BEAM SELECTION FOR TERMINAL DEVICES IN MU-MIMO OPERATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220149921A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-12

    申请号:US17434449

    申请日:2019-02-28

    摘要: There is provided mechanisms for beam selection. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises performing a beam management procedure for at least two terminal devices. During the beam management procedure reference signals are transmitted in a beam sweep as performed in a set of beams. During the beam management procedure, each of the at least two terminal devices reports at least two beams in the set of beams for which the reference signals have been received with highest power. The method comprises selecting which beams to serve the at least two terminal devices based jointly on the reports and a mutual interference criterion for the at least two terminal devices.

    ANTENNA ARRANGEMENTS FOR A RADIO TRANSCEIVER DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20210119347A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-22

    申请号:US17006288

    申请日:2020-08-28

    摘要: There is provided an antenna arrangement for a radio transceiver device. The antenna arrangement comprises at least two antenna arrays, wherein at least one of the at least two antenna arrays has antenna elements of two polarizations. The antenna elements of one polarization at each of the at least two antenna arrays define a respective set of antenna elements. The antenna arrangement comprises at least two baseband chains. The antenna arrangement comprises a switching network configured to selectively operatively connect each of the at least two baseband chains with its own set of antenna elements such that no two baseband chains are operatively connected to one and the same set of antenna elements. Each of the at least one antenna array that has antenna elements of two polarizations is operatively connected to the switching network via a respective hybrid connector configured to provide a signal from one of the baseband chains to antenna elements of both polarizations.

    BEAM TRAINING OF A RADIO TRANSCEIVER DEVICE
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200228191A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-16

    申请号:US16833960

    申请日:2020-03-30

    IPC分类号: H04B7/08 H04L5/00 H04W72/04

    摘要: A method is performed for beam training of a radio transceiver device comprising at least two antenna arrays. During the beam training, a first set of occurrences of a reference signal is received using all the antenna arrays and such that one respective occurrence of the reference signal is received in one single wide beam at each of all the antenna arrays. During the beam training, a second set of occurrences of the reference signal using less than all antenna arrays and such that one respective occurrence of the reference signal is received in each respective narrow at each of the less than all antenna arrays. Which of the less than all antenna arrays to receive the second set of occurrences of the reference signal is determined based on evaluation of reception of the first set of occurrences of the reference signal at each of all the antenna arrays.

    FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE BEAM MANAGEMENT
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190021096A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-17

    申请号:US15650039

    申请日:2017-07-14

    摘要: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes selecting a first beam for a first frequency band and selecting a second beam for a second frequency band. The method further includes receiving scheduling information (SI) for scheduling at least one of an uplink (UL) transmission from the UE and a downlink (DL) transmission to the UE. The SI includes frequency information identifying a frequency band. The method further includes selecting a beam from a set of beams including the first and second beams. The selection is based on the identified frequency band.

    AN ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR BEAMFORMING

    公开(公告)号:US20190020123A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-17

    申请号:US15557958

    申请日:2017-07-17

    IPC分类号: H01Q21/22 H01Q21/00 H01Q3/34

    摘要: An antenna arrangement (1) comprising a dual polarized antenna array (10) and a reconfigurable feed network (17) connected thereto is provided. The dual polarized antenna array (10) comprises a number of radiating antenna elements and the reconfigurable feed network (17) comprises switching means (20) for switching the feed network (17) between: a first mode providing single polarization beamforming, SPBF, in which first mode the feed network (17) is arranged such as to connect all antenna elements having a first polarization P1 to a first port, A, and all antenna elements having a second polarization P2 to a second port, B, and a second mode providing dual-polarization beamforming, DPBF, in which second mode the feed network (17) connects a part of all antenna elements having a first polarization P1 and a part of all antenna elements having a second polarization to the first port, A, and a remaining part of all antenna elements having the first polarization P1 and the remaining part of all antenna elements having the second polarization P2 to the second port, B. A method (30), computer program (42) and computer program product (41) are also provided.

    ANGLE OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION IN A RADIO COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20180348328A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-06

    申请号:US15540628

    申请日:2017-06-02

    CPC分类号: H04B7/0617 H01Q1/246

    摘要: There is provided mechanisms for estimating angle of arrival of a radio signal in a radio communications network. A method is performed by a receiving radio transceiver device. The method comprises obtaining measurements of the radio signal as received in two receive beams covering a given angular sector. The two receive beams are created by analog beamforming in an antenna array. The receive beams have different complex beam patterns and at any angle within the given angular sector at most one of the complex beam patterns has gain below a threshold. The method comprises estimating the angle of arrival of the radio signal by comparing a complex amplitude of the measurements in the two receive beams to a discriminator function.

    Signal Distribution Network
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180241421A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-23

    申请号:US15753058

    申请日:2015-08-21

    IPC分类号: H04B1/00

    摘要: There is provided a signal distribution network for an antenna arrangement comprising signal interfaces and antenna elements. The signal distribution network comprises a first signal processing module operatively connected between antenna elements and K of the signal interfaces. The signal distribution network comprises a second signal processing module operatively connected between antenna elements and M signal interfaces other than those operatively connected to the first signal processing module. Components of the second signal processing module have lower sampling rate than components of the first signal processing module. The signal distribution network is configured for simultaneous signalling between the antenna elements and the first signal processing module and between the antenna elements and the second signal processing module. There are also provided methods for processing signals in such a signal distribution network and computer programs for processing signals in such a signal distribution network.