Method of beam state determination

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12199731-B2
Application number	US-202217865954-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 15, 2022
Priority date	Jul 29, 2020
Publication date	Jan 14, 2025
Grant date	Jan 14, 2025

Abstract

A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal is disclosed. The wireless communication method comprises receiving, from a wireless network node, first command information comprising a first beam state, determining at least one of a second beam state or a second reference signal based on the first beam state, and communicating, with the wireless network node, a target signal by applying at least one of the second beam state or the second reference signal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal, the wireless communication method comprising:
receiving, from a wireless network node, first command information comprising a first beam state,
determining a second beam state based on the first beam state, and
communicating, with the wireless network node, a target signal by applying the second beam state,
wherein the second beam state comprises at least a quasi-co-location state, and
wherein the second beam state is indicated by a second command information as a beam state in a beam state group associated with the first beam state, and wherein the second command information is received from the wireless network node.

2. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:
one of the first beam state or the second beam state further comprises at least one of a transmission configuration indicator state, spatial relation information, reference signal information, or spatial filter information or precoding information,
the second beam state is associated with the first beam state, or
the second beam state is associated with the beam state group associated with the first beam state, wherein the second beam state is a beam state with one of a predefined index, a first index or a last index in the beam state group associated with the first beam state.

3. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:
the first command information is the most recent command information received by the wireless terminal before the second command information, or
the first command information and the second command information relate to the same control resource set (CORESET) pool.

4. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the first command information and the second command information related to at least one of the same bandwidth part (BWP) or the same serving cell.

5. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the first command information is the most recent command information with an effective beam state received by the wireless terminal before the second command information.

6. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:
the second beam state is a beam state of a first mode associated with the first beam state,
the beam state of the first mode has a smaller beam granularity than a beam state of a second mode,
a beam width of the beam state of the first mode is wider than a beam width of a beam state of a second mode, or
a number of beam states of the first mode is smaller than a number of beam states of a second mode.

7. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the second beam state is at least one of an upper layer beam state of the first beam state, a reference beam state of a
reference signal in the first beam state, or a synchronization signal block associated with the first beam state.

8. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:
the target signal is not scheduled by a first downlink control information, or
the target signal is associated with the first command information or with a signal scheduled by the first command information, wherein an association between the target signal and the first command information or an association between the target signal and the signal scheduled by the first downlink control information is predefined or configured by the wireless network node.

9. The wireless communication method of claim 1 , wherein the target signal comprises at least one of a physical downlink control channel, a physical uplink control channel, a physical downlink shared channel, a physical uplink shared channel, a channel state information reference signal, or a sounding reference signal.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable program medium with code stored thereupon, the code, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to implement a wireless communication method recited in claim 1 .

11. A wireless communication method for use in a wireless network node, the wireless communication method comprising:
transmitting, to a wireless terminal, first command information comprising a first beam state,
communicating, with the wireless terminal, a target signal by applying a second beam state, and
transmitting, to the wireless terminal, second command information indicating a beam state in a beam state group associated with the first beam state, as the second beam state,
wherein the second beam state comprises at least a quasi-co-location state, and
wherein the second beam state is determined based on the first beam state.

12. A wireless terminal, comprising:
A transceiver, configured to receive, from a wireless network node, first command information comprising a first beam state,
a processor configured to determine a second beam state based on the first beam state, and
the transceiver is further configured to communicate, with the wireless network node, a target signal by applying at the second beam state,
wherein the second beam state comprises at least a quasi-co-location state, and
wherein the second beam state is indicated by a second command information as a beam state in a beam state group associated with the first beam state, and wherein the second command information is received from the wireless network node.

13. The wireless terminal of claim 12 , wherein at least one of:
one of the first beam state or the second beam state further comprises at least one of a transmission configuration indicator state, spatial relation information, reference signal information, or spatial filter information or precoding information,
the second beam state is associated with the first beam state, or
the second beam state is associated with the beam state group associated with the first beam state, wherein the second beam state is a beam state with one of a predefined index, a first index or a last index in the beam state group associated with the first beam state.

14. The wireless terminal of claim 12 , wherein at least one of:
the first command information is the most recent command information received by the wireless terminal before the second command information, or
the first command information and the second command information relate to the same control resource set (CORESET) pool.

15. The wireless terminal of claim 12 , wherein the first command information and the second command information related to at least one of the same bandwidth part (BWP) or the same serving cell.

16. The wireless terminal of claim 12 , wherein the first command information is the most recent command information with an effective beam state received by the wireless terminal before the second command information.

17. The wireless terminal of claim 12 , wherein at least one of:
the second beam state is a beam state of a first mode associated with the first beam state,
the beam state of the first mode has a smaller beam granularity than a beam state of a second mode,
a beam width of the beam state of the first mode is wider than a beam width of a beam state of a second mode, or
a number of beam states of the first mode is smaller than a number of beam states of a second mode.

18. A wireless network node, comprising: a transceiver, configured to:
transmit, to a wireless terminal, first command information comprising a first beam state,
communicate, with the wireless terminal, a target signal by applying a second beam state, and
transmit, to the wireless terminal, second command information indicating a b

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Yao Ke
• Gao Bo
• Lu Zhaohua
• Jiang Chuangxin
• Wu Hao
• Yan Wenjun

Classifications

• H04B7/06968 Primary

  using quasi-colocation [QCL] between signals · CPC title

• H04B7/088 Primary

  using beam selection · CPC title

• H04B7/0862

  receiver computing weights based on information from the transmitter · CPC title