A system comprising a plurality of nodes communicatively coupled to one another via at least one wireless link and a controller communicatively coupled to at least one of the nodes, wherein the controller (1) coordinates at least one scan that measures interference introduced into the wireless link, (2) identifies, based at least in part on the scan, one or more characteristics of the wireless link, (3) determines, based at least in part on the characteristics of the wireless link, that the node is eligible for a tapered codebook that, when implemented, modifies at least one feature of an antenna array that supports the wireless link in connection with the node, and then (4) directs the node to implement the tapered codebook. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

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.

A system comprising a plurality of nodes communicatively coupled to one another via at least one wireless link and a controller communicatively coupled to at least one of the nodes, wherein the controller (1) coordinates at least one scan that measures interference introduced into the wireless link, (2) identifies, based at least in part on the scan, one or more characteristics of the wireless link, (3) determines, based at least in part on the characteristics of the wireless link, that the node is eligible for a tapered codebook that, when implemented, modifies at least one feature of an antenna array that supports the wireless link in connection with the node, and then (4) directs the node to implement the tapered codebook. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

A computer-implemented method is provided for finding a data transmission beam from an Access Point (AP) to a User Equipment (UE) in a communication system. The method includes selecting a probing beam from a set of probing beams. The method further includes sending a plurality of probing packets from the AP to the UE using a dedicated probing beam selected for each probing packet from among the set of probing beams. The method also includes receiving feedback from the UE regarding the plurality of probing packets. The method additionally includes computing the data transmission beam based on the received feedback and the set of probing beams.

Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station; and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration from the base station, wherein the SRS resource configuration indicates at least a first SRS resource and a second SRS resource. The processor is further configured to transmit a first SRS via the first SRS resource to the base station using a first antenna coupled to the transceiver and transmit a second SRS via the second SRS resource to the base station using a second antenna coupled to the transceiver. The processor is further configured to receive an SRS resource indicator (SRI) from the base station based on at least one of the transmission of the first SRS or the second SRS; select the first antenna based on the SRI indicating the first SRS resource; and transmit uplink data to the base station using the first antenna.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may inform a base station of multiple transmission-antenna switching capabilities supported by the UE. The supported transmission-antenna switching capabilities may include a first transmission-antenna switching capability and a second transmission-antenna switching capability. The UE may receive a message that triggers the UE to switch from using a first configuration associated with the first transmission-antenna switching capability to using a second configuration associated with the second transmission-antenna switching capability. The UE may perform a sounding procedure using the second configuration associated with the second transmission-antenna switching capability based on receiving the message.

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.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for channel state information (CSI) feedback for multiple discrete Fourier transform (DFT) beams on multiple transmission layers. A user equipment (UE) may report a total number of non-zero power DFT beams across all of the transmission layers. The UE may be configured with a total number of leading beams (K.sub.total) across all of the transmission layers for which to provide high quantization feedback. When the total number of non-zero DFT beams across all the transmission layers exceeds the configured total number of leading beams across all the transmission layers, the UE may report high-resolution quantization feedback for K.sub.total non-zero power precoding coefficients having the highest amplitude coefficients, and may report low-resolution quantization feedback for the remaining non-zero power precoding coefficients. A base station may receive the CSI feedback to determine a precoding matrix.

Methods and apparatus for realizing dynamic point selection improve the cell-edge throughput and geometric mean of release 8/9 UEs. The method comprises a step of receiving estimated channel quality reported by all the TPs in the CoMP set, a step of switching the serving TP for the UEs based on the estimated channel quality and/or cell load, a step of forwarding the scheduled data from the primary TP to the serving TP, a step of separately transmitting PDCCH to the UEs by the primary TP and transmitting PDSCH to the UEs by the serving TP. the implementation of the method and apparatus improves the cell-edge throughput and geometric mean of UE throughput by serving UEs instantaneously from the cell that provides better throughput accounting for fast time-scale channel fluctuations and/or load. It helps in reducing interference due to data getting drained faster when users are served from cells with better channel conditions.

A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a configuration message from a first base station including correspondence information regarding a plurality of beam reference signals, the correspondence information including information regarding designation of at least one set of physical random access channel (PRACH) resources for each of the plurality of beam reference signals. The WTRU may measure the plurality of beam reference signals transmitted from a second base station and select a beam reference signal from among the plurality of measured beam reference signals. The WTRU may determine a set of PRACH resources for the selected beam reference signal based on the information regarding designation of at least one set of PRACH resources for each of the plurality of measured beam reference signals included in the correspondence information. The WTRU may transmit, to the second base station, a PRACH transmission using at least one PRACH resource of the determined set.