Abstract: An electronic device at a base station end includes a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: configure, in response to request signalling from a user equipment, an aperiodic beam-forming reference signal relevant to a first beam group for the user equipment, wherein the first beam group is determined by a base station according to channel state information periodically fed back by the user equipment; generate downlink control information, so as to indicate that the user equipment feeds back beam selection information according to the aperiodic beam-forming reference signal; determine, according to the beam selection information, one or a plurality of candidate beams and one or a plurality of corresponding second pre-coding codebooks; and determine an effective pre-coding codebook based on the one or multiple second pre-coding codebooks.

Abstract: A communication device includes a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured as: mapping a first information bit part used for a receiving end to a corresponding channel based on a pre-set mapping rule so as to execute spatial modulation with respect to the first information bit part of the receiving end; allocating a transmission power to the receiving end; and controlling the transmission power allocated through a mapped channel to transmit a second information bit part used for the receiving end. In the case of the first information bit parts used for multiple receiving ends being the same, the channels mapped for multiple receiving ends are the same. The multi-user spatial modulation performs spatial modulation for multiple receiving ends at the same time through a multiplexing channel of the transmitting end, improving the additional modulation order and the data transmission rate which can be obtained by each receiving end.

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to an electronic device, wireless communication method and medium. The electronic device comprises circuitry configured to: obtain first channel state comprising at least channel state of a channel from a first apparatus to a first antenna associated with the electronic device, the first apparatus performing wireless communication with the electronic device; and obtain second channel state based on the first channel state, the second channel state comprising channel state of a channel from a second antenna associated with the electronic device to the first apparatus.

Abstract: An electronic device for a base station in a wireless communication system comprising a processing circuitry configured to indicate a user equipment to report a first type of channel statement information based on a reference signal for the first type of channel statement information, wherein the base station serves the user equipment in a way of SU-MIMO, make a determination that a second type of channel statement information is required in a case that the base station changes the way serving the user equipment from SU-MIMO to MU-MIMO, and notify the user equipment to report the second type of channel statement information based on a reference signal for the second type of channel statement information.

Abstract: An electronic device for a wireless communication system includes processing circuitry configured to: perform control to transmit/receive signals to/from a target communication apparatus via an offset array antenna associated with the electronic device, wherein the offset array antenna comprises multiple sets of antenna elements, each has multiple antenna elements arranged in a first direction, a spatial offset and a phase difference in the first direction exist among the multiple sets of antenna elements, and the multiple sets of antenna elements are arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and acquire a state of a channel in the first direction between the offset array antenna and the target communication apparatus, wherein the state of the channel in the first direction is determined using the signals which comprise the phase difference in the first direction.

Abstract: A communication device includes a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured as: mapping a first information bit part used for a receiving end to a corresponding channel based on a pre-set mapping rule so as to execute spatial modulation with respect to the first information bit part of the receiving end; allocating a transmission power to the receiving end; and controlling the transmission power allocated through a mapped channel to transmit a second information bit part used for the receiving end. In the case of the first information bit parts used for multiple receiving ends being the same, the channels mapped for multiple receiving ends are the same. The multi-user spatial modulation performs spatial modulation for multiple receiving ends at the same time through a multiplexing channel of the transmitting end, improving the additional modulation order and the data transmission rate which can be obtained by each receiving end.

Abstract: An electronic device on the user side comprising a processing circuitry configured to report to a network control device a first type of channel state information (CSI) by using a resource for the first type of channel state feedback allocated by the network control device; make a determination that a second type of channel state feedback is required; and notify the network control device of the determination.

Abstract: An electronic device and method for wireless communication system, and a storage medium. In the method, reference signal are carried merely on a part of communication sources for channel estimation, channel states on the communication resources carrying the reference signal are estimated, and conditions of channel paths from a transmitter to a receiver are estimated by using the estimated channel states of the communication resources. Thereby, channel states on other communication resources from the transmitter to the receiver can be obtained from the estimated channel path conditions.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer-readable medium. According to one embodiment, provided is an electronic device comprising a processing circuit and used for a user equipment side; the processing circuit is configured to control to transmit a non-precoded first uplink reference signal, receive feedback by a base station regarding the first uplink reference signal, and sending, on the basis of said feedback, a pre-coded second uplink reference signal.

Abstract: An apparatus and method in a wireless communication system and a computer readable storage medium. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit, which is configured to: configure a sounding reference signal (SRS) mapping structure for a user equipment on the basis of at least the number of antenna ports of the user equipment and the number of transmitting beams and/or receiving beams to be scanned; and notify the user equipment of the SRS mapping structure, wherein the SRS mapping structure at least comprises SRS resource settings for achieving uplink beam management and channel state information (CSI) acquisition at the same time, thereby reducing the system time delay and improving the uplink resource utilization rate.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a processing circuit configured to: receive information about a number N of candidate transmit beams from a user device, wherein N is an integer greater than 1; select from the N candidate transmit beams a transmit beam for sending downlink information to the user device; and determine, on the basis of the selected transmit beam, a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state, and send the TCI state to the user device. The electronic device, the wireless communication method and the computer readable storage medium enable a network-side device to notify the user device of the information about transmit beams. In this way, the user device can determine, according to the transmit beam of the network-side device, a proper receiving beam so as to improve the gain of the system.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device in a wireless communication system, a communication method and storage medium. Provided is a method for estimating a channel angle of departure (AOD), comprising: by means of multiple antenna arrays, using the same analog beam formation parameters to transmit a reference signal so as to form a first combined beam and a second combined beam having different directions; determining the relative beam gain for the two combined beams, and determining the channel AOD on the basis of a mapping relationship between the relative beam gain and the channel AOD.

Abstract: An electronic device at a base station end includes a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: configure, in response to request signalling from a user equipment, an aperiodic beam-forming reference signal relevant to a first beam group for the user equipment, wherein the first beam group is determined by a base station according to channel state information periodically fed back by the user equipment; generate downlink control information, so as to indicate that the user equipment feeds back beam selection information according to the aperiodic beam-forming reference signal; determine, according to the beam selection information, one or a plurality of candidate beams and one or a plurality of corresponding second pre-coding codebooks; and determine an effective pre-coding codebook based on the one or multiple second pre-coding codebooks.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a method, and a storage medium for a wireless communication system. Various embodiments regarding beam pair selection are described. In one embodiment, an electronic device for a wireless communication system can comprise a processing circuitry configured to determine K beam pairs in a communication link between a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus for a wireless communication system, where K is a natural number, and each beam pair comprises a transmitting beam and a receiving beam; and calculate a beam gain gradient for each beam pair, wherein the beam gain gradient indicates a spatial gain variation of a respective beam pair.

Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and a method in a radio communication system. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to determine, based on information indicating inter-cell interference and information indicating intra-cell interference fed back by multiple user equipment, a transmission resource configuration regarding the multiple user equipment. According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, it can effectively solve the problem that system overheads for determining multi-user pairing significantly increase due to the presence of a large number of user equipment to be paired when multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) transmission is performed, while system fairness and throughputs are also achieved.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device, a method, and a storage medium for a wireless communication system. Various embodiments are described with respect to beam pair link. In one embodiment, the electronic device used at the base station side in the wireless communication system may comprise a processing circuitry configured to monitor status of an uplink signal; determine it necessary to adjust a first uplink beam pair link (BPL) based on the status of the uplink signal, wherein the first uplink BPL comprises a first transmitting beam at a terminal device side and a first receiving beam at the BS side; and perform operations in order to adjust the first uplink BPL.

Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and method for wireless communication, the electronic device comprises a processing circuit, which is configured for: generating a first indication indicating the number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols occupied by a front load-on demodulation reference signal; generating a second indication indicating a configuration of an additional demodulation reference signal; and determining a mode of demodulating the reference signal on the basis of the first indication and the second indication, and generating a mode index corresponding to the mode to provide to user equipment.

Abstract: Provided are an electronic device and method used for wireless communication. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: acquire a first candidate list of a first mobile base station, wherein the first candidate list comprises at least some neighbour nodes of the first mobile base station; determine a neighbour node as a second mobile base station from the first candidate list, wherein the second mobile base station is capable of replacing the first mobile base station as a successor base station of the first mobile base station for continuing to provide a service for a current user; and acquiring a second candidate list of the second mobile base station, wherein the second candidate list comprises at least some neighbour nodes of the second mobile base station.

Abstract: An electronic device for a wireless communication system includes processing circuitry configured to: perform control to transmit/receive signals to/from a target communication apparatus via an offset array antenna associated with the electronic device, wherein the offset array antenna comprises multiple sets of antenna elements, each has multiple antenna elements arranged in a first direction, a spatial offset and a phase difference in the first direction exist among the multiple sets of antenna elements, and the multiple sets of antenna elements are arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and acquire a state of a channel in the first direction between the offset array antenna and the target communication apparatus, wherein the state of the channel in the first direction is determined using the signals which comprise the phase difference in the first direction.

Abstract: The disclosure is related to an electronic device, method and medium for wireless communication. The electronic device comprises processing circuitry configured to perform control to: transmit one or more beams via one or more groups of antenna panels; receive beam state indication of the one or more beams from a target communication apparatus; and determine one or more antenna panels serving the target communication apparatus in a group of antenna panels comprising an antenna panel corresponding to the beam state indication.