Quasi co-location (QCL) for antenna ports in new radio (NR)

1. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) operable to receive information from antenna ports that are quasi co-located, the apparatus comprising:

one or more baseband processors configured to:

demodulate, at the UE, a synchronization signal (SS) block (SSB) transmitted by a base station from a first antenna port, wherein one or more of a Doppler shift, a Doppler spread, an average delay, a delay spread or spatial receiving parameters are derived from the SSB;

decode, at the UE, a quasi co-location (QCL) indication, wherein the QCL indication provides an assumption of QCL between a first reference signal transmitted by the base station from the first antenna port and a second reference signal transmitted by the base station from a second antenna port, wherein the second antenna port transmits the second reference signal on a physical channel;

select, at the UE, a same receive beamforming to receive the second reference signal that is transmitted from the second antenna port, as a receive beamforming that is used to receive the SSB that is transmitted from the first antenna port; and

demodulate, at the UE, the second reference signal using one or more of the Doppler shift, the Doppler spread, the average delay, the delay spread, or the spatial receiving parameters based on the assumption of QCL; and

a memory interface configured to send one or more of the Doppler shift, the Doppler spread, the average delay, the delay spread, or the spatial receiving parameters to a memory.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are further configured to:

decode, at the UE, common control information transmitted by the base station in a physical channel from the second antenna port;

decode, at the UE, channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) used for beam management or beam refinement transmitted by the base station from the second antenna port; or

decode, at the UE, channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) used for channel state information (CSI), wherein the CSI-RS is transmitted by the base station from the second antenna port.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second antenna port comprises a set of antenna ports.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the UE includes an antenna, a touch sensitive display screen, a speaker, a microphone, a graphics processor, an application processor, an internal memory, a non-volatile memory port, or combinations thereof.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 ,

wherein the second reference signal comprises a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS).

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are further configured to

determine, at the UE, that the signal transmitted from the second antenna port has a same time and frequency offset as a time and frequency offset derived from the received SSB transmitted from the first antenna port.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the spatial receiving parameters include one or more of:

a mean angle of arrival,

an angle of arrival spread, or

a channel correlation.

8. An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) operable to receive information from antenna ports that are quasi co-located, the apparatus comprising:

one or more baseband processors configured to:

demodulate, at the UE, a first reference signal transmitted in a first bandwidth part (BWP) by base station from a first set of antenna ports;

demodulate, at the UE, a second reference signal transmitted in a second BWP by the base station from a second set of antenna ports; and

decode, at the UE, a quasi co-location (QCL) indication, wherein the QCL indication provides a QCL assumption between the first set of antenna ports and the second set of antenna ports, wherein the QCL indication indicates a QCL type for the first reference signal received in the first BWP from the first set of antenna ports and the QCL type for the second reference signal received in the second BWP from the second set of antenna ports; and

a memory interface configured to send the QCL indication to a memory.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are further configured to:

decode, at the UE, the QCL indication for the first reference signal and the second reference signal, wherein:

the first reference signal is a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) received from the base station in the first BWP from the first set of antenna ports; and

the second reference signal is a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) received from the base station in the second BWP from the second set of antenna ports.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the DM-RS is transmitted on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH).

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are further configured to:

decode, at the UE, the QCL indication for the first reference signal and the second reference signal, wherein:

the first reference signal is a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) received from the base station in the first BWP from the first set of antenna ports; and

the second reference signal is a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) received from the base station in the second BWP from the second set of antenna ports.

12. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are further configured to:

decode, at the UE, the QCL indication for the first reference signal and the second reference signal, wherein:

the first reference signal is a synchronization signal (SS) block received from the base station in the first BWP from the first set of antenna ports; and

the second reference signal is a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) received from the base station in the second BWP from the second set of antenna ports.

13. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are further configured to:

decode, at the UE, the QCL indication for the first reference signal and the second reference signal, wherein:

the first reference signal is a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configured for beam management or a synchronization signal (SS) block received from the base station in the first BWP from the first set of antenna ports; and

the second reference signal is a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) received from the base station in the second BWP from the second set of antenna ports.

14. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are further configured to:

demodulate, at the UE, the second reference signal transmitted from the second set of antenna ports using large-scale channel parameters, wherein the large-scale channel parameters include one or more of:

a Doppler shift,

a Doppler spread,

an average delay,

a delay spread, or

spatial receiving parameters.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the spatial receiving parameters include one or more of:

a mean angle of arrival,

an angle of arrival spread, or

a channel correlation.

16. An apparatus base station operable to transmit in bandwidth parts (BWPs), the apparatus comprising:

one or more baseband processors configured to:

determine, at the base station, a first reference signal type to transmit in a first BWP from a first antenna port to a user equipment (UE);

determine, at the base station, a second reference signal type to transmit in a second BWP from a second antenna port to the UE;

select, at the base station, a quasi-co-location (QCL) indication for a first reference signal transmitted from the first antenna port and a second reference signal transmitted from the second antenna port, wherein the QCL indication indicates a QCL type for the first reference signal type of the first reference signal transmitted in the first BWP from the first antenna port and the QCL type for the second reference type of the second reference signal transmitted in the second BWP from the second antenna port; and

encode, at the base station, the QCL indication for transmission to the UE; and

a memory interface configured to send the QCL indication to a memory.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are further configured to:

determine, at the base station, that the first reference signal type to transmit in the first BWP from the first antenna port is a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and

determine, at the base station, that the second reference signal type to transmit in the second BWP from the second antenna port is a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configured for beam management or a synchronization signal (SS) block.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are further configured to:

determine, at the base station, that the first reference signal type to transmit in the first BWP from the first antenna port is a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS); and

determine, at the base station, that the second reference signal type to transmit in the second BWP from the second antenna port is a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) or synchronization signal (SS) block.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are further configured to:

determine, at the base station, that the first reference signal type to transmit in the first BWP from the first antenna port is a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS); and

determine, at the base station, that the second reference signal type to transmit in the second BWP from the second antenna port is a CSI-RS or a synchronization signal (SS) block.

20. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the first antenna port comprises a set of antenna ports.

21. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the second antenna port comprises a set of antenna ports.