Methods and apparatus for UE initiated beam reporting

1. A method of wireless communication at a User Equipment (UE), comprising:

waking up during an off period of a connected mode discontinuous reception (cDRX) cycle;

comparing a first metric of at least one of a plurality of candidate beams and a second metric of a current beam for communication with a base station, wherein at least one of the first metric or the second metric is signal quality associated with a synchronization signal block (SSB);

transmitting a scheduling request (SR) during the off period and prior to transmitting a beam report; and

transmitting the beam report to the base station, during the off period, based on the comparison of the first metric of the at least one of the plurality of candidate beams and the second metric of the current beam, wherein the beam report is transmitted to the base station via a periodic channel state information (CSI) physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) (P-CSI PUCCH).

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE transmits the beam report during the off period using a preconfigured resource.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the preconfigured resource comprises a periodic uplink control channel resource for a CSI report during the off period.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the SR is transmitted using a preconfigured, periodic SR uplink control channel resource.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the preconfigured resource comprises a periodic uplink control channel resource for beam failure recovery (BFR) during the off period.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

measuring a metric of each of the plurality of candidate beams for communication with the base station.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

selecting, during the off period of the cDRX cycle, the at least one of the plurality of candidate beams for communication with the base station.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

generating the beam report during the off period of the cDRX cycle based on the comparison of the first metric of the at least one of the plurality of candidate beams and the second metric of the current beam.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a signal from the base station, wherein the signal includes a medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC-CE) indicating beam switch information.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:

switching to a new UE beam for communication with the base station based on the beam switch information.

11. A method of wireless communication at a base station, comprising:

configuring a connected mode discontinuous reception (cDRX) cycle with a user equipment (UE);

receiving a scheduling request (SR) during an off period and prior to receiving a beam report; and

receiving the beam report from the UE during the off period of the cDRX cycle based on a preconfigured resource, wherein the beam report includes a comparison of a first metric of at least one of a plurality of candidate beams and a second metric of a current beam, and the beam report is received from the UE via a periodic channel state information (CSI) physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) (P-CSI PUCCH), wherein at least one of the first metric or the second metric is signal quality associated with a synchronization signal block (SSB).

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

switching to the at least one of the plurality of candidate beams from the current beam, during the off period, for communication with the UE in a following on period.

13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

transmitting a signal to the UE, wherein the signal includes a medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC-CE) indicating beam switch information based on the beam report from the UE.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the preconfigured resource comprises the P-CSI PUCCH, the method further comprising:

configuring the P-CSI PUCCH for communication with the UE during the off period.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the P-CSI PUCCH is configured within a time period of the SR.

16. The method of claim 11 , wherein the preconfigured resource comprises a periodic uplink control channel resource for a CSI report during the off period.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the SR is received using a preconfigured, periodic SR uplink control channel resource.

18. The method of claim 11 , wherein the preconfigured resource comprises a periodic uplink control channel resource for beam failure recovery (BFR) during the off period.

19. An apparatus for wireless communication at a User Equipment (UE), comprising:

a memory; and

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

wake up during an off period of a connected mode discontinuous reception (cDRX) cycle;

compare a first metric of at least one of a plurality of candidate beams and a second metric of a current beam for communication with a base station, wherein at least one of the first metric or the second metric is signal quality associated with a synchronization signal block (SSB);

transmit a scheduling request (SR) during the off period and prior to transmitting a beam report; and

transmit the beam report to the base station, during the off period, based on the comparison of the first metric of the at least one of the plurality of candidate beams and the second metric of the current beam, wherein the beam report is transmitted to the base station via a periodic channel state information (CSI) physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) (P-CSI PUCCH).

20. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the UE transmits the beam report during the off period using a preconfigured resource;

wherein the preconfigured resource comprises a periodic uplink control channel resource for a channel state information (CSI) report during the off period.

21. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the SR is transmitted using a preconfigured, periodic SR uplink control channel resource.

22. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the UE transmits the beam report during the off period using a preconfigured resource;

wherein the preconfigured resource comprises a periodic uplink control channel resource for beam failure recovery (BFR) during the off period.

23. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

measure a metric of each of the plurality of candidate beams for communication with the base station.

24. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

select, during the off period of the cDRX cycle, the at least one of the plurality of candidate beams for communication with the base station.

25. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive a signal from the base station, wherein the signal includes a medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC-CE) indicating beam switch information; and

switch to a new UE beam for communication with the base station based on the beam switch information.

26. An apparatus for wireless communication at a base station, comprising:

a memory; and

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

configure a connected mode discontinuous reception (cDRX) cycle with a user equipment (UE);

receive a scheduling request (SR) during an off period and prior to receiving a beam report; and

receive the beam report from the UE during the off period of the cDRX cycle based on a preconfigured resource, wherein the beam report includes a comparison of a first metric of at least one of a plurality of candidate beams and a second metric of a current beam, and the beam report is received from the UE via a periodic channel state information (CSI) physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) (P-CSI PUCCH), wherein at least one of the first metric or the second metric is signal quality associated with a synchronization signal block (SSB).

27. The apparatus of claim 26 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

switch to the at least one of the plurality of candidate beams from the current beam, during the off period, for communication with the UE in a following on period.