US 12,082,022 B2
Apparatus and method for user equipment panel selection
Yushu Zhang, Beijing (CN); Guotong Wang, Beijing (CN); Alexei Davydov, Nizhny Novgorod (RU); Gang Xiong, Portland, OR (US); Bishwarup Mondal, San Ramon, CA (US); and Hong He, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/252,223
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CN2019/106842
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 14, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/063457, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2018/107940 (WO), filed on Sep. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0258811 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/1268 (2023.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 24/10 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 72/044 (2013.01); H04W 72/1268 (2013.01); H04B 7/0695 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for a user equipment (UE), comprising:
a radio frequency (RF) interface to facilitate transmission or reception of one or more wireless signals; and
processor circuitry coupled with the RF interface, the processor circuitry to:
identify one or more downlink reference signal resources received from a next-generation NodeB (gNB);
measure a beam quality for the one or more downlink reference signal resources received at one or more panels of the UE;
facilitate uplink transmission of one or more information elements (IEs), wherein respective IEs of the one or more IEs include an indication of a reference signal resource of the one or more reference signal resources, an indication of a panel of the one or more panels, and an indication of the measured beam quality of the reference signal resource as received at the panel; and
identify a downlink transmission received from the gNB, wherein the downlink transmission is responsive to the uplink transmission of the one or more IEs, and wherein the downlink transmission includes an indication of an identified panel of the one or more panels that is to be used for transmission of an uplink signal that is responsive to receipt of a future downlink transmission of an identified reference signal resource, wherein the identified panel and the identified reference signal resource are identified by the gNB based on-the-on the one or more IEs.