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Granted Patent B2
US 11,451,313 · App. 16/495,734 · Granted Sep 20, 2022

Detection method and user equipment

Inventors: Jing Wang (Beijing, CN); Liu Liu (Beijing, CN); Huiling Jiang (Beijing, CN); Hiroki Harada (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04B17/309H04B7/0408H04W24/08
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Patent No.
US 11,451,313
App. No.
16/495,734
Granted
Sep 20, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a method for detecting radio link failure (RLF) and user equipment (UE). The UE is configured with multiples pairs of beams, each pair of beams comprising a transmitting beam used by a base station (BS) to transmit a signal and a corresponding receiving beam used by the UE to receive the signal. The method includes: in a lower layer, measuring the quality of a reference signal received through a receiving beam in each pair of beams and transmitted by a BS using a transmitting beam corresponding to the receiving beam, to serve as the channel quality for the multiple transmitting beams included in the multiple pairs of beams; determining whether the channel quality for the multiple transmitting beams meets a first condition; if so, transmitting to an upper layer an Out-Of-Sync (OOS) indication information, such that the upper layer determines if, according to the OOS indication information, RLF has occurred. As such, the present invention enables detection of RLF in a multi-beam scenario.

Claims (19)

1. A terminal comprising:

a processor that measures radio quality by using reference signals transmitted by one base station using a plurality of transmitting beams, which include serving beams and candidate beams; and

a transceiver that transmits an indication related to beam failure in an upper layer in case where the radio quality measured by using reference signals transmitted using the serving beams satisfies a condition,

wherein in case where the radio quality measured by using reference signals transmitted using the serving beams satisfies the condition, the processor selects, based on a reception power of the reference signals, a receiving beam corresponding to one of the candidate beams, and

wherein the reference signals comprise both a synchronization signal block and a channel state information reference signal.

2. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the condition is that the radio quality is lower than a threshold.

3. A method comprising:

measuring radio quality by using reference signals transmitted by one base station using a plurality of transmitting beams which include serving beams and candidate beams; and

transmitting an indication related to beam failure in an upper layer in case where the radio quality measured by using reference signals transmitted using the serving beams satisfies a condition,

wherein in case where the radio quality measured by using reference signals transmitted using the serving beams satisfies the condition selecting, based on a reception power of the reference signals, a receiving beam corresponding to one of the candidate beams, and

wherein the reference signals comprise both a synchronization signal block and a channel state information reference signal.

4. A system comprising a base station and a terminal, wherein:

the base station comprises:

a processor that controls transmission of reference signals used for measuring radio quality using a plurality of transmitting beams, which include serving beams and candidate beams, and

the terminal comprises:

a processor that measures radio quality by using the reference signals transmitted by the base station; and

a transceiver that transmits an indication related to beam failure in an upper layer in case where the radio quality measured by using reference signals transmitted using the serving beams satisfies a condition,

wherein in case where the radio quality measured by using reference signals transmitted using the serving beams satisfies the condition, the processor of the terminal selects, based on a reception power of the reference signals, a receiving beam corresponding to one of the candidate beams, and

wherein the reference signals comprise both a synchronization signal block and a channel state information reference signal.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 19, 2019
From: WANG, JING; LIU, LIU; JIANG, HUILING; HARADA, HIROKI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 201710175178.3 · Mar 22, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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