Techniques for measurement opportunity sharing for direct determination of layer-one measurements

Abstract

The application relates to devices and components, including apparatuses, systems, and methods for sharing layer 1 (L1) measurement opportunities in a wireless network.

Description

Background Art

[0001] The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) defines a number of reference signals to facilitate communications in a radio access cell. A base station can configure a user equipment (UE) to perform measurements on these reference signals and report these measurements in order to perform various beam and link management operations. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0002] Figure 1 A network environment according to some embodiments is illustrated.

[0003] Figure 2 A table for determining intermediate sharing factors according to some embodiments is illustrated.

[0004] Figure 3 Another table for determining intermediate sharing factors according to some embodiments is illustrated.

[0005] Figure 4 Example opportunities according to some embodiments are illustrated.

[0006] Figure 5 Additional example opportunities according to some embodiments are illustrated.

[0007] Figure 6 A table for determining sharing factors according to some embodiments is illustrated.

[0008] Figure 7 Additional example opportunities according to some embodiments are illustrated.

[0009] Figure 8 Additional example opportunities according to some embodiments are illustrated.

[0010] Fig. 9 Additional example opportunities according to some embodiments are illustrated.

[0011] Fig.10 Additional example opportunities according to some embodiments are illustrated.

[0012] Fig.11 An operational flow / algorithm structure according to some embodiments is illustrated.

[0013] Fig.12 Another operational flow / algorithm structure according to some embodiments is illustrated.

[0014] Fig.13 Another operational flow / algorithm structure according to some embodiments is illustrated.

[0015] Fig.14 User equipment according to some embodiments is illustrated.

[0016] Fig.15 A network node according to some embodiments is illustrated. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0017] The following specific embodiments relate to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numerals may be used to identify the same or similar elements in different drawings. In the following description, specific details, such as specific structures, architectures, interfaces and / or technologies, are set forth for the purpose of illustration rather than limitation, so as to provide a thorough understanding of various aspects of some embodiments. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art who benefit from the present disclosure that various aspects of the various aspects may be practiced in other examples that depart from these specific details. In some cases, descriptions of well-known devices, circuits and methods are omitted so as not to obscure the descriptions of various aspects due to unnecessary details. For the purposes of this document, the phrase "A or B" refers to (A), (B) or (A and B); and the phrase "based on A" refers to "based at least in part on A", for example, it may be "based only on A" or it may be "based in part on A".

[0018] The following is a glossary of terms that may be used in this disclosure.

[0019] As used herein, the term "circuit" refers to, is part of, or includes a hardware component such as an electronic circuit, a logic circuit, a processor (shared, dedicated, or group) or a memory (shared, dedicated, or group) configured to provide the described functionality, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmable device (FPD) (e.g., a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a programmable logic device (PLD), a complex PLD (CPLD), a high capacity PLD (HCPLD), a structured ASIC, or a programmable system on chip (SoC)), and / or a digital signal processor (DSP). In some aspects, a circuit may execute one or more software or firmware programs to provide at least some of the described functionality. The term "circuit" may also refer to a combination of one or more hardware elements and a program code for performing the functions of the program code (or a combination of circuits used in an electrical or electronic system). In these aspects, the combination of hardware elements and program code may be referred to as a specific type of circuit.

[0020] As used herein, the term "processor circuit" refers to, is part of, or includes: a circuit capable of sequentially and automatically performing a series of arithmetic or logical operations; or recording, storing, or transferring digital data. The term "processor circuit" may refer to an application processor; a baseband processor; a central processing unit (CPU); a graphics processing unit; a single-core processor; a dual-core processor; a triple-core processor; a quad-core processor; or any other device capable of executing or otherwise operating computer-executable instructions (such as program code); a software module; or a functional process.

[0021] As used herein, the term "interface circuit" refers to, is a part of, or includes a circuit that enables information exchange between two or more components or devices. The term "interface circuit" may refer to one or more hardware interfaces; for example, a bus, an I / O interface, a peripheral component interface, a network interface card, etc.

[0022] As used herein, the term "user equipment" or "UE" refers to a device that has radio communication capabilities and can describe a remote user of network resources in a communication network. In addition, the terms "user equipment" or "UE" may be considered synonymous and may be referred to as a client, mobile phone, mobile device, mobile terminal, user terminal, mobile unit, mobile station, mobile user, subscriber, user, remote station, access agent, user agent, receiver, radio equipment, reconfigurable radio equipment, reconfigurable mobile device, etc. In addition, the term "user equipment" or "UE" may include any type of wireless / wired device or any computing device that includes a wireless communication interface.

[0023] As used herein, the term "computer system" refers to any type of interconnected electronic devices, computer devices, or components thereof. Additionally, the term "computer system" or "system" may refer to various components of a computer that are communicatively coupled to one another. Furthermore, the term "computer system" or "system" may refer to multiple computer devices or multiple computing systems that are communicatively coupled to one another and configured to share computing resources or networked resources.

[0024] As used herein, the term "resource" refers to a physical or virtual device, a physical or virtual component within a computing environment, or a physical or virtual component within a specific device, such as a computer device, a mechanical device, a memory space, a processor / CPU time, a processor / CPU usage, a processor and accelerator load, a hardware time or usage, a power supply, an input / output operation, a port or a network socket, a channel / link allocation, throughput, memory usage, storage, a network, a database and an application, a unit of work, etc. "Hardware resources" may refer to computer, storage or network resources provided by physical hardware elements. "Virtualized resources" may refer to computer, storage or network resources provided by a virtualized infrastructure to an application, device, system, etc. The term "network resource" or "communication resource" may refer to a resource that a computer device / system can access via a communication network. The term "system resource" may refer to any kind of shared entity that provides a service, and may include computing resources or network resources. System resources may be considered as a set of coherent functions, network data objects or services that can be accessed through a server, wherein such system resources reside on a single host or multiple hosts and can be clearly identified.

[0025] As used herein, the term "channel" refers to any tangible or intangible transmission medium for conveying data or data streams. The term "channel" may be synonymous or equivalent to "communication channel", "data communication channel", "transmission channel", "data transmission channel", "access channel", "data access channel", "link", "data link", "carrier", "radio frequency carrier" or any other similar term representing a path or medium through which data is transmitted. In addition, as used herein, the term "link" refers to a connection made between two devices for sending and receiving information.

[0026] As used herein, the terms "instantiate," "instantiate," and the like refer to the creation of an instance. "Instance" also refers to a specific occurrence of an object, which may occur, for example, during the execution of program code.

[0027] The term "connected" may mean that two or more elements at a common communication protocol layer have an established signaling relationship with each other through a communication channel, link, interface, or reference point.

[0028] As used herein, the term "network element" refers to physical or virtualized equipment or infrastructure for providing wired or wireless communication network services. The term "network element" may be considered synonymous with or referred to as a networked computer, networking hardware, network equipment, network node, virtualized network function, etc.

[0029] The term "information element" refers to a structural element that contains one or more fields. The term "field" refers to a single content of an information element or a data element that contains content. An information element may include one or more additional information elements.

[0030] Figure 1 A network environment 100 is shown according to some embodiments. The network environment 100 may include a UE 104 and a base station 108. The base station 108 may provide a serving cell (SC) 110 through which the UE 104 can communicate with the base station 108. In some embodiments, the base station 108 is a next generation node B (gNB) that provides one or more 3GPP new radio (NR) cells. In other embodiments, the base station 108 is an evolved node B (eNB) that provides one or more long term evolution (LTE) cells. The air interface through which the UE 104 and the base station 108 communicate may be compatible with 3GPP technical specifications, such as those defining the fifth generation (5G) NR or later system standards.

[0031] Network environment 100 may also include one or more neighboring base stations providing non-serving cells. For example, network environment may include base station 116 providing non-serving cell (NSC) 112. Base station 116 may use the same radio access technology as base station 108 or a different radio access technology.

[0032] In order to adapt to changes in the radio environment and the relative positioning between the UE 104 and the base station, the UE 104 may be configured to perform various measurements on reference signals transmitted in both the serving cell 110 and the non-serving cell 112. The base station 108 may transmit a measurement configuration to provide information for performing reference signal measurements to the UE 104. When performing the measurements, the UE 104 may provide a measurement report to the base station 108. The base station 108 may perform various radio resource management (RRM) operations based on the measurement report.

[0033] The measurement configuration may instruct the UE 104 to perform measurements based on reference signals including, for example, channel state information-reference signals (CSI-RS) and synchronization signals and physical broadcast channel blocks (SSBs). The measurements may be at beam level or cell level.

[0034] When the UE 104 is in a radio resource control (RRC) connected mode, the measurement configuration may be sent to the UE 104 through dedicated signaling, such as RRC signaling (eg, an RRC reconfiguration message or an RRC resume message).

[0035] In some embodiments, the measurement configuration may include (directly or by reference) a measurement identifier, a measurement object, and a reporting configuration. The measurement identifier may associate the reporting configuration to the measurement object. The measurement identifier may include a first pointer to the reporting configuration and a second pointer to the measurement object, the measurement object providing information about the SSB resources to be measured. The UE 104 may provide the measurement results within an RRC message (e.g., an RRC measurement report) that includes the measurement ID as a reference.

[0036] The reporting configuration may provide a periodic, event-triggered, or cell global identity (CGI) configuration. The reporting configuration may include parameters such as reporting amount, reporting interval, and if the configuration is an event-triggered configuration, the measurement report event. The reporting amount and reporting interval may be Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN.1) fields in a reporting configuration information element (IE). The reporting amount may describe the number of times a measurement report is sent based on a triggering event. The triggering event may be a consumed period (for periodic configuration) or a triggering condition for a measurement report event (for event-triggered configuration) is met. The reporting interval may provide the time between consecutive transmissions of measurement reports. The reporting configuration may also describe the reference signal type (e.g., SSB) that may be used for periodic or event-triggered configuration.

[0037] SSB can be used for Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurements at Layer 1 (L1) or Layer 3 (L3). L1 measurements can be used to monitor and respond to radio channel conditions over a shorter time frame than L3 measurements. L1 measurements can be used, for example, to perform beam management procedures, while L3 measurements can be used, for example, to perform handover procedures.

[0038] In some embodiments, consistent with the Release 17 3GPP TS definition of further enhanced multiple-input multiple-output (FeMIMO) in 3GPP TS 38.214 v17.2.0 (2022-06-23) and TS 38.331 v17.1.0 (2022-07-19), UE 104 may be configured for L1 reference signal received power (RSRP) measurements on NSC 112. NSC 112 may have a physical cell identity (PCI) that is different from that of SC 110. In some embodiments, NSC 112 may be referred to as a cell with a different (or additional) PCI (CDP). L1-RSRP measurements for NSC 112 may provide a basis for inter-cell beam management. The serving base station 108 may use inter-cell beam management to instruct the UE 104 to switch from a beam associated with the SC 110 to a beam associated with the NSC 112 for receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). This may be accomplished using a simple transmit configuration indication (TCI) state switch, rather than having to perform a full handover, which relies on layer 3 (L3) measurements and takes more time. This dynamic beam switching may be performed typically when the UE 104 operates in a higher frequency range, e.g., frequency range 2 (FR2) from 24.25 GHz to 52.6 GHz or higher.

[0039] Performing L1-RSRP measurements on CDP requires coordinated management of multiple measurement configurations. For example, SSB opportunities from serving cell 110 may overlap with SSB opportunities from NSC 112. In addition, SSB opportunities (from SC 110 or NSC 112) may overlap with opportunities from measurement gap (MG) configurations (for inter-frequency or inter-radio access technology (RAT) measurements) and from SSB measurement timing configurations (SMTCs) (for defining measurement opportunities for performing L3 measurements).

[0040] The embodiment describes how to determine a sharing factor that can be used in FR2 and higher to share measurement opportunities between different measurements. The sharing factor can be determined for a variety of situations, including when the SMTC and MG completely or partially overlap each other and both overlap with the SSB from the SC 110 or NSC 112, and the SSBs from the SC 110 or NSC 112 completely or partially overlap each other. In another case, the SMTC and MG do not overlap, but overlap with the SSB from the SC 110 or NSC / CDP112, and the SSBs from the SC 110 or NSC / CDP 112 completely or partially overlap each other.

[0041] The UE 104 may use the sharing factor to determine which measurement occasions to use for a particular measurement. The network may use the sharing factor to determine the L1-RSRP measurement period. 3GPP TS 38.133 v17.6.0 (2022-06-30) defines the L1 measurement period T based on the sharing factor (P). L1-RSRP_Measurement_Period_SSB The L1 measurement period is a period during which the physical layer of the UE 104 will determine the L1-RSRP measurement with sufficient accuracy. If the UE 104 does not report the configured L1-RSRP measurement within the L1 measurement period, the base station 108 may determine that there is a beam or radio link failure and attempt to perform radio resource management (RRM) operations, such as configuring a new beam or cell.

[0042] In FR2, the L1 measurement period for SC 110 may be determined as follows. Unless described elsewhere herein, the parameters used to calculate the L1 measurement period for SC 110 may be similar to similarly named parameters in clause 9.5.4.1 of 3GPP TS 38.133.

[0043] If the UE 104 is not operating according to a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration, the L1 measurement period may be equal to max(T report ,ceil(M*P*N)*T SSB ). report can be the configured periodicity for reporting, T SSB M may be the periodicity of the SSB index configured for L1-RSRP measurement of SC 110, if a time limit for the channel measurement parameter is configured, then M is equal to one, otherwise equal to three, and N is eight.

[0044] If the UE 104 operates according to a DRX configuration that does not exceed 320 milliseconds, the L1 measurement period may be equal to max(T report ,ceil(1.5*M*P*N)*max(T DRX ,T SSB ). DRX is the DRX cycle length, and the rest of the parameters may be similar to those described above and in clause 9.5.4.1 of TS 38.133.

[0045] If the UE 104 operates according to a DRX configuration of more than 320 ms, the L1 measurement period may be equal to ceil(1.5*M*P*N)*T DRX The parameters may be similar to those described above and in clause 9.5.4.1 of TS 38.133.

[0046] In FR2, the L1 measurement period for NSC 112 may be determined as follows. Unless described elsewhere herein, the parameters used to calculate the L1 measurement period for NSC 112 may be similar to similarly named parameters in clause 9.13.4 of 3GPP TS 38.133.

[0047] If the UE 104 is not operating according to a discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration, the L1 measurement period may be equal to max(T report ,ceil(M*P*N)*T SSB,CDP ). report can be the configured periodicity for reporting, T SSB,CDP M may be the periodicity of the SSB index configured for inter-cell L1-RSRP measurement of the NSC / CDP 112, if a time limit for the channel measurement parameter is configured, then M is equal to one, otherwise equal to three, and N is eight.

[0048] If the UE 104 operates according to a DRX configuration that does not exceed 320 milliseconds, the L1 measurement period may be equal to max(T report ,ceil(1.5*M*P*N)*max(T DRX ,T SSB,CDP ). DRX is the DRX cycle length.

[0049] If the UE 104 operates according to a DRX configuration of more than 320 ms, the L1 measurement period may be equal to ceil(1.5*M*P*N)*T DRX .

[0050] Embodiments of the present disclosure describe how to determine a sharing factor (P) in a variety of different scenarios, which sharing factor may be used to determine the L1-RSRP measurement period for FR2 as described above.

[0051] In the first aspect of the present disclosure, a periodic relationship may be detected among at least two periodicities. The at least two periodicities may include an SSB configuration (referred to herein as T SSB,SC ), the SSB configuration of NSC 112 (referred to herein as T SSB,CDP ), MG Configuration (herein referred to as MGRP) or SMTC (herein referred to as T SMTC ) associated periodicity. The periodicity relationship can be used as a basis for determining the intermediate sharing factor. The overlapping relationship can also be determined with respect to the SC SSB configuration and the SMTC or MG configuration. The final sharing factor can then be determined based on the intermediate sharing factor and the overlapping relationship.

[0052] Figure 2 and Figure 3Tables 200 and 300 are respectively illustrated for determining intermediate sharing factors based on a periodic relationship according to some embodiments.

[0053] Table 200 may include an intermediate sharing factor P for determining a sharing factor for SC 110. SC and may include an intermediate sharing factor P for determining a sharing factor for NSC 112 CDP .

[0054] In the first scenario, the periodic relationship is given by T SSB,SC =T SSB,CDP <T SMTC Definition. In this case, the intermediate sharing factor P SC and P CDP Both can be set equal to two.

[0055] In the second scenario, the periodic relationship is given by T SSB,CDP <T SSB,SC =T SMTC Definition. In this case, the intermediate sharing factor P SC and P CDP Both can be set equal to one.

[0056] In the third scenario, the periodic relationship is given by T SSB,SC <T SSB,CDP <(T SMTC and MGRP). A third scenario may also be associated with a condition where a target SSB configuration (e.g., an SC SSB configuration or an NSC SSB configuration, depending on which measurements are to be performed) partially overlaps with both the SMTC and MG configurations. A first configuration may be said to partially overlap with a second configuration if some of the opportunities of the first configuration occur at the same time as the opportunities of the second configuration, while other opportunities of the first configuration occur at different times than the opportunities of the second configuration.

[0057] For the third scenario, P SC Can be set equal to: And P CDP Can be set equal to 1.

[0058] In the first option of the third scenario (referred to as scenario 3a), the periodic relationship is given by T SSB,SC <T SSB,CDP <T SMTC Definition. Scenario 3a may also be associated with a condition where the target SSB configuration partially overlaps with the SMTC but does not overlap with the MG configuration.

[0059] For scenario 3a, P SC Can be set equal to: And P CDPCan be set to be equal to 1.

[0060] In the second option of the third scenario (referred to as scenario 3b), the periodic relationship is defined by T SSB,SC <T SSB,CDP <MGRP. The 3b scenario can also be associated with conditions where the target SSB configuration partially overlaps with the MG configuration without overlapping with the SMTC.

[0061] For the 3b scenario, P SC Can be set to be equal to: And P CDP Can be set to be equal to 1.

[0062] In the fourth scenario, the periodic relationship is defined by T SSB,CDP <T SSB,SC <(T SMTC And MGRP). The fourth scenario can also be associated with conditions where the target SSB configuration partially overlaps with both the SMTC and MG configurations.

[0063] For the fourth scenario, P SC Can be set to be equal to 1 and P CDP Can be set to be equal to:

[0064] In the first option of the fourth scenario (referred to as scenario 4a), the periodic relationship is defined by T SSB,CDP <T SSB,SC <T SMTC The 4a scenario can also be associated with conditions where the target SSB configuration partially overlaps with the SMTC without overlapping with the MG configuration.

[0065] For the 4a scenario, P SC Can be set to be equal to 1 and P CDP Can be set to be equal to:

[0066] In the second option of the fourth scenario (referred to as scenario 4b), the periodic relationship is defined by T SSB,CDP <T SSB,SC <MGRP. The 4b scenario can also be associated with conditions where the target SSB configuration partially overlaps with the MG configuration without overlapping with the SMTC.

[0067] For the 4b scenario, P SC Can be set to be equal to 1 and P CDP Can be set to be equal to:

[0068] In the fifth scenario, the periodic relationship is defined as T SSB,CDP >=T SMTCIn this scenario, the L1-RSRP requirement may not apply.

[0069] The sixth scenario may be associated with the condition where the SSB opportunities of the SC and NSC completely overlap outside of the MG and SMTC opportunities. In this case, the intermediate sharing factor P SC and P CDP Both can be set equal to two.

[0070] In the seventh scenario, the periodic relationship is defined as T SSB,SC <T SSB,CDP The seventh scenario may also be associated with a condition in which the SSB timings of the SC SSB configuration and the NSC SSB configuration partially overlap with each other and are outside the timings of both the MG configuration and the SMTC.

[0071] In the seventh scene, P SC Can be set equal to And P CDP Can be set equal to 1.

[0072] The intermediate sharing factors determined based on table 200 or 300 may be used to determine the final sharing factors, as described below with respect to one of four cases.

[0073] In the first case, the SSB of the target SSB configuration may partially overlap with the timing of both the MG configuration and the SMTC, and the MG configuration may partially or completely overlap with the SMTC. In this case, the final sharing factor P may be provided by: Where P ISF is the intermediate sharing factor (P SC or P CDP ), as given by Table 200 or 300 discussed above. SSB Can be a periodicity associated with the target SSB configuration.

[0074] In the second case, the timing of the SSB of the target SSB configuration partially overlaps with both the MG configuration and the SMTC, and the MG configuration does not overlap with the SMTC. In this case, the final sharing factor P can be provided by the following formula:

[0075] In the third case, the SSB configured by the target SSB partially overlaps with the timing configured by the MG, but does not overlap with the timing of the SMTC. In this case, the final sharing factor P can be provided by the following formula:

[0076] In the fourth case, the SSB configured by the target SSB partially overlaps with the timing of the SMTC, but does not overlap with the timing configured by the MG. In this case, the final sharing factor P can be provided by the following formula:

[0077] Figure 4 An example opportunity 400 is illustrated according to some embodiments. Opportunity 400 may include opportunities from SC SSB configuration, NSC SSB configuration, MG configuration, and SMTC. Opportunity 400 represents an example of scenario 3, where T SSB,SC <T SSB,CDP <(T SMTC and MGRP) and the SSB configuration partially overlaps with the MG configuration and SMTC, and the MG configuration and SMTC partially or completely overlap.

[0078] SC SSB configuration can configure 10-ms periodicity and zero offset for SC SSB opportunities. NSC SSB configuration can configure 20-ms periodicity and zero offset for NSC SSB opportunities. SMTC can configure 40-ms periodicity and zero offset for opportunities. MG configuration can configure 80-ms periodicity and zero offset for MG opportunities.

[0079] In this case, both the MG opportunity and the SMTC opportunity partially overlap with the SC SSB opportunity. SC It may be necessary to consider the SMTC )The periodicity of both.

[0080] Because the periodic relationship of timing 400 corresponds to Figure 2 Scene 3 in P SC It can be found by the following formula: This simplifies to 3 / 2. This intermediate sharing factor can be used with the formula from the first case discussed above, where the target SSB configuration partially overlaps the SMTC and MG, and the MG and SMTC partially or completely overlap. Specifically, P SC can be used to determine the final sharing factor P by the following formula: This simplifies to 2.

[0081] The final sharing factor may mean that if a measurement requires x samples, then the UE 104 may need P*x opportunities in order to obtain those x samples. Figure 4 , if UE 104 needs four samples of SCSSB, it may need 4*2 SC SSB opportunities. The four samples obtained from eight opportunities are Figure 4 The timings at 10ms, 30ms, 50ms and 70ms are shown with dotted filling.

[0082] As shown by table 200, the intermediate sharing factor P for NSC 112 is CDP Can be set to unity for scenario 3. Use the same formula for the final sharing factor: This simplifies to 2.

[0083] refer to Figure 4 , if UE 104 needs two samples of NSC SSB, it may need 2*2 NSC SSB opportunities. The two samples obtained from four opportunities are Figure 4 The timings at 20 ms and 60 ms are shown with dotted filling.

[0084] Figure 5 An example opportunity 500 is illustrated according to some embodiments. Opportunity 500 may include opportunities from SC SSB configuration, NSC SSB configuration, MG configuration, and SMTC. Opportunity 500 represents an example in which an MG opportunity does not overlap with an SMTC opportunity or an NSC SSB opportunity, but partially overlaps with an SC SSB opportunity.

[0085] SC SSB configuration can configure 10-ms periodicity and zero offset for SC SSB opportunities. NSC SSB configuration can configure 20-ms periodicity and zero offset for NSC SSB opportunities. SMTC can configure 40-ms periodicity and zero offset for opportunities. MG configuration can configure 10-ms offset and 20-ms periodicity for MG opportunities.

[0086] In this case, outside of the SMTC and MG opportunities, the SC SSB and NSC SSB opportunities completely overlap. This may correspond to scenario 6 of table 300. Therefore, the intermediate sharing factor for both SC and NSC is two, for example P SC =2 and P CDP =2.

[0087] Since the SC SSB opportunity overlaps with both the MG opportunity and the SMTC opportunity, the intermediate sharing factor can be used with the formula from the second case discussed above, where the target SSB configuration partially overlaps with the SMTC and MG, but the MG and SMTC do not overlap. Specifically, P SC can be used to determine the final sharing factor P by the following formula: This simplifies to 8.

[0088] refer to Figure 5 , if UE 104 needs one sample of SC SSB, it may need 8*1 SC SSB opportunities. One sample obtained from eight opportunities is Figure 5 The SC SSB opportunity at 20 ms is shown with dotted filling.

[0089] Since the NSC SSB timing only overlaps with the SMTC timing, P CDPcan be used in the formula associated with the fourth case discussed above. Specifically, the final sharing factor P can be determined by the following formula: This simplifies to 4.

[0090] refer to Figure 5 , if UE 104 needs one sample of NSC SSB, it may need 1*4 NSC SSB opportunities. One sample obtained from four opportunities is Figure 5 The NSC SSB opportunity at 60 ms is shown with dotted filling.

[0091] In some embodiments, instead of determining intermediate sharing factors and using the intermediate sharing factors to calculate the final sharing factor, the final sharing factor may be derived directly based on counting the number of available opportunities.

[0092] Figure 6 Illustrated is a table 600 for directly determining a final sharing factor according to some embodiments. The direct determination of the final sharing factor in table 600 may be based on one or more of the following four overlap quantities.

[0093] First overlap number SSB SC1 is equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC ) time period that overlaps with the SSB opportunities of the NSC 112 but does not overlap with the opportunities of the MG configuration or the SMTC.

[0094] Second overlap number SSB CDP1 is equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC ) time period that overlaps with the SSB opportunities of SC110 but does not overlap with the opportunities of MG configuration or SMTC.

[0095] The third overlap number SSB SC2 is equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC ) time period that does not overlap with the SSB timing of NSC112, the timing configured by MG, or the timing of SMTC.

[0096] The third overlap number SSB CDP2 is equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC ) in a time period that does not overlap with the SSB timing of SC110, the timing configured by the MG, or the timing of the SMTC.

[0097] In the first scenario, the periodic relationship is given by T SSB,SC =T SSB,CDP <T SMTCThat is, the periodicities associated with the SC SSB configuration and the NSC SSB configuration are both equal to each other, smaller than the periodicity associated with the SMTC, and smaller than the periodicity associated with the MG configuration.

[0098] In the first scenario, the sharing factor P for SC 110 may be given by: And the sharing factor P for NSC 112 can be given by:

[0099] In the second scenario, the periodic relationship is given by T SSB,SC <T SSB,CDP <T SMTC Or MGRP definition. That is, the periodicity associated with the SC SSB configuration is less than the periodicity associated with the NSC SSB configuration, and the periodicity associated with the NSC SSB configuration is less than the periodicity associated with the SMTC and also less than the periodicity associated with the MG configuration. The second scenario can also be associated with a condition in which all SC SSB opportunities conflict with NCS SSB opportunities, MG configured opportunities, or SMTC opportunities.

[0100] In the second scenario, the sharing factor P for SC 110 may be given by: And the sharing factor P for NSC 112 can be given by:

[0101] In the third scenario, the periodic relationship is given by T SSB,CDP <T SSB,SC <=T SMTC Or MGRP definition. That is, the periodicity associated with the NSC SSB configuration is less than the periodicity associated with the SC SSB configuration, and the periodicity associated with the SC SSB configuration is less than or equal to the periodicity associated with the SMTC and also less than or equal to the periodicity associated with the MG configuration. The third scenario may also be associated with a condition in which all SC SSB opportunities conflict with NCS SSB opportunities, MG configured opportunities, or SMTC opportunities. In some embodiments, when determining the sharing factor for the NSC, the associated condition may be that all NSC SSB opportunities conflict with SC SSB opportunities, MG configured opportunities, or SMTC opportunities. However, given the relationship between the various opportunities, these conditions may actually be the same.

[0102] In the third scenario, the sharing factor P for SC 110 may be given by: And the sharing factor P for NSC 112 can be given by:

[0103] In the fourth scenario, the periodic relationship is given by T SSB,SC <T SSB,CDP <T SMTC or MGRP definition. That is, the periodicity associated with the SC SSB configuration is less than the periodicity associated with the NSC SSB configuration, and the periodicity associated with the NSC SSB configuration is less than the periodicity associated with the SMTC and also less than the periodicity associated with the MG configuration. The fourth scenario may also be associated with the condition that not all SC SSB opportunities overlap with NCS SSB opportunities, MG configured opportunities, or SMTC opportunities. That is, at least some of the SC SSB opportunities do not overlap with any other of these opportunities.

[0104] In the fourth scenario, the sharing factor P for SC 110 may be given by: And the sharing factor P for NSC 112 can be given by:

[0105] In the fifth scenario, the periodic relationship is represented by T SSB,CDP <T SSB,SC <T SMTC or MGRP definition. That is, the periodicity associated with the NSC SSB configuration is less than the periodicity associated with the SC SSB configuration, and the periodicity associated with the SC SSB configuration is less than the periodicity associated with the SMTC and also less than the periodicity associated with the MG configuration. The fifth scenario may also be associated with the condition that not all NSC SSB opportunities overlap with CS SSB opportunities, MG configured opportunities, or SMTC opportunities. That is, at least some of the NSC SSB opportunities do not overlap with any other of these opportunities.

[0106] In the fifth scenario, the sharing factor P for SC 110 may be given by: And the sharing factor P for NSC 112 can be given by:

[0107] Figure 7 An example opportunity 700 is illustrated according to some embodiments. The opportunity 700 may include opportunities from SC SSB configuration, NSC SSB configuration, MG configuration, and SMTC. The opportunity 700 represents Figure 6 Example of scenario 1, where T SSB,SC =T SSB,CDP <T SMTC or MGRP.

[0108] SC SSB configuration can configure 20-ms periodicity and zero offset for SC SSB opportunities. NSC SSB configuration can configure 20-ms periodicity and zero offset for NSC SSB opportunities. SMTC can configure 40-ms periodicity and zero offset for opportunities. MG configuration can configure 80-ms periodicity and 20 ms offset for MG opportunities.

[0109] First overlap number SSB SC1 is one, because there is an instance (e.g., at 60 ms) where the SSB opportunity is within the 80 ms period (e.g., equal to max(MGRP, T SMTC )) does not overlap with the opportunities configured from SMTC or MG. The sharing factor for SC110 can be determined by the following formula: This simplifies to 16 / 2 / 1=8.

[0110] refer to Figure 7 , if UE 104 needs one sample of SC SSB, it may need 1*8 SC SSB opportunities. One sample obtained from eight opportunities is Figure 7 The timing at 60 ms is shown with dotted filling.

[0111] The third overlap number SSB CDP1 is one, because there is an instance (e.g., at 60 ms) where the SSB opportunity is within the 80 ms period (e.g., equal to max(MGRP, T SMTC )) does not overlap with the opportunities configured from SMTC or MG. The sharing factor for NSC110 can be determined by the following formula: This simplifies to 16 / 2 / 1=8.

[0112] refer to Figure 7 , if UE 104 needs one sample of NSC SSB, it may need 1*8 NSC SSB opportunities. One sample obtained from eight opportunities is Figure 7 The timing at 140 ms is shown with dotted filling.

[0113] Figure 8 An example opportunity 800 is illustrated according to some embodiments. The opportunity 800 may include opportunities from SC SSB configuration, NSC SSB configuration, MG configuration, and SMTC. The opportunity 800 represents Figure 6 Example of scenario 2, where T SSB,SC <T SSB,CDP <T SMTC Or MGRP and all SC SSB timings conflict with NSC timing, MG configured timing or SMTC timing.

[0114] SC SSB configuration can configure 10-ms periodicity and zero offset for SC SSB opportunities. NSC SSB configuration can configure 20-ms periodicity and 10 ms offset for NSC SSB opportunities. SMTC can configure 40-ms periodicity and zero offset for opportunities. MG configuration can configure 20-ms periodicity and zero offset for MG opportunities.

[0115] First overlap number SSB SC1 is two because there are two instances (e.g., at 10 ms and at 30 ms) where the SSB opportunity is within the 40 ms period (e.g., equal to max(MGRP, T SMTC )) does not overlap with the opportunities configured from SMTC or MG. The sharing factor for SC 110 can be determined by the following formula: This simplifies to 8 / 1 / 2=4.

[0116] refer to Figure 8 , if UE 104 needs two samples of SC SSB, it may need 2*4 SC SSB opportunities. The two samples obtained from eight opportunities are Figure 8 The timings at 30 ms and 70 ms are shown with dotted filling.

[0117] Second overlap number SSB CDP1 is two because there are two instances (e.g., at 10 ms and 30 ms) where the SSB opportunity is within the 80 ms period (e.g., equal to max(MGRP, T SMTC )) does not overlap with the opportunities configured from the SMTC or MG. The sharing factor for NSC 110 can be determined by the following formula: This simplifies to 8 / 2 / 2=2.

[0118] refer to Figure 8 , if UE 104 needs two samples of NSC SSB, it may need 2*2 NSC SSB opportunities. The two samples obtained from four opportunities are Figure 8 The timings at 10 ms and 50 ms are shown with dotted filling.

[0119] Fig. 9 An example opportunity 900 is illustrated according to some embodiments. The opportunity 900 may include opportunities from SC SSB configuration, NSC SSB configuration, MG configuration, and SMTC. The opportunity 900 represents Figure 6 Example of scenario 4, where T SSB,SC <T SSB,CDP <T SMTC or MGRP and not all SCSSB opportunities conflict with NSC SSB opportunities, MG configured opportunities or SMTC opportunities.

[0120] SC SSB configuration can configure 10-ms periodicity and zero offset for SC SSB opportunities. NSC SSB configuration can configure 20-ms periodicity and zero offset for NSC SSB opportunities. SMTC can configure 40-ms periodicity and zero offset for opportunities. MG configuration can configure 80-ms periodicity and 10 ms offset for MG opportunities.

[0121] The third overlap number SSB SC2 is three because there are three instances (e.g., at 30 ms, 50 ms, and 70 ms) where the SC SSB opportunity is within the 80 ms period (e.g., equal to max(MGRP, T SMTC )) does not overlap with the NSC SSB timing, the timing of the SMTC, or the timing configured by the MG. The sharing factor for SC 110 can be determined by the following formula: This simplifies to 8 / 1 / 3=8 / 3.

[0122] refer to Fig. 9 , if UE 104 needs three samples of SC SSB, it may need 3*(8 / 3) SC SSB opportunities. The three samples obtained from eight opportunities are Fig. 9 The timings at 30ms, 50ms and 70ms are shown with dotted filling.

[0123] Second overlap number SSB CDP1 is two because there are two instances (e.g., at 20 ms and 60 ms) where the NSCSSB opportunity is in the 80 ms period (e.g., equal to max(MGRP, T SMTC )) overlaps with the SC SSB opportunities but does not overlap with opportunities from SMTC or MG configuration. The sharing factor for NSC 110 can be determined by the following formula: This simplifies to 8 / 2 / 2=2.

[0124] refer to Fig. 9 , if UE 104 needs two samples of NSC SSB, it may need 2*2 NSC SSB opportunities. The two samples obtained from four opportunities are Fig. 9 The timings at 20 ms and 60 ms are shown with dotted filling.

[0125] Fig.10 An example opportunity 1000 is illustrated according to some embodiments. The opportunity 1000 may include opportunities from SC SSB configuration, NSC SSB configuration, MG configuration, and SMTC. The opportunity 1000 represents Figure 6 Example of scenario 5, where T SSB,CDP <T SSB,SC <T SMTCor MGRP and not all NSC SSB opportunities overlap with SC SSB opportunities, MG configured opportunities or SMTC opportunities.

[0126] SC SSB configuration can configure 20-ms periodicity and zero offset for SC SSB opportunities. NSC SSB configuration can configure 10-ms periodicity and zero offset for NSC SSB opportunities. SMTC can configure 40-ms periodicity and zero offset for opportunities. MG configuration can configure 80-ms periodicity and 30 ms offset for MG opportunities.

[0127] First overlap number SSB SC1 is two because there are two instances (eg, at 20 ms and 60 ms) where the SCSSB opportunity is in the 80 ms period (eg, equal to max(MGRP, T SMTC )) overlaps with the NSC SSB timing but does not overlap with the timing of the SMTC or the timing configured by the MG. The sharing factor for SC 110 can be determined by the following formula: This simplifies to 8 / 2 / 2=2.

[0128] refer to Fig.10 , if UE 104 needs two samples of SC SSB, it may need 2*2 SC SSB opportunities. The two samples obtained from four opportunities are Fig.10 The timings at 20 ms and 60 ms are shown with dotted filling.

[0129] Fourth overlap number SSB CDP2 is three because there are three instances (e.g., at 10 ms, 50 ms, and 70 ms) where the NSC SSB opportunity is within the 80 ms period (e.g., equal to max(MGRP, T SMTC )) does not overlap with SC SSB opportunities, opportunities from SMTC, or opportunities configured from MG. The sharing factor for NSC 110 can be determined by the following formula: This simplifies to 8 / 1 / 3=8 / 3.

[0130] refer to Fig.10 , if UE 104 needs three samples of NSC SSB, it may need 3*(8 / 3) NSC SSB opportunities. The three samples obtained from eight opportunities are Fig.10 The timings at 10 ms, 50 ms and 70 ms are shown with dotted filling.

[0131] Fig.11An operational flow / algorithm structure 1100 is illustrated according to some aspects. The operational flow / algorithm structure 1100 may be performed or implemented by a UE, such as UE 104 or 1400, or a component thereof; (eg, baseband processor 1404A).

[0132] The operational flow / algorithm structure 1100 may include determining the SC SSB configuration, the NSC SSB configuration, the MG configuration, and the SMTC at 1104. The configuration may be determined based on signaling from the serving cell. Each of the configurations may include a periodicity and an offset value.

[0133] The operational flow / algorithm structure 1100 may also include, at 1108, determining periodicity and overlapping relationships.

[0134] The periodicity relationship may be among at least two periodicities, the at least two periodicities including a first periodicity associated with an SCSSB configuration, a second periodicity associated with an NSC SSB configuration, a third periodicity of an SSB measurement timing configuration (SMTC), or a fourth periodicity of a measurement gap (MG) configuration. The determined periodicity relationship may be one of those periodicity relationships referenced in any one of scenarios 1 to 7 of Tables 200 and 300.

[0135] The overlapping relationship may be about the target SSB configuration and the SMTC or MG configuration. The target SSB configuration may be an SC SSB configuration or an NSC SSB configuration.

[0136] The operation flow / algorithm structure 1100 may also include, at 1112, determining an intermediate sharing factor. The intermediate sharing factors may be P SC or P CDP , depending on whether the measurement to be performed is for the SC or for the NSC / CDP.

[0137] The intermediate sharing factor may be determined based on a formula associated with one of the scenarios 1-7 of tables 200 and 300. This may be based on the periodic relationship determined at 1108. In some cases, a particular scenario may also be determined based on associated conditions as described above with respect to tables 200 and 300.

[0138] Regarding scenario 3-3b, the periodicity relationship may include SC SSB periodicity being less than NSC SSB periodicity, and NSC SSB periodicity being less than SMTC periodicity or MG periodicity. And the intermediate sharing factor may be one or based on the ratio of SC SSB periodicity to NSC SSB periodicity.

[0139] Regarding scenario 4-4b, the periodicity relationship may include that the SC SSB periodicity is greater than the NSC SSB periodicity, and the SC SSB periodicity is less than the SMTC periodicity or the MG periodicity. And the intermediate sharing factor may be one or based on the ratio of the NSC SSB periodicity to the SC SSB periodicity.

[0140] With respect to scenarios 6 and 7, the periodicity relationship may not necessarily be determined at 1108. Instead, the first overlapping relationship may be determined based on which SSB timings of the SC SSB configuration and which SSB timings of the NSC SSB configuration fully or partially overlap each other outside of the timings of the MG configuration and the timings of the SMTC. The intermediate sharing factor may be determined based on the first overlapping relationship. The intermediate sharing factor may be equal to one, two, or based on a ratio of the SC SSB periodicity to the NSC SSB periodicity.

[0141] The second overlapping relationship is about SC SSB configuration and SMTC or MG configuration.

[0142] The operation flow / algorithm structure 1100 may also include, at 1116, determining a final sharing factor. The final sharing factor may be determined based on the intermediate sharing factor and the overlap relationship (the second overlap relationship regarding scenes 6 and 7) determined at 1108. Specifically, the overlap relationship determined at 1108 may be used to select one of the above four cases for determining the final sharing factor based on the intermediate sharing factor.

[0143] Fig.12 An operational flow / algorithm structure 1200 is illustrated according to some aspects. The operational flow / algorithm structure 1200 may be performed or implemented by a UE, such as UE 104 or 1400, or a component thereof; (eg, baseband processor 1404A).

[0144] The operational flow / algorithm structure 1200 may include determining the SC SSB configuration, the NSC SSB configuration, the MG configuration, and the SMTC at 1204. The configuration may be determined based on signaling from a serving cell. Each of the configurations may include a periodicity and an offset value.

[0145] The operational flow / algorithm structure 1200 may also include, at 1208, determining a periodic relationship and an amount of overlap.

[0146] The periodicity relationship may be among at least two periodicities, the at least two periodicities including a first periodicity associated with a SCSSB configuration, a second periodicity associated with a NSC SSB configuration, a third periodicity of a SMTC, or a fourth periodicity of a MG configuration. The determined periodicity relationship may be one of those periodicity relationships referenced in any one of scenarios 1 to 5 of Table 600.

[0147] can be equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC ) time period to determine the overlap amount. The overlap amount may correspond to the above Figure 6 The SSB in question SC1 、SSB CDP1 、SSB SC2 or SSB CDP2 .

[0148] The operation flow / algorithm structure 1200 may also include, at 1212, determining a final sharing factor. The final sharing factor may be based on the periodic relationship and the overlap amount. Specifically, the periodic relationship may be used to select a scenario from the table 600, and the overlap amount may be used in a corresponding formula from the selected scenario.

[0149] Fig.13 An operational flow / algorithm structure 1300 is illustrated in accordance with some aspects. The operational flow / algorithm structure 1300 may be performed or implemented by a serving base station, such as base station 108 or 1500, or a component thereof; (eg, baseband processor 1504A).

[0150] The operational flow / algorithm structure 1300 may include, at 1304, sending information configuring SC / NSC SSB configuration, MG configuration, and SMTC.

[0151] The operational flow / algorithm structure 1300 may also include, at 1308, determining a sharing factor. The sharing factor may be determined in a manner similar to that discussed elsewhere herein. For example, the base station may first determine an intermediate sharing factor and then determine a final sharing factor, as described above with respect to tables 200 and 300. Alternatively, the base station may directly derive the final sharing factor, as described above with respect to table 600.

[0152] The operational flow / algorithm structure 1300 may also include determining an L1 measurement period based on the sharing factor at 1312. The base station may determine the L1 measurement period in a manner similar to that described elsewhere herein.

[0153] The base station may expect to report L1-RSRP measurements for the L1 measurement period. In the event that no measurements are received, the base station may assume that there has been a link or beam failure and may proceed to perform link / beam recovery or reconfiguration operations.

[0154] Fig.14 UE 1400 according to some embodiments is shown. UE 1400 may be similar to Figure 1 UE 104 and is substantially interchangeable therewith.

[0155] UE 1400 can be any mobile or non-mobile computing device, such as, for example, a mobile phone, a computer, a tablet, an XR device, glasses, an industrial wireless sensor (e.g., a microphone, a carbon dioxide sensor, a pressure sensor, a humidity sensor, a thermometer, a motion sensor, an accelerometer, a laser scanner, a fluid level sensor, an inventory sensor, a voltage / current meter, or an actuator), a video surveillance / monitoring device (e.g., a camera or a camcorder), a wearable device (e.g., a smart watch), or an IoT device.

[0156] UE 1400 may include a processor 1404, RF interface circuitry 1408, memory / storage 1412, a user interface 1416, a sensor 1420, a driver circuit 1422, a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) 1424, antenna structures 1426, and a battery 1428. The components of UE 1400 may be implemented as an integrated circuit (IC), a portion of an integrated circuit, a discrete electronic device, or other module, logic, hardware, software, firmware, or a combination thereof. Fig.14 The block diagram of UE 1400 is intended to show a high-level view of some of the components of UE 1400. However, some of the components shown may be omitted, additional components may be present, and different arrangements of the components shown may occur in other implementations.

[0157] Components of UE 1400 may be coupled to various other components via one or more interconnects 1432, which may represent any type of interface, input / output, bus (local, system, or extension), transmission line, trace, or optical connection that allows various circuit components (on a common or different chip or chipset) to interact with each other.

[0158] The processor 1404 may include processor circuits such as, for example, a baseband processor circuit (BB) 1404A, a central processor unit circuit (CPU) 1404B, and a graphics processor unit circuit (GPU) 1404C. The processor 1404 may include any type of circuit or processor circuit that executes or otherwise operates computer-executable instructions (such as program codes, software modules, or functional processes from the memory / storage device 1412) to cause the UE 1400 to perform operations as described herein.

[0159] In some embodiments, the baseband processor circuit 1404A can access the communication protocol stack 1436 in the memory / storage device 1412 to communicate through a 3GPP compatible network. Generally speaking, the baseband processor circuit 1404A can access the communication protocol stack 1436 to perform the following operations: perform user plane functions at the PHY layer, MAC layer, RLC sublayer, PDCP sublayer, SDAP sublayer, and upper layers; and perform control plane functions at the PHY layer, MAC layer, RLC sublayer, PDCP sublayer, RRC layer, and NAS layer. In some embodiments, the PHY layer operations can be additionally / alternatively performed by components of the RF interface circuit 1408.

[0160] The baseband processor circuit 1404A may generate or process baseband signals or waveforms that carry information in a 3GPP-compatible network. In some embodiments, the waveforms used for NR may be based on cyclic prefix OFDM (CP-OFDM) in the uplink or downlink, and discrete Fourier transform spread OFDM (DFT-S-OFDM) in the uplink.

[0161] The memory / storage 1412 may include one or more non-transitory computer-readable media including instructions (e.g., the communication protocol stack 1436) that may be executed by one or more processors in the processor 1404 to cause the UE 1400 to perform various operations described herein. The memory / storage 1412 includes any type of volatile or non-volatile memory that may be distributed throughout the UE 1400. In some embodiments, some of the memory / storage 1412 may be located on the processor 1404 itself (e.g., L1 cache and L2 cache), while other memory / storage 1412 is located outside the processor 1404 but is accessible via a memory interface. The memory / storage 1412 may include any suitable volatile or non-volatile memory, such as, but not limited to, dynamic random access memory (DRAM), static random access memory (SRAM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), flash memory, solid-state memory, or any other type of memory device technology.

[0162] The RF interface circuit 1408 may include a transceiver circuit and a radio frequency front end module (RFEM), which allows the UE 1400 to communicate with other devices through a radio access network. The RF interface circuit 1408 may include various elements arranged in a transmit path or a receive path. These elements may include, for example, switches, mixers, amplifiers, filters, synthesizer circuits, and control circuits.

[0163] In the receive path, the RFEM may receive the radiated signal from the air interface via the antenna structure 1426 and continue to filter and amplify the signal (using a low noise amplifier). The signal may be provided to the transceiver's receiver, which down-converts the RF signal to a baseband signal that is provided to the baseband processor of the processor 1404.

[0164] In the transmit path, the transmitter of the transceiver up-converts the baseband signal received from the baseband processor and provides the RF signal to the RFEM. The RFEM may amplify the RF signal through a power amplifier before the signal is radiated across the air interface via the antenna 1426.

[0165] In various embodiments, the RF interface circuit 1408 may be configured to send / receive signals in a manner compatible with NR access technology.

[0166] Antenna 1426 may include antenna elements to convert electrical signals into radio waves to travel through the air and convert received radio waves into electrical signals. These antenna elements may be arranged into one or more antenna panels. Antenna 1426 may have antenna panels that are omnidirectional, directional, or a combination thereof to enable beamforming and multiple input / multiple output communications. Antenna 1426 may include: microstrip antennas; printed antennas fabricated on the surface of one or more printed circuit boards; patch antennas or phased array antennas. Antenna 1426 may have one or more panels designed for specific frequency bands including frequency bands in FR1 or FR2.

[0167] The user interface circuit 1416 includes various input / output (I / O) devices designed to enable a user to interact with the UE 1400. The user interface 1416 includes input device circuits and output device circuits. The input device circuit includes any physical or virtual components for accepting input, including in particular one or more physical or virtual buttons (e.g., reset button), physical keyboard, keypad, mouse, touch pad, touch screen, microphone, scanner, headset, etc. The output device circuit includes any physical or virtual components for displaying information or otherwise conveying information (such as sensor readings, actuator positions, or other similar information). The output device circuit may include any number or combination of audio or visual displays, including in particular one or more simple visual outputs / indicators (e.g., binary state indicators, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) and multi-character visual outputs), or more complex outputs, such as display devices or touch screens (e.g., liquid crystal displays (LCDs), LED displays, quantum dot displays, and projectors), where the output of characters, graphics, multimedia objects, etc. is generated or produced by the operation of the UE 1400.

[0168] Sensors 1420 may include devices, modules, or subsystems that are designed to detect events or changes in their environment and send information about the detected events (sensor data) to some other device, module, or subsystem. Examples of such sensors include: an inertial measurement unit including an accelerometer, gyroscope, or magnetometer; a microelectromechanical system or nanoelectromechanical system including a three-axis accelerometer, a three-axis gyroscope, or a magnetometer; a liquid level sensor; a flow sensor; a temperature sensor (e.g., a thermistor); a pressure sensor; a barometric pressure sensor; a gravity meter; an altimeter; an image capture device (e.g., a camera or a lensless aperture); a light detection and ranging sensor; a proximity sensor (e.g., an infrared radiation detector, etc.); a depth sensor; an ambient light sensor; an ultrasonic transceiver; and a microphone or other similar audio capture device.

[0169] The driver circuit 1422 may include software and hardware elements for controlling a particular device embedded in, attached to, or otherwise communicatively coupled to the UE 1400. The driver circuit 1422 may include various drivers to allow other components to interact with or control various I / O devices that may be present in or connected to the UE 1400. For example, the driver circuit 1412 may include circuits that facilitate coupling a UICC (e.g., UICC 148) to the UE 1400. For additional examples, the driver circuit 1422 may include: a display driver for controlling and allowing access to a display device, a touch screen driver for controlling and allowing access to a touch screen interface, a sensor driver for obtaining sensor readings of the sensor circuit 1420 and controlling and allowing access to the sensor circuit 1420, a driver for obtaining an actuator position of an electromechanical component or controlling and allowing access to an electromechanical component, a camera driver for controlling and allowing access to an embedded image capture device, and an audio driver for controlling and allowing access to one or more audio devices.

[0170] The PMIC 1424 may manage the power provided to various components of the UE 1400. Specifically, with respect to the processor 1404, the PMIC 1424 may control power source selection, voltage scaling, battery charging, or DC-DC conversion.

[0171] In some embodiments, the PMIC 1424 may control or otherwise be a part of various power saving mechanisms of the UE 1400, including DRX, as discussed herein.

[0172] The battery 1428 can power the UE 1400, but in some examples, the UE 1400 can be installed and deployed in a fixed location and can have a power source coupled to the power grid. The battery 1428 can be a lithium-ion battery, a metal-air battery such as a zinc-air battery, an aluminum-air battery, a lithium-air battery, etc. In some specific implementations, such as in vehicle-based applications, the battery 1428 can be a typical lead-acid car battery.

[0173] Fig.15 A network node 1500 is shown according to some embodiments. The network node 1500 may be similar to the base station 158 and may be substantially interchangeable therewith.

[0174] The network node 1500 may include a processor 1504 , RF interface circuitry 1508 (if implemented as an access node), core network (CN) interface circuitry 1512 , memory / storage circuitry 1516 , and antenna structures 1526 .

[0175] Components of network node 1500 may be coupled to various other components via one or more interconnects 1528 .

[0176] The processor 1504, RF interface circuit 1508, memory / storage circuit 1516 (including communication protocol stack 1510), antenna structure 1526 and interconnect 1528 may be similar to those of reference Fig. 9 Like named elements are shown and described.

[0177] The CN interface circuit 1512 may provide a connection to a core network (e.g., a 5GC using a 5th generation core network (5GC) compatible network interface protocol such as a carrier Ethernet protocol or some other suitable protocol). The network connection may be provided to / from the network node 1500 via optical fiber or wireless backhaul. The CN interface circuit 1512 may include one or more dedicated processors or FPGAs for communicating using one or more of the aforementioned protocols. In some implementations, the CN interface circuit 1512 may include multiple controllers for providing connections to other networks using the same or different protocols.

[0178] In some embodiments, the network node 1500 may use antenna structures 1526, CN interface circuits, or other interface circuits to couple to a transmit receive point (TRP).

[0179] It is understood that the use of personally identifiable information should be subject to privacy policies and practices that are generally recognized to meet or exceed industry or government requirements for maintaining user privacy. Specifically, personally identifiable information data should be managed and processed to minimize the risk of unintentional or unauthorized access or use, and the nature of the authorized use should be clearly stated to users.

[0180] For one or more aspects, at least one of the components shown in one or more of the foregoing figures may be configured to perform one or more operations, techniques, processes, or methods described in the following embodiments section. For example, the baseband circuit described above in conjunction with one or more of the foregoing figures may be configured to operate according to one or more of the examples described below. For another example, the circuits associated with the UE, base station, network element, etc. described above in conjunction with one or more of the foregoing figures may be configured to operate according to one or more of the examples described below in the examples section.

[0181] Example

[0182] In the following sections, additional exemplary aspects are provided.

[0183] Embodiment 1 includes a method, the method comprising: determining an SC synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB) configuration for layer 1 (L1) measurement of a serving cell (SC) associated with a first physical cell identifier (PCI); determining an NSC SSB configuration for L1 measurement of a non-serving cell (NSC) associated with a second PCI; comparing at least two periodicities, the at least two periodicities including a first periodicity associated with the SC SSB configuration, a second periodicity associated with the NSC SSB configuration, a third periodicity of an SSB measurement timing configuration (SMTC), or a fourth periodicity of a measurement gap (MG) configuration; and determining a period equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC ) time period to determine the overlap amount, where T SMTC is the third periodicity, and MGRP is the fourth periodicity; determining a sharing factor based on the overlap quantity and the comparing at least two periodicities to identify a measurement opportunity for a target SSB configuration; and performing measurement on the measurement opportunity of the target SSB configuration.

[0184] Embodiment 2 includes the method of embodiment 1 or any other embodiment herein. The method of claim 1, wherein: the comparing includes determining the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is equal to the second periodicity, less than the third periodicity and less than the fourth periodicity; the target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the method further includes determining the intermediate sharing factor to be equal to: Among them, SSB SC1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

[0185] Embodiment 3 includes the method of embodiment 1 or any other embodiment herein, wherein: the comparing includes determining that the first periodicity is equal to the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), is less than the third periodicity, and is less than the fourth periodicity; and the target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a set of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

[0186] Embodiment 4 includes the method of embodiment 1 or any other embodiment herein, wherein: the comparing includes determining the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is less than the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), and determining that the second periodicity is less than the third periodicity and less than the fourth periodicity; the method further includes determining that all SSB timings of the SC SSB configuration overlap with the SSB timing of the NSC SSB configuration, the timing of the MG configuration, or the timing of the SMTC; and the target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB SC1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

[0187] Embodiment 5 includes the method of embodiment 1 or any other embodiment herein, wherein the comparing includes: determining a first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is less than the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), and determining that the second periodicity is less than the third periodicity and less than the fourth periodicity; the method further includes determining that all SSB timings of the SC SSB configuration overlap with the SSB timing of the NSC SSB configuration, the timing of the MG configuration, or the timing of the SMTC; and the target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP1is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a set of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

[0188] Embodiment 6 includes the method according to embodiment 1 or any other embodiment herein, wherein: the comparing includes: determining the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ) is less than the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ), and determining that the first periodicity is less than or equal to the third periodicity, and less than or equal to the fourth periodicity; the method further includes determining that all SSB timings of the SC SSB configuration overlap with the SSB timing of the NSC SSB configuration, the timing of the MG configuration, or the timing of the SMTC; the target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB SC1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

[0189] Embodiment 7 includes the method according to embodiment 1 or any other embodiment herein, wherein: the comparing includes: determining the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ) is less than the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ), and determining that the first periodicity is less than or equal to the third periodicity, and less than or equal to the fourth periodicity; the method further includes determining that all SSB timings of the SC SSB configuration overlap with the SSB timing of the NSC SSB configuration, the timing of the MG configuration, or the timing of the SMTC; the target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a set of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

[0190] Embodiment 8 includes the method according to embodiment 1 or any other embodiment herein, wherein: the comparing includes: determining the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is less than the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP), and determining that the second periodicity is less than the third periodicity and less than the fourth periodicity; the method further includes determining that at least some SSB opportunities in the SC SSB configuration do not overlap with any opportunity in a group of opportunities including the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration, the opportunities of the MG configuration, and the opportunities of the SMTC; the target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Wherein, SSB SC2 is the overlap quantity and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities in the SC SSB configuration that do not overlap with any opportunity in a set of opportunities in the time period.

[0191] Embodiment 9 includes the method according to embodiment 1 or any other embodiment herein, wherein: the comparing includes: determining the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is smaller than the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), and determining that the second periodicity is less than the third periodicity and less than the fourth periodicity; the method further includes determining that at least some SSB opportunities in the SC SSB configuration do not overlap with any opportunity in a group of opportunities including the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration, the opportunities of the MG configuration, and the opportunities of the SMTC; the target SSB configuration is the NSCSSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a set of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

[0192] Embodiment 10 includes the method according to embodiment 1 or any other embodiment herein, wherein: the comparing includes: determining the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ) is less than the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ), and determining that the first periodicity is less than or equal to the third periodicity and less than or equal to the fourth periodicity; the method also includes determining that at least some SSB opportunities in the NSC SSB configuration do not overlap with any opportunities in a first group of opportunities including SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, and opportunities of the SMTC; and the target SSB configuration is the SCSSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB SC1 is the number of overlaps and is equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC) within the time period of the MG, the number of SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration but do not overlap with any opportunity of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

[0193] Embodiment 11 includes the method according to embodiment 1 or any other embodiment herein, wherein: the comparing includes: determining the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ) is less than the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ), and determining that the first periodicity is less than or equal to the third periodicity and less than or equal to the fourth periodicity; the method also includes determining that at least some SSB opportunities in the NSC SSB configuration do not overlap with any opportunities in a first group of opportunities including SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, and opportunities of the SMTC; and the target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP2 is the overlap quantity and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that do not overlap with any opportunity in a set of opportunities within the time period.

[0194] Embodiment 12 includes a method for operating a base station, the method comprising: sending information to a user equipment (UE) for configuring an SC synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel block (SSB) configuration for layer 1 (L1) measurement of a serving cell (SC) associated with a first physical cell identifier (PCI), an NSC SSB configuration for L1 measurement of a non-serving cell (NSC) associated with a second PCI, a measurement gap (MG) configuration, and an SSB measurement timing configuration (SMTC); comparing at least two periodicities, the at least two periodicities comprising a first periodicity associated with the SC SSB configuration, a second periodicity associated with the NSC SSB configuration, a third periodicity of the SSB measurement timing configuration (SMTC), or a fourth periodicity of the measurement gap (MG) configuration; and comparing a periodicity equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC ) time period to determine the overlap amount, where T SMTC is the third periodicity, and MGRP is the fourth periodicity; determining a sharing factor based on the overlap quantity and the comparing at least two periodicities to identify a measurement opportunity for a target SSB configuration.

[0195] Embodiment 13 includes the method according to embodiment 19 or some other embodiment herein, the method further comprising: determining the L1 measurement period based on the final sharing factor.

[0196] Embodiment 14 may include an apparatus comprising means for performing one or more elements of a method as described or related to any of Embodiments 1 to 13, or any other method or process described herein.

[0197] Embodiment 15 may include one or more non-transitory computer-readable media, which include instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device, cause the electronic device to perform one or more elements of a method described or related to any one of Embodiments 1 to 13 or any other method or process described herein.

[0198] Embodiment 16 may include an apparatus comprising logic components, modules, or circuits for performing one or more elements of a method as described or related to any of Embodiments 1 to 13, or any other method or process described herein.

[0199] Embodiment 17 may include methods, techniques or processes as described or related to any one of Embodiments 1 to 13, or portions or components thereof.

[0200] Embodiment 18 may include a device comprising: one or more processors and one or more computer-readable media, wherein the one or more computer-readable media include instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method, technique, or process, or a portion thereof, as described or related to any one of Embodiments 1 to 13.

[0201] Embodiment 19 may include a signal as described or related to any one of embodiments 1 to 13, or a portion or component thereof.

[0202] Embodiment 20 may include a datagram, information element, packet, frame, segment, PDU or message, or a portion or component thereof, as described or associated with any one of Embodiments 1 to 13, or otherwise described in the present disclosure.

[0203] Embodiment 21 may include a signal encoded with data as described or associated with any one of Embodiments 1 to 13, or a portion or component thereof, or otherwise described in this disclosure.

[0204] Embodiment 22 may include a signal encoded with a datagram, IE, packet, frame, segment, PDU or message as described or related to any one of Embodiments 1 to 13, or a part or component thereof, or otherwise described in the present disclosure.

[0205] Embodiment 23 may include an electromagnetic signal carrying computer-readable instructions, wherein execution of the computer-readable instructions by one or more processors will cause the one or more processors to perform a method, technique, or process, or a portion thereof, as described or related to any one of Embodiments 1 to 13.

[0206] Embodiment 24 may include a computer program comprising instructions, wherein execution of the program by a processing element causes the processing element to perform a method, technique, or process, or a portion thereof, as described or related to any one of Embodiments 1 to 13.

[0207] Embodiment 25 may include signals in a wireless network as shown and described herein.

[0208] Embodiment 26 may include a method of communicating in a wireless network as shown and described herein.

[0209] Embodiment 27 may include a system for providing wireless communications as shown and described herein.

[0210] Embodiment 28 may include an apparatus for providing wireless communications as shown and described herein.

[0211] Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any of the above embodiments may be combined with any other embodiment (or combination of embodiments). The foregoing description of one or more specific implementations provides illustration and description, but is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the scope of the various aspects to the precise form disclosed. In view of the above teachings, modifications and variations are possible or can be obtained from the practice of various aspects.

[0212] Although the above aspects have been described in considerable detail, numerous variations and modifications will become apparent to those skilled in the art once the above disclosure is fully appreciated. It is intended that the following claims be interpreted to include all such variations and modifications.

Claims

1. A method comprising: determining a serving cell (SC) synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB) configuration for layer 1 (L1) measurements of a SC associated with a first physical cell identity (PCI); determining a non-serving cell (NSC) SSB configuration for L1 measurement of a NSC associated with a second PCI; comparing at least two periodicities, the at least two periodicities comprising a first periodicity associated with the SC SSB configuration, a second periodicity associated with the NSC SSB configuration, a third periodicity of an SSB measurement timing configuration (SMTC), or a fourth periodicity of a measurement gap (MG) configuration; About equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC ) time period to determine the overlap amount, where T SMTC is the third periodicity, and MGRP is the fourth periodicity; determining a sharing factor based on the overlap amount and the comparing at least two periodicities to identify a measurement opportunity for a target SSB configuration; as well as Measurements are performed on the measurement opportunities configured for the target SSB.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein: The comparison includes determining the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is equal to the second periodicity, smaller than the third periodicity and smaller than the fourth periodicity; The target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the method further comprises determining the intermediate sharing factor equal to: Among them, SSB SC1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein: The comparison includes determining that the first periodicity is equal to the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), is smaller than the third periodicity, and is smaller than the fourth periodicity; and The target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a set of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein: The comparison includes determining the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is less than the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), and determining that the second periodicity is smaller than the third periodicity and smaller than the fourth periodicity; The method further includes determining that all SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration overlap with SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, or opportunities of the SMTC; as well as The target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB SC1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein: The comparison includes: determining a first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is less than the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), and determining that the second periodicity is smaller than the third periodicity and smaller than the fourth periodicity; The method further includes determining that all SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration overlap with SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, or opportunities of the SMTC; and The target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a set of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein: The comparison includes: determining the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ) is less than the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ), and determining that the first periodicity is less than or equal to the third periodicity, and less than or equal to the fourth periodicity; The method further includes determining that all SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration overlap with SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, or opportunities of the SMTC; The target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB SC1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein: The comparison includes: determining the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ) is less than the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ), and determining that the first periodicity is less than or equal to the third periodicity, and less than or equal to the fourth periodicity; The method further includes determining that all SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration overlap with SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, or opportunities of the SMTC; The target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a set of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein: The comparison includes: determining the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is less than the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), and determining that the second periodicity is smaller than the third periodicity and smaller than the fourth periodicity; The method further includes determining that at least some SSB opportunities in the SC SSB configuration do not overlap with any opportunities in a set of opportunities including SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, and opportunities of the SMTC; The target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Wherein, SSBSC2 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities in the SC SSB configuration that do not overlap with any opportunity in a set of opportunities in the time period.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein: The comparison includes: determining the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is less than the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), and determining that the second periodicity is smaller than the third periodicity and smaller than the fourth periodicity; The method further includes determining that at least some SSB opportunities in the SC SSB configuration do not overlap with any opportunities in a set of opportunities including SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, and opportunities of the SMTC; The target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a set of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein: The comparison includes: determining the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ) is less than the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ), and determining that the first periodicity is less than or equal to the third periodicity and less than or equal to the fourth periodicity; The method further includes determining that at least some SSB opportunities in the NSC SSB configuration do not overlap with any opportunities in a first set of opportunities including SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, and opportunities of the SMTC; and The target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB SC1 is the number of overlaps and is equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC ) within the time period of the MG, the number of SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration but do not overlap with any opportunity of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein: The comparison includes: determining the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ) is less than the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ), and determining that the first periodicity is less than or equal to the third periodicity and less than or equal to the fourth periodicity; The method further includes determining that at least some SSB opportunities in the NSC SSB configuration do not overlap with any opportunities in a first set of opportunities including SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, and opportunities of the SMTC; and The target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP2 is the overlap quantity and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that do not overlap with any opportunity in a set of opportunities within the time period.

12. One or more computer readable media (CRM) having instructions that, when executed, cause a device to perform the following operations: determining a serving cell (SC) synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB) configuration for layer 1 (L1) measurements of a SC associated with a first physical cell identity (PCI); determining a non-serving cell (NSC) SSB configuration for L1 measurement of a NSC associated with a second PCI; comparing at least two periodicities, the at least two periodicities comprising a first periodicity associated with the SC SSB configuration, a second periodicity associated with the NSC SSB configuration, a third periodicity of an SSB measurement timing configuration (SMTC), or a fourth periodicity of a measurement gap (MG) configuration; About equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC ) time period to determine the overlap amount, where T SMTC is the third periodicity, and MGRP is the fourth periodicity; determining a sharing factor based on the overlap amount and the comparing at least two periodicities to identify a measurement opportunity for a target SSB configuration; as well as Measurements are performed on the measurement opportunities configured for the target SSB.

13. The CRM of claim 12, wherein: Comparing the at least two periodicities comprises determining the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is equal to the second periodicity, less than the third periodicity and less than the fourth periodicity; and The target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the method further comprises determining the intermediate sharing factor equal to: Among them, SSB SC1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunities of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

14. The CRM of claim 12, wherein: Comparing the at least two periodicities includes determining that the first periodicity is equal to the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), is smaller than the third periodicity, and is smaller than the fourth periodicity; and The target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunities of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

15. The CRM of claim 12, wherein: Comparing the at least two periodicities comprises determining the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is smaller than the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), and determining that the second periodicity is smaller than the third periodicity and smaller than the fourth periodicity; The instructions, when executed, further cause the device to determine that all SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration overlap with SSB opportunities of the NSCSSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, or opportunities of the SMTC; as well as The target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB SC1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

16. The CRM of claim 12, wherein: Comparing the at least two periodicities comprises determining a first periodicity (T SSB,SC ) is less than the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ), and determining that the second periodicity is smaller than the third periodicity and smaller than the fourth periodicity; The instructions, when executed, further cause the device to determine that all SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration overlap with SSB opportunities of the NSCSSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, or opportunities of the SMTC; as well as The target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a set of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

17. The CRM of claim 12, wherein: Comparing the at least two periodicities comprises determining the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ) is less than the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ), and determining that the first periodicity is less than or equal to the third periodicity, and less than or equal to the fourth periodicity; The instructions, when executed, further cause the device to determine that all SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration overlap with SSB opportunities of the NSCSSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, or opportunities of the SMTC; as well as The target SSB configuration is the SC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB SC1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a group of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

18. The CRM of claim 12, wherein: Comparing the at least two periodicities comprises determining the second periodicity (T SSB,CDP ) is less than the first periodicity (T SSB,SC ), and determining that the first periodicity is less than or equal to the third periodicity, and less than or equal to the fourth periodicity; The instructions, when executed, further cause the device to determine that all SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration overlap with SSB opportunities of the NSCSSB configuration, opportunities of the MG configuration, or opportunities of the SMTC; as well as The target SSB configuration is the NSC SSB configuration, and the sharing factor is equal to: Among them, SSB CDP1 is the overlap number and is equal to the number of SSB opportunities of the NSC SSB configuration that overlap with the SSB opportunities of the SC SSB configuration within the time period but do not overlap with any opportunity of a set of opportunities including the opportunities of the MG configuration and the opportunities of the SMTC.

19. A method of operating a base station, the method comprising: Sending information to a user equipment (UE) for configuring a layer 1 (L1) measurement of a serving cell (SC) associated with a first physical cell identity (PCI) SC synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB) configuration, configuring a NSC SSB configuration for L1 measurement of a non-serving cell (NSC) associated with a second PCI, a measurement gap (MG) configuration, and an SSB measurement timing configuration (SMTC); comparing at least two periodicities, the at least two periodicities comprising a first periodicity associated with the SC SSB configuration, a second periodicity associated with the NSC SSB configuration, a third periodicity of an SSB measurement timing configuration (SMTC), or a fourth periodicity of a measurement gap (MG) configuration; About equal to max(MGRP,T SMTC ) time period to determine the overlap amount, where T SMTC is the third periodicity, and MGRP is the fourth periodicity; A sharing factor is determined based on the overlap amount and the comparing at least two periodicities to identify a measurement opportunity for a target SSB configuration.

20. The method according to claim 19, further comprising: An L1 measurement period is determined based on the sharing factor.

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