Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Xueying Hou

Peter Vaderna

Zhao Wang

Anders Landström

Yusheng Liu

Ricardo Da Silva Souza

Krister Edström

Bo Xu

Agnieszka Ziembla

Wei Zhou

Rikke Apelfröjd

Embodiments herein relate to method performed by a radio network node for handling communication in a wireless communication network. The radio network node dynamically applies different muting patterns for muting an active component of one or more antenna branches of the radio network node and/or of one or more antenna panels of the radio network node, wherein the different muting patterns are associated with one or more types of physical channels used for communicating and/or a communication parameter related to one or more UEs. The radio network node performs a communication using the dynamically applied different muting patterns.

Radio network node, and method performed therein

A method is disclosed for spatial resource selection from a plurality of spatial resources. The method comprises—for each spatial resource of the plurality of spatial resources—receiving a plurality of reference signal blocks using the spatial resource (wherein at least some of the reference signal blocks are received in different frequency intervals and during different time intervals), determining (for each received reference signal block) whether or not a signal quality metric of the received reference signal block meets a quality criterion, and determining whether the spatial resource is to be considered for spatial resource selection based on the quality criterion determinations of the received reference signal blocks. The spatial resources may be beams of a beam-forming application, or antennas of a multi-antenna arrangement, or multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) streams. The reference signal blocks may comprise one or more of uplink reference signals, sounding reference signals, demodulation reference signals, and phase tracking reference signals. Corresponding apparatus, network node and computer program product are also disclosed.

Methods and apparatuses for spatial resource selection

A method performed by a network node for creating a precoder for forming a Downlink, DL, beam between the network node and a User Equipment, UE, which DL beam is for reciprocity-based Multiple Input Multiple Output, MIMO, communication in a wireless communications network is provided. The network node obtains matched filter channel estimates for an Uplink, UL, signal, based on a reference signal from the UE known by the network node. The network node obtains a hypothesis testing space within a first precoder codebook, of one polarization, based on the matched filter channel estimates. The network node selects a set of precoder candidates out of the first precoder codebook in accordance with the hypotheses testing space. The network node creates the precoder for forming the DL beam between the network node and the UE, based on calculating a linear combination of the precoder candidates in the set of precoder candidates.

Network node and method for creating a precoder in a wireless communications network

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