Power efficient beam recovery procedures

    公开(公告)号:US12150052B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-19

    申请号:US17448440

    申请日:2021-09-22

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine a probability metric for a likelihood of a beam failure event at the UE, implement a beam management power saving scheme based on the probability metric and process a portion of network scheduled beam recovery resources within a time window. A UE may also be configured to generate a radio link monitoring (RLM) block error rate (BLER) metric associated with a beam, determine that the RLM BLER metric is below a threshold value and disable beam failure detection (BFD) and candidate beam detection (CBD) procedures at the UE in response to determining that the RLM BLER metric is below the threshold value.

    Receiving beam selection using hybrid channel based beamforming and codebook based beamforming

    公开(公告)号:US12224843B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-11

    申请号:US18474375

    申请日:2023-09-26

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: Some aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for selecting a receiving beam based on hybrid channel based beamforming and codebook based beamforming. A user equipment (UE) can determine, based on a first measurement related to signal to noise ratio (SNR) and predetermined threshold values, whether the UE is in a low SNR state. If the UE is in a low SRN state, the UE can derive an estimated channel covariance matrix RCH for channels at a set of antenna elements of the UE based on channel based bearmforming (CHBF). Afterwards, a set of test bears {0, . . . Ntest−1} is selected based on the channel covariance matrix RCH, and a set of codebook measurement beams is further selected based on the set of test beams. A receiving beam is selected based on a set of measurements performed on the set of codebook measurement beams at the measurement opportunity for codebook based beamforming (CBBF).

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPERATURE-BASED ANTENNA SELECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20220352627A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-03

    申请号:US17246208

    申请日:2021-04-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device having multiple antenna groups for data communication may determine a temperature of a first antenna group and determine a power gain of a second antenna group. The electronic device may communicate using the second antenna group in response to determining that the temperature of the first antenna group exceeds a temperature threshold and the power gain of the second antenna group exceeds a gain threshold. In some embodiments, the electronic device may receive communication link preferences, determine an antenna group that is disposed outside of thermal hotspots of the electronic device, and determine a beam that enables the communication link preferences via the antenna group. The electronic device may then transmit or receive data via the antenna group by forming the beam.

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