Methods for measurement reporting, a user equipment and network nodes

#The exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to wireless communication field and, more specifically, relate to methods, user equipment and network nodes for measurement reporting.

#This section is intended to provide a background or context to the present disclosure that is recited in the claims. The description herein may include concepts that could be pursued, but are not necessarily ones that have been previously conceived, implemented or described. Therefore, unless otherwise indicated herein, what is described in this section is not prior art to the description and claims in this application and is not admitted to be prior art by inclusion in this section.

#In the upcoming generation, communication at high frequency is under discussion. Due to severe path loss issues in the scenario of high frequency, high gain beamforming is needed to provide good coverage and high bitrate. Each beam is identified by a beam identifier and a user equipment, UE, can measure quality for individual beam. Beams from the UE's serving node can be acknowledged by the UE. However, beams from neighboring node can't be specifically acknowledged by the UE. In other words, except the beams from its serving node, UE does not know which beam is from which neighboring node.

#In the following, the disclosure will be discussed in greater detail by means of exemplary embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

#FIG. 1 illustrates a method embodiment implemented by a UE for measurement reporting based on report per group.

#FIG. 2 is a signaling flow diagram exemplarily illustrating a method for a serving node obtaining beam grouping information and providing it to its UE, according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure.

#The present disclosure will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which certain embodiments of the present disclosure are shown. This disclosure may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided by way of example so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the present disclosure to those skilled in the art. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout the specification.

#Generally, all terms used in the claims are to be interpreted according to their ordinary meaning in the technical field, unless explicitly defined otherwise herein. For example, the user equipment in the present disclosure may be any terminal device capable of receiving information from and/or transmitting information to the network, connectable to the network wirelessly or via a fixed connection. Examples of a network node, such as aforementioned serving node and neighboring node, may refer to any suitable radio access point or access node, for example a radio base station (“BS”) according to any suitable communication standard, such as a Node B (“NB”) or an evolved NB (“eNB”), for carrying out the solutions as discussed in detail later with reference to the accompanying drawings.

#All references to “a/an/the element, apparatus, component, means, step, etc.” are to be interpreted openly as referring to at least one instance of the element, apparatus, component, means, step, etc., unless explicitly stated otherwise. The steps of any method disclosed herein do not have to be performed in the exact order disclosed, unless explicitly stated. The discussion above and below in respect of any of the aspects of the present disclosure is also in applicable parts relevant to any other aspect of the present disclosure.