Granted Patent B2

US 10,903,890 · App. 16/686,065 · Granted Jan 26, 2021

Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam (Littleton, MA); Tao Luo (San Diego, CA); Juergen Cezanne (Ocean Township, NJ); Sundar Subramanian (San Diego, CA); Ashwin Sampath (Skillman, NJ); Bilal Sadiq (Basking Ridge, NJ); Junyi Li (Chester, NJ)

Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated

H04B7/0695H04B7/0408H04B7/0421H04L5/0032H04L5/0048H04L27/2692H04W72/046H04W74/002H04W74/006H04L5/001H04L5/0023H04L27/2613H04L2027/0095H04W74/0833H04W88/08

Abstract

Claims (119)

1. A method of wireless communication by a base station providing a cell, the method comprising:

determining a first set of parameters associated with a first random access channel (RACH) procedure, wherein the first RACH procedure is associated with beam failure recovery by at least a first user equipment (UE) in the cell, and the first RACH procedure is different from a second RACH procedure associated with at least one of initial access, cell selection, cell reselection, loss of timing synchronization or handover in the cell; and

transmitting the first set of parameters in the cell to the first UE via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first set of parameters indicates at least one of a root sequence index associated with the first RACH procedure, a configuration index associated with the first RACH procedure, a received target power associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of maximum preamble transmission associated with the first RACH procedure, power ramping step associated with the first RACH procedure, candidate beam threshold for the first RACH procedure and PRACH frequency offset associated with the first RACH procedure.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining a second set of parameters associated with the second RACH procedure; and

transmitting the second set of parameters in the cell.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the first UE is time-synchronized in the cell before the transmitting of the first set of parameters, and the second RACH procedure is associated with at least one other UE that is time-unsynchronized in the cell.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the second set of parameters.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated the second set of parameters.

7. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:

receiving, from the first UE based on the first set of parameters, a first RACH preamble on a set of resources associated with the first RACH procedure, wherein the first RACH preamble indicates a request for the beam failure recovery.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

identifying a beam index for communication with the first UE based on the receiving of first RACH preamble.

9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:

receiving, from the first UE based on the second set of parameters, a second RACH preamble on a set of resources associated with the second RACH procedure, wherein the second RACH preamble is received before the first RACH preamble.

10. The method of claim 3 , wherein the second set of parameters is sent in a handover message, a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) message, or an other system information (OSI) message.

11. A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving, via radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a base station providing a cell, a first set of parameters associated with a first random access channel (RACH) procedure, wherein the first RACH procedure is associated with beam failure recovery by the UE in the cell, and the first RACH procedure is different from a second RACH procedure associated with at least one of initial access, cell selection, cell reselection, loss of timing synchronization or handover in the cell;

generating a first RACH preamble associated with the beam failure recovery based on the first set of parameters; and

transmitting the first RACH preamble to the base station.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first set of parameters indicates at least one of a root sequence index associated with the first RACH procedure, a configuration index associated with the first RACH procedure, a received target power associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of maximum preamble transmission associated with the first RACH procedure, power ramping step associated with the first RACH procedure, candidate beam threshold for the first RACH procedure and PRACH frequency offset associated with the first RACH procedure.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

receiving a second set of parameters associated with the second RACH procedure;

generating a second RACH preamble based on the second set of parameters; and

transmitting the second RACH preamble in the cell before the generating of the first RACH preamble.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the UE is time-synchronized in the cell before the transmitting of the first RACH preamble, and the UE that is time-unsynchronized in the cell before the transmitting of the second RACH preamble.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the second set of parameters.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated the second set of parameters.

17. The method of claim 13 , wherein the second set of parameters is received in a handover message, a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) message, or an other system information (OSI) message.

18. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

detecting failure of a serving beam used for communication between the UE and the base station; and

generating the first RACH preamble based on the detected failure of the serving beam.

19. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first RACH preamble indicates at least one of a request for the beam failure recovery or a second beam index corresponding to a second beam for communication with the base station.

20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising:

selecting the second beam index from a set of candidate beam indexes.

21. An apparatus for wireless communication by a base station providing a cell, the apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:

determine a first set of parameters associated with a first random access channel (RACH) procedure, wherein the first RACH procedure is associated with beam failure recovery by at least a first user equipment (UE) in the cell, and the first RACH procedure is different from a second RACH procedure associated with at least one of initial access, cell selection, cell reselection, loss of timing synchronization or handover in the cell; and

transmit the first set of parameters in the cell to the first UE via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

22. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the first set of parameters indicates at least one of a root sequence index associated with the first RACH procedure, a configuration index associated with the first RACH procedure, a received target power associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of maximum preamble transmission associated with the first RACH procedure, power ramping step associated with the first RACH procedure, candidate beam threshold for the first RACH procedure and PRACH frequency offset associated with the first RACH procedure.

23. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

determine a second set of parameters associated with the second RACH procedure; and

transmit the second set of parameters in the cell.

24. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein the first UE is time-synchronized in the cell before the transmission of the first set of parameters, and the second RACH procedure is associated with at least one other UE that is time-unsynchronized in the cell.

25. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the second set of parameters.

26. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated the second set of parameters.

27. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive, from the first UE based on the first set of parameters, a first RACH preamble on a set of resources associated with the first RACH procedure, wherein the first RACH preamble indicates a request for the beam failure recovery.

28. The apparatus of claim 27 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

identify a beam index for communication with the first UE based on the reception of first RACH preamble.

29. The apparatus of claim 27 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive, from the first UE based on the second set of parameters, a second RACH preamble on a set of resources associated with the second RACH procedure, wherein the second RACH preamble is received before the first RACH preamble.

30. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein the second set of parameters is sent in a handover message, a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) message, or an other system information (OSI) message.

31. An apparatus for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:

receive, via radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a base station providing a cell, a first set of parameters associated with a first random access channel (RACH) procedure, wherein the first RACH procedure is associated with beam failure recovery by the UE in the cell, and the first RACH procedure is different from a second RACH procedure associated with at least one of initial access, cell selection, cell reselection, loss of timing synchronization or handover in the cell;

generate a first RACH preamble associated with the beam failure recovery based on the first set of parameters; and

transmit the first RACH preamble to the base station.

32. The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the first set of parameters indicates at least one of a root sequence index associated with the first RACH procedure, a configuration index associated with the first RACH procedure, a received target power associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of maximum preamble transmission associated with the first RACH procedure, power ramping step associated with the first RACH procedure, candidate beam threshold for the first RACH procedure and PRACH frequency offset associated with the first RACH procedure.

33. The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive a second set of parameters associated with the second RACH procedure;

generate a second RACH preamble based on the second set of parameters; and

transmit the second RACH preamble in the cell before the generation of the first RACH preamble.

34. The apparatus of claim 33 , wherein the UE is time-synchronized in the cell before the transmission of the first RACH preamble, and the UE that is time-unsynchronized in the cell before the transmission of the second RACH preamble.

35. The apparatus of claim 33 , wherein an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the second set of parameters.

36. The apparatus of claim 33 , wherein an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated the second set of parameters.

37. The apparatus of claim 33 , wherein the second set of parameters is received in a handover message, a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) message, or an other system information (OSI) message.

38. The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

detect failure of a serving beam used for communication between the UE and the base station; and

generate the first RACH preamble based on the detected failure of the serving beam.

39. The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the first RACH preamble indicates at least one of a request for the beam failure recovery or a second beam index corresponding to a second beam for communication with the base station.

40. The apparatus of claim 39 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

select the second beam index from a set of candidate beam indexes.

41. An apparatus for wireless communication by a base station providing a cell, the apparatus comprising:

means for determining a first set of parameters associated with a first random access channel (RACH) procedure, wherein the first RACH procedure is associated with beam failure recovery by at least a first user equipment (UE) in the cell, and the first RACH procedure is different from a second RACH procedure associated with at least one of initial access, cell selection, cell reselection, loss of timing synchronization or handover in the cell; and

means for transmitting the first set of parameters in the cell to the first UE via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

42. The apparatus of claim 41 , wherein the first set of parameters indicates at least one of a root sequence index associated with the first RACH procedure, a configuration index associated with the first RACH procedure, a received target power associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of maximum preamble transmission associated with the first RACH procedure, power ramping step associated with the first RACH procedure, candidate beam threshold for the first RACH procedure and PRACH frequency offset associated with the first RACH procedure.

43. The apparatus of claim 41 , further comprising:

means for determining a second set of parameters associated with the second RACH procedure; and

means for transmitting the second set of parameters in the cell.

44. The apparatus of claim 43 , wherein the first UE is time-synchronized in the cell before the transmission of the first set of parameters, and the second RACH procedure is associated with at least one other UE that is time-unsynchronized in the cell.

45. The apparatus of claim 43 , wherein an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the second set of parameters.

46. The apparatus of claim 43 , wherein an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated the second set of parameters.

47. The apparatus of claim 43 , further comprising:

means for receiving, from the first UE based on the first set of parameters, a first RACH preamble on a set of resources associated with the first RACH procedure, wherein the first RACH preamble indicates a request for the beam failure recovery.

48. The apparatus of claim 47 , further comprising:

means for identifying a beam index for communication with the first UE based on the reception of first RACH preamble.

49. The apparatus of claim 47 , further comprising:

means for receiving, from the first UE based on the second set of parameters, a second RACH preamble on a set of resources associated with the second RACH procedure, wherein the second RACH preamble is received before the first RACH preamble.

50. The apparatus of claim 43 , wherein the second set of parameters is sent in a handover message, a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) message, or an other system information (OSI) message.

51. A apparatus of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving, via radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a base station providing a cell, a first set of parameters associated with a first random access channel (RACH) procedure, wherein the first RACH procedure is associated with beam failure recovery by the UE in the cell, and the first RACH procedure is different from a second RACH procedure associated with at least one of initial access, cell selection, cell reselection, loss of timing synchronization or handover in the cell;

means for generating a first RACH preamble associated with the beam failure recovery based on the first set of parameters; and

means for transmitting the first RACH preamble to the base station.

52. The apparatus of claim 51 , wherein the first set of parameters indicates at least one of a root sequence index associated with the first RACH procedure, a configuration index associated with the first RACH procedure, a received target power associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first RACH procedure, a number of maximum preamble transmission associated with the first RACH procedure, power ramping step associated with the first RACH procedure, candidate beam threshold for the first RACH procedure and PRACH frequency offset associated with the first RACH procedure.

53. The apparatus of claim 51 , further comprising:

means for receiving a second set of parameters associated with the second RACH procedure;

means for generating a second RACH preamble based on the second set of parameters; and

means for transmitting the second RACH preamble in the cell before the generation of the first RACH preamble.

54. The apparatus of claim 53 , wherein the UE is time-synchronized in the cell before the transmission of the first RACH preamble, and the UE that is time-unsynchronized in the cell before the transmission of the second RACH preamble.

55. The apparatus of claim 53 , wherein an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of cyclic shifts for each root sequence associated with the second set of parameters.

56. The apparatus of claim 53 , wherein an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated with the first set of parameters is greater than an available number of preambles for each time frequency resource associated the second set of parameters.

57. The apparatus of claim 53 , wherein the second set of parameters is received in a handover message, a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) message, or an other system information (OSI) message.

58. The apparatus of claim 51 , further comprising:

means for detecting failure of a serving beam used for communication between the UE and the base station; and

means for generating the first RACH preamble based on the detected failure of the serving beam.

59. The apparatus of claim 51 , wherein the first RACH preamble indicates at least one of a request for the beam failure recovery or a second beam index corresponding to a second beam for communication with the base station.

60. The apparatus of claim 59 , further comprising:

means for selecting the second beam index from a set of candidate beam indexes.

61. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable code for wireless communication by a base station providing a cell, the code when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to:

determine a first set of parameters associated with a first random access channel (RACH) procedure, wherein the first RACH procedure is associated with beam failure recovery by at least a first user equipment (UE) in the cell, and the first RACH procedure is different from a second RACH procedure associated with at least one of initial access, cell selection, cell reselection, loss of timing synchronization or handover in the cell; and

transmit the first set of parameters in the cell to the first UE via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

62. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable code for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), the code when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to:

receive, via radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a base station providing a cell, a first set of parameters associated with a first random access channel (RACH) procedure, wherein the first RACH procedure is associated with beam failure recovery by the UE in the cell, and the first RACH procedure is different from a second RACH procedure associated with at least one of initial access, cell selection, cell reselection, loss of timing synchronization or handover in the cell;

generate a first RACH preamble associated with the beam failure recovery based on the first set of parameters; and

transmit the first RACH preamble to the base station.

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