User equipment timing synchronization for CSI-RS based radio resource management

A user equipment (UE), comprising:

• one or more processors configured to:
• receive, from a serving cell, a measurement configuration message indicating the UE is to measure channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) from a target cell of the network, wherein the measurement configuration message does not include Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) information for the target cell but further comprises an indication of whether the target cell transmits SSBs;
• determine, based on at least the measurement configuration message, a time and frequency resource on which the CSI-RS of the target cell are to be transmitted;
• and
• measure the CSI-RS of the target cell;
• and
• a transceiver to transmit the CSI-RS measurements to the serving cell.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by a processor perform operations, comprising:

• receiving, from a serving cell, a measurement configuration message indicating the UE is to measure channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) from a target cell of the network, wherein the measurement configuration message does not include Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) information for the target cell but further comprises an indication of whether the target cell transmits SSBs;
• determining, based on at least the measurement configuration message, a time and frequency resource on which the CSI-RS of the target cell are to be transmitted;
• and
• measuring the CSI-RS of the target cell.