CN117998390A

CN117998390A - Beam processing method, device, communication equipment and readable storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN117998390A
Application number: CN202211371174.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 黄伟
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-11-03
Filing date: 2022-11-03
Publication date: 2024-05-07
Also published as: WO2024093773A1

Abstract

The application discloses a beam processing method, a device, communication equipment and a readable storage medium, which belong to the technical field of communication, and the beam processing method of the embodiment of the application comprises the following steps: the communication device obtains first information and second information, the first information including at least one of: a first measurement of a first signal, first beam related information associated with the first signal; the second information includes at least one of: a second measurement of a second signal, second beam related information associated with the second signal; the first signal is a signal sent to the first device by the second device, and the second signal is a signal sent to the first device by the third device; and determining parameters of a first receiving beam of the first device and parameters of a first transmitting beam of the third device according to the first information, and determining parameters of a second receiving beam of the first device and parameters of a second transmitting beam of the third device according to the second information.

Description

Beam processing method, device, communication equipment and readable storage medium

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a beam processing method, a device, communication equipment and a readable storage medium.

Background

In a beam-based symbiotic communication system, as shown in fig. 4, it may include a primary system transmitter (PRIMARY TRANSMITTER, PTx), a secondary system transmitter (secondary transmitter, STx), and an integrated receiver (INTEGRATED RECEIVER, IRx) shared by the primary and secondary systems, the receiver IRx being required to recover the transmitted signals from both the primary system transmitter PTx and the secondary system transmitter STx. If the PTx-IRx link and the PTx-STx-IRx cascade link are respectively subjected to beam training, the beam training in the PTx-IRx link can adopt the existing beam training method, and the PTx-STx-IRx cascade link can adopt the beam training method in the cascade link. However, the trained beam is not a preferred transmit-receive beam because of the interference effect of the direct link PTx-IRx and the cascaded link PTx-STx-IRx. In this case, how to obtain a preferred beam in a symbiotic communication system based on beam transmission is a problem that is urgently needed to be solved at present.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a beam processing method, a device, communication equipment and a readable storage medium, which can solve the problem of how to obtain a better beam in a symbiotic communication system based on beam transmission.

In a first aspect, a beam processing method is provided, including:

The communication device obtains first information and second information, wherein the first information comprises at least one of the following: a first measurement of a first signal, first beam related information associated with the first signal; the second information includes at least one of: a second measurement of a second signal, second beam related information associated with the second signal; the first signal is a signal sent to the first device by the second device, and the second signal is a signal sent to the first device by the third device; the communication device is any one of a first device, a third device and a fourth device;

the communication device determines parameters of a first receiving beam of the first device and parameters of a first transmitting beam of the third device according to the first information, and determines parameters of a second receiving beam of the first device and parameters of a second transmitting beam of the third device according to the second information.

In a second aspect, a beam processing method is provided, including:

The first equipment reports first information and/or second information to the communication equipment;

Wherein the first information includes at least one of: a first measurement of a first signal, first beam related information associated with the first signal; the second information includes at least one of: a second measurement of a second signal, second beam related information associated with the second signal; the first signal is a signal sent to the first device by the second device, and the second signal is a signal sent to the first device by the third device; the communication equipment is third equipment or fourth equipment; the first information is used for determining parameters of a first receiving beam of the first device and parameters of a first transmitting beam of the third device; the second information is used to determine parameters of a second receive beam of the first device and parameters of a second transmit beam of the third device.

In a third aspect, there is provided a beam processing apparatus comprising:

The device comprises an acquisition module for acquiring first information and second information, wherein the first information comprises at least one of the following: a first measurement of a first signal, first beam related information associated with the first signal; the second information includes at least one of: a second measurement of a second signal, second beam related information associated with the second signal; the first signal is a signal sent to the first device by the second device, and the second signal is a signal sent to the first device by the third device;

A determining module, configured to determine, according to the first information, a parameter of a first receiving beam of the first device and a parameter of a first transmitting beam of the third device, and determine, according to the second information, a parameter of a second receiving beam of the first device and a parameter of a second transmitting beam of the third device.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a beam processing apparatus comprising:

The reporting module is used for reporting the first information and/or the second information to the communication equipment;

In a fifth aspect, there is provided a communication device comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, performs the steps of the method as described in the first aspect, or performs the steps of the method as described in the second aspect.

In a sixth aspect, a communication system is provided, comprising a first device, a second device and a third device, or comprising a first device, a second device, a third device and a fourth device, wherein the first device, the third device or the fourth device is operable to perform the steps of the beam processing method according to the first aspect, and the first device is operable to perform the steps of the beam processing method according to the second aspect.

In a seventh aspect, there is provided a readable storage medium having stored thereon a program or instructions which when executed by a processor, performs the steps of the method according to the first aspect or performs the steps of the method according to the second aspect.

In an eighth aspect, a chip is provided, the chip comprising a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface and the processor being coupled, the processor being configured to execute programs or instructions, to implement the steps of the method according to the first aspect, or to implement the steps of the method according to the second aspect.

In a ninth aspect, there is provided a computer program/program product stored in a storage medium, the computer program/program product being executable by at least one processor to perform the steps of the method according to the first aspect or to perform the steps of the method according to the second aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, the first information and the second information are acquired; the first information includes at least one of: a first measurement of a first signal, first beam related information associated with the first signal; the second information includes at least one of: a second measurement of a second signal, second beam related information associated with the second signal; the first signal is a signal sent to the first device by the second device, and the second signal is a signal sent to the first device by the third device; and according to the first information, determining the parameters of the first receiving beam of the first device and the parameters of the first transmitting beam of the third device, and according to the second information, determining the parameters of the second receiving beam of the first device and the parameters of the second transmitting beam of the third device, the mutual interference influence of the direct link of the third device-the first device and the cascade link of the third device-the second device-the first device can be fully considered when the beam training/selection is carried out, so that the better beam in the symbiotic communication system based on the beam transmission is obtained, and the obtained beam can simultaneously improve the system performance gains of the direct link system/main system and the cascade link system/sub-system.

Drawings

FIG. 1A is a block diagram of a single-base backscatter communication system to which embodiments of the present application are applicable;

FIG. 1B is a block diagram of a bistatic backscatter communications system to which embodiments of the present application may be applied;

FIG. 2A is a schematic diagram of a split model of co-generated scatter communication in accordance with an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2B is a schematic diagram of an integrated model of co-generated scatter communication in accordance with an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of signal cycles of a primary and secondary system of a co-occurrence scattering communication system in accordance with an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a symbiotic scattering communication system based on beam transmission in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of a beam processing method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a symbiotic scatter communication system in an embodiment of the application;

FIG. 7 is a flow chart of another beam processing method provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8A is a diagram illustrating a reporting method according to a first embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8B is a diagram illustrating a reporting method according to the first embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8C is a diagram illustrating a reporting method according to the first embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8D is a diagram illustrating a reporting method according to the first embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a system according to a third embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a second system configuration according to a third embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11A is a third schematic diagram of a system according to a third embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11B is a fourth schematic diagram of a system configuration in accordance with the third embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 12 is a fifth schematic diagram of a system configuration in accordance with the third embodiment of the present application;

fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of a beam processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of another beam processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 15 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application will be clearly described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which are derived by a person skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the application, fall within the scope of protection of the application.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein, and that the "first" and "second" distinguishing between objects generally are not limited in number to the extent that the first object may, for example, be one or more. Furthermore, in the description and claims, "and/or" means at least one of the connected objects, and the character "/" generally means a relationship in which the associated object is an "or" before and after.

It should be noted that the techniques described in the embodiments of the present application are not limited to long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE)/LTE evolution (LTE-Advanced, LTE-a) systems, but may also be used in other wireless communication systems, such as code division multiple access (Code Division Multiple Access, CDMA), time division multiple access (Time Division Multiple Access, TDMA), frequency division multiple access (Frequency Division Multiple Access, FDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access, OFDMA), single carrier frequency division multiple access (Single-carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access, SC-FDMA), and other systems. The terms "system" and "network" in embodiments of the present application are often used interchangeably, and the described techniques may be used for both the above-mentioned systems and Radio technologies, as well as other systems and Radio technologies, such as New Radio (NR) systems, or 6 th Generation (6 ^th Generation, 6G) communication systems, etc.

In order to facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present application, the following is first described.

Backscatter communication (Backscatter Communication, BSC), which means that a backscatter communication device uses radio frequency signals in other devices or environments to modulate signals to transmit its own information, is a relatively typical passive internet of things device. The basic constitution module of the back scattering communication transmitting end comprises the following main functions:

-an antenna unit: for receiving radio frequency signals, control commands, and for transmitting modulated backscatter signals.

-An energy harvesting module or an energy supply module: the module is used for radio frequency energy harvesting by the backscatter communications device, or other energy harvesting, including but not limited to solar energy, kinetic energy, mechanical energy, thermal energy, etc. In addition to the energy harvesting module, a battery powered module may be included, where the backscatter communications device is a semi-passive device. The energy harvesting module or the energy supply module supplies power to all other modules in the device.

-A microcontroller: including control of baseband signal processing, energy storage or data scheduling states, switching, system synchronization, etc.

-A signal receiving module: for demodulating control commands or data and the like sent by a backscatter communication receiver or other network node.

-A channel coding and modulation module: channel coding and signal modulation are performed under the control of a controller, and modulation is realized by selecting different load impedances through a selection switch under the control of the controller.

-A memory or sensing module: for storing identification ID information, location information, or sensor data of the device, etc.

In addition to the above-described typical constituent modules, the future backscatter communication transmitter may also incorporate a tunnel diode amplifier module, a low noise amplifier module, or the like for improving the reception sensitivity and transmission power of the transmitter.

Optionally, the basic constituent modules of the backscatter communication receiver, i.e. the reader, include:

-an antenna unit: for receiving the modulated backscatter signal.

-A backscatter signal detection module: for detecting the backscatter signal transmitted by the backscatter communication transmitter, including, but not limited to, amplitude shift keying (Amplitude SHIFT KEYING, ASK) detection, phase-shift keying (Phase-SHIFT KEYING, PSK) detection, frequency shift keying (Frequency-SHIFT KEYING, FSK) detection, quadrature Amplitude modulation (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, QAM) detection, etc.

-A demodulation and decoding module: the detected signal is demodulated and decoded to recover the original information stream.

The backscatter communication device controls the reflection coefficient Γ of the modulation circuit by adjusting its internal impedance, thereby changing the amplitude, frequency, phase, etc. of the incident signal, effecting modulation of the signal. Wherein the reflection coefficient of the signal can be characterized as:

Where Z ₀ is the antenna characteristic impedance, Z ₁ is the load impedance, j represents the complex number, and θ _T represents the phase. Assuming that the incident signal is S _in (t), the output signal is Thus, by reasonably controlling the reflection coefficient, a corresponding amplitude modulation, frequency modulation or phase modulation can be achieved. Based on this, the backscatter communication device may be a Tag in a conventional radio frequency identification (Radio Frequency Identification, RFID) or a Passive or Semi-Passive internet of things (IoT). For convenience, referred to herein as BSC devices.

Fig. 1A shows a schematic diagram of a monostatic backscatter communication system (Monostatic Backscatter Communication System, MBCSs) in accordance with the present application. The MBCS system includes a BSC transmitting device (e.g., tag) and a Reader including an RF radio frequency source and a BSC receiving device, the RF radio frequency source being configured to generate RF radio frequency signals to power the BSC transmitting device/Tag. The BSC transmitting device back scatters the modulated RF signal, and the BSC receiving device in the Reader receives the back scattered signal and then demodulates the signal. The RF source and BSC receiving device are in the same device, such as a Reader herein, and thus become a single-station backscatter communication system. MBCS systems are typically used for short-range backscatter communications, such as conventional RFID applications, because the RF radio frequency signals transmitted from the BSC transmitting device experience a double near-far effect due to the signal attenuation of the round-trip signals, and thus the energy attenuation of the signals is large.

Fig. 1B shows a schematic diagram of a bistatic backscatter communication system (Bistatic Backscatter Communication Systems, BBCSs) in accordance with the present application. Unlike the monostatic backscatter communication systems (Monostatic Backscatter Communication System, MBCSs), the RF source, BSC transmitting device, and BSC receiving device in the BBCS system are separate, so that the problem of large round trip signal attenuation can be avoided. In addition, the performance of BBCS communication systems may be further improved by the proper placement of the RF sources. Notably, the ambient backscatter communication system ABCSs is also one of a bistatic backscatter communication system, but unlike the radio frequency source in the BBCS system, which is a dedicated signal radio frequency source, the radio frequency source in the ABCS system can be a radio frequency source in a usable environment, such as: television towers, cellular base stations, wiFi signals, bluetooth signals, etc.

Symbiotic scattering communication has the characteristics of reciprocal sharing of frequency spectrum and energy domain, and can effectively solve the problems of frequency spectrum and energy consumption faced in communication. The basic principle is that two types of systems exist in the system: the system comprises a main system and a secondary system, wherein the main system is a traditional communication system comprising an active transmitting unit, and the secondary system realizes low-power-consumption back-scattering transmission by utilizing radio frequency signals of the main system so as to share the frequency spectrum, energy, basic equipment resources and the like of the main system. While the secondary system obtains a low energy consumption transmission opportunity, the primary system is expected to improve the performance due to the multipath component received from the secondary system. Compared with the traditional cognitive radio technology, the main system and the auxiliary system in symbiotic scattering communication are hopeful to form a reciprocal relationship, but not an interference relationship, so that the spectrum resource utilization efficiency of the system can be greatly improved. In addition, unlike traditional backscatter communications (such as single-base backscatter communications, double-base backscatter communications, and ambient backscatter communications), the primary and secondary systems in symbiotic scatter communications cooperate with each other, and their receivers can employ joint detection to simultaneously recover signals transmitted by the primary and secondary systems, thereby achieving highly reliable backscatter communications transmissions.

The system models of symbiotic scatter communication can be divided into two categories: a split model and an integrated model. In the split model, as shown in fig. 2A, the primary and secondary systems each have a respective receiver, wherein the primary system transmitter (PRIMARY TRANSMITTER, PTx) transmits information to the primary system receiver (PRIMARY RECEIVER, PRx); and the secondary system transmitter (secondary transmitter, STx) transmits information to the secondary system receiver (secondary receiver, SRx) using an over-the-air modulation technique. In the integrated model, as shown in fig. 2B, the primary and secondary systems share the same integrated receiver (INTEGRATED RECEIVER, IRx) that needs to recover the transmitted signals from both the primary system transmitter PTx and the secondary system transmitter STx. The present application is mainly described on the basis of an integrated model, since the advantage of the deployment of the integrated model is greater.

Taking an integrated model as an example, the signal model and principle of the system will be briefly described below. The transmitted symbol period of PTx is denoted as T _s, and its constellation point set is denoted asAs shown in fig. 3, the secondary system transmission symbol period is set to K times T _s, i.e., T _c＝KT_s. Assuming that the primary and secondary systems are strictly synchronized, one symbol of the secondary system corresponds to K symbols of the primary system. Considering the nth symbol of the secondary system, let s _l (n), l=0, …, K-1 denote the first symbol sent by the primary system, the signal received by STx from the primary system is:

Where p represents the transmit power of PTx, h ₁ and τ ₁ represent the channel and propagation delay, respectively, of the forward link from PTx to STx, and f ₀ represents the carrier frequency of the primary system.

Let h ₀ denote the direct link channel from PTx to IRx and h ₂ denote the backward link channel from STx to IRx. Assuming that the direct link from PTx to IRx has the same delay as the reflected link from PTx to STx to IRx, the baseband signal y _l (n) received by IRx can be expressed as:

Wherein, Representing additive gaussian white noise. /(I)Representing received signals from a direct link,/>Representing the received signal from the reflective link, where b (n) is the baseband signal of STx, otherwise known as the backscatter baseband signal. The above-mentioned channels are called multiplicative multiple access channels, or concatenated channels, due to the multiplication of b (n) and s _l (n) in the back-scattered link received signal.

The upper and lower limits of the achievable rates of the primary and secondary systems for the above-described system are shown below, respectively. When the primary system symbol s _l (n) is perfectly demodulated, the secondary system can get its achievable rate upper bound. When K takes a larger value, the upper bound can be expressed as:

For the main system, s _l (n) exists in the direct link and the reflection link, when s _l (n) is decoded, the reflection link can be regarded as a slowly varying multipath channel for the direct link, so as to bring multipath effect to the transmission of the main system, and the up-to-date rate upper bound of the main system can be expressed as:

this achievable rate upper bound is achievable when b (n) can be perfectly demodulated. At this time, the primary system obtains performance gain, and the primary and secondary systems form a reciprocal symbiotic relationship. The receiver may demodulate b (n) in a variety of ways, such as a joint detection receiver, a semi-blind detection receiver, and a full-blind detection receiver, and the specific algorithm will not be described here.

In a system requiring radio frequency power supply, such as symbiotic back-scattering communication (for example), since the back-scattering communication device needs to rely on radio frequency signal power supply of other devices to perform data transmission, and is affected by the receiving sensitivity of the back-scattering communication device, the sensitivity of the back-scattering communication device for receiving the power supply signal is about-20 dBm to-30 dBm, and the sensitivity of the receiving communication data is about-50 dBm to-60 dBm, the radio frequency power supply becomes a bottleneck for limiting the transmission distance of the back-scattering communication. Because the attenuation of uplink and downlink transmission signals is related to the distance between nodes, in the following behavior example, when a backscattering communication device which is closer to energy supply devices such as a base station is harvested to more energy, less power is needed to meet the uplink transmission requirement; conversely, a backscatter communication device farther from the base station requires more energy to meet the uplink transmission demand while harvesting less energy, a phenomenon known as the double near-far effect. The double near-far effect problem can be solved based on energy beam forming, and more energy is harvested by a far user by controlling the width and the power of the beam.

In addition to backscatter communications, some terminal devices that are not battery powered or are costly to replace batteries may also be powered based on radio frequency energy. Such devices may harvest and store energy based on wireless radio frequency energy of the network node and autonomously generate carrier signals for communication transmissions using the harvested energy.

As shown in fig. 4, in the symbiotic scattering communication system based on beam transmission, PTx and IRx in the conventional system improve coverage or reduce interference based on beam transmission, whereas in the backscatter communication cascade system consisting of PTx-STx-IRx, PTx improves energy conversion efficiency and near-far effect problem of the backscatter communication device by using directional beams to power and supply radio frequency carriers to the backscatter communication device, and IRx uses receiving beams to improve communication coverage and reduce interference of the STx-IRx. Further, based on the symbiotic communication of beam transmission, on one hand, the cascading links PTx-STx-Irx can provide beam gain through beam transmission, and provide multipath gain with larger energy for the direct links PTx-IRx, so that the performance gain of the main system is improved; on the other hand, the direct link PTx-IRx based on beam transmission can reduce the direct link interference influence on the cascade link PTx-STx-IRx, thereby improving the performance of the subsystem. For PTx-IRx links, it is desirable on the one hand that the beams of the present link can achieve a trade-off between stability and transmission performance, and that the beam selection is made according to this principle; on the other hand, it is desirable that the larger the multipath component provided by PTx-STx-IRx, the more obvious the multipath gain itself is obtained, and therefore the larger the communication energy between PTx-STx-IRx, the better, which is also one of the factors that PTx-STx-IRx needs to consider in making beam selection. For PTx-STx-IRx, however, it is desirable that PTx-IRx has less interference to its direct link on the one hand and better to reduce interference to its own system; on the other hand, it is desirable that the beam of the PTx-STx-IRx link itself be able to trade off between stability and transmission performance, which is also another factor that the direct link and the reflective link need to consider when making beam selection.

Therefore, for PTx, transmission beams (Tx beams) are required to be transmitted to two devices of IRx and STx, while IRx, reception beams (Rx beams) are required to be received to two devices of PTx and STx, corresponding beam training/processing methods, signal quality evaluation criteria, corresponding signaling flows such as beam measurement and beam reporting, and corresponding parameter configuration are required to be designed, so that the two Tx beams and the two Rx beams of IRx of the finally trained PTx are better overall, and the communication requirements of a main system and a secondary system are met.

The scheme of the application can be applied to LTE systems, 5G NR systems, NR evolution systems, 6G systems, IEEE802.11 systems, bluetooth systems, loRa systems, zigbee systems, wireless optical communication systems, passive Internet of things, backscatter communication systems and the like which are applicable to wireless communication systems needing energy beam forming, and the like, and is not limited to the scheme.

In the embodiment of the application, the receiving beam may be expressed as Rx beam, and the receiving beam and the Rx beam may be interchanged. The transmit beam may be denoted as Tx beam and the two may be interchanged.

The beam processing method, the device, the communication equipment and the readable storage medium provided by the embodiment of the application are described in detail below through some embodiments and application scenes thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a flowchart of a beam processing method provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the method is performed by a communication device, and as shown in fig. 5, the method includes the following steps:

Step 51: the communication equipment acquires first information and second information; the first information includes at least one of: a first measurement of a first signal, first beam related information associated with the first signal; the second information includes at least one of: a second measurement of a second signal, second beam related information associated with the second signal; the first signal is a signal sent to the first device by the second device, and the second signal is a signal sent to the first device by the third device;

Step 52: the communication device determines a parameter of a first receive beam of the first device and a parameter of a first transmit beam of the third device based on the first information, and determines a parameter of a second receive beam of the first device and a parameter of a second transmit beam of the third device based on the second information.

Here, the communication device may be any one of the first device, the third device, and the fourth device. That is, the beam processing method of the present embodiment may be executed by the first device, may be executed by the third device, or may be executed by the fourth device. The first device and the third device may be selected from, but are not limited to: access network equipment such as a base station, terminal equipment such as UE, special radio frequency energy supply equipment, relay equipment and the like. The second device may be selected from but not limited to: backscatter communication devices, radio frequency energy based terminal devices, passive internet of things devices, and the like. The fourth device is a third party device different from the first device, the second device and the third device, such as a third party network node, a third party network device or the like with configuration or scheduling functions.

In some embodiments, when the communication device is a first device, the first measurement value and the second measurement value may be measured by the first device, and the first beam related information associated with the first signal and the second beam related information associated with the second signal are obtained. Or when the communication device is a third device or a fourth device, the first device may report the first information and the second information to the third device or the fourth device.

For example, the association relationship between the first device, the second device, and the third device, the transmission and reception of the first signal, and the transmission and reception of the second signal described above may be as shown in fig. 6.

In some embodiments, for a plurality of first signals corresponding to different first reception beams, time domain resources are different, frequency domain resources are the same or different, and time-frequency domain resources of the plurality of first signals belong to the same resource set, where the same resource set includes time domain resources and frequency domain resources. For example, the resource set of the time-frequency domain resources of the first signal may be allocated by the first device, the third device or the fourth device.

In some embodiments, for a plurality of second signals corresponding to different second reception beams, the time domain resources are different, the frequency domain resources are the same or different, and the time-frequency domain resources of the plurality of second signals belong to the same resource set, where the same resource set includes the time domain resources and the frequency domain resources. For example, the resource set of the time-frequency domain resources of the second signal may be allocated by the first device, the third device or the fourth device.

In some embodiments, the first signal carries identification ID information of the second device, so as to identify the second device corresponding to the first signal.

In some embodiments, the second signal carries identification ID information of the third device, so as to identify the third device corresponding to the second signal.

Optionally, the first measurement value is a measurement value related to signal quality/signal strength, and may include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following:

reference signal received Power (REFERENCE SIGNAL RECEIVED Power, RSRP);

Signal to interference plus noise ratio (Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio, SINR);

signal to noise ratio (Signal to Noise Ratio, SNR);

Reference signal received Quality (REFERENCE SIGNAL RECEIVED Quality, RSRQ);

A received signal strength Indication (RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH Indication, RSSI);

a difference between an RSRP of the first signal and a target RSRP, the target RSRP being a configured or predefined value;

a difference between an SINR of a first signal and a target SINR, the target SINR being a configured or predefined value;

A difference between an SNR of the first signal and a target SNR, the target SNR being a configured or predefined value;

A difference between the RSRQ of the first signal and a target RSRQ, the target RSRQ being a configured or predefined value;

the difference between the RSSI of the first signal and a target RSSI, which is a configured or predefined value.

The first measurement value may be a functional combination of at least two of RSRP, SINR, SNR, RSRQ and RSSI, such as a linear combination, a product, a ratio, or the like.

Optionally, the second measurement is a measurement related to signal quality/signal strength, and may include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following:

reference signal received power RSRP;

signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR;

Signal-to-noise ratio SNR;

reference signal received quality RSRQ;

A received signal strength indicator RSSI;

a difference between an RSRP of the second signal and a target RSRP, the target RSRP being a configured or predefined value;

A difference between an SINR of the second signal and a target SINR, the target SINR being a configured or predefined value;

a difference between an SNR of the second signal and a target SNR, the target SNR being a configured or predefined value;

A difference between the RSRQ of the second signal and a target RSRQ, the target RSRQ being a configured or predefined value;

The difference between the RSSI of the second signal and a target RSSI, which is a configured or predefined value.

The second measurement may be a functional combination of at least two of RSRP, SINR, SNR, RSRQ and RSSI, such as a linear combination, a product, a ratio, etc.

According to the beam processing method, the first information and the second information are acquired; the first information includes at least one of: a first measurement of a first signal, first beam related information associated with the first signal; the second information includes at least one of: a second measurement of a second signal, second beam related information associated with the second signal; the first signal is a signal sent to the first device by the second device, and the second signal is a signal sent to the first device by the third device; and according to the first information, determining the parameters of the first receiving beam of the first device and the parameters of the first transmitting beam of the third device, and according to the second information, determining the parameters of the second receiving beam of the first device and the parameters of the second transmitting beam of the third device, the mutual interference influence of the direct link of the third device-the first device and the cascade link of the third device-the second device-the first device can be fully considered when the beam training/selection is carried out, so that the better beam in the symbiotic communication system based on the beam transmission is obtained, and the obtained beam can simultaneously improve the system performance gains of the direct link system/main system and the cascade link system/sub-system. Specifically, on one hand, the cascade link (third device-second device-first device) can provide the multipath gain with larger energy for the direct link (third device-first device) through the beam gain provided by the beam transmission, so that the performance gain of the main system is improved; on the other hand, the direct link (third device-first device) based on beam transmission can reduce the direct link interference influence on the cascade link (third device-second device-first device), thereby improving the performance of the subsystem.

Optionally, the first signal and/or the second signal may include at least one of:

a synchronization signal block (Synchronization Signal Block, SSB);

Channel state Information reference signal (CHANNEL STATE Information REFERENCE SIGNAL, CSI-RS);

A primary bypass synchronization signal (PRIMARY SIDELINK Synchronization Signal, PSSS) and/or a secondary bypass synchronization signal (Secondary Sidelink Synchronization Signal, SSSS);

Phase-tracking reference signal (Phase-TRACKING REFERENCE SIGNAL, TRS);

A Sounding reference signal (Sounding REFERENCE SIGNAL, SRS);

other physical layer signals, such as newly designed physical layer signals.

In the embodiment of the application, the first device can measure the first signal and report the first information to the third device or the fourth device, and further can report the first beam related information in an explicit or implicit mode. The acquiring the first information may include at least one of:

1) The communication equipment receives first beam related information which is reported by the first equipment and is associated with a first signal meeting a first target condition, namely, directly reports the first beam related information in an explicit mode; for example, first beam related information associated with a first signal satisfying a first target condition may be indicated by display signaling;

2) The communication device receives a preamble or a sequence reported by the first device, wherein the preamble or the sequence corresponds to first beam related information associated with a first signal meeting a first target condition, namely, the corresponding first beam related information is reported by reporting the preamble or the sequence in an implicit mode. For example, different preambles or sequences are corresponding/associated with different first beam related information associated with a first signal that satisfies a first target condition.

Optionally, the first target condition may include at least one of:

The first measurement of the first signal is greater than or equal to a first threshold (threshold);

The level of the first signal is greater than or equal to a second threshold (threshold).

It should be noted that the first threshold and the second threshold may be set based on actual requirements, may be agreed on, or may be configured/indicated to the first device by the fourth device. If the first measured value measured by the first device is greater than or equal to the corresponding first threshold value, and/or the level of the first signal is greater than or equal to the corresponding second threshold value, the first device explicitly or implicitly reports the first beam related information.

Optionally, the first beam related information may include at least one of the following:

Index of the first receive beam (Rx beam);

an index of a first transmit beam (Tx beam);

an identification of a first signal corresponding to a first receive beam (Rx beam);

an identification of a first signal corresponding to a first transmit beam (Tx beam);

time information corresponding to a first receive beam (Rx beam); for example, the time information is an index of a slot/symbol (symbol) corresponding to the first Rx beam, that is, a receiving time of the first Rx beam;

time information corresponding to a first transmission beam (Tx beam); for example, the time information is an index of a slot/symbol (symbol) corresponding to the first Tx beam, that is, a transmission time of the first Tx beam.

Alternatively, the first device may measure the first signal and report the second information to the third device or the fourth device, and further may report the second beam related information in an explicit or implicit manner. The acquiring the second information may include at least one of:

(1) The communication equipment receives second beam related information which is reported by the first equipment and is associated with a second signal meeting a second target condition, namely, directly reports the second beam related information in an explicit mode; for example, second beam related information associated with a second signal satisfying a second target condition may be indicated by display signaling;

(2) The communication device receives a preamble or a sequence reported by the first device, wherein the preamble or the sequence corresponds to second beam related information associated with a second signal meeting a second target condition, namely, the corresponding second beam related information is reported by reporting the preamble or the sequence in an implicit mode. For example, a different preamble or sequence is associated with a different second signal satisfying a second target condition.

Optionally, the second target condition may include at least one of:

The second measurement of the second signal is greater than or equal to a third threshold;

the level of the second signal is greater than or equal to the fourth threshold.

It should be noted that the third threshold and the fourth threshold may be set based on actual requirements, may be agreed on, or may be configured/indicated to the first device by the fourth device. And if the second measured value measured by the first device is greater than or equal to the corresponding third threshold value, and/or the level of the second signal is greater than or equal to the corresponding fourth threshold value, the first device explicitly or implicitly reports the second beam related information.

Optionally, the second beam related information may include at least one of:

an index of the second receive beam;

an index of the second transmit beam;

Identification of a second signal corresponding to a second receive beam;

identification of a second signal corresponding to the second transmit beam;

Time information corresponding to the second receive beam (Rx beam); for example, the time information is an index of a slot/symbol (symbol) corresponding to the second Rx beam, that is, a receiving time of the second Rx beam;

time information corresponding to a second transmission beam (Tx beam); for example, the time information is an index of a slot/symbol (symbol) corresponding to the second Tx beam, that is, a transmission time of the second Tx beam.

In the embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 6, the first signal is received by the first device on the first receiving beam; the first signal may be generated by at least one of:

Autonomously generated by the second device; for example, the second device may perform energy collection according to a third signal sent by the third device, and autonomously generate a corresponding first signal according to time-frequency resource allocation of the first signal, where the third signal is a radio frequency energy signal, and is only used for energy supply of the second device;

The method comprises the steps of performing backscatter modulation and resource mapping on a third signal according to time-frequency resource configuration of a first signal, wherein the third signal is a radio frequency carrier signal sent by third equipment to second equipment on a first sending beam, and the first signal is a backscatter signal of the third signal;

reflecting a third signal according to the configured reflection coefficient, namely not modulating the third signal, wherein the third signal is a radio frequency carrier signal sent by third equipment to second equipment on the first sending beam;

The method comprises the steps of carrying out all 1 back scattering modulation on a third signal, wherein the third signal is a radio frequency carrier signal which is sent to second equipment by third equipment on a first sending beam; the all-1 backscatter modulation is understood to mean that the third signal is backscatter modulated based on the all-1 baseband signal, and is the first signal.

In some embodiments, the third signal may be selected from SSB, CSI-RS, PSSS, SSSS, TRS, or other physical layer signals, etc.

In some embodiments, the third device transmits a second signal to the first device on a different second Tx beam and the first device receives the second signal transmitted by the third device on a different second Rx beam.

In the embodiment of the present application, in order to ensure the transceiving of the third signal, a corresponding parameter of the third signal may be configured for the third device. The communication device may send first configuration information to a third device, the first configuration information being used to configure parameters of a third signal, the parameters of the third signal comprising at least one of:

time domain related information of the third signal, such as the third signal is sent as a period, a half period, a non-period, etc.;

Frequency domain related information of the third signal, such as bandwidth, frequency band, frequency modulation sequence, etc.;

The Type of the third signal is Type, for example, the third signal is SRS, TRS, or a newly designed physical layer signal, etc.;

A modulation mode of the third signal;

a sequence generation mode of the third signal;

The power of the third signal.

In some embodiments, the configuration body may be a first device, and the first device sends the first configuration information to a third device.

In other embodiments, the configuration body may be a fourth device, and the fourth device sends the first configuration information to the third device.

In the embodiment of the application, the first equipment can measure the first signal and the second signal to obtain and report the first measured value of the first signal and the second measured value of the second signal. The communication device, such as the third device or the fourth device, may receive the first measurement value and the second measurement value reported by the first device, so as to determine the parameters of the corresponding transmit/receive beam based on the received first measurement value and the second measurement value.

Optionally, the first measurement value is reported through a first measurement report, where the first measurement report is a beam measurement report associated with a first signal; the second measurement value is reported through a second measurement report, and the second measurement report is a beam measurement report associated with a second signal.

Optionally, to identify the first signal, the first measurement report may further include at least one of:

The type of the first signal;

identification of the first signal;

At least one of the following of the first signal: precoding matrix indicator (Precoding Matrix Indicator, PMI), channel quality indicator (Channel quality indicator, CQI), rank Indicator (RI).

Optionally, to identify the first signal, the second measurement report may further include at least one of:

a type of second signal;

Identification of the second signal;

At least one of the following of the second signal: PMI, CQI, RI.

In some embodiments, reporting resources may be configured for the first device by the fourth device for the first device to report beam measurement reports, such as the first measurement report and/or the second measurement report.

Alternatively, different reporting forms may be used to report the first measurement report and the second measurement report. The reporting forms of the first measurement report and the second measurement report may include any one of the following:

① Independently reporting the first measurement report and the second measurement report;

For example, the first measurement report and the second measurement report may be separately reported on the configured reporting resources.

In some embodiments, the first measurement report and/or the second measurement report may employ a group-based beam report group based beam report or a Non-group-based beam report Non-group based beam report.

In some embodiments, the first measurement report and/or the second measurement report may employ differential reporting or non-differential reporting.

② And combining and reporting the first measurement report and the second measurement report.

For example, the first measurement report and the second measurement report may be reported in a combined form on configured reporting resources.

Optionally, when the first measurement report and the second measurement report are reported in combination, the combination manner of the first measurement report and the second measurement report includes at least one of the following:

1) Classifying and combining according to the measurement report; for example, the first measurement report may be reported first, and then the second measurement report may be reported, for example, the report content is: (first measurement report, second measurement report); or the second measurement report may be reported first, and then the first measurement report may be reported, for example, the report content is: (second measurement report, first measurement report);

2) Combining according to the time sequence of the signal measurement values; for example, the measurement reports corresponding to the measurement values at the same time are combined, and the measurement reports at different times are placed in another group;

3) Combining according to Panel indexes (Panel indexes) corresponding to the signal measured values; for example, the measurement reports corresponding to the measurement values on the same Panel are combined;

4) Combining according to the content of the measurement report; for example, the report content is: (signal type (1, …, n), signal identity (1, …, n), first/second measurement (1, …, n)).

In some embodiments, differential reporting or non-differential reporting may be employed when reporting the first measurement report and the second measurement report in combination.

In the embodiment of the present application, in order to ensure the transceiving of the first signal, the parameters of the first signal may be configured for the first device and/or the second device. The communication device may send second configuration information to the first device and/or the second device, the second configuration information being used to configure parameters of the first signal including, but not limited to, at least one of:

time domain related information of the first signal, such as transmission of the first signal is periodic, half-periodic, non-periodic, etc.;

frequency domain related information of the first signal, such as bandwidth, frequency band, frequency modulation sequence, etc.;

The Type of the first signal is Type, for example, the first signal is SRS, TRS, or a newly designed physical layer signal, etc.;

a modulation scheme of the first signal;

a sequence generation mode of the first signal;

The power of the first signal;

reflection coefficient of the first signal.

In some embodiments, the configuration body may be a first device, and the first device sends the second configuration information to a second device.

In other embodiments, the configuration body may be a third device, and the third device sends the second configuration information to the first device and/or the second device.

In other embodiments, the configuration body may be a fourth device, and the fourth device sends the second configuration information to the first device and/or the second device.

Optionally, to ensure transceiving of the second signal, parameters of the second signal may be configured for the first device and/or the third device. The communication device may send third configuration information to the first device and/or a third device, the third configuration information being used to configure parameters of the second signal including, but not limited to, at least one of:

time domain related information of the second signal, such as the transmission of the second signal is periodic, half-periodic, non-periodic, etc.;

frequency domain related information of the second signal, such as bandwidth, frequency band, frequency modulation sequence, etc.;

the Type of the second signal is Type, for example, the second signal is SRS, TRS, or a newly designed physical layer signal, etc.;

a modulation scheme of the second signal, which may be represented as a modulated waveform;

a sequence generation mode of the second signal;

The power of the second signal.

In some embodiments, the configuration body may be a first device, and the first device sends third configuration information to a third device.

In other embodiments, the configuration body may be a third device, and the third device sends the second configuration information to the first device.

In other embodiments, the configuration body may be a fourth device, and the fourth device sends the second configuration information to the first device and/or the third device.

Optionally, at least one of the above-mentioned parameters of the first reception beam, the parameters of the first transmission beam, the parameters of the second reception beam and the parameters of the second transmission beam may include at least one of the following:

the beam width is narrow;

A beam direction;

beam power;

Beam index;

Precoding matrix indication (Precoding matrix indicator, PMI);

A duty cycle;

The number of transmitting antennas;

The number of receiving antennas;

transmitting an index of the antenna;

index of the receiving antenna.

For example, the parameters of the first and/or second receive beams include at least one of:

the width of the first receiving beam and/or the second receiving beam;

the direction of the first receive beam and/or the second receive beam;

the power of the first receive beam and/or the second receive beam;

an index of the first receive beam and/or the second receive beam;

PMI of the first reception beam and/or the second reception beam;

A duty cycle of the first receive beam and/or the second receive beam;

the number of receiving antennas of the first receiving beam and/or the second receiving beam;

an index of a receive antenna of the first receive beam and/or the second receive beam.

For another example, the parameters of the first transmission beam and/or the second transmission beam include at least one of:

the width of the first transmission beam and/or the second transmission beam;

the direction of the first transmission beam and/or the second transmission beam;

the power of the first transmit beam and/or the second transmit beam;

An index of the first transmission beam and/or the second transmission beam;

PMI of the first transmission beam and/or the second transmission beam;

a duty cycle of the first transmit beam and/or the second transmit beam;

The number of transmit antennas of the first transmit beam and/or the second transmit beam;

index of the transmit antennas of the first transmit beam and/or the second transmit beam.

In the embodiment of the present application, considering that the third device needs to transmit signals on two transmit beams and the first device needs to receive signals on two receive beams, at least two (Transmission Configuration Indication, TCI) states may be configured for the first device and/or the third device, so that the first device and/or the third device determines the corresponding transmit-receive beam based on the TCI states indicated by the configuration.

Optionally, the present embodiment may configure the indicating TCI status for the first device and/or the third device by at least one of:

(1) The communication device sends first radio resource control (Radio Resource Control, RRC) configuration information to the first device and/or the third device, the first RRC configuration information being used to configure at least two transmission configuration indicators, TCI, status of the first device and/or the third device; for example, an information unit containing Quasi Co-Location (QCL) information may be configured directly by higher layer RRC signaling, and inform the first device and/or the third device;

(2) The communication device sends second RRC configuration information and first downlink control information (Downlink Control Information, DCI) to the first device and/or the third device, wherein the second RRC configuration information is used for configuring a group of TCI states of the first device and/or the third device and triggering states corresponding to each TCI state, and the first DCI is used for indicating at least two triggering states and corresponding TCI states for the first device and/or the third device; for example, a group of TCI states and corresponding trigger states may be configured by a higher layer RRC signaling, one trigger state corresponds to one TCI state, and then one trigger state and the corresponding TCI state are indicated by DCI as QCL reference signals of the aperiodic CSI-RS;

(3) The communication device sends third RRC configuration information and a first Media Access Control (MAC) unit (Medium Access Control Control Element, MAC CE) to the first device and/or the third device, wherein the third RRC configuration information is used for configuring a set of TCI states of the first device and/or the third device, and the first MAC CE is used for activating the first device and/or the third device by selecting at least two TCI states from the configured TCI states; for example, a set of TCI states may be configured by higher layer RRC signaling, each TCI state may determine a corresponding QCL reference, and then select one TCI state from among them for activation by the MAC CE, as the QCL reference of the target reference signal;

(4) The communication device sends fourth RRC configuration information, a second MAC CE, and a second DCI to the first device and/or the third device, where the third RRC configuration information is used to configure a set of TCI states of the first device and/or the third device, the second MAC CE is used to select at most 8 TCI states from the configured TCI states for the first device and/or the third device to activate, and the second DCI is used to select at least two TCI states from the activated TCI states to indicate, for example, a set of TCI states (such as M TCI states) may be configured by higher layer RRC signaling, then the MAC CE is used to select at most 8 TCI states, and the DCI is used to select at least one TCI state from the activated TCI states to indicate.

It should be noted that, as for the manner of configuring or indicating the TCI state of the first device and/or the third device, the manner described in (1) to (4) above is not limited, and other combinations based on RRC, DCI, MAC CE, SCI, and/or L1 signaling may be employed, which is not limited in this embodiment.

In some embodiments, for two TCI states configured to indicate a first device, two QCL information may be transmitted by configuring the first device to indicate the two TCI states; and/or, for two TCI states configured to indicate the third device, two QCL information may be transmitted by configuring the third device to indicate the two TCI states.

In some embodiments, the configuring/indicating subject communication device in (1) to (4) above is a first device, and the TCI state is configured or indicated by the first device to a third device.

In other embodiments, the configuring/indicating body communication device in (1) to (4) above is a third device, and the TCI state is configured or indicated by the third device to the first device.

In other embodiments, the configuring/indicating body communication device in (1) to (4) above is a fourth device, and the TCI status is configured or indicated by the fourth device to the first device and/or the third device.

In the embodiment of the present application, if the second device has a transmit-receive beam, one or more TCI states of the second device may be configured and indicated, where the configuration indication manner includes at least one of the following:

1) The communication device sends fifth RRC configuration information to the second device, wherein the fifth RRC configuration information is used for configuring at least one TCI state of the second device; for example, an information unit containing Quasi Co-Location (QCL) information may be configured directly by higher layer RRC signaling, and inform the second device;

2) The communication device sends sixth RRC configuration information and third DCI to the second device, wherein the sixth RRC configuration information is used for configuring a group of TCI states of the second device and trigger states corresponding to each TCI state, and the third DCI is used for indicating at least one trigger state and corresponding TCI states for the second device; for example, a group of TCI states and corresponding trigger states may be configured by a higher layer RRC signaling, one trigger state corresponds to one TCI state, and then one trigger state and the corresponding TCI state are indicated by DCI as QCL reference signals of the aperiodic CSI-RS;

3) The communication device sends seventh RRC configuration information and third MAC CE to the second device, wherein the third RRC configuration information is used for configuring a group of TCI states of the second device, and the third MAC CE is used for selecting at least one TCI state from the configured TCI states for the second device to activate; for example, a set of TCI states may be configured by higher layer RRC signaling, each TCI state may determine a corresponding QCL reference, and then select one TCI state from among them for activation by the MAC CE, as the QCL reference of the target reference signal;

4) The communication device sends eighth RRC configuration information, fourth MAC CE and fourth DCI to the second device, wherein the eighth RRC configuration information is used for configuring a group of TCI states of the second device, the fourth MAC CE is used for activating the second device to select at most 8 TCI states from the configured TCI states, and the fourth DCI is used for indicating the second device to select at least one TCI state from the activated TCI states; for example, a set of TCI states (e.g., M TCI states) may be configured by higher layer RRC signaling, then a maximum of 8 TCI states are selected by the MAC CE, and at least one TCI state is selected from the activated TCI states by the DCI for indication.

It should be noted that, as for the manner of configuring or indicating the TCI state of the second device, the manner described in 1) to 4) above is not limited, and other combinations based on RRC, DCI, MAC CE, SCI, and/or L1 signaling may be employed, which is not limited in this embodiment.

In some embodiments, the configuration/indication subject communication device of 1) to 4) above may be selected as any one of the first device, the third device, and the fourth device, the configuration indicating one or more TCI states of the second device.

Referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is a flowchart of a beam processing method provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the method is performed by a first device, and as shown in fig. 7, the method includes the following steps:

step 71: the first device reports the first information and/or the second information to the communication device.

In this embodiment, the first information includes at least one of: a first measurement of a first signal, first beam related information associated with the first signal; the second information includes at least one of: a second measurement of a second signal, second beam related information associated with the second signal; the first signal is a signal sent to the first device by the second device, and the second signal is a signal sent to the first device by the third device; the first information is used for determining parameters of a first receiving beam of the first device and parameters of a first transmitting beam of the third device; the second information is used to determine parameters of a second receive beam of the first device and parameters of a second transmit beam of the third device.

Here, the communication device is a third device or a fourth device. The first device and the third device may be selected from, but are not limited to: access network equipment such as a base station, terminal equipment such as UE, special radio frequency energy supply equipment, relay equipment and the like. The second device may be selected from but not limited to: backscatter communication devices, radio frequency energy based terminal devices, passive internet of things devices, and the like. The fourth device is a third party device different from the first device, the second device and the third device, such as a third party network node, a third party network device or the like with configuration or scheduling functions.

In some embodiments, for a plurality of first signals corresponding to different first reception beams, time domain resources are different, frequency domain resources are the same or different, and time-frequency domain resources of the plurality of first signals belong to the same resource set.

In some embodiments, the time domain resources are different, the frequency domain resources are the same or different, and the time-frequency domain resources of the plurality of second signals belong to the same resource set for the plurality of second signals corresponding to different second reception beams.

Optionally, the first measurement value and/or the second measurement value are/is measurement values related to signal quality/signal strength, which may include, but is not limited to, at least one of the following:

reference signal received power RSRP;

signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR;

Signal-to-noise ratio SNR;

reference signal received quality RSRQ;

A received signal strength indicator RSSI;

a difference between an RSRP of the first signal and/or the second signal and a target RSRP, the target RSRP being a configured or predefined value;

a difference between an SINR of the first signal and/or the second signal and a target SINR, the target SINR being a configured or predefined value;

A difference between an SNR of the first signal and/or the second signal and a target SNR, the target SNR being a configured or predefined value;

a difference between the RSRQ of the first signal and/or the second signal and a target RSRQ, the target RSRQ being a configured or predefined value;

the difference between the RSSI of the first signal and/or the second signal and a target RSSI, which is a configured or predefined value.

In addition, the first measurement value or the second measurement value may be a functional combination of at least two of RSRP, SINR, SNR, RSRQ and RSSI, such as a linear combination, a product, a ratio, or the like.

The beam processing method of the embodiment of the application can fully consider the mutual interference influence of the direct link of the third equipment-first equipment and the cascade link of the third equipment-second equipment-first equipment when the beam training/selection is carried out, thereby obtaining the better beam in the symbiotic communication system based on the beam transmission, and enabling the obtained beam to simultaneously improve the system performance gains of the direct link system/main system and the cascade link system/sub-system. Specifically, on one hand, the cascade link (third device-second device-first device) can provide the multipath gain with larger energy for the direct link (third device-first device) through the beam gain provided by the beam transmission, so that the performance gain of the main system is improved; on the other hand, the direct link (third device-first device) based on beam transmission can reduce the direct link interference influence on the cascade link (third device-second device-first device), thereby improving the performance of the subsystem.

a synchronization signal block SSB;

Channel state information reference signal CSI-RS;

A primary bypass synchronization signal PSSS and/or a secondary bypass synchronization signal SSSS;

A phase tracking reference signal TRS;

sounding reference signals, SRS;

other physical layer signals, such as newly designed physical layer signals.

In the embodiment of the application, the first beam related information can be reported in an explicit or implicit mode. The reporting of the first information to the communication device may include at least one of:

1) The first device reports first beam related information associated with a first signal meeting a first target condition to a communication device (such as a third device or a fourth device), namely, directly reports the first beam related information in an explicit mode; for example, first beam related information associated with a first signal satisfying a first target condition may be indicated by display signaling;

2) The first device reports a preamble or sequence to the communication device (e.g., the third device or the fourth device), where the preamble or sequence corresponds to first beam related information associated with the first signal satisfying the first target condition, i.e., reports the corresponding first beam related information by reporting the preamble or sequence in an implicit manner. For example, different preambles or sequences are corresponding/associated with different first beam related information associated with a first signal that satisfies a first target condition.

Optionally, the first target condition may include at least one of:

Index of the first receive beam (Rx beam);

an index of a first transmit beam (Tx beam);

The second beam related information may be reported explicitly or implicitly. The reporting of the second information to the communication device may include at least one of:

(1) The first device reports second beam related information associated with a second signal meeting a second target condition to the communication device, namely directly reports the second beam related information in an explicit mode; for example, second beam related information associated with a second signal satisfying a second target condition may be indicated by display signaling;

(2) The first device reports a preamble or sequence to the communication device, where the preamble or sequence corresponds to second beam related information associated with a second signal satisfying a second target condition, i.e. reports the corresponding second beam related information by reporting the preamble or sequence in an implicit manner. For example, a different preamble or sequence is associated with a different second signal satisfying a second target condition.

Optionally, the second target condition may include at least one of:

Optionally, the second beam related information may include at least one of:

an index of the second receive beam;

an index of the second transmit beam;

Identification of a second signal corresponding to a second receive beam;

identification of a second signal corresponding to the second transmit beam;

Alternatively, as shown in fig. 6, the first signal is received by the first device on the first receiving beam; the first signal may be generated by at least one of:

and carrying out all-1 back scattering modulation on a third signal, wherein the third signal is a radio frequency carrier signal which is sent to the second device by the third device on the first sending beam, and the third signal is the first signal.

The type of the first signal;

identification of the first signal;

at least one of the following of the first signal: PMI, CQI, RI.

a type of second signal;

Identification of the second signal;

At least one of the following of the second signal: PMI, CQI, RI.

Optionally, the reporting forms of the first measurement report and the second measurement report include any one of the following:

independently reporting the first measurement report and the second measurement report;

and combining and reporting the first measurement report and the second measurement report.

classifying and combining according to the measurement report;

Combining according to the time sequence of the signal measurement values;

According to the panel index combination corresponding to the signal measured value;

And combining according to the content of the measurement report.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

The first device receives second configuration information sent by the communication device, wherein the second configuration information is used for configuring parameters of the first signal, and the parameters of the first signal comprise at least one of the following:

Time domain related information of the first signal;

frequency domain related information of the first signal;

The type of the first signal;

a modulation scheme of the first signal;

a sequence generation mode of the first signal;

The power of the first signal;

reflection coefficient of the first signal;

and/or the first device receives third configuration information sent by the communication device, wherein the third configuration information is used for configuring parameters of the second signal, and the parameters of the second signal comprise at least one of the following:

Time domain related information of the second signal;

frequency domain related information of the second signal;

a type of second signal;

a modulation mode of the second signal;

a sequence generation mode of the second signal;

The power of the second signal.

The application will now be described with reference to specific examples.

Example 1

In this embodiment, several different reporting manners of beam measurement reports are mainly described. Unlike beam measurements in existing NR systems, the first device in the inventive scheme is able to receive Tx beams for both direct and tandem links each time. Also, the Tx/Rx beam in the cascade link may differ from the Tx/Rx beam in the direct link in principle at the time of selection, resulting in the first device taking different signal quality criteria for a first measurement of a first signal on the first Rx beam and a second measurement of a second signal on the second Rx beam. All the above factors lead to the first device reporting the beam measurement report, i.e. the first device is not the control/processing entity and needs to report the beam measurement report, and a new beam measurement report format needs to be designed to meet the requirements.

Independent reporting

A possible solution is that, whether the first device receives/measures the first signal on the first Rx beam and the second signal on the second Rx beam are simultaneous or not, the third device or the fourth device configures the reporting resource of the first measurement report and the reporting resource of the second measurement report to the first device, respectively. Thus, the first device reports the first measurement report and the second measurement report on the time-frequency resources of the first measurement report and on the time-frequency resources of the second measurement report, respectively. Specifically, the first measurement report and the second measurement report may be reported in the same manner as the existing NR system. For the case of multi-panel MTRP/TRP, two reporting forms with NR R15 type can be adopted, namely: group based beam report and Non-group based beam report.

In the Non-group based beam report form, the first device may report the N best beams in one reporting configuration (ReportConfig) or reporting resource. In group based beam report, the first device may report M beams that the first device can simultaneously receive in one ReportConfig or reporting resource. Further, in group based beam report, when the third device or the fourth device configures the first device to perform group based beam report, a resource configuration (such as resource setting) associated with the report is configured in the ReportConfig or the reporting resource configuration, for measuring the measured values of each beam, and then the first device selects M from the measured values and reports the measured values to the third device or the fourth device by using a differential report method. For the case where beam selection and reporting, there are two schemes:

Scheme 1: the first device reports all M beams received simultaneously to the third device or the fourth device.

-Scheme 2: for MPUE, the first device reports a plurality of beam groups (beam groups) to the third device or the fourth device, each beam group corresponds to a panel, and each beam group is composed of a reference signal identifier corresponding to a beam that can be received by the panel. The third device or the fourth device selects one Tx beam from each beam group for subsequent data transmission.

In both schemes Non group based beam report and group based beam report, in order to reduce reporting overhead, when reporting multiple beams in 1 reporting instance, a form of differential reporting may be adopted. Taking the measurement value L1-RSRP as an example, the L1-RSRP value range of beam measurement: -140dBm to-44 dBm (7 bits), the strongest L1-RSRP in all measurements being represented by 7bits (1 dB step), the remaining L1-RSRP values to be reported being reported in 4bits (2 dB step) in a differential manner.

(II) Combined reporting

In the combined reporting, the third device or the fourth device configures the reporting resources of the same with the reporting resources of the first measurement report and the second measurement report for the first device, so that a proper combination mode needs to be designed to meet the reporting requirement. Specific combinations may include, but are not limited to, the following:

(a) Sorting by measurement report

This approach can extend the reporting form of existing NR systems, except that: the first measurement report is immediately followed by a second measurement report. The first measurement report and the second measurement report may be reported in the existing NR, and the same differential or non-differential reporting mode is adopted. As shown in fig. 8A, an example of reporting after sorting based on measurement reports is shown, where the first measurement value in the first measurement report uses L1-RSRP as a signal evaluation criterion and adopts a non-differential reporting manner, and at most two best beams meeting the conditions, that is, the beams corresponding to the first signal identifier #1 and the first signal identifier #3, are allowed to be reported in the first measurement report, so that the content included in the first measurement report is the first signal identifier #1, the first signal identifier #3, the L1-RSRP corresponding to the first signal identifier #1 (that is, the corresponding beam), and the L1-RSRP corresponding to the first signal identifier #3 (that is, the corresponding beam). The second measurement value in the second measurement report takes the L1-SINR as a signal evaluation criterion and adopts a non-differential reporting mode, and the second measurement report allows reporting of at most two best beams meeting the condition, namely, the beam corresponding to the second signal identifier #2 and the second signal identifier #5, so that the content contained in the second measurement report is the second signal identifier #2, the second signal identifier #5, the L1-SINR corresponding to the second signal identifier #2 (namely, the corresponding beam), and the L1-SINR corresponding to the second signal identifier #5 (namely, the corresponding beam).

(B) Combining according to a receive time window

Since the first device receives the first signal and the second signal at different times of different Rx beams, one reporting mode is to perform beam reporting according to the receiving time of the beam meeting the condition, and the first measurement value/the second measurement value may be in a differential or non-differential reporting mode. As shown in fig. 8B, for an example of combined reporting based on the first device receiving time window, the first device may perform segmentation according to a certain time, and report beam measurement values and signal identifications meeting the conditions in different time periods, where the first measurement value of the first signal uses L1-RSRP as the beam signal quality evaluation criterion, and the second measurement value of the second signal uses L1-SINR as the beam signal quality evaluation criterion. In the time window 1, only the signal quality corresponding to the second signal identifier #2 meets the reporting condition; in the time window 2, the signal quality corresponding to the second signal identifier #5 and the first signal identifier #1 meets the respective reporting condition; in the time window 3, only the signal quality corresponding to the first signal identifier #3 satisfies the reporting condition, so that the reporting can be performed in a combination manner shown in fig. 8B.

(C) Combining according to a received Panel index

Because the first device receives the first signal and the second signal on different Rx beams of different Panel, one reporting mode is to report the beam according to the received Panel index of the beam meeting the condition, and the first measurement value/the second measurement value can be in a differential or non-differential reporting mode. As shown in fig. 8C, an example of combined reporting based on the first device receiving the measured values on different Panel, reporting the beam measured values and the signal identifications satisfying the conditions on the respective Panel according to different Panel indexes, wherein the first measured value of the first signal uses L1-RSRP as the beam signal quality evaluation criterion, and the second measured value of the second signal uses L1-SINR as the beam signal quality evaluation criterion. On panel#1, only signal quality corresponding to first signal identifier #3 satisfies reporting condition; on Panel #2, signal quality corresponding to the second signal identifier #5 and the first signal identifier #1 meets respective reporting conditions; on Panel 3, only the signal quality corresponding to the second signal identifier #2 satisfies the reporting condition, so that the reporting can be performed in the combination manner of fig. 8C.

(D) Combining according to reporting content classification

In this combination, the reporting does not distinguish between time window, panel and link, but combines according to the reporting content classification, where the measured value area may take the form of differential or non-differential reporting. As shown in fig. 8D, in an example of the report based on the report content classification combination, according to the respective evaluation criteria, only the first signal identifier #1, the first signal identifier #3, the second signal identifier #2, and the beam corresponding to the second signal identifier #5 satisfy the respective report conditions, so that the four signal identifiers are put together in the signal identifier area; its corresponding L1-RSRP or L1-SINR is placed in the next measurement region, which may take differential or non-differential form; other content areas may place PMI, RI, etc. information as shown in fig. 8D.

Example two

In the second embodiment, a manner in which the second device generates the first signal will be described.

First, the second device autonomously generates a first signal

This approach is suitable for a second device to be powered to be a device with an autonomously generated carrier, such as a passive or semi-passive UE device, which may generate a corresponding first signal depending on configuration information. The corresponding first signal generation and configuration modes are as follows:

(1) The fourth device configures parameters of the first signal of the first device, the parameters comprising:

(a) Time domain related parameters;

(b) Frequency domain related parameters;

(c) A modulation mode;

(d) A transmission power;

(e) The manner of sequence generation.

(2) The third device transmits a third signal at a different Tx beam.

For example, the third signal is only used for radio frequency powering of the second device.

(3) And generating the first signals by the UE according to the parameters of the configured first signals, and transmitting a plurality of first signals.

For example, the first signal may be an SRS, a newly designed L1 signal, CSI-RS, PSSS, SSSS, or the like.

For example, the time domain resources of the plurality of first signals are different, the frequency domain resources are the same or different, and the time-frequency domain resources of the plurality of first signals belong to the same resource set.

(II) the second device generates the first signal based on the backscatter signal

This solution is suitable for BSC devices where the second device to be powered does not itself have autonomously generated carriers, and requires other devices to provide it with radio frequency carriers for backscatter transmission, including passive or semi-passive BSC devices. The corresponding first signal generation and configuration modes are as follows:

(1) The fourth device configures parameters of the first signal of the second device, the parameters comprising:

(a) Time domain related parameters;

(b) Frequency domain related parameters;

(c) A modulation mode;

(d) A transmission power;

(e) The manner of sequence generation.

(2) The third device transmits a third signal at a different Tx beam.

For example, the third signal is used to power the BSC apparatus while providing the BSC apparatus with a radio frequency carrier.

(3) The second device generates the first signal based on the third signal and transmits a plurality of first signals according to the configured parameters of the first signal.

For example, the first signal is a backscatter signal of the second signal.

(III) the second device directly forwards the first signal

This solution is suitable for BSC devices where the second device to be powered does not itself have autonomously generated carriers, and requires other devices to provide it with radio frequency carriers for backscatter transmission, including passive or semi-passive BSC devices. But unlike (two) generating a back-scattered signal based on load impedance modulation, here the incident third signal is directly reflected according to a fixed reflection coefficient, or is subjected to all 1 modulation, thus generating the first signal, which is thus a direct-forward signal of the third signal. The corresponding first signal generation mode and configuration method are as follows:

(1) The fourth device configures parameters of the first signal of the second device, the parameters comprising: reflection coefficient.

(2) The third device transmits a plurality of third signals at different Tx beams.

For example, part of the power of the third signal may be used for powering the second device, which itself is also the reference signal.

For example, the third signal may be SRS, a newly designed L1 signal, CSI-RS, PSSS, SSSS, or the like.

For example, the time domain resources of the plurality of third signals are different, the frequency domain resources are the same or different, and the time-frequency domain resources of the plurality of third signals belong to the same resource set.

(3) The second device directly reflects the plurality of third signals transmitted by the third device at different Tx beams, i.e., transmits the plurality of first signals, according to the configured reflection coefficient.

The reflected first signal is a back scattering signal of a third signal sent by the third device, and is only subjected to no modulation, or is subjected to all 1 modulation and resource mapping. At this time, the first signal is the third signal.

Example III

Because the scheme of the application is suitable for different network deployment scenarios, the third embodiment describes four network deployments commonly used in cellular systems. It is noted that the scheme of the present application is equally applicable to WiFi systems, bluetooth, loRa, zigbee, etc. systems, in addition to cellular systems. Since the core ideas are similar, a description will not be given here.

As shown in fig. 9, the third device is a base station, the first device is a UE, and the third device implements resource allocation, parameter configuration, beam processing/training, and the like.

In the architecture shown in fig. 9, the third device is a base station, the second device is a UE or BSC device requiring radio frequency power, the first device is a Legacy UE device, and information from the third device (base station) and the second device is demodulated simultaneously. The scheme is as follows:

(1) The third device determines parameters of a first Rx beam of the first device and a first Tx beam of the third device based on a first measurement of a first signal transmitted by the second device to the first device, determines parameters of a second Rx beam of the first device and a second Tx beam of the third device based on a second measurement of a second signal transmitted by the third device to the first device, and configures a TCI state indicating the first device.

(2) The third device may also determine parameters of the first Rx beam of the first device and the first Tx beam of the third device based on beam related information associated with the first signal.

(3) The third device may also determine parameters of the second Rx beam of the first device and the second Tx beam of the third device based on beam related information associated with the second signal.

(4) The third device transmits a third signal to the second device on a different first Tx beam and the first device receives the first signal transmitted by the second device on a different first Rx beam.

(5) The first signal is a signal generated by the second device, the third signal is a radio frequency carrier signal sent by the third device, and the mode of generating the first signal is one of the following modes:

(a) Based on a third signal sent by a third device, the second device modulates and resource-maps the third signal according to the time-frequency resource configuration of the first signal to generate a first signal, wherein the third signal is a radio frequency carrier signal, and the first signal is a back scattering signal of the third signal;

(b) The energy collection is carried out based on a third signal sent by third equipment, the second equipment generates the first signal autonomously according to the time-frequency resource configuration of the first signal, and the third signal is a radio frequency energy signal and is only used for energy supply of the second equipment;

(c) Based on the third signal transmitted by the third device, the second device generates the first signal after reflecting the third signal with the configured reflection coefficient without any modulation, or after performing all-1 modulation.

(6) The third device transmits a second signal to the first device on a different second Tx beam and the first device receives the second signal transmitted by the third device on a different second Rx beam.

(7) The first device reports the first measurement value of the first signal measured on the first Rx beam and the second measurement value of the second signal measured on the second Rx beam to the third device, where the reporting forms are described above and are not described herein.

(8) The configuration of the third device indicates the two TCI states of the first device, and the specific configuration indication manner is described above and will not be described herein.

(9) If the second device has a transmit-receive beam, the third device configures one or more TCI states for indicating the second device, and the specific configuration indication manner is described above and will not be described herein.

(II) as shown in FIG. 10, the first device is a base station, the third device is a UE, and the first device implements resource allocation, parameter configuration, beam processing/training, and so on.

In the architecture shown in fig. 10, the first device is a base station device, the second device is a UE or BSC device that needs radio frequency power, the third device is a Legacy UE device, and the first device needs to demodulate information from the third device and the second device at the same time. In this architecture, since the main body for performing measurement is the base station device, compared to the above (one) in which the base station is PTx and the UE is IRx, the UE needs to perform the beam measurement report reporting procedure, and there is no reporting procedure in this architecture. The scheme is as follows:

(1) The first device determines parameters of a first Rx beam of the first device and a first Tx beam of the third device based on a first measurement of a first signal transmitted by the second device to the first device, and determines parameters of a second Rx beam of the first device and a second Tx beam of the third device based on a second measurement of a second signal transmitted by the third device to the first device, and configures a TCI state indicating the third device.

(2) The first device may also determine parameters of a first Rx beam of the first device and a first Tx beam of the third device based on beam related information associated with the first signal.

(3) The first device may also determine parameters of a second Rx beam of the first device and a second Tx beam of the third device based on beam related information associated with the second signal.

Wherein the first device may configure the signal parameters of the third signal to the third device.

(7) The first device configuration indicates two TCI states of the first device and/or two TCI states of the third device, and specific configuration indication manners are described above and are not described herein.

(8) If the second device has a transmit-receive beam, the first device configures one or more TCI states for indicating the second device, and the specific configuration indication manner is described above and will not be described herein.

(III) As shown in FIGS. 11A and 11B, the first device is a UE, the third device is a UE, beam training/processing is performed by the first device (shown in FIG. 11B), or beam training/processing is performed by the third device (shown in FIG. 11A).

In the architecture shown in fig. 11A and 11B, the third device is a Legacy UE device, the second device is a UE or BSC device that needs radio frequency power, the first device is a Legacy UE device, and beam training/processing is performed by the first device (shown in fig. 11B), or beam training/processing is performed by the third device (shown in fig. 11A). The architecture is applicable to situations where there is no network deployment, similar to the Mode2 (d) scenario in sidelink. In this scenario, legacy UEs of the first device and the third device may both become master UEs, i.e., execution bodies, to implement resource allocation, parameter configuration, scheduling, and the like. In general, the scenario is applicable to energy supply and data transceiving, which are completed by Legacy UE and UE/BSC device to be supplied with energy, and the deployment is flexible, and because Legacy UE is generally closer to BSC device, radio frequency energy and uplink and downlink coverage with higher energy efficiency can be provided.

Specifically, for the case that the master UE is the third device, the scheme is basically the same as the scheme in the above (a), and the difference is that:

(1) The types of the third signal and the second signal include:

(a) An SRS signal;

(b) Newly designed L1 signal

(C) PSSS/SSSS signals in the sidelink;

(d) CSI-RS signals.

(2) The third device configures or indicates the TCI state of the first device, and the configuration indication method is described above and will not be described herein.

(3) If the second device has a transmit-receive beam, the third device configures one or more TCI states for indicating the second device, and the configuration indication method is described above and will not be described herein.

For the case that the master UE is the first device, the scheme is basically the same as the scheme in the above (two), and the difference is that:

(1) The types of the third signal and the second signal include:

(a) An SRS signal;

(b) Newly designed L1 signal

(C) PSSS/SSSS signals in the sidelink;

(d) CSI-RS signals.

(2) The first device configures or indicates the TCI state of the third device, and the specific configuration indication manner is described above and will not be described herein.

(3) If the second device has a transmit-receive beam, the first device configures one or more TCI states for indicating the second device, and the specific configuration indication manner is described above and will not be described herein.

(IV) as shown in FIG. 12, the first device is a UE, the third device is a UE, and the fourth device is a third party device, such as a base station device, different from the first device and the third device.

In the architecture shown in fig. 12, the third device is a Legacy UE device, the second device is a UE or BSC device that requires radio frequency power, the first device is a Legacy UE device, and the fourth device is a base station device. The architecture is applicable to situations without network deployment and with network deployment, similar to the Mode2 and Mode1 scenarios in sidelink. In this scenario, the fourth device, i.e., the base station device, implements resource allocation, parameter configuration, scheduling, beam processing/training, etc., thereby alleviating the processing complexity of the master UE. However, because the energy supply and the data receiving and transmitting are completed by the Legacy UE and the UE/BSC device to be powered, the deployment is flexible, and because the Legacy UE is generally closer to the BSC device, the Legacy UE can also provide radio frequency energy and uplink and downlink coverage with higher energy efficiency. The specific scheme is as follows:

(1) The fourth device determines parameters of a first Rx beam of the first device and a first Tx beam of the third device based on a first measurement of a first signal transmitted by the second device to the first device, determines parameters of a second Rx beam of the first device and a second Tx beam of the third device based on a second measurement of a second signal transmitted by the third device to the first device, and configures a TCI state indicating the first device and the third device.

(2) The fourth device may also determine parameters of the first Rx beam of the first device and the first Tx beam of the third device based on beam related information associated with the first signal.

(3) The fourth device may also determine parameters of the second Rx beam of the first device and the second Tx beam of the third device based on beam related information associated with the second signal.

(7) Optionally, the first device reports the first measurement value of the first signal measured on the first Rx beam and the second measurement value of the second signal measured on the second Rx beam to the fourth device, where the reporting forms are described above and are not described herein.

(8) The configuration indication of the fourth device indicates two TCI states of the first device and/or two TCI states of the third device, and specific configuration indication manners are described above and are not described herein.

(9) If the second device has a transmit-receive beam, the fourth device configures one or more TCI states for indicating the second device, and the specific configuration indication manner is described above and will not be described herein.

According to the beam processing method provided by the embodiment of the application, the execution body can be a beam processing device. In the embodiment of the present application, a beam processing device executes a beam processing method as an example, and the beam processing device provided in the embodiment of the present application is described.

Referring to fig. 13, fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of a beam processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application, where the apparatus is applied to a communication device, and the communication device is any one of a first device, a third device, and a fourth device. As shown in fig. 13, the beam processing apparatus 130 includes:

An obtaining module 131, configured to obtain first information and second information, where the first information includes at least one of the following: a first measurement of a first signal, first beam related information associated with the first signal; the second information includes at least one of: a second measurement of a second signal, second beam related information associated with the second signal; the first signal is a signal sent to the first device by the second device, and the second signal is a signal sent to the first device by the third device;

A determining module 132, configured to determine, according to the first information, a parameter of a first receiving beam of the first device and a parameter of a first transmitting beam of the third device, and determine, according to the second information, a parameter of a second receiving beam of the first device and a parameter of a second transmitting beam of the third device.

Optionally, the first measurement value and/or the second measurement value comprises at least one of:

reference signal received power RSRP;

signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR;

Signal-to-noise ratio SNR;

reference signal received quality RSRQ;

A received signal strength indicator RSSI;

The difference between the RSSI of the first signal and/or the second signal and a target RSSI, the target RSSI being a configured or predefined value.

Optionally, when the communication device is a third device or a fourth device, the obtaining module 131 is specifically configured to at least one of the following:

Receiving first beam related information which is reported by the first equipment and is associated with a first signal meeting a first target condition;

A preamble or sequence reported by the first device is received, the preamble or sequence corresponding to first beam related information associated with a first signal satisfying a first target condition.

Optionally, the first target condition includes at least one of:

the first measurement of the first signal is greater than or equal to a first threshold;

The level of the first signal is greater than or equal to a second threshold.

Optionally, the first beam related information includes at least one of:

An index of the first receive beam;

An index of the first transmit beam;

the identification of the first signal corresponding to the first receiving beam;

An identification of a first signal corresponding to the first transmit beam;

Time information corresponding to the first receiving beam;

And the time information corresponding to the first sending beam.

Receiving second beam related information which is reported by the first equipment and is associated with a second signal meeting a second target condition;

And receiving a preamble or sequence reported by the first equipment, wherein the preamble or sequence corresponds to second beam related information associated with a second signal meeting a second target condition.

Optionally, the second target condition includes at least one of:

the level of the second signal is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold.

Optionally, the second beam related information includes at least one of:

an index of the second receive beam;

An index of the second transmit beam;

the identification of a second signal corresponding to the second receiving beam;

an identification of a second signal corresponding to the second transmit beam;

Time information corresponding to the second receiving beam;

and the time information corresponding to the second sending beam.

Optionally, the first signal is received by the first device on the first reception beam; the generation mode of the first signal comprises at least one of the following steps:

autonomously generated by the second device;

Performing back scattering modulation and resource mapping on a third signal according to the time-frequency resource configuration of the first signal;

reflecting the third signal according to the configured reflection coefficient to obtain;

carrying out all 1 back scattering modulation on the third signal to obtain;

wherein the third signal is a radio frequency carrier signal transmitted by the third device to the second device on the first transmit beam.

Optionally, the beam processing apparatus 130 further includes:

A first sending module, configured to send first configuration information to the third device, where the first configuration information is used to configure parameters of the third signal, and the parameters of the third signal include at least one of the following:

Time domain related information of the third signal;

Frequency domain related information of the third signal;

The type of the third signal;

The modulation mode of the third signal;

A sequence generation mode of the third signal;

The power of the third signal.

Optionally, when the communication device is a third device or a fourth device, the obtaining module 131 is specifically configured to: and receiving the first measured value and the second measured value reported by the first equipment.

Optionally, the first measurement value is reported through a first measurement report, where the first measurement report is a beam measurement report associated with the first signal; the second measurement value is reported through a second measurement report, and the second measurement report is a beam measurement report associated with the second signal.

Optionally, the first measurement report further includes at least one of:

the type of the first signal;

an identification of the first signal;

at least one of the following of the first signal: precoding matrix indicating PMI, channel quality indicating CQI, rank indicating RI;

And/or, the second measurement report further comprises at least one of:

the type of the second signal;

An identification of the second signal;

at least one of the following of the second signal: PMI, CQI, RI.

Independently reporting the first measurement report and the second measurement report respectively;

And reporting the first measurement report and the second measurement report in a combined way.

classifying and combining according to the measurement report;

Combining according to the time sequence of the signal measurement values;

And combining according to the content of the measurement report.

Optionally, the first signal and/or the second signal comprises at least one of:

sounding reference signals, SRS;

a synchronization signal block SSB;

Channel state information reference signal CSI-RS;

The phase tracks the reference signal TRS.

Optionally, the beam processing apparatus 130 further includes:

a second sending module, configured to send second configuration information to the first device and/or the second device, where the second configuration information is used to configure parameters of the first signal, and the parameters of the first signal include at least one of the following:

time domain related information of the first signal;

frequency domain related information of the first signal;

the type of the first signal;

the modulation mode of the first signal;

a sequence generation mode of the first signal;

The power of the first signal;

the reflection coefficient of the first signal.

Optionally, the beam processing apparatus 130 further includes:

a third sending module, configured to send third configuration information to the first device and/or the third device, where the third configuration information is used to configure parameters of the second signal, and the parameters of the second signal include at least one of the following:

Time domain related information of the second signal;

Frequency domain related information of the second signal;

the type of the second signal;

the modulation mode of the second signal;

a sequence generation mode of the second signal;

The power of the second signal.

Optionally, at least one of the parameters of the first reception beam, the parameters of the first transmission beam, the parameters of the second reception beam and the parameters of the second transmission beam comprises at least one of:

the beam width is narrow;

A beam direction;

Beam power; beam index;

precoding matrix indication PMI;

A duty cycle;

The number of transmitting antennas;

The number of receiving antennas;

transmitting an index of the antenna;

index of the receiving antenna.

Optionally, the beam processing apparatus 130 further includes:

A fourth transmitting module, configured to perform at least one of:

Transmitting first RRC configuration information to the first device and/or the third device, wherein the first RRC configuration information is used for configuring at least two TCI states of the first device and/or the third device;

Transmitting second RRC configuration information and first DCI to the first device and/or the third device, where the second RRC configuration information is used to configure a set of TCI states of the first device and/or the third device and trigger states corresponding to each TCI state, and the first DCI is used to indicate at least two trigger states and corresponding TCI states for the first device and/or the third device;

Transmitting third RRC configuration information and a first MAC CE to the first device and/or the third device, where the third RRC configuration information is used to configure a set of TCI states of the first device and/or the third device, and the first MAC CE is used to select at least two TCI states from the configured TCI states for the first device and/or the third device to activate;

And sending fourth RRC configuration information, second MAC CE and second DCI to the first device and/or the third device, wherein the third RRC configuration information is used for configuring a group of TCI states of the first device and/or the third device, the second MAC CE is used for activating the first device and/or the third device by selecting at most 8 TCI states from the configured TCI states, and the second DCI is used for selecting at least two TCI states from the activated TCI states to indicate.

Optionally, the beam processing apparatus 130 further includes:

A fifth transmitting module, configured to perform at least one of:

Transmitting fifth RRC configuration information to the second device, the fifth RRC configuration information being used to configure at least one TCI state of the second device;

Transmitting sixth RRC configuration information and third DCI to the second device, wherein the sixth RRC configuration information is used for configuring a group of TCI states of the second device and trigger states corresponding to each TCI state, and the third DCI is used for indicating at least one trigger state and corresponding TCI state for the second device;

Transmitting seventh RRC configuration information and a third MAC CE to the second device, where the third RRC configuration information is used to configure a set of TCI states of the second device, and the third MAC CE is used to select at least one TCI state from the configured TCI states for activation for the second device;

And sending eighth RRC configuration information, fourth MAC CE and fourth DCI to the second device, wherein the eighth RRC configuration information is used for configuring a group of TCI states of the second device, the fourth MAC CE is used for activating the second device by selecting at most 8 TCI states from the configured TCI states, and the fourth DCI is used for indicating the second device by selecting at least one TCI state from the activated TCI states.

The beam processing device 130 provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiment of fig. 7, and achieve the same technical effects, and for avoiding repetition, a detailed description is omitted herein.

Referring to fig. 14, fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a beam processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application, where the apparatus is applied to a first device. As shown in fig. 14, the beam processing apparatus 140 includes:

The reporting module 141 is configured to report the first information and/or the second information to the communication device;

reference signal received power RSRP;

signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR;

Signal-to-noise ratio SNR;

reference signal received quality RSRQ;

A received signal strength indicator RSSI;

Optionally, the reporting module 141 is specifically configured to at least one of the following:

Reporting first beam related information associated with a first signal satisfying a first target condition to the communication device;

a preamble or sequence is reported to the communication device, the preamble or sequence corresponding to first beam related information associated with a first signal satisfying a first target condition.

Optionally, the first target condition includes at least one of:

The level of the first signal is greater than or equal to a second threshold.

Optionally, the first beam related information includes at least one of:

An index of the first receive beam;

An index of the first transmit beam;

An identification of a first signal corresponding to the first transmit beam;

Time information corresponding to the first receiving beam;

And the time information corresponding to the first sending beam.

Reporting second beam related information associated with a second signal satisfying a second target condition to the communication device;

A preamble or sequence is reported to the communication device, the preamble or sequence corresponding to second beam related information associated with a second signal satisfying a second target condition.

Optionally, the second target condition includes at least one of:

the level of the second signal is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold.

Optionally, the second beam related information includes at least one of:

an index of the second receive beam;

An index of the second transmit beam;

an identification of a second signal corresponding to the second transmit beam;

Time information corresponding to the second receiving beam;

and the time information corresponding to the second sending beam.

autonomously generated by the second device;

carrying out all 1 back scattering modulation on the third signal to obtain;

Optionally, the first measurement report further includes at least one of:

the type of the first signal;

an identification of the first signal;

at least one of the following of the first signal: PMI, CQI, RI;

And/or, the second measurement report further comprises at least one of:

the type of the second signal;

An identification of the second signal;

at least one of the following of the second signal: PMI, CQI, RI.

classifying and combining according to the measurement report;

Combining according to the time sequence of the signal measurement values;

And combining according to the content of the measurement report.

sounding reference signals, SRS;

a synchronization signal block SSB;

Channel state information reference signal CSI-RS;

The phase tracks the reference signal TRS.

Optionally, the beam processing apparatus 140 further includes:

The first receiving module is configured to receive second configuration information sent by the communication device, where the second configuration information is used to configure parameters of the first signal, and the parameters of the first signal include at least one of the following:

time domain related information of the first signal;

frequency domain related information of the first signal;

the type of the first signal;

the modulation mode of the first signal;

a sequence generation mode of the first signal;

The power of the first signal;

A reflection coefficient of the first signal;

the second receiving module is configured to receive third configuration information sent by the communication device, where the third configuration information is used to configure parameters of the second signal, and the parameters of the second signal include at least one of the following:

Time domain related information of the second signal;

Frequency domain related information of the second signal;

the type of the second signal;

the modulation mode of the second signal;

a sequence generation mode of the second signal;

The power of the second signal.

The beam processing device 140 provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiment of fig. 7, and achieve the same technical effects, and for avoiding repetition, a detailed description is omitted herein.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 15, the embodiment of the present application further provides a communication device 150, including a processor 151 and a memory 152, where the memory 152 stores a program or an instruction that can be executed on the processor 151, and the program or the instruction implements each step of the above beam processing method embodiment when executed by the processor 151, and the steps achieve the same technical effect, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

The embodiment of the application also provides a readable storage medium, on which a program or an instruction is stored, which when executed by a processor, implements each process of the above beam processing method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effects, and in order to avoid repetition, a detailed description is omitted here.

Wherein the processor is a processor in the terminal described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes computer readable storage medium such as computer readable memory ROM, random access memory RAM, magnetic or optical disk, etc.

The embodiment of the application further provides a chip, which comprises a processor and a communication interface, wherein the communication interface is coupled with the processor, and the processor is used for running programs or instructions to realize the processes of the beam processing method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effects, so that repetition is avoided, and the description is omitted here.

It should be understood that the chips referred to in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as system-on-chip chips, or the like.

The embodiments of the present application further provide a computer program/program product stored in a storage medium, where the computer program/program product is executed by at least one processor to implement each process of the above beam processing method embodiment, and achieve the same technical effects, and are not repeated herein.

The embodiment of the application also provides a communication system, which comprises the first device, the second device and the third device, or comprises the first device, the second device, the third device and the fourth device, wherein the first device, the third device or the fourth device can be used for executing the steps of the beam processing method shown in fig. 5, and the first device can be used for executing the steps of the beam processing method shown in fig. 7.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising one … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element. Furthermore, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatus in the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing the functions in the order shown or discussed, but may also include performing the functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in an opposite order depending on the functions involved, e.g., the described methods may be performed in an order different from that described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. Additionally, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

From the above description of the embodiments, it will be clear to those skilled in the art that the above-described embodiment method may be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, but of course may also be implemented by means of hardware, but in many cases the former is a preferred embodiment. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be embodied essentially or in a part contributing to the prior art in the form of a computer software product stored in a storage medium (e.g. ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) comprising instructions for causing a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) to perform the method according to the embodiments of the present application.

The embodiments of the present application have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which are merely illustrative and not restrictive, and many forms may be made by those having ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit of the present application and the scope of the claims, which are to be protected by the present application.

Claims

1. A method of beam processing, comprising:

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first measurement value and/or the second measurement value comprises at least one of:

reference signal received power RSRP;

signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR;

Signal-to-noise ratio SNR;

reference signal received quality RSRQ;

A received signal strength indicator RSSI;

3. The method of claim 1, wherein when the communication device is a third device or a fourth device, the obtaining the first information comprises at least one of:

The communication equipment receives first beam related information which is reported by the first equipment and is associated with a first signal meeting a first target condition;

the communication device receives a preamble or sequence reported by the first device, the preamble or sequence corresponding to first beam related information associated with a first signal satisfying a first target condition.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the first target condition comprises at least one of:

The level of the first signal is greater than or equal to a second threshold.

5. The method of claim 1, 3 or 4, wherein the first beam related information comprises at least one of:

An index of the first receive beam;

An index of the first transmit beam;

An identification of a first signal corresponding to the first transmit beam;

Time information corresponding to the first receiving beam;

And the time information corresponding to the first sending beam.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein when the communication device is a third device or a fourth device, the obtaining the second information comprises at least one of:

The communication equipment receives second beam related information which is reported by the first equipment and is associated with a second signal meeting a second target condition;

the communication device receives a preamble or sequence reported by the first device, the preamble or sequence corresponding to second beam related information associated with a second signal satisfying a second target condition.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the second target condition comprises at least one of:

the level of the second signal is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold.

8. The method of claim 1, 6 or 7, wherein the second beam related information comprises at least one of:

an index of the second receive beam;

An index of the second transmit beam;

an identification of a second signal corresponding to the second transmit beam;

Time information corresponding to the second receiving beam;

and the time information corresponding to the second sending beam.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first signal is received by the first device on the first receive beam; the generation mode of the first signal comprises at least one of the following steps:

autonomously generated by the second device;

carrying out all 1 back scattering modulation on the third signal to obtain;

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

The communication device sends first configuration information to the third device, wherein the first configuration information is used for configuring parameters of the third signal, and the parameters of the third signal comprise at least one of the following:

Time domain related information of the third signal;

Frequency domain related information of the third signal;

The type of the third signal;

The modulation mode of the third signal;

A sequence generation mode of the third signal;

The power of the third signal.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein when the communication device is a third device or a fourth device, the obtaining the first information and the second information comprises:

The communication equipment receives the first measured value and the second measured value reported by the first equipment.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first measurement value is reported by a first measurement report, the first measurement report being a beam measurement report associated with the first signal;

The second measurement value is reported through a second measurement report, and the second measurement report is a beam measurement report associated with the second signal.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first measurement report further comprises at least one of:

the type of the first signal;

an identification of the first signal;

And/or the number of the groups of groups,

The second measurement report further includes at least one of:

the type of the second signal;

An identification of the second signal;

at least one of the following of the second signal: PMI, CQI, RI.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the reported forms of the first measurement report and the second measurement report comprise any one of:

15. The method of claim 14, wherein when reporting the first measurement report and the second measurement report in combination, the manner in which the first measurement report and the second measurement report are combined comprises at least one of:

classifying and combining according to the measurement report;

Combining according to the time sequence of the signal measurement values;

And combining according to the content of the measurement report.

16. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 15, wherein the first signal and/or the second signal comprises at least one of:

sounding reference signals, SRS;

a synchronization signal block SSB;

Channel state information reference signal CSI-RS;

The phase tracks the reference signal TRS.

17. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 15, further comprising:

The communication device sends second configuration information to the first device and/or the second device, wherein the second configuration information is used for configuring parameters of the first signal, and the parameters of the first signal comprise at least one of the following:

time domain related information of the first signal;

frequency domain related information of the first signal;

the type of the first signal;

the modulation mode of the first signal;

a sequence generation mode of the first signal;

The power of the first signal;

the reflection coefficient of the first signal.

18. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 15, further comprising:

the communication device sends third configuration information to the first device and/or the third device, wherein the third configuration information is used for configuring parameters of the second signal, and the parameters of the second signal comprise at least one of the following:

Time domain related information of the second signal;

Frequency domain related information of the second signal;

the type of the second signal;

the modulation mode of the second signal;

a sequence generation mode of the second signal;

The power of the second signal.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the parameters of the first receive beam, the parameters of the first transmit beam, the parameters of the second receive beam, and the parameters of the second transmit beam comprises at least one of:

the beam width is narrow;

A beam direction;

Beam power; beam index;

precoding matrix indication PMI;

A duty cycle;

The number of transmitting antennas;

The number of receiving antennas;

transmitting an index of the antenna;

index of the receiving antenna.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

The communication device sends first Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration information to the first device and/or the third device, wherein the first RRC configuration information is used for configuring at least two Transmission Configuration Indicators (TCI) states of the first device and/or the third device;

The communication device sends second RRC configuration information and first downlink control information DCI to the first device and/or the third device, where the second RRC configuration information is used to configure a set of TCI states of the first device and/or the third device and a trigger state corresponding to each TCI state, and the first DCI is used to indicate at least two trigger states and corresponding TCI states for the first device and/or the third device;

The communication device sends third RRC configuration information and a first Media Access Control (MAC) CE to the first device and/or the third device, wherein the third RRC configuration information is used for configuring a group of TCI states of the first device and/or the third device, and the first MAC CE is used for selecting at least two TCI states from the configured TCI states for the first device and/or the third device to activate;

The communication device sends fourth RRC configuration information, second MAC CE and second DCI to the first device and/or the third device, where the third RRC configuration information is used to configure a set of TCI states of the first device and/or the third device, the second MAC CE is used to select at most 8 TCI states from the configured TCI states for the first device and/or the third device to activate, and the second DCI is used to select at least two TCI states from the activated TCI states to indicate.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

the communication device sending fifth RRC configuration information to the second device, the fifth RRC configuration information being used to configure at least one TCI state of the second device;

The communication device sends sixth RRC configuration information and third DCI to the second device, wherein the sixth RRC configuration information is used for configuring a group of TCI states of the second device and trigger states corresponding to each TCI state, and the third DCI is used for indicating at least one trigger state and corresponding TCI states for the second device;

The communication device sends seventh RRC configuration information and third MAC CE to the second device, wherein the third RRC configuration information is used for configuring a group of TCI states of the second device, and the third MAC CE is used for selecting at least one TCI state from the configured TCI states for activating the second device;

the communication device sends eighth RRC configuration information, a fourth MAC CE, and a fourth DCI to the second device, where the eighth RRC configuration information is used to configure a set of TCI states of the second device, the fourth MAC CE is used to select at most 8 TCI states from the configured TCI states for activation for the second device, and the fourth DCI is used to select at least one TCI state from the activated TCI states for indication for the second device.

22. A method of beam processing, comprising:

Wherein the first information includes at least one of: a first measurement of a first signal, first beam related information associated with the first signal; the second information includes at least one of: a second measurement of a second signal, second beam related information associated with the second signal; the first signal is a signal sent to the first device by the second device, and the second signal is a signal sent to the first device by the third device; the communication equipment is third equipment or fourth equipment;

the first information is used for determining parameters of a first receiving beam of the first device and parameters of a first transmitting beam of the third device; the second information is used to determine parameters of a second receive beam of the first device and parameters of a second transmit beam of the third device.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the first measurement and/or the second measurement comprises at least one of:

reference signal received power RSRP;

signal to interference plus noise ratio SINR;

Signal-to-noise ratio SNR;

reference signal received quality RSRQ;

A received signal strength indicator RSSI;

24. The method of claim 22, wherein reporting the first information to the communication device comprises at least one of:

The first device reports first beam related information associated with a first signal meeting a first target condition to the communication device;

the first device reports a preamble or sequence to the communication device, the preamble or sequence corresponding to first beam related information associated with a first signal satisfying a first target condition.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the first target condition comprises at least one of:

The level of the first signal is greater than or equal to a second threshold.

26. The method of claim 22, 24 or 25, wherein the first beam related information comprises at least one of:

An index of the first receive beam;

An index of the first transmit beam;

An identification of a first signal corresponding to the first transmit beam;

Time information corresponding to the first receiving beam;

And the time information corresponding to the first sending beam.

27. The method of claim 22, wherein reporting the second information to the communication device comprises at least one of:

The first device reports second beam related information associated with a second signal meeting a second target condition to the communication device;

the first device reports a preamble or sequence to the communication device, the preamble or sequence corresponding to second beam related information associated with a second signal satisfying a second target condition.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the second target condition comprises at least one of:

the level of the second signal is greater than or equal to a fourth threshold.

29. The method of claim 22, 27 or 28, wherein the second beam related information comprises at least one of:

an index of the second receive beam;

An index of the second transmit beam;

an identification of a second signal corresponding to the second transmit beam;

Time information corresponding to the second receiving beam;

and the time information corresponding to the second sending beam.

30. The method of claim 22, wherein the first signal is received by the first device on the first receive beam; the generation mode of the first signal comprises at least one of the following steps:

autonomously generated by the second device;

carrying out all 1 back scattering modulation on the third signal to obtain;

31. The method of claim 22, wherein the first measurement value is reported by a first measurement report, the first measurement report being a beam measurement report associated with the first signal;

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the first measurement report further comprises at least one of:

the type of the first signal;

an identification of the first signal;

at least one of the following of the first signal: PMI, CQI, RI;

And/or the number of the groups of groups,

The second measurement report further includes at least one of:

the type of the second signal;

An identification of the second signal;

at least one of the following of the second signal: PMI, CQI, RI.

33. The method of claim 31, wherein the reported forms of the first measurement report and the second measurement report comprise any one of:

34. The method of claim 33, wherein when reporting the first measurement report and the second measurement report in combination, the manner in which the first measurement report and the second measurement report are combined comprises at least one of:

classifying and combining according to the measurement report;

Combining according to the time sequence of the signal measurement values;

And combining according to the content of the measurement report.

35. The method according to any one of claims 22 to 34, wherein the first signal and/or the second signal comprises at least one of:

sounding reference signals, SRS;

a synchronization signal block SSB;

Channel state information reference signal CSI-RS;

The phase tracks the reference signal TRS.

36. The method according to any one of claims 22 to 34, further comprising:

time domain related information of the first signal;

frequency domain related information of the first signal;

the type of the first signal;

the modulation mode of the first signal;

a sequence generation mode of the first signal;

The power of the first signal;

A reflection coefficient of the first signal;

And/or the number of the groups of groups,

The first device receives third configuration information sent by the communication device, wherein the third configuration information is used for configuring parameters of the second signal, and the parameters of the second signal comprise at least one of the following:

Time domain related information of the second signal;

Frequency domain related information of the second signal;

the type of the second signal;

the modulation mode of the second signal;

a sequence generation mode of the second signal;

The power of the second signal.

37. A beam processing apparatus, comprising:

38. A beam processing apparatus, comprising:

39. A communication device comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, performs the steps of the beam processing method of any one of claims 1 to 21 or the steps of the beam processing method of any one of claims 22 to 36.

40. A readable storage medium, characterized in that the readable storage medium has stored thereon a program or instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the beam processing method according to any of claims 1 to 21 or the steps of the beam processing method according to any of claims 22 to 36.