5G new radio beam refinement procedure

An apparatus, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processor in communication with the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
• generate instructions to transmit, to a base station, a request to perform a beam quality measurement procedure for downlink receptions, wherein the transmitting the request is responsive to at least one trigger condition, wherein the request includes an indication of a preferred timing offset, and wherein the indication of the preferred timing offset specifies a first timing offset category among a plurality of timing offset categories;
• receive, from the base station, instructions to perform the beam quality measurement procedure;
• and
• generate instructions to transmit, to the base station, results of the beam quality measurement procedure.

A non-transitory computer readable memory medium comprising program instructions that, when executed, cause a user equipment device (UE) to:

• transmit, to a base station, a request to perform a beam quality measurement procedure for downlink receptions, wherein the request includes an indication of a preferred timing offset, and wherein the indication of the preferred timing offset specifies a first timing offset category among a plurality of timing offset categories;
• receive, from the base station, instructions to perform the beam quality measurement procedure, wherein the instructions to perform the beam quality measurement procedure includes a schedule for the beam quality measurement;
• and
• transmit, to the base station, results of the beam quality measurement procedure.