Method for recovering beam in wireless communication system and device therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11539421-B2
Application number	US-201716492472-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2017
Priority date	Mar 9, 2017
Publication date	Dec 27, 2022
Grant date	Dec 27, 2022

Abstract

Provided is a beam recovery method in a wireless communication system. A beam recovery method performed by a user terminal (UE) may include receiving a beam reference signal (BRS) used for beam management from an enhanced Node B (eNB), when a beam failure event is detected, transmitting a control signal for a beam failure recovery request to the eNB; and, when beam reporting is triggered, reporting a beam measurement result to the eNB in a specific resource.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for beam failure recovery in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
receiving, from a base station, information for a beam reference signal (BRS) set including at least one BRS used for beam management;
based on a beam failure event being detected, transmitting a control signal for a beam failure recovery request to the base station; and
based on beam reporting being triggered, reporting a beam measurement result in a specific resource to the base station,
wherein the control signal comprises indication information directly indicating whether there is a replacement beam in the BRS set, and wherein based on the indication information indicating that there is a replacement beam, information indicating the replacement beam is transmitted from the UE to the base station,
wherein the replacement beam is related to a reference signal having a quality greater than a specific quality threshold in the BRS set, and
wherein aperiodic reference signal transmission and aperiodic beam reporting are triggered together.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, from the base station, an indication message indicating triggering of the beam reporting,
wherein the beam reporting is triggered based on the indication message.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the indication message comprises information regarding a valid or invalid resource set among settings pre-associated as measurement settings.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein, in the measurement setting, one reporting setting and one or more resource settings are associated.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the specific resource is an aperiodic resource setting or aperiodic resource setting among resource settings or resource sets configured by radio resource control (RRC).

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the BRS set includes at least one periodic BRS.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the BRS set includes at least one of (i) at least one channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) or (ii) at least one synchronization signal block (SSB).

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication information is included in a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE).

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the quality is a layer 1-reference signal received power (L1-RSRP).

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the beam measurement result includes beam indication information and beam quality information.

11. A user equipment (UE) for performing beam failure recovery in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:
a radio frequency (RF) module configured to transmit and receive radio signals;
a processor functionally connected to the RF module,
wherein the processor is configured to:
receive, from a base station, information for a beam reference signal (BRS) set including at least one BRS used for beam management;
based on a beam failure event being detected, transmit a control signal for a beam failure recovery request to the base station; and
based on beam reporting being triggered, report a beam measurement result in a specific resource to the base station,
wherein the control signal comprises indication information directly indicating whether there is a replacement beam in the BRS set, and wherein based on the indication information indicating that there is a replacement beam, information indicating the replacement beam is transmitted from the UE to the base station,
wherein the replacement beam is related to a reference signal having a quality greater than a specific quality threshold in the BRS set, and
wherein aperiodic reference signal transmission and aperiodic beam reporting are triggered together.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kang Jiwon
• Ahn Minki
• Lee Kilbom

Classifications

• H04W72/046

  the resource being in the space domain, e.g. beams · CPC title

• H04B7/0617 Primary

  for beam forming · CPC title

• H04B7/0639 Primary

  Using selective indices, e.g. of a codebook, e.g. pre-distortion matrix index [PMI] or for beam selection · CPC title

• H04L5/0023

  Time-frequency-space · CPC title

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title