Method and BS are provided for beam alignment. In particular, a BS can determine a transmitting configuration according to a reference transmitting configuration associated with a common coordinate transformation matrix. The BS can transmit a plurality of symbols to a UE based on the transmitting configuration for the UE to derives a matrix associated with a channel matrix.

An access node of a 3GPP LTE-based wireless communication network comprises a transmitter portion that transmits downlink control information (DCI) to at least one wireless station of a plurality of wireless stations wirelessly accessing the node as a Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) wireless communication network. The DCI comprises at least one code word indicating a rank of a channel matrix between the transmitter portion of the node and the wireless station greater than 4 and a spatial-related configuration for the wireless station. In one exemplary embodiment, the transmitter portion transmits the DCI from one substantially localized geographical transmission point forming a single-cell access point for the plurality of wireless stations. In another exemplary embodiment, the transmitter portion transmits the DCI from multiple geographically substantially isolated transmission points forming a single-cell access point.

To provide a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication method capable of improving a frequency efficiency or throughput by suppressing an overhead associated with feedback from the terminal apparatus in a case that the base station apparatus acquires highly accurate CSI. A terminal apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a receiver configured to receive at least one NZP CSI-RS, and a transmitter configured to transmit a signal including at least one piece of CSI. The at least one piece of CSI includes at least an RI and a PMI, the receiver acquires a first value for configuring the number of vectors indicated by the PMI, and in a case that a value of the RI exceeds a prescribed value, the number of vectors is configured by a second value being a value equal to or less than the first value.

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, more specifically, to a method and device for reporting channel state information (CSI). The method by which a terminal in a wireless communication system reports CSI, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps for: receiving a reference signal from a base station; and reporting, to the base station, the CSI generated by using the reference signal. When the CSI for a two-dimensional antenna structure defined by a first domain and a second domain includes a channel quality indicator (CQI) for the two-dimensional antenna structure without including a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) for the two-dimensional antenna structure, the CQI can be calculated on the basis of the tilting in the second domain.

In accordance with some embodiments, an apparatus may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code can be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least receive at least one random access preamble from user equipment. The at least one memory and the computer program code can be further configured to, configure at least one backoff indicator. The at least one memory and the computer program code can be further configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least transmit the at least one backoff indicator and at least one backoff configuration indicator to the user equipment. The at least one backoff configuration indicator is used to indicate how the at least one backoff indicator is applied.

A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining a transmission frequency band of a reference signal based on at least one of an initial frequency band for an initial access procedure, a control resource set (CORESET) configured for the UE using a master information block (MIB), or a CORESET associated with a paging search space set for monitoring a paging message, wherein the reference signal is received by the UE in an IDLE state or an INACTIVE state, receiving, from a base station (BS), the reference signal based on the transmission frequency band of the reference signal, performing time synchronization and frequency synchronization with the BS based on the reference signal, and receiving, from the BS, the paging message including an identifier of the UE based on the time synchronization and frequency synchronization.

A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE receiving from a base station a first information indicating multiple sets of transmission occasions for a signal. The method also includes the UE receiving from the base station a second information indicating an association between a transmission occasion of the signal and a base station beam.

A user equipment (UE) is configured to handle physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions during multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) operation. The UE receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission configured with downlink control information (DCI) in a single-DCI, multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) operation, wherein the DCI schedules reception of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission, determines whether or not a TCI field is configured in the DCI, when the TCI field is not configured in the DCI, determining a default beam based on a control resource set (CORESET) with the lowest ID in the PDCCH and when the TCI field is configured in the DCI, determining whether the TCI field indicates a TCI codepoint includes two TCI states.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for implementation of higher rank transmissions (e.g., higher rank line of sight (LOS) schemes) over a given beam direction associated with a selected transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state. According to some aspects, expanded antenna arrays, spatial separation (e.g., distance) between antenna elements, lower carrier frequencies (e.g., associated with frequency range 4 (FR4) systems), etc. may be leveraged to communicate uncorrelated signals (e.g., independent streams across spatial layers) for higher rank transmissions using a given TCI state (e.g., using a single beam direction). Various aspects of the described techniques may provide for higher rank directional communications by a user equipment (UE) (e.g., via uncorrelation in a single UE), higher rank directional communications by select UEs (e.g., via uncorrelation across specific UEs), base station antenna selection for uncorrelation at multiple served UEs, etc.

A method for transmitting feedback information via a Spatial Rank Index (SRI) channel includes determining, at an access terminal, a value of a spatial rank index and transmitting, from the access terminal through the SRI channel, feedback information indicating the determined value of the spatial rank index according to a prescribed coding. The codeword of the prescribed coding is one of: (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0), (1,0,1,0,1,1,0,1), (0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1), or (1,1,0,1,1,1,1,0).