QUALCOMM Incorporated
SINR-BASED GROUP BEAM REPORTING

Abstract:

The present disclosure relates to apparatus and methods of signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR)-based group beam reporting. In particular, this disclosure relates to measurement report configurations for initiating a protocol layer 1 (L1)-SINR based group beam report, and corresponding measurement resource transmissions by a base station and measurement and reporting actions of the UE to report the L1-SINR for each of at least two beams that can be simultaneously received. The measurement report configurations include a channel measurement resource (CMR) configuration, an interference measurement resource (IMR) configuration, or both. The measurement configuration may indicate a plurality of CMR repetition sets, or N resource sets of 1 CMR resource plus N-1 IMRs, e.g., 1 CMR mapped to N-1 IMRs, or N.times.(N-1) resource sets of a CMR and an IMR, e.g., 1 CMR mapped to 1 IMR, where N is the number of candidate Tx beams.