Method and apparatus for beam sweeping for CSI-RS mobility measurement

    公开(公告)号:US11863277B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-02

    申请号:US17598210

    申请日:2020-04-08

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04B7/0695 H04B7/088

    Abstract: A first CSI-RS signal is received by user equipment through a first cell, and a second CSI-RS signal is received through a second cell. Respective QCL information can be available to determine a first Rx beam to measure the first CSI-RS signal and a second Rx beam to measure the second CSI-RS signal. In such a case, if the first CSI-RS signal and the second CSI-RS signal are fully overlapped, then the user equipment can i) alternate between measuring the first CSI-RS signal with the first Rx beam and measuring the second CSI-RS signal with the second Rx beam, or ii) measure only the first CSI-RS signal or the second CSI-RS signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

    Sidelink Control Information Processing
    432.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230403725A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-14

    申请号:US18455448

    申请日:2023-08-24

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) capable wireless device configured to perform sidelink cellular communications. The wireless device performs sidelink communications using a two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) protocol including Stage 1 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), and Stage 2 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The SCI messaging may be encoded using polar codes. Channel interleaving is utilized on the SCI to interleave the SCI between two or more layers of a MIMO transmission system. Scrambling for Stage 2 SCI messaging is performed based on the result of a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) performed on Stage 1 SCI messaging. Collisions between sidelink HARQ feedback to be transmitted to a base station and other transmissions are avoided based on a priority analysis of the sidelink HARQ feedback.

    METHODS FOR PATHLOSS REFERENCE SIGNAL ACTIVATION

    公开(公告)号:US20230362664A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-09

    申请号:US17442983

    申请日:2021-01-14

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04W16/28 H04L5/0051 H04B17/328

    Abstract: Methods and systems to activate beams for beam switching based on measurements of a downlink reference signal that is QCL Type-D with a downlink pathloss reference signal are disclosed. A UE may measure and report to a base station the RSRP of the reference signal that is QCL Type-D with a target downlink pathloss reference signal. Based on the reported RSRP measurements, the base station may activate the target pathloss reference signal to command the UE to update the pathloss measurements of the target pathloss reference signal for uplink power control of a beam corresponding to the target pathloss reference signal. The UE may determine whether the target pathloss reference signal is considered known for uplink power control based on the timing relationship among the reception of the reference signal from the base station, the transmission of the RSRP measurement of the reference signal, and reception of the activation command.

    Network Signaling for Radio Resource Management Enhancement in High Speed Train (HST) Scenarios

    公开(公告)号:US20230189012A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-15

    申请号:US17437787

    申请日:2021-04-01

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04W16/18 H04W4/44

    Abstract: A network may transmit either beam deployment information or beam number information to a user equipment (UE) carried on a train and configured for operation in the millimeter wave band. The deployment information may include deployment related distance parameters or azimuth angle spread parameters. The beam number information may indicate a number of network beams associated with a current cell. The UE may determine a number of UE receive beams based on deployment information or the network-indicated number of network beams. The UE may transmit feedback to the network, indicating the number of UE receive beams. Alternatively, the network may send a configuration message indicating a first number of UE receive beams to the UE, which the UE may treat as an upper bound or lower bound in its determination of a desired number of UE receive beams. The UE may transmit the desired number to the network.

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