Sony Group Corporation

Sony Corporation

Dongru Li

Jianfei Cao

Xiaofeng Tao

Hang Yang

Jin Xu

Wenjing Ren

Qimei Cui

Ying Zhou

Chaonan He

The present invention relates to a user equipment, an electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a storage medium. The user equipment according to the present invention comprises a processing circuit configured to: select G transmit beam groups from K transmit beams of a network side device; and sending information about the selected G transmit beam groups to the network side device, wherein each of the G transmit beam groups comprises N transmit beams, the user equipment is capable of simultaneously receiving downlink information that the network side device sends by using the N transmit beams, and K, N, G are all integers greater than 1. The use of the user equipment, the electronic device, the wireless communication method, and the storage medium according to the present invention can improve beam selection process in a system that uses a beamforming technique.

User equipment, electronic device, wireless communication method, and storage medium

An electronic device and method for wireless communication, the method including detecting a beam quality of a currently serving beam; starting a prediction window when the detected beam quality is within a particular range, and evaluating the beam quality of the currently serving beam within the prediction window.

Electronic device and method for measuring a beam quality of a currently serving beam based on a prediction window when the detected beam quality is within a particular range

The present invention relates to an electronic device, a wireless communication method and a computer-readable medium. The electronic apparatus for wireless communication according to one embodiment comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform control to carry out carrier aggregation communication with a base station by means of at least a first cell and a second cell. The processing circuit is further configured to perform control to send first information for beam failure recovery of the second cell to the base station by means of the first cell.

Electronic device, wireless communication method and computer-readable medium for beam failure detection and recovery

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.

Apparatus and method in wireless communication system and computer readable storage medium

Electronic device, wireless communication method and computer-readable medium

An electronic device that includes a processing circuit configured to: receive information about a number N of candidate transmit beams from a user device, where 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.

Electronic device, wireless communication method and computer readable storage medium related to transmission configuration indication (TCI) state

An apparatus and a method in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: determine an idle resource element in a P2 process and/or a P3 process based on a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) mapping structure, wherein only a transmission beam is scanned in the P2 process, only a reception beam is scanned in the P3 process, and the idle resource element refers to a resource element which is not occupied by a CSI-RS in an OFDM symbol occupied by the CSI-RS; and when the P2 process and/or the P3 process is carried out, control a base station so that same uses the idle resource element to send data and/or control information to a user equipment.

Apparatus and method in wireless communication system

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.

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