IP Library Granted Patent US 12,063,521
Granted Patent B2
US 12,063,521 · App. 17/439,260 · Granted Aug 13, 2024

Terminal communication method and system for TCI STSTEM switching

Inventors: Naoki Fujimura (Tokyo, JP); Takuma Takada (Tokyo, JP); Yuichi Kakishima (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W16/28H04W24/10H04W76/20
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Patent No.
US 12,063,521
App. No.
17/439,260
Granted
Aug 13, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A user equipment includes a reception unit that performs a measurement for determining an optimum beam from among a plurality of reception beams that is usable in the user equipment; and a control unit that selects, based on information of a past measurement by the reception unit, a reception beam to be used in the user equipment, upon receiving, by the reception unit, a signal including information indicating to update a configuration.

Claims (15)

1. A terminal comprising:

a receiver that receives Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling for changing a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state; and

a processor that changes the TCI state,

wherein, when the receiver receives the RRC signaling, and if, during a predetermined time period before receiving the RRC signaling, a layer 1 Reference Signal Received Power (L1-RSRP) for a TCI state to be updated is measured and reporting of the L1-RSRP is made, the processor changes the TCI state to the TCI state to be updated with a small delay compared to a case where the L1-RSRP reporting for the TCI state to be updated is not made during the predetermined time period before receiving the RRC signaling, and

wherein the predetermined time period is from a transmission of a reference signal for the L1-RSRP reporting for the TCI state to be updated until exactly before receiving the RRC signaling.

2. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the change of the TCI state by the processor includes a change of a reception beam.

3. A communication method by a terminal, the method comprising:

receiving Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling for changing a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state,

wherein, when the RRC signaling is received, and if, during a predetermined time period before receiving the RRC signaling, a layer 1 Reference Signal Received Power (L1-RSRP) for a TCI state to be updated is measured and reporting of the L1-RSRP is made, changing the TCI state to the TCI state to be updated with a small delay compared to a case where the L1-RSRP reporting for the TCI state to be updated is not made during the predetermined time period before receiving the RRC signaling, and

wherein the predetermined time period is from a transmission of a reference signal for the L1-RSRP reporting for the TCI state to be updated until exactly before receiving the RRC signaling.

4. A radio communication system comprising:

a base station including a transmitter that transmits Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling for changing a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state; and

a terminal including a receiver that receives the RRC signaling; and a processor that changes the TCI state,

wherein, when the receiver receives the RRC signaling, and if, during a predetermined time period before receiving the RRC signaling, a layer 1 Reference Signal Received Power (L1-RSRP) for a TCI state to be updated is measured and reporting of the L1-RSRP is made, the processor changes the TCI state to the TCI state to be updated with a small delay compared to a case where the L1-RSRP reporting for the TCI state to be updated is not made during the predetermined time period before receiving the RRC signaling, and

wherein the predetermined time period is from a transmission of a reference signal for the L1-RSRP reporting for the TCI state to be updated until exactly before receiving the RRC signaling.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 29, 2021
From: FUJIMURA, NAOKI; TAKADA, TAKUMA; KAKISHIMA, YUICHI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 057967/0058 →
Continuity (1)
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