公开(公告)号：US20210076324A1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-11

申请号：US17054656

申请日：2018-05-14

Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

Inventor： Jorma Johannes KAIKKONEN ,  Timo c KOSKELA ,  Mihai ENESCU ,  Sami-Jukka HAKOLA ,  Juha Pekka KARJALAINEN ,  Lars DALSGAARD

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04B7/06

Abstract: Method, apparatus, and computer program product for a user equipment in a wireless communications system to receive configuration information that has one or more TCI-states. With this configuration information, the user equipment can then determine inactivity on TCI-states. Based on that determination, the user equipment enables either a discontinuous monitoring or a cessation of monitoring on those TCI-states. Each TCI-state corresponds to a radio beam and also corresponds to an antenna panel. By reducing such monitoring, the use equipment can deactivate antenna panels corresponding to the TCI-states. The determination can be done through the use of a timer with various time thresholds based on the TCI-state. The activity being transmitted on those beam can be scheduling received by the user equipment from a network element such as a base station. The TCI-states can also be grouped and the functionality of the invention dealt with on a group basis.