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METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING DOWNLINK CHANNEL FROM MULTIPLE TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION POINTS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
20230050015 · 2023-02-16 ·

Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting/receiving a downlink channel from multiple transmission/reception points in a wireless communication system. A method for a terminal to receive a downlink channel in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: receiving a downlink control channel on the basis of two or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states associated with one or more control resource sets (CORESETs); and receiving a downlink data channel on the basis of the two or more TCI states associated with one or more CORESETs, on the basis of TCI information not being included in downlink control information (DCI) received through the downlink control channel, wherein the two or more TCI states may be mapped to the downlink data channel on the basis of a prescribed mapping scheme.

Dynamic modification of antenna beamforming functionality
11582705 · 2023-02-14 · ·

Methods and systems are provided for dynamically disabling beamforming functionality of a first frequency band. The first frequency band is determined to have beamforming enabled. The user device is detected as being connected to the first frequency band for access to a wireless telecommunications network. A first fading channel measurement of the first frequency band is determined to be above a threshold. In response to determining that the first fading channel measurement is above the threshold, beamforming of the first frequency band is dynamically disabled.

Dynamic modification of antenna beamforming functionality
11582705 · 2023-02-14 · ·

Methods and systems are provided for dynamically disabling beamforming functionality of a first frequency band. The first frequency band is determined to have beamforming enabled. The user device is detected as being connected to the first frequency band for access to a wireless telecommunications network. A first fading channel measurement of the first frequency band is determined to be above a threshold. In response to determining that the first fading channel measurement is above the threshold, beamforming of the first frequency band is dynamically disabled.

Listen-before-talk beam overlap measurement procedures

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device, such as a base station or a user equipment, may identify an energy detection threshold for a sensing beam associated with a channel access procedure, such as a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure. The wireless device may also identify a set of transmit power parameters for one or more transmit beams. The wireless device may determine a degree of overlap between a coverage area of one or more transmit beams and a coverage area of the sensing beam. The wireless device may adjust the set of transmit power parameters, the energy detection threshold, or a combination thereof based on the degree of overlap. The wireless device may perform the channel access procedure based on the determining, the adjusting, or both.

TECHNIQUES FOR MODIFYING UPLINK COMMUNICATIONS TO AVOID MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE (MPE) IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
20230040162 · 2023-02-09 ·

Aspects described herein relate to detecting maximum permissible exposure (MPE) events and/or reporting the MPE event, related metrics, associated requests for beam switching or new time division duplexing (TDD) patterns, etc. In an aspect, a MPE event can be detected on at least one component carrier (CC) of multiple CCs configured with a first cell in inter-band carrier aggregation (CA), and one of a MPE report or a beam switching request can be transmitted to a second cell on a different CC of the multiple CCs. In another aspect, the cell can detect the MPE and can transmit, to the device, a beam switching command to switch to a new beam for uplink communications. In another aspect, the cell can transmitting, to another cell having another CC of the multiple CCs configured with the device, an indication to perform beam switching for the device.

USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING POWER HEADROOM REPORT
20230042144 · 2023-02-09 ·

A method by a user equipment (UE) for transmitting one or more power headroom reports (PHRs) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration comprising a first RRC parameter that indicates a first operation mode of multiple PHRs for multiple transmission reception points (TRPs); and transmitting, to the BS, a PHR medium access control control element comprising a first power headroom (PH) associated with a first TRP and a second PH associated with a second TRP. The first TRP and the second TRP are associated with a serving cell of the BS. The first PH is a first Type-1 PH associated with first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission toward the first TRP. The second PH is a second Type-1 PH associated with second PUSCH transmission toward the second TRP. The UE is configured with multi-TRP based PUSCH repetitions.

TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD
20230008524 · 2023-01-12 · ·

A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmission section that transmits mode 2 capability information indicating that mode 2 of full power transmission is supported; and a control section that, in a case where the mode 2 capability information is transmitted and transmitted precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) group capability information regarding a TPMI group is not transmitted, assumes that a number of SRS ports=1 is configured for at least one SRS resource included in a measurement reference signal (sounding reference signal (SRS)) resource set of which usage is a codebook. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to control full power transmission appropriately.

Cooperative MIMO
11552737 · 2023-01-10 · ·

In a multiuser (MU) multiple antenna system (MAS), a central processing unit is communicatively coupled to multiple distributed wireless terminals (WTs) via a network. The central processing unit processes channel measurements indicative of channel conditions between the multiple distributed WTs and a plurality of user devices and selects a plurality of WTs from the multiple distributed WTs to enhance channel space diversity within the MU-MAS. The central processing unit calculates (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) MIMO weights from the channel measurements for precoding a plurality of data streams that are transmitted concurrently from the plurality of WTs to the plurality of users, wherein the MIMO weights provide for a plurality of independent MIMO channels.

Methods for performing power control in new radio (NR) systems

The disclosed method and an apparatus are directed to determine an uplink transmission power in New Radio (NR) systems by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for transmitting at least one physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), using multiple beams toward multiple Tx/Rx points (TRPs). The method includes determining common parameters that are common to the multiple beams. The method also includes determining beam-specific parameters like a configurable fractional power compensation factor for each beam, and a configurable maximum transmit power level for each beam, which are determined dynamically or semi-statically based on deployment, WTRU mobility, or interference level. The method further includes transmitting at least one codeword using at least one of the multiple beams, each of the multiple beams having a transmission power calculated based on the common parameters and the beam-specific parameters.

Methods for performing power control in new radio (NR) systems

The disclosed method and an apparatus are directed to determine an uplink transmission power in New Radio (NR) systems by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for transmitting at least one physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), using multiple beams toward multiple Tx/Rx points (TRPs). The method includes determining common parameters that are common to the multiple beams. The method also includes determining beam-specific parameters like a configurable fractional power compensation factor for each beam, and a configurable maximum transmit power level for each beam, which are determined dynamically or semi-statically based on deployment, WTRU mobility, or interference level. The method further includes transmitting at least one codeword using at least one of the multiple beams, each of the multiple beams having a transmission power calculated based on the common parameters and the beam-specific parameters.