CPC H04B 7/0695 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0417 (2013.01); H04B 7/0626 (2013.01); H04B 7/063 (2013.01); H04B 7/0639 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A method comprising:
identifying, by a base station, dominant signal paths between the base station and a device, based on channel estimates performed using uplink communications between the base station and the device;
transmitting, by the base station to the device over corresponding beams identified independently by the base station for each dominant signal path of the dominant signal paths, a set of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs), wherein each CSI-RS of the set of CSI-RSs is transmitted according to a respective specific resource configuration that corresponds to a respective CSI-RS port of a set of CSI-RS ports, wherein each respective CSI-RS port corresponds to a respective beam associated with a corresponding dominant signal path of the dominant signal paths; and
receiving, by the base station from the device, information indicative of a subset of the set of CSI-RS ports selected by the device from among the set of CSI-RS ports and to be used for each layer of a multilayer transmission.
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