Beam control techniques for a transparent repeater
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsYehonatan Dallal, Amit Bar-Or Tillinger, Idan Michael Horn, Shay Landis
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A repeater device may transmit, to a network entity, a control message indicating a set of beams of the repeater device. The repeater device may receive, from the network entity, a signal within a time slot indicating a first beam of the set of beams. The repeater device may relay, via the first beam, a data message from the network entity to a user equipment (UE) associated with the first beam within the time slot based on the signal.
Claims25
A repeater device for wireless communications, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors;
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- instructions stored in the one or more memories and executable by the one or more processors to cause the repeater device to:
- transmit, to a network entity, a control message indicating a plurality of narrow beams of the repeater device;
- receive, from the network entity during a time slot, a signal that corresponds to a first narrow beam of the plurality of narrow beams in accordance with the control message, wherein the signal is frequency division multiplexed with one or more downlink control information messages;
- relay, from the network entity to a user equipment (UE) via a wide beam, a first downlink control information message of the one or more downlink control information messages that schedules the UE for a data message;
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- relay, via the first narrow beam, the data message from the network entity to the UE within the time slot based at least in part on the signal corresponding to the first narrow beam.
A method for wireless communications at a repeater device, comprising:
- transmitting, to a network entity, a control message indicating a plurality of narrow beams of the repeater device;
- receiving, from the network entity during a time slot, a signal that corresponds to a first narrow beam of the plurality of narrow beams in accordance with the control message, wherein the signal is frequency division multiplexed with one or more downlink control information messages;
- relaying, from the network entity to a user equipment (UE) via a wide beam, a first downlink control information message of the one or more downlink control information messages that schedules the UE for a data message;
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- relaying, via the first narrow beam, the data message from the network entity to the UE within the time slot based at least in part on the signal corresponding to the first narrow beam.
A repeater device, comprising:
- means for transmitting, to a network entity, a control message indicating a plurality of narrow beams of the repeater device;
- means for receiving, from the network entity during a time slot, a signal that corresponds to a first narrow beam of the plurality of narrow beams in accordance with the control message, wherein the signal is frequency division multiplexed with one or more downlink control information messages;
- means for relaying, from the network entity to a user equipment (UE) via a wide beam, a first downlink control information message of the one or more downlink control information messages that schedules the UE for a data message;
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- means for relaying, via the first narrow beam, the data message from the network entity to the UE within the time slot based at least in part on the signal corresponding to the first narrow beam.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communications at a repeater device, the code comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to:
- transmit, to a network entity, a control message indicating a plurality of narrow beams of the repeater device;
- receive, from the network entity during a time slot, a signal that corresponds to a first narrow beam of the plurality of narrow beams in accordance with the control message, wherein the signal is frequency division multiplexed with one or more downlink control information messages;
- relay, from the network entity to a user equipment (UE) via a wide beam, a first downlink control information message of the one or more downlink control information messages that schedules the UE for a data message;
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- relay, via the first narrow beam, the data message from the network entity to the UE within the time slot based at least in part on the signal corresponding to the first narrow beam.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.