A communication method includes: receiving, by a network device, first information sent by a terminal device: where the first information includes capability information of the terminal device and uplink sounding reference signal (SRS) antenna switch requirement information of the terminal device, the capability information of the terminal device is used for indicating antenna switch capability supported by the terminal device, and the SRS antenna switch requirement information is used for indicating requirement for terminal device to perform SRS antenna switch.

The present disclosure provides an information transmission method, an information reception method and apparatuses. The information transmission method includes: recording, by a UE, information related to CHO and/or CPC; and transmitting, by the UE, the information related to the CHO and/or CPC to a network.

Provided are an electronic device and a method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: send, by means of radio resource control signaling, configuration information of a universal transmission configuration indication state to a user equipment, wherein the universal transmission configuration indication state comprises a transmission configuration indication state of a downlink beam of a serving cell of the user equipment and a transmission configuration indication state of a downlink beam of a non-serving cell other than the serving cell; and determine activation information of a downlink beam of a target cell, wherein the user equipment is to be switched to the target cell.

A method of data transfer between a radio unit and a mobile wireless device includes obtaining a value for a measure of a location of the mobile wireless device relative to the radio unit. When the measure of the location indicates that the mobile wireless device is nearer to the radio unit than a speed-dependent threshold value, any required beam switch is made to one of a plurality of predefined wide beams for data transfer between the radio unit and the mobile wireless device. When the measure of the location indicates that the mobile wireless device is further from the radio unit than the speed-dependent threshold value, any required beam switch is made to one of a plurality of predefined narrow beams for data transfer between the radio unit and the mobile wireless device.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, an indication of a relaxation criterion associated with one or more reference signals used in performing at least one of radio link monitoring (RLM) or beam failure detection (BFD), wherein the relaxation criterion includes a mobility condition associated with the UE. The UE may perform, based at least in part on satisfying the mobility condition, one or more measurements using one or more of the reference signals and based at least in part on the relaxation criterion. Numerous other aspects are described.

An electronic device and a method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: acquire, from a base station, configuration information containing a first candidate beam set for beam failure recovery, the first candidate beam set comprising candidate beams of a serving cell and candidate beams of a non-serving cell; and determine, on the basis of the first candidate beam set and/or a second candidate beam set, an identification candidate beam to be used for beam failure recovery, the second candidate beam set comprising beams which serve as candidate beams of the non-serving cell and are detected by user equipment.

The first circuitry may be operable to establish a first UE Receive (Rx) beam as being for reception of data from a first eNB. The second circuitry may be operable to process a transmission including Downlink Control Information (DCI), wherein the DCI carries an eNB cell-switching indicator. The first circuitry may also be operable to establish a second UE Rx beam as being for reception of data from a second eNB based on the eNB cell-switching indicator.

Embodiments of this application provide antenna switching methods and apparatuses. In an implementation, a first communication device determines a first antenna identifier based on air interface transmission information, the first communication device sends the first antenna identifier to a digital switch, and the digital switch switches from a second switch state to a first switch state based on the first antenna identifier, where the first switch state indicates that a second communication device communicates with the first antenna within a first time unit, and the second switch state indicates that the second communication device communicates with a second antenna within a second time unit.

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.