A user equipment (UE) includes a receiver that receives, from a base station (B S), multiple reference signals transmitted using first beams, a processor, and a transmitter. The first beams comprise at least one second beam used for Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) transmission between the BS and the UE and third beams that are not used for the PDCCH transmission. The processor measures quality of the first beams. The transmitter reports, to the BS, the quality of the at least one second beam and part of the third beams.

A transmission control method includes sending, by a terminal, uplink control information (UCI) in a first format of the UCI to a radio access network device, where the UCI includes at least one of measurement result information of beam groups or information of the beam groups. The measurement result information of the beam groups includes a measurement result of a first beam group and an offset of a measurement result of a second beam group relative to the measurement result of the first beam group. The measurement result of the first beam group is a reference measurement result, and the information of the beam groups indicates a beam group corresponding to at least one of the measurement result of the first beam group or the measurement result of the second beam group.

The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.

A method of performing beam reporting in a wireless communication system is disclosed including receiving, with a user equipment (UE), multiple Transmission (Tx) beams used for transmission of reference signals (RSs) from a base station (BS), and performing, with the UE, first beam reporting to the BS. The first beam reporting indicates the Tx beams divided into groups based on a first predetermined grouping type. When the receiving simultaneously receives first Tx beams of the multiple Tx beams, the first Tx beams are divided into a same group based on the first predetermined grouping type. When the receiving simultaneously receives first Tx beams of the multiple Tx beams, the first Tx beams are divided into different groups based on the first predetermined grouping type.

The present invention relates to the signaling of channel quality information in a multi-beam transmission system, wherein a plurality of beams are simultaneously transmitted and a plurality of sets of channel quality information are transmitted for controlling independently the transmission rate on the different beams. Determined are beams with a different quality resulting in different effects of errors in the transmissions of the channel quality information for the beams. Said different effects are exploited for reducing a signaling overhead of the channel quality information for the beams.

A user equipment is disclosed that includes a receiver configured to receive candidates of phase rotation in a horizontal direction and candidates of phase rotation in a vertical direction for precoding. The user equipment also has a processor configured to report feedback information including a phase rotation in the horizontal direction and a phase rotation in the vertical direction to a radio base station based upon the candidates of the phase rotation in a horizontal direction and the candidates of phase rotation in a vertical direction. Additionally, the candidates of phase rotation in the horizontal direction or the candidates of phase rotation in the vertical direction are a part of predetermined candidates, the part being selected from the predetermined candidates according to a predetermined method.

A method and apparatus is provided for generating a channel state information report. The method includes receiving reference signals transmitted from a base station. A set of beams are selected based on the received reference signals, each of the beams corresponding to a discrete Fourier transform vector, wherein each of the beams has a corresponding beam index. A set of quantized weighting coefficients are reported, each of the weighting coefficients corresponding to a respective beam index and a respective tap index. The tap index corresponds to a member of a Fourier basis set. At least two subsets of the reported set of weighting coefficients are quantized according to separate quantization procedures.

Mechanisms of reducing beamforming feedback reporting sizes in WIFI communication. At a beamformee STA, beamforming feedback matrices generated from channel estimation are subject to two compression processes: first compressed to angles through Givens rotation and then further compressed by using source coding. The double compressed feedback information is transmitted in a report to the beamformer. Accordingly, the beamformer reconstructs the feedback matrices by first decompressing the reported information by source decoding and then further decompressing based on the Givens rotation. In some other embodiments, the beamformee STA uses a beambook to map the beamforming feedback matrices to predetermined beamforming vectors. The associated indices of the vectors, which may be compressed, are transmitted in a beamforming feedback report.

The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.

A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises having 1-layer, 2-layer, 3-layer, and 4-layer codebooks for 4 transmit antenna (4TX) transmission, each codebook including a plurality of precoding matrices, precoding data with one of the plurality of precoding matrices, and transmitting, to a user equipment, the precoded data, wherein each of the 1-layer and 2-layer codebooks comprises a first codebook and a second codebook, and wherein each precoding matrix in the first codebook comprises a first index and a second index. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods also are disclosed.