Spatial quasi-co-location for radio link monitoring in new radio mobile communications

An apparatus, comprising:

• a transceiver which, during operation, wirelessly communicates with a network, the transceiver comprising a plurality of receiver antennas and a plurality of transmitter antennas;
• and
• a processor coupled to the transceiver such that, during operation, the processor performs operations comprising:
• receiving, via the transceiver, downlink (DL) signaling from a network;
• and
• determining not to extend an evaluation period of radio link monitoring (RLM) responsive to a condition being met based on quasi-co-location (QCL) related information provided in at least the DL signaling,
• wherein the determining comprises determining based on an explicit RLM reference signal (RLM-RS) or an implicit RLM-RS,
• wherein the determining based on the explicit RLM-RS comprises determining not to increase a scaling factor for the evaluation period for receiving (RX) beam sweeping in an event that:
• an RLM-RS is configured with an associated transmission configuration indication (TCI) state identification (ID) which is in a TCI table, and
• the associated TCI state ID is associated to a beam management (BM) configuration in a BM configuration list;
• wherein the determining based on the implicit RLM-RS comprises determining not to increase a scaling factor for the evaluation period for the RX beam sweeping in an event that a TCI state ID associated to a reference signal (RS) configuration for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is associated to a BM configuration in a BM configuration list,
• wherein the condition comprises that the explicit RLM-RS or the implicit RLM-RS is time-division multiplexed with synchronization signal blocks (SSBs),
• wherein the condition comprises a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource for the RLM being spatially quasi-co-located to the SSBs configured for a layer 1 reference signal received power (L1-RSRP) reporting.