Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Sven Oscar Petersson

Fredrik Athley

Andreas Nilsson

Martin Johansson

Mikael Coldrey

Henrik Sahlin

Bo Hagerman

Andres Reial

Martin Hessler

Erik A Eriksson

Niklas Jaldén

Robert Baldemair

Claes Tidestav

Jonas Fröberg Olsson

Zhan Zhang

Henrik Asplund

Jonas Medbo

Stefan Parkvall

Bengt Lindoff

Gunnar Mildh

Icaro L J Da Silva

Johan Rune

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Jinhua Liu

Yi-Pin Eric Wang

Erik Bengt Dahlman

Jari Tapio Vikberg

Pål Frenger

Stefan Wager

Dennis Hui

Magnus Stattin

Joakim Axmon

Karl Norrman

Qianxi Lu

Qingyu Miao

Johan Torsner

Pradeepa Ramachandra

Gabor Fodor

Kumar Balachandran

Janne Peisa

Joachim Sachs

Ali S Khayrallah

Gen Li

Thorsten Lohmar

Zhang Zhang

Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz

Lars Lindbom

Torgny Palenius

Niclas Wiberg

Johan Furuskog

Niklas Johansson

Jianfeng Wang

Hai Feng Wang

Lars Sundström

Peter Alriksson

Jose Luis Pradas

Andreas Bergström

Pontus Wallentin

Patrik Rugeland

Karl Werner

Mårten Ericson

Johan Axnäs

Patrik Torgny Karlsson

Jonas Kronander

Shehzad Ali Ashraf

Reza Moosavi

Fredrik Lindqvist

Dennis Sundman

Ning He

Håkan Axelsson

Mikael Prytz

Nadia Brahmi

Yngve Selén

Andreas Cedergren

Ali El Essaili

Elena Myhre

Emma Wittenmark

Rui Fan

Walter Müller

Anders Furuskär

Håkan Björkegren

Sebastian Faxér

Stefan Johansson

Edgar Ramos

Robert Mark Harrison

Bo Göransson

Johan Nilsson

Bo Lincoln

Cong Shi

Arne Simonsson

Anders Wallén

Kambiz Casey Zangi

Mattias Frenne

David Astely

Xinghua Song

Jiann-Ching Guey

Niklas Wernersson

Peter Ökvist

Magnus Åström

A method performed in a network node of a communication system for muting antenna elements of an active antenna system. The method comprises determining, based on a priori information relating to performance of the communication system, an antenna element separation between one or more pairs of active antenna elements of at least a subset of all active antenna elements of the active antenna system; and muting at least one antenna element such that the determined antenna element separation is obtained between each of the one or more pairs of active antenna elements of at least the subset of all active antenna elements.

Method and a network node for muting antenna elements of an active antenna system

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes receiving a downlink signal comprising an uplink access configuration index, using the uplink access configuration index to identify an uplink access configuration from among a predetermined plurality of uplink access configurations, and transmitting to the wireless communications network according to the identified uplink access configuration. The example method further includes, in the same wireless device, receiving, in a first subframe, a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission formatted according to a first numerology and receiving, in a second subframe, a second OFDM transmission formatted according to a second numerology, the second numerology differing from the first numerology. Variants of this method, corresponding apparatuses, and corresponding network-side methods and apparatuses are also disclosed.

Network architecture, methods, and devices for a wireless communications network

There is provided mechanisms for polarized reception of reference signals. A method is performed by a terminal device. The terminal device is equipped with an antenna array having dual-polarized antenna elements. The antenna array is connected to a baseband chain in the terminal device. The method comprises receiving, during a beam management procedure with a TRP, two reference signals transmitted in one OFDM symbol each from the same TRP port within a slot. The two reference signals are received using a filter with a first polarization for a first of the two reference signals and with a second polarization for a second of the two reference signals. The second polarization is orthogonal to the first polarization.

Polarized reception of reference signals at a terminal device

There is provided mechanisms for scheduling communication with terminal devices. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises receiving, in response to having performed a beam management procedure involving transmission of reference signals in a set of beams, a beam report from each of the terminal devices. Each beam report indicates one of the beams as top ranked. The method comprises scheduling communication for the terminal devices in beams of the set of beams. At least a first terminal device of the terminal devices and a second terminal device of the terminal devices are both scheduled in a first beam of the beams not indicated as top ranked in the beam report of the second terminal device.

Efficient scheduling of terminal devices

Methods for transmitting a first signal x1 and a second signal x2 using a first array of antenna elements of a polarization A and a second array of antenna elements of a substantially orthogonal polarization B. The methods include transmitting x1 in a first beam generated with array size invariant beamforming, using a sub-array A1 of antenna elements from the first array and applying a first precoding matrix, and using a sub-array B1 of antenna elements from the second array and applying a second precoding matrix. The methods also include transmitting x2 in a second beam generated with array size invariant beamforming, using a sub-array A2 of antenna elements from the first array and applying a third precoding matrix, and using a sub-array B2 of antenna elements from the second array and applying a fourth precoding matrix. The sub-arrays within a polarization are typically non-overlapping.

Method and apparatus for array size invariant beamforming

There is provided mechanisms for beam related statistics aided resumed beamformed communication with a terminal device. A method is performed by a radio access network node. The method comprises providing network access to the terminal device by, in a first set of beams, performing beamformed communication with the terminal device until the terminal device leaves radio resource control (RRC) connected mode. The method comprises storing beam related statistics of the beamformed communication. The method comprises providing resumed network access to the terminal device by, in a second set of beams, performing resumed beamformed communication with the terminal device upon the terminal entering RRC connected mode. How to perform the resumed beamformed communication is based on the beam related statistics.

Resumed beamformed communication with a terminal device

Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications network, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes determining a reporting quality threshold for a parameter related to channel state information (CSI); performing a measurement for each of a plurality of beams from a first predetermined set of beams for evaluation; evaluating the measurement for each of the plurality of beams against the reporting quality threshold; discontinuing the performing and evaluating of measurements in response to determining that the reporting quality threshold is met for one of the beams, such that one or more beams in the first predetermined set of beams are not measured and evaluated; and reporting, to the wireless communications network, CSI for the one of the beams.

There is presented a wireless device for dual-polarization beamforming. The wireless device comprises an antenna array. The antenna array comprises antenna elements of mutually orthogonal polarizations and a baseband chain. The antenna elements of both polarizations are operatively connected to the baseband chain. There is also presented a method for dual-polarization beamforming as performed by such a wireless device.

Dual-polarization beamforming

There is provided mechanisms for interference handling. A method is performed by a radio access network node. The method comprises obtaining an indication of interference in a time/frequency interval. The method comprises querying a neighbouring radio access network node about scheduling in the time/frequency interval of uplink wireless transmission from any terminal device served by the neighbouring radio access network node. The method comprises receiving a response from the neighbouring radio access network node. The response comprises information identifying uplink reference signal resources/ports, and their scheduling, as to be used by the terminal device scheduled in the time/frequency interval.

Interference handling at radio access network nodes

There is provided mechanisms for performing a beam management procedure. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises obtaining configuration information from a terminal device for which the network node provides network access. The configuration information specifies that the terminal device is in need for evaluating different polarization states in different time units during the beam management procedure. The method comprises performing the beam management procedure with the terminal device. The beam management procedure involves the network node to, per slot, transmit reference signals according to a reference signal transmission scheme. The reference signal transmission scheme depends on the obtained configuration information.

Beam management procedures for network nodes and terminal devices

There is provided mechanisms for configuring beamforming settings. A method is performed by a wireless radio transceiver device configured to communicate in directional beams. The method comprises obtaining a performance indication requiring configuration of the beamforming settings of the wireless radio transceiver device. The method comprises selecting a similarity measure objective based on what kind of performance indication was obtained. The method comprises determining, based on the similarity measure objective and results from a similarity measure procedure applied to pairs of received signals, an order in which to evaluate the directional beams when configuring the beamforming settings.

Configuration of beamforming settings for a wireless radio transceiver device

There is provided mechanisms for transmission of reference signals. A method is performed by a terminal device. The terminal device comprises at least two physical antenna ports. The method comprises creating a virtual antenna port for, and applied over, at least two of the physical antenna ports. The method comprises transmitting, in the virtual antenna port, as many uplink reference signals as there are physical antenna ports.

Transmission of reference signals from a terminal device

A wireless communication node comprising an antenna arrangement that is adapted to radiate at least one radiation beam of a first type and at least one radiation beam of a second type. Said at least one radiation beam of the first type has a first type beamwidth (B) and said at least one radiation beam of the second type has a second type beamwidth (B) that exceeds the first type beamwidth (B). Said at least one radiation beam of the first type is arranged for communication with at least a first other node, and where said at least one radiation beam of the second type is arranged for detection of changes in propagation paths for said other node and/or appearances of further other nodes.

Wireless communication node adapted to radiate antenna beams of different types

A method of configuring a dual polarized antenna array for communication between a wireless device () and a wireless access network (), the antenna array comprising antenna elements with respective polarizations, where each antenna element is associated with a respective beamforming weight, the method comprising configuring the antenna array for transmission by a first set of beamforming weights w, wherein the first set of beamforming weights is arranged to provide a transmit antenna port connected to antenna elements of a first polarization and of a second polarization, wherein the transmit antenna port is associated with an antenna power pattern; transmitting a first signal via the transmit antenna port on a downlink, DL, from the antenna array to the wireless device; configuring the antenna array for reception by a second wand a third wset of beamforming weights, wherein the second set of beamforming weights wis arranged to provide a first receive antenna port connected to antenna elements of the first and of the second polarization, wherein the third set of beamforming weights wis arranged to provide a second receive antenna port connected to antenna elements of the first and of the second polarization, where each of the receive antenna ports is associated with the antenna power pattern, and where the receive antenna ports have different polarizations; and receiving a second signal on an uplink, UL, from the wireless device () to the antenna array, via the first receive antenna port and the second receive antenna port.

Antenna beam virtualization for wide beam wireless communication

A method of transmitting an uplink transmission by a wireless device is disclosed. The method comprises a wireless device receiving signaling configuring the wireless device with a plurality of Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resources. The wireless device subsequently receives an indication, in a physical layer downlink control channel, of a selected plurality of SRS resources selected from among the plurality of configured SRS resources and transmits a plurality of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers of a PUSCH transmission. The selected plurality of SRS resources map to respective ones of the plurality of MIMO layers and the indication of the selected plurality of SRS resources includes SRS resource indexes with a fixed order that corresponds to an order in which the SRS resources of the selected plurality of SRS resources are mapped to the MIMO layers.

Efficient SRS resource indication methods

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Sven Oscar Petersson