Patent classifications
H04B7/0862
Wireless communication method and wireless communication device
A wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. The method includes: a sending side device generating a common sequence to send to a plurality of receiving side devices; each of the plurality of receiving side devices determining a first analog weight parameter according to a receiving situation of the common sequence, and determining an antenna configuration for sending a pre-determined pilot frequency signal corresponding to the receiving side device according to the determined first analog weight parameter to send the pre-determined pilot frequency signal to the sending side device; and the sending side device determining a second analog weight parameter regarding the receiving side device according to a receiving situation of the pre-determined pilot frequency signal, and determining an antenna configuration for sending data regarding the receiving side device according to the determined second analog weight parameter to send the data to the receiving side device.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO BEAM ALIGNMENT FOR ELECTRONICALLY STEERED ANTENNAE SYSTEMS
A method of auto-aligning a beam within a receiving electronically steered antenna system comprising a plurality of antenna elements is provided. The method comprises the steps of: providing a list of codes, wherein each code is embedded in signals transmitted by a respective transmitting entity, and identifies the transmitted signal as originating from said transmitting entity; selecting a transmitter and identifying a corresponding code for that transmitter; and for each antenna element: receiving a first communications signal; receiving a second signal representative of first communications signals received by each of the plurality of antenna elements; correlating the first and second signals with the identified code to generate first and second output signals; comparing the first and second output signals and determining a phase shift and/or time delay for minimizing the difference between the first and second output signals; and applying the phase shift and/or time delay to the first received communication signal.
Methods and apparatuses for spatial pre-processing of signals in a wireless communication system
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses and computer program for spatial pre-processing of signals in a wireless communication system. The method is implemented at a receiving device side and comprises: receiving signals from a transmitting device via a plurality of antennas; and determining, for a resource unit, a spatial pre-processing scheme to be applied to the signals before baseband processing, based on information related to one or more of the received signals, the transmitting device and the receiving device. The method may provide enhancement of signal strength, reduction in complexity of baseband processing, and/or reduction in amount of data to be transmitted over various interface within the receiving device.
Methods and systems for establishing a connection between devices in unlicensed radio frequency spectrum
A method for establishing a wireless connection between a user equipment (UE) device and a base station in unlicensed radio frequency (RF) spectrum includes (a) receiving, at the UE device, a plurality of RF beams broadcasted by the base station, (b) identifying a selected RF beam of the plurality of RF beams having control information with a maximum received signal level, and (c) identifying a first channel occupancy time (COT1) of the base station from control information of the selected RF beam.
SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE
A transmission method for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. Each signal has been modulated according to a different modulation scheme. The transmission method applies precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix, applies different power change to each signal, and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
Antenna panel switching and beam indication
Devices and methods of joint antenna panel switching and beam selection are generally described. A user equipment (UE) can be configured to decode configuration information received via a higher layer for a plurality of receive (Rx) beams for the UE, the configuration information identifying a plurality of Rx beam indices for the plurality of Rx beams. The UE is configured to decode a physical layer (PHY) communication indicating an antenna panel index and an Rx beam index of the plurality of Rx beam indices, the antenna panel index identifying an antenna panel of a plurality of available antenna panels of the UE. The UE is configured to decode a downlink (DL) data transmission, wherein the DL data transmission is received using the antenna panel and a selected Rx beam of the plurality of Rx beams corresponding to the indicated Rx beam index.
Beamformed reception of downlink reference signals
There is provided mechanisms for beamformed reception of downlink reference signals. A method is performed by a terminal device. The method comprises obtaining direction-wise measurements of interference experienced by the terminal device. The method comprises generating, based on the direction-wise measurements of interference, a beam having a beam gain that is lower in those directions where a first interference level is experienced than in those directions where a second interference level is experienced, where the first interference level is higher than the second interference level. The method comprises receiving, using the generated beam, downlink reference signals from a network node.
MIXING COEFFICIENT DATA SPECIFIC TO A PROCESSING MODE SELECTION USING LAYERS OF MULTIPLICATION/ACCUMULATION UNITS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of mixing input data with coefficient data specific to a processing mode selection. For example, a computing system with processing units may mix the input data for a transmission in a radio frequency (RF) wireless domain with the coefficient data to generate output data that is representative of the transmission being processed according to a specific processing mode selection. The input data is mixed with coefficient data at layers of multiplication/accumulation processing units (MAC units). The processing mode selection may be associated with an aspect of a wireless protocol. Examples of systems and methods described herein may facilitate the processing of data for 5G wireless communications in a power-efficient and time-efficient manner.
Wireless base station, and wireless communication method
Radio base station 10 configured to perform MIMO transmission with user terminals 20 includes: beam selecting section 100 configured to select at least one used beam from among a plurality of beams based on beam-selection reference parameters to be computed based on beam information transmitted by user terminals 20; and user terminal selecting section 102 configured to select, from among at least one of user terminals 20 which has selected the at least one used beam, at least one of user terminals 20 to be a target for the at least one used beam.
Beam configuration method and apparatus
The present disclosure relates to beam configuration methods. In one example method, a terminal device receives a first beam from a network device, where an identifier of a reference signal sent on the first beam is a first identifier. The terminal device configures a receive beam corresponding to the first beam based on a spatial reception parameter corresponding to a downlink synchronization signal associated with current measurement, where before receiving the first beam, the terminal device does not measure or report a second beam corresponding to the first identifier.