Facilitation of beam management for 5G or other next generation network
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsXiaoyi Wang, Salam Akoum
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Abstract
A test transmission can be used to train and/or select a signal. For example, a cellular network can configure a receiver with a recommended receiver signal sweeping pattern for mobile devices. A transmitter device can duplicate a data packet transmission and send it to a receiver device to ensure that the receiver can receive the duplicated packets from different signals. Consequently, the duplicated data packet can be indicated in the associated control channel so that the receiver is aware that the data packet is a duplicated transmission, and based on this info and configuration data, the receiver can select a more favorable signal.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- facilitating, by network equipment comprising a processor, receiving configuration data representative of a configuration for reception of patterns of signals, wherein the configuration data comprises recommendation data representative of a recommended beam sweeping pattern;
- based on the configuration data, facilitating, by the network equipment, receiving, from a signal transmission device, a duplicate data packet associated with a data packet to be sent to a user equipment, wherein the duplicate data packet is based on the recommended beam sweeping pattern and is indicative of a number of times a duplicate transmission is to occur;
- specifying, by the network equipment, that a first beam be utilized to decode communication data, instead of a second beam that has been determined to have unsuccessfully decoded the communication data;
- and
- in response to specifying that the first beam be utilized to decode the communication data, facilitating, by the network equipment, sending, to the signal transmission device, acknowledgment data representative of an acknowledgment associated with the communication data and first beam data representative of the first beam.
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving configuration data representative of a configuration for reception of patterns of signals, wherein the configuration data comprises recommendation data representative of a recommended beam sweeping pattern;
- based on the configuration data, receiving, from a signal transmission device, a duplicate data packet associated with a data packet to be sent to a user equipment, wherein the duplicate data packet is based on the recommended beam sweeping pattern and is indicative of a number of times a duplicate transmission is to occur;
- utilizing a first beam to decode communication data in lieu of a second beam that has been determined to have unsuccessfully decode the communication data;
- and
- in response to utilizing the first beam to decode the communication data, sending acknowledgment data, representative of an acknowledgment associated with the communication data and first beam data representative of the first beam, to the signal transmission device.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving configuration data representative of a configuration for reception of patterns of signals, wherein the configuration data comprises recommendation data representative of a recommended beam sweeping pattern;
- based on the configuration data, receiving, from a signal transmission device, a duplicate data packet associated with a data packet to be sent to a mobile device, wherein the duplicate data packet is based on the recommended beam sweeping pattern and is indicative of a number of times a duplicate transmission is to occur;
- utilizing a first beam to decode communication data, and excluding utilizing a second beam that has been determined to have unsuccessfully decoded the communication data;
- and
- in response to utilizing the first beam to decode the communication data, sending acknowledgment data, representative of an acknowledgment associated with the communication data and first beam data representative of the first beam, to the signal transmission device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.