CN110168955A

CN110168955A - Control signaling for wave beam management

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Publication number: CN110168955A
Application number: CN201880005994.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王国童; 张羽书; A·达维多夫; 韩承希
Original assignee: Intel IP Corp
Current assignee: Apple Inc; Intel Corp
Priority date: 2017-02-06
Filing date: 2018-01-29
Publication date: 2019-08-23
Anticipated expiration: 2038-01-29
Also published as: EP3577788A1; WO2018144384A1; CN110168955B

Abstract

Embodiment of the disclosure describes the method and apparatus for wave beam managing signaling.

Description

Control signaling for wave beam management

Related application

This application claims submitted on 2 6th, 2017 application No. is the excellent of the PCT application of PCT/CN2017/072940 First weigh.The specification of the application is incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.

Technical field

Embodiment of the disclosure relates in general to network field, and more particularly, to for the wave beam in cellular network The devices, systems, and methods of the control signaling of management.

Background technique

Beam forming can in the 5th generation (" 5G ") communication system transmission/receiving point side (" TRP ") and user equipment The side (" UE ") uses.Wave beam management can be executed in both downlink and uplink to maintain the TRP/UE for communication Wave beam.

Detailed description of the invention

It will readily appreciate that embodiment by the detailed description below in conjunction with attached drawing.For the ease of this description, identical attached drawing Label indicates identical structural detail.Embodiment is shown in the attached drawings by way of example, and not limitation.

Fig. 1 shows network in accordance with some embodiments.

Fig. 2 shows message flow charts in accordance with some embodiments.

Fig. 3 shows example operational flow/algorithm structure in accordance with some embodiments.

Fig. 4 shows example operational flow/algorithm structure in accordance with some embodiments.

Fig. 5 shows electronic equipment in accordance with some embodiments.

Fig. 6 shows baseband circuit in accordance with some embodiments.

Fig. 7 shows telecommunication circuit in accordance with some embodiments.

Fig. 8 shows radio circuit in accordance with some embodiments.

Fig. 9 shows control plane protocol stack in accordance with some embodiments.

Figure 10 shows user-plane protocol stack in accordance with some embodiments.

Figure 11 shows hardware resource in accordance with some embodiments.

Specific embodiment

In the following detailed description, with reference to attached drawing, attached drawing forms a part of the invention, wherein identical label Identical component is always shown, and in the accompanying drawings, the embodiment that can be implemented is shown by way of diagram.It should manage Solution can use other embodiments and can carry out structure or in logic without departing from the scope of the disclosure Change.

Various operations can successively be described as multiple discrete dynamic in a manner of most helpful in theme claimed is understood Make or operates.However, the sequence of description is not necessarily to be construed as implying these operations essentially dependent on sequence.In particular, These operations can not be executed by presentation sequence.Described operation can be executed with the sequence different from described embodiment. Various additional operations can be executed and/or can be omitted described operation in other embodiments.

For the purpose of this disclosure, phrase " A or B ", " A and/or B " and " A/B " indicates (A), (B) or (A and B).

Phrase " in embodiment " or " in various embodiments " can be used in description, can each refer to for identical or not With one or more embodiments in embodiment.In addition, the word "include", "comprise" used about embodiment of the disclosure, " having " etc. is synonymous.

Fig. 1 show according to various embodiments transmission/receiving point (" TRP ") 104 and user equipment (" UE ") 108 it Between wireless communication.TRP 104 can for Radio Access Network (" RAN ") access node (" AN ") 106 a part or by It is controlled.Access node 106 can be referred to as base station (" BS "), NodeB, evolution NodeB (" eNB "), next generation NodeB (" gNB "), RAN node, roadside unit (" RSU ") etc., and may include earth station's (for example, terrestrial access points) or on ground It manages and the satellite station of covering is provided in region (for example, cell).RSU can refer to (or relatively quiet in gNB/eNB/RAN node or fixation Only) realization or any transmission infrastructure entities realized by it in UE, wherein can be claimed in UE or by the RSU that UE is realized " eNB type RSU " can be referred to as " UE type RSU ", and the RSU realized in the enb or by eNB.

In some embodiments, RAN can be next-generation (" NG ") Radio Access Network (" RAN "), in this case, TRP 104 can be using new radio (" NR ") access technology and a part of the gNB communicated of UE 108 or to be controlled by it.

UE 108 can be any movement or the stationary computing devices that may be connected to one or more cellular networks.Example Such as, UE 108 can be smart phone, laptop computer, desktop computer, car-mounted computer, intelligence sensor etc..One In a little embodiments, it may include designed for the low function using short-term UE connection that UE 108, which can be Internet of Things (" IoT ") UE, The network access layer of rate IoT application.IoT UE can use such as machine to machine (" M2M ") or machine type communication The technology of (" MTC ") come via public land mobile network (" PLMN "), based on neighbouring service (" ProSe ") or equipment to setting Standby (" D2D ") communication, sensor network or IoT network and MTC server or devices exchange data.M2M or MTC data exchange can Think the data exchange that machine is initiated.IoT network describes the IoT UE of interconnection, may include unique with connecting in short term Identifiable embedding assembly equipment (in the Internet infrastructure).IoT UE can execute background application (for example, maintaining Effect message, state update etc.) to promote the connection of IoT network.

According to some embodiments, UE 108 be can be configured as according to the various communication technology (such as, but not limited to, orthogonal frequencies Divide multiple access (" OFDMA ") communication technology (for example, being used for downlink communication) or single-carrier frequency division multiple access (" SC-FDMA ") communication Technology (for example, being communicated for uplink or sidelinks), but the range of embodiment aspect without being limited thereto) in multi-carrier communication It is communicated using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (" OFDM ") signal of communication with TRP 104 on channel.Ofdm signal may include multiple Orthogonal sub-carriers.

In some embodiments, the downlink that down-chain resource grid can be used for from TRP 104 to UE 108 passes It is defeated, and similar technology can be used in uplink transmission.Grid can be time frequency grid (referred to as resource grid or running time-frequency resource Grid), it is the physical resource in the downlink in each time slot.This time-frequency plane is expressed as the common of ofdm system and does Method, this makes it be intuitive for radio resource allocation.The each column of resource grid and every row correspond respectively to an OFDM symbol Number and an OFDM subcarrier.The duration of resource grid in time domain corresponds to a time slot in radio frames.Resource network Minimum time frequency unit in lattice is represented as element of resource.Each resource grid includes multiple resource blocks, and which depict certain objects Manage the mapping of channel to element of resource.Each resource block includes the set of element of resource；In a frequency domain, this can indicate currently may be used With the least resource amount of distribution.In the presence of the several different physical channels transmitted using such resource block.

Physical down link sharing channel (" PDSCH ") and physical uplink shared channel (" PUSCH ") can carry User data and higher level signaling (for example, wireless heterogeneous networks (" RRC ") signaling message).Physical downlink control channel (" PDCCH ") can carry the downlink about transformat and resource allocation for example relevant to PDSCH/PUSCH channel Control information etc..PDCCH can also notify transformat relevant to PUSCH, resource allocation and HARQ that (mixing is certainly to UE 108 Dynamic retransmission request) information.Physical uplink control channel (" PUCCH ") can carry true about such as HARQ confirmation/negative Recognize (" ACK/NACK "), multi input, multi output (" MIMO ") feedback (such as order designator and pre-coding matrix, channel quality refer to Show symbol etc.) uplink control information.

TRP 104 and UE 108 can participate in the wave beam communicated for uplink (" UL ") or downlink (" DL ") Forming.This is particularly useful in the 5G system using high-frequency communication (such as millimeter wave (" mmWave ") communicates).As used herein, MmWave communication can be for using the communication of the wavelength between 1 to 10 millimeters, which corresponds between 30 to 300 gigahertzs Spectral range.Antenna element used in mmWave system can be sufficiently small, so as to the relatively small shape generallyd use with UE The factor realizes multiple element.In addition, beam forming can help to mitigate by such as path loss, sight and transmission range problem Caused at least some mmWave challenges.

UL is communicated, the beam forming of the side UE can produce one or more UL and send (" Tx ") wave beam, and the side TRP Beam forming can produce one or more UL and receive (" Rx ") wave beams.Fig. 1 schematically shows three UL Tx wave beams: UL Tx wave beam 112 (a)；UL Tx wave beam 112 (b)；And UL Tx wave beam 112 (c).Fig. 1 also schematically shows three UL Rx wave beam: UL Rx wave beam 116 (a)；UL Rx wave beam 116 (b)；And UL Rx wave beam 116 (c).Various embodiments may include The UL Tx/Rx wave beam of different number, they can be unequal each other.

Wave beam management process can be executed to determine the appropriate UL Tx wave beam that UE 108 is used and the UL that TRP 104 is used Rx wave beam.Uplink beam management can be generally divided into three operations.It is possible, firstly, to obtain initial UL Tx/Rx wave beam.Its It is secondary, UL Rx wave beam can be refined.Third can refine UL Tx wave beam.Various signalling concepts described herein may include using In wave beam management process control signaling and it is related to the various reference signals that can be used relative to wave beam management process, by It generates or in the signaling wherein generated.

Fig. 2 shows message flow Figure 200, it can be used for executing or promote these which depict in accordance with some embodiments The specific signaling of wave beam management process exchanges.

At 204, the available initial UL Tx/Rx wave beam of TRP 104 is to information.Initial UL Tx/Rx wave beam is to information It may include the information of the UL Tx wave beam to be used by UE 108 and the UL Rx wave beam to be used by TRP 104 for identification. The information may include such as beam index of UL Tx wave beam, the beam index of UL Rx wave beam including UL Tx wave beam and UL The wave beam of both Rx wave beams is to the beam index of link or other UL Rx/Tx beam parameters.

Initial UL Tx/Rx wave beam can be for example, by exhaustive search, iterative search or based on context to the acquisition of information The search of information (" CI ") is completed.The institute of the predefined code book of the entire angular region of covering can be passed through by ladder in order There is the equipment of wave beam to carry out exhaustive search.Iterative search may include the first and second stages.In the first phase, TRP 104 can send the pilot tone of opposite wide-angle.UE 108 can send feedback, and the feedback can be used in TRP 104 will gather to identify Burnt sector.In second stage, TRP 104/UE 108 can execute the search to the narrow beam in selected sector.Based on upper The method of context information (" CI ") may include TRP 104 or another access node send TRP contextual information (for example, HA Global Positioning Satellite (" GPS ") coordinate).Can contextual information for example be sent using long term evolution (" LTE ") frequency.UE 108 can be used contextual information to select TRP 104 and wave beam appropriate.The various combinations of these processing can be used to obtain Take initial UL wave beam to information.

In some embodiments, initial UL Tx/Rx wave beam is to can be identified as previously identified DL Rx/Tx wave The supplement of beam pair.For example, TRP 104 can be originally identified by by UE 108 be used for DL communication Rx wave beam (" RxBeam2 ") and The Tx wave beam (" TxBeam3 ") of DL communication will be used for by TRP 104.In some embodiments, it can be determined based on those wave beams UL Tx/Rx wave beam pair.For example, initial UL wave beam is to may include TxBeam2 corresponding with RxBeam2 for UE 108, with And the RxBeam3 corresponding with TxBeam3 for TRP 104.

At 208, TRP 104 can to UE 108 send include instruction UL beam index first instruction (" ind1 ") and Indicate that uplink sends the down link control information (" DCI ") of the second instruction (" ind2 ") of the Linktype of wave beam.DCI It can be used for triggering the transmission of the detection reference signal (" SRS ") from UE 108.

First instruction for such as SRS resource indicator (" SRI ") or can may be used as UE 108 and select specific UL wave beam Basis any other type indicator.In some embodiments, for example, when being maintained between TRP 104 and UE 108 When multiple wave beams are to link (" BPL "), the first instruction can be the instruction of link index.Link index can be used in UE 108 Determine UL wave beam appropriate.In some embodiments, the first instruction can be only the beam index of UL wave beam.

Different power control process can be used for different channel or reference signal.Therefore it provides instruction uplink The second instruction for sending the Linktype of wave beam (or BPL), which can permit, more accurately selects desired wave beam.In some implementations In example, uplink, which sends wave beam (or BPL), can have control Linktype, can indicate that uplink transmission wave beam will Information is controlled for sending.In some embodiments, uplink, which sends wave beam (or BPL), can have types of data link connections, It can indicate that uplink sends wave beam and will be used to send data information.In various embodiments, the first instruction and second refers to Showing can send in identical or different message.

At 212, the one or more that UE 108 can generate and send SRS based on UL beam index and Linktype is real Example.In some embodiments, UL wave beam corresponding with the UL beam index provided at 208 can be used and using based on chain The up-link power collection of road type sends SRS.Although various embodiments describe the use of SRS, other embodiments Other uplink beams management reference signal can be used.

At 216, TRP 104 can refine UL Rx wave beam based on the received SRS of institute.Refinement UL Rx wave beam it Afterwards, TRP 104 can send one or more downlink reference signals (" RS ") at 220.UE 108 can measure downlink Link reference signal simultaneously provides feedback at 224.In some embodiments, feedback can be based on Reference Signal Received Power (" RSRP ") measurement；However, using other measurements.In this way it is possible to update UE up-link power control information.

At 226, UE 108, which can be used, sends beam scanning for example to send additional SRS.In some embodiments, Multiple examples of SRS can be sent at 226 by different UL Tx wave beams.TRP 104 can with a reception wave beam (for example, The reception wave beam selected at 216) receive different examples.In some embodiments, TRP 104 can construct DCI simultaneously DCI is sent to UE, DCI instruction UE sends multiple repetitions of SRS using corresponding multiple UL Tx wave beams.

At 228, if the UL Tx wave beam of refinement is different from the initial UL Tx wave beam in 208 instructions, TRP 104 can To refine UL Tx wave beam and provide modified first instruction to DCI at 232.In some embodiments, TRP 104 can be Using multiple examples of the first extended receiver wave beam processing SRS at 226, and UL Tx wave is refined based on processing example Beam.

Fig. 3 shows operating process/algorithm structure 300 in accordance with some embodiments.According to various embodiments, operation stream Journey/algorithm structure 300 can by TRP 104 or in which circuit execute.Although the embodiment and other embodiments describe by TRP 104 execute operation, but it is to be understood that these operation some or all of can additionally/alternatively by TRP The component of AN 106 outside 104 executes.

Operating process/algorithm structure 300 may include: to obtain initial UL Tx/Rx wave beam to information at 304.304 Place, which obtains initial UL Tx/Rx wave beam, can be similar to the information described above for 204 to information.

Operating process/algorithm structure 300 may further include: at 308, sending UL beam index and Linktype refers to Show.As set forth above, it is possible to provide instruction in the DCI sent by one or more message.

In some embodiments, the instruction sent at 308 may refer to the parameter previously configured.For example, in some realities It applies in example, TRP 104 can configure multiple parameters collection for UE 108.This can be used higher level signaling (such as, but not limited to without Line resources control (" RRC ") signaling) it completes.The instruction (can pass through DCI) sent at 308 can be from preconfigured ginseng It is selected in manifold.

In some embodiments, indicating for sending at 308 can be the one of the instruction that UE 108 is supplied to from TRP 104 Part, instruction UE 108 send multiple repetitions that wave beam sends SRS using the uplink of instruction.

Operating process/algorithm structure 300 may further include: at 312, handle one or more examples of SRS simultaneously Process-based SRS refines extended receiver wave beam.In some embodiments, TRP 104 can be by executing received wave Beam scanning refines extended receiver wave beam.For example, it is contemplated that TRP 104 indicates that UE 108 sends wave beam using uplink 112 (a) send multiple repetitions of SRS.Extended receiver wave beam 116 (a) can be used to receive the first of SRS in TRP 104 Example is received the second example of SRS using extended receiver wave beam 116 (b), and uses extended receiver wave beam 116 (c) receive the third example of SRS.When handling the SRS example that these are received, TRP 104 can determine specified upstream Link receives wave beam (for example, extended receiver wave beam 116 (a)) and sends wave beam with the uplink for sending SRS example It is most effective for being used together.

In the case where the extended receiver wave beam that the selection of TRP 104 is different from initial uplink reception wave beam, behaviour Making process/algorithm structure 300 may further include: at 316, the extended receiver wave beam based on refinement sends downlink chain Road reference signal.Power control process can be specific for wave beam, and wherein different beams have different capacity control parameter.Cause This, if extended receiver wave beam changes, the original power control parameter that UE 108 has may be no longer applicable in.Under transmission Downlink reference signal can permit UE 108 and execute the coupling loss measurement for being determined for uplink transmission power.

Before sending the downlink reference signal for measurement, TRP 104 can be sent out in DCI or higher level signaling The reference signal indicator for sending UE 108 that can be used to identify downlink reference signal.

Operating process/algorithm structure 300 may further include: at 320, handle corresponding with downlink reference signal Feedback and execute up-link power control.For example, UL power control can be based on the measurement of DL RSRP.

Operating process/algorithm structure 300 may further include: at 324, refining UL Tx wave beam and sends refinement Uplink sends the instruction of the type of wave beam and link.The refinement that uplink sends wave beam can be based on using transmission wave beam Scan multiple examples of the SRS sent.

Fig. 4 shows operating process/algorithm structure 400 in accordance with some embodiments.According to various embodiments, operation stream Journey/algorithm structure 400 can by UE 108 or in which circuit execute.

Operating process/algorithm structure 400 may include: to handle the first DCI at 404 to identify that uplink beam refers to The instruction of several and Linktype.In some embodiments, the instruction of DCI can refer to preconfigured parameter set.Instruction in DCI Can directly or indirectly include uplink send wave beam instruction, it may for example comprise UL send beam index, link index or Some other instructions.In some embodiments, which may include that can be used by UE 108 to determine that uplink is sent The SRI of wave beam.Instruction in DCI can also directly or indirectly include the Linktype that uplink sends wave beam (or BPL) Instruction.

Operating process/algorithm structure 400 may include: to configure transmission beam based on the instruction in DCI at 408.Example Such as, when receiving instruction, UE 108 can determine that it will use the first uplink to send wave beam, for example, uplink is sent out Wave beam 112 (a) is sent, and beam power can be sent based on Linktype selection uplink.The configuration of transmission beam can be with Based on the additional wave beam configuration parameter in the memory for being stored in UE.In some embodiments, beam configuration parameter can store In beam forming code book.

Operating process/algorithm structure 400 may include: to send SRS using the transmission beam of configuration at 412.Some In embodiment, UE 108 can be used identical or different uplink and send wave beam to send multiple examples of SRS.Some In embodiment, in order to determine desired UL Tx/Rx wave beam, reception beam scanning is can be used in TRP 104 or UE 108 can Using sending beam scanning when multiple examples to send SRS in UE 108.

Operating process/algorithm structure 400 may include: to receive downlink reference signal at 416 and provide feedback. UE 108, which can receive, provides the various instructions of reference signal configuration information.Then, UE 108 can be based on reference signal configuration Information carrys out measuring reference signals, to determine channel quality/state.Can to reference signal execute it is multiple measurement any one of with Determine channel quality/state, including such as Reference Signal Received Power (" RSRP "), Reference Signal Received Quality (" RSRQ ") Deng.During measurement, UE 108 can be by the indication feedback of measurement to TRP 104.

Operating process/algorithm structure 400 may include: at 420, and the 2nd DCI of processing is referred to the UL wave beam for identifying refinement Number.As described above, in some instances, TRP 104 can refine uplink beam based on the received feedback of institute.At these In the case of, UE 108 can reconfigure transmitting line when handling two DCI, to utilize the uplink send wave of refinement Beam is for subsequent transmission.

Any appropriately configured hardware can be used and/or software will embodiment described herein realize into system.Fig. 5 Show the exemplary components of the electronic equipment 500 for one embodiment.In embodiment, electronic equipment 500 can be, is real Now, it is incorporated to or otherwise becomes UE 108, AN 106, TRP 104 or can execute, realize or merge UE 108, AN A part of the computer equipment of the one or more features of 106 or TRP 104.

In some embodiments, electronic equipment 500 may include the application circuit being at least coupled as shown in the figure 502, baseband circuit 504, radio frequency (" RF ") circuit 506, front-end module (" FEM ") circuit 508 and one or more antennas 510. In the embodiment that electronic equipment 500 is realized in AN or is realized by AN, electronic equipment 500 can also include for by wired The network interface circuit (not shown) that interface (for example, X2 interface, S1 interface etc.) is communicated.

As used herein, term " circuit " may refer to, become or including specific integrated circuit (" ASIC "), electronics electricity Road, processor (shared, dedicated or group) and/or memory (shared, dedicated or group) execute one or more softwares or firmware Other suitable hardware componenies of program, combinational logic circuit and/or offer described function.In some embodiments, electric Road can be realized in one or more softwares or firmware module, or function associated with circuit can be by one or more Software or firmware module are realized.In some embodiments, circuit may include the logic that can at least partly operate within hardware.

Application circuit 502 may include one or more application processor.For example, application circuit 502 may include circuit, Such as, but not limited to one or more single or multiple core processor 502a.Processor 502a may include general processor and dedicated Any combination of processor (for example, graphics processor, application processor etc.).Processor 502a can be with computer-readable medium 502b is coupled and/or be may include computer-readable medium 502b (also referred to as " CRM 502b ", " memory 502b ", " storage 502b " or " memory/storage 502b "), and can be configured as the instruction for executing and being stored in CRM 502b, so that various Using and/or operating system can be run in system.

Baseband circuit 504 may include circuit, such as, but not limited to one or more single or multiple core processors, to execute Any wave beam management process as described herein.In some embodiments, baseband circuit 504 can be configured as execution such as this paper institute One or more processes, technology and/or method for stating or part thereof.For example, baseband circuit 504 can construct, handles or cause The signaling for the various message for describing and discussing in message flow Figure 200 of Fig. 2.In addition, according to some embodiments, baseband circuit 504 may be implemented operating process/algorithm structure 300 of Fig. 3 or operating process/algorithm structure 400 of Fig. 4.

Baseband circuit 504 may include one or more baseband processor and/or control logic, to handle from RF circuit The 506 received baseband signal of reception signal path, and generate the baseband signal of the transmission signal path for RF circuit 506. Baseband circuit 504 can be connect for generating and handling baseband signal and for controlling RF circuit 506 with application circuit 502 Operation.For example, in some embodiments, baseband circuit 504 may include the second generation (" 2G ") baseband processor 504a, the third generation (" 3G ") baseband processor 504b, forth generation (" 4G ") baseband processor 504c, the 5th generation (" 5G ") baseband processor 504h and/ Or other baseband processor 504d of other existing generations, the generation in exploitation or the generation (for example, 6G etc.) developed in the future.

Baseband circuit 504 (for example, one or more of baseband processor 504a-d, h) can handle various wireless controlleds Function processed, can be via RF circuit 506 and one or more radio network communications.Radio Control Function may include but not It is limited to signal modulation/demodulation, coding/decoding, radio frequency displacement etc..In some embodiments, the modulating/demodulating of baseband circuit 504 Circuit may include Fast Fourier Transform (" FFT "), precoding and/or constellation mapping/demapping function.In some embodiments In, the coding/decoding circuit of baseband circuit 504 may include that convolution, tail biting convolution, turbo, Viterbi and/or low-density are odd Even parity check (" LDPC ") coder/decoder functionalities.The embodiment of modulating/demodulating and coder/decoder functionalities is not limited to this A little examples, and may include other suitable functions in other embodiments.

In some embodiments, baseband circuit 504 may include the element of protocol stack, such as, the general land of evolution The element of ground Radio Access Network (" E-UTRAN ") agreement, including for example physics (" PHY "), media access control (" MAC "), Wireless spread-spectrum technology (" RLC "), packet data convergence protocol (" PDCP ") and/or wireless heterogeneous networks (" RRC ") element.Base band Central processing unit (" CPU ") 504e of circuit 504 can be configured as operation protocol stack for PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP And/or the element of the signaling of rrc layer.

In various embodiments, 5G baseband processor 504h can execute PHY and may execute above for Fig. 2, Fig. 3 Some or all of MAC layer operation described with Fig. 4；And CPU 504e can execute MAC layer operation and RLC, PDCP and Some or all of rrc layer operation.In some embodiments, CPU 504e can be configured in rrc layer for example can be used for wave The various parameters collection of beam management process, and 5G baseband circuit 504h can be used for handling, construct or signal including uplink Link sends the DCI of the instruction of wave beam and Linktype；Collocating uplink link sends wave beam；And it measures DL RS and feedback is provided.

In some embodiments, baseband circuit may include one or more audio digital signal processors (" DSP ") 504f.Audio DSP 504f may include the element for compression/de-compression and echo cancellor, and in other embodiments may be used To include other suitable processing elements.

Baseband circuit 504 may further include computer-readable medium 504g (also referred to as " CRM 504g ", " memory 504g ", " storage 504g " or " CRM 504g ").CRM 504g can be used for loading and storing the processor by baseband circuit 504 The data and/or instruction of the operation of execution.For example, CRM 504g may include instruction, when being performed by one or more processors When, the instruction is so that equipment (for example, AN 106, TRP 104 or UE 108) executes any operation described herein.CRM 504g It can also include the data of storage in order to operating.For example, CRM 504g can store beam configuration parameter, such as beam forming Code book is accessed by baseband circuit to configure transmission/reception wave beam.CRM 504g for one embodiment may include suitable Volatile memory and/or nonvolatile memory any combination.CRM 504g may include various ranks memory/ Any combination of storage, including but not limited to embedded software instruction (for example, firmware) read-only memory (" ROM "), Random access memory (for example, dynamic random access memory (" DRAM ")), cache, buffer etc..CRM 504g can Par-ticular processor is shared or is exclusively used between various processors.

In some embodiments, the component of baseband circuit 504 can be combined properly in one single chip or one single chip group In, or be arranged on same circuit board.In some embodiments, baseband circuit 504 and application circuit 502 is some or all of Building block can be realized such as on system on chip (" SOC ") together.

In some embodiments, baseband circuit 504 can provide the communication compatible with one or more radio technologies.Example Such as, in some embodiments, baseband circuit 504 can be supported and E-UTRAN and/or other wireless MANs (" WMAN "), nothing The communication of line local area network (" WLAN "), wireless personal area network (" WPAN ").Baseband circuit 504 is configured as supporting more than one wireless The embodiment of the radio communication of agreement is referred to alternatively as multi-mode baseband circuit.

The communication realized with wireless network can be used through the modulated electromagnetic radiation of non-solid medium in RF circuit 506. In various embodiments, RF circuit 506 may include switch, filter, amplifier etc., to promote the communication with wireless network. RF circuit 506 may include receiving signal path, which may include connecing for down coversion from FEM circuit 508 The RF signal of receipts and the circuit that baseband signal is supplied to baseband circuit 504.RF circuit 506 can also include sending signal road Diameter, the transmission signal path may include the baseband signal provided for up-conversion by baseband circuit 504 and by RF output signal FEM circuit 508 is supplied to the circuit for transmission.

In some embodiments, RF circuit 506 may include receiving signal path and transmission signal path.RF circuit 506 Reception signal path may include mixer 506a, amplifier circuit 506b and filter circuit 506c.RF circuit 506 Transmission signal path may include filter circuit 506c and mixer 506a.RF circuit 506 can also include synthesis Device circuit 506d is used to synthesize the frequency used by the mixer 506a of reception signal path and transmission signal path. In some embodiments, the mixer 506a for receiving signal path can be configured as to be provided based on synthesizer circuit 506d Frequency synthesis to from the received RF signal of FEM circuit 508 carry out down coversion.Amplifier circuit 506b can be configured as amplification Down-conversion signal, and filter circuit 506c can be low-pass filter (" LPF ") or bandpass filter (" BPF "), quilt It is configured to remove unwanted signal from down-conversion signal to generate output baseband signal.Output baseband signal can be provided To baseband circuit 504 for being further processed.In some embodiments, output baseband signal can be zero frequency base band Signal, but this is not required.In some embodiments, it may include passive for receiving the mixer 506a of signal path Frequency mixer, but the range of embodiment is not limited to this aspect.

In some embodiments, the mixer 506a for sending signal path can be configured as based on synthesizer circuit The frequency synthesis that 506d is provided carries out up-conversion to input baseband signal, to generate the RF output signal for being used for FEM circuit 508. Baseband signal can be provided by baseband circuit 504, and can be filtered by filter circuit 506c.Filter circuit 506c can be with Including LPF, but the range of embodiment aspect without being limited thereto.

In some embodiments, it receives the mixer 506a of signal path and sends the mixer of signal path 506a may include two or more frequency mixers, and can be arranged to quadrature frequency conversion and/or up-conversion respectively.? In some embodiments, the mixer 506a for receiving signal path and the mixer 506a for sending signal path be can wrap Two or more frequency mixers are included, and mirror image can be arranged to and inhibit (for example, Hartley mirror image inhibits).Some In embodiment, the mixer 506a for receiving signal path and the mixer 506a for sending signal path can be arranged For distinguishing Direct-conversion and/or Direct conversion.In some embodiments, the mixer 506a of signal path is received Superheterodyne operation can be configured for the mixer 506a for sending signal path.

In some embodiments, output baseband signal and input baseband signal can be analog baseband signal, but implement The range aspect without being limited thereto of example.In some alternative embodiments, output baseband signal and input baseband signal can be number Baseband signal.In these alternate embodiments, RF circuit 506 may include analog-digital converter (" ADC ") and digital analog converter (" DAC ") circuit, and baseband circuit 504 may include digital baseband interface to communicate with RF circuit 506.

In some dual-mode embodiments, individual radio IC circuit can be provided with the letter for handling each frequency spectrum Number, but the range of embodiment aspect without being limited thereto.

In some embodiments, synthesizer circuit 506d can be score N synthesizer or score N/N+1 synthesizer, still The range of embodiment aspect without being limited thereto, because other kinds of frequency synthesizer may be suitable.For example, synthesizer circuit 506d can be delta-sigma synthesizer, frequency multiplier or the synthesizer including having the phaselocked loop of frequency divider.Synthesizer circuit 506d can Output frequency is synthesized to be configured as inputting based on frequency and frequency divider control input for the mixer of RF circuit 506 506a is used.In some embodiments, synthesizer circuit 506d can be score N/N+1 synthesizer.

In some embodiments, frequency input can be provided by voltage controlled oscillator (" VCO "), but this is not required.Point Frequency device control input can be provided by baseband circuit 504 or application circuit 502 according to required output frequency.In some embodiments In, frequency divider control input (for example, N) can be determined from look-up table based on the channel indicated by application circuit 502.

The synthesizer circuit 506d of RF circuit 506 may include frequency divider, delay lock loop (" DLL "), multiplexer And phase accumulator.In some embodiments, frequency divider can be dual-mode frequency divider (" DMD "), and phase accumulator can be with For digital phase accumulator (" DPA ").In some embodiments, DMD can be configured as input signal divided by N or N+1 (example Such as, it is based on carry) to provide division ratio.In some example embodiments, DLL may include one group cascade tunable Delay element, phase detectors, charge pump and D flip-flop.In these embodiments, delay element can be configured as by VCO Periodic decomposition is Nd equal phase groupings, and wherein Nd is the quantity of the delay element in delay line.In this way, DLL provides negative-feedback to assist in ensuring that through the total delay of delay line as a VCO period.

In some embodiments, synthesizer circuit 506d, which can be configured as, generates carrier frequency using as output frequency, And in other embodiments, output frequency can for carrier frequency multiple (for example, twice of carrier frequency, carrier frequency Four times) and be used in combination with quadrature generator and divider circuit, to generate relative to each other in carrier frequency with multiple Multiple signals of out of phase.In some embodiments, output frequency can be LO frequency (" fLO ").In some embodiments, RF circuit 506 may include IQ/ polar converter.

FEM circuit 508 may include receiving signal path, which may include being configured as to from one Or the RF signal that mutiple antennas 510 receives is operated, amplifies received signal and proposed the amplified version of received signal RF circuit 506 is supplied with circuit for further processing.FEM circuit 508 can also include sending signal path, transmission letter Number path may include being configured as amplifying the signal for transmission provided by RF circuit 506 by one or more antennas One or more of 510 circuits sent.In some embodiments, FEM circuit 508 may include Tx/Rx switch, to send out It send and switches between mode and reception pattern operation.FEM circuit 508 may include receiving signal path and transmission signal path.FEM The reception signal path of circuit 508 may include low-noise amplifier (" LNA "), to amplify received RF signal and provide amplification Reception RF signal using as output (for example, to output of RF circuit 506).The transmission signal path of FEM circuit 508 can wrap The power amplifier (" PA ") for amplifying input rf signal (for example, being provided by RF circuit 506) is included, and for generating RF letter Number for the subsequent one or more filters for sending one or more of (for example, by one or more antennas 510).

In some embodiments, electronic equipment 500 may include add ons, such as display, camera, one or Multiple sensors and/or interface circuit (for example, input/output (" I/O ") interface or bus) (not shown).In electronic equipment 500 in the enb or in the embodiment by eNB realization, and electronic equipment 500 may include network interface circuit.Network interface circuit It can be one or more computer hardware components, electronic equipment 500 is connected to one or more nets via wired connection Network element, one or more servers in such as core network or one or more other eNB.For this purpose, network interface circuit It may include one or more application specific processors and/or field programmable gate array (" FPGA "), to use one or more nets Network communication protocol (such as X2 application protocol (" AP "), S1AP, Flow Control Transmission Protocol (" SCTP "), Ethernet, point-to-point, light Fine distributed data interface (" FDDI ") and/or any other suitable network communication protocol) it is communicated.

Fig. 6 shows the example interface of baseband circuit 504 in accordance with some embodiments.As described above, the baseband circuit of Fig. 6 504 may include the processor and CRM504g used by the processor.It is every in processor 504b, 504c, 504h and 504d Person can respectively include memory interface 604b, 604c, 604h and 604d, to send data/from CRM 504g to CRM 504g Receive data.

Baseband circuit 504 may further include one or more interfaces, to be communicably coupled to other circuit/equipment, Such as memory interface 612 is (for example, for the interface to memory transmission data baseband circuit 504 outside/from baseband circuit Memory outside 504 receives the interface of data), application circuit interface 614 is (for example, send number to the application circuit 502 of Fig. 5 According to interface/receive from the application circuit 502 of Fig. 5 the interfaces of data), RF circuit interface 616 is (for example, to the RF circuit of Fig. 5 506 send data interface/from the RF circuit 506 of Fig. 5 receive data interface), radio hardware connecting interface 618 (for example, to Near-field communication (" NFC ") component,Component is (for example, low-power consumption)、Component and other communication components Send the interface of data/receive from it the interfaces of data) and power-management interface 620 (for example, being sent out to power source management controller The interface of power transmission source or control signal/receive power supply from power source management controller or control the interface of signal).Fig. 7 shows root According to the telecommunication circuit 700 of some aspects.Telecommunication circuit 700 can be similar with the component of electronic equipment 500, and substantially can be with It is exchanged with the component of electronic equipment 500.For purpose of explanation, there is illustrated components shown in telecommunication circuit 700, and can To include unshowned other assemblies in Fig. 7.

Telecommunication circuit 700 may include protocol treatment circuit 705, can correspond to CPU 504e, processor 502a etc.. One or more of MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC and Non-Access Stratum (" NAS ") function may be implemented in protocol treatment circuit.Agreement Processing circuit 705 may include that one or more processing cores for executing instruction (are not shown, but are similar to elsewhere herein Those of description) and one or more memory constructions for storing program and data information (be not shown, but be similar to herein Those of description elsewhere).

Telecommunication circuit 700 may further include digital baseband circuit 710, can be similar to the base of baseband circuit 504 Provided with processor.PHY layer function, including hybrid automatic repeat-request (" HARQ ") function may be implemented in digital baseband circuit 710；Add It disturbs and/or descrambles；Coding and/or decoding；Layer mapping and/or demapping；Modulation symbol mapping；Receive symbol and/or bit degree Amount determines；Multi-antenna port precoding and/or decoding (when it may include sky, one of null tone or space encoding or more Person)；Reference signal generates and/or detection；Leader sequence generates and/or decoding；Synchronizing sequence generates and/or detection；Control letter Road signal blind decoding；And one or more of other relevant functions.

Telecommunication circuit 700 may further include transmitting line 715, receive circuit 720 and/or aerial array 730.

Telecommunication circuit 700 may further include RF circuit 725, can correspond to RF circuit 506 or FEM circuit 508. In one aspect of the invention, RF circuit 725 may include for sending or receiving the multiple of one or more of function Parallel RF chain, one or more antennas of each RF chain link to aerial array 730.

In in one aspect of the present disclosure, protocol treatment circuit 705 may include one of control circuit (not shown) or Multiple examples, with to digital baseband circuit 710, transmitting line 715, receive one of circuit 720 and/or radio circuit 725 Or more persons provide control function.

In some embodiments, telecommunication circuit 700 can be configured specifically for mmWave communication.For example, telecommunication circuit 700 It can have mixed-beam forming framework and complete precoding and combination in base band and the part RF in the architecture.For example, number Digital Signal Processing can be used to realize that baseband precoder (in transmitters) and combiner (are connecing in word baseband circuit 710 In receipts machine), and RF circuit 725 can be used phase shifter and realize RF precoding (in transmitters) and combiner (in receiver In).

Fig. 8 shows the exemplary radio-frequency circuit 725 in Fig. 7 according to some aspects.

RF circuit 725 may include one or more examples of wireless chain circuit 872, in some respects may include one A or multiple filters, power amplifier, low-noise amplifier, programmable phase shifter and power supply (not shown).

In certain aspects, radio circuit 725 may include power combination and division circuit 874.In certain aspects, function Rate combination and division circuit 874 can carried out so that identical physical circuit can be configured as in equipment with bidirectional operation It operates when transmission as power divider, and is operated when equipment is being received as power combiner.In some sides In face, power combination and to divide circuit 874 may include one or more circuit separated completely or partially, with equipment Power distribution is executed when being sent, and power combination is executed when equipment is being received.In certain aspects, power Combination and division circuit 874 may include passive circuit, which includes being arranged in the two-way function of one or more of tree Rate distributor/combiner.In certain aspects, power combination and division circuit 874 may include having having for amplifier circuit Source circuit.

In certain aspects, radio circuit 725 can be via one or more radio chains interfaces 876 or combined radio chains The transmitting line 715 and receive circuit 720 that interface 878 is connected in Fig. 7.

In certain aspects, one or more radio chains interfaces 876 can receive or send signal to one or more and mention For one or more interfaces, each receive or send signal to may include that the individual antenna structure of one or more antennas is related Connection.

In certain aspects, combination of wireless chain interface 878 can receive or send signal to one or more and provide individually It is associated with including one or more one group of antenna structure of antenna each to receive or send signal for interface.

In some embodiments, combination of wireless chain interface 878 can be used for mmWave communication, and radio chains interface 876 can To be used for LF communication.

Fig. 9 is the diagram according to the protocol stack of the control plane 900 of some embodiments.In this embodiment, plane is controlled 900 are illustrated as the communication protocol stack between UE 108 and AN 106.

PHY layer 901 can send or receive the information used by MAC layer 902 by one or more air interfaces.PHY Link adaptation or adaptive modulation and coding (" AMC "), power control, cell searching can also be performed (for example, being used in layer 901 Initial synchronisation and switching purpose) and higher (such as rrc layer 905) use other measurement.PHY layer 901 can also be into one Step executes error detection, the modulation/solution of forward error correction (" FEC ") coding/decoding of transmission channel, physical channel to transmission channel Tune, intertexture, rate-matched, mapping on the physical channel and multiple-input and multiple-output (" MIMO ") antenna processing.As described above, PHY layer 901 can handle, construct or signal the DCI that the instruction of wave beam and Linktype is sent including uplink；Match It sets uplink and sends wave beam；And it measures DL RS and feedback is provided.

MAC layer 902 can be with the mapping between logical channels and transmission channel, by MAC Service Data Unit (" SDU ") It is multiplexed on transmission block (" TB ") from one or more logic channels with via transport channel to PHY, by MAC SDU from biography Defeated piece (" TB ") is demultiplexed into one or more logic channels to transmit via transmission channel from PHY, and MAC SDU is multiplexed into TB, scheduling information report carry out error correction by hybrid automatic repeat-request (" HARQ ") and bgical channel priority sort.

Rlc layer 903 can be operated with multiple modes of operation, comprising: transparent mode (" TM "), unacknowledged mode (" UM ") and Affirmation mode (" AM ").Rlc layer 903 can execute the transmission of upper layer protocol data unit (" PDU "), by passing for AM data The error correction that defeated automatic repeat request (" ARQ ") carries out, and cascade, the segmentation of the RLC SDU for the transmission of UM and AM data And recombination.The segmentation again of the RLC data PDU for the transmission of AM data can also be performed in rlc layer 903, and rearrangement is used for UM With the RLC data PDU of AM data transmission, repeated data of the detection for the transmission of UM and AM data abandons and is used for UM and AM data The RLC SDU of transmission, the protocol error of detection AM data transmission, and execute RLC and rebuild.

PDCP layer 904 can execute the head compression and decompression of IP data, safeguard PDCP sequence number (" SN "), rebuild compared with The sequence transmitting that upper layer PDU is executed when low layer, when re-establishing the lower level of the radio bearer for being mapped on RLC AM The repetition of lower level SDU, encryption and decryption control plane data are eliminated, the integrity protection of control plane data and complete is executed Property verifying, controlling data based on timer abandons, and executes safety operation (for example, encryption, decryption, integrity protection, complete Integrity verification etc.).

The main services and function of rrc layer 905 may include system information (e.g., including with Non-Access Stratum (" NAS ") In relevant Master Information Block (" MIB ") or system information block (" SIB ")) broadcast, relevant to access layer (" AS ") system letter The broadcast of breath, paging, foundation, maintenance and the release of the RRC connection between UE and E-UTRAN are (for example, RRC connection paging, RRC Connection is established, RRC connection is modified and RRC Connection Release), foundation, configuration, maintenance and the release of point-to-point radio bearer, including The security function of key management, the mobility between wireless access technology (" RAT ") and the measuring configuration for UE measurement report. As described above, rrc layer 905 may be configured to the parameter set of wave beam managing signaling.The MIB and SIB may include one or Multiple information elements (" IE "), each information element may include individual data field or data structure.

UE 108 and AN node 106 can use Uu interface (for example, LTE-Uu interface) with via include PHY layer 901, MAC layer 902, rlc layer 903, PDCP layer 904 and rrc layer 905 protocol stack exchange control plane data.

Non-Access Stratum (" NAS ") agreement 906 forms the highest of the control plane between UE 108 and mobility management entity Layer.The mobility and session management procedure that NAS agreement 906 supports UE 108 are to establish and safeguard the IP between UE and packet gateway Connection.

Figure 10 is the diagram according to the protocol stack of the user plane of some embodiments.In this embodiment, user plane 1000 are illustrated as the communication protocol stack between UE 108 and AN 106.User plane 1000 can be used and control 900 phase of plane At least some of same protocol layer protocol layer.For example, UE 108 and AN 106 can use Uu interface (for example, LTE-Uu connects Mouthful) to exchange user plane via including the protocol stack of PHY layer 1001, MAC layer 1002, rlc layer 1003 and PDCP layer 1004 Data.

Figure 11 be show according to some example embodiments can be from machine readable or computer-readable medium (for example, non- Temporary machine readable storage medium) read instruct and any one of execute the wave beam managing signaling method being discussed herein or The block diagram of the component of a variety of methods.Specifically, Figure 11 is shown including one or more processors (or processor core) 1110, one The figure table of the hardware resource 1100 of a or multiple memory/storages 1120 and one or more communication resources 1130 Show, wherein can be each communicatively coupled via bus 1140.For utilizing node virtual (for example, network function virtualizes (" NFV ")) embodiment, can be with executive supervisor 1102 to provide holding for one or more network slice/sub- slice Row environment is to utilize hardware resource 1100.

Processor 1110 is (for example, CPU, reduced instruction set computing (" RISC ") processor, complex instruction set calculation It is (" CISC ") processor, graphics processing unit (" GPU "), digital signal processor (" DSP ") (such as baseband processor), dedicated Integrated circuit (" ASIC "), RF IC (" RFIC "), another processor or its any appropriate combination) it may include example Such as processor 1112 and processor 1114.Processor can correspond to any processing of AN 106 or UE 108 described herein Device.

Memory/storage 1120 may include main memory, disc type storage or its any suitable combination.Storage Device/storage equipment 1120 can include but is not limited to any kind of volatibility or nonvolatile memory, such as dynamic random Access memory (" DRAM "), static random access memory (" SRAM "), Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory EPROM (" EPROM "), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (" EEPROM "), flash memory, solid storage device etc..Memory/storage Equipment 1120 can correspond to the CRM 502b or 504g of Fig. 5.

The communication resource 1130 may include interconnection or network interface components or other suitable equipment, via network 1108 It is communicated with one or more peripheral equipments 1104 or one or more databases 1106.For example, the communication resource 1130 may include Wire communication component (for example, for being coupled via universal serial bus (" USB ")), cellular communication component, near-field communication (" NFC ") component,Component is (for example, low-power consumption)、Component and other communication components.

Instruction 1150 may include software, program, application, applet, app or for making processor 1110 at least Any one executes other executable codes of any one or more of method discussed in this article.

Instruction 1150 can make processor 1110 execute operating process/algorithm structure 300,400 or AN, UE described herein Or other operations of TRP.

Instruction 1150 can completely or partially reside in processor 1110 (for example, in the caches of processor In device), memory/storage 1120 or its it is any suitable combination at least one of in.In addition, instruction 1150 is any Part can be transmitted to hardware resource 1100 from any combination of peripheral equipment 1104 or database 1106.Therefore, processor 1110 memory, memory/storage 1120, peripheral equipment 1104 and database 1106 is that computer-readable and machine can Read the example of medium.

Resource described in Figure 11 is referred to as circuit.For example, the communication resource 1130 is referred to as telecommunication circuit 1130。

Some non-limiting examples presented below.

Example 1 includes one or more computer-readable mediums with instruction, and described instruction is by one or more Reason device makes UE when executing: processing down link control information (" DCI ") is to determine uplink beam index and uplink hair Send the Linktype of wave beam；And the Linktype that wave beam is sent based on uplink beam index and uplink, is sent and is visited It surveys reference signal (" SRS ").

Example 2 includes example 1 or some other exemplary one or more computer-readable mediums of this paper, wherein institute State instruction further makes UE when executed: power is arranged in the Linktype SRS for sending wave beam based on uplink.

Example 3 includes example 1 or 2 or some other exemplary one or more computer-readable mediums of this paper, wherein DCI includes instruction of the wave beam to link index, and described instruction further makes UE processing DCI based on wave beam when executed Uplink beam index is determined to link index.

Example 4 includes example 1 or 2 or some other exemplary one or more computer-readable mediums of this paper, wherein DCI includes the instruction for sending beam index, and described instruction further makes UE processing DCI based on send wave when executed Beam index determines uplink beam index.

Example 5 includes example 1 or 2 or some other exemplary one or more computer-readable mediums of this paper, wherein The Linktype is used to indicate uplink and sends wave beam for transmission data or control information.

Example 6 includes example 1 or 2 or some other exemplary one or more computer-readable mediums of this paper, wherein Described instruction further makes UE when executed: identifying downlink reference signal after sending SRS；And it is based on downlink chain Road reference signal executes coupling loss measurement.

Example 7 includes example 6 or some other exemplary one or more computer-readable mediums of this paper, wherein institute State instruction further makes UE when executed: determining that uplink sends power based on coupling loss measurement；And based on upper Line link, which sends power, sends uplink transmission wave beam.

Example 8 includes one or more computer-readable mediums with instruction, and described instruction makes TRP when executed: Down link control information (" DCI ") is constructed to include the first instruction and the link class of transmission wave beam of uplink beam index Second instruction of type；DCI is set to be sent to user equipment (" UE ")；And handle the detection reference signal sent by UE (“SRS”)。

Example 9 includes example 8 or some other exemplary one or more computer-readable mediums of this paper, wherein institute State instruction further makes TRP when executed: handling the multiple heavy of SRS using corresponding multiple extended receiver wave beams It is multiple.

Example 10 includes example 8 or some other exemplary one or more computer-readable mediums of this paper, wherein institute State instruction further makes TRP when executed: refining extended receiver wave beam based on SRS；And it is based on extended receiver The refinement of wave beam, makes downlink reference signal be sent to UE.

Example 11 includes example 8 or some other exemplary one or more computer-readable mediums of this paper, wherein institute State instruction further makes TRP when executed: building DCI is sent out with indicating UE using corresponding multiple uplinks transmission wave beams Send multiple repetitions of SRS；Multiple repetitions by the UE SRS sent are handled using the first extended receiver wave beam；And it is based on Multiple duplicate processing of SRS send wave beam to refine uplink.

Example 12 includes that some other exemplary one or more computers of any example or this paper can in example 8 to 11 Read medium, wherein uplink beam index is wave beam to link index.

Example 13 includes that some other exemplary one or more computers of any example or this paper can in example 8 to 11 Read medium, wherein uplink beam index is to send beam index.

Example 14 includes that some other exemplary one or more computers of any example or this paper can in example 8 to 11 Read medium, wherein Linktype is used to indicate uplink and sends wave beam for transmission data or control information.

Example 15 includes a kind of method, comprising: memory stores beam configuration parameter；And baseband circuit and memory connect It connects, the baseband circuit is based on from received message identification uplink (" the UL ") beam index of transmission/receiving point (" TRP ") The second instruction that the expection that first instruction and uplink send wave beam uses, and it is based on beam configuration parameter and the first He Second instruction is to configure transmission beam.

Example 16 includes example 15 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein the second instruction instruction uplink Send whether wave beam will be used for control message or data-message.

Example 17 includes example 15 or 16 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein is controlled via downlink Information (" DCI ") receives message.

Example 18 includes example 15 or 16 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein baseband circuit further exists It sends detection reference signal (" SRS ") and identifies downlink reference signal later, and executed based on downlink reference signal Coupling loss measurement.

Example 19 includes example 18 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein and the message is first message, and And baseband circuit is further identified via in down link control information (" DCI ") or the received second message of higher level signaling The third of downlink reference signal indicates.

Example 20 includes example 18 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein baseband circuit is based further on coupling The result of loss measurement is closed to reconfigure transmission beam.

Example 21 includes example 18 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, further comprises: radio circuit has function Rate combination and division circuit, have the interface between baseband circuit, are passed with receiving or sending with millimeter wave (" mmWave ") Defeated corresponding signal；And wireless chain circuit is electric with the first interface between baseband circuit and with power combination and division Second interface between road, wherein first interface is for receiving or sending signal corresponding with non-mmWave transmission.

Example 22 includes a kind of method, comprising: sends/receive the module of wave beam pair for obtaining initial uplink；With In the second instruction of the first instruction for sending uplink transmission beam index to user equipment and the Linktype for sending wave beam Module；And the module for receiving wave beam based on the uplink reference signals refinement from user equipment.

Example 23 includes example 22 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein the first and second instructions are under Downlink control information (" DCI ") is sent.

Example 24 includes example 22 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein it includes executing that refinement, which receives wave beam, Beam scanning is received to handle multiple repetitions of uplink reference signals.

Example 25 includes some other exemplary methods of any example or this paper in example 22 to 24, further comprises: Downlink reference signal is sent based on the refinement for receiving wave beam.

Example 26 includes a kind of method, comprising: processing down link control information (" DCI ") is to determine uplink beam Index and uplink send the Linktype of wave beam；And refer to detection reference signal (" SRS ") based on uplink beam The Linktype that several and uplink sends wave beam is sent.

Example 27 includes example 26 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, further comprises: being sent out based on uplink The Linktype for sending wave beam is that power is arranged in SRS.

Example 28 includes example 26 or 27 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein DCI includes wave beam to link The instruction of index, and this method further comprises processing DCI to determine that uplink beam refers to link index based on wave beam Number.

Example 29 includes example 26 or 27 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein DCI includes sending wave beam to refer to Several instructions, and this method further comprises processing DCI to determine uplink beam index based on transmission beam index.

Example 30 includes example 26 or 27 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein Linktype is used to indicate Uplink, which sends wave beam, will send data or control information.

Example 31 includes some other exemplary methods of example 26 or 27 or this paper, further comprises: send SRS it After identify downlink reference signal；And coupling loss measurement is executed based on downlink reference signal.

Example 32 includes example 26 or 27 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, further comprises: based on coupling damage Consumption measures to determine that uplink sends power；And sending power based on uplink sends out uplink transmission wave beam It send.

Example 33 includes a kind of method, comprising: building down link control information (" DCI ") is to include uplink beam Second instruction of the Linktype of the first instruction and transmission wave beam of index；DCI is set to be sent to user equipment (" UE ")；And Handle the detection reference signal (" SRS ") sent by UE.

Example 34 includes example 33 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, further comprises: using corresponding multiple Multiple repetitions of extended receiver wave beam processing SRS.

Example 35 includes example 33 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, further comprises: refining uplink based on SRS Link receives wave beam；And the refinement based on extended receiver wave beam, makes downlink reference signal be sent to UE.

Example 36 includes example 33 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, further comprises: DCI is to indicate UE for building Wave beam is sent using corresponding multiple uplinks to send multiple repetitions of SRS；At the first extended receiver wave beam The multiple repetitions for the SRS that reason UE is sent；And multiple duplicate processing based on SRS update and each uplink send wave The corresponding Reference Signal Received Power of beam (" RSRP ") measurement.

Example 37 includes some other exemplary methods of any example or this paper in example 33 to 36, wherein uplink Road beam index is wave beam to link index.

Example 38 includes some other exemplary methods of any example or this paper in example 33 to 36, wherein uplink Road beam index is to send beam index.

Example 39 includes some other exemplary methods of any example or this paper in example 33 to 36, wherein link class Type is used to indicate uplink and sends wave beam for transmission data or control information.

Example 40 includes a kind of method, comprising: based on from transmission/receiving point (" TRP ") received message, identifies uplink The second instruction that the expection that first instruction of road (" UL ") beam index and uplink send wave beam uses；And at least partly Ground configures transmission beam based on the first and second instructions.

Example 41 includes example 40 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein the second instruction instruction uplink Send whether wave beam will be used for control message or data-message.

Example 42 includes example 40 or 41 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein is controlled via downlink Information (" DCI ") receives message.

Example 43 includes some other exemplary methods of example 40 or 41 or this paper, further comprises: send SRS it After identify downlink reference signal；And coupling loss measurement is executed based on downlink reference signal.

Example 44 includes example 43 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein and the message is first message, and And the method further includes identifying via down link control information (" DCI ") or the received second message of higher level signaling In downlink reference signal third instruction.

Example 45 includes example 43 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, further comprises being measured based on coupling loss Result reconfigure transmission beam.

Example 46 include a kind of method, comprising: obtain initial uplink send/receive wave beam pair；It is sent out to user equipment Serve the second instruction that line link sends the first instruction of beam index and sends the Linktype of wave beam；And based on using by oneself The uplink reference signals of family equipment refine reception wave beam.

Example 47 includes example 46 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein via down link control information (" DCI ") sends the first and second instructions.

Example 48 includes example 46 or some other exemplary methods of this paper, wherein it includes executing that refinement, which receives wave beam, Beam scanning is received to handle multiple repetitions of uplink reference signals.

Example 49 includes some other exemplary methods of any example or this paper in example 46 to 48, further comprises: Downlink reference signal is sent based on the refinement for receiving wave beam.

Example 50 may include some other exemplary methods of any example or this paper in example 26 to 49, wherein institute It states method and is executed and/or realized by transmitting and receiving point.

Example 51 may include some other exemplary methods of any example or this paper in example 26 to 49, wherein institute Method is stated to be executed and/or realized by next-generation NodeB (" gNB ").

Example 52 may include a kind of device, the device include execute in any one of example 26 to 49 description or with Relevant method or any other method described herein or process one or more elements module.

Example 53 may include one or more non-transitory computer-readable mediums comprising instruction, in electronic equipment One or more processors when executing instruction, which describe electronic equipment execution in any one of example 26 to 49 Or the one or more elements of associated method or any other method described herein or process.

Example 54 may include a kind of device, which includes logic, module and/or circuit, for executing in example 26 To description in any one of 49 or one or more of associated method or any other method described herein or process A element.

Example 55 may include in any one of example 26 to 49 description or associated method, technology or process or Part of it or part.

Example 56 may include a kind of device, comprising: one or more processors and one or more computer-readable Jie Matter, computer-readable medium include instruction, and described instruction when executed by one or more processors, makes one or more of Processor executes description or associated method, technology or process or part thereof in any one of example 26 to 49.

Example 57 may include the method communicated in wireless network as shown and described herein.

Example 58 may include for providing the system wirelessly communicated as shown and described herein.

Example 59 may include for providing the equipment wirelessly communicated as shown and described herein.

The description of embodiment shown in this article, including content described in abstract, it is not intended that exhaustion or by this public affairs It opens and is limited to disclosed precise forms.Although particular implementation and example are described herein for illustrative purpose, But as those skilled in the art will be recognized, without departing from the scope of the disclosure, Ke Yigen According to the various substitutions or equivalent integers or embodiment that are calculated to realize identical purpose are discussed in detail above.

Claims

1. one or more computer-readable mediums, there is instruction, described instruction when executed by one or more processors, Make user equipment (" UE "):

Processing down link control information (" DCI ") is to determine that uplink beam index and uplink send the link of wave beam Type；And

Detection reference signal (" SRS ") is set to send the link of wave beam based on the uplink beam index and the uplink Type is sent.

2. one or more computer-readable mediums according to claim 1, wherein described instruction also makes when executed The UE:

It is that power is arranged in the SRS based on the Linktype that the uplink sends wave beam.

3. one or more computer-readable mediums according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the DCI includes wave beam to chain The instruction of road index, and described instruction also makes the UE handle the DCI to be based on the wave beam to link when executed Index determines the uplink beam index.

4. one or more computer-readable mediums according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the DCI includes sending wave beam The instruction of index, and described instruction also makes the UE handle the DCI based on the transmission beam index when executed To determine the uplink beam index.

5. one or more computer-readable mediums according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the Linktype is for referring to Show that the uplink sends wave beam and will send data or control information.

6. one or more computer-readable mediums according to claim 1 or 2, wherein described instruction is when executed Also make the UE:

Downlink reference signal is identified after sending the SRS；And

Coupling loss measurement is executed based on the downlink reference signal.

7. one or more computer-readable mediums according to claim 6, wherein described instruction also makes when executed The UE:

It is measured based on the coupling loss and determines that uplink sends power；And

So that the uplink is sent wave beam and power is sent to send based on the uplink.

8. one or more computer-readable mediums, have instruction, described instruction when executed, makes transmission/receiving point (" TRP "):

Down link control information (" DCI ") is constructed to include the first instruction and the chain of transmission wave beam of uplink beam index Second instruction of road type；

The DCI is set to be sent to user equipment (" UE ")；And

Handle the detection reference signal (" SRS ") sent by the UE.

9. one or more computer-readable mediums according to claim 8, wherein described instruction also makes when executed The TRP:

Multiple repetitions of the SRS are handled using corresponding multiple extended receiver wave beams.

10. one or more computer-readable mediums according to claim 8, wherein described instruction is gone back when executed Make the TRP:

Extended receiver wave beam is refined based on the SRS；And

Based on the refinement of the extended receiver wave beam, downlink reference signal is made to be sent to the UE.

11. one or more computer-readable mediums according to claim 8, wherein described instruction is gone back when executed Make the TRP:

It constructs the DCI and sends the multiple of the SRS to indicate the UE using corresponding multiple uplinks transmission wave beams It repeats；

It is handled using the first extended receiver wave beam by multiple repetitions of the UE SRS sent；And

Wave beam is sent based on multiple duplicate processing of the SRS to refine uplink.

12. one or more computer-readable mediums according to any one of claim 8 to 11, wherein the uplink Link beam index is wave beam to link index.

13. one or more computer-readable mediums according to any one of claim 8 to 11, wherein the uplink Link beam index is to send beam index.

14. one or more computer-readable mediums according to any one of claim 8 to 11, wherein the link Type is used to indicate the uplink and sends wave beam for transmission data or control information.

15. a kind of user equipment (" UE "), comprising:

Memory, for storing beam configuration parameter；And

Baseband circuit is connect with the memory, and the baseband circuit is used for:

Based on the first instruction for from transmission/receiving point (" TRP ") received message, identifying uplink (" UL ") beam index and The second instruction that the expection that uplink sends wave beam uses；And

Transmission beam is configured based on the beam configuration parameter and first instruction and second instruction.

16. device according to claim 15, wherein second instruction indicates whether the uplink sends wave beam It will be used for control message or data-message.

17. device according to claim 15 or 16, wherein via described in down link control information (" DCI ") reception Message.

18. device according to claim 15 or 16, wherein the baseband circuit is also used to:

Downlink reference signal is identified after sending SRS；And

Coupling loss measurement is executed based on the downlink reference signal.

19. device according to claim 18, wherein the message is first message, and the baseband circuit is also used Believe in identification via the downlink reference in down link control information (" DCI ") or the received second message of higher level signaling Number third instruction.

20. device according to claim 18, wherein result of the baseband circuit also based on coupling loss measurement To reconfigure the transmission beam.

21. device according to claim 18, further includes:

Radio circuit, comprising:

Power combination and circuit is divided, there is interface between the baseband circuit, to receive or send and millimeter wave (" mmWave ") transmits corresponding signal；And

Wireless chain circuit, have first interface between the baseband circuit and with the power combination and division circuit it Between second interface, wherein the first interface is for receiving or sending signal corresponding with non-mmWave transmission.

22. a kind of device, comprising:

The module of wave beam pair is sent/received for obtaining initial uplink；

For to user equipment send uplink send the first instruction of beam index and send wave beam Linktype the The module of two instructions；And

For refining the module for receiving wave beam based on the uplink reference signals from the user equipment.

23. device according to claim 22, wherein send described first via down link control information (" DCI ") Instruction and second instruction.

24. device according to claim 22, wherein for refining the module for receiving wave beam for executing received wave Beam scanning is to handle multiple repetitions of the uplink reference signals.

25. the device according to any one of claim 22 to 24, further includes:

For sending the module of downlink reference signal based on the refinement for receiving wave beam.