Method and apparatus for triggering a beam state information report in a wireless communication system
AssigneeASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
InventorsMing-Che Li, Ko-Chiang Lin, Richard Lee-Chee Kuo
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for beam management with user equipment beam sweeping in a wireless communication system are disclosed herein. In one method, a network node transmits a reference signal for beam management within one occasion, wherein the occasion comprises at least M symbol sets. The network node performs beam sweeping for transmitting the reference signal in a first symbol set of the M symbol sets. The network node repeats the beam sweeping for transmitting the reference signal in the rest of the M symbol sets.
Claims20
A method of beam management at a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:
- measuring, by the UE, reference signals for beam management within one occasion within a single transmission period associated with the reference signals, wherein the one occasion consists of 14 orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and the one occasion is smaller than the single transmission period, and wherein the one occasion comprises at least M symbol sets continuously located in a time domain and at least one remaining OFDM symbol, and there are multiple symbols in each of the at least M symbol sets and the reference signals for beam management are transmitted in all of the multiple symbols;
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- wherein the UE utilizes at least one UE beam to measure the reference signals in a first symbol set of the at least M symbol sets and then switches to another UE beam to measure the reference signals in a second symbol set of the at least M symbol sets.
A user equipment (UE) configured to facilitate beam management, comprising:
- a processor;
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- a memory operatively coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is configured to execute a program code to:
- measure, by the UE, reference signals for beam management within one occasion within a single transmission period associated with the reference signals, wherein the one occasion consists of 14 orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and the one occasion is smaller than the single transmission period, and wherein the one occasion comprises at least M symbol sets continuously located in a time domain and at least one remaining OFDM symbol, and there are multiple symbols in each of the at least M symbol sets and the reference signals for beam management are transmitted in all of the multiple symbols;
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- wherein the UE utilizes at least one UE beam to measure the reference signals in a first symbol set of the at least M symbol sets and then switches to another UE beam to measure the reference signals in a second symbol set of the at least M symbol sets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.