| CPC H04B 17/328 (2023.05) [H04B 7/088 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |
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1. A User Equipment (UE) comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one memory including computer program instructions, the at least one memory and the computer program instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the UE at least to:
receive an indication of a type of parameter to be reported by the UE, wherein the type of parameter characterizes one or more receive (Rx) beams via which the UE receives one or more Reference Signals (RSs), and wherein the type of parameter comprises a beam robustness indicator that is based on at least one of a switching time for an Rx beam, a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) of a Reference Signal (RS), a Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) of the RS, or an Angle of Arrival (AoA) of the RS;
receive configuration information for determining values of the indicated type of parameter, the configuration information indicating how to assign values via threshold ranges;
determine values of the indicated type of parameter for at least one RS of the one or more RSs received by at least one of the one or more Rx beams of the UE, wherein a common value of the beam robustness indicator assigned to different RSs indicates operation of respective Rx beams under a common threshold parameter, and wherein the determination includes determining multiple different values for a single RS of the one or more RSs received via a single Rx beam of the one or more Rx beams, each of the multiple different values corresponding to a different reception instance of the single RS via the same Rx beam, wherein one reception instance corresponds to a direct line-of-sight path and another reception instance corresponds to an indirect path resulting from reflection, and wherein each reception instance is associated with a different receive metric; and
send information indicative of the determined values of the indicated type of parameter, wherein the information comprises, for each RS, an indication of a robustness offset value and an associated group identifier selected from a plurality of groups, each group corresponding to a predefined range of values of the indicated type of parameter, such that: (i) different robustness offset values for the same RS received via a single Rx beam correspond to different reception instances with different receive metrics, and (ii) RSs tagged with a same group identifier indicate reception via Rx beams operating under a common threshold parameter, thereby enabling classification of RSs according to robustness characteristics for scheduling and fallback purposes.
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