Method for cross-cell beam measurement

    公开(公告)号:US11991574B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-21

    申请号:US17593476

    申请日:2021-01-14

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    CPC classification number: H04W36/0085

    Abstract: To support layer 1 (L1) and layer 2 (L2) centric inter-cell mobility and inter-cell multi-TRP operation, a user equipment (UE) may need to measurement the downlink reference signals from neighbor cells. To obtain these measurements, a UE may perform layer 3 (L3) measurements for one or more neighboring cells, and provide an L3 measurement report to a network node. Candidate measurement neighboring cells for L1 measurements may be identified based on the L3 measurements.

    Phase noise handling in millimeter wave communications

    公开(公告)号:US11962520B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-16

    申请号:US17593735

    申请日:2020-05-14

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04L5/0007 H04L5/0048

    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed relate to apparatuses, systems, and methods for improved handling of phase noise (PN) in millimeter wave (MMW or mmWave) communications in a wireless communication system, such as 5G NR. When severe phase noise is present in a communication link, the link performance can be substantially degraded. Thus, it would be desirable to utilize techniques to compensate for phase noise in mmWave communications. In Rel-15, a Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PT-RS or PTRS) was specified for both downlink and uplink communications, specifically for Cyclic Prefix-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (CP-OFDM) and Discrete Fourier Transform spread Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFT-S-OFDM). However, prior art approaches to PTRS using block-based pilot allocation schemes required complicated receiver processing. Thus, the techniques disclosed herein attempt to embed one or multiple bands with DFT-S-OFDM PTRS design in the data allocation bandwidth of an OFDM transmission to improve handling of PN at sub-OFDM symbol time intervals.

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