Adaptive joint and non-joint QCL indication via UE report

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11539405-B2
Application number	US-202017088366-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 3, 2020
Priority date	Nov 4, 2019
Publication date	Dec 27, 2022
Grant date	Dec 27, 2022

Abstract

In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), data from one or more beam pairs of a plurality of beams at least partially concurrently; determining, by the UE, one or more signal parameters for the one or more beam pairs; determining, by the UE, one or more joint quasi co-located (QCL) indicators for the one or more beam pairs and one or more non-joint QCL indicators for the one or more beam pairs; and transmitting, by the UE, a measurement report including the one or more joint QCL indicators and the one or more non-joint QCL indicators. In another aspect, a method of wireless communication includes determining a particular beam or beams for transmitting second data based on the measurement report; and transmitting the second data using the particular beam or beams. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication comprising:
receiving, by a user equipment (UE), data from one or more beam pairs of a plurality of beams at least partially concurrently;
determining, by the UE, one or more signal parameters for the one or more beam pairs;
determining, by the UE, one or more joint quasi co-located (QCL) indicators for the one or more beam pairs and one or more non-joint QCL indicators for the one or more beam pairs; and
transmitting, by the UE, a measurement report, the measurement report including the one or more joint QCL indicators and the one or more non-joint QCL indicators.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the measurement report comprises a channel state information (CSI) report.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the measurement report is configured to indicate cross-beam interference for simultaneous transmission or reception.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the UE, a control message indicating one or more beams to be used to transmit second data, the one or more beams determined based on the measurement report; and
receiving, by the UE, the second data via the one or more beams, the second data received based on the measurement report.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the one or more signal parameters includes measuring, by the UE, the one or more signal parameters for each beam of the one or more beam pairs.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more signal parameters include received signal reference power (RSRP), signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), or both.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein measuring the one or more signal parameters for each beam of the one or more beam pairs generates beam measurement data, and further comprising ranking, by the UE, a set of beams of the plurality of beams based on the beam measurement data.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising generating, by the UE, the measurement report based on the one or more signal parameters for the one or more beam pairs.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE is configured for adaptive joint QCL and non-joint QCL reporting, and further comprising:
transmitting, by the UE, a second measurement report, the second measurement report including one or more second joint QCL indicators, one or more second non-joint QCL indicators, or both, wherein the second measurement report has a different reporting format for joint QCL indicators and non-joint QCL than the measurement report.

10. An apparatus configured for wireless communication, the apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor, the processor is configured:
to receive, by a user equipment (UE), data from one or more beam pairs of a plurality of beams at least partially concurrently;
to determine, by the UE, one or more signal parameters for the one or more beam pairs;
to determine, by the UE, one or more joint quasi co-located (QCL) indicators for the one or more beam pairs and one or more non-joint QCL indicators for the one or more beam pairs; and
to transmit, by the UE, a measurement report, the measurement report including the one or more joint QCL indicators and the one or more non-joint QCL indicators.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the measurement report includes information on at least one beam set, and wherein a particular beam set of the at least one beam set corresponds to a plurality of beams of a sector.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the measurement report is generated based on maximum minimum signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) operations.

13. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein a joint QCL indication is configured to indicate that the beam pair has a joint beam metric that satisfies a threshold.

14. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein a non-joint QCL indication is configured to indicate that the beam pair has a combined score that satisfies a threshold, the combined score based on one or more individual beam metrics.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the measurement report further comprises a preference indicator configured to indicate a preference for joint QCL or non-joint QCL beam candidates.

16. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the measurement report further comprises multiple type preference indicators configured to indicate at least one preference for joint QCL beam candidates and at least one preference for non-joint QCL beam candidates.

17. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the measurement report comprises a bitmap, the bitmap configured to indicate a ranking of one or more beam combinations.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the bitmap indicates a preference for joint QCL or non-joint QCL for each rank combination of the one or more beam combinations, and wherein a rank of the rank combination indicates a number of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) layers.

19. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the processor is further configured to sort the beams or beam combinations based on the one or more signal parameters to generate an array including a ranked list of beams or beam combinations, wherein the one or more signal parameters include received signal reference power (RSRP), signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), or a combination thereof, and wherein the measurement report comprises the array.

20. A method of wireless communication comprising:
transmitting, by a network entity, data via one or more beam pairs of a plurality of beams at least partially concurrently;
receiving, by the network entity, a measurement report, the measurement report including one or more joint quasi co-located (QCL) indicators and one or more non-joint QCL indicators for the one or more beam pairs;
determining, by the network entity, a particular beam or beams for transmitting second data based on the measurement report; and
transmitting, by the network entity, the second data using the particular beam or beams.

21. The method of claim 20 , wherein the measurement report further comprises a bit configured to indicate whether the measurement report is for joint QCL or non-joint QCL, and wherein the beams of the measurement report correspond to transmission beams and corresponding reception beams.

22. The method of claim 20 , wherein the measurement report comprises a table including preference indicators for beam combinations, and wherein the measurement report further comprises a table indicator bit configured to indicate joint QCL or non-joint QCL indications for the table, and wherein the table further indicates a ranking for the indicated joint QCL or non-joint QCL indications.

23. The method of claim 20 , wherein the measurement report comprises a table including preference indicators for beam combinations, and wherein the measurement report further comprises a table indicator bit configured to indicate joint QCL or non-joint QCL indications for the table, wherein the table includes a single bit for each beam pair combination, and wherein a first value of the single bit indicates a preference for an indicated QCL type and a second value indicates no preference for a non-indicated QCL type.

24. The method of claim 20 , wherein the measurement report comprises a table including ranking indicators for beam combinations, and wherein at least one entry of the table includes a sign bit configured to indicate a sign for a corresponding table value, and wherein the sign is configured to indica

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Pezeshki Hamed
• Chendamarai Kannan Arumugam
• Luo Tao
• Zhou Yan
• Nam Wooseok
• Venugopal Kiran

Classifications

• H04W24/10

  Scheduling measurement reports {; Arrangements for measurement reports} · CPC title

• H04B17/382

  for resource allocation, admission control or handover · CPC title

• H04B17/336

  Signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR] · CPC title

• H04W48/16

  Discovering, processing access restriction or access information · CPC title

• H04B7/0626

  Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI] · CPC title