A method for a wireless communications system is disclosed. In one example, a user equipment (UE) device (e.g. a mobile phone) provides a UE beam sweeping number to a network node. Based on the UE beam sweeping number, the network node provides configuration information or allocates a resource to the UE device. The UE device can use the configuration information or the resource for measurement. The beam sweeping number refers to the number of time intervals that the UE device would need to generate multiple sets of UE beams, one set per time interval, that would cover all possible directions in which the UE device sends and/or receives transmissions, in a manner that resembles a sweeping of UE beams.

Access to a wireless medium is made more flexible by combining the distributed access and central controlled access. A wireless device may be allowed to perform both orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) and enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) channel access mechanisms at same time and start the channel access via a mechanism that allows a faster access to the channel. Depending on channel acquisition, the wireless device can use a multi-user format or a single-user format to transmit uplink anPLCP protocol data unit (PPDU).

A method of transmission over multiple wireless channels in a multiple antenna system includes storing channel modulation matrices at a transmitter; receiving quantized channel state information at the transmitter from plural receivers; selecting a transmission modulation matrix using the quantized channel state information from the stored channel modulation matrices; and transmitting over the multiple channels to the plural receivers using the selected transmission modulation matrix. In another embodiment, the method includes storing, at one or more receivers, indexes of modulation matrices generated by a capacity enhancing algorithm; upon a selected one of the one or more receivers receiving a transmission from the transmitter, the selected receiver selecting a modulation matrix from the stored modulation matrices that optimizes transmission between the transmitter and the selected receiver; the selected receiver sending an index representing the selected modulation matrix; and receiving the index at the transmitter from the selected receiver.

A method implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a user equipment, rank indication (RI), a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI), and a second PMI (codebook index i.sub.2), wherein values 0-15 are assigned to the second PMI I.sub.PMI2 for RI=1 and values 0-3 are assigned to the second PMI I.sub.PMI2 for each of RI=2, RI=3, and RI=4, and wherein codebook index i.sub.2 comprises I.sub.PMI2 for RI=1. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed.

A communication method of the present disclosure comprises transmitting a sounding frame comprising a training signal; and receiving a first feedback frame from a communication partner device, the first feedback frame comprising first beamforming feedback information, wherein the first feedback frame is transmitted together with at least one second feedback frame by multiuser transmission.

A receiver detects a received signal, transmitted by a transmitter to carry payload data as Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols in divided frames, each frame including a preamble including plural bootstrap OFDM symbols. A detector circuit detects, from the bootstrap OFDM symbols, a synchronization timing for converting a useful part of the bootstrap OFDM symbols into the frequency domain. A bootstrap processor detects an estimate of the channel transfer function from a first OFDM symbol, and a demodulator circuit recovers the signaling data from the bootstrap OFDM symbols using the estimate. The bootstrap processor includes an up-sampler configured to receive the bootstrap OFDM symbols, to form an up-sampled frequency domain version of the bootstrap OFDM symbol, and an output processor configured to identify a peak correlation result, to determine frequency offset of the received signal from a relative position of the peak correlation result in the frequency domain.

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for preparing channel state information (“CSI”). One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver configured to communicate with a base unit over a radio access network using at least one transmission layer and determining a total number of non-zero coefficients over a set of layers. The processor encodes the total number of non-zero coefficients by selecting a codeword from a plurality of candidate codewords in which the selected single codeword identifies the total number of non-zero coefficients to the base unit. The processor prepares CSI, where the CSI comprises the selected single codeword encoding the total number of non-zero coefficients and the transceiver transmits the CSI to the base unit.

A communication node included in a multi-antenna multi-carrier system, when precoding matrices corresponding to some subcarriers from among subcarriers allocated to another communication node connected to the communication node are input, obtains precoding matrices for at least some subcarriers from among the allocated subcarriers by performing spherical interpolation on the input precoding matrices, maps the obtained precoding matrices for the at least some subcarriers to the subcarriers allocated to the other communication node, and performs precoding on the plurality of vector signals using the mapped precoding matrices.

The present invention provides a method and device for feeding back grouping indication information and a method and device for acquiring grouping indication information. The method for feeding back grouping indication information includes: determining M resources from a candidate resource set and dividing the M resources into N first-type resource groups, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and N is a positive integer less than or equal to M; and feeding back indication information for indicating the M resources and first-type grouping indication information for indicating that the M resources are divided into the N first-type resource groups to a first communication node. Resources in the candidate resource set include at least one of: a transmission beam resource, a transmission antenna resource, a transmission port resource, a transmission frequency domain resource, a transmission sequence resource and a transmission time domain resource.

The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication of an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. In one aspect, the apparatus may measure a plurality of beams from a base station or a UE, the plurality of beams corresponding to a plurality of subbands of a wideband channel. The apparatus may also determine whether the plurality of beams include one or more candidate beam groups for each subband of the plurality of subbands. Additionally, the apparatus may transmit, upon determining that the plurality of beams include one or more candidate beam groups for at least one subband of the plurality of subbands, an indication of the one or more candidate beam groups for the at least one subband of the plurality of subbands.