A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving configuration information including P>1 beam switching time (BST) values and a set of TCI states; receiving, based on the configuration information, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state update; determining a beam based on the TCI state update; and applying the beam for a downlink (DL) reception or an uplink (UL) transmission, at least after a duration of time from receiving the TCI state update, wherein the duration of time is determined based on the P BST values.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device (e.g., a user equipment and/or base station) may operate in a first mode in a wireless network over a radio frequency spectrum band. The wireless device may receive a signal indicating that a value of the radio frequency spectrum band has satisfied a threshold value. The wireless device may switch, based at least in part on the signal indicating that the value has satisfied the threshold value, from the first mode to a second mode for wireless communications in the wireless network, wherein a first length of a first synchronization signal block associated with the first mode is shorter than a second length of a second synchronization signal block associated with the second mode.

The present application is at least directed to a non-transitory memory including instructions stored thereon for paging in a beam sweeping superframe. The beam sweeping superframe including a paging frame. The paging frame including a paging burst and the paging burst including symbols. One of the symbols relates to a paging occasion. A processor is operably coupled to the non-transitory memory. The processor is capable of executing instructions that cause the apparatus to transmit, to a first user equipment, a first paging indication carried on the paging occasion at a first beam. The processor is also capable of executing instructions that cause the apparatus to transmit, to a second user equipment, a second paging indication carried on the paging occasion at a second beam, where the second beam is different from the first beam. The application is also directed to an apparatus that pages in a beam sweeping superframe in new radio.

The present application is at least directed to an apparatus. The apparatus includes a non-transitory memory including instructions stored thereon for beam link pairing the apparatus to a router in a new radio. The apparatus also includes a processor, operably coupled to the non-transitory memory, capable of executing the instructions of transmitting physical random access channel (PRACH) preambles through a set of uplink transmission beams in a subframe. The processor is also capable of executing the instructions of signaling a beam ID of the set of uplink transmission beams. The processor is further capable of executing the instructions of monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for a random access response (RAR) including a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI). The processor is even further capable of executing the instructions of determining the RA-RNTI corresponds to the transmitted PRACH preambles.

The message decoding method in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure includes: receiving, by a receiving end device, a second message associated with a first message from a transmitting end device; determining, by the receiving end device, a target receiver parameter for decoding the first message in accordance with the second message; and decoding, by the receiving end device, the first message from the transmitting end device in accordance with the target receiver parameter.

Method comprising: selecting a subset of one or more beam pairs among a set of beam pairs via which a terminal and a base station are associated, wherein for each of the beam pairs of the subset, a suitability of the respective beam pair is better than a suitability threshold; for each of the beam pairs of the subset: determining a respective set of at least two tones; performing a respective relative phase measurement based on the respective virtual wavelength to obtain a respective virtual phase difference; and at least one of reporting the respective set of at least two tones and the respective virtual phase difference to the base station; and estimating a respective distance between the terminal and a transmission reception point of the base station emitting the respective beam pair based on the respective virtual phase difference and the preliminary uncertainty region.

A network node may transmit, using a first set of beams, coarse beam information for a second set of beams associated with a user equipment (UE) and a set of repeaters. The UE and the set of repeaters may receive, using the first set of beams, the coarse beam information for the second set of beams associated with the UE and the set of repeaters. The UE and the set of repeaters may transmit refined beam information for the second set of beams associated with the set of repeaters and the UE. The network node may receive, using the first set of beams, the refined beam information for the second set of beams associated with the set of repeaters and the UE.

The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and devices for performing a regularly coded beam sweep for spatial channel sounding. In one form, a method for wireless communication includes: accessing, at a transmitter, a regular codebook configured to utilize multiple beams on a resource unit as part of a coded beam sweep for spatial channel sounding; transmitting, from the transmitter to a receiver, a steering sound signal utilizing a beam codeword of the regular codebook that identifies multiple beams for transmission on the resource unit; and receiving, at the transmitter, channel state information from the receiver, the channel state information determined at the receiver based on a strength of the steering sound signal when received at the receiver over the multiple beams identified in the beam codeword.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a classification of a link established between the UE and a network node. The classification may indicate whether the link is associated with a reciprocity. The reciprocity may include a beam correspondence and channel reciprocity. The classification of the link may be a binary classification. The classification of the link may be based at least in part on a metric associated with the link. The link may be associated with the reciprocity depending on one or more link characteristics associated with the link. Numerous other aspects are described.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). For example, the UE receives a first indication indicating a same quasi co-location (QCL) mapping for multiple receive beams corresponding to a group of transmit and receive beam pairs from a network entity. Transmit and receive beam pairs are different from each other and grouping of the transmit and receive beam pairs is based on a distance between the UE and the network entity. The UE selects one of the multiple receive beams corresponding to the group of transmit and receive beam pairs, based on the distance between the UE and the network entity.