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WO2018129690A1
WO2018129690A1 PCT/CN2017/070965 CN2017070965W WO2018129690A1 WO 2018129690 A1 WO2018129690 A1 WO 2018129690A1 CN 2017070965 W CN2017070965 W CN 2017070965W WO 2018129690 A1 WO2018129690 A1 WO 2018129690A1
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Chenxi Zhu
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    • H04B7/00—Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field
    • H04B7/02—Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas
    • H04B7/04—Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas
    • H04B7/06—Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station
    • H04B7/0686—Hybrid systems, i.e. switching and simultaneous transmission
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    • H04B7/06952—Selecting one or more beams from a plurality of beams, e.g. beam training, management or sweeping
    • H04B7/06966—Selecting one or more beams from a plurality of beams, e.g. beam training, management or sweeping using beam correspondence; using channel reciprocity, e.g. downlink beam training based on uplink sounding reference signal [SRS]
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    • H04B7/00—Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field
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    • H04B7/08—Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the receiving station
    • H04B7/0868—Hybrid systems, i.e. switching and combining
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  • the subject matter disclosed herein relates generally to wireless communications and more particularly relates to downlink configuration.
  • HARQ-ACK may represent collectively the Positive Acknowledge ( “ACK” ) and the Negative Acknowledge ( “NAK” ) .
  • ACK means that a TB is correctly received while NAK means a TB is erroneously received.
  • a high carrier frequency e.g., >6GHz
  • Propagation characteristics at higher frequencies e.g., 6GHz, 30GHz, 70GHz, etc.
  • path loss may be much higher than at lower frequencies.
  • beamforming may be used at high frequencies to compensate for a large path loss.
  • a beamforming technique based on multiple antennas may be used.
  • a number of antennas at a high carrier frequency may be much larger than a number of antennas at a low carrier frequency.
  • the large number of antennas may facilitate a large beamforming gain to compensate for a large path loss.
  • three methods may be used to perform beamforming.
  • there may be digital beamforming, analog beamforming, and hybrid beamforming.
  • for hybrid beamforming a transmitter beam and a receiver beam may be aligned to have beamforming gain.
  • Multiple digital beamforms may be transmitted or received in a same time in an FDM or a CDM manner. Unlike digital beamforming, different analog beamforming or the analog part of different hybrid beamforming may not be transmitted or received in the same time because of limitation of hardware implementation. Therefore, analog beamforming may only be used in a TDM manner.
  • an analog beamforming part in RF of hybrid beamforming may only implement one beam at the same time.
  • a digital beamforming part in baseband of hybrid beamforming may implement multiple beams at the same time.
  • a proper analog beamforming may be determined before transmission or reception.
  • a corresponding TX beam and RX beam may be determined or known before a transmission between a gNB and a UE. If a good linkage is maintained between a gNB and a UE, at least a pair of TX beam and RX beam may be maintained at the base station side and the UE side.
  • a UE may determine its best RX beam by doing RX beam sweeping in the reception of downlink transmission and a gNB may determine its best TX beam by doing TX beam sweeping in the transmission of downlink transmission.
  • a gNB may use a corresponding best TX beam to serve a UE, and the UE may use a corresponding best RX beam to receive a downlink signal.
  • a gNB may only schedule UEs with a same best TX beam in the gNB at a time which may limit the scheduling of the gNB when only the best pair of TX beam and RX beam information is maintained in the gNB and UEs.
  • beam grouping may mean that for a gNB or UE multiple Tx and/or Rx beam (s) and/or beam pair (s) may be grouped into one subset of beams.
  • a UE may know or determine a RX beam in advance for a downlink transmission even if it receives the downlink transmission using blind decoding.
  • the UE may use the RX beam of the best beam pair to receive the downlink transmission even if there is no downlink transmission for it.
  • the RX beam of the UE may be indicated by the gNB to receive the downlink transmission. Interference may occur with downlink transmissions for multiple UEs using conflicting TX and RX beam pairs.
  • the apparatus includes a receiver that receives configuration information indicating a set of time durations and multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information.
  • the apparatus also includes a processor that determines a time duration of the set of time durations and a receive beam of the multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information based on the configuration information.
  • the receiver receives downlink information during the time duration using the receive beam.
  • the set of time durations has a corresponding transmit beam pattern. In a further embodiment, each time duration of the set of time durations has a corresponding transmit beam. In certain embodiments, the configuration information includes information indicating the set of time durations for a period of time and its corresponding transmit beam pattern. In some embodiments, the configuration information includes information indicating a subset of the set of time durations for a period of time and its corresponding receive beam pattern.
  • the configuration information includes information for determining a receive beam of the multiple receive beams based on a transmit beam pattern and beam grouping information.
  • the receive beam is determined based on reference signal received power.
  • the receive beam is determined randomly.
  • the configuration information indicating the set of time durations and the multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information is determined based on beam grouping information.
  • the beam grouping information includes information identifying a group of transmit and receive beam pairs.
  • a method for downlink configuration includes receiving configuration information indicating a set of time durations and multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information. The method also includes determining a time duration of the set of time durations and a receive beam of the multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information based on the configuration information. The method includes receiving downlink information during the time duration using the receive beam.
  • an apparatus includes a processor that determines configuration information indicating a set of time durations and multiple receive beams for a remote unit to receive downlink information.
  • the apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits the configuration information to the remote unit and transmits downlink information based on the configuration information.
  • the set of time durations has a corresponding transmit beam pattern. In a further embodiment, each time duration of the set of time durations has a corresponding transmit beam. In certain embodiments, the configuration information includes information indicating the set of time durations for a period of time and its corresponding transmit beam pattern. In some embodiments, the configuration information includes information indicating a subset of the set of time durations for a period of time and its corresponding receive beam pattern.
  • the configuration information includes information for determining a receive beam of the multiple receive beams based on a transmit beam pattern and beam grouping information.
  • the receive beam is determined based on reference signal received power.
  • the receive beam is determined randomly.
  • the configuration information indicating the set of time durations and the multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information is determined based on beam grouping information.
  • the beam grouping information includes information identifying a group of transmit and receive beam pairs.
  • a method for downlink configuration includes determining configuration information indicating a set of time durations and multiple receive beams for a remote unit to receive downlink information. The method also includes transmitting the configuration information to the remote unit. The method includes transmitting downlink information based on the configuration information.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic block diagram illustrating one embodiment of a wireless communication system for downlink configuration
  • Figure 2 is a schematic block diagram illustrating one embodiment of an apparatus that may be used for downlink configuration
  • Figure 3 is a schematic block diagram illustrating one embodiment of an apparatus that may be used for downlink configuration
  • Figure 4 illustrates one embodiment of communications for downlink configuration
  • Figures 5A-5C are schematic block diagrams illustrating one embodiment of a transmission configuration for transmissions from a gNB
  • Figures 6A-6C are schematic block diagrams illustrating another embodiment of a transmission configuration for transmissions from a gNB
  • Figure 7 is a schematic flow chart diagram illustrating one embodiment of a method for downlink configuration.
  • Figure 8 is a schematic flow chart diagram illustrating another embodiment of a method for downlink configuration.
  • embodiments may be embodied as a system, apparatus, method, or program product. Accordingly, embodiments may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc. ) or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a “circuit, ” “module” or “system. ” Furthermore, embodiments may take the form of a program product embodied in one or more computer readable storage devices storing machine readable code, computer readable code, and/or program code, referred hereafter as code. The storage devices may be tangible, non-transitory, and/or non-transmission. The storage devices may not embody signals. In a certain embodiment, the storage devices only employ signals for accessing code.
  • modules may be implemented as a hardware circuit comprising custom very-large-scale integration ( “VLSI” ) circuits or gate arrays, off-the-shelf semiconductors such as logic chips, transistors, or other discrete components.
  • VLSI very-large-scale integration
  • a module may also be implemented in programmable hardware devices such as field programmable gate arrays, programmable array logic, programmable logic devices or the like.
  • Modules may also be implemented in code and/or software for execution by various types of processors.
  • An identified module of code may, for instance, include one or more physical or logical blocks of executable code which may, for instance, be organized as an object, procedure, or function. Nevertheless, the executables of an identified module need not be physically located together, but may include disparate instructions stored in different locations which, when joined logically together, include the module and achieve the stated purpose for the module.
  • a module of code may be a single instruction, or many instructions, and may even be distributed over several different code segments, among different programs, and across several memory devices.
  • operational data may be identified and illustrated herein within modules, and may be embodied in any suitable form and organized within any suitable type of data structure. The operational data may be collected as a single data set, or may be distributed over different locations including over different computer readable storage devices.
  • the software portions are stored on one or more computer readable storage devices.
  • the computer readable medium may be a computer readable storage medium.
  • the computer readable storage medium may be a storage device storing the code.
  • the storage device may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, holographic, micromechanical, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.
  • a storage device More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the storage device would include the following: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory ( “RAM” ) , a read-only memory ( “ROM” ) , an erasable programmable read-only memory ( “EPROM” or Flash memory) , a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM” ) , an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.
  • a computer readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.
  • Code for carrying out operations for embodiments may be any number of lines and may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages including an object oriented programming language such as Python, Ruby, Java, Smalltalk, C++, or the like, and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language, or the like, and/or machine languages such as assembly languages.
  • the code may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server.
  • the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a local area network ( “LAN” ) or a wide area network ( “WAN” ) , or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet Service Provider) .
  • LAN local area network
  • WAN wide area network
  • the code may also be stored in a storage device that can direct a computer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other devices to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the storage device produce an article of manufacture including instructions which implement the function/act specified in the schematic flowchart diagrams and/or schematic block diagrams block or blocks.
  • the code may also be loaded onto a computer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other devices to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer, other programmable apparatus or other devices to produce a computer implemented process such that the code which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide processes for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
  • each block in the schematic flowchart diagrams and/or schematic block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of code, which includes one or more executable instructions of the code for implementing the specified logical function (s) .
  • Figure 1 depicts an embodiment of a wireless communication system 100 for downlink configuration.
  • the wireless communication system 100 includes remote units 102 and base units 104. Even though a specific number of remote units 102 and base units 104 are depicted in Figure 1, one of skill in the art will recognize that any number of remote units 102 and base units 104 may be included in the wireless communication system 100.
  • the remote units 102 may include computing devices, such as desktop computers, laptop computers, personal digital assistants ( “PDAs” ) , tablet computers, smart phones, smart televisions (e.g., televisions connected to the Internet) , set-top boxes, game consoles, security systems (including security cameras) , vehicle on-board computers, network devices (e.g., routers, switches, modems) , or the like.
  • the remote units 102 include wearable devices, such as smart watches, fitness bands, optical head-mounted displays, or the like.
  • the remote units 102 may be referred to as subscriber units, mobiles, mobile stations, users, terminals, mobile terminals, fixed terminals, subscriber stations, UE, user terminals, a device, or by other terminology used in the art.
  • the remote units 102 may communicate directly with one or more of the base units 104 via UL communication signals.
  • the base units 104 may be distributed over a geographic region.
  • a base unit 104 may also be referred to as an access point, an access terminal, a base, a base station, a Node-B, an eNB, a gNB, a Home Node-B, a relay node, a device, or by any other terminology used in the art.
  • the base units 104 are generally part of a radio access network that includes one or more controllers communicably coupled to one or more corresponding base units 104.
  • the radio access network is generally communicably coupled to one or more core networks, which may be coupled to other networks, like the Internet and public switched telephone networks, among other networks. These and other elements of radio access and core networks are not illustrated but are well known generally by those having ordinary skill in the art.
  • the wireless communication system 100 is compliant with the LTE of the 3GPP protocol, wherein the base unit 104 transmits using an OFDM modulation scheme on the DL and the remote units 102 transmit on the UL using a SC-FDMA scheme or an OFDM scheme. More generally, however, the wireless communication system 100 may implement some other open or proprietary communication protocol, for example, WiMAX, among other protocols. The present disclosure is not intended to be limited to the implementation of any particular wireless communication system architecture or protocol.
  • the base units 104 may serve a number of remote units 102 within a serving area, for example, a cell or a cell sector via a wireless communication link.
  • the base units 104 transmit DL communication signals to serve the remote units 102 in the time, frequency, and/or spatial domain.
  • a base unit 104 may determine configuration information indicating a set of time durations and multiple receive beams for a remote unit 102 to receive downlink information. In some embodiments, the base unit 104 may transmit the configuration information to the remote unit 102. In certain embodiments, the base unit 104 may transmit downlink information based on the configuration information. Accordingly, a base unit 104 may be used for downlink configuration.
  • a remote unit 102 may receive configuration information indicating a set of time durations and multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information.
  • the remote unit 102 may determine a time duration of the set of time durations and a receive beam of the multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information based on the configuration information.
  • the remote unit 102 may receive downlink information during the time duration using the receive beam. Accordingly, a remote unit 102 may be used for downlink configuration.
  • Figure 2 depicts one embodiment of an apparatus 200 that may be used for downlink configuration.
  • the apparatus 200 includes one embodiment of the remote unit 102.
  • the remote unit 102 may include a processor 202, a memory 204, an input device 206, a display 208, a transmitter 210, and a receiver 212.
  • the input device 206 and the display 208 are combined into a single device, such as a touchscreen.
  • the remote unit 102 may not include any input device 206 and/or display 208.
  • the remote unit 102 may include one or more of the processor 202, the memory 204, the transmitter 210, and the receiver 212, and may not include the input device 206 and/or the display 208.
  • the processor 202 may include any known controller capable of executing computer-readable instructions and/or capable of performing logical operations.
  • the processor 202 may be a microcontroller, a microprocessor, a central processing unit ( “CPU” ) , a graphics processing unit ( “GPU” ) , an auxiliary processing unit, a field programmable gate array ( “FPGA” ) , or similar programmable controller.
  • the processor 202 executes instructions stored in the memory 204 to perform the methods and routines described herein.
  • the processor 202 in various embodiments, may determine a time duration of a set of time durations and a receive beam of multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information based on configuration information.
  • the processor 202 is communicatively coupled to the memory 204, the input device 206, the display 208, the transmitter 210, and the receiver 212.
  • the memory 204 in one embodiment, is a computer readable storage medium.
  • the memory 204 includes volatile computer storage media.
  • the memory 204 may include a RAM, including dynamic RAM ( “DRAM” ) , synchronous dynamic RAM ( “SDRAM” ) , and/or static RAM ( “SRAM” ) .
  • the memory 204 includes non-volatile computer storage media.
  • the memory 204 may include a hard disk drive, a flash memory, or any other suitable non-volatile computer storage device.
  • the memory 204 includes both volatile and non-volatile computer storage media.
  • the memory 204 stores data relating to downlink configuration.
  • the memory 204 also stores program code and related data, such as an operating system or other controller algorithms operating on the remote unit 102.
  • the input device 206 may include any known computer input device including a touch panel, a button, a keyboard, a stylus, a microphone, or the like.
  • the input device 206 may be integrated with the display 208, for example, as a touchscreen or similar touch-sensitive display.
  • the input device 206 includes a touchscreen such that text may be input using a virtual keyboard displayed on the touchscreen and/or by handwriting on the touchscreen.
  • the input device 206 includes two or more different devices, such as a keyboard and a touch panel.
  • the display 208 may include any known electronically controllable display or display device.
  • the display 208 may be designed to output visual, audible, and/or haptic signals.
  • the display 208 includes an electronic display capable of outputting visual data to a user.
  • the display 208 may include, but is not limited to, an LCD display, an LED display, an OLED display, a projector, or similar display device capable of outputting images, text, or the like to a user.
  • the display 208 may include a wearable display such as a smart watch, smart glasses, a heads-up display, or the like.
  • the display 208 may be a component of a smart phone, a personal digital assistant, a television, a table computer, a notebook (laptop) computer, a personal computer, a vehicle dashboard, or the like.
  • the display 208 includes one or more speakers for producing sound.
  • the display 208 may produce an audible alert or notification (e.g., a beep or chime) .
  • the display 208 includes one or more haptic devices for producing vibrations, motion, or other haptic feedback.
  • all or portions of the display 208 may be integrated with the input device 206.
  • the input device 206 and display 208 may form a touchscreen or similar touch-sensitive display.
  • the display 208 may be located near the input device 206.
  • the transmitter 210 is used to provide UL communication signals to the base unit 104 and the receiver 212 is used to receive DL communication signals from the base unit 104.
  • the receiver 212 may be used to receive configuration information indicating a set of time durations and multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information.
  • the receiver 212 may be used to receive downlink information during a time duration using a receive beam.
  • the remote unit 102 may have any suitable number of transmitters 210 and receivers 212.
  • the transmitter 210 and the receiver 212 may be any suitable type of transmitters and receivers.
  • the transmitter 210 and the receiver 212 may be part of a transceiver.
  • Figure 3 depicts one embodiment of an apparatus 300 that may be used for downlink configuration.
  • the apparatus 300 includes one embodiment of the base unit 104.
  • the base unit 104 may include a processor 302, a memory 304, an input device 306, a display 308, a transmitter 310, and a receiver 312.
  • the processor 302, the memory 304, the input device 306, the display 308, the transmitter 310, and the receiver 312 may be substantially similar to the processor 202, the memory 204, the input device 206, the display 208, the transmitter 210, and the receiver 212 of the remote unit 102, respectively.
  • the processor 302 may determine configuration information indicating a set of time durations and multiple receive beams for a remote unit 102 to received downlink information.
  • the transmitter 310 is used to transmit the configuration information to the remote unit 102.
  • the transmitter 310 may be used to transmit downlink information based on the configuration information.
  • the base unit 104 may have any suitable number of transmitters 310 and receivers 312.
  • the transmitter 310 and the receiver 312 may be any suitable type of transmitters and receivers.
  • the transmitter 310 and the receiver 312 may be part of a transceiver.
  • Figure 4 illustrates one embodiment of communications 400 for downlink configuration. Specifically, communications 400 between a UE 402 and a gNB 404 are illustrated.
  • the communications 400 may facilitate downlink transmission from the gNB 404 to the UE 402 based on beam grouping.
  • the embodiment illustrated in Figure 4 has beam grouping applied.
  • the beam grouping information may be obtained in the gNB 404 and the UE 402 by beam measurement and feedback.
  • the downlink transmission based on beam grouping may increase the flexibility of scheduling and the UE 402 may decrease blind decoding of the downlink transmission.
  • a first communication 406 may include a message transmitted from the gNB 404 to the UE 402.
  • the first communication 406 may include configuration information used to configure the UE 402 for receiving an upcoming downlink transmission.
  • the configuration information may include a configuration of a periodic or semi-periodic set of time durations and/or corresponding TX beam patterns applied in the set of time durations.
  • the configuration information may be signaled using broadcast system information in which case all UEs (including the UE 402) may know the whole configuration of the set of time durations and the corresponding TX beam pattern in each time duration of the set of time durations.
  • the gNB 404 may indicate to each UE (e.g., the UE 402) the periodic or semi-periodic subset of time durations of the set of time durations and their corresponding RX beam pattern applied in the subset to receive the downlink transmission by RRC signaling or L1 signaling.
  • each UE doesn’t know the whole configuration of the set of time durations and the corresponding TX beam pattern in each time duration of the set of time duration.
  • the gNB 404 may determine the RX beam for the UE 402 based on the TX beam pattern used by the gNB 404 and the beam group information of the UE 402. In various embodiments, multiple RX beams of the UE 402 may be used to receive the downlink transmission using a same TX beam according its beam group information. In such embodiments, the gNB 404 may indicate the RX beam to the UE 402 after choosing one RX beam from the multiple beams.
  • the gNB 404 may choose the RX beam with the strongest RSRP for the UE’s reception.
  • the gNB 404 may choose a RX beam from the multiple RX beams randomly.
  • the periodic or semi-periodic set of time durations may be configured by the gNB 404 and/or the corresponding TX beam pattern applied in each time duration of the set of time durations may be semi-static configured by the gNB 404.
  • each time duration of the configured set of time durations may have a one to one mapping to a TX beam of the gNB 404.
  • the gNB 404 may schedule UEs in each time duration of the configured set of time durations based on beam grouping information of the UEs and the configured TX beam pattern applied in each time duration of the set of time durations.
  • the UE 402 may receive, in a second communication 408, downlink transmissions in those time durations during which mapping TX beams are in the beam group of the UE 402 by using a corresponding RX beam to receive the TX beam of the time duration.
  • the UE 402 may choose the RX beam for the reception with a strongest RSRP corresponding to the TX beam of the gNB 404.
  • the UE 402 may follow the indication of the gNB 404 to receive the downlink transmission in the indicated time duration by using the indicated RX beam.
  • Figures 5A-5C are schematic block diagrams illustrating one embodiment of a transmission configuration 500 for transmissions from a gNB (e.g., the gNB 404, the base unit 104) .
  • the transmission configuration 500 includes a first set of time durations 502 in a time period 504 and a second set of time durations 506 which may also have the same time period 504.
  • the first set of time durations 502 includes a first time duration 508 ( “S0” ) , a second time duration 510 ( “S1” ) , a third time duration 512 ( “S2” ) , a fourth time duration 514 ( “S3” ) , a fifth time duration 516 ( “S4” ) , and a sixth time duration 518 ( “S5” ) .
  • the second set of time durations 506 includes a first time duration 520 ( “S0” ) , a second time duration 522 ( “S1” ) , a third time duration 524 ( “S2” ) , a fourth time duration 526 ( “S3” ) , a fifth time duration 528 ( “S4” ) , and a sixth time duration 530 ( “S5” ) .
  • the gNB has 6 TX beams (e.g., TX B0, TX B1, TX B2, TX B3, TX B4, and TX B5) .
  • the TX beam pattern applied in each of the first and second sets of time durations 502 and 506 is TX B0 for S0, TX B1 for S1, TX B2 for S2, TX B3 for S3, TX B4 for S4, and TX B5 for S5 which may be semi-static configured by the gNB as illustrated in Figure 5A.
  • the configuration of the periodic or semi-periodic set of time durations and the corresponding TX beam pattern may be signaled to UEs by broadcast system information.
  • UEs e.g., UE1 and UE2
  • the beam group information for UE1 may include a first beam group having (TX B1, RX B2) and (TX B5, RX B2) and a second beam group having (TX B1, RX B3) and (TX B4, RX B3) .
  • the beam group information for UE2 may include a first beam group having (TX B0, RX B0) and (TX B5, RX B0) and a second beam group having (TX B2, RX B2) and (TX B4, RX B2) .
  • the gNB may schedule the UE1 and UE2 based on the beam group information. Accordingly, in S0 the gNB may only schedule UE2 because the TX beam of S0 is TX B0 which is only included in the beam group of UE2 but not included in the beam group of UE1. Further, in S1 the gNB may only schedule UE1 because the TX beam of S1 is TX B1 which is only included in the beam group of UE1 but not included in the beam group of UE2. Moreover, in S2 the gNB may only schedule UE2 because the TX beam of S2 is TX B2 which is only included in the beam group of UE2 but not included in the beam group of UE1.
  • the gNB may not schedule UE1 or UE2 because the TX beam of S3 is TX B3 which is not included in the beam group of UE1 or in the beam group of UE2, but the gNB may schedule other UEs in which TX B3 is included in their beam group. Further, in S4 and S5 the gNB may schedule both UE1 and UE2 because the TX beams of S4 and S5 are TX B4 and TX B5 respectively which are both included in the beam groups of UE1 and UE2.
  • the gNB may schedule UE1 in S1, S4, and S5, and UE2 in S2 and S4 in the first set of time durations 502, as illustrated in Figure 5A. Moreover, the gNB may schedule UE1 in S2 and S5, and UE2 in S0, S4, and S5 in the second set of time durations 506, as illustrated in Figure 5A.
  • UE1 For UE1, it may only attempt to receive downlink transmissions in S1, S4, and S5 because TX B1, TX B4, and TX B5 are included in its beam group. Moreover, UE1 may determine its corresponding RX beam for S1, S4, and S5 based on its beam group information. Because there are two RX beams (RX B2 and RX B3) that UE1 may use to receive the downlink transmission in S1 whose associated TX beam is TX B1, UE1 may use RX B2 to receive in the S1 if the RSRP of RX B2 is larger than the RSRP of RX B3. For the reception of S4 and S5, UE1 may use RX B3 and RX B2 respectively based on its beam group information.
  • the RX beams of UE1 are illustrated in Figure 5B.
  • UE1 may detect the downlink transmission for it only in S1, S4, and S5 of the first set of time durations 502, and may detect the downlink transmission for it only in S1 and S5 of the second set of time durations 506.
  • UE2 For UE2, it may only attempt to receive downlink transmissions in S0, S2, S4, and S5 because TX B0, TX B2, TX B4, and TX B5 are included in its beam group. Moreover, UE2 may determine its corresponding RX beam for S0, S2, S4, and S5 based on its beam group information. For the receptions of S0, S2, S4, and S5, UE2 may use RX B0, RX B2, RX B2, and RX B0 respectively based on its beam group information. The RX beams of UE2 are illustrated in Figure 5C.
  • UE2 may detect the downlink transmission for it only in S2 and S4 of the first set of time durations 502, and may detect the downlink transmission for it only in S0, S4, and S5 of the second set of time durations 506.
  • Figures 6A-6C are schematic block diagrams illustrating another embodiment of a transmission configuration 600 for transmissions from a gNB (e.g., the gNB 404, the base unit 104) .
  • the transmission configuration 600 includes a first set of time durations 602 in a time period 604 and a second set of time durations 606 which may also have the same time period 604.
  • the first set of time durations 602 includes a first time duration 608 ( “S0” ) , a second time duration 610 ( “S1” ) , a third time duration 612 ( “S2” ) , a fourth time duration 614 ( “S3” ) , a fifth time duration 616 ( “S4” ) , and a sixth time duration 618 ( “S5” ) .
  • the second set of time durations 606 includes a first time duration 620 ( “S0” ) , a second time duration 622 ( “S1” ) , a third time duration 624 ( “S2” ) , a fourth time duration 626 ( “S3” ) , a fifth time duration 628 ( “S4” ) , and a sixth time duration 630 ( “S5” ) .
  • the gNB has 4 TX beams (e.g., TX B0, TX B1, TX B2, and TX B3) .
  • the TX beam pattern applied in each of the first and second sets of time durations 602 and 606 is TX B0 for S0, TX B1 for S1, TX B1 for S2, TX B2 for S3, TX B2 for S4, and TX B3 for S5 which may be semi-static configured by the gNB as illustrated in Figure 6A.
  • the configuration of the periodic or semi-periodic set of time durations and the corresponding TX beam pattern may be signaled to UEs by broadcast system information.
  • UEs only two UEs (e.g., UE1 and UE2) are used.
  • the gNB may indicate the configuration information for reception of UE1 and UE2 by informing the UEs to receive during specific time durations and with specific RX beams during those time durations.
  • the beam group information for UE1 may include a first beam group having (TX B1, RX B0) and (TX B3, RX B0) and a second beam group having (TX B1, RX B2) and (TX B2, RX B2) .
  • the beam group information for UE2 may include a first beam group having (TX B0, RX B1) and (TX B2, RX B1) and a second beam group having (TX B1, RX B2) and (TX B2, RX B2) .
  • the gNB may not have information about which RX beam has a strongest RSRP, and therefore may randomly choose one RX beam from multiple RX beams to be associated with a specific TX beam.
  • the configuration information specific to UE1 that includes time durations for UE1 and specific RX beams corresponding to those time durations may include time durations S1, S2, S3, S4, and S5 with corresponding RX beams being respectively B0, B0, B2, B2, and B0.
  • the configuration information specific to UE2 that includes time durations for UE2 and specific RX beams corresponding to those time durations may include time durations S0, S1, S2, S3, and S4 with corresponding RX beams being respectively B1, B2, B2, B1, and B1.
  • the gNB may schedule the UE1 and UE2 based on the beam group information. Accordingly, in S0 the gNB may only schedule UE2 because the TX beam of S0 is TX B0 which is only included in the beam group of UE2 but not included in the beam group of UE1. Further, in S1, S2, S3, and S4 the gNB may schedule both UE1 and UE2 because the TX beam of S1 and S2 is TX B1 which is included in both the beam group of UE1 and UE2 and the TX beam of S3 and S4 is TX B2 which is included in both the beam group of UE1 and UE2.
  • the gNB may only schedule UE1 because the TX beam of S5 is TX B3 which is only included in the beam group of UE1 but not included in the beam group of UE2.
  • the gNB may schedule the UE1 in S1, S2, S3, S4, and S5, and the gNB may schedule the UE2 in S0, S1, S2, S3, and S4.
  • the gNB may schedule UE1 in S1, S3, and S5, and UE2 in S0, S1, S2, and S4 in the first set of time durations 602, as illustrated in Figure 6A. Moreover, the gNB may schedule UE1 in S2, S3, and S4, and UE2 in S1, S2, and S4 in the second set of time durations 606, as illustrated in Figure 6A.
  • RX beams of UE1 are illustrated in Figure 6B.
  • UE1 may detect the downlink transmission for it only in S1, S3, and S5 of the first set of time durations 602, and may detect the downlink transmission for it only in S2, S3, and S4 of the second set of time durations 606.
  • RX beams of UE2 are illustrated in Figure 6C.
  • UE2 may detect the downlink transmission for it only in S0, S1, S2, and S4 of the first set of time durations 602, and may detect the downlink transmission for it only in S1, S2, and S4 of the second set of time durations 606.
  • Figure 7 is a schematic flow chart diagram illustrating one embodiment of a method 700 for downlink configuration.
  • the method 700 is performed by an apparatus, such as the remote unit 102.
  • the method 700 may be performed by a processor executing program code, for example, a microcontroller, a microprocessor, a CPU, a GPU, an auxiliary processing unit, a FPGA, or the like.
  • the method 700 may include receiving 702 configuration information indicating a set of time durations and multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information.
  • the method 700 also includes determining 704 a time duration of the set of time durations and a receive beam of the multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information based on the configuration information.
  • the method 700 includes receiving 706 downlink information during the time duration using the receive beam.
  • the set of time durations has a corresponding transmit beam pattern. In a further embodiment, each time duration of the set of time durations has a corresponding transmit beam. In certain embodiments, the configuration information includes information indicating the set of time durations for a period of time and its corresponding transmit beam pattern. In some embodiments, the configuration information includes information indicating a subset of the set of time durations for a period of time and its corresponding receive beam pattern.
  • the configuration information includes information for determining a receive beam of the multiple receive beams based on a transmit beam pattern and beam grouping information.
  • the receive beam is determined based on reference signal received power.
  • the receive beam is determined randomly.
  • the configuration information indicating the set of time durations and the multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information is determined based on beam grouping information.
  • the beam grouping information includes information identifying a group of transmit and receive beam pairs.
  • Figure 8 is a schematic flow chart diagram illustrating one embodiment of a method 800 for downlink configuration.
  • the method 800 is performed by an apparatus, such as the base unit 104.
  • the method 800 may be performed by a processor executing program code, for example, a microcontroller, a microprocessor, a CPU, a GPU, an auxiliary processing unit, a FPGA, or the like.
  • the method 800 may include determining 802 configuration information indicating a set of time durations and multiple receive beams for a remote unit 102 to received downlink information.
  • the method 800 also includes transmitting 804 the configuration information to the remote unit 102.
  • the method 800 includes transmitting 806 downlink information based on the configuration information
  • the set of time durations has a corresponding transmit beam pattern. In a further embodiment, each time duration of the set of time durations has a corresponding transmit beam. In certain embodiments, the configuration information includes information indicating the set of time durations for a period of time and its corresponding transmit beam pattern. In some embodiments, the configuration information includes information indicating a subset of the set of time durations for a period of time and its corresponding receive beam pattern.
  • the configuration information includes information for determining a receive beam of the multiple receive beams based on a transmit beam pattern and beam grouping information.
  • the receive beam is determined based on reference signal received power.
  • the receive beam is determined randomly.
  • the configuration information indicating the set of time durations and the multiple receive beams for receiving downlink information is determined based on beam grouping information.
  • the beam grouping information includes information identifying a group of transmit and receive beam pairs.

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L'invention concerne des appareils, des procédés et des systèmes de configuration de liaison descendante. Un appareil (200) comprend un récepteur (212) qui reçoit (702) des informations de configuration indiquant un ensemble de durées de temps et de multiples faisceaux de réception destinés à recevoir des informations de liaison descendante. L'appareil (200) comprend également un processeur (202) qui détermine (704), sur la base des informations de configuration, une durée de temps parmi l'ensemble de durées de temps et un faisceau de réception parmi les multiples faisceaux de réception destinés à recevoir des informations de liaison descendante. Le récepteur (212) reçoit (706) des informations de liaison descendante pendant la durée de temps au moyen du faisceau de réception.
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