Patent ID: 11863283
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 4:
5. A base station device configured to sequentially transmit a first set of reference signals and a second set of reference signals to a user equipment via beam sweeping from a first antenna panel and a second antenna panel, different from the first antenna panel, respectively, the base station comprising:
a transceiver; and
control circuitry configured to:
receive a notification from the user equipment indicating that the user equipment is capable of processing the first set of references signals and ignoring the second set of reference signals based on similarity information about beams transmitted via the first and second antenna panels;
based on the notification, transmit the similarity information to the user equipment;
transmit the first set of references signals to the user equipment;
receive a first report from the user equipment, the first report indicating a first resource ID and a first reception power level of at least one reference signal in the first set of reference signals;
transmit the second set of references signals to the user equipment; and
based on the similarity information indicating the beams transmitted via the first and second antenna panels are facing in a similar direction:
not receive a second report from the user equipment, the second report informing the base station of a second resource ID and a second reception power level of at least one reference signal in the second set of reference signals; and
transmit a data signal to the user equipment via one of the first and second antenna panels selected by the base station based on at least on the first report.