Reference signal reporting in a wireless communication system

A method performed by wireless device configured for use in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

• receiving a reference signal from network equipment using a receiver configuration, wherein the receiver configuration uses one or more physical resources at the wireless device;
• transmitting to the network equipment a report indicating that the wireless device received the reference signal using one or more logical resources at the wireless device, wherein the one or more logical resources are an abstraction of the one or more physical resources that the receiver configuration uses;
• receiving, from the network equipment, multiple tracking process base signals using different receiver configurations, each with tunable beamforming;
• transmitting reports to the network equipment indicating reception of the tracking process base signals respectively using one or more logical resources at the wireless device;
• responsive to transmitting the reports, configuring the wireless device with multiple tracking processes for the wireless device to track different reference signals by tuning the respective receiver configurations with which the wireless device received the tracking process base signals;
• receiving one or more activation messages instructing the wireless device to activate multiple ones of the tracking processes that do not use any of the same logical resources;
• determining device beams on which reference signals tracked by the activated tracking processes are received;
• and
• transmitting to the network equipment or receiving from the network equipment control data or user data on the determined device beams simultaneously.

Network equipment configured for use in a wireless communication system, the network equipment comprising:

• processing circuitry;
• and
• memory containing instructions executable by the processing circuitry whereby the network equipment is configured to:
• transmit a reference signal;
• responsive to transmitting the reference signal, receive a report from a wireless device indicating that the wireless device received the reference signal using one or more logical resources at the wireless device, wherein a logical resource is an abstraction of one or more physical resources that a receiver configuration at the wireless device uses for reception;
• transmit multiple tracking process base signals to the wireless device;
• responsive to receiving reports from the wireless device indicating reception of the tracking process base signals respectively using one or more logical resources at the wireless device, configure the wireless device with multiple tracking processes for separately tracking different reference signals by tuning receiver configurations with which the wireless device respectively received the tracking process base signals;
• select for simultaneous activation, from among the multiple tracking processes, multiple tracking processes that do not use any of the same logical resources;
• determine network beams on which reference signals respectively tracked by the selected tracking processes are transmitted;
• and
• transmit to the wireless device or receive from the wireless device control data or user data on the determined network beams simultaneously.

A wireless device configured for use in a wireless communication system, the wireless device comprising:

• processing circuitry;
• and
• memory containing instructions executable by the processing circuitry whereby the wireless device is configured to:
• receive a reference signal from network equipment using a receiver configuration, wherein the receiver configuration uses one or more physical resources at the wireless device;
• transmit to the network equipment a report indicating that the wireless device received the reference signal using one or more logical resources at the wireless device, wherein the one or more logical resources are an abstraction of the one or more physical resources that the receiver configuration uses;
• receive, from the network equipment, multiple tracking process base signals using different receiver configurations, each with tunable beamforming;
• transmit reports to the network equipment indicating reception of the tracking process base signals respectively using one or more logical resources at the wireless device;
• responsive to transmitting the reports, configure the wireless device with multiple tracking processes for the wireless device to track different reference signals by tuning the respective receiver configurations with which the wireless device received the tracking process base signals;
• receive one or more activation messages instructing the wireless device to activate multiple ones of the tracking processes that do not use any of the same logical resources;
• determine device beams on which reference signals tracked by the activated tracking processes are received;
• and
• transmit to the network equipment or receive from the network equipment control data or user data on the determined device beams simultaneously.