Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to hybrid beamforming. A plurality of time delay elements is used to perform analog beamforming. Each time delay element is configured to apply the same time delay at different frequencies. The plurality of time delay elements is coupled to at least one RF chain to receive signals. Each antenna in an antenna array is configured to be selectively connected to one of the plurality of time delay elements based on a target configuration of a connection between the plurality of time delay elements and the antenna array. In operation, the target configuration is determined based on time delay information concerning the plurality of time delay elements and channel information concerning a physical channel over which the signals are to be transmitted.

A configurable new radio (NR) uplink (UL) transmission may use transmit diversity. A user equipment (UE) may identify an uplink transmission of at least one stream as using one of cyclic prefix orthogonal frequency division multiplexing or discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. The UE may apply a precoding matrix to the at least one identified stream. The precoding matrix changes over time. The precoding matrix may change based on closed loop feedback, a precoding cycling pattern, and/or a code division multiplexing group. The UE may transmit the at least one identified stream from multiple antennas according to the applied precoding matrix.

A transmission apparatus includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation signal generators, which generate a first OFDM modulation signal and a second OFDM modulation signal. The transmission apparatus also includes a transmitter that transmits the first OFDM modulation signal from a first antenna and the second OFDM modulation signal from a second antenna, in an identical frequency band. A reception apparatus is provided, which includes a plurality of antennas that receive a plurality of OFDM modulation signals; a plurality of OFDM demodulators that transform the plurality of OFDM modulation signals to a plurality of reception signals using Fourier transform; an estimator that outputs a distortion estimation signal using one or more symbols for demodulation included in the plurality of reception signals; and a demodulator that compensates for distortion of the reception signals using the distortion estimation signal and demodulates a data symbol included in the reception signals.

Aspects of the present invention provide additional MAC functionality to support the PHY features of a wireless communication system framework. The additional MAC functionality aids in enabling feedback from wireless terminals to base stations. In some aspects of the invention the feedback is provided on an allocated feedback channel. In other aspects of the invention the feedback is provided by MAC protocol data units (PDU) in a header, mini-header, or subheader. The feedback may be transmitted from the wireless terminal to the base station autonomously by the wireless terminal or in response to an indication from the base station that feedback is requested. Aspects of the invention also provide for allocating feedback resources to form a dedicated feedback channel. One or more of these enhancements is included in a given implementation. Base stations and wireless terminals are also described upon which methods described herein can be implemented.

Disclosed is a method for supporting uplink multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) in a wireless communication system. A method for transmitting data according to the present invention comprises the steps of: mapping, to first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols within a subframe, first demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) corresponding to a first antenna port and a second DMRSs corresponding to a second antenna port; mapping, to second OFDM symbols except the first OFDM symbols within the subframe, first data corresponding to the first antenna port and second data corresponding to the second antenna port; and transmitting the subframe by using resources allocated to the uplink, wherein predetermined precodings are applied to the first data and the second data, and the predetermined precodings may be changed according to the index of the second OFDM symbols.

Design of precoding and feedback for user equipment (UE)-specific reference signals (UE-RS)-based open-loop and semi-open-loop multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) systems is discussed. Aspects of the present disclosure provide for sub-resource block (RB) random precoding that allows for greater diversity gain in a lower bandwidth. In addition, the recoding may be performed using resource element (RE)-level layer shifting that provides for a number of precoders to be assigned to a number of layers for every such continuous subcarrier. As such, two codewords may experience the same effective channel quality with channel quality indicators (CQI) being averaged across all of the layers.

Systems and methods for a communication system including a set of transmitters, wherein operations of the set of transmitters are synchronized with an accuracy bound by a synchronization error. A controller forms a message with ordered symbols including data symbols and at least one identification symbol, and controls transmitters from the set of transmitters to transmit the message using a cyclic delay diversity (CDD). Wherein each transmitting transmitter prior to transmitting, circularly rotates the ordered symbols of the message with a unique shift, then copies some symbols located at an end of the message. Wherein a number of the copied symbols is based on a predetermined cyclic prefix length, into a first position in the rotated message, to form a transmitter identifiable message, and transmits via each transmitting transmitter the transmitter identifiable message.

According to at least some example embodiments, a user equipment (UE), of a wireless communications system, for facilitating a dynamic association between reference signals (RSs) configured for beam management measurements and reporting, for downlink (DL) and/or uplink (UL) beam selection, and semi-statically configured capability indices of a capability set of at least one functionality, includes a plurality of antenna panels; memory storing computer-executable instructions which include generating at least a first capability set of a first functionality, the first capability set including a plurality of capability information items indexed, respectively, by a plurality of corresponding capability indices, each capability information item indicating, for a panel corresponding to the capability information item from among the plurality of antenna panels, capability information of the corresponding panel with respect to the first functionality, and transmitting the first capability set to a next generation node B (gNB) included in the wireless communications system.

Systems and associated methods for improved beamforming of the phase array antenna are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a communication system for wireless signals has a phase array antenna having a plurality of individual antennas and a plurality of electrically conductive traces. The individual traces electrically connect corresponding individual antennas with a transmitter. The lengths of individual traces Ti, Tk satisfy equation Abs ((TiTk) mod ())</B, where is a wavelength of the wireless signal and /B is a fraction of .

An antenna system includes a plurality of true time delay (TTD) modules, each having a plurality of switching elements configured to selectively define alternative RF signal transmission paths between a signal input and a signal output of the TTD module. A controller is programmed to control the plurality of TTD modules to steer a beam according to a make-before-break switching technique by closing a first pair of switching elements within at least a subset of the plurality of TTD modules to activate a first RF signal transmission path; closing a second pair of switching elements of the subset of the plurality of TTD modules to activate a second RF signal transmission path in parallel with the first RF transmission path; and opening the first pair of switching elements of the subset of TTD modules after closing the second pair of switching elements.