公开(公告)号：US20240275436A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-15

申请号：US18441060

申请日：2024-02-14

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Simon Svendsen ,  Christian Rom ,  Samantha Caporal Del Barrio ,  Kim Nielsen

IPC: H04B7/0426 ,  H04B1/04 ,  H04B1/18

CPC classification number: H04B7/043 ,  H04B1/04 ,  H04B1/18

Abstract: An apparatus, including an antenna array of antenna elements having signal feeds configured to convey a pair of radio frequency signals related to a pair of polarised beams; and circuitry coupled to the signal feeds and configured to vary a gain of the pair of radio frequency signals conveyed between the signal feeds and front end circuitry to vary an orientation of the pair of polarised beams.

公开(公告)号：US20240267107A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-08

申请号：US18432189

申请日：2024-02-05

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Amol Dhere ,  Christian Rom ,  Poul Olesen

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04L5/00

CPC classification number: H04B7/06952 ,  H04L5/0007

Abstract: A method including: receiving, by an apparatus including one or more antenna panels for receiving beams, a frame structure including a plurality of time slots, wherein each time slot includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division modulated (OFDM) symbols and at least one guard period; performing beam sweeping over a plurality of received beams during said guard period; and aligning the apparatus to receive on a best beam of at least one antenna panel determined based on the beam sweeping.

公开(公告)号：US11831388B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-28

申请号：US17845516

申请日：2022-06-21

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Simon Svendsen ,  Samantha Caporal Del Barrio ,  Christian Rom ,  Benny Vejlgaard

IPC: H04B7/08

CPC classification number: H04B7/0888 ,  H04B7/0857

Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: receiving, at a user device, a downlink reference signal from a communication node of a mobile communication system, wherein the downlink reference signal is received by one of a plurality of beams of a receiver of the user device in accordance with a configured beam alignment; determining whether to initiate beam switching to reconfigure the beam alignment at said receiver based, at least in part, on a signal power of the received downlink reference signal; and determining, in the event that beam switching is to be initiated, whether to initiate communication node assisted beam switching or non-communication node assisted beam switching.

公开(公告)号：US11785512B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-10

申请号：US17391370

申请日：2021-08-02

Applicant: Nokia Technologies OY

Inventor： Ahmad Awada ,  Christian Rom ,  Samantha Caporal Del Barrio ,  Ingo Viering ,  Jedrzej Stanczak

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W56/00

CPC classification number: H04W36/00837 ,  H04W36/0016 ,  H04W36/0058 ,  H04W56/001

Abstract: In a system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for implementing fallback to conditional handover using a SSB reference signal, a UE device may be caused to, receive RRC reconfiguration information from a source RAN node, the RRC reconfiguration information including a SSB RS based CHO execution condition associated with at least one target cell controlled by a target RAN node, and a CSI-RS based CHO execution condition associated with the target cell(s), perform signal measurements of at least one SSB RS and at least one CSI-RS associated with the target cell(s), the at least one CSI-RS associated with a contention-free random access resource, and perform the CHO with the target cell(s) based on the signal measurement results of the at least one SSB RS, the at least one CSI-RS, the SSB based CHO execution condition, and the CSI-RS based CHO execution condition.

公开(公告)号：US20220361121A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-10

申请号：US17736194

申请日：2022-05-04

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Samantha Caporal Del Barrio ,  Alessio Marcone ,  Simon Svendsen ,  Benny Vejlgaard ,  Christian Rom

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: An apparatus including a plurality of antenna panels; circuitry configured for receiving a synchronization signal burst including a plurality of synchronization signal blocks; circuitry for configuring, for a first sample, each of the plurality of antenna panels to be switched in alternating manner to measure received signal power level of each of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks; circuitry for configuring, for a predetermined number of subsequent samples, each of the plurality of antenna panels to be switched in alternating manner to measure the received signal power level of the synchronization signal block providing a highest received signal power level for said antenna panel in the first sample; and circuitry configured for sending a report of the measured received signal power level of said synchronization signal block to a network element.

公开(公告)号：US11388634B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US16879417

申请日：2020-05-20

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Christian Rom ,  Samantha Caporal Barrio ,  Ahmad Awada ,  Ingo Viering

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium are provided for selecting a target cell based on channel impulse response (CIR) measurements, which may include receiving measurement configuration information including a CIR parameter from a first network node and may further include generating one or more measurement reports based on the CIR parameter, the one or more measurement reports including CIR measurements of one or more beams of one or more neighbor cells associated with the first network node and/or second network nodes and transmitting the one or more measurement reports to the first network node.
The selecting a target cell based on CIR measurements may include transmitting measurement configuration information including a CIR parameter and receiving one or more measurement reports, including CIR measurements of one or more beams of one or more network nodes and selecting a target cell for handover using the measurements.

公开(公告)号：US12160292B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-03

申请号：US17525529

申请日：2021-11-12

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Simon Svendsen ,  Samantha Caporal Del Barrio ,  Benny Vejlgaard ,  Christian Rom

IPC: H04W24/08 ,  H04B7/0426 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04B17/336

Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, comprising: determining a quality metric for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) signal; comparing the determined quality metric to a threshold; and evaluating a power delay profile (PDP) of a radio channel based on the result of the comparison.

公开(公告)号：US20240114556A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-04

申请号：US18373344

申请日：2023-09-27

Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventor： Alessio Marcone ,  Nhat-Quang Nhan ,  Marco Maso ,  Christian Rom ,  Ali Karimidehkordi

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W74/00

CPC classification number: H04W74/0833 ,  H04W74/008

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including circuitry for, at a user equipment, receiving, from a network node, configuration parameters defining resources associated with a plurality of signals for transmission of a first message of a random access procedure, obtaining signal measurements for the plurality of signals, determining a number of transmissions of the first message for a first signal and a second signal from the plurality of signals based on the obtained signal measurements, choosing resources associated with one of the first signal and the second signal for transmission of the first message, based at least on the determined number of transmissions of the first message for the respective signals and the obtained signal measurements and performing transmission of the first message of the random access procedure on at least part of the chosen resources.

公开(公告)号：US20230318684A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-05

申请号：US18044068

申请日：2020-10-13

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Fuad Abinader ,  Christian Rom ,  István Zsolt Kovács

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/08

CPC classification number: H04B7/06952 ,  H04B7/088

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus. The apparatus comprising means for performing: receiving one or more estimation models at the apparatus; determining an estimated time-of-stay of an antenna panel of the apparatus, using the one or more estimation models, the time-of-stay comprising a duration for which the antenna panel is active for transmission and/or reception; and determining whether to perform a narrow beam alignment procedure for the apparatus based on the estimated time-of-stay.

公开(公告)号：US11606124B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-14

申请号：US17526654

申请日：2021-11-15

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Simon Svendsen ,  Christian Rom ,  Benny Vejlgaard ,  Johannes Harrebek

IPC: H04L1/02 ,  H04B7/0456 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04B17/336 ,  H04B7/0426 ,  H04W24/08

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: an antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements configured for receiving multiple input multiple output (MIMO) signals. The antenna array comprises at least a first subpart of the antenna array comprising a first subsection of the plurality of antenna elements. A second subpart of the antenna array comprises a second subsection of the plurality of antenna elements. An alignment of the antenna elements in the second subpart deviates substantially by 30°-60° from an alignment of the antenna elements in the first subpart.