Electronic device, communication method, storage medium and computer program product

An electronic device for a base station, BS, side, comprising:

• a processing circuit configured to:
• transmit, to a user equipment, UE, comprising a plurality of antenna panels, one or more downlink reference signals, DL RSs;
• and
• receive a beam report from the UE, wherein the beam report comprises:
• a panel state of at least one of the plurality of antenna panels:
• an index of at least one DL RS of the one or more DL RSs received via the at least one antenna panel;
• and
• a channel quality measurement result for the at least one DL RS.

An electronic device for a user equipment, UE, side, the UE including a plurality of antenna panels, the electronic device comprising:

• a processing circuit configured to:
• receive, from a base station, sounding reference signal, SRS, configuration that configures a plurality of SRS resource sets for the UE:
• provide, to the base station, SRS-antenna panel association information comprising:
• a panel state of each of the plurality of antenna panels;
• and
• an index of a respective SRS resource set to be transmitted via the antenna panel or an index of any SRS in the respective SRS resource set to be transmitted via the antenna panel;
• and
• transmit, to the base station and via at least one of the plurality of antenna panels, an SRS in a respective SRS resource set based on the SRS-antenna panel association information.