Method, apparatus, and computer program product for improving reliability in wireless communication

An apparatus, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• at least one memory including computer program code;
• the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
• measure at least a signal quality and angle-of-arrival of wireless signals received from a network node;
• determine that the received wireless signals include signals from both primary path wireless beams and/or received reflected path wireless beams, based on the signal quality and the angle of arrival of the wireless signals;
• rank the received wireless signals to primary path wireless beams and/or received reflected path wireless beams, based on the signal quality;
• and
• transmit to the network node, at least one report including indications of both the received primary wireless beams having the best overall signal quality among both the primary and reflected beams, and received reflected path wireless beams having the best signal quality among the received reflected path wireless beams.

An apparatus, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• at least one memory including computer program code;
• the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
• receive from a user equipment, at least one report of measurements by the user equipment of received primary path wireless beams, having a best signal quality and received reflected path wireless beams having best signal quality among the received reflected path wireless beams;
• transmit to the user equipment, a configuration for a recovery action in case of a link failure, based on the received measurement report;
• and
• communicate with the user equipment, via reflected path wireless beams, under conditions of radio link failure of primary path wireless beams.