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US 12,225,392 · App. 17/753,342 · Granted Feb 11, 2025

Terminal and communication method for beam failure recovery

Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi (Tokyo, JP); Yuki Matsumura (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W24/04H04W74/0833
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Patent No.
US 12,225,392
App. No.
17/753,342
Granted
Feb 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A terminal includes a transmitter that transmits a random access preamble; a receiver that receives a random access response; and a controller that uses a spatial filter applied to the transmission of the random access preamble for a transmission of an uplink control signal, in a time interval after the receiver receives the random access response until the receiver receives configuration information of another spatial filter.

Claims (22)

1. A terminal comprising:

a transmitter that transmits a random access preamble, wherein a spatial filter is applied to the transmission of the random access preamble;

a receiver that receives a random access response; and

a controller that is configured to perform a random access procedure for executing beam failure recovery,

wherein before a beam failure recovery time expires, the controller is configured to perform a contention-free random access procedure,

wherein, when the beam failure recovery time expires, the controller is configured to perform a contention-based random access procedure, the random access preamble being applied to the contention-based random access procedure, and

wherein the controller is configured to use the spatial filter applied to the transmission of the random access preamble for a transmission of an uplink control channel (PUCCH), in a time interval after 28 symbols from a last symbol of a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for the random access response and until the receiver receives an activation command for PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo or until the PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo is configured.

2. The terminal according to claim 1 , wherein, after the receiver receives the random access response, the controller sets an antenna port quasi-collocation parameter associated with an index for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring in a control resource set (CORESET) with an index 0, as an antenna port quasi-collocation parameter.

3. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein, with respect to monitoring of the PDCCH and receipt of a corresponding Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), the controller assumes a DeModulation Reference Signal (DM-RS) antenna port quasi-collocation parameter that is a same as a DM-RS antenna port quasi-collocation parameter associated with a Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel (SS/PBCH) block selected to transmit the random access preamble.

4. A communication method executed by a terminal, the method comprising:

transmitting a random access preamble, wherein a spatial filter is applied to the transmission of the random access preamble;

receiving a random access response; and

performing a random access procedure for executing beam failure recovery,

wherein before a beam failure recovery time expires, the performing performs a contention-free random access procedure,

wherein, when the beam failure recovery time expires, the performing performs a contention-based random access procedure, the random access preamble being applied to the contention-based random access procedure, and

wherein the performing uses the spatial filter applied to the transmission of the random access preamble for a transmission of an uplink control channel (PUCCH), in a time interval after 28 symbols from a last symbol of a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for the random access response and until receiving an activation command for PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo or until the PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo is configured.

5. A base station comprising:

a receiver that receives a random access preamble from a terminal, wherein a spatial filter is applied to the transmission of the random access preamble;

a transmitter that transmits a random access response; and

a controller that controls an uplink control channel (PUCCH) reception for which the spatial filter applied to the reception of the random access preamble is used, in a time interval after 28 symbols from a last symbol of a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for the random access response and until the transmitter transmits an activation command for PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo or until the PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo is configured in the terminal,

wherein the terminal is configured to perform a random access procedure for executing beam failure recovery, the random access procedure being a contention-free random access procedure before a beam failure recovery time expires, and

wherein the random access preamble is applied to a contention-based random access procedure for performing the beam failure recovery after the beam failure recovery time expires.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 19, 2022
From: TAKAHASHI, HIDEAKI; MATSUMURA, YUKI
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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