Physical uplink control channel beam failure recovery configuration

A user equipment (UE) comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor and memory being configured to cause the UE to:
• perform beam failure detection (BFD) of a beam pair link (BPL) associated with a first secondary cell (SCell) in carrier aggregation (CA), wherein the UE is configured with one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) groups for communication, each of the one or more PUCCH groups comprising a corresponding plurality of component carriers, wherein one of the corresponding plurality of component carriers of a corresponding PUCCH group is designated for communication, via an uplink control channel, of all types of uplink control information that are transmitted for the corresponding plurality of component carriers of the corresponding PUCCH group;
• identify at least one cell on which to send a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) message, wherein the at least one cell is in a same PUCCH group as the first SCell, wherein when a number of PUCCH groups is one, the at least one cell comprises a primary cell of the UE;
• and
• send the BFRQ on the at least one cell.

A user equipment (UE) comprising:

• means for performing beam failure detection (BFD) of a beam pair link (BPL) associated with a first secondary cell (SCell) in carrier aggregation (CA), wherein the UE is configured with one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) groups for communication, each of the one or more PUCCH groups comprising a corresponding plurality of component carriers, wherein one of the corresponding plurality of component carriers of a corresponding PUCCH group is designated for communication, via an uplink control channel, of all types of uplink control information that are transmitted for the corresponding plurality of component carriers of the corresponding PUCCH group;
• means for identifying at least one cell on which to send a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) message, wherein the at least one cell is in a same PUCCH group as the first SCell, wherein when a number of PUCCH groups is one, the at least one cell comprises a primary cell of the UE;
• and
• means for sending the BFRQ on the at least one cell.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions that when executed by a processor of a user equipment (UE) cause the UE to:

• perform beam failure detection (BFD) of a beam pair link (BPL) associated with a first secondary cell (SCell) in carrier aggregation (CA), wherein the UE is configured with one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) groups for communication, each of the one or more PUCCH groups comprising a corresponding plurality of component carriers, wherein one of the corresponding plurality of component carriers of a corresponding PUCCH group is designated for communication, via an uplink control channel, of all types of uplink control information that are transmitted for the corresponding plurality of component carriers of the corresponding PUCCH group;
• identify at least one cell on which to send a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) message, wherein the at least one cell is in a same PUCCH group as the first SCell, wherein when a number of PUCCH groups is one, the at least one cell comprises a primary cell of the UE;
• and
• send the BFRQ on the at least one cell.