US 11,678,204 B2
User equipment initiated coverage enhancement requests
Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, San Diego, CA (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); and Jelena Damnjanovic, Del Mar, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on May 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/332,840.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/030,816, filed on May 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0377749 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 16/28 (2013.01) [H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
receiving a beam, directed to the UE, transmitted by a base station;
performing measurements of the beam;
determining a channel reliability metric for the beam based on comparing one or more of the measurements, or one or more metrics based on one or more of the measurements, to corresponding thresholds associated with one or more beam characteristics;
transmitting, to the base station, a request to enhance a coverage of the beam responsive to the channel reliability metric being below a threshold, without triggering a beam change; and
adjusting processing of the beam to enhance the coverage of the beam based on a plurality of coverage enhancement parameters.