M-TRP beam failure indication
There is provided a method for a user equipment for detecting a beam failure on at least one transmission/reception point, TRP, the UE being configured to communicate with a plurality of TRPs; based on the detecting, encoding a beam failure indication data to a beam failure recovery, BFR, media access control, MAC, control element, CE, wherein the beam failure indication data indicates the beam failure on the at least one TRP; and transmitting the BFR MAC CE to a network element of a wireless communication network.
1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory including computer program code;
the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
detecting a beam failure on one transmission/reception point, TRP, the apparatus being configured to communicate with a plurality of TRPs of a cell, wherein each TRP of the plurality of TRPs is associated with a CORESETPoolIndex value, and each CORESETPoolIndex value is associated with at least one beam failure detection reference signal, BFD-RS, set, and wherein a beam failure on a TRP is determined based on a failure condition of the at least one BFD-RS set associated to the TRP;
based on the detecting, encoding a beam failure indication data to a beam failure recovery, BFR, media access control, MAC, control element, CE, wherein the beam failure indication data indicates the beam failure on one TRP of the plurality of TRPs, wherein the beam failure indication data comprises an information element indicating that the beam failure is partial in which beam failure is detected on one TRP of the plurality of TRPs and another information element indicating an index value of a TRP associated with the partial beam failure; and
transmitting the BFR MAC CE to a network element of the wireless communication network.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the BFR MAC CE is a BFR MAC CE or a truncated BFR MAC CE.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the BFR MAC CE is a CE configured for indicating a beam failure of a primary cell of a master cell group or a primary secondary cell of a secondary cell group.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the BFR MAC CE is transmitted in a contention based random access, CBRA, process.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the apparatus is further caused to perform:
triggering the CBRA process if the beam failure is detected on all of the plurality of TRPs, if the beam failure is detected on a default TRP, or if the beam failure is detected on a TRP configured to be monitored, by the apparatus, for a beam failure;
otherwise not triggering the CBRA process to transmit the BFR MAC CE.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the BFR MAC CE is multiplexed to an available uplink grant or to an uplink grant obtained via a functional or non-failed TRP.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is further caused to perform:
encoding, in the beam failure indication data, an information element indicating the cell in which the partial failure has taken place.
8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein, in case of a partial beam failure, the beam failure indication data comprises an information element indicating whether there is a candidate beam exceeding a predetermined threshold.
9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the beam failure indication data further comprises an information element indicating a candidate beam detected by the apparatus.
10. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory including computer program code;
the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
configuring a user equipment, UE, of the wireless communication network to monitor beam failure on at least one of a plurality of transmission/reception points, TRPs, the UE being configured to communicate with the plurality of TRPs of a cell, wherein each TRP of the plurality of TRPs is associated with a CORESETPoolIndex value, and each CORESETPoolIndex value is associated with at least one beam failure detection reference signal, BFD-RS, set, and wherein a beam failure on a TRP is determined based on a failure condition of the at least one BFD-RS set associated to the TRP,
wherein the configuring causes the UE to encode, based on detecting a beam failure, beam failure indication data indicating a beam failure on one TRP of the plurality of TRPs to a beam failure recovery, BFR, media access control, MAC, control element, CE, and to transmit the BFR MAC CE to the wireless communication network;
obtaining, from the UE, the BFR MAC CE including beam failure indication data, wherein the beam failure indication data comprises an information element indicating that the beam failure is partial in which beam failure is detected on one TRP of the plurality of TRPs and another information element indicating an index value of a TRP associated with the partial beam failure; and
determining, based on the beam failure indication data, that the UE has experienced a partial beam failure.
11. A method for a user equipment, UE, of a wireless communication network, the method comprising:
detecting a beam failure on one transmission/reception point, TRP, the UE being configured to communicate with a plurality of TRPs of a cell, wherein each TRP of the plurality of TRPs is associated with a CORESETPoolIndex value, and each CORESETPoolIndex value is associated with at least one beam failure detection reference signal, BFD-RS, set, and wherein a beam failure on a TRP is determined based on a failure condition of the at least one BFD-RS set associated to the TRP;
based on the detecting, encoding a beam failure indication data to a beam failure recovery, BFR, media access control, MAC, control element, CE, wherein the beam failure indication data indicates the beam failure on one TRP of the plurality of TRPs, wherein the beam failure indication data comprises an information element indicating that the beam failure is partial in which beam failure is detected on one TRP of the plurality of TRPs and another information element indicating an index value of a TRP associated with the partial beam failure; and
transmitting the BFR MAC CE to a network element of the wireless communication network.