IP Library Granted Patent US 10,778,318
Granted Patent B2
US 10,778,318 · App. 16/529,981 · Granted Sep 15, 2020

Bandwidth parts switching in beam failure recovery procedure

Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik (Herndon, VA); Esmael Dinan (McLean, VA); Hua Zhou (Herndon, VA); Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, VA); Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, VA); Kyungmin Park (Herndon, VA)
Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
H04B7/0695H04B7/088H04L5/0023H04W36/06H04W72/0453H04W76/27
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Patent No.
US 10,778,318
App. No.
16/529,981
Granted
Sep 15, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless device activates a first downlink bandwidth part (BWP) of a cell and a first uplink BWP of the cell. An active downlink BWP, identified with a second downlink BWP index, is switched from the first downlink BWP to a second downlink BWP. It is determined that the second downlink BWP is configured with one or more beam failure recovery (BFR) parameters. An active uplink BWP, identified with a second uplink BWP index that is the same as the second downlink BWP index, is switched, based on the determining, from the first uplink BWP to a second uplink BWP. The active downlink BWP is switched from the second downlink BWP to a third downlink BWP. Based on a determination that the third downlink BWP is not configured with one or more BFR parameters, the second uplink BWP is kept as the active uplink BWP.

Claims (37)

1. A method comprising:

activating, by a wireless device, a first downlink bandwidth part (BWP) of a cell and a first uplink BWP of the cell;

switching from the first downlink BWP to a second downlink BWP, as an active downlink BWP, identified with a second downlink BWP index;

determining that the second downlink BWP is configured with one or more first beam failure recovery (BFR) parameters;

switching, based on the determining, from the first uplink BWP to a second uplink BWP, as an active uplink BWP, identified with a second uplink BWP index that is the same as the second downlink BWP index;

switching from the second downlink BWP to a third downlink BWP as the active downlink BWP;

determining that the third downlink BWP is not configured with one or more BFR parameters; and

keeping, based on the determining that the third downlink BWP is not configured with the one or more first BFR parameters, the second uplink BWP as the active uplink BWP.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the activating the first downlink BWP in a first slot.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising the activating the first uplink BWP in a second slot.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the first slot and the second slot are the same.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the first slot and the second slot are different.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the switching from the first downlink BWP to the second downlink BWP comprises activating the second downlink BWP.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the switching from the first downlink BWP to the second downlink BWP comprises deactivating the first downlink BWP.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the deactivating the first downlink BWP comprises not monitoring a downlink control channel of the first downlink BWP.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more first BFR parameters for the second downlink BWP indicate one or more reference signals for beam failure detection of the second downlink BWP of the cell.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

activating the first downlink BWP of the cell and the first uplink BWP of the cell; and

switching from the first uplink BWP to the second uplink BWP, as an active uplink BWP, identified with the second uplink BWP index.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

determining that the second uplink BWP is configured with one or more second BFR parameters; and

switching, based on the determining that the second uplink BWP is configured with one or more second BFR parameters, from the first downlink BWP to a second downlink BWP, as an active downlink BWP, identified with a second downlink BWP index that is the same as the second uplink BWP index.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

determining that the second uplink BWP is not configured with one or more second BFR parameters; and

keeping, based on the determining that the second uplink BWP is not configured with one or more second BFR parameters, the first downlink BWP as an active downlink BWP.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the one or more second BFR parameters comprise one or more second reference signals for candidate beam selection of the cell.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the activating the first downlink BWP comprises monitoring a downlink control channel of the first downlink BWP.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the activating the first uplink BWP comprises transmitting an uplink signal via the first uplink BWP.

16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, by the wireless device, one or more configuration parameters for downlink BWPs and uplink BWPs.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the downlink BWPs comprise the first downlink BWP, the second downlink BWP and the third downlink BWP.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the uplink BWPs comprise the first uplink BWP and the second uplink BWP.

19. The method of claim 16 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters further indicate:

downlink BWP specific indexes for the downlink BWPs; and

uplink BWP specific indexes for the uplink BWPs.

20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising that:

the downlink BWP indexes comprise the second downlink BWP index; and

the uplink BWP indexes comprise the second uplink BWP index.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 4, 2022
From: OFINNO, LLC
To: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 060714/0260 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 10, 2020
From: CIRIK, ALI; DINAN, ESMAEL HEJAZI; ZHOU, HUA; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; BABAEI, ALIREZA; PARK, KYUNGMIN
To: OFINNO, LLC
Reel/Frame 051770/0187 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62714320 · Aug 3, 2018
Related Publication 20200044723A1 · Feb 6, 2020