Patent attributes
A communication method, a base station, and user equipment are provided. The method includes: forming m beams by using a manner of antenna weighting, where m is a positive integer greater than 1; determining an uplink receive power of each beam according to an uplink sounding signal of UE; selecting n beams from the m beams according to the uplink receive power of each beam, where n is a positive integer, and n<m; and sending pilot signals to the UE by using the n beams. In the method, n beams are selected from the m beams according to the uplink receive power of each beam, to send pilot signals to the UE, instead of sending the pilot signals by using all the beams, thereby improving the flexibility of configuring the pilot signals for the UE, and reducing the complexity of measuring the pilot signals by the UE.
