IP Library Granted Patent US 12,185,404
Granted Patent B2
US 12,185,404 · App. 17/635,438 · Granted Dec 31, 2024

Beam failure detection and recovery with multi-TRP and multi-panel transmission

Inventors: Allan Y. Tsai (Boonton, NJ); Patrick Svedman (Stockholm, SE); Qing Li (Princeton Junction, NJ); Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, NY); Lakshmi R. Iyer (King of Prussia, PA); Yifan Li (Conshohocken, PA); Mohamed Awadin (Plymouth Meeting, PA)
Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
H04W76/19H04L5/0048H04W24/08
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Patent No.
US 12,185,404
App. No.
17/635,438
Granted
Dec 31, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices may support BFD with multi-TRP transmission or support BFR with multi-TRP transmission, among other things. For BFD with multi-TRP transmission, there may be the explicit configuration or implicit configuration. With regard to BFR with multi-TRP transmission there may: BFR using contention-free PRACH, BFR using PUCCH, BFR using contention-free 2-step RACH, or BFR using PUSCH.

Claims (33)

1. A user equipment comprising:

a processor configured to:

receive a beam failure detection (BFD) configuration, wherein the BFD configuration indicates a first set of reference signals (RSs) that are associated with a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second set of RSs that are associated with a second TRP, wherein the first TRP is associated with a first cell, and the second TRP is associated with a second cell;

determine whether measurements associated with the first set of RSs that are associated with the first TRP are below a threshold associated with BFD;

determine whether measurements associated with the second set of RSs that are associated with the second TRP are below the threshold associated with BFD; and

perform BFD for the first TRP based on the measurements associated with the first set of RSs being below the threshold associated with BFD, and perform BFD for the second TRP based on the measurements associated with the second set of RSs being below the threshold associated with BFD.

2. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to measure a radio link quality of the one or more RSs.

3. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to request, by a medium access control layer, a physical layer to perform new beam identification based on the first set of RSs and the second set of RSs, wherein the physical layer reports to the medium access control layer with a periodicity.

4. The user equipment of claim 3 , wherein the processor is configured to count beam failure instance indications from the physical layer separately for each radio link.

5. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the first cell and the second cell are the same.

6. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the first cell is different from the second cell.

7. The user equipment of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:

receive a beam failure recovery (BFR) configuration, wherein the BFR configuration comprises one or more physical random-access channel (PRACH) resources and the one or more PRACH resources are associated with a third TRP.

8. The user equipment of claim 7 , wherein the processor is configured to:

receive one or more recovery search space identifications, wherein the one or more recovery search space identifications are configured by a control resource set (CORESET).

9. The user equipment of claim 7 , wherein the processor is configured to:

initiate one or more contention-free random access (CFRA) transmissions based on BFD being detected on for the first TRP or the second TRP.

10. A method performed by a user equipment, the method comprising:

receiving a beam failure detection (BFD) configuration, wherein the BFD configuration indicates a first set of reference signals (RSs) that are associated with a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second set of RSs that are associated with a second TRP, wherein the first TRP is associated with a first cell, and the second TRP is associated with a second cell;

determining whether measurements associated with the first set of RSs that are associated with the first TRP are below a threshold associated with BFD;

determining whether measurements associated with the second set of RSs that are associated with the second TRP are below the threshold associated with BFD; and

performing BFD for the first TRP based on the measurements associated with the first set of RSs being below the threshold associated with BFD, and perform BFD for the second TRP based on the measurements associated with the second set of RSs being below the threshold associated with BFD.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising measuring a radio link quality of the one or more RSs.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising requesting, by a medium access control layer, a physical layer to perform new beam identification based on the first set of RSs and the second set of RSs, wherein the physical layer reports to the medium access control layer with a periodicity.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising counting beam failure instance indications from the physical layer separately for each radio link.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first cell and the second cell are the same.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the first cell is different from the second cell.

16. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:

receiving a beam failure recovery (BFR) configuration, wherein the BFR configuration comprises one or more physical random-access channel (PRACH) resources and the one or more PRACH resources are associated with a third TRP.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

receiving one or more recovery search space identifications, wherein the one or more recovery search space identifications are configured by a control resource set (CORESET).

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:

initiating one or more contention-free random access (CFRA) transmissions based on BFD being detected on for the first TRP or the second TRP.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 7, 2022
From: CONVIDA WIRELESS, LLC
To: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Reel/Frame 060300/0834 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 15, 2022
From: TSAI, ALLAN Y.; SVEDMAN, PATRICK; LI, QING; ZHANG, GUODONG; IYER, LAKSHMI R.; LI, YIFAN; AWADIN, MOHAMED
To: CONVIDA WIRELESS, LLC
Reel/Frame 059012/0111 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62887917 · Aug 16, 2019
Related Publication 20220295589A1 · Sep 15, 2022
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