Beam management for sidelink
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for beam management between two or more user equipment (UEs). In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and techniques for performing various beam management procedures (e.g., P1, P2, and P3 procedures) on a sidelink communication between two or more UEs.
1. A method of wireless communication by a second user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
receiving, from a first UE, a first signal in a burst of a first plurality of reference signals transmissions, wherein each of the burst of the first plurality of reference signals transmissions is transmitted via a first initial transmit beam according to a first time offset and a first periodic interval;
selecting, after receiving the burst of the first plurality of reference signals and based on the burst of the first plurality of reference signals, a receive beam for reception of data from the first UE on a sidelink between the second UE and the first UE;
selecting a second initial transmit beam corresponding to the receive beam; and
transmitting, to the first UE, a second signal in a burst of a second plurality of reference signals transmissions via the second initial transmit beam according to a second time offset and a second periodic interval, wherein the second signal is configured to provide the first UE with a basis for selecting a third beam for receiving data from the second UE on the sidelink.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein communication on the sidelink is performed according to a time division duplex (TDD) communication protocol.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the burst of the first plurality of reference signals and the second plurality of reference signals comprise a plurality of sidelink synchronization signal blocks (S-SSBs).
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the burst of the first plurality of reference signals and the burst of the second plurality of reference signals comprise one or more of a plurality of sounding reference signals (SRSs), a plurality of demodulation reference signals (DMRSs), or a plurality of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs).
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the burst of the first plurality of reference signals and the burst of the second plurality of reference signals comprise a plurality of beam management reference signals (BM-RSs) configured for sidelink beam management between the first UE and the second UE.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of: the first time offset or the second time offset are based on a configuration from a network via at least one of: a radio resource control (RRC) message, a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE), downlink control information (DCI), a sidelink resource of the first UE, or a periodic global positioning system (GPS) signal.
7. A method of wireless communication by a first user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
transmitting, to a second UE, a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) message configured to initiate a first transmit-beam refinement operation or a second transmit-beam refinement operation for beam management of a sidelink between the first UE and the second UE, wherein the first transmit-beam refinement operation comprises transmit-beam refinement of a transmit beam of the first UE and the second transmit-beam refinement operation comprises transmit-beam refinement of both the transmit beam of the first UE and a transmit beam of the second UE; and
in response to transmitting the PSCCH message, at least one of:
transmitting a burst of a first plurality of reference signals to the second UE, wherein each reference signal of the burst of the first plurality of reference signals is transmitted to the second UE via a different transmit beam of a first plurality of transmit beams of the first UE, wherein the first plurality of reference signals are configured to provide the second UE with a basis for selecting a first preferred transmit beam of the first plurality of transmit beams for the first UE to transmit data to the second UE on the sidelink; or
receiving a burst of a second plurality of reference signals from the second UE, wherein each reference signal of the burst of the second plurality of reference signals is associated with a different transmit beam of a second plurality of transmit beams of the second UE, wherein the second plurality of reference signals are configured to provide the first UE with a basis for selecting a second preferred transmit beam of the second plurality of transmit beams for the second UE to transmit data to the first UE on the sidelink.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the message is configured to initiate the second transmit-beam refinement operation, further comprising:
in response to transmitting the burst of the first plurality of reference signals, receiving, from the second UE, a first report indicating the first preferred transmit beam of the first plurality of transmit beams; and
switching to the first preferred transmit beam for data transmission the second UE in response to the first report.
9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the message is configured to initiate the first transmit-beam refinement operation, further comprising:
receiving, from the second UE, a first report indicating the first preferred transmit beam of the first plurality of transmit beams;
receiving the burst of the second plurality of reference signals in response to the message and after transmitting the burst of the first plurality of reference signals;
measuring signal quality of one or more of the burst of the second plurality of reference signals; and
transmitting, to the second UE, a second report indicating a second preferred transmit beam of the second plurality of transmit beams for data transmission by the second UE.
10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the message is configured to initiate the second transmit-beam refinement operation, further comprising:
receiving the burst of the second plurality of reference signals in response to the message;
measuring signal quality of one or more of the burst of the second plurality of reference signals; and
transmitting, to the second UE, a first report indicating a first the second preferred transmit beam of the second plurality of transmit beams for data transmission by the second UE.
11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the message is configured to initiate the first transmit-beam refinement operation, further comprising:
transmitting, to the second UE, a first report indicating a first preferred transmit beam of the second plurality of transmit beams for data transmission by the second UE;
transmitting the first plurality of reference signals after receiving the second plurality of reference signals;
receiving, from the second UE, a second report indicating a second preferred transmit beam of the first plurality of transmit beams; and
switching to the second preferred transmit beam for data transmission the second UE in response to the second report.
12. The method of claim 7 , wherein the burst of the first plurality of reference signals is transmitted in a same slot as the message configured to initiate the first transmit-beam refinement operation or the second transmit-beam refinement operation.
13. The method of claim 10 , wherein one or more of the first report or the second report is transmitted using:
one or more PSCCH resources; or
one or more scheduled physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resources identified in the message.
14. The method of claim 11 , wherein one or more of the first report or the second report is transmitted using:
one or more scheduled physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resources identified in the message;
one or more PSFCH resources identified based on a sidelink resource comprised by the first UE; or
the PSCCH.
15. The method of claim 8 , wherein the message configured to initiate the transmit-beam refinement operation is further configured to indicate a time delay between resources used for transmission of the first plurality of reference signals and resources used for the first report.
16. The method of claim 9 , wherein the message configured to initiate the transmit-beam refinement operation is further configured to indicate a time delay between the message and resources used for transmission of the burst of the second plurality of reference signals.
17. The method of claim 8 , wherein the second plurality of reference signals are transmitted in a same slot as the first report.
18. A method of wireless communication by a first user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
transmitting, to a second UE, a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) message configured to initiate a first receive-beam refinement operation or a second receive-beam refinement operation for beam management of a sidelink between the first UE and the second UE, wherein the first receive-beam refinement operation comprises receive-beam refinement of a receive beam of the first UE and the second receive-beam refinement operation comprises receive-beam refinement of both the receive beam of the first UE and a receive beam of the second UE; and
in response to transmitting the PSCCH message, at least one of:
transmitting a burst of a first plurality of reference signals to the second UE, wherein each reference signal of the burst of the first plurality of reference signals is transmitted to the second UE via a first transmit beam of the first UE, wherein the first plurality of reference signals are configured to provide the second UE with a basis for selecting a first refined receive-beam for receiving data from the first UE on the sidelink; or
receiving a burst of a second plurality of reference signals from the second UE, wherein each reference signal of the burst of the second plurality of reference signals is associated with a second transmit beam of the second UE, wherein the second plurality of reference signals are configured to provide the first UE with a basis for selecting a second refined receive-beam for receiving data from the second UE on the sidelink.
19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the message is configured to initiate the second receive-beam refinement operation, and wherein the receive-beam refinement operation does not include receiving the burst of the second plurality of reference signals.
20. The method of claim 18 , wherein the message is configured to initiate the first receive-beam refinement operation, and wherein the receive-beam refinement operation comprises:
transmitting the burst of the first plurality of reference signals to the second UE;
receiving after transmitting the burst of the first plurality of reference signals to the second UE, the burst of the second plurality of reference signals from the second UE, wherein the each reference signal of the burst of the second plurality of reference signals is received using a different receive-beam of the first UE;
measuring signal quality of one or more of the second plurality of reference signals; and
determining the second refined receive-beam, for receiving data on the sidelink, from different receive-beams based on the measured signal quality of the burst of the second plurality of reference signals.
21. The method of claim 18 , wherein the message is configured to initiate the second receive-beam refinement operation, and wherein the receive-beam refinement operation does not include transmitting the burst of the first plurality of reference signals to the second UE, the method further comprising:
measuring signal quality of one or more of the burst of the second plurality of reference signals; and
determining a refined receive-beam from a first plurality of receive-beams based on the measured signal quality of the burst of the first plurality of reference signals.
22. The method of claim 18 , wherein the message is configured to initiate the first receive-beam refinement operation, and wherein the receive-beam refinement operation comprises:
transmitting the burst of the first plurality of reference signals to the second UE after receiving the burst of the second plurality of reference signals from the second UE.
23. The method of claim 18 , wherein one or more of the burst of the first plurality of reference signals or the burst of the second plurality of reference signals comprises one or more of a plurality of sounding reference signals (SRSs), a plurality of demodulation reference signals (DMRSs), a plurality of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs), or a plurality of beam management reference signals (BM-RSs).
24. The method of claim 18 , wherein the burst of the first plurality of reference signals is transmitted in a same slot as the message configured to initiate the first receive-beam refinement operation or the second receive-beam refinement operation.
25. The method of claim 18 , wherein the message configured to initiate the first receive-beam refinement operation or the second receive-beam refinement operation is further configured to indicate a time delay between the message and resources used for transmission of the burst of the first plurality of reference signals.
26. The method of claim 18 , wherein the message configured to initiate the first receive-beam refinement operation or the second receive-beam refinement operation is further configured to indicate a time delay between resources used for transmitting the burst of the second plurality of reference signals and resources used for transmitting the burst of the first plurality of reference signals.
27. The method of claim 18 , wherein the message configured to initiate the first receive-beam refinement operation or the second receive-beam refinement operation is further configured to indicate a time delay between the message and resources used for transmitting the burst of the second plurality of reference signals.