Beam management in wireless networks
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to help identify one or more directions to transmit a first fifth generation new radio (“5G NR”) signal. In at least one embodiment, said one or more identified directions to be used to transmit a first 5G NR signal is based, at least in part, on channel state information of one or more second 5G NR signals.
1. A processor, comprising:
one or more circuits to use one or more neural networks to use channel state information of a first fifth generation new radio (“5G NR”) signal between a wireless device and a first cell to predict one or more beam directions to communicate between the wireless device and a second cell.
2. The processor of claim 1 , wherein the one or more circuits are to generate beam information comprising information identifying the one or more directions to transmit the first 5G NR signal.
3. The processor of claim 1 , wherein the one or more directions to transmit the first 5G NR signal is a proper subset of all directions to be used to transmit the first 5G NR signal.
4. The processor of claim 1 , wherein the one or more circuits are to cause a base station to generate, based at least in part on information about a first cell, beam information to be used to communicate with the second cell.
5. The processor of claim 1 , wherein the one or more circuits are to perform channel estimation on one or more second 5G NR signals propagating from a user equipment device (UE) to a base station to calculate channel state information.
6. The processor of claim 1 , wherein the one or more circuits are to cause a base station to:
select the one or more directions to transmit the first 5G NR signal from a list of directions to be used by the base station to communicate with the wireless device; and
provide the selected one or more directions to the wireless device.
7. The processor of claim 1 , wherein the first cell comprises a primary cell and the second cell comprises a secondary cell.
8. A system, comprising:
one or more processors to use one or more neural networks to use channel state information of a first fifth generation new radio (“5G NR”) signal between a wireless device and a first cell to predict one or more beam directions to communicate between the wireless device and a second cell.
9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the one or more processors are to cause a fifth generation new radio (“5G NR”) base station to select the one or more directions to transmit the first 5G NR signal from a plurality of directions to be used by the 5G NR base station to transmit signals to send to a user equipment device (UE).
10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the one or more processors are to cause a base station to use channel state information of one or more second 5G NR signals propagating through a first set of channels of a primary cell group to generate the one or more directions to transmit the first 5G NR signal to be used by a second set of channels of a secondary cell group.
11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the one or more processors are to cause a base station to select the one or more directions to transmit the first 5G NR signal as a subset of directions to be used by the base station to communicate with the wireless device and attach rank information to the selected one or more directions.
12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the channel state information comprises information about environmental conditions that affect one or more channels with an Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) or Rayleigh fading.
13. The system of claim 8 , wherein the one or more processors are to cause a base station to track which of the one or more directions to transmit the first 5G NR signal is used by one or more user equipment devices (UEs).
14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the one or more processors are to train one or more neural networks to generate beam information comprising information identifying the one or more directions to transmit the first 5G NR signal based, at least in part, on channel state information of one or more second 5G NR signals.
15. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions, which if performed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to use one or more neural networks to use channel state information of a first fifth generation new radio (“5G NR”) signal between a wireless device and a first cell to predict one or more beam directions to communicate between the wireless device and a second cell.
16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the set of instructions which if performed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate the one or more directions to be used to transmit the first 5G NR signal via one or more channels of the second cell, the second cell comprising a secondary cell group.
17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the set of instructions, which if performed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to cause a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) base station to predict the one or more beam directions to transmit the first 5G NR signal to be used by a first set of channels based, at least in part, channel state information of one or more second 5G NR signals using a second set of channels.
18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the set of instructions, which if performed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to cause a base station to provide the one or more beam directions to transmit the first 5G NR signal using a bitmap to a user equipment device (UE).
19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the channel state information comprises channel measurements on uplink transmissions of the first cell, the first cell comprising a primary cell group.
20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the set of instructions, which if performed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to train one or more neural networks, using channel state information from a primary cell group and synthetic data, to generate beam information comprising information identifying the one or more beam directions to transmit the first 5G NR signal.
21. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the set of instructions, which if performed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to use the one or more neural networks to predict a proper subset of beam information, from an entirety of beam information, to be used by the wireless device to communicate with a base station via one or more channels.
22. A method, comprising:
predicting, using one or more neural networks, one or more beam directions to communicate between a wireless device and a second cell, using channel state information of a first fifth generation new radio (“5G NR”) signal between the wireless device and a first cell.
23. The method of claim 22 , further comprising causing a base station to infer one or more directions to be used to transmit the first 5G NR signal using channel measurements from one or more channels used by a user equipment device (UE) to communicate with the base station.
24. The method of claim 22 , wherein the channel state information comprises channel measurements on downlink transmissions of a primary cell group.
25. The method of claim 22 , wherein the one or more beam directions comprise beam directions from which a user equipment device (UE) is to select to communicate with a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) base station.
26. The method of claim 22 , further comprising causing a base station to rank the one or more beam directions to be used to transmit the first 5G NR signal to help a user equipment device (UE) select a beam direction from the one or more beam directions.
27. The method of claim 22 , further comprising using synthetic data comprising channel state information about one or more 5G NR signals to train one or more neural networks to predict beam information to be used by one or more channels to communicate with an user equipment device (UE).
28. The method of claim 22 , further comprising causing a base station to generate, based at least in part on information about a first wireless communication channel, beam information to be used to communicate with a second wireless communication channel.