Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Junyoung Woo

Hyoungjoo Lee

Taeyoon Kim

Euichang Jung

Chaeman Lim

Chaiman Lim

Junsuk Kim

Sungchul Park

Minho Yang

Youngpo Lee

Keonyoung Lee

Mingyu Kang

Daejun Kang

Yonggue Han

Hyeonsoo Kim

Juhyun Lee

Yongjae Jung

An example electronic device may include multiple antennas and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: identify a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration received from a network; identify a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling rate corresponding to the electronic device; transmit, based on the PDSCH scheduling rate not being included in a first range, at least one SRS at the magnitude of first transmission power, in each of one or more resource for SRS signal transmission identified on the basis of the SRS configuration; and refrain from transmitting the at least one SRS in the one or more resources based on the PDSCH scheduling rate being included in the first range, or transmit the at least one SRS at the magnitude of second transmission power, in the each of the one or more resources.

Transmitting sound reference signals (SRSs) based on physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling rate

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit including a plurality of radio frequency (RF) modules, a memory configured to store a plurality of reference values for classifying a plurality of areas within a cell to which the electronic device belongs, and a processor, and the processor may be configured to determine, based on at least one of a first broadcasting signal received from a base station in the cell and the plurality of reference values stored in the memory, at least one RF module among the plurality of RF modules to monitor a second broadcasting signal transmitted from the base station and a period of the monitoring, and perform the monitoring by using the determined at least one RF module according to the determined period.

Electronic device and method for determining RF module for beamforming thereof

Disclosed is a pre-5G or 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond 4G communication system such as LTE. An electronic device including a plurality of antenna modules in a wireless communication system is provided. The electronic device includes a transceiver and a processor configured to identify a first RSRP value and a second RSRP value by using a first antenna module of the plurality of antenna modules; determine to monitor a second antenna module of the plurality of antenna modules based on the first RSRP value or the second RSRP value; and, in response to determining to monitor the second antenna module, monitor the second antenna module. The first RSRP value is measured from a first reference signal of a serving cell, and the second RSRP value is measured from a second reference signal of a neighboring cell.

Apparatus and method for monitoring an antenna module in a wireless communication system

The present invention is for beam selection for communication, and an electronic device may include a housing, at least one antenna array including antenna elements disposed in the housing, or formed in part of the housing, at least one processor electrically or operatively connected with the antenna array, and configured to form a plurality of reception beams (rx beams) having different directions, using the antenna array, and a memory operatively connected with the processor. The memory may stores instructions for causing the processor to measure, by using the plurality of the rx beams, signal strength values of a plurality of tx beams transmitted from at least one base station and having different directions, generate measurement results of (the number of the rx beams)×(the number of the tx beams), and select one of a plurality of methods for selecting one beam pair from among the (the number of the rx beams)×(the number of the tx beams)-ary beam pairs, based at least in part on the measurement results.

Method for selecting beam for communication, and electronic device therefor

An electronic device includes a housing, at least one antenna array disposed in the housing or formed on a part of the housing and including a plurality of antenna elements, a processor electrically or operatively connected to the antenna array, and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor. In addition to the above, various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.

Electronic device for performing beamforming-based communication, and method therefor

An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may include a communication circuit, and a processor operatively connected with the communication circuit, and the processor may be configured to detect that a reception beam for a first base station is changed, and change a reception beam for a second base station based on first change information of the reception beam for the first base station. Other embodiments are also possible.

Method for controlling beam and electronic device therefor

An electronic device may receive discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle information from a first cell, may receive synchronization signal block measurement timing information including synchronization signal block measurement window information and synchronization signal block measurement period information, and may receive at least part of a first synchronization signal block from the first cell and at least part of a second synchronization signal block from a second cell neighboring the first cell, at a period indicated by the DRX cycle information based on the synchronization signal block measurement timing information. When reception timing of the first synchronization signal block and reception timing of the second synchronization signal block is less than a specified time duration, the device may receive the at least part of the first synchronization signal block in a first measurement window, and may receive the at least part of the second synchronization signal block within a second measurement window.

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Junyoung Woo