Patent classifications
H04B7/088
BEAM SWEEPING WITH SLOT AGGREGATION
Methods and systems include beamformed wireless communications to and from a user equipment electronic device. During operation of the user equipment electronic device, a change in slot aggregation is made. Using the aggregated slots, the user equipment electronic device and/or a wireless network utilize beam sweeps to determine a best beam pairing by repeating a shared channel in the aggregated slots with a beam sweep of multiple beams between the user equipment electronic device and the wireless network.
BEAMFORMING CODEBOOK ADAPTATION FOR FLEXIBLE WIRELESS DEVICES
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A codebook adaptation may be performed for a flexible user equipment (UEs) to determine a codebook for a physical configuration of the UE. For example, if the UE determines that the physical configuration does not correspond to a pre-loaded codebook in its memory, the UE may provide information about the physical configuration to a base station to determine a corresponding codebook. Additionally, the UE may request that the base station provide channel information to assist with the codebook determination. In some cases, this request may indicate for the base station to allocate a specific number of channel state information reference signal symbols that the UE can use for the codebook determination. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may generate the codebook internally and then signal to the base station a request for a beam refinement procedure with the generated codebook.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
An electronic device, a wireless communication method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit, configured to send two reference signals using identical time-frequency resources and respectively using two beams in a beam pair, wherein a spatial distance between the two beams in the beam pair is greater than a predetermined value, and the two reference signals satisfy a predetermined constraint relation. The efficiency of a beam training process can be improved, and the time consumption of the beam training process is reduced, thereby achieving a compromise between beam training overheads and beamforming gains.
CHANNEL MEASUREMENT METHOD AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS
A channel measurement method and a communication apparatus are provided. The method includes: generating channel information, where the channel information indicates one or more receive beam vectors and one or more weighting coefficients, each of the one or more weighting coefficients corresponds to one receive beam vector, the one or more receive beam vectors and the one or more weighting coefficients corresponding to the one or more receive beam vectors are used to determine a channel of at least one frequency domain unit between a terminal device and a network device, the one or more receive beam vectors are selected from a receive beam vector set, and the receive beam vector set is determined based on a predefined base vector set; and sending the channel information.
Default Common Beam Mechanism for Multiple Beam Scenario
A wireless device receives one or more messages indicating transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for downlink transmissions. The wireless device receives a medium access control control element (MAC CE) activating a plurality of TCI states of the TCI states. The wireless device receives, based on a reference signal identified during a random access procedure and before receiving downlink control information (DCI) indicating a TCI state from the plurality of TCI states, one or more downlink signals.
Restrictions in Beam Failure Detection
A wireless device receives one or more configuration parameters indicating a first beam detection set including a first reference signal and a second beam detection set including a second reference signal. The first reference signal overlaps in at least one symbol with the second reference signal. The wireless device measures, for beam failure and in response to the first beam detection set being different from the second beam detection set, both the first reference signal and the second reference signal.
TECHNIQUES FOR BAND PRIORITY UTILIZATION FOR CELL SCANNING
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may obtain a band priority list identifying a set of bands in a prioritized order. The UE may perform a system scan of one or more bands of a frequency list that are associated with at least a threshold energy level in the prioritized order of the one or more bands in the band priority list. Numerous other aspects are described.
BEAM PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RELATED DEVICE
A beam processing method and apparatus, and a related device. The method includes: receiving first configuration information, where the first configuration information is used to indicate a candidate beam information set, the candidate beam information set includes candidate beam information sets of N object groups, at least one of the object groups includes at least two objects, each of the objects is a channel or a reference signal, and N is a positive integer; and receiving indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate beam information of the object group, and the beam information belongs to the candidate beam information set of the object group.
BEAMFORMING FAILURE DETECTION AND RECOVERY IN HIGH MMWAVE SYSTEMS
Beam determination refers to a set of procedures for an access node (AN) and a user equipment (UE) to select from among downlink communication beams and/or uplink communication beams for downlink and/or uplink communications, respectively. Often times, the downlink communication beams can include one or more downlink control channels, for example, a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and/or a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), to provide downlink reference signals, such as channel-state information reference signals (CSI-RSs), to the UE. The AN can execute various exemplary downlink beam scheduling procedures to control the transmission of the downlink reference signals, such as the CSI-RSs to provide an example, over the downlink communication beams. In some embodiments, the UE can utilize the CSI-RSs to perform beamforming failure detection (BFD) and beamforming failure recovery (BFR) in the wireless networks.
SIGNAL COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS
Disclosed are a signal transmission method and apparatus. The signal transmission method and apparatus are used for realizing, by means of a beam for transmitting a beam failure event of a cell, the transmission of a PUCCH when a beam failure occurs in the cell. The signal transmission method provided in the present application comprises: determining that a beam failure occurs in a cell; and if a terminal needs to transmit a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) signal, transmitting, when a preset condition is satisfied, the physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) signal by using an uplink transmission beam.