Beam reporting in a beam failure recovery request or a beam failure recovery procedure

An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• a processor,
• memory in electronic communication with the processor;
• and
• instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
• detect a beam failure of a beam used for communicating with a secondary cell;
• identify one or more candidate beams available for communicating with the secondary cell, the one or more candidate beams being different from the failed beam;
• compare a quality of each of the candidate beams to a beam detection threshold in an attempt to identify a new beam for communicating with the secondary cell;
• determine that the quality of each of the candidate beams is lower than the detection threshold;
• and
• transmit a reserved beam index value or a reserved beam quality value in a beam report to indicate that no new beam is identified for communicating with the secondary cell.

An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• means for detecting a beam failure of a beam used for communicating with a secondary cell;
• means for identifying one or more candidate beams available for communicating with the secondary cell, the one or more candidate beams being different from the failed beam;
• means for comparing a quality of each of the candidate beams to a beam detection threshold in an attempt to identify a new beam for communicating with the secondary cell;
• means for determining that the quality of each of the candidate beams is lower than the detection threshold;
• and
• means for transmitting a reserved beam index value or a reserved beam quality value in a beam report to indicate that no new beam is identified for communicating with the secondary cell.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), the code comprising instructions executable by a processor to:

• detect a beam failure of a beam used for communicating with a secondary cell;
• identify one or more candidate beams available for communicating with the secondary cell, the one or more candidate beams being different from the failed beam;
• compare a quality of each of the candidate beams to a beam detection threshold in an attempt to identify a new beam for communicating with the secondary cell;
• determine that the quality of each of the candidate beams is lower than the detection threshold;
• and
• transmit a reserved beam index value or a reserved beam quality value in a beam report to indicate that no new beam is identified for communicating with the secondary cell.