets, a first PMI subset indicating a first subset of components S1 from the set of components S, and a second PMI subset indicating a second subset of components S2 from the set of components S different from the first subset of components S1. The method further comprises determining the CSI report based on the configuration information, the CSI report including the second PMI subset indicating the second subset of components S2, and transmitting the determined CSI report over an uplink (UL) channel.