A communication device, method, and computer program product provide power efficient transmit diversity using two transmit chains to meet a transmit power level for an uplink signal when one transmit chain is insufficient. In response to determining that the first transmit power level is equal to or less than the transmit power capability of at least one of a first transmit chain and a second transmit chain, the communication device configures a corresponding one of the first transmit chain and the second transmit chain to transmit the uplink channel with at least the first transmit power level.

Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing an energy efficient base station with synchronization. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: performing traffic analysis to determine off-peak hours duration when traffic is light; updating downlink and uplink schedulers to transmit a minimum required signaling and control information; and wherein updating downlink and uplink scheduler for minimum required signaling and control information further comprises scheduling, in a downlink direction, at least one of transmitting only reference symbols over selected OFDM symbols, PDCCH on up to a first three OFDM symbols, PSS and SSS on a central six PRBs and PBCH.

A method performed in a network node of a communication system for muting antenna elements of an active antenna system. The method comprises determining, based on a priori information relating to performance of the communication system, an antenna element separation between one or more pairs of active antenna elements of at least a subset of all active antenna elements of the active antenna system; and muting at least one antenna element such that the determined antenna element separation is obtained between each of the one or more pairs of active antenna elements of at least the subset of all active antenna elements.

The present application relates to an antenna quantity control method, a communication device, and a medium. The method is applied to a first communication device. The method includes: obtaining communication quality information of a current communication with a second communication device; and adjusting a quantity of antennas participating in the communication according to the communication quality information. The quantity of antennas participating in the communication is negatively correlated with communication quality represented by the communication quality information.

A BBH of a network device obtains received power information of terminal devices in grids in a first time period, where the grids are included within coverage of the network device; the BBH sends, to a BBL of the network device through an eCPRI, the received power information of the terminal devices in the grids in the first time period, a first parameter, and a second parameter, where the first parameter is an allowable error of a total received power of all the terminal devices in the grids, and the second parameter is an energy-saving policy control parameter; and the BBL determines a switch-off policy for a plurality of physical antennas of the network device in a second time period based on the received power information of the terminal devices in the plurality of grids in the first time period, the first parameter, and the second parameter

Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing an energy efficient base station with synchronization. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: performing traffic analysis to determine off-peak hours duration when traffic is light; updating downlink and uplink schedulers to transmit a minimum required signaling and control information; and wherein updating downlink and uplink scheduler for minimum required signaling and control information further comprises scheduling, in a downlink direction, at least one of transmitting only reference symbols over selected OFDM symbols, PDCCH on up to a first three OFDM symbols, PSS and SSS on a central six PRBs and PBCH.

Embodiments herein relate to method performed by a radio network node for handling communication in a wireless communication network. The radio network node dynamically applies different muting patterns for muting an active component of one or more antenna branches of the radio network node and/or of one or more antenna panels of the radio network node, wherein the different muting patterns are associated with one or more types of physical channels used for communicating and/or a communication parameter related to one or more UEs. The radio network node performs a communication using the dynamically applied different muting patterns.

In order to reduce power consumption, an access node may turn off transmissions from one or more rows or columns of antennas in a mMIMO array. To help prevent the beam from overshooting (i.e., going beyond) an intended area of coverage when the access node turns off transmission by one or more rows, the access node also increases the electrical down tilt of the beam (i.e., angle of depression) to help contain the beam within its intended area of coverage. To help prevent problems with SSB beam selection and/or beam switching, when the access node turns off transmission by one or more columns, the access node reduces the number of SSB beams that are transmitted while sweeping SSBs over the sector thereby reducing the overlap of the (now) wider SSB beams.