| CPC H04L 5/0098 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 52/0274 (2013.01)] | 24 Claims |

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1. A base station for wireless communications, comprising:
circuitry, configured to:
acquire, from a user equipment served by the base station, a capability report indicating an uplink beam management capability of the user equipment, the uplink beam management capability being related to a plurality of antenna panels of the user equipment;
generate, based on the capability report, sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set configuration information, the SRS set configuration information identifying a plurality of SRS resource sets available for use by the base station and the user equipment;
transmit the SRS set configuration information to the user equipment;
transmit one or more downlink reference signals to the user equipment; and
in response to the one or more downlink reference signals, acquire a downlink reference signal measurement report from the user equipment, the downlink reference signal measurement report including one or more downlink reference signal resource IDs and one or more indexes indicating one or more SRS resource sets of the plurality of SRS resource sets respectively corresponding to the one or more reference signal resource IDs, the downlink reference signal measurement report identifying to the base station one or more antenna panels of the plurality of antenna panels selected for uplink by the user equipment based on the one or more downlink reference signals.
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