IP Library Granted Patent US 12,349,226
Granted Patent B2
US 12,349,226 · App. 17/916,810 · Granted Jul 1, 2025

Electronic device and method and computer-readable storage medium for determining a beam failure event of a multiple transceiving and receiving point (multi-TRP) wireless communication

Inventors: Jin Xu (Beijing, CN); Ying Zhou (Beijing, CN); Xinli Wang (Beijing, CN); Wenjing Ren (Beijing, CN); Xiaofeng Tao (Beijing, CN); Jianfei Cao (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
H04W76/19H04L1/203
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Patent No.
US 12,349,226
App. No.
17/916,810
Granted
Jul 1, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device that includes a processing circuit that obtains, from a base station, configuration information used for beam failure recovery of a user equipment in multiple transmission/reception points (TRPs). Here, the configuration information includes a first configuration or a second configuration, the first configuration being used for determination of a beam failure event of each of the multiple TRPs, and the second configuration being used for joint determination of beam failure events of the multiple TRPs. The processing circuit of the electronic device reports the beam failure event to the base station on the basis of the configuration information.

Claims (62)

1. An electronic apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

processing circuitry, configured to:

acquire, from a base station, configuration information for beam failure recovery of user equipment (UE) in multiple Transceiving and Receiving Point (multi-TRP) communication,

wherein the configuration information comprises a first configuration and a second configuration, the first configuration being used for determination of a beam failure event of each of multiple TRPs, and the second configuration being used for joint determination of a beam failure event of the multiple TRPs; and

report, based on the configuration information, the beam failure event to the base station,

wherein the first configuration comprises one or more of the following:

a block error rate (BLER) threshold for each TRP,

a first counter counting the number of times of physical layer beam failure for each TRP, and

a first maximum counting threshold of the first counter, in response to the first configuration, the processing circuitry is configured to:

increase, in a case that the physical layer beam failure event occurs to one of the multiple TRPs, the first counter of the TRP by 1; and

determine, in a case that the counting number of the first counter reaches the first maximum counting threshold, a beam failure event occurs to the TRP, and report the beam failure event to the base station.

2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the configuration information further comprises information indicating a type of a transmission scenario, and

wherein the type of transmission scenario comprises one of enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC).

3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine, according to the indicated type of transmission scenario, to perform reporting of the beam failure event based on the first configuration or the second configuration.

4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to report, in a case that it is determined that beam failure events occur to more than one TRP, to the base station the beam failure events of the more than one TRP respectively.

5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein BLER thresholds are same for respective TRPs, or first maximum counting thresholds are same for first counters of respective TRPs.

6. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second configuration comprises one or more of the following:

a weighting parameter for calculating a joint BLER of the multiple TRPs,

a joint BLER threshold, a second counter counting the number of times of joint physical layer beam failure for the multiple TRPs, and

a second maximum counting threshold of the second counter,

in response to the second configuration, the processing circuitry is configured to;

increase, in a case that the joint physical layer beam failure event occurs to the multiple TRPs, the second counter by 1; and

determine, in a case that the counting number of the second counter reaches the second maximum counting threshold, that a joint beam failure event occurs to the multiple TRPs, and report the joint beam failure event to the base station.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6 ,

wherein the processing circuitry is configured to calculate a weighted sum of BLERs of the respective TRPs based on the weighting parameter, and use the calculated weighted sum as the joint BLER, and

wherein the weighting parameter is set for each TRP and is a constant ranging from 0 to 1, and a sum of all the weighting parameters is 1.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to detect the BLER of a beam failure detection reference signal configured for each TRP, as the BLER of the TRP.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to report the beam failure event to the base station via a link recovery request (LRR).

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8 ,

wherein the LRR has a particular sequence format, to indicate that the beam failure event has occurred; and

wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to transmit, via a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE), information indicating the TRP to which the beam failure event has occurred to the base station and information indicating a candidate beam of the TRP to which the beam failure event has occurred.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to indicate the TRP to which the beam failure event has occurred with a control resource set pool index (CORESETPoolIndex).

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the LRR comprises the information indicating the TRP to which the beam failure event has occurred.

13. The electronic apparatus according to claim 12 ,

wherein the processing circuitry is configured to indicate the TRP to which the beam failure event has occurred with a CORESETPoolIndex; and

the processing circuitry is further configured to transmit, via a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE), information of a candidate beam of the TRP to which the beam failure event has occurred, to the base station.

14. An electronic apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:

processing circuitry, configured to:

transmit, to user equipment (UE), configuration information for beam failure recovery of the UE in multiple Transceiving and Receiving Point (multi-TRP) communication, wherein the configuration information comprises first configuration or second configuration, the first configuration being used for determination of a beam failure event of each of multiple TRPs, and the second configuration being used for joint determination of a beam failure event of the multiple TRPs; and

acquire, from the UE, report of the UE for a beam failure event based on the configuration information, wherein

the first configuration comprises one or more of the following:

a block error rate (BLER) threshold for each TRP,

a first counter counting the number of times of physical layer beam failure for each TRP, and

a first maximum counting threshold of the first counter; and

the second configuration comprises one or more of the following:

a weighting parameter for calculating a joint BLER of the multiple TRPs,

a joint BLER threshold, a second counter counting the number of times of joint physical layer beam failure of the multiple TRPs, and

a second maximum counting threshold for the second counter.

15. The electronic apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to acquire, in a case that beam failure events occur to more than one TRP, report of the beam failure events of the more than one TRP from the UE.

16. The electronic apparatus according to claim 14 , the processing circuitry is configured to obtain the report via link recovery request (LRR).

17. A method for wireless communications, the method performed by an electronic apparatus and comprising:

acquiring, from a base station, configuration information for beam failure recovery of user equipment (UE) in multiple Transceiving and Receiving Point (multi-TRP) communication,

wherein the configuration information comprises first configuration and second configuration, the first configuration being used for determination of a beam failure event of each of multiple TRPs, and the second configuration being used for joint determination of a beam failure event of the multiple TRPs; and

reporting, based on the configuration information, the beam failure event to the base station,

wherein the first configuration comprises one or more of the following:

a block error rate (BLER) threshold for each TRP,

a first counter counting the number of times of physical layer beam failure for each TRP, and

a first maximum counting threshold of the first counter,

in response to the first configuration, the method further comprises:

increasing, in a case that the physical layer beam failure event occurs to one of the multiple TRPs, the first counter of the TRP by 1; and

determining, in a case that the counting number of the first counter reaches the first maximum counting threshold, a beam failure event occurs to the TRP, and reporting the beam failure event to the base station.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 4, 2022
From: XU, JIN; ZHOU, YING; WANG, XINLI; REN, WENJING; TAO, XIAOFENG; CAO, JIANFEI
To: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061296/0762 →
Priority Claims (1)
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