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Granted Patent B2
US 12,207,145 · App. 18/771,668 · Granted Jan 21, 2025

Methods for relay measurements

Inventors: Oumer Teyeb (Montreal, CA); Martino Freda (Laval, CA); Jaya Rao (Montreal, CA); Tuong Hoang (Montreal, CA)
Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
H04W36/0058H04W36/0066H04W36/03H04W36/30
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Patent No.
US 12,207,145
App. No.
18/771,668
Granted
Jan 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

As disclosed herein, there is one or more system, device, and/or method that addresses one or more of the following, but is not limited to: wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU)(s) configured to send sidelink radio link measurements to a base station (e.g., gNB); WTRU(s) configured to consider CBR/CR levels for starting performing measurements on neighbor links/cells; WTRU(s) configured to consider CBR/CR levels in conjunction with SL RSRP/RSRQ/RSNI thresholds for reporting measurements; WTRU(s) configured to report sidelink measurements in different ways depending on the measurements being performed using data or discovery signals; relay WTRU(s) configured to forward/report sidelink measurements to a gNB; handover commands in a relay scenario based on measurements at a remote WTRU.

Claims (34)

1. A method implemented by a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising:

receiving configuration information through a relay WTRU connected to the WTRU, wherein the configuration information originates from a base station, wherein the configuration information comprises two or more thresholds for measurement reporting on one or more signals, wherein a first threshold is associated with sidelink Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurements and a second threshold is associated with sidelink discovery RSRP measurements, wherein the one or more signals are one or more sidelink transmissions;

measuring RSRP of one or more signals; and

upon determining at least a value, based on one or more RSRP measurements of the one or more signals, meets at least one of the first threshold or the second threshold, sending a measurement report to the base station, wherein the measurement report includes the value based on the one or more RSRP measurements of the one or more signals and a measurement type, wherein the measurement type indicates that the value was based on at least one data transmission or at least one discovery signal.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more signals include a transmission from a candidate relay WTRU to the WTRU.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more signals include a transmission from the relay WTRU to the WTRU.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuration information further includes Uu RSRP measurement information.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

receiving an RRCReconfiguration message from the base station for switching the WTRU to a direct Uu path after sending the measurement report to the base station.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

sending an RRCReconfigurationComplete to the base station after receiving the RRCReconfiguration message.

7. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

sending at least one Uu RSRP measurement to the base station based on the Uu RSRP measurement information.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the measurement report includes a WTRU's ID.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the measurement report is sent through the relay WTRU.

10. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the WTRU comprising:

a processor operatively connected to a transceiver, the processor and transceiver configured to receive configuration information through a relay WTRU connected to the WTRU, wherein the configuration information originates from a base station, wherein the configuration information comprises two or more thresholds for measurement reporting on one or more signals, wherein a first threshold is associated with sidelink Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurements and a second threshold is associated with sidelink discovery RSRP measurements, wherein the one or more signals are one or more sidelink transmissions;

the processor and transceiver configured to measure RSRP of one or more signals; and

upon determining at least a value, based on one or more RSRP measurements of the one or more signals, meets at least one of the first threshold or the second threshold, the processor and transceiver configured to send a measurement report to the base station, wherein the measurement report includes the value based on the one or more RSRP measurements of the one or more signals and a measurement type, wherein the measurement type indicates that the value was based on at least one data transmission or at least one discovery signal.

11. The WTRU of claim 10 , wherein the one or more signals include a transmission from a candidate relay WTRU to the WTRU.

12. The WTRU of claim 10 , wherein the one or more signals include a transmission from the relay WTRU to the WTRU.

13. The WTRU of claim 10 , wherein the configuration information includes Uu RSRP measurement information.

14. The WTRU of claim 13 , wherein the processor and transceiver are further configured to receive an RRCReconfiguration message from the base station for switching the WTRU to a direct Uu path after sending the measurement report to the base station.

15. The WTRU of claim 14 , wherein the processor and transceiver are further configured to send an RRCReconfigurationComplete to the base station after receiving the RRCReconfiguration message.

16. The WTRU of claim 13 , wherein the processor and transceiver are further configured to send at least one Uu RSRP measurement to the base station based on the Uu RSRP measurement information.

17. The WTRU of claim 10 , wherein the measurement report includes a WTRU's ID.

18. The WTRU of claim 10 , wherein the measurement report is sent through the relay WTRU.

19. A method implemented by a remote wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising:

receive configuration information, wherein the configuration information is received via a relay WTRU connected to the WTRU, wherein the configuration information originates from a base station, wherein the configuration information comprises one or more thresholds of sidelink Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurements for triggering measurement reporting, wherein a first threshold of the one or more thresholds is associated with measurement of one or more sidelink discovery signals, wherein a second threshold of the one or more thresholds is associated with measurement of one or more sidelink data transmissions;

measuring the RSRP of one or more signals, wherein the one or more signals are one or more sidelink discovery signals or one or more sidelink data transmissions; and

upon determining at least a value, based on one or more RSRP measurements of the one or more signals, meets at least one of the first threshold or the second threshold, sending a measurement report to the base station, wherein the measurement report includes the value based on the one or more RSRP measurements of the one or more signals and a type of the measurement, wherein the type of the measurement indicates that the value was based on one or more sidelink discovery signals or one or more sidelink data transmissions.

20. The method of claim 19 , further comprising:

receiving an RRCReconfiguration message from the base station for switching the WTRU to a direct Uu path after sending the measurement report to the base station; and

sending an RRCReconfigurationComplete to the base station after receiving the RRCReconfiguration message.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 18271967
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