Smart window determination for beam sweep on physical downlink shared channel demodulation reference signal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12464374-B2
Application number	US-202217657574-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 31, 2022
Priority date	Mar 31, 2022
Publication date	Nov 4, 2025
Grant date	Nov 4, 2025

Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify a beam management window based at least in part on one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfying a window opening condition. The UE may perform a beam sweep on a set of beams associated with one or more physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) transmissions that are received during the beam management window. The UE may select, among the set of beams associated with the one or more PDSCH DMRS transmissions received during the beam management window, a beam to use to communicate with a network node based at least in part on one or more metrics associated with each respective beam included in the set of beams. Numerous other aspects are described.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
identifying a beam management window in which to perform a beam sweep on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) based at least in part on one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfying a window opening condition,
wherein the PDSCH DMRS is configured as a rank-2 signal;
performing the beam sweep on a set of beams associated with one or more PDSCH DMRS transmissions that are received during the beam management window; and selecting, among the set of beams associated with the one or more PDSCH DMRS transmissions received during the beam management window, a beam to use to communicate with a network node based at least in part on one or more metrics associated with each respective beam included in the set of beams.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfy the window opening condition based at least in part on a downlink duty cycle having a value that satisfies a threshold.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfy the window opening condition based at least in part on a number of downlink grants having a value that satisfies a threshold.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfy the window opening condition based at least in part on a downlink resource block allocation having a value that satisfies a threshold.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfy the window opening condition based at least in part on a padding size in one or more downlink grants having a value that satisfies a threshold.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfy the window opening condition based at least in part on a downlink throughput requirement having a value that satisfies a threshold.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the window opening condition is satisfied based at least in part on an elapsed time since a closing time of a most recent beam management window having a value that satisfies a threshold.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
terminating the beam sweep based at least in part on a count of the one or more PDSCH DMRS transmissions received during the beam management window satisfying a threshold.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the beam management window excludes any slots that contain a periodic reference signal.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the beam management window excludes any slots that contain an aperiodic reference signal associated with a timing offset parameter having a value greater than one.

11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more metrics used to select the beam include one or more rank-2 metrics.

12 . A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
one or more memories; and one or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to:
identify a beam management window in which to perform a beam sweep on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) based at least in part on one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfying a window opening condition,
wherein the PDSCH DMRS is configured as a rank-2 signal;

perform the beam sweep on a set of beams associated with one or more PDSCH DMRS transmissions that are received during the beam management window; and
select, among the set of beams associated with the one or more PDSCH DMRS transmissions received during the beam management window, a beam to use to communicate with a network node based at least in part on one or more metrics associated with each respective beam included in the set of beams.

13 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfy the window opening condition based at least in part on a downlink duty cycle having a value that satisfies a threshold.

14 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfy the window opening condition based at least in part on a number of downlink grants having a value that satisfies a threshold.

15 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfy the window opening condition based at least in part on a downlink resource block allocation having a value that satisfies a threshold.

16 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfy the window opening condition based at least in part on a padding size in one or more downlink grants having a value that satisfies a threshold.

17 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfy the window opening condition based at least in part on a downlink throughput requirement having a value that satisfies a threshold.

18 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the window opening condition is satisfied based at least in part on an elapsed time since a closing time of a most recent beam management window having a value that satisfies a threshold.

19 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
terminate the beam sweep based at least in part on a count of the one or more PDSCH DMRS transmissions received during the beam management window satisfying a threshold.

20 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the beam management window excludes any slots that contain a periodic reference signal.

21 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the beam management window excludes any slots that contain an aperiodic reference signal associated with a timing offset parameter having a value greater than one.

22 . The UE of claim 12 , wherein the one or more metrics used to select the beam include one or more rank-2 metrics.

23 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for wireless communication, the set of instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), cause the UE to:
identify a beam management window in which to perform a beam sweep on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) based at least in part on one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfying a window opening condition,
wherein the PDSCH DMRS is configured as a rank-2 signal;

perform the beam sweep on a set of beams associated with one or more PDSCH DMRS transmissions that are received during the beam management window; and
select, among the set of beams associated with the one or more PDSCH DMRS transmissions received during the beam management window, a beam to use to communicate with a network node based at least in part on one or more metrics associated with each respective beam included in the set of beams.

24 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 23 , wherein the one or more downlink traffic parameters satisfy the window opening condition based at least in part on one or more of a downlink duty cycle, a number of downlink grants, a downlink resource block allocation, a padding size in one or more downlink grants, or a downlink throughput requirement having a value that satisfies a threshold.

25 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 23 , wherein the window opening condition is satisfied based at least in part on an elapsed time since a closing time o

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Zhu Jun
• Laghate Mihir Vijay
• Challa Raghu Narayan
• Banister Brian Clarke

Classifications

• H04B7/088

  using beam selection · CPC title

• H04L5/0051

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

• H04B7/0695 Primary

  using beam selection · CPC title

• H04B7/063

  Parameters other than those covered in groups H04B7/0623 - H04B7/0634, e.g. channel matrix rank or transmit mode selection · CPC title

• H04W16/28 Primary

  using beam steering · CPC title