Beam determination procedures in wireless networks

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12160849-B2
Application number	US-202217583835-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 25, 2022
Priority date	Jan 25, 2021
Publication date	Dec 3, 2024
Grant date	Dec 3, 2024

Abstract

Beam determination may be used in wireless communications, for example, in a beam failure recovery procedure. One or more parameters may be communicated and/or used to indicate an association between resources and a corresponding control resource set (CORESET) pool index of multiple CORESET pool indices. For each of the multiple CORESET pool indices, a reference signal associated with the CORESET pool index may be determined. Wireless communications may be performed by selecting a reference signal for each of the multiple CORESET pool indices, and resources associated with a corresponding CORESET pool index may be communicated based on the selected reference.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a wireless device, configuration parameters indicating:
a first control resource set (CORESET) pool index associated with:
first reference signals (RSs); and
first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources; and

a second CORESET pool index associated with:
second RSs; and
second PUCCH resources;

determining a reference signal (RS), from the first RSs and the second RSs, based on at least one power measurement of the RS;
selecting the first PUCCH resources, from the first PUCCH resources and the second PUCCH resources, based on:
the RS being from the first RSs; and
the first CORESET pool index being associated with the first PUCCH resources; and

transmitting, via a spatial domain filter associated with the RS, a PUCCH resource of the first PUCCH resources.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, based on at least one power measurement of the first RSs and the second RSs, an RS of the first RSs and an RS of the second RSs; and
transmitting a preamble, associated with the RS of the first RSs, associated with a random access procedure.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the receiving the configuration parameters comprises the wireless device receiving one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages comprising the configuration parameters in one of:
an RRC idle state;
an RRC connected state; or
an RRC inactive state.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the receiving the one or more RRC messages comprises receiving one or more system information blocks comprising the configuration parameters.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one power measurement comprises at least one of:
one or more measurements of reference signal received power (RSRP) values; or
one or more measurements of reference signal received quality (RSRQ) values.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the determining the RS, from the first RSs and the second RSs, based on the at least one power measurement comprises determining that an RSRP value or an RSRQ value of the RS satisfies a threshold value indicated by the configuration parameters.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuration parameters further indicate:
a first association between a random access occasion and the RS; and
a second association between a preamble and the RS.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising transmitting, based on the second association, the preamble associated with the RS.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, via the spatial domain filter, the RS.

10. A method comprising:
receiving, by a wireless device, configuration parameters indicating:
first reference signals (RSs) associated with a first control resource set (CORESET) pool index; and
second RSs associated with a second CORESET pool index;

determining, based on at least one measurement of the first RSs and the second RSs, a first reference signal (RS) of the first RSs and a second RS of the second RSs;
transmitting:
a preamble, associated with the first RS, associated with a random access procedure; and
a transport block, associated with the random access procedure, indicating the second RS and the second CORESET pool index; and

receiving a random access response, associated with the random access procedure, after the transmitting the preamble and the transport block.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the preamble indicates the first RS and the first CORESET pool index.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the receiving the configuration parameters comprises the wireless device receiving configuration parameters associated with beam failure detection or beam failure recovery.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first CORESET pool index corresponds to a first transmission reception point (TRP).

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein the second CORESET pool index corresponds to a second transmission reception point (TRP).

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first RSs comprise at least one of:
one or more first synchronization signal blocks (SSBs); or
one or more first channel sate information reference signals (CSI-RSs).

16. The method of claim 10 , wherein the second RSs comprise at least one of:
one or more second synchronization signal blocks (SSBs); or
one or more second channel sate information reference signals (CSI-RSs).

17. A method comprising:
receiving, by a wireless device, configuration parameters indicating:
a first control resource set (CORESET) pool index associated with:
first reference signals (RSs); and
first physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs); and

a second CORESET pool index associated with:
second RSs; and
second PDSCHs;

determining a reference signal (RS), from the first RSs and the second RSs, based on at least one power measurement of the first RSs and the second RSs;
selecting the first PDSCHs, from the first PDSCHs and the second PDSCHs, based on:
the RS being from the first RSs; and
the first CORESET pool index being associated with the first PDSCHs; and

receiving, via a spatial domain filter associated with the RS, a PDSCH of the first PDSCHs.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the configuration parameters further indicate at least one of:
a plurality of transmission configuration indication (TCI) states;
a plurality of spatial relation information;
a first CORESET associated with the first CORESET pool index;
a first channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) associated with the first CORESET pool index; or
a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) associated with the first CORESET pool index.

19. The method of claim 18 , further comprising receiving:
based on the RS, the first CORESET associated with the first CORESET pool index.

20. The method of claim 18 , further comprising receiving:
based on the RS, the first CSI-RS associated with the first CORESET pool index.

Assignees

• Comcast Cable Comm Llc

Inventors

• Xu Kai
• Zhou Hua
• Dinan Esmael Hejazi
• Yi Yunjung
• Cirik Ali Cagatay
• Jeon Hyoungsuk
• Park Jonghyun

Classifications

• H04W74/0836

  with 2-step access · CPC title

• H04W74/0838

  using contention-free random access [CFRA] · CPC title

• H04W74/0833

  Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access · CPC title

• H04W72/542

  using measured or perceived quality · CPC title

• H04W72/21

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