Granted Patent B2

US 12,609,751 · App. 17/423,580 · Granted Apr 21, 2026

Inventors: Qiuping Huang (Beijing, CN); Runhua Chen (Beijing, CN); Qiubin Gao (Beijing, CN)

Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.

H04B7/06964H04L5/0051H04W72/23H04W72/542H04W74/0841H04W76/19

Abstract

Claims (55)

1 . A method of reporting beam failure, applied to a terminal and comprising:

in response to detecting a beam failure of a Secondary Cell (Scell), determining a cell where a target reference signal is located as a target cell corresponding to the Scell, wherein the target reference signal is a reference signal that represents at least one candidate beam for a beam failure recovery of the Scell;

sending, through the target cell, a beam failure recovery message of the Scell to a base station;

wherein the beam failure recovery message comprises L bits of bitmap indication information, and each of the L bits of the bitmap indication information is configured to indicate a beam failure reporting situation of a corresponding one of a plurality of Scells, and Lis an integer greater than 1;

wherein the Scell corresponds to a plurality of reference signals for the beam failure recovery of the Scell, each of which corresponds to a corresponding one of a plurality of candidate beams, the determining a cell where a target reference signal is located as a target cell corresponding to the Scell comprises:

selecting, from the plurality of candidate beams, a candidate beam to be reported in the beam failure recovery message;

determining, from the plurality of reference signals, a reference signal corresponding to the selected candidate beam as the target reference signal; and

determining a cell where the reference signal corresponding to the selected candidate beam is located as the target cell.

2 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 1 , wherein the target cell is different from the Scell.

3 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 1 , wherein the sending through the target cell the beam failure recovery message of the Scell to the base station comprises at least one of:

sending the beam failure recovery message of the Scell to the base station, through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) of the target cell; or

sending the beam failure recovery message of the Scell to the base station, through a configured grant based Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) on the target cell.

4 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 3 , wherein the sending the beam failure recovery message of the Scell to the base station through the PUCCH of the target cell comprises:

sending the beam failure recovery message of the Scell to the base station, through PUCCH resource on the target cell configured by the base station for the terminal to send the beam failure recovery message of the Scell.

5 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 3 , wherein the sending the beam failure recovery message of the Scell to the base station, through a configured grant based Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) on the target cell comprises:

sending the beam failure recovery message of the Scell to the base station, through a Media Access Control Element (MAC CE) carried in the configured grant based PUSCH on the target cell.

6 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 1 , further comprising: in response to detecting that a beam failure occurs on at least two Scells, the sending, through the target cell, the beam failure recovery message of the Scell to the base station further comprises:

sending, to the base station, through the target cell, the beam failure recovery message configured to indicate the beam failure of each Scell; or

sending, to the base station, through the target cell, the beam failure recovery message configured to indicate the beam failure of a part of Scells in at least two Scells, and the beam failure recovery message configured to indicate the beam failure of another part of Scells in at least two Scells.

7 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 1 , wherein the target reference signal represents the at least one candidate beam to be reported in the beam failure recovery message.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the target cell comprises an uplink configuration for uplink transmission and a downlink configuration for downlink transmission.

9 . A method of reporting beam failure, applied to a base station and comprising:

obtaining a beam failure recovery message of a Secondary Cell (Scell) which is sent by a terminal to the base station through a target cell;

wherein the Scell corresponds to a plurality of reference signals for a beam failure recovery of the Scell, each of which corresponds to a corresponding one of a plurality of candidate beams for the beam failure recovery of the Scell;

wherein the target cell is a cell where a target reference signal is located, wherein the target reference signal is a reference signal corresponding to a candidate beam to be reported in the beam failure recovery message which is selected by the terminal from the plurality of candidate beams, and the target reference signal is a reference signal that represents the selected candidate beam for the beam failure recovery of the Scell;

wherein the beam failure recovery message comprises L bits of bitmap indication information, and each of the Z bits of the bitmap indication information is configured to indicate a beam failure reporting situation of a corresponding one of a plurality of Scells, and Lis an integer greater than 1.

10 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 9 , wherein the target cell is different from the Scell.

11 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 9 , wherein the obtaining the beam failure recovery message of the Scell sent by the terminal to the base station through the target cell comprises at least one of:

obtaining the beam failure recovery message of the Scell sent to the base station by the terminal, through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) of the target cell; or

obtaining the beam failure recovery message of the Scell sent to the base station by the terminal, through a configured grant based Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) on the target cell.

12 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 11 , wherein the obtaining the beam failure recovery message of the Scell sent to the base station by the terminal through the PUCCH of the target cell comprises:

obtaining the beam failure recovery message of the Scell sent by the terminal through PUCCH resource on the target cell configured by the base station for the terminal to send the beam failure recovery message of the Scell; and

the obtaining the beam failure recovery message of the Scell sent to the base station by the terminal, through a configured grant based PUSCH on the target cell comprises:

the beam failure recovery message of the Scell sent to the base station by the terminal is obtained through a Media Access Control Element (MAC CE) carried in the configured grant based PUSCH on the target cell.

13 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 9 , wherein the obtaining the beam failure recovery message of the Scell which is sent by the terminal to the base station through the target cell comprises:

obtaining the beam failure recovery message which is sent to the base station by the terminal through the target cell and configured to indicate the beam failure of the Scell; or

obtaining the beam failure recovery message, which is sent to the base station by the terminal through the target cell and configured to indicate the beam failure of a part of Scells in at least two Scells, and obtaining the beam failure recovery message configured to indicate the beam failure of another part of Scells in at least two Scells.

14 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 9 ,

further comprising:

sending, to the terminal, an indication signaling configured to indicate the target cell corresponding to the Scell.

15 . The method of reporting beam failure according to claim 9 , wherein the target reference signal represents the at least one candidate beam to be reported in the beam failure recovery message.

16 . A terminal, comprising: a transceiver, a memory, a processor and a program stored in the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the program to:

in response to detecting a beam failure of a Secondary Cell (Scell), determine a cell where a target reference signal is located as a target cell corresponding to the Scell, wherein the target reference signal is a reference signal that represents at least one candidate beam for a beam failure recovery of the Scell;

send, through the target cell, a beam failure recovery message of the Scell to a base station;

wherein the beam failure recovery message comprises L bits of bitmap indication information, and each of the L bits of the bitmap indication information is configured to indicate a beam failure reporting situation of a corresponding one of a plurality of Scells, and L is an integer greater than 1;

wherein the Scell corresponds to a plurality of reference signals for the beam failure recovery of the Scell, each of which corresponds to a corresponding one of a plurality of candidate beams, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the program to:

select, from the plurality of candidate beams, a candidate beam to be reported in the beam failure recovery message;

determine, from the plurality of reference signals, a reference signal corresponding to the selected candidate beam as the target reference signal; and

determine a cell where the reference signal corresponding to the selected candidate beam is located as the target cell.

17 . The terminal according to claim 16 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

send the beam failure recovery message of the Scell to the base station, through a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) of the target cell; or

send the beam failure recovery message of the Scell to the base station, through a configured grant based Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) on the target cell.

18 . The terminal according to claim 17 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

send the beam failure recovery message of the Scell to the base station, through a Media Access Control Element (MAC CE) carried in the configured grant based PUSCH on the target cell.

19 . A base station, comprising: a transceiver, a memory, a processor and a program stored in the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the program to perform the method of reporting beam failure according to claim 9 .

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