Reporting of puncturing based interference plus noise covariance matrix measurements

A network node for wireless communication, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• one or more processors, coupled to the memory, configured to:
• transmit a measurement configuration intended for a user equipment (UE) indicating one or more punctured resources of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that can be used for measurements by the UE associated with estimating an interference plus noise covariance (INC) matrix at the UE;
• transmit a reporting configuration intended for the UE indicating one or more INC matrices at the UE to be reported by the UE;
• and
• receive a report associated with the UE indicating the one or more INC matrices at the UE based at least in part on transmitting the reporting configuration.

A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:

• receiving, from a network node, a measurement configuration indicating one or more punctured resources of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that can be used for measurements associated with estimating an interference plus noise covariance (INC) matrix at the UE;
• receiving, from the network node, a reporting configuration indicating one or more INC matrices at the UE to be reported;
• and
• transmitting, to the network node, a report indicating the one or more INC matrices at the UE based at least in part on receiving the reporting configuration.

A method of wireless communication performed by a network node, comprising:

• transmitting a measurement configuration intended for a user equipment (UE) indicating one or more punctured resources of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that can be used for measurements by the UE associated with estimating an interference plus noise covariance (INC) matrix at the UE;
• transmitting a reporting configuration intended for the UE indicating one or more INC matrices at the UE to be reported by the UE;
• and
• receiving a report associated with the UE indicating the one or more INC matrices at the UE based at least in part on transmitting the reporting configuration.