Apparatus and methods are provided for RRM measurement in the NR network. In one novel aspect, the RRM measurement is configured with one measurement gap for SS block and CSI-RS. In one embodiment, an extended MGL (eMGL) is configured such that the SS block and CSI-RS is measurement within one measurement gap. In another embodiment, the shorter MGL (sMGL) that is shorter than the standard MGL is configured. In another novel aspect, the CSI-RS is allocated adjacent to the SS blocks such that one measurement gap is configured for both the SS block and CSI-RS measurement. In another novel aspect, the CSI-RS measurement is conditionally configured. In yet another novel aspect, the UE decodes the time index of the SS block conditionally.

A beam failure recovery method and device are provided. The method includes: after a beam failure recovery event is triggered, user equipment (UE) monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) scrambled with a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) in a first control channel resource set (CORESET) for beam failure recovery, and monitoring a PDCCH scrambled with a C-RNTI in a second CORESET.

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for performing fast beam switching in a high-frequency wireless communication environment. Higher frequencies reduce transmission wavelength, which allows for an increased number of antennas and an increased number of beams. Therefore, beams become narrower and are more prone to failure. The UE must be capable of quickly identifying the beam failure and switching to a new beam. Therefore, the UE is capable of receiving multiple beams from the base station and configures both for testing and immediate use. In some cases, the UE can receive multiple beams for testing and assumes a default beam while feeding back to the base station a preferred beam. To support the larger number of available beams, MAC-CE and DCI are modified to identify this increased number of states. Alternatively, two MAC-CEs are sent, each containing a different group of states, and the DCI identifies both the group and the selected state.

A method for wireless communication is performed by a terminal having a plurality of antenna panels, and includes: respectively communicating with a first cell and a second cell by different antenna panel, in which the first cell is a service cell of the terminal, and the second cell is a cell other than a service cell of the terminal.

An UE transmits at least one UE configuration parameter to a base station comprising at least one preferred parameter for a UE configuration, e.g., in addition to a preferred setting for a delay budget report. The UE then receives a configuration from the base station based, at least in part, on the at least one UE configuration parameter transmitted to the base station. Additionally, a base station receives the at least one UE configuration parameter from a UE comprising at least one preferred parameter for a UE configuration, e.g., in addition to a preferred setting for a delay budget report. The base station then configures the UE using the at least one UE configuration parameter received from the UE.

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for performing uplink/downlink transmission and reception on the basis of a beam linkage state in a wireless communication system. A method for performing uplink transmission or downlink reception by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise the steps of: receiving configuration information for a first beam linkage state (BLS) for a first resource and a second BLS for a second resource from a base station, wherein each of the first and second BLSs includes information on a mapping relationship between reference transmission and reception and one or more target transmissions and receptions; receiving, from the base station, reference spatial parameter indication information for the reference transmission and reception with regard to the first resource; and performing the uplink transmission or the downlink reception through the second resource, on the basis of a target spatial parameter for specific target transmission and reception among the one or more target transmissions and receptions, wherein the target spatial parameter may be determined on the basis of the reference spatial parameter.

A method is disclosed, performed in a radio network node, for handling interference caused by a plurality of wireless terminals served by the radio network node. The method comprises transmitting, to at least one wireless terminal of the plurality of wireless terminals served by the radio network node, a message indicative of a beam width restriction criterion to be applied to transmissions from the at least one wireless terminal.

A beam indication method includes: receiving first DCI or a first MAC CE. The first DCI or the first MAC CE is used to indicate at least one piece of common beam information.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitting node may perform a directional listen-before-talk (LBT) using a sensing beam. The transmitting node may start a channel occupancy time (COT) after the directional LBT based at least in part on one of a COT claiming signal or a time stamp. The transmitting node may perform, to a receiving node, one or more transmissions during the COT using one or more transmit beams that are included in the sensing beam. Numerous other aspects are described.

Various aspects of the disclosure relate to distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication such as coordinated beamforming or Joint MIMO. In some aspects, distributed MIMO is used to support communication in a cluster of wireless nodes (e.g., access points). A distributed MIMO scheduling scheme as taught herein is used to schedule the wireless nodes (e.g., access points and/or stations) operating within the cluster. For example, stations may be scheduled across basis services sets of the access points for a downlink transmission and/or an uplink transmission.