Provided are a method and a device for transmitting interference cancellation information for cancelling interference between cells in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting interference cancellation information may comprise the steps of: on the basis of feedback information received from a terminal belonging to a cell controlled by a predetermined base station, estimating a symbol error rate or a packet error rate on a cell boundary region; by comparing the symbol error rate or the packet error rate with a predetermined critical value, determining a probability indicator indicating the probability of cancelling interference between cells at the cell boundary region; and transmitting information on the probability indicator to an adjacent cell.

Embodiments of this application provide an uplink transmission control method and an apparatus. A micro base station sends an uplink resource configuration request to a macro base station, the macro base station sends, to the micro base station, an uplink resource configuration indication that is used to allocate an uplink resource to the micro base station, and then the micro base station instructs user equipment to transmit uplink information by using the uplink resource. It can be seen that, after the macro base station allocates the uplink resource to the micro base station, the micro base station may use the uplink resource to receive the uplink information transmitted by the user equipment.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for obtaining channel spatial characteristic information, and a base station. The method includes: separately sending, by a first base station, a channel spatial characteristic request and an identity of to-be-measured user equipment (UE) to multiple second base stations, where the channel spatial characteristic request is used to instruct the second base station to perform channel spatial characteristic information measurement on the to-be-measured UE; and receiving, by the first base station, channel spatial characteristic indication information sent by the multiple second base stations, where the channel spatial characteristic indication information carries channel spatial characteristic information of the to-be-measured UE.

A first apparatus may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), on a control channel, one or more indications of one or more beam indexes corresponding to one or more beams. The first apparatus may transmit, to the UE, one or more reference signals through the one or more beams corresponding to the one or more beam indexes. The reference signals may be used by the UE to select a best subarray and/or receive combiner for communication with the first apparatus.

A link adaptation method performed by a station (STA) in a wireless local area network (LAN) system supporting multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) is provided. The method includes: receiving a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) request, a steered sounding physical layer convergence procedure (PLOP) protocol data unit (PPDU) which is beam-formed to the STA, and a MIMO indicator including MU-MIMO-related information from an access point (AP); and transmitting feedback information including an MCS acquired from the steered sounding PPDU and the MU-MIMO-related information to the AP in response to the MCS request.

An example method may include configuring a pattern of a sounding packet of a first wireless node in a resource space. Configuring the pattern may include assigning first precoders to a first subset of the resource space for a first antenna sector of the first wireless node; and assigning second precoders to a second subset of the resource space for a second antenna sector of the first wireless node. The method may include wirelessly transmitting the sounding packet with the configured pattern to a second wireless node. The method may include transmitting data packets from the first wireless node to the second wireless node according to one or more transmission parameters that are at least one of received from the second wireless node or determined based on channel state information (CSI) feedback received from the second wireless node.

A method of operating a communication system includes communicating a sounding signal to a plurality of devices through a first antenna array coupled to a basestation. The method further includes, in response to the sounding signal, communicating a response signal to the basestation from each of the plurality of devices, from the response signal determining device data comprising a device location, a signal strength of the sounding signal and phase information of the sounding signal, grouping the plurality of devices into a first group based on the device data, generating first transmit beamforming weights for the first group to shape the power output of the first beamforming weight vector to communicate a data signal to the first group and broadcasting the data signal to the first group through a wireless signal from the first antenna array using the first transmit beamforming weights and nulls.

Methods, devices and computer programs for determining new transmit directions to use for beamformed transmissions in case the link quality of an existing direction falters. A transmitting communication device and a receiving communication device cooperate via a beam tracking procedure to determine a new suitable transmit direction to use for upcoming beamformed transmissions. Information relating to the beam tracking procedure is communicated over an existing link that enables communication between the transmitting and receiving communication devices. The receiving communication device provides the transmitting communication device with information about a beam scan performed in order to detect tracking beams transmitted by the transmitting communication device. This information allows the transmitting communication device to determine suitable transmit directions to use.

This disclosure provides systems, apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for beam switching by a repeater node that forwards communications from one of a first node or a second node to the other of the first node or the second node. For example, after a change of position by the second node, the first node may provide the repeater node an instruction to perform a beam change operation to communicate with the second node. In some aspects, performing the beam change operation by the repeater node may improve reliability of wireless communications, such as by focusing signal energy in a particular direction. Further, a beam change delay time interval or a scheduling of the beam change delay time interval may be selected based on scheduling associated with other nodes, which may reduce a number of messages sent to the repeater node (such as by reducing instructions to change beam directions).

Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses configured to direct wireless communication. In some embodiments, a networking apparatus is configured to generate a plurality of sequences of symbols for transmission to plurality of client devices; transmit the plurality of sequences to the plurality of client device via one or more beams focused toward the client devices; receive information regarding the one or more beams from the client devices; and modify at least one of the one or more beams based on the information.