System and method for beam switching and reporting
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsMuhammad Nazmul Islam, Bilal Sadiq, Tao Luo, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li
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Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums associated with a user equipment (UE) and a base station are provided for herein. In aspects, a UE may receive, from a base station, a beam modification command indicating at least one beam index for communicating through at least one beam on at least one channel. In an aspect, each beam index of the at least one beam index may indicate at least a direction for communicating through a corresponding beam of the at least one beam. The UE may communicate, with the base station, through the at least one beam corresponding to the at least one beam index on the at least one channel.
Claims29
A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
- receiving, from a base station, a beam modification command indicating at least one beam index for communicating through at least one beam on at least one channel and indicating the at least one channel corresponding to the at least one beam, each beam index of the at least one beam index indicating at least a direction for communicating through a corresponding beam of the at least one beam, wherein the beam modification command is received on a control channel and the at least one channel comprises a downlink data channel;
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- communicating, with the base station, through the at least one beam corresponding to the at least one beam index on the at least one channel.
An apparatus for wireless communication, the apparatus comprising:
- means for receiving, from a base station, a beam modification command indicating at least one beam index for communicating through at least one beam on at least one channel and indicating the at least one channel corresponding to the at least one beam index, each beam index of the at least one beam index indicating at least a direction for communicating through a corresponding beam of the at least one beam, wherein the beam modification command is received on a control channel and the at least one channel comprises a downlink data channel;
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- means for communicating, with the base station, through the at least one beam corresponding to the at least one beam index on the at least one channel.
An apparatus for wireless communication, the apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
- receive, from a base station, a beam modification command indicating at least one beam index for communicating through at least one beam on at least one channel and indicating the at least one channel corresponding to the at least one beam index, each beam index of the at least one beam index indicating at least a direction for communicating through a corresponding beam of the at least one beam, wherein the beam modification command is received on a control channel and the at least one channel comprises a downlink data channel;
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- communicate, with the base station, through the at least one beam corresponding to the at least one beam index on the at least one channel.
A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing computer-executable code for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), comprising code to:
- receive, from a base station, a beam modification command indicating at least one beam index for communicating through at least one beam on at least one channel and indicating the at least one channel corresponding to the at least one beam index, each beam index of the at least one beam index indicating at least a direction for communicating through a corresponding beam of the at least one beam, wherein the beam modification command is received on a control channel and the at least one channel comprises a downlink data channel;
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- communicate, with the base station, through the at least one beam corresponding to the at least one beam index on the at least one channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.