Beam management for cells in wireless communications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12035404-B2
Application number	US-201916670225-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 31, 2019
Priority date	Oct 31, 2018
Publication date	Jul 9, 2024
Grant date	Jul 9, 2024

Abstract

Wireless communications and beam failure recovery are described. A wireless device may send one or more messages associated with a beam failure recovery for a cell. The one or more message may comprise an indication that the wireless device has not selected a candidate beam for the cell. The wireless device may receive a response and determine that a beam failure recovery procedure has successfully completed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a wireless device, one or more configuration parameters for a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure of a plurality of cells, wherein the one or more configuration parameters indicate:
one or more candidate reference signals (RSs); and
one or more reference signal received power (RSRP) thresholds; and

based on detection of beam failure of the plurality of cells and based on a determination that the one or more candidate RSs do not satisfy the one or more RSRP thresholds, transmitting a BFR medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) comprising:
a first field associated with a candidate reference signal (RS) identifier (ID) indication for a first cell of the plurality of cells, wherein the first field comprises a value, and wherein the value of the first field is configured to indicate that the wireless device has not selected a candidate beam associated with the first cell; and
a second field associated with a candidate RS ID indication for a second cell of the plurality of cells, wherein the second field comprises the value, and wherein the value of the second field is configured to indicate that the wireless device has not selected a candidate beam associated with the second cell.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, after the transmitting the BFR MAC CE, an acknowledgment for the BFR MAC CE; and
determining, based on the acknowledgment for the BFR MAC CE, that the BFR procedure has been successfully completed.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, after the transmitting the BFR MAC CE, an acknowledgment for the BFR MAC CE; and
resetting, based on the acknowledgment for the BFR MAC CE, a beam failure instance counter,
wherein the receiving the acknowledgment for the BFR MAC CE comprises receiving the acknowledgment for the BFR MAC CE via a downlink physical channel.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the first cell is a secondary cell;
the one or more configuration parameters comprises:
first configuration parameters of an uplink bandwidth part (BWP) of a primary cell, wherein the first configuration parameters are for candidate beam selection of a first BFR procedure of the primary cell; and
second configuration parameters of a downlink BWP of the first cell, wherein the second configuration parameters are for candidate beam selection of a second BFR procedure of the first cell; and

the detection of the beam failure of the first cell is associated with:
a beam failure of the downlink BWP of the first cell; and
the second configuration parameters.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first cell is a secondary cell, and
wherein the transmitting the BFR MAC CE comprises transmitting the BFR MAC CE via a physical uplink shared channel.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining, based on an uplink grant and based on the first cell being a secondary cell, the BFR MAC CE for a BFR request.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
comparing a quality of each candidate RS of the one or more candidate RSs with the one or more RSRP thresholds.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting, via an uplink physical channel of a primary cell, a scheduling request for the BFR procedure.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters indicate, for an active uplink BWP of a primary cell and for indicating the detection of the beam failure of the plurality of cells, at least one uplink physical channel for the BFR procedure of the plurality of cells.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the BFR MAC CE comprises:
a plurality of fields, wherein each field of the plurality of fields is associated with a secondary cell of a plurality of secondary cells and indicates that the wireless device has selected or has not selected a candidate beam for that secondary cell of the plurality of secondary cells.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the BFR MAC CE comprises:
a plurality of fields associated with candidate RS identifier (ID) indication, wherein each field, of the plurality of fields, is associated with a secondary cell of a plurality of secondary cells and comprises either:
a candidate RS ID associated with that secondary cell of the plurality of secondary cells; or
the value indicating that the wireless device has not selected a candidate beam associated with that secondary cell of the plurality of secondary cells.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising determining at least one beam failure associated with the plurality of secondary cells.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein a first octet, of the BFR MAC CE, associated with the first cell comprises: the first field and a first reserved field, and
wherein a second octet, of the BFR MAC CE, associated with the second cell comprises: the second field and a second reserved field.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the value corresponds to a reserved value different from values configured for candidate RS identifiers (IDs).

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting the BFR MAC CE comprises:
transmitting a MAC protocol data unit (PDU) comprising:
a MAC subheader associated with the BFR MAC CE, wherein based on the BFR MAC CE being a variable-sized MAC CE, the MAC subheader comprises a length (L) field; and
the BFR MAC CE.

16. A method comprising:
receiving, by a wireless device, one or more configuration parameters for a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure of a plurality of cells;
based on detection of beam failure of the plurality of cells, transmitting a BFR medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) indicating the detection of the beam failure of the plurality of cells, wherein the BFR MAC CE comprises:
a first field associated with a candidate reference signal (RS) identifier (ID) indication for a first cell of the plurality of cells, wherein the first field comprises a value, and wherein the value of the first field is configured to indicate that the wireless device has not selected a candidate beam associated with the first cell; and
a second field associated with a candidate RS ID indication for a second cell of the plurality of cells, wherein the second field comprises the value, and wherein the value of the second field is configured to indicate that the wireless device has not selected a candidate beam associated with the second cell; and

receiving, after the transmitting the BFR MAC CE, an acknowledgment for the BFR MAC CE.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters indicate:
one or more candidate reference signals (RSs); and
one or more reference signal received power (RSRP) thresholds.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:
determining that the one or more candidate RSs do not satisfy the one or more RSRP thresholds,
wherein the transmitting the BFR MAC CE is based on the determining that the one or more candidate RSs do not satisfy the one or more RSRP thresholds,
wherein a first octet, of the BFR MAC CE, associated with the first cell comprises: the first field and a first reserved field, and
wherein a second octet, of the BFR MAC CE, associated with the second cell comprises: the second field and a second reserved field.

19. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
resetting, based on the acknowledgement for the BFR MAC CE, a beam failure instance counter.

20. The method of claim 16 , wherein the first cell is a secondary cell, and
wherein the transmitting the

Assignees

• Comcast Cable Comm Llc

Inventors

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

Classifications

• H04B7/0639

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

• H04B7/088

  using beam selection · CPC title

• H04B7/06964 Primary

  Re-selection of one or more beams after beam failure · CPC title

• H04W76/19 Primary

  Connection re-establishment · CPC title

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title