Filtering of layer 1 beam measurements for L1/2 inter-cell mobility

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12477613-B2
Application number	US-202217980104-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 3, 2022
Priority date	Nov 3, 2022
Publication date	Nov 18, 2025
Grant date	Nov 18, 2025

Abstract

An apparatus may be configured to: receive two or more filtering configurations, wherein a first configuration is associated with at least one first target cell associated with a first distributed unit, wherein a second configuration is associated with at least one second target cell associated with at least one second distributed unit, wherein the first distributed unit is different from the at least one second distributed unit; select a configuration of the two or more configurations for at least one target cell based, at least partially, on a determination of whether a serving cell and the at least one target cell are controlled with a same distributed unit, wherein the serving cell is controlled with the first distributed unit; and perform filtering of a plurality of layer one measurements associated with the at least one target cell using the selected configuration.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
receive two or more filtering configurations, wherein a first configuration of the two or more filtering configurations is associated with at least one first target cell associated with a first distributed unit, wherein a second configuration of the two or more filtering configurations is associated with at least one second target cell associated with at least one second distributed unit, wherein the first distributed unit is different from the at least one second distributed unit, and wherein the first distributed unit and the at least one second distributed unit are logical nodes of a radio access network;
select a configuration of the two or more filtering configurations for at least one target cell based, at least partially, on a determination of whether a serving cell and the at least one target cell are controlled with a same distributed unit, wherein the serving cell is controlled with the first distributed unit; and
perform filtering of a plurality of layer one measurements associated with the at least one target cell using the selected configuration.

2 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the two or more filtering configurations are received via a radio resource control reconfiguration message from a centralized unit, wherein the centralized unit is a logical node of the radio access network, wherein the centralized unit is configured to control operation of the first distributed unit and the at least one second distributed unit.

3 . The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the two or more filtering configurations comprise at least one filtering configuration selected by the first distributed unit.

4 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the two or more filtering configurations respectively comprise at least one filtering configuration parameter, wherein the at least one filtering configuration parameter comprises at least one of:
a parameter for performing time domain averaging, a filter coefficient for performing the time domain averaging, a forgetting factor for performing the time domain averaging, a number of layer one measurements to be averaged in a time window, a parameter for a layer one reference signal received power measurement, a parameter for a layer one signal to interference plus noise ratio measurement, a parameter for a synchronization signal block measurement, or a parameter for a channel state information reference signal measurement.

5 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory, storing the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the apparatus to:
transmit, to the first distributed unit, a layer one measurement report, wherein the layer one measurement report comprises, at least, a result of the filtering of the plurality of layer one measurements.

6 . The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one memory, storing the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the apparatus to:
transmit, to a centralized unit, an indication of whether the apparatus supports the two or more filtering configurations, wherein the centralized unit is a logical node of the radio access network, wherein the centralized unit is configured to control operation of the first distributed unit and the at least one second distributed unit.

7 . A method comprising:
receiving, with a user equipment, two or more filtering configurations, wherein a first configuration of the two or more filtering configurations is associated with at least one first target cell associated with a first distributed unit, wherein a second configuration of the two or more filtering configurations is associated with at least one second target cell associated with at least one second distributed unit, wherein the first distributed unit is different from the at least one second distributed unit, and wherein the first distributed unit and the at least one second distributed unit are logical nodes of a radio access network; selecting a configuration of the two or more filtering configurations for at least one target cell based, at least partially, on a determination of whether a serving cell and the at least one target cell are controlled with a same distributed unit, wherein the serving cell is controlled with the first distributed unit; and performing filtering of a plurality of layer one measurements associated with the at least one target cell using the selected configuration.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the two or more filtering configurations are received via a radio resource control reconfiguration message from a centralized unit, wherein the centralized unit is a logical node of the radio access network, wherein the centralized unit is configured to control operation of the first distributed unit and the at least one second distributed unit.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the two or more filtering configurations comprise at least one filtering configuration selected by the first distributed unit.

10 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the two or more filtering configurations respectively comprise at least one filtering configuration parameter, wherein the at least one filtering configuration parameter comprises at least one of:
a parameter for performing time domain averaging, a filter coefficient for performing the time domain averaging, a forgetting factor for performing the time domain averaging, a number of layer one measurements to be averaged in a time window, a parameter for a layer one reference signal received power measurement, a parameter for a layer one signal to interference plus noise ratio measurement, a parameter for a synchronization signal block measurement, or a parameter for a channel state information reference signal measurement.

11 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
transmitting, to the first distributed unit, a layer one measurement report, wherein the layer one measurement report comprises, at least, a result of the filtering of the plurality of layer one measurements.

12 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
transmitting, to a centralized unit, an indication of whether the user equipment supports the two or more filtering configurations, wherein the centralized unit is a logical node of the radio access network, wherein the centralized unit is configured to control operation of the first distributed unit and the at least one second distributed unit.

13 . An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
transmit, to a user equipment, two or more filtering configurations, wherein a first configuration of the two or more filtering configurations is associated with at least one first target cell associated with a first distributed unit, wherein a second configuration of the two or more filtering configurations is associated with at least one second target cell associated with at least one second distributed unit, wherein the first distributed unit is different from the at least one second distributed unit, and wherein the first distributed unit and the at least one second distributed unit are logical nodes of a radio access network; and
receive, from the user equipment, a radio resource control reconfiguration complete message in response to the two or more filtering configurations.

14 . The apparatus of claim 13 , wherei

Assignees

• Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventors

• Awada Ahmad
• Spapis Panagiotis
• Karabulut Umur
• Goyal Sanjay

Classifications

• H04W48/20

  Selecting an access point · CPC title

• H04W48/16

  Discovering, processing access restriction or access information · CPC title

• H04W36/06

  Reselecting a communication resource in the serving access point · CPC title

• H04W36/087

  between radio units of access points · CPC title

• H04W76/25 Primary

  Maintenance of established connections · CPC title