Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives beamforming information relating to one or more beamformed Channel State Information—Reference Signals (CSI-RSs), the CSI-RSs corresponding to one or more Spatial Domains (SDs) or Frequency Domains (FDs). The terminal also includes a processor that determines a type of the one or more CSI-RSs, and when the type of the one or more CSI-RS is a Type II, performs a Type II port selection codebook with a beamformed CSI-RS of the one or more CSI-RSs in the SD and FD domains.

Abstract: A wireless communication method is disclosed for a user equipment (UE) in communication with a base station (BS) in a network (NW) that includes receiving from the BS, via higher-layer signaling or downlink control information (DCI), configuration information and configuring reception of one or more Channel State Information—Reference Signals (CSI-RSs) based on the configuration information, where the configuration information includes one or more new values to configurable CSI-RS ports in Type II port-selection codebook.

Abstract: A method of channel state information (CSI) reporting is disclosed that includes determining, with a user equipment (UE), whether CSI to be reported includes a matrix based on network (NW) triggering and performing, with the UE, CSI reporting based on the determination. The CSI reporting may be periodic, semi-persistent, or aperiodic CSI reporting. The matrix may be W1,l, Wf,l, or both. The NW triggering may be explicitly performed using one or more downlink control information (DCI) bits. The NW triggering may be implicitly performed based on a location of DCI detected by the UE. In other aspects, a user equipment is also disclosed.

Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that measures for beam management: a Doppler spread or a coherence time associated with a beam and one or more reporting quantities. The terminal also includes a transceiver that reports the Doppler spread or the coherence time. In other aspects, a method for a terminal and a base station are also disclosed.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for data-driven uplink power control in a wireless network are described. In some embodiments, a network entity in a communication system supporting the uplink power control by the design of target signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (TSIR) patterns for one or more cells in the target area, where the network entity comprises: a transceiver to receive reported traffic data from one or more cells in the target area; and a TSIR generation engine having one or more processors configured to automatically generate the one or more signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (TSIR) patterns for the one or more cells of the target area in response to one or more trigger conditions, wherein the transceiver component is operable to transmit at least one of the one or more TSIR patterns to one or more cells in the target area.

Abstract: A method for reducing feedback overhead associated with bitmap reporting may be implemented between a user equipment and a base station. The method includes activating a coding scheme for reporting a bitmap in association with a prefix coding scheme, encoding a plurality of bit groups using the prefix coding scheme, generating a plurality of codeword sets for the plurality of bit groups, and reporting the codeword sets generated.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for estimating one or more user terminal locations over a target coverage area by wireless signals transmitted by one or more access points and reflected by one or more reconfigurable intelligent surface panels. The method includes transmission of one or more pilot signals by each of the one or more access points, reflecting, by at least one of the one or more reconfigurable intelligent surface panels, the one or more pilot signals according to one or more predetermined reflection patterns, receiving the reflections by the user terminal, extracting one or more features from the reflections, and estimating of a user terminal location by a method based on a database comprising pairs of locations and the one or more features.

Abstract: A method of applying rank two transmission from a plurality of sets of coherent antennas of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes: transmitting two information streams using a first set from the plurality of sets of coherent antennas of the UE; and transmitting the two information streams using a second set from the plurality of sets of the coherent antennas of the UE. The first set and the second set are incoherent with respect to each other. The two information streams are common to the first set and the second set.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for wireless transceiver calibration. In one embodiment, the method for relative calibration of multiple transceiver units for their use for joint transmission from groups of transceiver units to at least one other wireless entity, wherein each transceiver unit includes an antenna element, comprises: exchanging pilots using multiple signaling resource slots, using at least two non-overlapping groups of transceiver units; and performing calibration of transceiver units in the first and second groups of transceiver units, including choosing relative calibration parameters to control calibration and using a metric to assess calibration, where the metric is based on at least one combination of calibration parameters and the observations of each transceiver group in at least two groups of transceiver units based the simultaneous pilot broadcast and subsequent reception between transceiver units in pairs of groups of transceiver units.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for scheduling, load balancing and/or pilot assignment in MIMD cellular deployments (e.g., reciprority-based MIMO cellular deployments). In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving, by the central controller from at least one AP, for at least one user terminal, a size of a user set and user rate information indicative of a rate that can be provided to the user terminal when served in a group of one or more user terminals; and determining, by the central controller, based on user rate information and the user set size, an allocation of AP resources among the user terminals for the at least one AP.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for base station selection based on uplink pilot and distributed user-proximity detection. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing uplink pilot configuration for a plurality of user terminals over a set of common resource elements, including generating a plurality of pilot patterns for the plurality of user terminals, where each of the plurality of pilot patterns comprises at least one zero-power resource element and at least one non-zero-power resource element and at least one zero-power resource element allocated to each different one of the plurality of user terminals has a different position in the pilot pattern.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for wireless transceiver calibration. In one embodiment, the method for relative calibration of multiple transceiver units for their use for joint transmission from groups of transceiver units to at least one other wireless entity, wherein each transceiver unit includes an antenna element, comprises: exchanging pilots using multiple signaling resource slots, using at least two non-overlapping groups of transceiver units; and performing calibration of transceiver units in the first and second groups of transceiver units, including choosing relative calibration parameters to control calibration and using a metric to assess calibration, where the metric is based on at least one combination of calibration parameters and the observations of each transceiver group in at least two groups of transceiver units based the simultaneous pilot broadcast and subsequent reception between transceiver units in pairs of groups of transceiver units.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for data transmission in a cellular system are disclosed herein In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving transmissions of uplink pilot signals made in each slot, by a number of UEs, over the radio resource elements in slots that are allocated for uplink pilot transmission, wherein the number of UEs in the vicinity of at least one base station exceeds the number of radio resource elements that have been allocated for uplink pilot transmission in the slot; estimating large-scale radio-channel propagation strengths of a plurality of nearby UEs to a base station; estimating radio-propagation channel coefficients between each base-station antenna and each UE, in a subset of UEs in the plurality of nearby UEs that have large-scale radio-channel propagation strengths to the base station that are stronger than those UEs in the plurality of nearby UEs not part of the subset; and transmitting to in-cell UEs via multi-user beamforming, including suppressing interference to one or more nea

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for uplink pilot reuse and user-proximity detection in wireless networks. In one embodiment, a wireless system is disclosed for use in a wireless network having a plurality of user terminals (UTs), where at least two UTs of the plurality of UTs have pre-assigned user uplink pilot codes and are allocated common pilot resources over at least two concurrent slots, the system comprising a UT-proximity detection processor to determine which UT channels the UT-proximity detection processor can resolve among a group of UTs transmitting pilots in identical pilot resources, the UT-proximity detection processor operable to resolve a UT channel of a UT by determining the UT is in proximity of the system and no other UT in the group of UTs transmitting pilots that has transmitted a pilot on the identical pilot resources is in proximity of the system.

Abstract: A method for wireless communication includes transmitting, from a base station (BS) to a user equipment (UE), a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS). The CSI RS is quasi-orthogonally or non-orthogonally multiplexed on multiple resource elements (REs). The BS transmits multiple CSI-RSs to the UE and the multiple CSI-RSs are multiplexed on a same RE. The method further includes applying, with the BS, different transmission power to the multiple REs, and notifying, with the BS, the UE of transmission power information that indicates values of the applied different transmission power. The method further includes scrambling, with the BS, the multiple REs with a predetermined scrambling sequence and notifying, with the BS, the UE of scrambling sequence information that indicates predetermined scrambling sequence.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed herein for user/base station signaling and load balancing across a wireless network. In one embodiment, the method comprises broadcasting, by a first base station in the wireless network, information indicative of the load of the first base station; receiving an association request from the user terminal for association with the first base station in response to the user terminal predicting a net throughput from the first base station, based on the information indicative of the load, being greater than net throughput from a second base station to which the user terminal is currently associated; and determining whether to accept the association request while performing an association process for selectively allowing only a fraction of requests from user terminals to associated with the base station.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for base station selection based on uplink pilot and distributed user-proximity detection. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing uplink pilot configuration for a plurality of user terminals over a set of common resource elements, including generating a plurality of pilot patterns for the plurality of user terminals, where each of the plurality of pilot patterns comprises at least one zero-power resource element and at least one non-zero-power resource element and at least one zero-power resource element allocated to each different one of the plurality of user terminals has a different position in the pilot pattern.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for data transmission in a cellular system are disclosed herein In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving transmissions of uplink pilot signals made in each slot, by a number of UEs, over the radio resource elements in slots that are allocated for uplink pilot transmission, wherein the number of UEs in the vicinity of at least one base station exceeds the number of radio resource elements that have been allocated for uplink pilot transmission in the slot; estimating large-scale radio-channel propagation strengths of a plurality of nearby UEs to a base station; estimating radio-propagation channel coefficients between each base-station antenna and each UE, in a subset of UEs in the plurality of nearby UEs that have large-scale radio-channel propagation strengths to the base station that are stronger than those UEs in the plurality of nearby UEs not part of the subset; and transmitting to in-cell UEs via multi-user beamforming, including suppressing interference to one or more nea

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for resource allocation in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises allocating portions of the resources available to a subset of base stations of the plurality of base stations to serve a subset of UTs from clusters of base stations with cluster sizes including at least one with two or more base stations, where each of the portions of resources are allocated to serve one UT via a user-dependent cluster of base stations; and scheduling UT transmissions over the subset of base stations and scheduling slots, wherein within each of the scheduling slots one or more user terminals are scheduled for transmission, each by its user-dependent cluster of base stations.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for uplink pilot reuse and user-proximity detection in wireless networks. In one embodiment, a wireless system is disclosed for use in a wireless network having a plurality of user terminals (UTs), where at least two UTs of the plurality of UTs have pre-assigned user uplink pilot codes and are allocated common pilot resources over at least two concurrent slots, the system comprising a UT-proximity detection processor to determine which UT channels the UT-proximity detection processor can resolve among a group of UTs transmitting pilots in identical pilot resources, the UT-proximity detection processor operable to resolve a UT channel of a UT by determining the UT is in proximity of the system and no other UT in the group of UTs transmitting pilots that has transmitted a pilot on the identical pilot resources is in proximity of the system.