| CPC H04B 7/0634 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0481 (2023.05); H04B 7/0639 (2013.01); H04L 1/1614 (2013.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] | 30 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
determining, at a terminal device, a matrix W2 comprising linear combination coefficients for a pre-coder matrix indicator (PMI) matrix, wherein:
the PMI matrix is represented by W=W1W2WfH,
matrix W1 is a matrix of size 2N1N2×2L and represents components of a spatial domain orthogonal basis of size 2L,
matrix Wf is a matrix of size N3×M and represents components of a frequency domain orthogonal basis of size M,
matrix W2 is a matrix of size 2L×M and has rows corresponding to spatial components and columns corresponding to frequency components,
N1×N2 is the number of antenna ports,
N3 is the number of configured PMI sub-bands, and
M is less than N3;
determining a shifted matrix by shifting the frequency components of matrix W2 circularly, such that a maximum coefficient of matrix W2 is located in a frequency component with a predetermined index;
generating a strongest coefficient indicator with [log2 2L] bits, based on the index of the spatial component associated with the maximum coefficient of matrix W2; and
transmitting, to a network device, uplink control information comprising the strongest coefficient indicator and values of non-zero coefficients of the shifted matrix, wherein the non-zero coefficients exclude the maximum coefficient.
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