Hybrid mobility and radio resource management mechanisms

A network device comprising:

• a transceiver;
• a level one (L1) processing element coupled to the transceiver and configured to measure uplink (UL) reference signals from multiple beams received from one or more UEs via the transceiver to generate an L1 report describing the multiple beams;
• a mobility management processing element configured to determine, responsive to the L1 report, an L2 report corresponding to one or more of the multiple beams in a first cell that are consistent with configured parameters, the L2 report including a respective channel quality value for a first UE of the one or more UEs based on at least a first set of one or more beams of the multiple beams and for a second UE of the one or more UEs based on a second set of one or more beams of the multiple beams;
• a beam management processing element configured to operate in parallel with the mobility management processing element, the beam management processing element configured to determine, responsive to the L1 report, respective beam quality values for the multiple beams of the L1 report;
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• at least one report generator coupled to at least one of the beam management processing element or the mobility management processing element, the at least one report generator configured to generate, based on the beam quality values or based on at least one of the UE channel quality values of the first and second sets of one or more beams of the multiple beams, at least one of a report on beam quality or a report on UE channel quality.

A mobility management method for a UE device comprising:

• processing downlink (DL) reference signals from multiple beams to generate level 1 (L1) data describing the multiple beams;
• processing the L1 data to perform beam selection responsive to a first configured parameter having a first value, or beam consolidation responsive to the first configured parameter having a value different from the first value to identify a first set of one or more beams of the multiple beams associated with a first cell and a second set of one or more beams of the multiple beams associated with a second cell to determine respective cell quality values at the UE device for the first cell based on the first set of one or more beams and for the second cell based on the second set of one or more beams;
• applying level 3 (L3) processing, consistent with configured parameters, to the respective cell quality values, the L3 processing being separate from the beam consolidation and beam selection;
• determining, responsive to the L1 data and in parallel with the determining of the respective cell quality values, respective beam quality values for a plurality of selected beams of the multiple beams, each selected beam associated with a respective transmission reception point (TRP) of the first cell or with a base station of the first cell;
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• generating a first report including N of the respective beam quality values for N respective beams of the plurality of selected beams, where N is an integer greater than one, and a second report on the cell quality value of at least one of the first cell or the second cell.