Methods and apparatus for base station signaling for interference estimation

A user equipment (UE), comprising:

• a memory comprising instructions;
• a transceiver;
• and
• one or more processors operatively coupled with the memory and the transceiver, the one or more processors configured to execute instructions in the memory to:
• receive interference information relating to at least one of a scheduling granularity, a subcarrier spacing, a scheduler type, resource utilization, a number of active UEs, a number of active beams, an elevation and an azimuth angle of each of the number of active beams, a synchronization signal block index, or a semi-persistent scheduling configuration associated with at least one neighbor base station (BS);
• estimate or predict, based on the interference information received, an interference power profile caused by the at least one neighbor BS;
• receive at least one of data information or control information;
• and
• decode the at least one of the data information or the control information based on the interference power profile.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored therein that, when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), cause the one or more processors to:

• receive interference information relating to at least one of a scheduling granularity, a subcarrier spacing, a scheduler type, resource utilization, a number of active UEs, a number of active beams, an elevation and an azimuth angle of each of the number of active beams, a synchronization signal block index, or a semi-persistent scheduling configuration associated with at least one neighbor base station (BS);
• estimate or predict, based on the interference information received, an interference power profile caused by the at least one neighbor BS;
• receive at least one of data information or control information;
• and
• decode the at least one of the data information or the control information based on the interference power profile.

A user equipment (UE), comprising:

• means for receiving interference information relating to at least one of a scheduling granularity, a subcarrier spacing, a scheduler type, resource utilization, a number of active UEs, a number of active beams, an elevation and an azimuth angle of each of the number of active beams, a synchronization signal block index, or a semi-persistent scheduling configuration associated with at least one neighbor base station (BS);
• means for estimating or predicting, based on the interference information received, an interference power profile caused by the at least one neighbor BS;
• means for receiving at least one of data information or control information;
• and
• means for decoding the at least one of the data information or the control information based on the interference power profile.