L1-SINR measurement period based on channel measurement resource (CMR) and interference measurement resource (IMR)

1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless network, comprising:

calculating a measurement period for measuring signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) for a serving cell within a frequency range based on a channel measurement resource (CMR) and an interference measurement resource (IMR), wherein the calculating includes evaluation of a sharing factor P, which is a maximum of P CMR of the CMR and P IMR of the IMR, and wherein the P CMR and the P IMR are evaluated, at least in part, based on periodicity of the CMR and the IMR in relation to other periodic measurements performed by the UE;

performing a channel measurement and an interference measurement using the CMR and the IMR, respectively, over the measurement period;

calculating the SINR based on the channel measurement and the interference measurement; and

transmitting an SINR measurement report indicating the calculated SINR to a base station.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the P CMR and the P IMR are evaluated independently of each other.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sharing factor P extends the measurement period during which the UE measures the CMR and the IMR that are not overlapping with a synchronous signal block (SSB) measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window and are not overlapping with a measurement gap.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the CMR is a synchronous signal block (SSB) resource or a non-zero-power (NZP) CSI-RS resource.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the IMR is a non-zero-power (NZP) CSI-RS resource or a zero-power (ZP) channel state information interference measurement (CSI-IM) resource.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the calculating further includes evaluation of a beamforming scaling factor N based on configurations of the CMR and not based on configurations of the IMR.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the evaluation of the beamforming scaling factor N for an NZP CSI-RS configured as the CMR is based on whether the NZP CSI-RS is periodic, semi-persistent, or aperiodic, whether a repetition parameter is set to ON or OFF, and whether quasi-collocation (QCL) information of the NZP CSI-RS is configured.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein N=1 for a periodic or semi-persistent NZP CSI-RS configured as the CMR with repetition OFF and the QCL information is configured for all CMRs in a CMR set configured for the UE.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein N=ceil(maxNumberRxBeam/Nres_per_set) for a periodic or semi-persistent NZP CSI-RS configured as the CMR with repetition ON and the QCL information is configured for all CMRs in a CMR set configured for the UE, where maxNumberRxBeam is the maximum number of receive beams of the UE and Nres_per_set is the number of CMRs in the CMR set.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein N=8 for an SSB configured as the CMR.

11. An apparatus for wireless communication, the apparatus being a user equipment (UE) in a wireless network, comprising:

a memory to store configurations of at least a channel measurement resource (CMR) and an interference measurement resource (IMR);

transceiver circuitry operative to transmit a signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) measurement report indicating calculated SINR to a base station; and

processing circuitry coupled to the memory and operative to:

calculate a measurement period for measuring SINR for a serving cell within a frequency range based on the CMR and the IMR, wherein the calculating includes evaluation of a sharing factor P, which is a maximum of P CMR of the CMR and P IMR of the IMR, and wherein the P CMR and the P IMR are evaluated, at least in part, based on periodicity of the CMR and the IMR in relation to other periodic measurements performed by the UE;

perform a channel measurement and an interference measurement using the CMR and the IMR, respectively, over the measurement period; and

calculate the SINR based on the channel measurement and the interference measurement.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the P CMR and the P IMR are evaluated independently of each other.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the sharing factor P extends the measurement period during which the UE measures the CMR and the IMR that are not overlapping with a synchronous signal block (SSB) measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window and are not overlapping with a measurement gap.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the CMR is a synchronous signal block (SSB) resource or a non-zero-power (NZP) CSI-RS resource.

15. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the IMR is a non-zero-power (NZP) CSI-RS resource or a zero-power (ZP) channel state information interference measurement (CSI-IM) resource.

16. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein calculation of the measurement period further includes evaluation of a beamforming scaling factor N based on configurations of the CMR and not based on configurations of the IMR.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the evaluation of the beamforming scaling factor N for an NZP CSI-RS configured as the CMR is based on whether the NZP CSI-RS is periodic, semi-persistent, or aperiodic, whether a repetition parameter is set to ON or OFF, and whether quasi-collocation (QCL) information of the NZP CSI-RS is configured.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein N=1 for a periodic or semi-persistent NZP CSI-RS configured as the CMR with repetition OFF and the QCL information is configured for all CMRs in a CMR set configured for the UE.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein N=ceil(maxNumberRxBeam/Nres_per_set) for a periodic or semi-persistent NZP CSI-RS configured as the CMR with repetition ON and the QCL information is configured for all CMRs in a CMR set configured for the UE, where maxNumberRxBeam is the maximum number of receive beams of the UE and Nres_per_set is the number of CMRs in the CMR set.

20. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein N=8 for an SSB configured as the CMR.