EP4278545A1 - Détection de signaux de référence et déclenchement d'un traitement de signaux de référence - Google Patents

Détection de signaux de référence et déclenchement d'un traitement de signaux de référence

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EP4278545A1
EP4278545A1 EP22703251.3A EP22703251A EP4278545A1 EP 4278545 A1 EP4278545 A1 EP 4278545A1 EP 22703251 A EP22703251 A EP 22703251A EP 4278545 A1 EP4278545 A1 EP 4278545A1
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Stefan Brueck
Christian Sgraja
Pierpaolo Vallese
Peter Zillmann
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Qualcomm Inc
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L5/00—Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path
    • H04L5/003—Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path
    • H04L5/0048—Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
    • H04L5/0051—Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver of dedicated pilots, i.e. pilots destined for a single user or terminal
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L27/00—Modulated-carrier systems
    • H04L27/0006—Assessment of spectral gaps suitable for allocating digitally modulated signals, e.g. for carrier allocation in cognitive radio
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W16/00—Network planning, e.g. coverage or traffic planning tools; Network deployment, e.g. resource partitioning or cells structures
    • H04W16/14—Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks

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  • aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication and to techniques and apparatuses for detection of reference signals and gating of reference signal processing in an unlicensed spectrum.
  • Wireless communication systems are widely deployed to provide various telecommunication services such as telephony, video, data, messaging, and broadcasts.
  • Typical wireless communication systems may employ multiple-access technologies capable of supporting communication with multiple users by sharing available system resources (e.g., bandwidth, transmit power, or the like).
  • multiple-access technologies include code division multiple access (CDMA) systems, time division multiple access (TDMA) systems, frequency division multiple access (FDMA) systems, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems, single -carrier frequency division multiple access (SC- FDMA) systems, time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) systems, and Long Term Evolution (LTE).
  • LTE/LTE-Advanced is a set of enhancements to the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) mobile standard promulgated by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).
  • UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
  • a wireless network may include one or more base stations that support communication for a user equipment (UE) or multiple UEs.
  • a UE may communicate with a base station via downlink communications and uplink communications.
  • Downlink (or “DL”) refers to a communication link from the base station to the UE
  • uplink (or “UL”) refers to a communication link from the UE to the base station.
  • NR New Radio
  • 5G is a set of enhancements to the LTE mobile standard promulgated by the 3GPP.
  • NR is designed to better support mobile broadband internet access by improving spectral efficiency, lowering costs, improving services, making use of new spectrum, and better integrating with other open standards using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with a cyclic prefix (CP) (CP-OFDM) on the downlink, using CP-OFDM and/or single-carrier frequency division multiplexing (SC-FDM) (also known as discrete Fourier transform spread OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM)) on the uplink, as well as supporting beamforming, multiple -input multiple -output (MIMO) antenna technology, and carrier aggregation.
  • OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
  • SC-FDM single-carrier frequency division multiplexing
  • DFT-s-OFDM discrete Fourier transform spread OFDM
  • MIMO multiple -input multiple -output
  • a method of wireless communication performed by a UE includes detecting whether a reference signal is present in a channel at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected; and selectively gating processing of the reference signal based on detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel.
  • a UE for wireless communication includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to: detect whether a reference signal is present in a channel at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected; and selectively gate processing of the reference signal based on detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel.
  • a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for wireless communication includes one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a UE, cause the UE to: detect whether a reference signal is present in a channel at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected; and selectively gate processing of the reference signal based on detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel.
  • an apparatus for wireless communication includes means for detecting whether a reference signal is present in a channel at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected; and means for selectively gating processing of the reference signal based on detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel.
  • aspects generally include a method, apparatus, system, computer program product, non-transitory computer-readable medium, user equipment, base station, wireless communication device, and/or processing system as substantially described herein with reference to and as illustrated by the drawings and specification.
  • aspects are described in the present disclosure by illustration to some examples, those skilled in the art will understand that such aspects may be implemented in many different arrangements and scenarios.
  • Techniques described herein may be implemented using different platform types, devices, systems, shapes, sizes, and/or packaging arrangements.
  • some aspects may be implemented via integrated chip embodiments or other non-modulecomponent based devices (e.g., end-user devices, vehicles, communication devices, computing devices, industrial equipment, retail/purchasing devices, medical devices, and/or artificial intelligence devices).
  • Aspects may be implemented in chip-level components, modular components, non-modular components, non-chip-level components, device-level components, and/or system-level components.
  • Devices incorporating described aspects and features may include additional components and features for implementation and practice of claimed and described aspects.
  • transmission and reception of wireless signals may include one or more components for analog and digital purposes (e.g., hardware components including antennas, radio frequency (RF) chains, power amplifiers, modulators, buffers, processors, interleavers, adders, and/or summers).
  • RF radio frequency
  • aspects described herein may be practiced in a wide variety of devices, components, systems, distributed arrangements, and/or end-user devices of varying size, shape, and constitution.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless network, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a base station in communication with a user equipment (UE) in a wireless network, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • UE user equipment
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of physical channels and reference signals in a wireless network, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Fig. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of New Radio (NR) communications in an unlicensed spectrum, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of NR communications in multiple subbands of an unlicensed spectrum, in accordance with the present disclosure
  • Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example associated with detection of reference signals and gating of reference signal processing in an unlicensed spectrum, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example 700 associated with tracking reference signal (TRS)-based frequency tracking loop (FTL) processing, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • TRS tracking reference signal
  • FTL frequency tracking loop
  • Fig. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example process associated with detection of reference signals and gating of reference signal processing in an unlicensed spectrum, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Fig. 9 is a block diagram of an example apparatus for wireless communication, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • aspects may be described herein using terminology commonly associated with a 5G or New Radio (NR) radio access technology (RAT), aspects of the present disclosure can be applied to other RATs, such as a 3G RAT, a 4G RAT, and/or a RAT subsequent to 5G (e.g., 6G).
  • NR New Radio
  • Fig. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless network 100, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • the wireless network 100 may be or may include elements of a 5G (e.g., NR) network and/or a 4G (e.g., Long Term Evolution (LTE)) network, among other examples.
  • 5G e.g., NR
  • 4G e.g., Long Term Evolution (LTE) network
  • the wireless network 100 may include one or more base stations 110 (shown as a BS 110a, a BS 110b, a BS 110c, and a BS 1 lOd), a user equipment (UE) 120 or multiple UEs 120 (shown as a UE 120a, a UE 120b, a UE 120c, a UE 120d, and a UE 120e), and/or other network entities.
  • a base station 110 is an entity that communicates with UEs 120.
  • a base station 110 may include, for example, an NR base station, an LTE base station, a Node B, an eNB (e.g., in 4G), a gNB (e.g., in 5G), an access point, and/or a transmission reception point (TRP).
  • Each base station 110 may provide communication coverage for a particular geographic area.
  • the term “cell” can refer to a coverage area of a base station 110 and/or a base station subsystem serving this coverage area, depending on the context in which the term is used.
  • a base station 110 may provide communication coverage for a macro cell, a pico cell, a femto cell, and/or another type of cell.
  • a macro cell may cover a relatively large geographic area (e.g., several kilometers in radius) and may allow unrestricted access by UEs 120 with service subscriptions.
  • a pico cell may cover a relatively small geographic area and may allow unrestricted access by UEs 120 with service subscription.
  • a femto cell may cover a relatively small geographic area (e.g., a home) and may allow restricted access by UEs 120 having association with the femto cell (e.g., UEs 120 in a closed subscriber group (CSG)).
  • CSG closed subscriber group
  • a base station 110 for a macro cell may be referred to as a macro base station.
  • a base station 110 for a pico cell may be referred to as a pico base station.
  • a base station 110 for a femto cell may be referred to as a femto base station or an in-home base station.
  • the BS 110a may be a macro base station for a macro cell 102a
  • the BS 110b may be a pico base station for a pico cell 102b
  • the BS 110c may be a femto base station for a femto cell 102c.
  • a base station may support one or multiple (e.g., three) cells.
  • a cell may not necessarily be stationary, and the geographic area of the cell may move according to the location of a base station 110 that is mobile (e.g., a mobile base station).
  • the base stations 110 may be interconnected to one another and/or to one or more other base stations 110 or network nodes (not shown) in the wireless network 100 through various types of backhaul interfaces, such as a direct physical connection or a virtual network, using any suitable transport network.
  • the wireless network 100 may include one or more relay stations.
  • a relay station is an entity that can receive a transmission of data from an upstream station (e.g., a base station 110 or a UE 120) and send a transmission of the data to a downstream station (e.g., a UE 120 or a base station 110).
  • a relay station may be a UE 120 that can relay transmissions for other UEs 120.
  • the BS 1 lOd e.g., a relay base station
  • the BS 110a e.g., a macro base station
  • a base station 110 that relays communications may be referred to as a relay station, a relay base station, a relay, or the like.
  • the wireless network 100 may be a heterogeneous network that includes base stations 110 of different types, such as macro base stations, pico base stations, femto base stations, relay base stations, or the like. These different types of base stations 110 may have different transmit power levels, different coverage areas, and/or different impacts on interference in the wireless network 100.
  • macro base stations may have a high transmit power level (e.g., 5 to 40 watts) whereas pico base stations, femto base stations, and relay base stations may have lower transmit power levels (e.g., 0. 1 to 2 watts).
  • a network controller 130 may couple to or communicate with a set of base stations 110 and may provide coordination and control for these base stations 110.
  • the network controller 130 may communicate with the base stations 110 via a backhaul communication link.
  • the base stations 110 may communicate with one another directly or indirectly via a wireless or wireline backhaul communication link.
  • the UEs 120 may be dispersed throughout the wireless network 100, and each UE 120 may be stationary or mobile.
  • a UE 120 may include, for example, an access terminal, a terminal, a mobile station, and/or a subscriber unit.
  • a UE 120 may be a cellular phone (e.g., a smart phone), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wireless modem, a wireless communication device, a handheld device, a laptop computer, a cordless phone, a wireless local loop (WLL) station, a tablet, a camera, a gaming device, a netbook, a smartbook, an ultrabook, a medical device, a biometric device, a wearable device (e.g., a smart watch, smart clothing, smart glasses, a smart wristband, smart jewelry (e.g., a smart ring or a smart bracelet)), an entertainment device (e.g., a music device, a video device, and/or a satellite radio), a vehicular component or sensor,
  • Some UEs 120 may be considered machine-type communication (MTC) or evolved or enhanced machine-type communication (eMTC) UEs.
  • An MTC UE and/or an eMTC UE may include, for example, a robot, a drone, a remote device, a sensor, a meter, a monitor, and/or a location tag, that may communicate with a base station, another device (e.g., a remote device), or some other entity.
  • Some UEs 120 may be considered Intemet-of-Things (loT) devices, and/or may be implemented as NB-IoT (narrowband loT) devices.
  • Some UEs 120 may be considered a Customer Premises Equipment.
  • a UE 120 may be included inside a housing that houses components of the UE 120, such as processor components and/or memory components.
  • the processor components and the memory components may be coupled together.
  • the processor components e.g., one or more processors
  • the memory components e.g., a memory
  • the processor components and the memory components may be operatively coupled, communicatively coupled, electronically coupled, and/or electrically coupled.
  • any number of wireless networks 100 may be deployed in a given geographic area.
  • Each wireless network 100 may support a particular RAT and may operate on one or more frequencies.
  • a RAT may be referred to as a radio technology, an air interface, or the like.
  • a frequency may be referred to as a carrier, a frequency channel, or the like.
  • Each frequency may support a single RAT in a given geographic area in order to avoid interference between wireless networks of different RATs.
  • NR or 5G RAT networks may be deployed.
  • two or more UEs 120 may communicate directly using one or more sidelink channels (e.g., without using a base station 110 as an intermediary to communicate with one another).
  • the UEs 120 may communicate using peer-to-peer (P2P) communications, device-to-device (D2D) communications, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) protocol (e.g., which may include a vehicle-to- vehicle (V2V) protocol, a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) protocol, or a vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) protocol), and/or a mesh network.
  • V2X vehicle-to-everything
  • a UE 120 may perform scheduling operations, resource selection operations, and/or other operations described elsewhere herein as being performed by the base station 110.
  • Devices of the wireless network 100 may communicate using the electromagnetic spectrum, which may be subdivided by frequency or wavelength into various classes, bands, channels, or the like. For example, devices of the wireless network 100 may communicate using one or more operating bands.
  • 5G NR two initial operating bands have been identified as frequency range designations FR1 (410 MHz - 7.125 GHz) and FR2 (24.25 GHz - 52.6 GHz). It should be understood that although a portion of FR1 is greater than 6 GHz, FR1 is often referred to (interchangeably) as a “Sub-6 GHz” band in various documents and articles.
  • FR2 which is often referred to (interchangeably) as a “millimeter wave” band in documents and articles, despite being different from the extremely high frequency (EHF) band (30 GHz - 300 GHz) which is identified by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as a “millimeter wave” band.
  • EHF extremely high frequency
  • ITU International Telecommunications Union
  • FR3 7. 125 GHz - 24.25 GHz
  • FR3 7. 125 GHz - 24.25 GHz
  • Frequency bands falling within FR3 may inherit FR1 characteristics and/or FR2 characteristics, and thus may effectively extend features of FR1 and/or FR2 into mid-band frequencies.
  • higher frequency bands are currently being explored to extend 5G NR operation beyond 52.6 GHz.
  • FR4a or FR4-1 52.6 GHz - 71 GHz
  • FR4 52.6 GHz - 114.25 GHz
  • FR5 114.25 GHz - 300 GHz
  • Each of these higher frequency bands falls within the EHF band.
  • sub-6 GHz may broadly represent frequencies that may be less than 6 GHz, may be within FR1, or may include mid-band frequencies.
  • millimeter wave may broadly represent frequencies that may include mid-band frequencies, may be within FR2, FR4, FR4-a or FR4-1, and/or FR5, or may be within the EHF band.
  • frequencies included in these operating bands may be modified, and techniques described herein are applicable to those modified frequency ranges.
  • Fig. 1 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example 200 of a base station 110 in communication with a UE 120 in a wireless network 100, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • the base station 110 may be equipped with a set of antennas 234a through 234t, such as T antennas (T> 1).
  • the UE 120 may be equipped with a set of antennas 252a through 252r, such as R antennas (R > 1).
  • a transmit processor 220 may receive data, from a data source 212, intended for the UE 120 (or a set of UEs 120).
  • the transmit processor 220 may select one or more modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) for the UE 120 based at least in part on one or more channel quality indicators (CQIs) received from that UE 120.
  • MCSs modulation and coding schemes
  • CQIs channel quality indicators
  • the base station 110 may process (e.g., encode and modulate) the data for the UE 120 based at least in part on the MCS(s) selected for the UE 120 and may provide data symbols for the UE 120.
  • the transmit processor 220 may process system information (e.g., for semi-static resource partitioning information (SRPI)) and control information (e.g., CQI requests, grants, and/or upper layer signaling) and provide overhead symbols and control symbols.
  • the transmit processor 220 may generate reference symbols for reference signals (e.g., a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) or a demodulation reference signal (DMRS)) and synchronization signals (e.g., a primary synchronization signal (PSS) or a secondary synchronization signal (SSS)).
  • reference signals e.g., a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) or a demodulation reference signal (DMRS)
  • synchronization signals e.g., a primary synchronization signal (PSS) or a secondary synchronization signal (SSS)
  • a transmit (TX) multiple -input multiple -output (MIMO) processor 230 may perform spatial processing (e.g., precoding) on the data symbols, the control symbols, the overhead symbols, and/or the reference symbols, if applicable, and may provide a set of output symbol streams (e.g., T output symbol streams) to a corresponding set of modems 232 (e.g., T modems), shown as modems 232a through 232t.
  • each output symbol stream may be provided to a modulator component (shown as MOD) of a modem 232.
  • Each modem 232 may use a respective modulator component to process a respective output symbol stream (e.g., for OFDM) to obtain an output sample stream.
  • Each modem 232 may further use a respective modulator component to process (e.g., convert to analog, amplify, filter, and/or upconvert) the output sample stream to obtain a downlink signal.
  • the modems 232a through 232t may transmit a set of downlink signals (e.g., T downlink signals) via a corresponding set of antennas 234 (e.g., T antennas), shown as antennas 234a through 234t.
  • a set of antennas 252 may receive the downlink signals from the base station 110 and/or other base stations 110 and may provide a set of received signals (e.g., R received signals) to a set of modems 254 (e.g., R modems), shown as modems 254a through 254r.
  • R received signals e.g., R received signals
  • each received signal may be provided to a demodulator component (shown as DEMOD) of a modem 254.
  • DEMOD demodulator component
  • Each modem 254 may use a respective demodulator component to condition (e.g., filter, amplify, downconvert, and/or digitize) a received signal to obtain input samples.
  • Each modem 254 may use a demodulator component to further process the input samples (e.g., for OFDM) to obtain received symbols.
  • a MIMO detector 256 may obtain received symbols from the modems 254, may perform MIMO detection on the received symbols if applicable, and may provide detected symbols.
  • a receive processor 258 may process (e.g., demodulate and decode) the detected symbols, may provide decoded data for the UE 120 to a data sink 260, and may provide decoded control information and system information to a controller/processor 280.
  • controller/processor may refer to one or more controllers, one or more processors, or a combination thereof.
  • a channel processor may determine a reference signal received power (RSRP) parameter, a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) parameter, a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) parameter, and/or a CQI parameter, among other examples.
  • RSRP reference signal received power
  • RSSI received signal strength indicator
  • RSSRQ reference signal received quality
  • CQI parameter a CQI parameter
  • one or more components of the UE 120 may be included in a housing 284.
  • the network controller 130 may include a communication unit 294, a controller/processor 290, and a memory 292.
  • the network controller 130 may include, for example, one or more devices in a core network.
  • the network controller 130 may communicate with the base station 110 via the communication unit 294.
  • One or more antennas may include, or may be included within, one or more antenna panels, one or more antenna groups, one or more sets of antenna elements, and/or one or more antenna arrays, among other examples.
  • An antenna panel, an antenna group, a set of antenna elements, and/or an antenna array may include one or more antenna elements (within a single housing or multiple housings), a set of coplanar antenna elements, a set of non-coplanar antenna elements, and/or one or more antenna elements coupled to one or more transmission and/or reception components, such as one or more components of Fig. 2.
  • a transmit processor 264 may receive and process data from a data source 262 and control information (e.g., for reports that include RSRP, RSSI, RSRQ, and/or CQI) from the controller/processor 280.
  • the transmit processor 264 may generate reference symbols for one or more reference signals.
  • the symbols from the transmit processor 264 may be precoded by a TX MIMO processor 266 if applicable, further processed by the modems 254 (e.g., for DFT-s-OFDM or CP-OFDM), and transmitted to the base station 110.
  • the modem 254 of the UE 120 may include a modulator and a demodulator.
  • the UE 120 includes a transceiver.
  • the transceiver may include any combination of the antenna(s) 252, the modem(s) 254, the MIMO detector 256, the receive processor 258, the transmit processor 264, and/or the TX MIMO processor 266.
  • the transceiver may be used by a processor (e.g., the controller/processor 280) and the memory 282 to perform aspects of any of the methods described herein (e.g., with reference to Figs.
  • the uplink signals from UE 120 and/or other UEs may be received by the antennas 234, processed by the modem 232 (e.g., a demodulator component, shown as DEMOD, of the modem 232), detected by a MIMO detector 236 if applicable, and further processed by a receive processor 238 to obtain decoded data and control information sent by the UE 120.
  • the receive processor 238 may provide the decoded data to a data sink 239 and provide the decoded control information to the controller/processor 240.
  • the base station 110 may include a communication unit 244 and may communicate with the network controller 130 via the communication unit 244.
  • the base station 110 may include a scheduler 246 to schedule one or more UEs 120 for downlink and/or uplink communications.
  • the modem 232 of the base station 110 may include a modulator and a demodulator.
  • the base station 110 includes a transceiver.
  • the transceiver may include any combination of the antenna(s) 234, the modem(s) 232, the MIMO detector 236, the receive processor 238, the transmit processor 220, and/or the TX MIMO processor 230.
  • the transceiver may be used by a processor (e.g., the controller/processor 240) and the memory 242 to perform aspects of any of the methods described herein (e.g., with reference to Figs. 6-9.)
  • the controller/processor 240 of the base station 110, the controller/processor 280 of the UE 120, and/or any other component(s) of Fig. 2 may perform one or more techniques associated with detection of reference signals and gating of reference signal processing in an unlicensed spectrum, as described in more detail elsewhere herein.
  • the controller/processor 240 of the base station 110, the controller/processor 280 of the UE 120, and/or any other component(s) of Fig. 2 may perform or direct operations of, for example, process 800 of Fig. 8, and/or other processes as described herein.
  • the memory 242 and the memory 282 may store data and program codes for the base station 110 and the UE 120, respectively.
  • the memory 242 and/or the memory 282 may include a non- transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more instructions (e.g., code and/or program code) for wireless communication.
  • the one or more instructions when executed (e.g., directly, or after compiling, converting, and/or interpreting) by one or more processors of the base station 110 and/or the UE 120, may cause the one or more processors, the UE 120, and/or the base station 110 to perform or direct operations of, for example, process 800 of Fig. 8, and/or other processes as described herein.
  • executing instructions may include running the instructions, converting the instructions, compiling the instructions, and/or interpreting the instructions, among other examples.
  • the UE 120 includes means for detecting whether a reference signal is present in a channel at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected; and/or means for selectively gating processing of the reference signal based on detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel.
  • the means for the UE 120 to perform operations described herein may include, for example, one or more of antenna 252, demodulator 254, MIMO detector 256, receive processor 258, transmit processor 264, TX MIMO processor 266, modulator 254, controller/processor 280, or memory 282.
  • the UE 120 includes means for detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel based at least in part on comparing a signal measurement on at least a sub-band of the channel with a threshold.
  • the UE 120 includes means for detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel in a time domain at the time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • the UE 120 includes means for measuring a signal measurement on the channel in the time domain; and/or means for comparing the signal measurement on the channel in the time domain with a time domain signal measurement threshold. [0052] In some aspects, the UE 120 includes means for gating processing of the reference signal completely for an occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the channel in the time domain.
  • the UE 120 includes means for detecting whether the reference signal is present in a frequency domain in each of a plurality of sub-bands in the channel.
  • the UE 120 includes means for measuring a respective signal measurement in the frequency domain on each of the plurality of sub-bands; and/or means for comparing the respective signal measurement in the frequency domain on each of the plurality of sub-bands with a frequency domain signal measurement threshold.
  • the UE 120 includes means for gating processing of the reference signal completely for an occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the frequency domain in at least one sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands.
  • the UE 120 includes means for processing the reference signal using portions of the reference signal in one or more sub-bands in which the reference signal is present in the frequency domain based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the frequency domain in at least one sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands.
  • the UE 120 includes means for detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel in a time domain at the time instance at which the reference signal is expected; and/or means for detecting, based at least in part on a determination that the reference signal is present in the channel in the time domain, whether the reference signal is present in a frequency domain in each of a plurality of sub-bands in the channel.
  • the UE 120 includes means for gating processing of the reference signal for an occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected based on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the channel.
  • the UE 120 includes means for preventing, for a fdter having a filter value that is based at least in part on processing the reference signal, a current value of the filter value from changing based on processing the occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • the UE 120 includes means for receiving, from a base station prior to the time instance at which the reference signal is expected, an indication that schedules the time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • Fig. 2 While blocks in Fig. 2 are illustrated as distinct components, the functions described above with respect to the blocks may be implemented in a single hardware, software, or combination component or in various combinations of components.
  • the functions described with respect to the transmit processor 264, the receive processor 258, and/or the TX MIMO processor 266 may be performed by or under the control of the controller/processor 280.
  • Fig. 2 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 2.
  • Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example 300 of physical channels and reference signals in a wireless network, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • downlink channels and downlink reference signals may carry information from a base station 110 to a UE 120
  • uplink channels and uplink reference signals may carry information from a UE 120 to a base station 110.
  • a downlink channel may include a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that carries downlink control information (DCI), a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that carries downlink data, or a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) that carries system information, among other examples.
  • PDSCH communications may be scheduled by PDCCH communications.
  • an uplink channel may include a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) that carries uplink control information (UCI), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) that carries uplink data, or a physical random access channel (PRACH) used for initial network access, among other examples.
  • the UE 120 may transmit acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NACK) feedback (e.g., ACK/NACK feedback or ACK/NACK information) in UCI on the PUCCH and/or the PUSCH.
  • ACK acknowledgement
  • NACK negative acknowledgement
  • a downlink reference signal may include a synchronization signal block (SSB), a channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS), a DMRS, a positioning reference signal (PRS), or a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS), among other examples.
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • DMRS DMRS
  • PRS positioning reference signal
  • PTRS phase tracking reference signal
  • an uplink reference signal may include a sounding reference signal (SRS), a DMRS, or a PTRS, among other examples.
  • SRS sounding reference signal
  • DMRS DMRS
  • PTRS phase tracking reference signal
  • An SSB may carry information used for initial network acquisition and synchronization, such as a PSS, an SSS, a PBCH, and a PBCH DMRS.
  • An SSB is sometimes referred to as a synchronization signal/PBCH (SS/PBCH) block.
  • the base station 110 may transmit multiple SSBs on multiple corresponding beams, and the SSBs may be used for beam selection.
  • a CSI-RS may carry information used for downlink channel estimation (e.g., downlink CSI acquisition), which may be used for scheduling, link adaptation, or beam management, among other examples.
  • the base station 110 may configure a set of CSI-RSs for the UE 120, and the UE 120 may measure the configured set of CSI-RSs. Based at least in part on the measurements, the UE 120 may perform channel estimation and may report channel estimation parameters to the base station 110 (e.g., in a CSI report), such as a CQI, a precoding matrix indicator (PMI), a CSI-RS resource indicator (CRI), a layer indicator (LI), a rank indicator (RI), or an RSRP, among other examples.
  • PMI precoding matrix indicator
  • CRI layer indicator
  • RI rank indicator
  • RSRP rank indicator
  • the base station 110 may use the CSI report to select transmission parameters for downlink communications to the UE 120, such as a number of transmission layers (e.g., a rank), a precoding matrix (e.g., a precoder), an MCS, or a refined downlink beam (e.g., using a beam refinement procedure or a beam management procedure), among other examples.
  • a tracking reference signal (TRS) may carry information used for time and frequency tracking by the UE 120.
  • a TRS may be configured using a particular CSI-RS configuration.
  • a DMRS may carry information used to estimate a radio channel for demodulation of an associated physical channel (e.g., PDCCH, PDSCH, PBCH, PUCCH, or PUSCH).
  • the design and mapping of a DMRS may be specific to a physical channel for which the DMRS is used for estimation.
  • DMRSs are UE-specific, can be beamformed, can be confined in a scheduled resource (e.g., rather than transmitted on a wideband), and can be transmitted only when necessary. As shown, DMRSs are used for both downlink communications and uplink communications.
  • a PTRS may carry information used to compensate for oscillator phase noise.
  • the phase noise increases as the oscillator carrier frequency increases.
  • PTRS can be utilized at high carrier frequencies, such as millimeter wave frequencies, to mitigate phase noise.
  • the PTRS may be used to track the phase of the local oscillator and to enable suppression of phase noise and common phase error (CPE).
  • CPE common phase error
  • PTRSs are used for both downlink communications (e.g., on the PDSCH) and uplink communications (e.g., on the PUSCH).
  • a PRS may carry information used to enable timing or ranging measurements of the UE 120 based on signals transmitted by the base station 110 to improve observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) positioning performance.
  • a PRS may be a pseudorandom Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) sequence mapped in diagonal patterns with shifts in frequency and time to avoid collision with cell-specific reference signals and control channels (e.g., a PDCCH).
  • QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
  • a PRS may be designed to improve detectability by the UE 120, which may need to detect downlink signals from multiple neighboring base stations in order to perform OTDOA -based positioning.
  • the UE 120 may receive a PRS from multiple cells (e.g., a reference cell and one or more neighbor cells), and may report a reference signal time difference (RSTD) based on OTDOA measurements associated with the PRSs received from the multiple cells.
  • RSTD reference signal time difference
  • the base station 110 may then calculate a position of the UE 120 based on the RSTD measurements reported by the UE 120.
  • An SRS may carry information used for uplink channel estimation, which may be used for scheduling, link adaptation, precoder selection, or beam management, among other examples.
  • the base station 110 may configure one or more SRS resource sets for the UE 120, and the UE 120 may transmit SRSs on the configured SRS resource sets.
  • An SRS resource set may have a configured usage, such as uplink CSI acquisition, downlink CSI acquisition for reciprocity-based operations, uplink beam management, among other examples.
  • the base station 110 may measure the SRSs, may perform channel estimation based at least in part on the measurements, and may use the SRS measurements to configure communications with the UE 120.
  • Fig. 3 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 3.
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example 400 of NR communications in an unlicensed spectrum, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • a transmitting device may contend against other devices for channel access before transmitting on a shared or unlicensed channel to reduce and/or prevent collisions on the shared or unlicensed channel.
  • the transmitting device may perform a channel access procedure, such as a listen-before-talk (or listen-before-transmit) (LBT) procedure or another type of channel access procedure, for shared or unlicensed frequency band channel access.
  • LBT listen-before-talk
  • the channel access procedure may be performed to determine whether the physical channel (e.g., the radio resources of the channel) are free to use or are busy (e.g., in use by another wireless communication device such as a UE, an loT device, or a wireless local area network (WLAN) device, among other examples).
  • WLAN wireless local area network
  • the channel access procedure may include sensing or measuring the physical channel (e.g., performing an RSRP measurement, detecting an energy level, or performing another type of measurement) during a channel access gap (which may also be referred to as a contention window (CW)) and determining whether the shared or unlicensed channel is free or busy based at least in part on the signals sensed or measured on the physical channel (e.g., based at least in part on whether the measurement satisfies a threshold). If the transmitting device determines that the channel access procedure was successful, the transmitting device may perform one or more transmissions on the shared or unlicensed channel during a transmission opportunity (TXOP), which may extend for a channel occupancy time (COT).
  • TXOP transmission opportunity
  • COT channel occupancy time
  • a base station may perform one or more LBT procedures prior to transmitting a downlink communication to a UE in the unlicensed spectrum.
  • the base station may not transmit the downlink communication in the unlicensed spectrum until a successful LBT procedure is performed.
  • the base station may perform a first LBT procedure 405 on a channel in the unlicensed spectrum, and the first LBT procedure 405 may be unsuccessful. Accordingly, the base station may not initiate a transmit a downlink communication on the channel at a beginning of the first slot.
  • the base station may perform a second LBT procedure 410 on the channel, and the second LBT procedure 410 may be successful.
  • the base station may then initiate a channel occupancy on the channel based on successfully passing the second LBT procedure 410, and the base station may transmit the downlink communication to the UE on the channel during a COT associated with the channel occupancy.
  • the COT associated with the channel occupancy may include a remainder of the first slot and a second slot.
  • the base station may transmit a reference signal, such as a CSI-RS or a TRS, via the channel in the unlicensed spectrum.
  • the reference signal may be a periodic reference signal and/or a semi-persistent scheduled reference signal.
  • a scheduled time instance for transmitting the reference signal may not fall with the channel occupancy.
  • the scheduled time instance may fall between an unsuccessful LBT procedure (e.g., the first LBT procedure 405) and a successful LBT procedure (e.g., the second LBT procedure 410). In this case, the base station may not transmit the reference signal on the channel at the scheduled time instance.
  • Fig. 4 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with respect to Fig. 4.
  • Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example 500 of NR communications in multiple sub-bands of an unlicensed spectrum, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • a transmitting device such as a base station may perform LBT for multiple sub-bands in the unlicensed spectrum. For example, in a standard promulgated by 3GPP, LBT may be performed on 20 MHz sub-bands in order to transmit in an unlicensed spectrum.
  • LBT may be performed on 20 MHz sub-bands in order to transmit in an unlicensed spectrum.
  • BWP bandwidth part
  • the base station may only transmit in 20 MHz bands that successfully pass an LBT procedure. This may result in one or more 20 MHz holes in the frequency domain in the downlink communication.
  • holes in the frequency domain refer to one or more sub-bands in which the reference signal is not transmitted.
  • a downlink transmission such as a reference signal
  • the base station may attempt to allocate four 20 MHz sub-bands in the unlicensed spectrum for transmitting the downlink communication.
  • the base station may perform a respective LBT procedure and allocate the sub-band for transmitting a portion of the downlink communication based on the passing the LBT procedure in the subband.
  • the base station may not allocate a sub-band for transmitting a portion of the downlink communication if the LBT procedure in the sub-band is not passed.
  • one of the 20 MHz sub-bands is not allocated due to the LBT procedure in that sub-band not being passed.
  • Fig. 5 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with respect to Fig. 5.
  • a UE may expect to receive a reference signal, such as a CSI-RS or a TRS, from a base station on a channel in an unlicensed spectrum at a certain time instance.
  • the reference signal may be a periodic or semi-persistent scheduled reference signal.
  • an LBT procedure performed by the base station prior to transmitting the reference, fails for an entire bandwidth or for one or more sub-bands, the base station may not transmit all or one or more portions (e.g., in 20 MHz sub-bands) of the reference signal.
  • the UE may ignore the reference signal, if it is outside of a COT associated with a channel occupancy initiated by the base station or if at least one sub-band is not transmitted by the base station.
  • the base station may transmit, to the UE, information indicating the COT and the availability of the 20 MHz sub-bands via DCI 2.0.
  • DCI 2.0 is an optional feature. Accordingly, in some cases, DCI 2.0 may not be transmitted by the base station and/or may not be supported by the UE.
  • the UE does not receive information indicating whether the reference signal is within the channel occupancy and/or whether the reference signal is not transmitted by the base station in one or more sub-bands due to an unsuccessful LBT procedure. If the UE expects to receive the reference signal at a certain time instance and the UE is unaware that the reference signal has not been sent or has holes in the frequency domain, all processing performed by the UE based on the reference signal may be inaccurate. For example, in the case of a periodic or semi- persistent CSI-RS, channel state feedback (CSF) processing based on the CSI-RS may be inaccurate. In the case of a periodic or semi-persistent TRS, frequency and time tracking loops based on TRS processing may be inaccurate. This may decrease the quality, speed, and reliability of communications between the base station and the UE.
  • CSF channel state feedback
  • Some techniques and apparatuses described herein enable a UE to detect whether a reference signal is present in a channel at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • the UE may selectively gate processing of the reference signal based at least in part on detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel.
  • the UE may avoid inaccurate processing, such as CSF processing and/or TRS processing for frequency and time tracking loops, when the reference signal is not transmitted in the time instance and/or has holes in the frequency domain. This may increase the quality, speed, and reliability of communications between the UE and a base station.
  • Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example 600 associated with detection of reference signals and gating of reference signal processing in an unlicensed spectrum, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • example 600 includes communication between a base station 110 and a UE 120.
  • the base station 110 and the UE 120 may be included in a wireless network, such as wireless network 100.
  • the base station 110 and the UE 120 may communicate via a wireless access link, which may include an uplink and a downlink.
  • the base station 110 may transmit, to the UE 120, a reference signal.
  • the base station 110 may transmit the reference signal on a channel of an unlicensed spectrum at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected by the UE 120.
  • the reference signal may be a CSI- RS.
  • the reference signal may be a TRS.
  • the reference signal may be an SSB.
  • the reference signal may be a periodic reference signal or a semi- persistent scheduled reference signal.
  • the time instances at which the reference signal is expected may be based at least in part on a periodicity of the reference signal.
  • the time at which the reference signal is expected may be based at least in part on a communication, such as a radio resource control (RRC) message, that schedules one or more time instances (e.g., periodically occurring time instances) for occurrences of the reference signal.
  • RRC radio resource control
  • the UE 120 may receive from the base station 110 an RRC message that includes a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration that indicates a periodicity for occurrences of the reference signal.
  • SPS semi-persistent scheduling
  • the base station 110 may perform one or more LBT procedures prior to transmitting the reference signal on the channel of the unlicensed spectrum.
  • the base station 110 may perform a respective LBT procedure on each of a plurality of sub-bands (e.g., 20 MHz sub-bands) in the unlicensed spectrum.
  • the base station 110 may not transmit the reference signal at the time instance at which the reference signal is expected by the UE 120.
  • the base station 110 may not transmit the reference signal in a case in which the time instance at which the reference signal is expected falls outside of a channel occupancy initiated by the base station 110 based at least in part on an unsuccessful LBT procedure.
  • the base station 110 may transmit the reference signal with one or more holes in the frequency domain.
  • the base station 110 may not transmit portions of the reference signal in one or more sub-bands based at least in part on respective unsuccessful LBT procedures in the one or more sub-bands.
  • the UE 120 may detect whether the reference signal is present in the channel at the time instance at which the reference signal is expected. In some aspects, the UE 120 may determine whether the reference signal is present in the channel based at least in part on one or more signal measurements on the channel. For example, the UE 120 may determine whether the reference signal is present based on one or more measurements of received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) on the channel, one or more measurements of received power (e.g., RSRP) on the channel, or a combination thereof. As described herein in connection with example 600 of Fig. 6, the UE 120 may use SNR measurements to determine whether the reference signal is present in the channel. However, in some aspects, the UE 120 may use other signal measurements, such as measurements of received power, instead of or in addition to SNR measurements.
  • SNR received signal-to-noise ratio
  • RSRP received power
  • the UE 120 may detect whether the signal is present in a channel in a time domain and/or the UE 120 may detect whether the signal is present in multiple sub-bands in the frequency domain. In some aspects, the UE 120 may detect whether the signal is present in the channel or fully absent from the channel in the time domain, and the UE 120 may detect whether the signal is present in each sub-band in the frequency domain based on detecting that the signal is present (e.g., not fully absent) in the channel in the time domain.
  • the UE 120 may detect whether the signal is present in the time domain based on an SNR measurement in the time domain.
  • the UE 120 may measure the received SNR on the channel in the time domain at the time instance at which the reference signal is expected. For example, the UE 120 may measure the SNR in the time domain over an entire frequency range of the channel.
  • the UE 120 may compare the time domain SNR measurement with a first threshold (e.g., a time domain SNR threshold).
  • the UE 120 may detect that the reference signal is present in the channel in the time domain based on a determination that the time domain SNR measurement satisfies the first threshold.
  • the UE 120 may detect that the reference signal is not present (e.g., fully absent) in the channel in the time domain based on a determination that the time domain SNR does not satisfy the first threshold. [0092] In some aspects, the UE 120 may detect whether the reference signal is present in the frequency domain in each of the multiple sub-bands in the channel. For example, the UE 120 may detect whether the reference signal is present in each of a plurality of 20 MHz sub-bands. The UE 120 may measure a respective SNR in the frequency domain for each sub-band. For example, the SNR measured for a sub-band may be the received SNR on that sub-band.
  • the UE 120 may compare the respective frequency domain SNR measurement for that sub-band with a second threshold (e.g., a frequency domain SNR threshold).
  • a second threshold e.g., a frequency domain SNR threshold.
  • the UE 120 may detect that the reference signal is present in the frequency domain for a sub-band based on a determination that the frequency domain SNR measurement for that sub-band satisfies the second threshold.
  • the UE 120 may detect that the reference signal is not present in the frequency domain for a sub-band based on a determination that the frequency domain SNR measurement for that sub-band does not satisfy the threshold.
  • the UE 120 may determine that the reference signal has one or more holes in the frequency domain corresponding to the reference signal not being present in one or more of the sub-bands.
  • the UE 120 may determine that the reference signal is present in one or more of the sub-bands, and the UE 120 may determine that the reference signal is not present in at least one sub-band.
  • the UE 120 may selectively gate processing of the reference signal based on detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel.
  • the UE 120 may gate processing of the reference signal by preventing processing of the reference signal and freezing measurements, estimation, and/or computations performed based at least in part on processing the reference signal, for at least the occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time period at which the reference signal is expected.
  • UE 120 may gate processing of the reference signal based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the channel in the time or domain or detecting that the reference signal is not present in at least one sub-band in the frequency domain. In some aspects, the UE 120 may stop gating processing of the reference signal based at least in part on detecting, at a subsequent time instance associated with a subsequent occurrence of the reference signal, that the reference signal is present in the channel.
  • the UE 120 may completely gate processing of the reference signal for the occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the channel in the time domain. In some aspects, the UE 120 may completely gate processing of the reference signal for the occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the frequency domain in at least one sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands.
  • the UE 120 may process the reference signal using portions of the reference signal in one or more sub-bands in which the reference signal is detected as present.
  • the UE 120 may continually adjust fdter values of one or more filters based on periodic occurrences of the reference signal. For example, the UE 120 may adjust filter values of a filter used for Doppler estimation, a filter used for spectral efficiency estimation, and/or other filters continually updated by the UE 120 based on periodic occurrences of a CSI-RS and/or a TRS. In some aspects, when the UE 120 gates processing of the reference signal for the occurrence of the reference signal, the UE 120 may prevent current filter values of filters from changing based on processing the occurrence of the reference signal. For example, for each filter having a filter value that is based at least in part on processing the reference signal, the UE 120 may freeze the filter value at the current filter value.
  • the UE 120 may prevent CSF reporting based on processing the CSI-RS. For example, the UE 120 may prevent computing and/or reporting (e.g., in a CSI report), to the base station 110, channel estimation parameters, such as a CQI, PMI, CRI, LI, RI, or an RSRP, among other examples) based at least in part on the occurrence of the CSI-RS.
  • channel estimation parameters such as a CQI, PMI, CRI, LI, RI, or an RSRP, among other examples
  • the UE 120 may prevent loops processing for time and frequency tracking based on the occurrence of the TRS. In some aspects, when gating processing of an occurrence of an SSB, the UE 120 may prevent loops processing for time and frequency tracking based on the occurrence of the SSB.
  • the UE 120 may protect CSI-RS and/or TRS based processing loops in which an estimation or detection metric based on the reference signal is used to perform fdter adjustments.
  • the UE 120 may make use of partial CSI-RS and/or TRS information present in one or more of the sub-bands by modifying an estimation or detection metric and adjusting fdter weights to account for the modified metric based at least in part on the partial CSI-RS information.
  • the UE 120 may freeze the filter state for a missing or partially missing CSI-RS or TRS while reporting the previous results. An example of protecting Doppler estimation/filtering is described herein.
  • the UE 120 may process frequency domain TRS symbols to obtain a raw channel estimate and noise estimate, computer a Doppler log-likelihood (LL) metric for multiple Doppler/SNR hypotheses (e.g., in a 2D search grid), perform infinite impulse response (HR) filtering to the Doppler LL metrics using a filter and state per hypothesis, conduct a 2D search for the maximum Doppler LL over all hypotheses, and report the most likely Doppler bin (e.g., the winning Doppler shift frequency (fD)) .
  • the UE 120 may input the frequency domain TRS symbols within a TRS burst.
  • the TRS burst may include one or two slots, containing two or four TRS symbols.
  • the UE 120 may modify the LL computation and the LL IIR filtering to make use of the present TRS symbols.
  • the UE 120 may detect a pattern of the present TRS symbols in the TRS burst, adjust the Doppler LL metric computation to only use the present TRS symbols as per the detected pattern, and adjust the LL IIR filtering (e.g., adjust the filter weights) to account for the modified LL metric that does not include all of the TRS symbols.
  • the UE 120 may skip the LL computation, gate the IIR filtering (e.g., freeze the state of the LL IIR filter), and report a previous Doppler estimate.
  • the UE 120 may update a frequency tracking loop (FTL) and/or a time tracking loop (TTL) based at least in part on a TRS or an SSB.
  • the UE 120 may calculate FTL updates based at least in part on a channel impulse response (CIR) from the TRS or SSB.
  • the UE 120 may calculate TTL updates based at least in part on a signal energy estimate provided by a power delay profile (PDP) block using the TRS or SSB.
  • PDP power delay profile
  • missing TRS or SSB symbols may compromise the FTL and/or TTL updates, resulting in inaccurate frequency and/or time tracking.
  • the UE 120 may protect the FTL and/or TTL processing based at least in part on detecting that the TRS or SSB is missing or partially missing.
  • the UE 120 may perform SSB-based FTL updates. For an expected SSB occasion, the UE 120 may detect whether the SSB is present in the time domain. The SSB may be contained within a 20 MHz sub-band. Thus, the UE 120 may detect whether the SSB is fully present or missing using the time domain detection (e.g., without detecting whether the SSB is present in each of the sub-bands in the frequency domain). In some aspects, the UE 120 may gate an FTL update associated with an SSB occasion in connection with detecting that the SSB is missing. For example, the UE 120 may gate computation and IIR filtering of CIR autocorrelations and cross-correlations to not pollute the IIR filter state. In this case, the UE 120 may also gate FTL outer-loop updates (e.g., Kalman filter), either based at least in part on an FTL SNR metric or independent of the FTL SNR metric.
  • FTL outer-loop updates e.g., Kal
  • the UE 120 may perform TRS-based FTL updates. For an expected TRS burst (e.g., one slot or two slots), the UE 120 may perform time domain and/or frequency domain detection to detect missing TRS symbols and/or missing TRS sub-bands in the TRS burst. In some aspects, in connection with detecting missing TRS symbols and/or missing TRS sub-bands in the TRS burst set (e.g., detecting that the TRS burst is not fully present in the time domain and/or frequency domain), the UE 120 may skip processing for the TRS burst completely.
  • an expected TRS burst e.g., one slot or two slots
  • the UE 120 may perform time domain and/or frequency domain detection to detect missing TRS symbols and/or missing TRS sub-bands in the TRS burst.
  • the UE 120 in connection with detecting missing TRS symbols and/or missing TRS sub-bands in the TRS burst set (e.g., detecting that the TRS bur
  • the UE 120 may gate computation and IIR filtering of both CIR autocorrelations and cross-correlations for the TRS burst, and the UE 120 may gate FTL outer-loop (e.g., Kalman filter) updates associated with the TRS burst.
  • FTL outer-loop e.g., Kalman filter
  • the UE 120 may modify the processing of the FTL update to calculate an FTL update based at least in part on the present TRS symbols and/or sub-bands.
  • the UE 120 may perform a dynamic fallback to one-slot TRS in connection with a determination that TRS symbols are fully present (e.g., in all sub-bands) in only one TRS slot of the two-slot TRS burst. In this case, the UE 120 may calculate the CIR and FTL correlations using only the slot in which the TRS symbols are fully present, and the UE may ignore the other TRS slot (e.g., in which the TRS symbols are not fully present) in the TRS burst. In some aspects, the UE 120 may modify the computation of the CIR and FTL correlations to account for partial TRS symbols. In this case, to prevent phase distortion from computations using different frequency sub-bands on different TRS symbols, the UE 120 may only use frequency sub-bands present in both TRS symbols of a TRS slot in the CIR/FTL computations.
  • the UE 120 may perform SSB-based TTL updates. For an expected SSB burst, the UE 120 may perform time domain SSB detection to detect, for each SSB symbol, whether the SSB is fully present or missing. In some aspects, the UE 120 may protect CIR combining (e.g., based at least in part on coherent filtering and non-coherent filtering) by excluding blanked SSB symbols (e.g., SSB symbols for which the SSB is not present in the SSB burst).
  • CIR combining e.g., based at least in part on coherent filtering and non-coherent filtering
  • the UE 120 may gate the TTL update step associated with the SSB burst in connection with detecting that the entire SSB burst is blanked (e.g., all of the SSBs are not present in the SSB burst).
  • the UE 120 may perform TRS-based TTL updates. For an expected TRS burst (e.g., one slot or two slots), the UE 120 may perform time domain and/or frequency domain detection to detect missing TRS symbols and/or missing TRS sub-bands in the TRS burst. In some aspects, in connection with detecting missing TRS symbols and/or missing TRS sub-bands in the TRS burst set (e.g., detecting that the TRS burst is not fully present in the time domain and/or frequency domain), the UE 120 may exclude TRS symbols in which the TRS is all or partially missing (e.g., in one or more sub-bands) from CIR combining.
  • TRS-based TTL updates For an expected TRS burst (e.g., one slot or two slots), the UE 120 may perform time domain and/or frequency domain detection to detect missing TRS symbols and/or missing TRS sub-bands in the TRS burst. In some aspects, in connection with detecting missing TRS symbols and/
  • the UE 120 may gate the TTL update associated with the TRS burst if the TRS is at least partially missing (e.g., in one or more sub-bands) in all of the TRS symbols or if a CIR combining metric for the burst set does not satisfy a threshold.
  • the UE 120 in connection with detecting a frequency domain hole (e.g., of one or more sub-bands) in the TRS for one or more of the TRS symbols in the TRS burst, the UE 120 may apply sub-band hole fdling during CIR combining by forcing sub-bands detected as missing to zero (e.g., to avoid noise injection from those sub-bands) and using side information from other TRS symbols.
  • the UE 120 may gate the TTL update if the CIR combining metric does not satisfy the threshold.
  • the UE 120 may modify the CIR combining with a fallback to non-coherent combining if certain TRS symbols are affected by sub-band holes. Such a fallback to non-coherent CIR combining may increase robustness against frequency domain hole induced time domain phase variations.
  • the UE 120 may detect whether a reference signal is present in a channel at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • the UE 120 may selectively gate processing of the reference signal based at least in part on detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel.
  • the UE 120 may prevent inaccurate processing, such as CSF processing and/or TRS processing for frequency and time tracking loops, when the reference signal is not transmitted in the time instance and/or has holes in the frequency domain. This may increase the quality, speed, and reliability of communications between the UE 120 and the base station 110.
  • Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example 700 associated with TRS-based FTL processing, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • example 700 includes a TRS burst including a first TRS slot and a second TRS slot.
  • the first TRS slot and the second TRS slot each include two TRS symbols.
  • the TRS may be fully present in all frequency sub-bands (e.g., SB #1 - SB #5) in both TRS symbols in the first TRS slot, and the TRS may have holes in the frequency domain in the TRS symbols in the second TRS slot.
  • the TRS may be missing in SB #3 and SB #4 in the first TRS symbol in the second TRS slot, and the TRS may be missing in SB #4 and SB #5 in the second TRS symbols in the second TRS slot.
  • the UE 120 may skip processing for the TRS burst completely. In this case, the UE 120 may gate computation and IIR filtering of both CIR auto-correlations and cross-correlations for the TRS burst, and the UE 120 may gate FTL outer-loop (e.g., Kalman filter) updates associated with the TRS burst.
  • FTL outer-loop e.g., Kalman filter
  • the UE 120 may perform a dynamic fallback to one-slot. In this case, the UE 120 may calculate the CIR and FTL correlations using only the first TRS slot in which the TRS symbols are fully present. In this case, the UE may ignore the second TRS slot, in which the TRS symbols are not fully present, in the TRS burst when calculated the CIR and FTL correlations.
  • the UE 120 may modify the computation of the CIR and FTL correlations to account for partial TRS symbols that are present in the TRS burst (e.g., the partial TRS symbols in the second TRS slot).
  • the UE 120 may compute the CIR and FTL correlations using frequency the TRS sub-bands commonly available in both TRS symbols of the TRS slot. For example, because the TRS is present in all of the sub-bands in both TRS symbols in the first slot, the UE 120 may compute the CIR and FTL correlations in the first TRS slot using of all of the frequency subbands.
  • the UE 120 may compute the CIR and DTL correlations in the second TRS slot using only the TRS in SB #1 and SB #2. In this case, the UE 120 may ignore the TRS in SB # 5 in the first TRS symbol in the second TRS slot, and the UE 120 may ignore the TRS in SB #3 in the second TRS symbol in the second TRS slot. In some aspects, the UE 120 may combine the correlations computed in the first TRS slot and the second TRS slot weighted by a correlation reliability in each slot. For example, the correlation reliability in a TRS slot may be based at least in part on the number of common sub-bands in which the TRS is present in both TRS symbols in the TRS slot.
  • Fig. 7 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with respect to Fig. 7.
  • FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example process 800 performed, for example, by a UE, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Example process 800 is an example where the UE (e.g., UE 120) performs operations associated with detection of reference signals and gating of reference signal processing in an unlicensed spectrum.
  • the UE e.g., UE 120
  • process 800 may include detecting whether a reference signal is present in a channel at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected (block 810).
  • the UE e.g., using detection component 908, depicted in Fig. 9 may detect whether a reference signal is present in a channel at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected, as described above.
  • process 800 may include selectively gating processing of the reference signal based on detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel (block 820).
  • the UE e.g., using gating component 910, depicted in Fig. 910
  • Process 800 may include additional aspects, such as any single aspect or any combination of aspects described below and/or in connection with one or more other processes described elsewhere herein.
  • the reference signal is a channel state information reference signal.
  • the reference signal is a tracking reference signal.
  • the channel is in an unlicensed spectrum.
  • detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel comprises detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel based at least in part on comparing a signal measurement on at least a sub-band of the channel with a threshold.
  • the signal measurement is a signal -to-noise ratio.
  • the signal measurement is a measurement of received power.
  • detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel comprises detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel in a time domain at the time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel in the time domain comprises measuring a signal measurement on the channel in the time domain, and comparing the signal measurement on the channel in the time domain with a time domain signal measurement threshold.
  • selectively gating processing of the reference signal comprises gating processing of the reference signal completely for an occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the channel in the time domain.
  • detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel comprises detecting whether the reference signal is present in a frequency domain in each of a plurality of sub-bands in the channel.
  • detecting whether the reference signal is present in the frequency domain in each of the plurality of sub-bands in the channel comprises measuring a respective signal measurement in the frequency domain on each of the plurality of sub-bands, and comparing the respective signal measurement in the frequency domain on each of the plurality of sub-bands with a frequency domain signal measurement threshold.
  • the plurality of sub-bands includes a plurality of 20 MHz sub-bands.
  • the plurality of sub-bands includes sub-bands associated with an LBT procedure performed by a base station.
  • selectively gating processing of the reference signal comprises gating processing of the reference signal completely for an occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the frequency domain in at least one subband of the plurality of sub-bands.
  • selectively gating processing of the reference signal comprises processing the reference signal using portions of the reference signal in one or more sub-bands in which the reference signal is present in the frequency domain based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the frequency domain in at least one sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands.
  • detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel comprises detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel in a time domain at the time instance at which the reference signal is expected, and detecting, based at least in part on a determination that the reference signal is present in the channel in the time domain, whether the reference signal is present in a frequency domain in each of a plurality of sub-bands in the channel.
  • selectively gating processing of the reference signal comprises gating processing of the reference signal for an occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected based on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the channel.
  • gating processing of the reference signal comprises preventing, for a filter having a filter value that is based at least in part on processing the reference signal, a current value of the filter value from changing based on processing the occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • the reference signal is a periodic reference signal.
  • the time instance at which the reference signal is expected is based at least in part on a periodicity of the reference signal.
  • the reference signal is a semi-persistent scheduled reference signal.
  • the time instance at which the reference signal is expected is based at least in part a radio resource control message, received from a base station, that configures time instances for multiple occurrences of the reference signal.
  • process 800 includes receiving, from a base station prior to the time instance at which the reference signal is expected, an indication that schedules the time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • Fig. 8 shows example blocks of process 800, in some aspects, process 800 may include additional blocks, fewer blocks, different blocks, or differently arranged blocks than those depicted in Fig. 8. Additionally, or alternatively, two or more of the blocks of process 800 may be performed in parallel.
  • Fig. 9 is a block diagram of an example apparatus 900 for wireless communication.
  • the apparatus 900 may be a UE, or a UE may include the apparatus 900.
  • the apparatus 900 includes a reception component 902 and a transmission component 904, which may be in communication with one another (for example, via one or more buses and/or one or more other components).
  • the apparatus 900 may communicate with another apparatus 906 (such as a UE, a base station, or another wireless communication device) using the reception component 902 and the transmission component 904.
  • the apparatus 900 may include one or more of a detection component 908 or a gating component 910, among other examples.
  • the apparatus 900 may be configured to perform one or more operations described herein in connection with Figs. 6-7. Additionally, or alternatively, the apparatus 900 may be configured to perform one or more processes described herein, such as process 800 of Fig. 8, or a combination thereof.
  • the apparatus 900 and/or one or more components shown in Fig. 9 may include one or more components of the UE described above in connection with Fig. 2. Additionally, or alternatively, one or more components shown in Fig. 9 may be implemented within one or more components described above in connection with Fig. 2. Additionally, or alternatively, one or more components of the set of components may be implemented at least in part as software stored in a memory. For example, a component (or a portion of a component) may be implemented as instructions or code stored in a non- transitory computer-readable medium and executable by a controller or a processor to perform the functions or operations of the component.
  • the reception component 902 may receive communications, such as reference signals, control information, data communications, or a combination thereof, from the apparatus 906.
  • the reception component 902 may provide received communications to one or more other components of the apparatus 900.
  • the reception component 902 may perform signal processing on the received communications (such as filtering, amplification, demodulation, analog-to-digital conversion, demultiplexing, deinterleaving, de-mapping, equalization, interference cancellation, or decoding, among other examples), and may provide the processed signals to the one or more other components of the apparatus 906.
  • the reception component 902 may include one or more antennas, a demodulator, a MIMO detector, a receive processor, a controller/processor, a memory, or a combination thereof, of the UE described above in connection with Fig. 2.
  • the transmission component 904 may transmit communications, such as reference signals, control information, data communications, or a combination thereof, to the apparatus 906.
  • one or more other components of the apparatus 906 may generate communications and may provide the generated communications to the transmission component 904 for transmission to the apparatus 906.
  • the transmission component 904 may perform signal processing on the generated communications (such as filtering, amplification, modulation, digital-to-analog conversion, multiplexing, interleaving, mapping, or encoding, among other examples), and may transmit the processed signals to the apparatus 906.
  • the transmission component 904 may include one or more antennas, a modulator, a transmit MIMO processor, a transmit processor, a controller/processor, a memory, or a combination thereof, of the UE described above in connection with Fig. 2.
  • the transmission component 904 may be co-located with the reception component 902 in a transceiver.
  • the detection component 908 may detect whether a reference signal is present in a channel at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • the gating component 910 may selectively gate processing of the reference signal based on detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel.
  • the reception component 902 may receive, from a base station prior to the time instance at which the reference signal is expected, an indication that schedules the time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • Fig. 9 The number and arrangement of components shown in Fig. 9 are provided as an example. In practice, there may be additional components, fewer components, different components, or differently arranged components than those shown in Fig. 9. Furthermore, two or more components shown in Fig. 9 may be implemented within a single component, or a single component shown in Fig. 9 may be implemented as multiple, distributed components. Additionally, or alternatively, a set of (one or more) components shown in Fig. 9 may perform one or more functions described as being performed by another set of components shown in Fig. 9.
  • Aspect 1 A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: detecting whether a reference signal is present in a channel at a time instance at which the reference signal is expected; and selectively gating processing of the reference signal based on detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel.
  • UE user equipment
  • Aspect 2 The method of aspect 1, wherein the reference signal is a channel state information reference signal.
  • Aspect 3 The method of any of aspects 1-2, wherein the reference signal is a tracking reference signal.
  • Aspect 4 The method of any of aspects 1-3, wherein the channel is in an unlicensed spectrum.
  • Aspect 5 The method of any of aspects 1-4, wherein detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel comprises: detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel based at least in part on comparing a signal measurement on at least a sub-band of the channel with a threshold.
  • Aspect 6 The method of aspect 5, wherein the signal measurement is a signal -to- noise ratio.
  • Aspect 7 The method of aspect 5, wherein the signal measurement is a measurement of received power.
  • Aspect 8 The method of any of aspects 1-7, wherein detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel comprises: detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel in a time domain at the time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • Aspect 9 The method of aspect 8, wherein detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel in the time domain comprises: measuring a signal measurement on the channel in the time domain; and comparing the signal measurement on the channel in the time domain with a time domain signal measurement threshold.
  • Aspect 10 The method of any of aspects 8-9, wherein selectively gating processing of the reference signal comprises: gating processing of the reference signal completely for an occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the channel in the time domain.
  • Aspect 11 The method of any of aspects 1-10, wherein detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel comprises: detecting whether the reference signal is present in a frequency domain in each of a plurality of sub-bands in the channel.
  • Aspect 12 The method of aspect 11, wherein detecting whether the reference signal is present in the frequency domain in each of the plurality of sub-bands in the channel comprises: measuring a respective signal measurement in the frequency domain on each of the plurality of sub-bands; and comparing the respective signal measurement in the frequency domain on each of the plurality of sub-bands with a frequency domain signal measurement threshold.
  • Aspect 13 The method of any of aspects 11-12, wherein the plurality of sub-bands includes a plurality of 20 MHz sub-bands.
  • Aspect 14 The method of any of aspects 11-13, wherein the plurality of sub-bands includes sub-bands associated with a listen before talk (LBT) procedure performed by a base station.
  • LBT listen before talk
  • Aspect 15 The method of any of aspects 11-14, wherein selectively gating processing of the reference signal comprises: gating processing of the reference signal completely for an occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the frequency domain in at least one sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands.
  • Aspect 16 The method of any of aspects 11-14, wherein selectively gating processing of the reference signal comprises: processing the reference signal using portions of the reference signal in one or more sub-bands in which the reference signal is present in the frequency domain based at least in part on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the frequency domain in at least one sub-band of the plurality of sub-bands.
  • Aspect 17 The method of any of aspects 1-16, wherein detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel comprises: detecting whether the reference signal is present in the channel in a time domain at the time instance at which the reference signal is expected; and detecting, based at least in part on a determination that the reference signal is present in the channel in the time domain, whether the reference signal is present in a frequency domain in each of a plurality of sub-bands in the channel.
  • Aspect 18 The method of any of aspects 1-17, wherein selectively gating processing of the reference signal comprises: gating processing of the reference signal for an occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected based on detecting that the reference signal is not present in the channel.
  • Aspect 19 The method of aspect 18, wherein gating processing of the reference signal comprises: preventing, for a fdter having a filter value that is based at least in part on processing the reference signal, a current value of the filter value from changing based on processing the occurrence of the reference signal associated with the time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • Aspect 20 The method of any of aspects 1-19, wherein the reference signal is a periodic reference signal.
  • Aspect 21 The method of aspect 20, wherein the time instance at which the reference signal is expected is based at least in part on a periodicity of the reference signal.
  • Aspect 22 The method of any of aspects 1-21, wherein the reference signal is a semi- persistent scheduled reference signal.
  • Aspect 23 The method of aspect 22, wherein the time instance at which the reference signal is expected is based at least in part a radio resource control message, received from a base station, that configures time instances for multiple occurrences of the reference signal.
  • Aspect 24 The method of any of aspects 1-23, further comprising: receiving, from a base station prior to the time instance at which the reference signal is expected, an indication that schedules the time instance at which the reference signal is expected.
  • Aspect 25 An apparatus for wireless communication at a device, comprising a processor; memory coupled with the processor; and instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to perform the method of one or more aspects of aspects 1-24.
  • a device for wireless communication comprising a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory, the memory and the one or more processors configured to perform the method of one or more aspects of aspects 1-24.
  • Aspect 27 An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising at least one means for performing the method of one or more aspects of aspects 1-24.
  • Aspect 28 A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communication, the code comprising instructions executable by a processor to perform the method of one or more aspects of aspects 1-24.
  • Aspect 29 A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for wireless communication, the set of instructions comprising one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the device to perform the method of one or more aspects of aspects 1-24.
  • the term “component” is intended to be broadly construed as hardware and/or a combination of hardware and software.
  • “Software” shall be construed broadly to mean instructions, instruction sets, code, code segments, program code, programs, subprograms, software modules, applications, software applications, software packages, routines, subroutines, objects, executables, threads of execution, procedures, and/or functions, among other examples, whether referred to as software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description language, or otherwise.
  • a “processor” is implemented in hardware and/or a combination of hardware and software. It will be apparent that systems and/or methods described herein may be implemented in different forms of hardware and/or a combination of hardware and software.
  • satisfying a threshold may, depending on the context, refer to a value being greater than the threshold, greater than or equal to the threshold, less than the threshold, less than or equal to the threshold, equal to the threshold, not equal to the threshold, or the like.
  • “at least one of: a, b, or c” is intended to cover a, b, c, a + b, a + c, b + c, and a + b + c, as well as any combination with multiples of the same element (e.g., a + a, a + a + a, a + a + b, a + a + c, a + b + b, a + c + c, b + b, b + b + b, b + b + c, c + c, and c + c + c, or any other ordering of a, b, and c).
  • the terms “has,” “have,” “having,” or the like are intended to be open-ended terms that do not limit an element that they modify (e.g., an element “having” A may also have B). Further, the phrase “based on” is intended to mean “based, at least in part, on” unless explicitly stated otherwise. Also, as used herein, the term “or” is intended to be inclusive when used in a series and may be used interchangeably with “and/or,” unless explicitly stated otherwise (e.g., if used in combination with “either” or “only one of’).

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Divers aspects de la présente divulgation portent d'une manière générale sur la communication sans fil. Selon certains aspects, un équipement utilisateur (UE) peut détecter la présence ou non d'un signal de référence dans un canal à un instant auquel le signal de référence est attendu. L'UE peut sélectivement déclencher un traitement du signal de référence sur la base de la détection de la présence du signal de référence dans le canal. La divulgation concerne également de nombreux autres aspects.
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