	US 12,193,040 B2
	Beam and cell selection based on power configuration
Navid Abedini, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); Kapil Gulati, Belle Mead, NJ (US); Alessio Marcone, Nuremberg (DE); Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Littleton, MA (US); Jianghong Luo, Skillman, NJ (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); and Luca Blessent, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/115,728.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/945,862, filed on Dec. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0176764 A1, Jun. 10, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 72/541 (2023.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 74/0833 (2024.01)

CPC H04W 72/541 (2023.01) [H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 74/0833 (2013.01)]

30 Claims

1. An apparatus for wireless communications by a first node of a network, comprising: at least one processor and a memory configured to:

monitor synchronization signal block (SSB) transmissions from one or more network entities; and

select a beam or cell associated with one of the one or more network entities based on:

the monitoring; and

one or more metrics associated with the monitored SSB transmissions, the one or more metrics comprise a first threshold value and are indicative of potential interference caused by uplink transmissions from the first node, wherein the selection further comprises selecting the beam for which the uplink transmissions from the first node using the selected beam at a minimum supported transmit power of the first node do not cause excessive interference based on whether an estimated uplink received power is at or below the first threshold value, and wherein the excessive interference is defined based on the first threshold value.