QUALCOMM Incorporated
REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSIONS FOR MULTI-BEAM OPERATION

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for using a same antenna port to transmit or receive reference signals on different beams. A network may determine different directional beams to use to transmit different data streams, and the network may transmit each data stream using a different directional beam. The network may also transmit reference signals with the different data streams using a same antenna port, and a user equipment (UE) may receive the reference signals with the different data streams using a same antenna port. Because a same antenna port may be used for transmitting or receiving reference signals with different data streams, the reference signals may occupy the same time and frequency resources, and the overhead of reference signal transmissions may be minimized.