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Granted Patent B2
US 10,834,647 · App. 16/530,211 · Granted Nov 10, 2020

Beam failure recovery procedure in carrier aggregation

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
H04W36/06H04B7/0695H04B7/088H04L5/0023H04W72/0453H04W76/27
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Patent No.
US 10,834,647
App. No.
16/530,211
Granted
Nov 10, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless device receives message(s) comprising configuration parameter(s) of a first cell and a second cell. The configuration parameter(s) indicate a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) of the first cell. A first uplink BWP of the plurality of BWPs is activated as an active uplink BWP. A beam failure recovery procedure for the second cell is initiated based on detecting a beam failure. A determination that the first uplink BWP is not configured with one or more beam failure recovery resources for the second cell is made. The active uplink BWP of the first cell is switched, based on the determination, from the first uplink BWP to a second uplink BWP, of the plurality of BWPs, configured with the one or more beam failure recovery resources for the second cell. An uplink signal indicating the beam failure is transmitted via the second uplink BWP.

Claims (26)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device, one or more messages comprising one or more configuration parameters of a first cell and a second cell, wherein the one or more configuration parameters indicate a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) of the first cell;

activating a first uplink BWP of the plurality of BWPs as an active uplink BWP;

initiating a beam failure recovery procedure for the second cell based on detecting a beam failure;

determining that the first uplink BWP is not configured with one or more beam failure recovery resources for the second cell;

switching, based on the determining, the active uplink BWP of the first cell from the first uplink BWP to a second uplink BWP, of the plurality of BWPs, configured with the one or more beam failure recovery resources for the second cell; and

transmitting, via the second uplink BWP, an uplink signal indicating the beam failure.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the switching the active uplink BWP of the first cell from the first uplink BWP to the second uplink BWP comprises activating the second uplink BWP as the active uplink BWP of the first cell.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the switching the active uplink BWP of the first cell from the first uplink BWP to the second uplink BWP comprises deactivating the first uplink BWP.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters further indicate one or more reference signals (RSs) for the second cell.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the one or more RSs comprise one or more channel state information RSs.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the one or more RSs comprise one or more synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel blocks.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters further indicate a maximum number of beam failure instance indications for the second cell.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the detecting the beam failure comprises detecting the beam failure based on a number of consecutive beam failure instance indications reaching to the maximum number of beam failure instance indications.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein a beam failure instance indication of the consecutive beam failure instance indications comprises assessing one or more RSs with radio quality lower than a threshold.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters further indicate the threshold.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the threshold is based on a hypothetical block error rate.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more beam failure recovery resources comprise one or more uplink resources of an uplink physical channel.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the transmitting, via the second uplink BWP, the uplink signal comprises transmitting the uplink signal via the uplink physical channel of the second uplink BWP.

14. The method of claim 12 , wherein the uplink physical channel comprises a physical uplink control channel.

15. The method of claim 12 , wherein the uplink physical channel comprises a physical random access channel.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters indicate the one or more beam failure recovery resources.

17. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink signal comprises a scheduling request.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink signal comprises a random access preamble.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters further indicate one or more second RSs for the second cell.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the one or more configuration parameters further indicate an association between each of the one or more second RSs and each of the one or more beam failure recovery resources.

Assignments (1)
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
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62715372 · Aug 7, 2018
Related Publication 20200053613A1 · Feb 13, 2020
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