A beam switching method includes: a network device sending a network device beam switching information to a terminal according to position information and channel measurement information of the terminal, where the beam switching information includes information of a beam switching requirement and/or a destination beam.

This disclosure discloses a beam switching method and an apparatus. A terminal device receives first indication information from a network device, where the first indication information indicates a first beam. Then, the terminal device performs one or more of the following behaviors based on the first beam: measuring downlink time-frequency offset information and path loss information corresponding to the first beam, sending, based on the first beam, a signal for uplink timing measurement, and receiving uplink timing adjustment information from the network device, where the timing adjustment information is determined based on the first beam. Further, the terminal device receives second indication information from the network device, where the second indication information indicates to switch to the first beam. The terminal device first measures timing information and/or the path loss information of the first beam to be switched to.

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhanced beam switching. A method may include informing a network element about a user equipment type and capability in beam switching from a source beam to a target beam. The method may further include receiving a request from the network element to switch from the source beam to the target beam. The method may also include based on the user equipment type and capability, receiving a reference signal for timing adjustment with the target beam. In addition, the method may include switching from the source beam to the target beam. Further, the method may include adjusting the time or frequency tracking of the target beam after the switching based the reference signal.

Discussed is a method of predicting an intelligent beam of an autonomous vehicle in an autonomous driving system. The method can include obtaining sensing information for detecting one or more adjacent objects through at least one sensor of the autonomous vehicle, in response to an occurrence of a blockage event where a blocker detected on a line of sight (LOS) path between the autonomous vehicle and a target vehicle blocks the target vehicle, selecting some of a plurality of non-line of sight (NLOS) paths between the autonomous vehicle and the target vehicle to continue communication between the autonomous vehicle and the target vehicle, and selecting an optimal beam related to the target vehicle based on the selected one or more of the plurality of NLOS paths. The selecting of some of the plurality of NLOS paths can be performed based on a pre-trained machine learning network

An information transmission method, includes: a first network node performing beam scanning on a target spectrum; and feeding back occupancy information of the target spectrum determined based on the beam scanning to a second network node, where the occupancy information is used for the second network node to determine resource scheduling on the target spectrum.

Provided are a method for determining an uplink transmission parameter, and a terminal device. When a PUCCH resource with the lowest resource identifier in an uplink BWP activated on a carrier where a PUSCH is located is configured with a plurality of sets of transmission parameters, the terminal device can determine a transmission parameter of the PUSCH scheduled by means of a DCI format 0_0. The method for determining an uplink transmission parameter comprises: according to a transmission parameter of a PUCCH resource in an uplink BWP activated on a carrier where a PUSCH is located, determining a transmission parameter of the PUSCH, wherein the PUSCH is a PUSCH scheduled by using a first DCI format, and the transmission parameter is a transmission beam and/or the transmission parameter is a reference signal used for path loss measurement.

This application discloses a beam management method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: A first node receives first indication information from a network device, and the first node sends and/or receives a signal in a first time unit based on an access beam indicated by the first indication information, where the first indication information indicates one or more access beams used by the first node in the first time unit, and the one or more access beams are used for receiving or sending on an access link. The first indication information may indicate the one or more access beams used by the first node in the first time unit. Therefore, the network device sends the first indication information to the first node, that is, the network device may enable the first node to scan the beams, and determine a beam used for signal forwarding.

Disclosed is a method of performing an Uplink (UL) transmission by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises counting counter values for each of a plurality of sensing beams independently based on performing a first sensing on each of the plurality of sensing beams, performing a first UL transmission corresponding to a first sensing beam, among the plurality of sensing beams, which is determined to be IDLE based on the first sensing, initializing the counter values after an end of the first UL transmission, and performing a second UL transmission corresponding to a second sensing beam, among at least one sensing beams of the plurality of sensing beams, which is determined to be IDLE based on a second sensing on the at least one sensing beam.

A method for a user equipment to transmit information for measurement of a positioning reference signal (PRS) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method comprises receiving, from a location server, configuration information related to the PRS, receiving the PRS from a base station, and transmitting, to the location server, information for a measurement of the PRS. The configuration information includes information for an angle related to the PRS and the information for the angle related to the PRS includes i) a first value related to an expected angle and ii) a second value related to a range of the expected angle. A boundary value of the range of the expected angle is determined based on the first value and the second value.

The present disclosure is for performing positioning by means of a beamformed signal in a wireless communication system. An operation method by a terminal in a wireless communication system can comprise the steps of: transmitting first messages requesting transmission of a positioning reference signal (PRS) by means of a plurality of transmission beams; receiving from a second terminal a second message indicating at least one transmission beam among the plurality of transmission beams; transmitting a third message, comprising scheduling information for transmission of the PRS, to the second terminal by means of the transmission beam; and receiving the PRS from the second terminal on the basis of the scheduling information.