Resolving ambiguities related to NR cell quality derivation

A user equipment (UE) for performing cell quality derivation in a wireless communication network, the UE comprising:

• a non-transitory memory;
• and
• one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the UE to perform operations comprising:
• obtaining, via Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling from a network node, a measurement configuration that includes a list of measurement objects, wherein the list of measurement objects includes a measurement object of a serving cell, the measurement object of the serving cell specifying a Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel block (SS/PBCH block) frequency;
• obtaining a serving cell configuration of the serving cell, the serving cell configuration providing frequency information that specifies an absolute frequency of an SS/PBCH block to be used for the serving cell, wherein the absolute frequency of the SS/PBCH block to be used for the serving cell matches the SS/PBCH block frequency of the measurement object;
• obtaining parameters to perform cell quality derivation for the serving cell of the UE from the measurement object;
• and
• performing cell quality derivation for the serving cell based on the obtained parameters;
• wherein the parameters comprise an absolute threshold for a reference signal type.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a User Equipment (UE) to perform operations comprising:

• obtaining, via Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling from a network node, a measurement configuration that includes a list of measurement objects, wherein the list of measurement objects includes a measurement object of a serving cell, the measurement object of the serving cell specifying a Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel block (SS/PBCH block) frequency;
• obtaining a serving cell configuration of the serving cell, the serving cell configuration providing frequency information that specifies an absolute frequency of an SS/PBCH block to be used for the serving cell, wherein the absolute frequency of the SS/PBCH block to be used for the serving cell matches the SS/PBCH block frequency of the measurement object;
• obtaining parameters to perform cell quality derivation for the serving cell of the UE from the measurement object;
• and
• performing cell quality derivation for the serving cell based on the obtained parameters;
• wherein the parameters comprise an absolute threshold for a reference signal type.