Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to beam management in connection with multiple cells and/or multiple transmission/reception points

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12418337-B2
Application number	US-202117917492-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2021
Priority date	Apr 8, 2020
Publication date	Sep 16, 2025
Grant date	Sep 16, 2025

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, systems, etc. directed to beam management for, and/or for use in connection with, multiple cells and/or multiple transmission/reception points are provided. Among the methods is a method that may include any of determining first and second reference signals sets (RS sets) associated with first and second sets of beams; receiving information for first and second beam failure recovery (BFR) sets corresponding to the first and second RS sets, wherein the information indicates an RS set associated with candidate beams (CB-RS set) and an uplink resource set for each of the first and second BFR sets; determining beam failures based on the first and second RS sets; selecting the CB-RS set and UL resource set from the first or second BFR set; determining an RS of the selected CB-RS set; and transmitting information indicating the beam failures using uplink resources of the selected uplink resource set.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising:
determining a first set of beam failure detection reference signals and a second set of beam failure detection reference signals based on information indicated by one or more transmission configuration indicator states associated with first and second control resource set pools, respectively;
receiving first information indicating a first set of reference signals and a second set of reference signals, wherein the first set of reference signals corresponds to the first set of beam failure detection reference signals, and wherein the second set of reference signals corresponds to the second set of beam failure detection reference signals;
determining at least one beam failure based on any of the first set of beam failure detection reference signals and the second set of beam failure detection reference signals;
determining a reference signal from one of the first and second sets of reference signals based on the determined at least one beam failure; and
transmitting second information indicating the determined reference signal and indicating the one of the first and second sets of beam failure detection reference signals associated with the determined reference signal.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein;
the first information indicates (i) one uplink resource set associated with at least one of the first and second sets of reference signals, or (ii) first and second uplink resource sets associated with the first and second sets of reference signals, respectively; and
the second information is transmitted using (i) the one uplink resource set, (ii) the first uplink resource set based on the determined at least one beam failure being a beam failure based on the first set of beam failure detection reference signals, or (iii) the second uplink resource set based on the determined at least one beam failure being a beam failure based on the second set of beam failure detection reference signals.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining a reference signal from one of the first and second sets of reference signals comprises:
determining, from one of the first and second sets of reference signals, a reference signal having a best quality; and
using the reference signal having the best quality as the determined reference signal.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first information indicates a downlink resource set for each of the first and second sets of reference signals, the method comprising:
selecting the downlink resource set associated with the determined reference signal; and
monitoring one or more downlink resources of the downlink resource set for information indicating at least one of (i) any of a confirmation, an acknowledgement and a non-acknowledgement of the at least one beam failure, and (ii) any of a confirmation, an acknowledgement and a non-acknowledgement of receipt of the second information.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the first set of beam failure detection reference signals and the second set of beam failure detection reference signals comprises:
determining the first set of beam failure detection reference signals and the second set of beam failure detection reference signals from among a plurality of reference signals associated with a plurality of control resource set pools, based on first and second identifiers of the first and second control resource set pools of the plurality of control resource set pools.

6. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
receiving first control resource set configuration information and second control resource set configuration information, wherein the first control resource set configuration information indicates a first identifier of the first control resource set pool and a first set of transmission configuration indicator states, and wherein the second control resource set configuration information indicates a second identifier of the second control resource set pool and a second set of transmission configuration indicator states, and
wherein determining first and second sets of beam failure detection reference signals comprises determining the first and second sets of beam failure detection reference signals based on the first and second identifiers of the first and second control resource set pools, and the first and the second sets of transmission configuration indicator states.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the second information comprises any of:
transmitting a physical random access channel transmission comprising the second information using one or more physical random access channel resources associated with the determined reference signal; and
transmitting a physical uplink control channel transmission comprising the second information using one or more physical uplink control channel resources associated with the determined reference signal.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting of the second information comprises tranmitting a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), that indicates the second information.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second information indicates a cell associated with the one of the first and second sets of beam failure detection reference signals associated with the determined reference signal.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
initiating a random access procedure on a condition that beam failure recovery is not successful for both the first and second sets of reference signals.

11. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising circuitry, including any of a transmitter, receiver, processor and memory, configured to
determine a first set of beam failure detection reference signals and a second set of beam failure detection reference signals based on information indicated by one or more transmission configuration indicator states associated with first and second control resource set pools, respectively;
receive first information indicating a first set of reference signals and a second set of reference signals, wherein the first set of reference signals corresponds to the first set of beam failure detection reference signals, and wherein the second set of reference signals corresponds to the second set of beam failure detection reference signals;
determine at least one beam failure based on any of the first set of beam failure detection reference signals and the second set of beam failure detection reference signals;
determine a reference signal from one of the first and second sets of reference signals based on the determined at least one beam failure; and
transmit second information indicating the determined reference signal and indicating the one of the first and second sets of beam failure detection reference signals associated with the determined reference signal.

12. The WTRU of claim 11 , wherein:
the first information indicates (i) one uplink resource set associated with at least one of the first and second sets of reference signals, or (ii) first and second uplink resource sets associated with the first and second sets of reference signals, respectively; and
the second information is transmitted using (i) the one uplink resource set, (ii) the first uplink resource set based on the determined at least one beam failure being a beam failure based on the first set of beam failure detection reference signals, or (iii) the second uplink resource set based on the determined at least one beam failure being a beam failure based on the second set of beam failure detection reference signals.

13. The WTRU of claim 11 , wherein the circuitry being configured to

Assignees

• Interdigital Patent Holdings Inc

Inventors

• Kwak Young Woo
• Lee Moon Il
• Marinier Paul
• Haghighat Afshin
• Comsa Virgil

Classifications

• H04W74/0833

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

• H04L5/0053

  Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals · CPC title

• H04L5/0051 Primary

  of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal · CPC title

• H04L5/0048 Primary

  Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver (allocation of control signalling H04L5/0053; use of control signalling H04L5/0091) · CPC title

• H04B7/0413

  MIMO systems · CPC title