Control information for CSI acquisition and beam management

1. A method of wireless communication of a user equipment (UE), comprising:

receiving, from a base station, a first trigger for reporting up-link control information for channel state information (CSI) acquisition and a second trigger for reporting up-link control information for beam management of multiple beams between the base station and the UE;

determining that the up-link control information for CSI acquisition and the up-link control information for beam management is to be transmitted on a same up-link channel based on the first trigger and the second trigger;

including the up-link control information for beam management in a particular uplink channel carrying at least one CSI-acquisition report for reporting the up-link control information for CSI acquisition, the up-link control information for beam management including at least one of a CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resource indicator (CRI) and a reference-signal received power (RSRP); and

sending the particular up-link channel to the base station.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the up-link control information for CSI acquisition includes at least one of a channel-quality indicator (CQI), a rank indicator (RI), a precoder-matrix indicator (PMI), and a CRI.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one CSI-acquisition report includes a first part and a second part, wherein the up-link control information for beam management is included in the first part.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the first part and the second part are separately encoded, wherein all components of the first part including the up-link control information for beam management are jointly encoded.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first trigger and the second trigger are the same trigger.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein a component carrier on which the up-link control information for beam management is measured and a component carrier on which the up-link control information for CSI acquisition is measured are two different component carriers.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, from the base station, a first configuration for reporting the up-link control information for CSI acquisition periodically and a second configuration for reporting the up-link control information for beam management periodically, wherein the up-link control information for CSI acquisition and up-link control information for beam management is determined to be transmitted on the same up-link channel based on the first configuration and the second configuration.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, from the base station, a trigger for reporting the up-link control information for CSI acquisition or for beam management and a configuration for reporting the up-link control information for beam management or for CSI acquisition periodically, wherein the up-link control information for CSI acquisition and the up-link control information for beam management is determined to be transmitted on the same up-link channel based on the trigger and the configuration.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first trigger is downlink control information received from the base station.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first trigger is a report configuration received from the base station through a radio resource control (RRC) message.

11. An apparatus for wireless communication, the apparatus being a user equipment (UE), comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:

receive, from a base station, a first trigger for reporting up-link control information for channel state information (CSI) acquisition and a second trigger for reporting up-link control information for beam management of multiple beams between the base station and the UE;

determine that the up-link control information for CSI acquisition and the up-link control information for beam management is to be transmitted on a same up-link channel based on the first trigger and the second trigger;

include the up-link control information for beam management in a particular uplink channel carrying at least one CSI-acquisition report for reporting the up-link control information for CSI acquisition, the up-link control information for beam management including at least one of a CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resource indicator (CRI) and a reference-signal received power (RSRP); and

send the particular up-link channel to the base station.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the up-link control information for CSI acquisition includes at least one of a channel-quality indicator (CQI), a rank indicator (RI), a precoder-matrix indicator (PMI), and a CRI.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the at least one CSI-acquisition report includes a first part and a second part, wherein the up-link control information for beam management is included in the first part.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the first part and the second part are separately encoded, wherein all components of the first part including the up-link control information for beam management are jointly encoded.

15. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the first trigger and the second trigger are the same trigger.

16. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein a component carrier on which the up-link control information for beam management is measured and a component carrier on which the up-link control information for CSI acquisition is measured are two different component carriers.

17. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive, from the base station, a first configuration for reporting the up-link control information for CSI acquisition periodically and a second configuration for reporting the up-link control information for beam management periodically, wherein the up-link control information for CSI acquisition and up-link control information for beam management is determined to be transmitted on the same up-link channel based on the first configuration and the second configuration.

18. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive, from the base station, a trigger for reporting the up-link control information for CSI acquisition or for beam management and a configuration for reporting the up-link control information for beam management or for CSI acquisition periodically, wherein the up-link control information for CSI acquisition and the up-link control information for beam management is determined to be transmitted on the same up-link channel based on the trigger and the configuration.

19. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the first trigger is downlink control information received from the base station.

20. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the first trigger is a report configuration received from the base station through a radio resource control (RRC) message.

21. A method of wireless communication of a user equipment (UE), comprising:

determining that up-link control information for channel state information (CSI) acquisition and up-link control information for beam management of multiple beams between a base station and the UE is to be transmitted on a same up-link channel;

including the up-link control information for beam management in a particular uplink channel carrying at least one CSI-acquisition report for reporting the up-link control information for CSI acquisition, the up-link control information including at least one of a CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) resource indicator (CRI) and a reference-signal received power (RSRP); and

sending the particular up-link channel to the base station.