Machine Learning-Based Beam Selection
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsYushu ZHANG, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Huaning NIU, Oghenekome OTERI, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Sigen YE, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG
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Abstract
A user equipment (UE) is configured to select a beam. The UE receives, from a base station of a wireless network, a beam pattern configuration, reports, to the base station, a subset of beams on which measurements will be performed, performs measurements on the subset of beams, updates a beam search space (BSS) based on the measurements, reports the updated BSS to the base station and selects a beam from the updated BSS to switch to.
Claims22
A processor of a user equipment (UE) configured to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, from a base station of a wireless network, a beam pattern configuration;
- reporting, to the base station, a subset of beams on which measurements will be performed;
- performing measurements on the subset of beams;
- updating a beam search space (BSS) based on the measurements;
- reporting the updated BSS to the base station;
- and
- selecting a beam from the updated BSS to switch to.
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A processor of a base station configured to perform operations comprising:
- transmitting a beam measurement configuration to a user equipment (UE), wherein the beam measurement configuration includes a subset of beams from all available beams on which the UE is configured to perform a measurement;
- receiving a beam measurement report from the UE including measurements corresponding to the subset of beams;
- determining a beam search space (BSS) based on the beam measurement report;
- indicating BSS measurement resources to the UE;
- receiving a BSS beam measurement report from the UE based on the BSS measurement resources;
- and
- selecting a beam from the BSS based on the BSS beam measurement report.
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