Enhanced PHR reporting in support of UE antenna scaling

    公开(公告)号:US12273827B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-08

    申请号:US17904808

    申请日:2021-09-24

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, apparatuses, and methods for enhanced PHR reporting in support of UE antenna scaling. A wireless device, which comprises at least one antenna array each comprising a plurality of antenna elements may perform antenna scaling by activating or deactivating at least one of the plurality of antenna elements (with corresponding RF chains) of one or more antenna arrays. The wireless device may generate a power headroom (PHR) report based at least on a difference between beamforming gains obtained after the antenna scaling and before the antenna scaling. The wireless device may then send the PHR report to a base station in communication with the wireless device.

    Enhancements to support TRP specific beam failure recovery

    公开(公告)号:US12273176B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-08

    申请号:US17906225

    申请日:2021-09-24

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to establish a connection to a base station, wherein the base station configures the UE with a first beam corresponding to a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second beam corresponding to a second TRP, wherein the first and second beam are in frequency range 2 (FR2) and wherein the UE does not support simultaneous reception of multiple beams in FR2, detect a beam failure during a beam failure detection (BFD) evaluation period, identify one or more candidate beams during a candidate beam detection (CBD) evaluation period and transmit a beam failure recovery (BFR) request to the base station.

    Techniques in measurement gap configuration in new radio (NR) related communications

    公开(公告)号:US12267897B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-01

    申请号:US17267365

    申请日:2019-08-07

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor: Jie Cui Yang Tang

    Abstract: Embodiments include methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for measurement gap (MG) configuration in an E-UTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access)-New radio dual connectivity (EN-DC) network, and other new radio (NR) related networks. Various embodiments describe how to configure a measurement gap (MG) based on various conditions in a network, which may include, but are not limited to, different MG types, operating frequencies and modes in the network, timing advancing, and how to determine a starting point of the configured MG to utilize the MG and perform certain measurements adequately.

    Synchronization signal block (SSB) measurement accuracy testing

    公开(公告)号:US12255733B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-18

    申请号:US17440582

    申请日:2020-03-27

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In a general aspect, a user equipment (UE) in a cellular communications network receives a first Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) corresponding to a first cell of the cellular communications network, and a second SSB corresponding to a second cell of the cellular communications network. The UE clarifies a first cell identifier (ID) of the first cell. The UE clarifies a second cell ID of the second cell. The UE determines an SSB measurement accuracy value using the first cell ID and the second cell ID.

    SRS antenna switching enhancement
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    公开(公告)号:US12232146B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-18

    申请号:US17437935

    申请日:2020-10-12

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for SRS antenna switching. A UE may transmit, to a base station, a capability message indicating an antenna configuration associated with SRS antenna switching e.g., via as RRC signaling. The capability message may indicate at least one of (and/or one or more of) a one transmit point (1T) and six receive point (6R) SRS resource set configuration, a 1T8R SRS resource set configuration, a 2T6R SRS resource set configuration, a 2T8R SRS resource set configuration, and/or a 4T8R SRS resource set configuration. The UE may receive, from the base station, a configuration message, e.g., via RRC signaling. The configuration message may indicate an SRS antenna switching configuration based, at least in part, on the capability message. The UE may transmit, to the base station, one or more SRSs, e.g., according to the SRS antenna switching configuration.

    L1-RSRP Measurement Delay for Group-Based Beam Reporting

    公开(公告)号:US20250055582A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-13

    申请号:US18798441

    申请日:2024-08-08

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: The present application relates to an improved method of operating a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, at the UE, a configuration of at least a first Channel Measurement Resource (CMR) set and a second CMR set for group-based beam reporting (GBBR) and performing, at the UE with at least a first antenna panel (and possibly multiple antenna panels), a first plurality of intracell, multiple TRP, Layer 1 Reference Signal Received Power (L1-RSRP) measurements. The first CMR set and second CMR set each comprises a plurality of resources (e.g., Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) resources and/or Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resources), and performing the first plurality of L1-RSRP measurements comprises performing a measurement using a number of fine beams (formed by one or more antenna panels) for one or more of the plurality of resources (up to and including each of the resources) in the first and second CMR sets.

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