Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (100) in a network device. The method (100) includes: determining (110) a number, N, of sets of beam vectors by: creating a first set of beam vectors orthogonal to each other; and determining an n-th set of beam vectors each obtained by linear combination of two or more beam vectors from the (n?1)-th set of beam vectors, where N and n are integers and N?n>1. The method (100) further includes: selecting (120), from one or more of the N sets, a plurality of beam vectors for beamforming of a radio signal.

Abstract: A lens antenna and a lens antenna array are disclosed. A radio device and a method performed by the radio device are also disclosed. The lens antenna may include a lens, and two or more sets of antenna elements which are respectively disposed on two or more imaginary surfaces on a lateral side of the lens. The two or more imaginary surfaces may have different distances to a center point of the lens. The lens antenna array may include a plurality of lens antennas described above. The antenna elements in the plurality of lens antennas may be disposed on a same lateral side of the lenses in the plurality of lens antennas. A method for selecting antenna elements is performed by the radio device controlling the lens antenna or lens antenna array, when the lens antenna or lens antenna array operates as transmission or reception radio antennas.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for a Base Station (BS) in a communication network is provided. The method includes: obtaining channel quality information sent from a User Equipment (UE), and in response to determining that the UE is in poor coverage according to the channel quality information, configuring the UE to perform downlink measurements on at least one downlink RLM measurement source in accordance with measurement configurations. The corresponding devices, computer readable storage medium, carrier, etc. thereof are also provided.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for controlling training data. A method performed by a network device includes determining control information for training data. The method further includes transmitting the control information for training data to a wireless device. According to the control information, the transmitting and receiving of the training signals is carried out. The training data is used for air-interface machine learning.

Abstract: The present disclosure, a method performed by a Radio Unit, RU, is provided. The method includes: receiving, from a Digital Unit, DU, an instruction to receive a reference signal; receiving, from a terminal device, the reference signal in accordance with the instruction; and transmitting, to the DU, a positioning signal based on the received reference signal.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for beamforming. The method which may be at a network node and includes: obtaining channel information of a terminal device; determining a self-correlation factor of the terminal device according to the channel information; determining main lobe width according to a relationship between self-correlation factor and main lobe width; determining a weight vector on at least one transmitting antenna according to the determined main lobe width; and transmitting a message using the weight vector on the at least one transmitting antenna, to the terminal device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for terminal device behavior classification. A method performed by a first network function comprises obtaining communication measurement data related to at least one terminal device. The method further comprises determining terminal implementation characteristics for a group of terminal devices based on the communication measurement data. The method further comprises sending the terminal implementation characteristics and/or a policy for the group of terminal devices to at least one second network function. The policy for the group of terminal devices is determined based on the terminal implementation characteristics.

Abstract: A method is implemented in a digital unit connected with a plurality of distributed antennas including a first antenna, a second antenna and a third antenna. The method comprises: causing transmitting a first signal from the first antenna, a second signal from the second antenna, and a third signal from the third antenna in a same frequency resource; obtaining a receiver and transmitter side loop-back phase difference between the first antenna and the second antenna based on the first signal received at the third antenna, the second signal received at the third antenna, the third signal received at the first antenna, and the third signal received at the second antenna; and obtaining estimations of a time delay difference and an initial phase difference between the first and second antennas based on the obtained loop-back phase difference.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for information sharing. The method which may be performed by a first network node comprises receiving a first measurement report from a terminal device. The terminal device may be capable of communicating with the first network node over a first connection. The method further comprises transmitting first measurement information based at least in part on the first measurement report to a second network node. The terminal device may be capable of communicating with the second network node over a second connection.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for managing load of a network node. A method performed at a first network node may comprise: determining (S101), by the first network node, whether to dispatch a task to another network node; transmitting (S102), by the first network node, to at least one network node including a second network node, a request of dispatching the task; receiving (S103), by the first network node, from the second network node, a response of accepting the task; transmitting (S104), by the first network node, to the second network node, at least one portion of the task; and receiving (S105), by the first network node, from the second network node, a result of executing the at least one portion of the task. According to embodiments herein, a network node may dispatch at least one portion of a task to another network node.

Abstract: A method in a terminal device for transmission to at least a first network device and a second network device over bundled Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs). The method comprises determining that a first TTI for transmission to the first network device overlaps a second TTI for transmission to the second network device based on a first Timing Advance (TA) value associated with the first network device and a second TA value associated with the second network device; and blanking a portion of the first TTI, such that the rest of the first TTI does not overlap the second TTI.

Abstract: A method and an access network node are disclosed for beam control. According to an embodiment, the access network node determines first spatial domain information of a channel between a first terminal device and the access network node, based on second spatial domain information of the channel estimated by uplink signals received previously from the first terminal device at multiple time points. The access network node determines beamforming weights for the first terminal device based on the first spatial domain information.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for multi-user multi-antenna transmission. The method which may be performed by a network node comprises calculating parameters for multi-user multi-antenna transmission, according to measurement information reported by a first set of terminal devices. The method further comprises selecting, from the first set of terminal devices, a second set of terminal devices to which the multi-user multi-antenna transmission is to be applied, based at least in part on performance gain estimated according to the parameters for multi-user multi-antenna transmission.

Abstract: A method and a base station for resource allocation are disclosed. According to an embodiment, the base station determines a number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) consumed by a code block. The base station allocates a first set of PRBs for a transmission for a terminal device, based on channel qualities of a second set of PRBs which have a quantity equaling to the determined number and have the worst channel qualities among the first set of PRBs.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for detecting interference in radio carrier band. A method performed at a network node may comprise: receiving, from a terminal device, a first report about channel state of a first frequency range, and a second report about channel state of a second frequency range; and determining whether the terminal device is interfered in any of the first frequency range or the second frequency range, based on a comparison between the channel state of the first frequency range and the channel state of the second frequency range. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the deterioration of channel state in a frequency range caused by interference may be shown and recognized via the comparison result.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for configuring downlink resource of search space. A method performed at a network node may comprise: determining (S101) a first search space for a first terminal device, and a second search space for a second terminal device; determining (S102) resources for a first downlink channel for the first terminal device in the first search space, and resources for a second downlink channel for the second terminal device in the second search space; and transmitting (S103) a first message on the first downlink channel, and a second message on the second downlink channel The determined resources for the first downlink channel at least partially overlap with the determined resources for the second downlink channel in time and/or frequency domain. The first terminal device and the second terminal device are scheduled with a manner of Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output, MU-MIMO.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (100) in a network node. The method (100) includes: transmitting (110), to a terminal device, a first instruction to apply a first rank configuration; receiving (120), from the terminal device, a first report containing a first rank value and a first channel quality indication; and transmitting (130), to the terminal device, a second instruction to apply a second rank configuration in response to a mismatch between a Modulation and Coding Scheme, MCS, adjusted while transmitting data using the first rank value and the first channel quality indication, wherein the second rank configuration indicates that the first rank value is forbidden to be reported.

Abstract: Methods of operating a radio access network (RAN) node in a communication network. Methods include operations of receiving valid channel data from multiple user equipment (UE) devices. The channel data includes channel impulse response distribution data corresponding to the UE devices. Operations include generating a virtual UE based on a first delay spread of a first UE device of the UE devices in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) scheduling configuration.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for configuring channel resource. A method performed at a network node may comprise: determining (S101) a need to change radio frequency of a cell served by the network node; determining (S102) whether a configuration for channel resource to which the radio frequency to be changed has been received by a terminal device served in the cell; and transmitting (S103), to the terminal device, an indicator for the configuration for the channel resource, in response to that the configuration for the channel resource has been received by the terminal device. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the network node may just transmit an indicator for the configuration for the channel resource, and thus the messages in the communication network needed to configure channel resource may be reduced.

Abstract: A method and a terminal device are disclosed for measurement control. According to an embodiment, the terminal device detects, for a cell that is shared by two operators and to be measured by the terminal device, whether frequency bands used by the two operators for the cell are overlapped. When detecting that frequency bands used by the two operators for the cell are overlapped, the terminal device performs measurement on a reference signal from one of the two operators at least at the overlapped portion of the frequency bands. The terminal device reports information about a result of the measurement to the two operators.