Beam management and beam failure recovery in a radio system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11490275-B2
Application number	US-202016732565-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 2, 2020
Priority date	Jan 3, 2019
Publication date	Nov 1, 2022
Grant date	Nov 1, 2022

Abstract

A wireless device receives one or more radio resource control messages from a base station. The one or more radio resource control messages comprising configuration parameters of a cell for beam failure recovery. The configuration parameters indicate: a serving beam set, a plurality of candidate beam sets, and a monitoring priority of the plurality of candidate beam sets. A beam failure instance of the serving beam set is detected. In response to the detection, a first candidate beam set of the plurality of candidate beam sets is determined based on the monitoring priority. A candidate beam is selected from the first candidate beam set. A preamble associated with the candidate beam for the beam failure recovery is transmitted.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method performed by a wireless device, comprising:
receiving, from a base station, one or more radio resource control messages comprising configuration parameters of a cell for beam failure recovery, wherein the configuration parameters indicate:
a serving beam set;
a plurality of candidate beam sets, wherein each candidate beam set, of the plurality of candidate beam sets, comprises a plurality of reference signals (RSs);
a priority order to select a candidate beam set from the plurality of candidate beam sets; and
an association between a preamble and one or more RSs of the plurality of RSs;

detecting a beam failure of the serving beam set;
selecting, in response to the detecting, a first candidate beam set from the plurality of candidate beam sets based on the priority order;
monitoring the first candidate beam set; and
in response to determining, based on the monitoring, that a first candidate RS, of a plurality of candidate RSs associated with the first candidate beam set, has a channel quality better than a threshold:
selecting the first candidate RS; and
transmitting the preamble associated with the first candidate RS of the one or more RSs for the beam failure recovery.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
selecting, in response to the detecting and based on the priority order, a second candidate beam set from the plurality of candidate beam sets before selection of the first candidate beam set; and
determining, based on monitoring the second candidate beam set, not to select a second RS from a plurality of second RSs associated with the second candidate beam set,
wherein the selecting of the first candidate beam set is in response to the determining not to select the second RS.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the priority order indicates that the second candidate beam set has a higher priority than the first candidate beam set.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of first candidate RSs comprise:
one or more synchronization signal physical broadcast channel blocks; or
one or more channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs).

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the detecting the beam failure comprises detecting that the channel quality of reference signals in the serving beam set is less than the threshold.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein each candidate beam set of the plurality of candidate beam sets comprises multiple candidate beams.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the preamble is identified by a preamble resource associated with the first candidate RS, and wherein the preamble resource comprises at least one of:
a preamble index,
a transmission resource in frequency domain for the preamble, and
a transmission resource in time domain for the preamble.

8. A wireless device comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless device to:
receive, from a base station, one or more radio resource control messages comprising configuration parameters of a cell for beam failure recovery, wherein the configuration parameters indicate:
a serving beam set;
a plurality of candidate beam sets, wherein each candidate beam set, of the plurality of candidate beam sets, comprises a plurality of reference signals (RSs);
a priority order to select a candidate beam set from the plurality of candidate beam sets; and
an association between a preamble and one or more RSs of the plurality of RSs;

detect a beam failure of the serving beam set;
select, in response to detection of the beam failure of the serving beam set, a first candidate beam set from the plurality of candidate beam sets based on the priority order;
monitor the first candidate beam set; and
in response to determining, based on monitoring the first candidate beam set, that a first candidate RS, of a plurality of candidate RSs associated with the first candidate beam set, has a channel quality better than a threshold:
select the first candidate RS; and
transmit the preamble associated with the first candidate RS of the one or more RSs for the beam failure recovery.

9. A system comprising:
a base station comprising:
one or more first processors; and
first memory storing first instructions that, when executed by the one or more first processors, cause the base station to transmit one or more radio resource control messages comprising configuration parameters of a cell for beam failure recovery, wherein the configuration parameters indicate:
a serving beam set;
a plurality of candidate beam sets, wherein each candidate beam set, of the plurality of candidate beam sets, comprises a plurality of reference signals (RSs);
a priority order to select a candidate beam set from the plurality of candidate beam sets; and
an association between a preamble and one or more RSs of the plurality of RSs; and

a wireless device comprising:
one or more second processors; and
second memory storing second instructions that, when executed by the one or more second processors, cause the wireless device to:
receive the one or more radio resource control messages;
detect a beam failure of the serving beam set;
select, in response to detection of the beam failure of the serving beam set, a first candidate beam set from the plurality of candidate beam sets based on the priority order;
monitor the first candidate beam set; and
in response to determining, based on monitoring the first candidate beam set, that a first candidate RS, of a plurality of candidate RSs associated with the first candidate beam set, has a channel quality better than a threshold:
select the first candidate RS; and
transmit the preamble associated with the first candidate RS of the one or more RSs for the beam failure recovery.

10. The wireless device of claim 8 , wherein the instructions further cause the wireless device to:
select, in response to the detection of the beam failure and based on the priority order, a second candidate beam set from the plurality of candidate beam sets before selection of the first candidate beam set; and
determine, based on monitoring the second candidate beam set, not to select a second RS from a plurality of second RSs associated with the second candidate beam set,
wherein the selection of the first candidate beam set is in response to determining not to select the second RS.

11. The wireless device of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of first candidate RSs comprise:
one or more synchronization signal physical broadcast channel blocks; or
one or more channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs).

12. The wireless device of claim 8 , wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the wireless device to detect that the channel quality of reference signals in the serving beam set is less than the threshold.

13. The wireless device of claim 8 , wherein each candidate beam set of the plurality of candidate beam sets comprises multiple candidate beams.

14. The wireless device of claim 8 , wherein the preamble is identified by a preamble resource associated with the first candidate RS, and wherein the preamble resource comprises at least one of:
a preamble index,
a transmission resource in frequency domain for the preamble, and
a transmission resource in time domain for the preamble.

Assignees

• Xu Kai
• Dinan Esmael
• Zhou Hua
• Babaei Alireza
• Jeon Hyoungsuk
• Cirik Ali Cagatay
• Park Kyungmin
• Ofinno Llc

Inventors

• Xu Kai
• Dinan Esmael
• Zhou Hua
• Babaei Alireza
• Jeon Hyoungsuk
• Cirik Ali Cagatay
• Park Kyungmin

Classifications

• H04B7/0619

  using feedback from receiving side (feedback signaling for adaptive modulation/coding H04L1/0001) · CPC title

• H04L5/0094 Primary

  Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated · CPC title

• H04L5/0048

  Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091) · CPC title

• H04L5/0025

  Spatial division following the spatial signature of the channel · CPC title

• H04W48/12

  using downlink control channel · CPC title