IP Library Granted Patent US 12,150,039
Granted Patent B2
US 12,150,039 · App. 17/417,611 · Granted Nov 19, 2024

Downlink reception signal collision avoidance

Inventors: Qiming Li (Cupertino, CA); Jie Cui (Cupertino, CA); Yang Tang (Cupertino, CA); Hua Li (Cupertino, CA); Rui Huang (Cupertino, CA)
Assignee: APPLE INC.
H04W48/16H04B7/0695H04W24/10
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Patent No.
US 12,150,039
App. No.
17/417,611
Granted
Nov 19, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An approach is described for a user equipment (UE) that includes radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry. The front end circuitry receives an indication from a network entity node, wherein the indication is indicative of a first fraction for a first radio resource management (RRM) procedure and a second fraction for a second RRM procedure. The processor circuitry performs a first measurement of the first RRM procedure in a first fraction of a measurement period. The processor circuitry further performs a second measurement of the second RRM procedure in a second evaluation period, wherein the second evaluation period is the second fraction of the measurement period.

Claims (40)

1. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

radio front end circuitry; and

processor circuitry, coupled to the radio front end circuitry, and configured to:

receive, using the radio front end circuitry, an indication from a network entity node, wherein the indication is indicative of a first fraction for a first radio resource management (RRM) procedure and a second fraction for a second RRM procedure;

perform a first measurement of the first RRM procedure in a first evaluation period, wherein the first evaluation period is the first fraction of a measurement period; and

perform a second measurement of the second RRM procedure in a second evaluation period, wherein the second evaluation period is the second fraction of the measurement period,

wherein the first fraction and the second fraction vary based on a subcarrier spacing (SCS) or a transmission configuration indicator (TCI)-state.

2. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the first RRM procedure and the second RRM procedure are two of an L3 measurement procedure, a radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement procedure, an L1-RSRP (reference signal received power) measurement procedure, or a beam failure detection (BFD) procedure.

3. The UE of claim 1 , wherein a sum of the first fraction and the second fraction equals one.

4. The UE of claim 1 , wherein indicators are multibit signals, and the first fraction and the second fraction are pre-defined.

5. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the first fraction and the second fraction are based on avoidance of a collision of two signals, the two signals being two of synchronization signal block (SSB) for L3 measurement, SSB for RLM, SSB for BFD, SSB for L1-RSRP measurement, channel-state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) for L3 measurement, CSI-RS for RLM, CSI-RS for BFD, or CSI-RS for L1-RSRP measurement.

6. The UE of claim 1 ,

wherein the processor circuitry is further configured to perform generating a multiple beam indication of a capability by the UE to support multiple beams simultaneously, wherein the multiple beams include a transmission (Tx) beam or a reception (Rx) beam; and

wherein the radio front end circuitry is configured to transmit the multiple beam indication to the network entity node.

7. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the first fraction or the second fraction is represented by an information element having two bits.

8. A method by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving an indication from a network entity node, wherein the indication is indicative of a first fraction for a first radio resource management (RRM) procedure and a second fraction for a second RRM procedure;

performing a first measurement of the first RRM procedure in a first evaluation period, wherein the first evaluation period is the first fraction of a measurement period; and

performing a second measurement of the second RRM procedure in a second evaluation period, wherein the second evaluation period is the second fraction of the measurement period,

wherein the first fraction and the second fraction vary based on a subcarrier spacing (SCS) or a transmission configuration indicator (TCI)-state.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the first RRM procedure and the second RRM procedure are two of an L3 measurement procedure, a radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement procedure, an L1-RSRP (reference signal received power) measurement procedure, or a beam failure detection (BFD) procedure.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein a sum of the first fraction and the second fraction equals one.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein indicators are multibit signals, and the first fraction and the second fraction are pre-defined.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the first fraction and the second fraction are based on avoidance of a collision of two signals, the two signals being two of synchronization signal block (SSB) for L3 measurement, SSB for RLM, SSB for BFD, SSB for L1-RSRP measurement, channel-state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) for L3 measurement, CSI-RS for RLM, CSI-RS for BFD, or CSI-RS for L1-RSRP measurement.

13. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

generating a multiple beam indication of a capability by the UE to support multiple beams simultaneously, wherein the multiple beams include a transmission (Tx) beam or a reception (Rx) beam; and

transmitting the multiple beam indication to the network entity node.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the first fraction or the second fraction is represented by an information element having two bits.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions to cause an electronic device, upon execution of the instructions by one or more processors of the electronic device, to perform one of more elements of a method, the method comprising:

receiving an indication from a network entity node, wherein the indication is indicative of a first fraction for a first radio resource management (RRM) procedure and a second fraction for a second RRM procedure;

performing a first measurement of the first RRM procedure in a first evaluation period, wherein the first evaluation period is the first fraction of a measurement period; and

performing a second measurement of the second RRM procedure in a second evaluation period, wherein the second evaluation period is the second fraction of the measurement period,

wherein the first fraction and the second fraction vary based on a subcarrier spacing (SCS) or a transmission configuration indicator (TCI)-state.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein the first RRM procedure and the second RRM procedure are two of an L3 measurement procedure, a radio link monitoring (RLM) measurement procedure, an L1-RSRP (reference signal received power) measurement procedure, or a beam failure detection (BFD) procedure.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein a sum of the first fraction and the second fraction equals one.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein the first fraction and the second fraction are based on avoidance of a collision of two signals, the two signals being two of synchronization signal block (SSB) for L3 measurement, SSB for RLM, SSB for BFD, SSB for L1-RSRP measurement, channel-state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) for L3 measurement, CSI-RS for RLM, CSI-RS for BFD, or CSI-RS for L1-RSRP measurement.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein the method further comprises:

generating a multiple beam indication of a capability by the UE to support multiple beams simultaneously, wherein the multiple beams include a transmission (Tx) beam or a reception (Rx) beam; and

transmitting the multiple beam indication to the network entity node.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein the first fraction or the second fraction is represented by an information element having two bits.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 5, 2022
From: LI, QIMING; CUI, JIE; TANG, YANG
To: APPLE INC.
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62798881 · Jan 30, 2019
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