IP Library › Granted Patent US 10,772,151
Granted Patent B2
US 10,772,151 · App. 16/241,178 · Granted Sep 8, 2020

Beam management in discontinuous reception

Inventors: Hua Zhou (Herndon, VA); Esmael Dinan (McLean, VA); Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, VA); Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, VA); Kyungmin Park (Herndon, VA)
Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
H04W76/28H04B7/0426H04B7/0456H04B7/063H04B7/0626H04B7/0632H04B17/318H04L1/1812
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,772,151
App. No.
16/241,178
Filed
Jan 7, 2019
Granted
Sep 8, 2020
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2631
USPC
375/262
Abstract

A wireless device receives a timer value of a DRX on duration timer for a DRX operation; radio resources of a reference signals for a transmission of a layer 1 reference signal received power report; and a report indicator indicating the transmission of the layer 1 reference signal received power report is limited to a time period when the DRX on duration timer is running. The layer 1 reference signal received power report is transmitted at a first time based on the DRX on duration timer running at a predefined time period before the first time. The layer 1 reference signal received power report includes a layer 1 reference signal received power value and a reference signal resource index associated with one of the reference signal(s). Based on the report indicator, transmitting of the layer 1 reference signal received power report at a second time is skipped in response to the DRX on duration timer not running at the predefined time period before the second time.

Claims (60)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device from a base station, one or more messages comprising:

a timer value of a discontinuous reception (DRX) on duration timer for a DRX operation;

radio resources of a plurality of reference signals for a transmission of a layer 1 reference signal received power (L1-RSRP) report; and

a report mask indicating the transmission of the L1-RSRP report is limited to a time period when the DRX on duration timer is running;

transmitting, at a first time, the L1-RSRP report based on the DRX on duration timer running at a predefined time period before the first time, wherein the L1-RSRP report comprises:

a L1-RSRP value; and

a reference signal resource index associated with one of the plurality of reference signals; and

skipping based on the report mask, a configured transmission, at a second time, of the L1-RSRP in response to the DRX on duration timer not running at the predefined time period before the second time.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more messages further indicate first uplink control resources for the L1-RSRP report.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of reference signals comprise at least one of:

a first plurality of channel state information reference signals; and

a second plurality of synchronization signal blocks.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the report mask further indicates a transmission is limited to the time period when the DRX on duration timer is running, wherein the transmission comprises at least one of: a channel quality indicator (CQI); a precoding matrix indicator (PMI); a channel state information reference signal resource indicator (CRI); and a rank indicator (RI) report.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the reference signal resource index is selected with a largest L1-RSRP value of a reference signal among L1-RSRP values of the plurality of reference signals.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the L1-RSRP report further comprises at least a second L1-RSRP value and at least a second reference signal resource index.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein a medium access control entity of the wireless device is in active time at the predefined time period before the second time.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the active time comprises at least one of:

a time while one or more DRX timers are running;

a time while a scheduling request is sent on uplink control channel and is pending;

a time while an uplink grant for a pending hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission can occur and there is data in corresponding HARQ buffer; and

a time while a downlink control channel indicating a new transmission addressed to an identifier of the wireless device has not been received after successful reception of a random access response for a preamble not selected by the medium access control entity of the wireless device.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more messages further indicate a short DRX cycle for the DRX operation.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the wireless device starts the DRX on duration timer based on the timer value in response to the short DRX cycle being used.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the wireless device uses the short DRX cycle in response to at least one of:

expiry of one or more DRX timers; or

receiving one or more DRX command medium access control control elements.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the one or more DRX timers comprise at least one of:

the DRX on duration timer;

a DRX inactivity timer;

a DRX retransmission timer; and

a medium access control contention resolution timer.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more messages further indicate a long DRX cycle for the DRX operation.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the wireless device starts the DRX on duration timer based on the timer value in response to the long DRX cycle being used.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the wireless device uses the long DRX cycle in response to at least one of:

expiry of one or more DRX timers; or

receiving one or more DRX command medium access control control elements.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the one or more DRX timers comprise at least one of:

the DRX on duration timer;

a DRX inactivity timer;

a DRX retransmission timer; and

a medium access control contention resolution timer.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device transmits the L1-RSRP report via a first uplink control resource.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:

transmitting at the first time, at least one of:

a CQI;

a PMI;

a CRI; and

a RI report; and

not transmitting at the second time, based on the report indicator, at least one of:

the CQI;

the PMI;

the CRI; and

the RI report.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the transmitting at the first time has a different transmission periodicity than the transmission of the L1-RSRP report.

20. The method of claim 17 , wherein the one or more messages further indicate radio resources of a second uplink control channel for at least one of:

a CQI;

a PMI;

a CRI; and

a RI report.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 10, 2020
From: ZHOU, HUA; DINAN, ESMAEL HEJAZI; BABAEI, ALIREZA; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; PARK, KYUNGMIN
To: OFINNO, LLC
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Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 62614258 · Jan 5, 2018
Provisional Application 62627254 · Feb 7, 2018
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