Dynamic port selection for time and phase synchronization for coherent joint transmission
Dynamic port selection and operating conditions for CSI-RS reception in CJT scenarios improve inter-TRP synchronization by canceling cross-link signals, enhancing signal quality and reducing errors and latencies.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- PCT/CN2024/084294
- Authority / Receiving Office
- WO · WO
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-03-28
- Publication Date
- 2025-10-02
AI Technical Summary
In coherent joint transmission (CJT) scenarios, unsynchronized transmissions between multiple transmit-receive points (TRPs) result in reduced signal quality, increased data recovery errors, and higher data transfer latencies due to inaccurate inter-TRP phase and timing offset estimations, which are caused by cross-link signals that cannot be effectively canceled by user equipment (UE).
Implement dynamic port selection and operating conditions for UE to receive channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) using specific antenna ports linked to sounding reference signal (SRS) ports, enabling accurate estimation and cancellation of cross-link signals, thereby improving synchronization and signal quality.
Enhances signal quality, reduces data recovery errors, and decreases data transfer latencies by ensuring accurate inter-TRP phase and timing synchronization through precise port selection and cross-link signal cancellation.
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Abstract
Description
DYNAMIC PORT SELECTION FOR TIME AND PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION FOR COHERENT JOINT TRANSMISSION
[0001] FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE
[0002] Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication and specifically relate to techniques, apparatuses, and methods for dynamic port selection for time and phase synchronization for coherent joint transmission.BACKGROUND
[0003] Wireless communication systems are widely deployed to provide various services that may include carrying voice, text, messaging, video, data, and / or other traffic. The services may include unicast, multicast, and / or broadcast services, among other examples. Typical wireless communication systems may employ multiple-access radio access technologies (RATs) capable of supporting communication with multiple users by sharing available system resources (for example, time domain resources, frequency domain resources, spatial domain resources, and / or device transmit power, among other examples) . Examples of such multiple-access RATs include code division multiple access (CDMA) systems, time division multiple access (TDMA) systems, frequency division multiple access (FDMA) systems, orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems, single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) systems, and time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA) systems.
[0004] The above multiple-access RATs have been adopted in various telecommunication standards to provide common protocols that enable different wireless communication devices to communicate on a municipal, national, regional, or global level. An example telecommunication standard is New Radio (NR) . NR, which may also be referred to as 5G, is part of a continuous mobile broadband evolution promulgated by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) . NR (and other mobile broadband evolutions beyond NR) may be designed to better support Internet of things (IoT) and reduced capability device deployments, industrial connectivity, millimeter wave (mmWave) expansion, licensed and unlicensed spectrum access, non-terrestrial network (NTN) deployment, sidelink and other device-to-device direct communication technologies (for example, cellular vehicle-to-everything (CV2X) communication) , massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) , disaggregated network architectures and network topology expansions, multiple-subscriber implementations, high-precision positioning, and / or radio frequency (RF) sensing, among other examples. As the demand for mobile broadband access continues to increase, further improvements in NR may be implemented, and other radio access technologies such as 6G may be introduced, to further advance mobile broadband evolution.SUMMARY
[0005] Some aspects described herein relate to a method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) . The method may include transmitting one or more sounding reference signals (SRSs) using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer. The method may include receiving multiple channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources, the receiving being based at least in part on at least one of: a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, or a second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N CSI-RS resource sets.
[0006] Some aspects described herein relate to a method of wireless communication performed by a first transmit-receive point (TRP) . The method may include receiving an SRS from a UE. The method may include transmitting a CSI-RS that is based at least in part on a CSI-RS resource set that includes one or more CSI-RS resources, the CSI-RS including precoding that is based at least in part on the SRS. The method may include receiving an indication of a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP.
[0007] Some aspects described herein relate to an apparatus for wireless communication at a UE. The apparatus may include one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories. The one or more processors may be configured to transmit one or more SRSs using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer. The one or more processors may be configured to receive multiple CSI-RSs from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources. The one or more processors may be configured to receive the multiple CSI-RSs based at least in part on at least one of: a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, or a second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N C SI-RS resource sets.
[0008] Some aspects described herein relate to an apparatus for wireless communication at a first TRP. The apparatus may include one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories. The one or more processors may be configured to receive an SRS from a UE. The one or more processors may be configured to transmit a CSI-RS that is based at least in part on a CSI-RS resource set that includes one or more CSI-RS resources, the CSI-RS including precoding that is based at least in part on the SRS. The one or more processors may be configured to receive an indication of a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP.
[0009] Some aspects described herein relate to a non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores a set of instructions for wireless communication by a UE. The set of instructions, when executed by one or more processors of the UE, may cause the UE to transmit one or more SRSs using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer. The set of instructions, when executed by one or more processors of the UE, may cause the UE to receive multiple CSI-RSs from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources. The set of instructions, when executed by one or more processors of the UE, may cause the UE to receive the multiple CSI-RSs based at least in part on at least one of: a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, or a second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N CSI-RS resource sets.
[0010] Some aspects described herein relate to a non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores a set of instructions for wireless communication by an one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a first TRP, may cause the first TRP to receive an SRS from a UE. The set of instructions, when executed by one or more processors of the first TRP, may cause the first TRP to transmit a CSI-RS that is based at least in part on a CSI-RS resource set that includes one or more CSI-RS resources, the CSI-RS including precoding that is based at least in part on the SRS. The set of instructions, when executed by one or more processors of the first TRP, may cause first TRP to receive an indication of a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP.
[0011] Some aspects described herein relate to an apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus may include means for transmitting one or more SRSs using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer. The apparatus may include means for receiving multiple CSI-RSs from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources, the receiving being based at least in part on at least one of: a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, or a second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N CSI-RS resource sets.
[0012] Some aspects described herein relate to an apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus may include means for receiving an SRS from a UE. The apparatus may include means for transmitting a CSI-RS that is based at least in part on a CSI-RS resource set that includes one or more CSI-RS resources, the CSI-RS including precoding that is based at least in part on the SRS. The apparatus may include means for receiving an indication of a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP.
[0013] Aspects of the present disclosure may generally be implemented by or as a method, apparatus, system, computer program product, non-transitory computer-readable medium, user equipment, base station, network node, network entity, wireless communication device, and / or processing system as substantially described with reference to, and as illustrated by, the specification and accompanying drawings.
[0014] The foregoing paragraphs of this section have broadly summarized some aspects of the present disclosure. These and additional aspects and associated advantages will be described hereinafter. The disclosed aspects may be used as a basis for modifying or designing other aspects for carrying out the same or similar purposes of the present disclosure. Such equivalent aspects do not depart from the scope of the appended claims. Characteristics of the aspects disclosed herein, both their organization and method of operation, together with associated advantages, will be better understood from the following description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0015] The appended drawings illustrate some aspects of the present disclosure, but are not limiting of the scope of the present disclosure because the description may enable other aspects. Each of the drawings is provided for purposes of illustration and description, and not as a definition of the limits of the claims. The same or similar reference numbers in different drawings may identify the same or similar elements.
[0016] Fig. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communication network in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0017] Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example network node in communication with an example user equipment (UE) in a wireless network in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0018] Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example disaggregated base station architecture in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0019] Fig. 4 illustrates an example logical architecture of a distributed radio access network, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0020] Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of multiple transmit-receive point (TRP) communication, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0021] Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communication process between a UE, a first TRP, and a second TRP, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0022] Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communication process between a UE, a first TRP, and a second TRP, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0023] Fig. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of linkages between channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource sets and a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0024] Figs. 9A, 9B, 9C, and 9D are diagrams illustrating a first example, a second example, a third example, and a fourth example, respectively, of allowed and disallowed operating conditions, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0025] Figs. 10A and 10B are diagrams illustrating a first example and a second example, respectively, of indicating a linkage between a CSI-RS resource and an SRS port, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0026] Fig. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communication process between a UE, a first network node, and a second network node, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0027] Fig. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example process performed, for example, at a UE or an apparatus of a UE, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0028] Fig. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example process performed, for example, at a first TRP or an apparatus of a first TRP, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0029] Fig. 14 is a diagram of an example apparatus for wireless communication, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0030] Fig. 15 is a diagram of an example apparatus for wireless communication, in accordance with the present disclosure.DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0031] Various aspects of the present disclosure are described hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, aspects of the present disclosure may be embodied in many different forms and is not to be construed as limited to any specific aspect illustrated by or described with reference to an accompanying drawing or otherwise presented in this disclosure. Rather, these aspects are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art. One skilled in the art may appreciate that the scope of the disclosure is intended to cover any aspect of the disclosure disclosed herein, whether implemented independently of or in combination with any other aspect of the disclosure. For example, an apparatus may be implemented or a method may be practiced using various combinations or quantities of the aspects set forth herein. In addition, the scope of the disclosure is intended to cover an apparatus having, or a method that is practiced using, other structures and / or functionalities in addition to or other than the structures and / or functionalities with which various aspects of the disclosure set forth herein may be practiced. Any aspect of the disclosure disclosed herein may be embodied by one or more elements of a claim.
[0032] Several aspects of telecommunication systems will now be presented with reference to various methods, operations, apparatuses, and techniques. These methods, operations, apparatuses, and techniques will be described in the following detailed description and illustrated in the accompanying drawings by various blocks, modules, components, circuits, steps, processes, or algorithms (collectively referred to as “elements” ) . These elements may be implemented using hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software. Whether such elements are implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the overall system.
[0033] In coherent joint transmission (CJT) , multiple transmit-receive points (TRPs) may transmit data to, and / or receive data from, a user equipment (UE) in a synchronized and / or coherent manner. As one example, a first TRP and a second TRP may phase align and / or time align respective transmissions to arrive at the UE in phase with one another to improve constructive interference and, consequently, improve a received signal quality (e.g., a higher power level) at the UE. That is, the first TRP and the second TRP may generate a joint transmission that combines a first signal from the first TRP and a second signal from the second TRP, resulting in a combined signal that has a higher received signal power level at the UE relative to the individual received powers of the first signal and / or the second signal. In some aspects, the TRPs may use information about the respective channel between each TRP and the UE in order to select transmission weights or other transmission parameters (e.g., a timing offset and / or a phase offset) that improve constructive interference and, consequently, improve the received signal quality.
[0034] A UE may be configured with multiple sounding reference signal (SRS) ports that are used to transmit multiple SRSs to multiple TRPs operating in a CJT manner. Each TRP may be assigned a respective set of resources, such as respective channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources, that are used by the TRP to transmit a respective CSI-RS to the UE. For instance, a first TRP may use a first set of CSI-RS resources that are included in a first C SI-RS resource set, and a second TRP may use a second set of CSI-RS resources that are included in a second CSI-RS set. Each TRP may apply precoding to respective portions of the CSI-RS that are carried by a respective CSI-RS resource to mitigate distortion in the respective portion of the CSI-RS that is based at least in part on channel propagation and / or channel phase. The precoding may be based at least in part on a respective SRS that is transmitted by the UE using a respective SRS port. For example, each TRP may derive channel estimations using the respective SRS, and the precoding may be based at least in part on the channel estimations. Accordingly, the channel estimations may be based at least in part on one or more characteristics of the respective SRS port used to transmit the SRS.
[0035] For some operating scenarios, the UE may receive a precoded CSI-RS portion (e.g., a precoded CSI-RS resource as described below) using a same antenna port that is included in an SRS port that was used to transmit the SRS associated with the precoding. However, the UE may also receive the precoded CSI-RS portion using a different antenna port than the SRS port associated with the precoding. A precoded CSI-RS portion that is received by the UE using a different antenna port than the SRS port used for the precoding may be referred to as a cross-link signal, as described below. Under some operating scenarios, the UE may be unable to cancel out the cross-link signals, resulting in inter-TRP phase offset estimations and / or inter-TRP timing offset estimations that are inaccurate by an amount that leads to transmissions from a first TRP and a second TRP (e.g., CJT performed by the TRPs) being unsynchronized. Unsynchronized transmissions between TRPs may result in reduced signal quality at the UE (e.g., a signal power level that satisfies a low power threshold) , increased data recovery errors, reduced data throughput, and / or increased data transfer latencies.
[0036] Various aspects relate generally to dynamic port selection for time and phase synchronization for CJT. Some aspects more specifically relate to a UE using operating conditions (e.g., operating conditions specified by a communication standard) to transmit and / or receive reference signals in a multiple TRP scenario. In some aspects, a UE may transmit one or more SRSs using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports (M being a first integer) . The UE may receive multiple CSI-RSs using N CSI-RS resource sets (N being a second integer) . In some aspects, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets may include M respective CSI-RS resources. The UE may receive the multiple CSI-RS based at least in part on one or more operating conditions. As one example, a first operating condition may specify for the UE to use at least a same set of antenna ports (e.g., from the multiple antenna ports) to receive at least a first CSI-RS (e.g., of the multiple CSI-RSs) using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set (e.g. from the N CSI-RS resource sets) and a second CSI-RS (e.g., of the multiple CSI-RSs) using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set (e.g., of the N CSI-RS resource sets) . As another example, a second operating condition may specify for the UE to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set (e.g., of the N CSI-RS resource sets) using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs. In some aspects, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports may be linked to a respective CSI-RS resource of each CSI-RS resource set in the N CSI-RS resource sets.
[0037] Particular aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented to realize one or more of the following potential advantages. In some examples, by using one or more operating conditions that specify allowed and / or disallowed antenna ports for receiving precoded CSI-RSs, the described techniques can be used to enable a UE (e.g., a UE 120) to cancel cross-link signals and / or Tx-Rx mismatches in computations used to estimate the inter-TRP phase offset and / or the inter-TRP timing offset, and improve an accuracy of an inter-TRP phase offset estimation and / or an inter-TRP timing estimation, as described below. That is, the operating condition (s) may ensure that the UE receives precoded CSI-RS resources that belong to different CSI-RS resource sets but are associated with the same SRS port, thus enabling the UE to cancel cross-link signals. Improving an accuracy of an inter-TRP phase offset estimation and / or an inter-TRP timing offset estimation may improve synchronization in CJT between TRPs (e.g., reduce a timing offset and / or reduce a phase offset) , resulting in an increased signal quality at the UE (e.g., a signal power level that satisfies a high power threshold) , reduced data recovery errors, increased data throughput, and / or decreased data transfer latencies.
[0038] Multiple-access radio access technologies (RATs) have been adopted in various telecommunication standards to provide common protocols that enable wireless communication devices to communicate on a municipal, enterprise, national, regional, or global level. For example, 5G New Radio (NR) is part of a continuous mobile broadband evolution promulgated by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) . 5G NR supports various technologies and use cases including enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) , ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) , massive machine-type communication (mMTC) , millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, beamforming, network slicing, edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and management, and network function virtualization (NFV) .
[0039] As the demand for broadband access increases and as technologies supported by wireless communication networks evolve, further technological improvements may be adopted in or implemented for 5G NR or future RATs, such as 6G, to further advance the evolution of wireless communication for a wide variety of existing and new use cases and applications. Such technological improvements may be associated with new frequency band expansion, licensed and unlicensed spectrum access, overlapping spectrum use, small cell deployments, non-terrestrial network (NTN) deployments, disaggregated network architectures and network topology expansion, device aggregation, advanced duplex communication, sidelink and other device-to-device direct communication, IoT (including passive or ambient IoT) networks, reduced capability (RedCap) UE functionality, industrial connectivity, multiple-subscriber implementations, high-precision positioning, radio frequency (RF) sensing, and / or artificial intelligence or machine learning (AI / ML) , among other examples. These technological improvements may support use cases such as wireless backhauls, wireless data centers, extended reality (XR) and metaverse applications, meta services for supporting vehicle connectivity, holographic and mixed reality communication, autonomous and collaborative robots, vehicle platooning and cooperative maneuvering, sensing networks, gesture monitoring, human-brain interfacing, digital twin applications, asset management, and universal coverage applications using non-terrestrial and / or aerial platforms, among other examples. The methods, operations, apparatuses, and techniques described herein may enable one or more of the foregoing technologies and / or support one or more of the foregoing use cases.
[0040] Fig. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a wireless communication network 100 in accordance with the present disclosure. The wireless communication network 100 may be or may include elements of a 5G (or NR) network or a 6G network, among other examples. The wireless communication network 100 may include multiple network nodes 110, shown as a network node (NN) 110a, a network node 110b, a network node 110c, and a network node 110d. The network nodes 110 may support communications with multiple UEs 120, shown as a UE 120a, a UE 120b, a UE 120c, a UE 120d, and a UE 120e.
[0041] The network nodes 110 and the UEs 120 of the wireless communication network 100 may communicate using the electromagnetic spectrum, which may be subdivided by frequency or wavelength into various classes, bands, carriers, and / or channels. For example, devices of the wireless communication network 100 may communicate using one or more operating bands. In some aspects, multiple wireless networks 100 may be deployed in a given geographic area. Each wireless communication network 100 may support a particular RAT (which may also be referred to as an air interface) and may operate on one or more carrier frequencies in one or more frequency ranges. Examples of RATs include a 4G RAT, a 5G / NR RAT, and / or a 6G RAT, among other examples. In some examples, when multiple RATs are deployed in a given geographic area, each RAT in the geographic area may operate on different frequencies to avoid interference with one another.
[0042] Various operating bands have been defined as frequency range designations FR1 (410 MHz through 7.125 GHz) , FR2 (24.25 GHz through 52.6 GHz) , FR3 (7.125 GHz through 24.25 GHz) , FR4a or FR4-1 (52.6 GHz through 71 GHz) , FR4 (52.6 GHz through 114.25 GHz) , and FR5 (114.25 GHz through 300 GHz) . Although a portion of FR1 is greater than 6 GHz, FR1 is often referred to (interchangeably) as a “Sub-6 GHz” band in some documents and articles. Similarly, FR2 is often referred to (interchangeably) as a “millimeter wave” band in some documents and articles, despite being different than the extremely high frequency (EHF) band (30 GHz through 300 GHz) , which is identified by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as a “millimeter wave” band. The frequencies between FR1 and FR2 are often referred to as mid-band frequencies, which include FR3. Frequency bands falling within FR3 may inherit FR1 characteristics or FR2 characteristics, and thus may effectively extend features of FR1 or FR2 into mid-band frequencies. Thus, “sub-6 GHz, ” if used herein, may broadly refer to frequencies that are less than 6 GHz, that are within FR1, and / or that are included in mid-band frequencies. Similarly, the term “millimeter wave, ” if used herein, may broadly refer to frequencies that are included in mid-band frequencies, that are within FR2, FR4, FR4-a or FR4-1, or FR5, and / or that are within the EHF band. Higher frequency bands may extend 5G NR operation, 6G operation, and / or other RATs beyond 52.6 GHz. For example, each of FR4a, FR4-1, FR4, and FR5 falls within the EHF band. In some examples, the wireless communication network 100 may implement dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) , in which multiple RATs (for example, 4G / LTE and 5G / NR) are implemented with dynamic bandwidth allocation (for example, based on user demand) in a single frequency band. It is contemplated that the frequencies included in these operating bands (for example, FR1, FR2, FR3, FR4, FR4-a, FR4-1, and / or FR5) may be modified, and techniques described herein may be applicable to those modified frequency ranges.
[0043] A network node 110 may include one or more devices, components, or systems that enable communication between a UE 120 and one or more devices, components, or systems of the wireless communication network 100. A network node 110 may be, may include, or may also be referred to as an NR network node, a 5G network node, a 6G network node, a Node B, an eNB, a gNB, an access point (AP) , TRP, a mobility element, a core, a network entity, a network element, a network equipment, and / or another type of device, component, or system included in a radio access network (RAN) .
[0044] A network node 110 may be implemented as a single physical node (for example, a single physical structure) or may be implemented as two or more physical nodes (for example, two or more distinct physical structures) . For example, a network node 110 may be a device or system that implements part of a radio protocol stack, a device or system that implements a full radio protocol stack (such as a full gNB protocol stack) , or a collection of devices or systems that collectively implement the full radio protocol stack. For example, and as shown, a network node 110 may be an aggregated network node (having an aggregated architecture) , meaning that the network node 110 may implement a full radio protocol stack that is physically and logically integrated within a single node (for example, a single physical structure) in the wireless communication network 100. For example, an aggregated network node 110 may consist of a single standalone base station or a single TRP that uses a full radio protocol stack to enable or facilitate communication between a UE 120 and a core network of the wireless communication network 100.
[0045] Alternatively, and as also shown, a network node 110 may be a disaggregated network node (sometimes referred to as a disaggregated base station) , meaning that the network node 110 may implement a radio protocol stack that is physically distributed and / or logically distributed among two or more nodes in the same geographic location or in different geographic locations. For example, a disaggregated network node may have a disaggregated architecture. In some deployments, disaggregated network nodes 110 may be used in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network, in an open radio access network (O-RAN) (such as a network configuration in compliance with the O-RAN Alliance) , or in a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) , also known as a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) , to facilitate scaling by separating base station functionality into multiple units that can be individually deployed.
[0046] The network nodes 110 of the wireless communication network 100 may include one or more central units (CUs) , one or more distributed units (DUs) , and / or one or more radio units (RUs) . A CU may host one or more higher layer control functions, such as radio resource control (RRC) functions, packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) functions, and / or service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) functions, among other examples. A DU may host one or more of a radio link control (RLC) layer, a medium access control (MAC) layer, and / or one or more higher physical (PHY) layers depending, at least in part, on a functional split, such as a functional split defined by the 3GPP. In some examples, a DU also may host one or more lower PHY layer functions, such as a fast Fourier transform (FFT) , an inverse FFT (iFFT) , beamforming, physical random access channel (PRACH) extraction and filtering, and / or scheduling of resources for one or more UEs 120, among other examples. An RU may host RF processing functions or lower PHY layer functions, such as an FFT, an iFFT, beamforming, or PRACH extraction and filtering, among other examples, according to a functional split, such as a lower layer functional split. In such an architecture, each RU can be operated to handle over the air (OTA) communication with one or more UEs 120.
[0047] In some aspects, a single network node 110 may include a combination of one or more CUs, one or more DUs, and / or one or more RUs. Additionally or alternatively, a network node 110 may include one or more Near-Real Time (Near-RT) RAN Intelligent Controllers (RICs) and / or one or more Non-Real Time (Non-RT) RICs. In some examples, a CU, a DU, and / or an RU may be implemented as a virtual unit, such as a virtual central unit (VCU) , a virtual distributed unit (VDU) , or a virtual radio unit (VRU) , among other examples. A virtual unit may be implemented as a virtual network function, such as associated with a cloud deployment.
[0048] Some network nodes 110 (for example, a base station, an RU, or a TRP) may provide communication coverage for a particular geographic area. In the 3GPP, the term “cell” can refer to a coverage area of a network node 110 or to a network node 110 itself, depending on the context in which the term is used. A network node 110 may support one or multiple (for example, three) cells. In some examples, a network node 110 may provide communication coverage for a macro cell, a pico cell, a femto cell, or another type of cell. A macro cell may cover a relatively large geographic area (for example, several kilometers in radius) and may allow unrestricted access by UEs 120 with service subscriptions. A pico cell may cover a relatively small geographic area and may allow unrestricted access by UEs 120 with service subscriptions. A femto cell may cover a relatively small geographic area (for example, a home) and may allow restricted access by UEs 120 having association with the femto cell (for example, UEs 120 in a closed subscriber group (CSG) ) . A network node 110 for a macro cell may be referred to as a macro network node. A network node 110 for a pico cell may be referred to as a pico network node. A network node 110 for a femto cell may be referred to as a femto network node or an in-home network node. In some examples, a cell may not necessarily be stationary. For example, the geographic area of the cell may move according to the location of an associated mobile network node 110 (for example, a train, a satellite base station, an unmanned aerial vehicle, or an NTN network node) .
[0049] The wireless communication network 100 may be a heterogeneous network that includes network nodes 110 of different types, such as macro network nodes, pico network nodes, femto network nodes, relay network nodes, aggregated network nodes, and / or disaggregated network nodes, among other examples. In the example shown in Fig. 1, the network node 110a may be a macro network node for a macro cell 130a, the network node 110b may be a pico network node for a pico cell 130b, and the network node 110c may be a femto network node for a femto cell 130c. Various different types of network nodes 110 may generally transmit at different power levels, serve different coverage areas, and / or have different impacts on interference in the wireless communication network 100 than other types of network nodes 110. For example, macro network nodes may have a high transmit power level (for example, 5 to 40 watts) , whereas pico network nodes, femto network nodes, and relay network nodes may have lower transmit power levels (for example, 0.1 to 2 watts) .
[0050] In some examples, a network node 110 may be, may include, or may operate as an RU, a TRP, or a base station that communicates with one or more UEs 120 via a radio access link (which may be referred to as a “Uu” link) . The radio access link may include a downlink and an uplink. “Downlink” (or “DL” ) refers to a communication direction from a network node 110 to a UE 120, and “uplink” (or “UL” ) refers to a communication direction from a UE 120 to a network node 110. Downlink channels may include one or more control channels and one or more data channels. A downlink control channel may be used to transmit downlink control information (DCI) (for example, scheduling information, reference signals, and / or configuration information) from a network node 110 to a UE 120. A downlink data channel may be used to transmit downlink data (for example, user data associated with a UE 120) from a network node 110 to a UE 120. Downlink control channels may include one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) , and downlink data channels may include one or more physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) . Uplink channels may similarly include one or more control channels and one or more data channels. An uplink control channel may be used to transmit uplink control information (UCI) (for example, reference signals and / or feedback corresponding to one or more downlink transmissions) from a UE 120 to a network node 110. An uplink data channel may be used to transmit uplink data (for example, user data associated with a UE 120) from a UE 120 to a network node 110. Uplink control channels may include one or more physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs) , and uplink data channels may include one or more physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs) . The downlink and the uplink may each include a set of resources on which the network node 110 and the UE 120 may communicate.
[0051] Downlink and uplink resources may include time domain resources (frames, subframes, slots, and / or symbols) , frequency domain resources (frequency bands, component carriers, subcarriers, resource blocks, and / or resource elements) , and / or spatial domain resources (particular transmit directions and / or beam parameters) . Frequency domain resources of some bands may be subdivided into bandwidth parts (BWPs) . A BWP may be a continuous block of frequency domain resources (for example, a continuous block of resource blocks) that are allocated for one or more UEs 120. A UE 120 may be configured with both an uplink BWP and a downlink BWP (where the uplink BWP and the downlink BWP may be the same BWP or different BWPs) . A BWP may be dynamically configured (for example, by a network node 110 transmitting a DCI configuration to the one or more UEs 120) and / or reconfigured, which means that a BWP can be adjusted in real-time (or near-real-time) based on changing network conditions in the wireless communication network 100 and / or based on the specific requirements of the one or more UEs 120. This enables more efficient use of the available frequency domain resources in the wireless communication network 100 because fewer frequency domain resources may be allocated to a BWP for a UE 120 (which may reduce the quantity of frequency domain resources that a UE 120 is required to monitor) , leaving more frequency domain resources to be spread across multiple UEs 120. Thus, BWPs may also assist in the implementation of lower-capability UEs 120 by facilitating the configuration of smaller bandwidths for communication by such UEs 120.
[0052] As described above, in some aspects, the wireless communication network 100 may be, may include, or may be included in, an IAB network. In an IAB network, at least one network node 110 is an anchor network node that communicates with a core network. An anchor network node 110 may also be referred to as an IAB donor (or “IAB-donor” ) . The anchor network node 110 may connect to the core network via a wired backhaul link. For example, an Ng interface of the anchor network node 110 may terminate at the core network. Additionally or alternatively, an anchor network node 110 may connect to one or more devices of the core network that provide a core access and mobility management function (AMF) . An IAB network also generally includes multiple non-anchor network nodes 110, which may also be referred to as relay network nodes or simply as IAB nodes (or “IAB-nodes” ) . Each non-anchor network node 110 may communicate directly with the anchor network node 110 via a wireless backhaul link to access the core network, or may communicate indirectly with the anchor network node 110 via one or more other non-anchor network nodes 110 and associated wireless backhaul links that form a backhaul path to the core network. Some anchor network node 110 or other non-anchor network node 110 may also communicate directly with one or more UEs 120 via wireless access links that carry access traffic. In some examples, network resources for wireless communication (such as time resources, frequency resources, and / or spatial resources) may be shared between access links and backhaul links.
[0053] In some examples, any network node 110 that relays communications may be referred to as a relay network node, a relay station, or simply as a relay. A relay may receive a transmission of a communication from an upstream station (for example, another network node 110 or a UE 120) and transmit the communication to a downstream station (for example, a UE 120 or another network node 110) . In this case, the wireless communication network 100 may include or be referred to as a “multi-hop network. ” In the example shown in Fig. 1, the network node 110d (for example, a relay network node) may communicate with the network node 110a (for example, a macro network node) and the UE 120d in order to facilitate communication between the network node 110a and the UE 120d. Additionally or alternatively, a UE 120 may be or may operate as a relay station that can relay transmissions to or from other UEs 120. A UE 120 that relays communications may be referred to as a UE relay or a relay UE, among other examples.
[0054] The UEs 120 may be physically dispersed throughout the wireless communication network 100, and each UE 120 may be stationary or mobile. A UE 120 may be, may include, or may be included in an access terminal, another terminal, a mobile station, or a subscriber unit. A UE 120 may be, include, or be coupled with a cellular phone (for example, a smart phone) , a personal digital assistant (PDA) , a wireless modem, a wireless communication device, a handheld device, a laptop computer, a cordless phone, a wireless local loop (WLL) station, a tablet, a camera, a gaming device, a netbook, a smartbook, an ultrabook, a medical device, a biometric device, a wearable device (for example, a smart watch, smart clothing, smart glasses, a smart wristband, and / or smart jewelry, such as a smart ring or a smart bracelet) , an entertainment device (for example, a music device, a video device, and / or a satellite radio) , an XR device, a vehicular component or sensor, a smart meter or sensor, industrial manufacturing equipment, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) device (such as a Global Positioning System device or another type of positioning device) , a UE function of a network node, and / or any other suitable device or function that may communicate via a wireless medium.
[0055] A UE 120 and / or a network node 110 may include one or more chips, system-on-chips (SoCs) , chipsets, packages, or devices that individually or collectively constitute or comprise a processing system. The processing system includes processor (or “processing” ) circuitry in the form of one or multiple processors, microprocessors, processing units (such as central processing units (CPUs) , graphics processing units (GPUs) , neural processing units (NPUs) and / or digital signal processors (DSPs) ) , processing blocks, application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) , programmable logic devices (PLDs) (such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) ) , or other discrete gate or transistor logic or circuitry (all of which may be generally referred to herein individually as “processors” or collectively as “the processor” or “the processor circuitry” ) . One or more of the processors may be individually or collectively configurable or configured to perform various functions or operations described herein. A group of processors collectively configurable or configured to perform a set of functions may include a first processor configurable or configured to perform a first function of the set and a second processor configurable or configured to perform a second function of the set, or may include the group of processors all being configured or configurable to perform the set of functions.
[0056] The processing system may further include memory circuitry in the form of one or more memory devices, memory blocks, memory elements or other discrete gate or transistor logic or circuitry, each of which may include tangible storage media such as random-access memory (RAM) or read-only memory (ROM) , or combinations thereof (all of which may be generally referred to herein individually as “memories” or collectively as “the memory” or “the memory circuitry” ) . One or more of the memories may be coupled (for example, operatively coupled, communicatively coupled, electronically coupled, or electrically coupled) with one or more of the processors and may individually or collectively store processor-executable code (such as software) that, when executed by one or more of the processors, may configure one or more of the processors to perform various functions or operations described herein. Additionally or alternatively, in some examples, one or more of the processors may be preconfigured to perform various functions or operations described herein without requiring configuration by software. The processing system may further include or be coupled with one or more modems (such as a Wi-Fi (for example, IEEE compliant) modem or a cellular (for example, 3GPP 4G LTE, 5G, or 6G compliant) modem) . In some implementations, one or more processors of the processing system include or implement one or more of the modems. The processing system may further include or be coupled with multiple radios (collectively “the radio” ) , multiple RF chains, or multiple transceivers, each of which may in turn be coupled with one or more of multiple antennas. In some implementations, one or more processors of the processing system include or implement one or more of the radios, RF chains or transceivers. The UE 120 may include or may be included in a housing that houses components associated with the UE 120 including the processing system.
[0057] Some UEs 120 may be considered machine-type communication (MTC) UEs, evolved or enhanced machine-type communication (eMTC) , UEs, further enhanced eMTC (feMTC) UEs, or enhanced feMTC (efeMTC) UEs, or further evolutions thereof, all of which may be simply referred to as “MTC UEs” ) . An MTC UE may be, may include, or may be included in or coupled with a robot, an uncrewed aerial vehicle, a remote device, a sensor, a meter, a monitor, and / or a location tag. Some UEs 120 may be considered IoT devices and / or may be implemented as NB-IoT (narrowband IoT) devices. An IoT UE or NB-IoT device may be, may include, or may be included in or coupled with an industrial machine, an appliance, a refrigerator, a doorbell camera device, a home automation device, and / or a light fixture, among other examples. Some UEs 120 may be considered Customer Premises Equipment, which may include telecommunications devices that are installed at a customer location (such as a home or office) to enable access to a service provider's network (such as included in or in communication with the wireless communication network 100) .
[0058] Some UEs 120 may be classified according to different categories in association with different complexities and / or different capabilities. UEs 120 in a first category may facilitate massive IoT in the wireless communication network 100, and may offer low complexity and / or cost relative to UEs 120 in a second category. UEs 120 in a second category may include mission-critical IoT devices, legacy UEs, baseline UEs, high-tier UEs, advanced UEs, full-capability UEs, and / or premium UEs that are capable of URLLC, enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) , and / or precise positioning in the wireless communication network 100, among other examples. A third category of UEs 120 may have mid-tier complexity and / or capability (for example, a capability between UEs 120 of the first category and UEs 120 of the second capability) . A UE 120 of the third category may be referred to as a reduced capacity UE ( “RedCap UE” ) , a mid-tier UE, an NR-Light UE, and / or an NR-Lite UE, among other examples. RedCap UEs may bridge a gap between the capability and complexity of NB-IoT devices and / or eMTC UEs, and mission-critical IoT devices and / or premium UEs. RedCap UEs may include, for example, wearable devices, IoT devices, industrial sensors, and / or cameras that are associated with a limited bandwidth, power capacity, and / or transmission range, among other examples. RedCap UEs may support healthcare environments, building automation, electrical distribution, process automation, transport and logistics, and / or smart city deployments, among other examples.
[0059] In some examples, two or more UEs 120 (for example, shown as UE 120a and UE 120e) may communicate directly with one another using sidelink communications (for example, without communicating by way of a network node 110 as an intermediary) . As an example, the UE 120a may directly transmit data, control information, or other signaling as a sidelink communication to the UE 120e. This is in contrast to, for example, the UE 120a first transmitting data in an UL communication to a network node 110, which then transmits the data to the UE 120e in a DL communication. In various examples, the UEs 120 may transmit and receive sidelink communications using peer-to-peer (P2P) communication protocols, device-to-device (D2D) communication protocols, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication protocols (which may include vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) protocols, vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) protocols, and / or vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) protocols) , and / or mesh network communication protocols. In some deployments and configurations, a network node 110 may schedule and / or allocate resources for sidelink communications between UEs 120 in the wireless communication network 100. In some other deployments and configurations, a UE 120 (instead of a network node 110) may perform, or collaborate or negotiate with one or more other UEs to perform, scheduling operations, resource selection operations, and / or other operations for sidelink communications.
[0060] In various examples, some of the network nodes 110 and the UEs 120 of the wireless communication network 100 may be configured for full-duplex operation in addition to half-duplex operation. A network node 110 or a UE 120 operating in a half-duplex mode may perform only one of transmission or reception during particular time resources, such as during particular slots, symbols, or other time periods. Half-duplex operation may involve time-division duplexing (TDD) , in which DL transmissions of the network node 110 and UL transmissions of the UE 120 do not occur in the same time resources (that is, the transmissions do not overlap in time) . In contrast, a network node 110 or a UE 120 operating in a full-duplex mode can transmit and receive communications concurrently (for example, in the same time resources) . By operating in a full-duplex mode, network nodes 110 and / or UEs 120 may generally increase the capacity of the network and the radio access link. In some examples, full-duplex operation may involve frequency-division duplexing (FDD) , in which DL transmissions of the network node 110 are performed in a first frequency band or on a first component carrier and transmissions of the UE 120 are performed in a second frequency band or on a second component carrier different than the first frequency band or the first component carrier, respectively. In some examples, full-duplex operation may be enabled for a UE 120 but not for a network node 110. For example, a UE 120 may simultaneously transmit an UL transmission to a first network node 110 and receive a DL transmission from a second network node 110 in the same time resources. In some other examples, full-duplex operation may be enabled for a network node 110 but not for a UE 120. For example, a network node 110 may simultaneously transmit a DL transmission to a first UE 120 and receive an UL transmission from a second UE 120 in the same time resources. In some other examples, full-duplex operation may be enabled for both a network node 110 and a UE 120.
[0061] In some examples, the UEs 120 and the network nodes 110 may perform MIMO communication. “MIMO” generally refers to transmitting or receiving multiple signals (such as multiple layers or multiple data streams) simultaneously over the same time and frequency resources. MIMO techniques generally exploit multipath propagation. MIMO may be implemented using various spatial processing or spatial multiplexing operations. In some examples, MIMO may support simultaneous transmission to multiple receivers, referred to as multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) . Some RATs may employ advanced MIMO techniques, such as mTRP operation (including redundant transmission or reception on multiple TRPs) , reciprocity in the time domain or the frequency domain, single-frequency-network (SFN) transmission, or non-coherent joint transmission (NC-JT) .
[0062] In some aspects, a UE (e.g., a UE 120) may include a communication manager 140. As described in more detail elsewhere herein, the communication manager 140 may transmit one or more SRSs using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer; and receive multiple CSI-RSs from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources, the receiving being based at least in part on at least one of: a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, or a second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N CSI-RS resource sets. Additionally, or alternatively, the communication manager 140 may perform one or more other operations described herein.
[0063] In some aspects, a first TRP (e.g., a network node 110) may include a communication manager 150. As described in more detail elsewhere herein, the communication manager 150 may receive an SRS from a UE; transmit a CSI-RS that is based at least in part on a CSI-RS resource set that includes one or more CSI-RS resources, the CSI-RS including precoding that is based at least in part on the SRS; and receive an indication of a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP. Additionally, or alternatively, the communication manager 150 may perform one or more other operations described herein.
[0064] As indicated above, Fig. 1 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 1.
[0065] Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example network node 110 in communication with an example UE 120 in a wireless network in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0066] As shown in Fig. 2, the network node 110 may include a data source 212, a transmit processor 214, a transmit (TX) MIMO processor 216, a set of modems 232 (shown as 232a through 232t, where t ≥ 1) , a set of antennas 234 (shown as 234a through 234v, where v ≥ 1) , a MIMO detector 236, a receive processor 238, a data sink 239, a controller / processor 240, a memory 242, a communication unit 244, a scheduler 246, and / or a communication manager 150, among other examples. In some configurations, one or a combination of the antenna (s) 234, the modem (s) 232, the MIMO detector 236, the receive processor 238, the transmit processor 214, and / or the TX MIMO processor 216 may be included in a transceiver of the network node 110. The transceiver may be under control of and used by one or more processors, such as the controller / processor 240, and in some aspects in conjunction with processor-readable code stored in the memory 242, to perform aspects of the methods, processes, and / or operations described herein. In some aspects, the network node 110 may include one or more interfaces, communication components, and / or other components that facilitate communication with the UE 120 or another network node.
[0067] The terms “processor, ” “controller, ” or “controller / processor” may refer to one or more controllers and / or one or more processors. For example, reference to “a / the processor, ” “a / the controller / processor, ” or the like (in the singular) should be understood to refer to any one or more of the processors described in connection with Fig. 2, such as a single processor or a combination of multiple different processors. Reference to “one or more processors” should be understood to refer to any one or more of the processors described in connection with Fig. 2. For example, one or more processors of the network node 110 may include transmit processor 214, TX MIMO processor 216, MIMO detector 236, receive processor 238, and / or controller / processor 240. Similarly, one or more processors of the UE 120 may include MIMO detector 256, receive processor 258, transmit processor 264, TX MIMO processor 266, and / or controller / processor 280.
[0068] In some aspects, a single processor may perform all of the operations described as being performed by the one or more processors. In some aspects, a first set of (one or more) processors of the one or more processors may perform a first operation described as being performed by the one or more processors, and a second set of (one or more) processors of the one or more processors may perform a second operation described as being performed by the one or more processors. The first set of processors and the second set of processors may be the same set of processors or may be different sets of processors. Reference to “one or more memories” should be understood to refer to any one or more memories of a corresponding device, such as the memory described in connection with Fig. 2. For example, operation described as being performed by one or more memories can be performed by the same subset of the one or more memories or different subsets of the one or more memories.
[0069] For downlink communication from the network node 110 to the UE 120, the transmit processor 214 may receive data ( “downlink data” ) intended for the UE 120 (or a set of UEs that includes the UE 120) from the data source 212 (such as a data pipeline or a data queue) . In some examples, the transmit processor 214 may select one or more MCSs for the UE 120 in accordance with one or more channel quality indicators (CQIs) received from the UE 120. The network node 110 may process the data (for example, including encoding the data) for transmission to the UE 120 on a downlink in accordance with the MCS (s) selected for the UE 120 to generate data symbols. The transmit processor 214 may process system information (for example, semi-static resource partitioning information (SRPI) ) and / or control information (for example, CQI requests, grants, and / or upper layer signaling) and provide overhead symbols and / or control symbols. The transmit processor 214 may generate reference symbols for reference signals (for example, a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) , a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) , or a channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) ) and / or synchronization signals (for example, a primary synchronization signal (PSS) or a secondary synchronization signals (SSS) ) .
[0070] The TX MIMO processor 216 may perform spatial processing (for example, precoding) on the data symbols, the control symbols, the overhead symbols, and / or the reference symbols, if applicable, and may provide a set of output symbol streams (for example, T output symbol streams) to the set of modems 232. For example, each output symbol stream may be provided to a respective modulator component (shown as MOD) of a modem 232. Each modem 232 may use the respective modulator component to process (for example, to modulate) a respective output symbol stream (for example, for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) ) to obtain an output sample stream. Each modem 232 may further use the respective modulator component to process (for example, convert to analog, amplify, filter, and / or upconvert) the output sample stream to obtain a time domain downlink signal. The modems 232a through 232t may together transmit a set of downlink signals (for example, T downlink signals) via the corresponding set of antennas 234.
[0071] A downlink signal may include a DCI communication, a MAC control element (MAC-CE) communication, an RRC communication, a downlink reference signal, or another type of downlink communication. Downlink signals may be transmitted on a PDCCH, a PDSCH, and / or on another downlink channel. A downlink signal may carry one or more transport blocks (TBs) of data. A TB may be a unit of data that is transmitted over an air interface in the wireless communication network 100. A data stream (for example, from the data source 212) may be encoded into multiple TBs for transmission over the air interface. The quantity of TBs used to carry the data associated with a particular data stream may be associated with a TB size common to the multiple TBs. The TB size may be based on or otherwise associated with radio channel conditions of the air interface, the MCS used for encoding the data, the downlink resources allocated for transmitting the data, and / or another parameter. In general, the larger the TB size, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted in a single transmission, which reduces signaling overhead. However, larger TB sizes may be more prone to transmission and / or reception errors than smaller TB sizes, but such errors may be mitigated by more robust error correction techniques.
[0072] For uplink communication from the UE 120 to the network node 110, uplink signals from the UE 120 may be received by an antenna 234, may be processed by a modem 232 (for example, a demodulator component, shown as DEMOD, of a modem 232) , may be detected by the MIMO detector 236 (for example, a receive (Rx) MIMO processor) if applicable, and / or may be further processed by the receive processor 238 to obtain decoded data and / or control information. The receive processor 238 may provide the decoded data to a data sink 239 (which may be a data pipeline, a data queue, and / or another type of data sink) and provide the decoded control information to a processor, such as the controller / processor 240.
[0073] The network node 110 may use the scheduler 246 to schedule one or more UEs 120 for downlink or uplink communications. In some aspects, the scheduler 246 may use DCI to dynamically schedule DL transmissions to the UE 120 and / or UL transmissions from the UE 120. In some examples, the scheduler 246 may allocate recurring time domain resources and / or frequency domain resources that the UE 120 may use to transmit and / or receive communications using an RRC configuration (for example, a semi-static configuration) , for example, to perform semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) or to configure a configured grant (CG) for the UE 120.
[0074] One or more of the transmit processor 214, the TX MIMO processor 216, the modem 232, the antenna 234, the MIMO detector 236, the receive processor 238, and / or the controller / processor 240 may be included in an RF chain of the network node 110. An RF chain may include one or more filters, mixers, oscillators, amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) , and / or other devices that convert between an analog signal (such as for transmission or reception via an air interface) and a digital signal (such as for processing by one or more processors of the network node 110) . In some aspects, the RF chain may be or may be included in a transceiver of the network node 110.
[0075] In some examples, the network node 110 may use the communication unit 244 to communicate with a core network and / or with other network nodes. The communication unit 244 may support wired and / or wireless communication protocols and / or connections, such as Ethernet, optical fiber, common public radio interface (CPRI) , and / or a wired or wireless backhaul, among other examples. The network node 110 may use the communication unit 244 to transmit and / or receive data associated with the UE 120 or to perform network control signaling, among other examples. The communication unit 244 may include a transceiver and / or an interface, such as a network interface.
[0076] The UE 120 may include a set of antennas 252 (shown as antennas 252a through 252r, where r ≥ 1) , a set of modems 254 (shown as modems 254a through 254u, where u ≥ 1) , a MIMO detector 256, a receive processor 258, a data sink 260, a data source 262, a transmit processor 264, a TX MIMO processor 266, a controller / processor 280, a memory 282, and / or a communication manager 140, among other examples. One or more of the components of the UE 120 may be included in a housing 284. In some aspects, one or a combination of the antenna (s) 252, the modem (s) 254, the MIMO detector 256, the receive processor 258, the transmit processor 264, or the TX MIMO processor 266 may be included in a transceiver that is included in the UE 120. The transceiver may be under control of and used by one or more processors, such as the controller / processor 280, and in some aspects in conjunction with processor-readable code stored in the memory 282, to perform aspects of the methods, processes, or operations described herein. In some aspects, the UE 120 may include another interface, another communication component, and / or another component that facilitates communication with the network node 110 and / or another UE 120.
[0077] For downlink communication from the network node 110 to the UE 120, the set of antennas 252 may receive the downlink communications or signals from the network node 110 and may provide a set of received downlink signals (for example, R received signals) to the set of modems 254. For example, each received signal may be provided to a respective demodulator component (shown as DEMOD) of a modem 254. Each modem 254 may use the respective demodulator component to condition (for example, filter, amplify, downconvert, and / or digitize) a received signal to obtain input samples. Each modem 254 may use the respective demodulator component to further demodulate or process the input samples (for example, for OFDM) to obtain received symbols. The MIMO detector 256 may obtain received symbols from the set of modems 254, may perform MIMO detection on the received symbols if applicable, and may provide detected symbols. The receive processor 258 may process (for example, decode) the detected symbols, may provide decoded data for the UE 120 to the data sink 260 (which may include a data pipeline, a data queue, and / or an application executed on the UE 120) , and may provide decoded control information and system information to the controller / processor 280.
[0078] For uplink communication from the UE 120 to the network node 110, the transmit processor 264 may receive and process data ( “uplink data” ) from a data source 262 (such as a data pipeline, a data queue, and / or an application executed on the UE 120) and control information from the controller / processor 280. The control information may include one or more parameters, feedback, one or more signal measurements, and / or other types of control information. In some aspects, the receive processor 258 and / or the controller / processor 280 may determine, for a received signal (such as received from the network node 110 or another UE) , one or more parameters relating to transmission of the uplink communication. The one or more parameters may include a reference signal received power (RSRP) parameter, a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) parameter, a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) parameter, a CQI parameter, or a transmit power control (TPC) parameter, among other examples. The control information may include an indication of the RSRP parameter, the RSSI parameter, the RSRQ parameter, the CQI parameter, the TPC parameter, and / or another parameter. The control information may facilitate parameter selection and / or scheduling for the UE 120 by the network node 110.
[0079] The transmit processor 264 may generate reference symbols for one or more reference signals, such as an uplink DMRS, an uplink sounding reference signal (SRS) , and / or another type of reference signal. The symbols from the transmit processor 264 may be precoded by the TX MIMO processor 266, if applicable, and further processed by the set of modems 254 (for example, for DFT-s-OFDM or CP-OFDM) . The TX MIMO processor 266 may perform spatial processing (for example, precoding) on the data symbols, the control symbols, the overhead symbols, and / or the reference symbols, if applicable, and may provide a set of output symbol streams (for example, U output symbol streams) to the set of modems 254. For example, each output symbol stream may be provided to a respective modulator component (shown as MOD) of a modem 254. Each modem 254 may use the respective modulator component to process (for example, to modulate) a respective output symbol stream (for example, for OFDM) to obtain an output sample stream. Each modem 254 may further use the respective modulator component to process (for example, convert to analog, amplify, filter, and / or upconvert) the output sample stream to obtain an uplink signal.
[0080] The modems 254a through 254u may transmit a set of uplink signals (for example, R uplink signals or U uplink symbols) via the corresponding set of antennas 252. An uplink signal may include a UCI communication, a MAC-CE communication, an RRC communication, or another type of uplink communication. Uplink signals may be transmitted on a PUSCH, a PUCCH, and / or another type of uplink channel. An uplink signal may carry one or more TBs of data. Sidelink data and control transmissions (that is, transmissions directly between two or more UEs 120) may generally use similar techniques as were described for uplink data and control transmission, and may use sidelink-specific channels such as a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) , a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) , and / or a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) .
[0081] One or more antennas of the set of antennas 252 or the set of antennas 234 may include, or may be included within, one or more antenna panels, one or more antenna groups, one or more sets of antenna elements, or one or more antenna arrays, among other examples. An antenna panel, an antenna group, a set of antenna elements, or an antenna array may include one or more antenna elements (within a single housing or multiple housings) , a set of coplanar antenna elements, a set of non-coplanar antenna elements, or one or more antenna elements coupled with one or more transmission or reception components, such as one or more components of Fig. 2. As used herein, “antenna” can refer to one or more antennas, one or more antenna panels, one or more antenna groups, one or more sets of antenna elements, or one or more antenna arrays. “Antenna panel” can refer to a group of antennas (such as antenna elements) arranged in an array or panel, which may facilitate beamforming by manipulating parameters of the group of antennas. “Antenna module” may refer to circuitry including one or more antennas, which may also include one or more other components (such as filters, amplifiers, or processors) associated with integrating the antenna module into a wireless communication device.
[0082] In some examples, each of the antenna elements of an antenna 234 or an antenna 252 may include one or more sub-elements for radiating or receiving radio frequency signals. For example, a single antenna element may include a first sub-element cross-polarized with a second sub-element that can be used to independently transmit cross-polarized signals. The antenna elements may include patch antennas, dipole antennas, and / or other types of antennas arranged in a linear pattern, a two-dimensional pattern, or another pattern. A spacing between antenna elements may be such that signals with a desired wavelength transmitted separately by the antenna elements may interact or interfere constructively and destructively along various directions (such as to form a desired beam) . For example, given an expected range of wavelengths or frequencies, the spacing may provide a quarter wavelength, a half wavelength, or another fraction of a wavelength of spacing between neighboring antenna elements to allow for the desired constructive and destructive interference patterns of signals transmitted by the separate antenna elements within that expected range.
[0083] The amplitudes and / or phases of signals transmitted via antenna elements and / or sub-elements may be modulated and shifted relative to each other (such as by manipulating phase shift, phase offset, and / or amplitude) to generate one or more beams, which is referred to as beamforming. The term “beam” may refer to a directional transmission of a wireless signal toward a receiving device or otherwise in a desired direction. “Beam” may also generally refer to a direction associated with such a directional signal transmission, a set of directional resources associated with the signal transmission (for example, an angle of arrival, a horizontal direction, and / or a vertical direction) , and / or a set of parameters that indicate one or more aspects of a directional signal, a direction associated with the signal, and / or a set of directional resources associated with the signal. In some implementations, antenna elements may be individually selected or deselected for directional transmission of a signal (or signals) by controlling amplitudes of one or more corresponding amplifiers and / or phases of the signal (s) to form one or more beams. The shape of a beam (such as the amplitude, width, and / or presence of side lobes) and / or the direction of a beam (such as an angle of the beam relative to a surface of an antenna array) can be dynamically controlled by modifying the phase shifts, phase offsets, and / or amplitudes of the multiple signals relative to each other.
[0084] Different UEs 120 or network nodes 110 may include different numbers of antenna elements. For example, a UE 120 may include a single antenna element, two antenna elements, four antenna elements, eight antenna elements, or a different number of antenna elements. As another example, a network node 110 may include eight antenna elements, 24 antenna elements, 64 antenna elements, 128 antenna elements, or a different number of antenna elements. Generally, a larger number of antenna elements may provide increased control over parameters for beam generation relative to a smaller number of antenna elements, whereas a smaller number of antenna elements may be less complex to implement and may use less power than a larger number of antenna elements. Multiple antenna elements may support multiple-layer transmission, in which a first layer of a communication (which may include a first data stream) and a second layer of a communication (which may include a second data stream) are transmitted using the same time and frequency resources with spatial multiplexing.
[0085] While blocks in Fig. 2 are illustrated as distinct components, the functions described above with respect to the blocks may be implemented in a single hardware, software, or combination component or in various combinations of components. For example, the functions described with respect to the transmit processor 264, the receive processor 258, and / or the TX MIMO processor 266 may be performed by or under the control of the controller / processor 280.
[0086] Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example disaggregated base station architecture 300 in accordance with the present disclosure. One or more components of the example disaggregated base station architecture 300 may be, may include, or may be included in one or more network nodes (such one or more network nodes 110) . The disaggregated base station architecture 300 may include a CU 310 that can communicate directly with a core network 320 via a backhaul link, or that can communicate indirectly with the core network 320 via one or more disaggregated control units, such as a Non-RT RIC 350 associated with a Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) Framework 360 and / or a Near-RT RIC 370 (for example, via an E2 link) . The CU 310 may communicate with one or more DUs 330 via respective midhaul links, such as via F1 interfaces. Each of the DUs 330 may communicate with one or more RUs 340 via respective fronthaul links. Each of the RUs 340 may communicate with one or more UEs 120 via respective RF access links. In some deployments, a UE 120 may be simultaneously served by multiple RUs 340.
[0087] Each of the components of the disaggregated base station architecture 300, including the CUs 310, the DUs 330, the RUs 340, the Near-RT RICs 370, the Non-RT RICs 350, and the SMO Framework 360, may include one or more interfaces or may be coupled with one or more interfaces for receiving or transmitting signals, such as data or information, via a wired or wireless transmission medium.
[0088] In some aspects, the CU 310 may be logically split into one or more CU user plane (CU-UP) units and one or more CU control plane (CU-CP) units. A CU-UP unit may communicate bidirectionally with a CU-CP unit via an interface, such as the E1 interface when implemented in an O-RAN configuration. The CU 310 may be deployed to communicate with one or more DUs 330, as necessary, for network control and signaling. Each DU 330 may correspond to a logical unit that includes one or more base station functions to control the operation of one or more RUs 340. For example, a DU 330 may host various layers, such as an RLC layer, a MAC layer, or one or more PHY layers, such as one or more high PHY layers or one or more low PHY layers. Each layer (which also may be referred to as a module) may be implemented with an interface for communicating signals with other layers (and modules) hosted by the DU 330, or for communicating signals with the control functions hosted by the CU 310. Each RU 340 may implement lower layer functionality. In some aspects, real-time and non-real-time aspects of control and user plane communication with the RU (s) 340 may be controlled by the corresponding DU 330.
[0089] The SMO Framework 360 may support RAN deployment and provisioning of non-virtualized and virtualized network elements. For non-virtualized network elements, the SMO Framework 360 may support the deployment of dedicated physical resources for RAN coverage requirements, which may be managed via an operations and maintenance interface, such as an O1 interface. For virtualized network elements, the SMO Framework 360 may interact with a cloud computing platform (such as an open cloud (O-Cloud) platform 390) to perform network element life cycle management (such as to instantiate virtualized network elements) via a cloud computing platform interface, such as an O2 interface. A virtualized network element may include, but is not limited to, a CU 310, a DU 330, an RU 340, a non-RT RIC 350, and / or a Near-RT RIC 370. In some aspects, the SMO Framework 360 may communicate with a hardware aspect of a 4G RAN, a 5G NR RAN, and / or a 6G RAN, such as an open eNB (O-eNB) 380, via an O1 interface. Additionally or alternatively, the SMO Framework 360 may communicate directly with each of one or more RUs 340 via a respective O1 interface. In some deployments, this configuration can enable each DU 330 and the CU 310 to be implemented in a cloud-based RAN architecture, such as a vRAN architecture.
[0090] The Non-RT RIC 350 may include or may implement a logical function that enables non-real-time control and optimization of RAN elements and resources, AI / ML workflows including model training and updates, and / or policy-based guidance of applications and / or features in the Near-RT RIC 370. The Non-RT RIC 350 may be coupled to or may communicate with (such as via an A1 interface) the Near-RT RIC 370. The Near-RT RIC 370 may include or may implement a logical function that enables near-real-time control and optimization of RAN elements and resources via data collection and actions via an interface (such as via an E2 interface) connecting one or more CUs 310, one or more DUs 330, and / or an O-eNB with the Near-RT RIC 370.
[0091] In some aspects, to generate AI / ML models to be deployed in the Near-RT RIC 370, the Non-RT RIC 350 may receive parameters or external enrichment information from external servers. Such information may be utilized by the Near-RT RIC 370 and may be received at the SMO Framework 360 or the Non-RT RIC 350 from non-network data sources or from network functions. In some examples, the Non-RT RIC 350 or the Near-RT RIC 370 may tune RAN behavior or performance. For example, the Non-RT RIC 350 may monitor long-term trends and patterns for performance and may employ AI / ML models to perform corrective actions via the SMO Framework 360 (such as reconfiguration via an O1 interface) or via creation of RAN management policies (such as A1 interface policies) .
[0092] As indicated above, Fig. 3 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 3.
[0093] The network node 110, the controller / processor 240 of the network node 110, the UE 120, the controller / processor 280 of the UE 120, the CU 310, the DU 330, the RU 340, or any other component (s) of Figs. 1, 2, or 3 may implement one or more techniques or perform one or more operations associated with dynamic port selection for time and phase synchronization for CJT, as described in more detail elsewhere herein. For example, the controller / processor 240 of the network node 110, the controller / processor 280 of the UE 120, any other component (s) of Fig. 2, the CU 310, the DU 330, or the RU 340 may perform or direct operations of, for example, process 1200 of Fig. 12, process 1300 of Fig. 13, or other processes as described herein (alone or in conjunction with one or more other processors) . In some aspects, a TRP described herein is a network node 110, is included in the network node 110, or includes one or more components of the network node 110 shown in Fig. 2. The memory 242 may store data and program codes for the network node 110, the network node 110, the CU 310, the DU 330, or the RU 340. The memory 282 may store data and program codes for the UE 120. In some examples, the memory 242 or the memory 282 may include a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions (for example, code or program code) for wireless communication. The memory 242 may include one or more memories, such as a single memory or multiple different memories (of the same type or of different types) . The memory 282 may include one or more memories, such as a single memory or multiple different memories (of the same type or of different types) . For example, the set of instructions, when executed (for example, directly, or after compiling, converting, or interpreting) by one or more processors of the network node 110, the UE 120, the CU 310, the DU 330, or the RU 340, may cause the one or more processors to perform process 1200 of Fig. 12, process 1300 of Fig. 13, or other processes as described herein. In some examples, executing instructions may include running the instructions, converting the instructions, compiling the instructions, and / or interpreting the instructions, among other examples.
[0094] In some aspects, a UE (e.g., a UE 120) includes means for transmitting one or more SRSs using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer; and / or means for receiving multiple CSI-RSs from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources, the receiving being based at least in part on at least one of: a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, or a second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N CSI-RS resource sets. The means for the UE to perform operations described herein may include, for example, one or more of communication manager 140, antenna 252, modem 254, MIMO detector 256, receive processor 258, transmit processor 264, TX MIMO processor 266, controller / processor 280, or memory 282.
[0095] In some aspects, a first TRP (e.g., a network node 110) includes means for receiving an SRS from a UE; means for transmitting a CSI-RS that is based at least in part on a CSI-RS resource set that includes one or more CSI-RS resources, the CSI-RS including precoding that is based at least in part on the SRS; and / or means for receiving an indication of a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP. The means for the first TRP to perform operations described herein may include, for example, one or more of communication manager 150, transmit processor 214, TX MIMO processor 216, modem 232, antenna 234, MIMO detector 236, receive processor 238, controller / processor 240, memory 242, or scheduler 246.
[0096] As indicated above, Fig. 3 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 3.
[0097] Fig. 4 illustrates an example logical architecture of a distributed RAN 400, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0098] A 5G access node 405 may include an access node controller 410. The access node controller 410 may be a central unit (CU) of the distributed RAN 400. In some aspects, a backhaul interface to a 5G core network 415 may terminate at the access node controller 410. The 5G core network 415 may include a 5G control plane component 420 and a 5G user plane component 425 (e.g., a 5G gateway) , and the backhaul interface for one or both of the 5G control plane and the 5G user plane may terminate at the access node controller 410. Additionally, or alternatively, a backhaul interface to one or more neighbor access nodes 430 (e.g., another 5G access node 405 and / or an LTE access node) may terminate at the access node controller 410.
[0099] The access node controller 410 may include and / or may communicate with one or more TRPs 435 (e.g., via an F1 Control (F1-C) interface and / or an F1 User (F1-U) interface) . A TRP 435 may include a distributed unit (DU) and / or a radio unit (RU) of the distributed RAN 400. In some aspects, a TRP 435 may correspond to a network node 110 described above in connection with Fig. 1. For example, different TRPs 435 may be included in different network nodes 110. Additionally, or alternatively, multiple TRPs 435 may be included in a single network node 110. In some aspects, a network node 110 may include a CU (e.g., access node controller 410) and / or one or more DUs (e.g., one or more TRPs 435) . In some cases, a TRP 435 may be referred to as a cell, a panel, an antenna array, or an array.
[0100] A TRP 435 may be connected to a single access node controller 410 or to multiple access node controllers 410. In some aspects, a dynamic configuration of split logical functions may be present within the architecture of distributed RAN 400, referred to elsewhere herein as a functional split. For example, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer, a radio link control (RLC) layer, and / or a medium access control (MAC) layer may be configured to terminate at the access node controller 410 or at a TRP 435.
[0101] In some aspects, multiple TRPs 435 may transmit communications (e.g., the same communication or different communications) in the same transmission time interval (TTI) (e.g., a slot, a mini-slot, a subframe, or a symbol) or different TTIs using different quasi co-location (QCL) relationships (e.g., different spatial parameters, different transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, different precoding parameters, and / or different beamforming parameters) . In some aspects, a TCI state may be used to indicate one or more QCL relationships. A TRP 435 may be configured to individually (e.g., using dynamic selection) or jointly (e.g., using joint transmission with one or more other TRPs 435) serve traffic to a UE 120.
[0102] As indicated above, Fig. 4 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what was described with regard to Fig. 4.
[0103] Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example 500 of multi-TRP communication (sometimes referred to as multi-panel communication) , in accordance with the present disclosure. As shown in Fig. 5, multiple TRPs 505 may communicate with the same UE 120. A TRP 505 may correspond to a TRP 435 described above in connection with Fig. 4.
[0104] The multiple TRPs 505 (shown as TRP A and TRP B) may communicate with the same UE 120 in a coordinated manner (e.g., using coordinated multipoint transmissions) to improve reliability and / or increase throughput. The TRPs 505 may coordinate such communications via an interface between the TRPs 505 (e.g., a backhaul interface and / or an access node controller 410) . The interface may have a smaller delay and / or higher capacity when the TRPs 505 are co-located at the same network node 110 (e.g., when the TRPs 505 are different antenna arrays or panels of the same network node 110) , and may have a larger delay and / or lower capacity (as compared to co-location) when the TRPs 505 are located at different network nodes 110. The different TRPs 505 may communicate with the UE 120 using different QCL relationships (e.g., different TCI states) , different demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports, and / or different layers (e.g., of a multi-layer communication) .
[0105] In a first multi-TRP transmission mode (e.g., Mode 1) , a single physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) may be used to schedule downlink data communications for a single physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) . In this case, multiple TRPs 505 (e.g., TRP A and TRP B) may transmit communications to the UE 120 on the same PDSCH. For example, a communication may be transmitted using a single codeword with different spatial layers for different TRPs 505 (e.g., where one codeword maps to a first set of layers transmitted by a first TRP 505 and maps to a second set of layers transmitted by a second TRP 505) . As another example, a communication may be transmitted using multiple codewords, where different codewords are transmitted by different TRPs 505 (e.g., using different sets of layers) . In either case, different TRPs 505 may use different QCL relationships (e.g., different TCI states) for different DMRS ports corresponding to different layers. For example, a first TRP 505 may use a first QCL relationship or a first TCI state for a first set of DMRS ports corresponding to a first set of layers, and a second TRP 505 may use a second (different) QCL relationship or a second (different) TCI state for a second (different) set of DMRS ports corresponding to a second (different) set of layers. In some aspects, a TCI state in downlink control information (DCI) (e.g., transmitted on the PDCCH, such as DCI format 1_0 or DCI format 1_1) may indicate the first QCL relationship (e.g., by indicating a first TCI state) and the second QCL relationship (e.g., by indicating a second TCI state) . The first and the second TCI states may be indicated using a TCI field in the DCI. In general, the TCI field can indicate a single TCI state (for single-TRP transmission) or multiple TCI states (for multi-TRP transmission as discussed here) in this multi-TRP transmission mode (e.g., Mode 1) .
[0106] In a second multi-TRP transmission mode (e.g., Mode 2) , multiple PDCCHs may be used to schedule downlink data communications for multiple corresponding PDSCHs (e.g., one PDCCH for each PDSCH) . In this case, a first PDCCH may schedule a first codeword to be transmitted by a first TRP 505, and a second PDCCH may schedule a second codeword to be transmitted by a second TRP 505. Furthermore, first DCI (e.g., transmitted by the first TRP 505) may schedule a first PDSCH communication associated with a first set of DMRS ports with a first QCL relationship (e.g., indicated by a first TCI state) for the first TRP 505, and second DCI (e.g., transmitted by the second TRP 505) may schedule a second PDSCH communication associated with a second set of DMRS ports with a second QCL relationship (e.g., indicated by a second TCI state) for the second TRP 505. In this case, DCI (e.g., having DCI format 1_0 or DCI format 1_1) may indicate a corresponding TCI state for a TRP 505 corresponding to the DCI. The TCI field of a DCI indicates the corresponding TCI state (e.g., the TCI field of the first DCI indicates the first TCI state and the TCI field of the second DCI indicates the second TCI state) .
[0107] As indicated above, Fig. 5 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with respect to Fig. 5.
[0108] Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example 600 of a wireless communication process between a UE 602 (e.g., a UE 120) , a first TRP 604 (e.g., a first network node 110) , and a second TRP 606 (e.g., a second network node 110) , in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0109] In CJT, multiple TRPs may transmit data to, and / or receive data from, a UE in a synchronized and / or coherent manner. As one example, a first TRP (e.g., the first TRP 604) and a second TRP (e.g., the second TRP 606) may phase align and / or time align respective transmissions to arrive at the UE 602 in phase with one another to improve constructive interference and, consequently, improve a received signal quality (e.g., a higher power level) at the UE 602. That is, the first TRP and the second TRP may generate a joint transmission that combines a first signal from the first TRP and a second signal from the second TRP, resulting in a combined signal that has a higher received signal power level at the UE relative to the individual received powers of the first signal and / or the second signal. In some aspects, the TRPs may use information about the respective channels between each TRP and the UE in order to select transmission weights or other transmission parameters (e.g., a timing offset and / or a phase offset) that improve constructive interference and, consequently, improve the received signal quality. The example 600 shown by Fig. 6 is a wireless communication process between the UE 602, the first TRP 604, and the second TRP 606 that may be used to estimate a relative timing offset and / or a relative phase offset between the first TRP 604 and the second TRP 606.
[0110] As shown by reference number 610, the UE 602 may transmit, and the first TRP 604 and / or the second TRP 606 may receive, one or more SRSs. In some aspects, the UE 602 may transmit a single SRS that is received by both the first TRP 604 and the second TRP 606. In other aspects, the UE 602 may transmit multiple SRSs (e.g., a first SRS that is directed to the first TRP 604 and a second SRS that is directed to the second TRP 606) . The UE 602 may transmit the one or more SRSs using a single transceiver, such as in scenarios in which the UE 602 includes multiple transceivers that cannot guarantee phase coherence between respective signals transmitted via respective transceivers of the multiple transceivers. An SRS received by the first TRP 604 may be represented as:
[0111] and an SRS received by the second TRP 606 (e.g., the same SRS as the first TRP 604 and / or a different SRS) may be represented as:
[0112] where: ψTx (k) =exp (-j2πkτTxΔf-jφTx)
[0113] represents a transmit-side phase mismatch of a signal that is based at least in part on a transmit-side phase ramp that occurs over adjacent subcarrier separated by Δf, the transmit-side phase ramp being based at least in part on transceiver hardware at the transmit-side, and a phase uncertainty (e.g., φTx) that is introduced by a transmit-side clock jitter, where ψTx may include a “UE” , “TRP1” , and / or “TRP2” subscript to denote the transmitter device as used above and / or below, at a subcarrier k, ψRx (k) =exp (j2πkτRxΔf+jφRx)
[0114] represents a receive-side phase mismatch of a signal that is based at least in part on a receive-side phase ramp over adjacent subcarrier separated by Δf, the receive-side phase ramp being based at least in part on transceiver hardware at the receive-side, and a phase uncertainty (e.g., φRx) that is introduced by a receive-side clock jitter, whereψRx may be designated with a “UE” , “TRP1” , and / or “TRP2” subscript to denote the receiving device as used above and / or below, at a subcarrier k, hUL
[0115] represents an uplink communication channel characterization, where hUL may be labeled with a “TRP1” , and / or “TRP2” subscript to identify an uplink channel between the UE and another device as used above and / or below, and
[0116] hDL
[0117] represents a downlink communication channel characterization, where hDL may be labeled with a “TRP1” , and / or “TRP2” subscript to identify a downlink channel between the UE and another device as used above and / or below.
[0118] In the above equations and / or expressions, τTx represents a transmitter timing offset (e.g., a transmitter phase ramp over adjacent subcarriers that are separated by a frequency difference of Δf) that is introduced by clock jitter at a transmitter device, where τTx may include a “UE” , “TRP1” , and / or “TRP2” subscript to identify the transmitter device as used above and / or below. τRx represents a receiver timing offset (e.g., a receiver phase ramp over adjacent subcarriers that are separated by a frequency difference of Δf) that is introduced by the clock jitter at a receiver device, where τRx may include a “UE” , “TRP1” , and / or “TRP2” subscript to indicate the receiver device as used above and / or below. φTx represents a phase uncertainty introduced by a transmitter-side clock jitter, where φTx may use a “UE” , “TRP1” , and / or “TRP2” subscript to identify the transmitter device, as used above and / or below. φRx represents a phase uncertainty introduced by a receiver-side clock jitter, where φRx may use a “UE” , “TRP1” , and / or “TRP2” subscript to identify the receiver device, as used above and / or below.
[0119] As shown by reference number 620, the first TRP 604 may transmit, and the UE 602 may receive, a first precoded CSI-RS. In some aspects, “precoding” may denote applying information to a signal (e.g., the CSI-RS) to modify the signal in a manner that improves a signal quality (e.g., reduces interference and / or increases a power level) at a receiver. For example, using the received SRS, the first TRP 604 may derive channel characteristics of the first channel between the first TRP 604 and the UE 602. The first TRP 604 may apply precoding to a CSI-RS, and the precoding may be configured to mitigate distortion in the CSI-RS that is based at least in part on channel propagation and / or channel phase (e.g., associated with the first channel) . To illustrate, the first TRP 604 may apply precoding to a CSI-RS that is based at least on the phase of the received SRS by applying precoding that is based at least in part on a phase conjugate In some aspects, the first precoded CSI-RS may be a single-port CSI-RS (e.g., transmitted via a single antenna port of the first TRP 604) . The first precoded CSI-RS received by the UE 602 may be represented as:
[0120] using the descriptions for ψRx, ψTx, hDL, and zTRP1 as discussed above, where represents a phase conjugate of the SRS as described above.
[0121] As shown by reference number 630, the second TRP 606 may transmit, and the UE 602 may receive, a second precoded CSI-RS. To illustrate, using the received SRS, the second TRP 606 may derive channel characteristics of the second channel between the second TRP 606 and the UE 602, and the second TRP 606 may apply precoding to a CSI-RS that is configured to mitigate distortion in the CSI-RS that is based at least in part on channel propagation and / or channel phase that is associated with the second channel. To illustrate, the second TRP 606 may apply precoding to a CSI-RS that is based at least on the phase of the received SRS by applying precoding that is based at least in part on a phase conjugate In some aspects, the second precoded CSI-RS may be a single-port CSI-RS (e.g., transmitted via a single antenna port of the second TRP 606) . The second precoded CSI-RS received by the UE 602 may be represented as:
[0122] using the descriptions for ψRx, ψTx, hDL, and zTRP2 as discussed above, where is a phase conjugate of the SRS as described above.
[0123] As shown by reference number 640, the UE 602 may calculate and / or estimate a time offset and / or a phase offset between the first TRP 604 and the second TRP 606. As one example, the UE 602 may calculate, as the time offset, an inter-TRP time offset that is between the first TRP 604 and the second TRP 606 using the formula:
[0124] Alternatively, or additionally, the UE 602 may calculate, as the phase offset, an inter-TRP phase offset between the first TRP 604 and the second TRP 606 using the formula:
[0125] For example, the UE 602 may calculate:
[0126] that cancels out phase uncertainty due to the UE transmission and reception. That is, by canceling out the phase uncertainty due to the UE transmission and reception, the remaining time offset and / or phase offset is the inter-TRP timing offset and the inter-TRP phase offset described above. In some aspects, the UE 602 may calculate the inter-TRP timing offset and / or the inter-TRP phase offset between the first TRP 604 and the second TRP 606 by estimating y2 (k) across multiple subcarriers k = 1, …, K, where k and K are integers and the varying values of k results in estimations that span over an entire bandwidth.
[0127] As shown by reference number 650, the UE 602 may transmit, and at least one of the first TRP 604 and / or the TRP 606 may receive, the time offset and / or the phase offset calculated with regard to reference number 640. The UE 602 may transmit the time offset and / or the phase offset in any combination of Layer 1 signaling (e.g., uplink control information (UCI) ) , Layer 2 signaling (e.g., a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) ) , and / or Layer 3 signaling (e.g., radio resource control (RRC) signaling) .
[0128] As shown by reference number 660, the second TRP 606 may synchronize to the first TRP 604. For example, the second TRP 606 may use the timing offset and / or the phase offset to adjust transmission of a first downlink signal by the second TRP 606 to improve synchronization (e.g., reduce a timing offset and / or reduce a phase offset between transmissions) with a second downlink signal by the first TRP 604. The first downlink signal and the second downlink signal may be part of a CJT that is directed to the UE 602.
[0129] As indicated above, Fig. 6 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 6.
[0130] Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example 700 of a wireless communication process between a UE 702 (e.g., a UE 120) , a first TRP 704 (e.g., a first network node 110) , and a second TRP 706 (e.g., a second network node 110) , in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0131] As shown by reference number 710, the UE 702 may include multiple transceivers. More particularly, and as shown in Fig. 7, the UE 702 may include M transceivers, where M is an integer, and each transceiver may be associated with a respective antenna port.
[0132] As shown by reference number 720, the UE 702 may transmit, and at least one of the first TRP 704 and the second TRP 706 may receive, one or more SRSs. As one example, the UE 702 may transmit M > 1 SRSs, and each SRS may be transmitted via a respective transceiver and / or a respective SRS port. In some aspects, a network node (e.g., the first TRP 704 and / or the second TRP 706) may transmit SRS port configuration information to the UE 702 that configures more than one SRS port at the UE 702. Examples of SRS port configurations may include an SRS periodicity, an SRS bandwidth, and / or an SRS antenna port configuration (e.g., one or more antenna (s) to use for the SRS port) . In some aspects, the UE 702 may be configured with M SRS ports and / or may transmit a respective SRS via a respective SRS port. Alternatively, or additionally, the UE 702 may transmit one or more SRSs using more than one antenna port.
[0133] As shown by Fig. 7, the SRS (s) received by the first TRP 704 may be represented as: zTRP1←UE [1] , …, ZTRP1←UE [M] ,
[0134] using the descriptions described above. The subscript TRP1←UE [1] refers to a first SRS signal that was transmitted by the UE 702 via a first SRS port and is received by the first TRP 704. The subscript TRP1←UE [M] refers to an M-th SRS signal that was transmitted by the UE 702 via an M-th SRS port and is received by the first TRP 704.
[0135] In a similar manner, the SRS (s) received by the second TRP 706 may be represented as: ZTRP2←UE [1] , …, ZTRP2←UE [M] ,
[0136] using the descriptions described above. The subscript TRP2←UE [1] refers to a first SRS signal that was transmitted by the UE 702 via a first SRS port and is received by the second TRP 706, and the subscript TRP2←UE [M] refers to an M-th SRS signal that was transmitted by the UE 702 via an M-th SRS port and is received by the second TRP 706.
[0137] As shown by reference number 730, the first TRP 704 may transmit, and the UE 702 may receive, a first CSI-RS that is based at least in part on M > 1 CSI-RS resources, and each portion of the first CSI-RS that is carried by a respective CSI-RS resource may be precoded based at least in part on a respective SRS and / or a respective SRS port. For instance, in a similar manner as described with regard to reference number 620, the first TRP 704 may precode a first portion of the first CSI-RS (e.g., carried by a first CSI-RS resource) using at least a phase conjugate of a first SRS received by the first TRP 704 (e.g., ) , and an M-th portion of the CSI-RS (e.g., carried by an M-th CSI-RS resource) using at least a phase conjugate of an M-th SRS received by the first TRP 704 (e.g., ) .
[0138] In some aspects, the UE 702 may receive the first CSI-RS transmitted by the first TRP 704 using the same antenna ports that are included in an SRS port. To illustrate, the UE 702 may receive, using a first antenna port that is included in a first SRS port, the first portion of the first CSI-RS (e.g., carried by the first CSI-RS resource) that is precoded based at least in part on a first SRS transmitted by the UE 702 using a first SRS port, which may be represented as: YUE [1] ←TRP1←UE [1] ,
[0139] using the descriptions described above. The subscript UE [1] ←TRP1←UE [1] indicates that the portion of the first CSI-RS that is received by the UE 702 is received via the first antenna port (e.g., indicated by the leftmost UE [1] ) , that the first CSI-RS was transmitted by the first TRP 704 (e.g., indicated by the TRP1) , and the first TRP 704 precoded the first portion of the CSI-RS based at least in part on a first SRS transmitted by the UE 702 using the first SRS port (e.g., indicated by the rightmost UE [1] ) . In some aspects, the first receive antenna port may be a particular transceiver antenna port that is included in and / or used by the first SRS port. As another example, the UE 702 may receive an M-th portion of the CSI-RS that is precoded based at least in part on an M-th SRS transmitted by the UE 702 via an M-th SRS port: yUE [M] ←TRP1←UE [M] ,
[0140] The subscript UE [M] ←TRP1←UE [M] indicates that at least a portion of the CSI-RS is received by the UE 702 via an M-th antenna port (e.g., indicated by the leftmost UE [M] ) , that the CSI-RS was transmitted by the first TRP 704 (e.g., indicated by the TRP1) , and the first TRP 704 precoded the portion of the CSI-RS using an M-th SRS that was transmitted by the UE 702 via the M-th SRS port (e.g., indicated by the rightmost UE [M] ) . In some aspects, the M-th antenna port may be a particular transceiver antenna port that is included in and / or used by the M-th SRS port.
[0141] In some aspects, the UE 702 may alternatively, or additionally, receive a portion of a CSI-RS using a different antenna port than the precoding associated with the portion of the CSI-RS. For instance, the portion of the CSI-RS may be precoded based at least in part on an SRS port that includes a first antenna port, and the UE may receive the portion of the CSI-RS using a second antenna port that is not included in the SRS port, which may also be referred to as a cross-link signal and / or a transmit-receive (Tx-Rx) mismatch signal. A cross-link signal may be represented as: yUE [M] ←TRP1←UE [1] ,
[0142] where the subscript UE [M] ←TRP1←UE [1] indicates that a portion of CSI-RS that is received by the UE 702 via an M-th receive antenna port (e.g., indicated by UE [M] ) and was transmitted by the first TRP 704 (e.g., indicated by the TRP1) is precoded based at least in part on an SRS that is transmitted by the UE 702 using a first SRS port (e.g., indicated by UE [1] ) . Accordingly, for M SRS ports and / or M CSI-RS resources in a CSI-RS resource set, the combination of precoded CSI-RSs and receive antenna ports and / or transceiver antenna ports may be represented by the following matrix:
[0143] Each row of the matrix is based at least in part on a particular antenna port used by the UE to receive the portion of the CSI-RS. To illustrate, the top row of the matrix relates to the first antenna port as indicated by the UE [1] in the leftmost position of the subscript. Each column of the matrix represents a particular precoding basis (e.g., a particular SRS and / or a particular SRS port used to transmit the SRS) for a particular portion of the CSI-RS (e.g., a particular CSI-RS resource) and / or precoding that is applied to the portion of the CSI-RS. For example, the first column on the left relates to the first SRS and / or the first SRS port as indicated by the UE [1] in the rightmost position of the subscript.
[0144] As shown by reference number 740, the second TRP 706 may transmit, and the UE 702 may receive, a second CSI-RS that is based at least part on M CSI-RS resources, where M > 1. Each portion of the CSI-RS that is carried by a respective CSI-RS resource may be precoded based at least in part on a respective SRS and / or a respective SRS port. For instance, in a similar manner as described with regard to reference number 620 and reference number 730, the second TRP 706 may precode a first portion of the CSI-RS that is carried by a first CSI-RS resource by applying precoding that is based at least in part on a phase conjugate of a first SRS received by the second TRP 704 (e.g., ) , and an M-th portion of the CSI-RS by applying precoding that is based at least in part on a phase conjugate of an M-th SRS received by the second TRP 706 (e.g., ) .
[0145] In a similar manner as described with regard to reference number 730, each antenna port of the UE 702 may receive at least a portion of the second CSI-RS that is transmitted by the second TRP 706, which may be represented as: yUE [1] ←TRP2←UE [1] , …, yUE [M] ←TRP2←UE [M]
[0146] using the descriptions described above. The subscript UE [1] ←TRP2←UE [1] indicates a first portion of a CSI-RS that is received by the UE 702 via a first antenna port (e.g., indicated by the leftmost UE [1] ) , that the first portion of the CSI-RS was transmitted by the second TRP 706 (e.g., indicated by TRP2) , and the second TRP 706 precoded the first portion of the CSI-RS based at least in part on a first SRS that was transmitted by the UE 702 using the first SRS port. The subscript UE [M] ←TRP2←UE [M] indicates an M-th portion of the CSI-RS that is received by the UE 702 via an M-th antenna port (e.g., indicated by the leftmost UE [M] ) , that the M-th portion of the CSI-RS was transmitted by the second TRP 706 (e.g., indicated by TRP2) , and the second TRP 706 precoded the M-th portion of the CSI-RS based at least in part on an M-th SRS transmitted by the UE 702 using the M-th SRS port (e.g., indicated by the rightmost UE [M] ) . In a similar manner as described with regard to reference number 730, the UE 702 may receive a combination of precoded CSI-RSs via a combination of antenna ports, and the combination of precoded CSI-RSs and receive antenna ports (and / or transceiver antenna ports) may be represented by the following matrix:
[0147] As shown by reference number 750, the UE 702 may calculate a time offset (e.g., an inter-TRP time offset) and / or a phase offset (e.g., an inter-TRP phase offset) using the precoded CSI-RSs and / or the SRSs. As one example, the UE 702 may calculate the time offset and / or the phase offset based at least in part on using the received signals described above (e.g., yUE [1] ←TRP1←UE [1] up to yUE [M] ←TRP2←UE [M] as indicated in the matrices above) to calculate an in-total A2 received signal terms from each TRP and / or use the A2 received signal terms to derive the inter-TRP timing offset (τTRP2to1) and / or the inter-TRP phase offset (φTRP2to1) . To illustrate, and in a similar manner as described with regard to Fig. 6, the UE 702 may calculate {yTRP1} * {yTRP2} for multiple subcarriers (e.g., k = 1, …, K) to derive the inter-TRP timing offset and / or inter-TRP phase offset.
[0148] As shown by reference number 760, the UE 702 may transmit, and at least one of the first TRP 704 and / or the TRP 706 may receive, the time offset and / or the phase offset calculated as indicated by reference number 750. The UE 702 may transmit the time offset and / or the phase offset in any combination of Layer 1 signaling (e.g., UCI) , Layer 2 signaling (e.g., a MAC CE) , and / or Layer 3 signaling (e.g., RRC signaling) .
[0149] As shown by reference number 770, the second TRP 706 may synchronize to the first TRP 704. For example, the second TRP 706 may use the timing offset and / or the phase offset to adjust transmission of a first downlink signal by the second TRP 706 to improve synchronization (e.g., reduce a timing offset and / or reduce a phase offset) with a second downlink signal by the first TRP 704. The first downlink signal and the second downlink signal may be part of a CJT that is directed to the UE 702.
[0150] The example 700 may be expanded such that, in other examples, one or more TRPs may include multiple antenna ports, and the mathematical representations and / or equations above may be expanded to apply to the TRPs with multiple antenna ports in to cancel out channel propagation delay and / or channel phase offsets to obtain inter-TRP time offsets and / or inter-TRP phase offsets.
[0151] As indicated above, Fig. 7 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 7.
[0152] Fig. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example 800 of linkages between CSI-RS resource sets and an SRS resource set, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0153] As described with regard to Fig. 7, a UE (e.g., a UE 120) may transmit multiple SRSs via multiple SRS ports, such as by transmitting multiple single SRS port transmissions and / or one or more multiple SRS port transmissions. To illustrate, the UE may be configured with one SRS resource that includes M ports, or M single-port SRS resources that are each associated with a different SRS port. In the example 800, M = 2, and the UE has been configured with an SRS resource set that includes a first SRS port 804-1 and a second SRS port 804-2 (each shown as a solid white disk) .
[0154] Alternatively, or additionally, the UE may be configured to receive N CSI-RS resource sets, where N is an integer that represents a number of TRPs. To illustrate, in the example 800, the UE is configured to receive N = 2 CSI-RS resource sets for two TRPs: a first CSI-RS resource set 806 that is associated with a first TRP (e.g., the first TRP 604 as described with regard to Fig. 6 and / or the first TRP 704 as described with regard to Fig. 7) and a second CSI-RS resource set 808 that is associated with a second TRP (e.g., the second TRP 606 as described with regard to Fig. 6 and / or the second TRP 706 as described with regard to Fig. 7) . Each CSI-RS resource set may include at least M CSI-RS resources. As shown in Fig. 8, the first CSI-RS resource set 806 includes at least a first CSI-RS resource 810-1 and a second CSI-RS resource 810-2 (shown with a dotted pattern) , and the second CSI-RS resource set 808 includes at least a first CSI-RS resource 812-1 and a second CSI-RS resource 812-2.
[0155] Each CSI-RS resource in a CSI-RS resource set may be linked to a respective SRS port of an SRS resource set (e.g., the SRS ports and / or SRS resources configured for the UE) . With reference to a CSI-RS resource and an SRS port, “linked” may denote a CSI-RS resource (e.g., a time domain and frequency domain resource) that carries a signal (e.g., a CSI-RS) that is precoded based at least in part on an SRS port. That is, a linkage between a CSI-RS resource and an SRS port may indicate that an CSI-RS carried by the CSI-RS resource is precoded based at least in part on the linked SRS port. To illustrate, a CSI-RS resource that is linked to an SRS may be precoded based at least on the phase of a received SRS signal that uses the SRS port and / or SRS resource. In some aspects, the linkage may be indicated and / or configured by a network node (e.g., a network node 110) , such as by the network node indicating the linkage in RRC signaling. As one example, the network may indicate the linkage between a CSI-RS resource and an SRS port in first RRC signaling that indicates a CSI-RS resource configuration and / or second RRC signaling that indicates an SRS resource configuration and / or an SRS port configuration.
[0156] As shown by reference number 814, the first CSI-RS resource 810-1 of the first CSI-RS resource set 806 is linked to the first SRS port 804-1 (shown with a dashed line) , and, as shown by reference number 816, the second CSI-RS resource 810-2 of the first CSI-RS resource set 806 is linked to the second SRS port 804-2 (shown with a solid line) . Similarly, as shown by reference number 818, the first CSI-RS resource 812-1 of the second CSI-RS resource set 808 is linked to the first SRS port 804-1 (shown with a dotted line) , and, as shown by reference number 820, the second CSI-RS resource 812-2 of the second CSI-RS resource set 808 is linked to the second SRS port 804-2 (shown with a solid line) . Accordingly, a respective CSI-RS resource from each CSI-RS resource set is linked to a same SRS port.
[0157] The calculations described with regard to Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 are able to cancel out a channel delay and / or a channel phase based at least in part on each CSI-RS being precoded based at least in part on a particular SRS port used by the UE to transmit a particular SRS. Alternatively, or additionally, the calculations described with regard to Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 are able to cancel out a channel delay and / or a channel phase based at least in part on the UE using a particular receive antenna port to receive the precoded CSI-RS, such as a particular transceiver antenna port that is used in the particular SRS port for transmission of the particular SRS.
[0158] As one scenario, a UE may transmit a single port SRS. To cancel out a channel delay and / or a channel phase using the above equations, the UE may use a same antenna port that is used for the single port SRS (e.g., a transceiver antenna port) to receive the corresponding pre-coded CSI-RS.
[0159] As another scenario, the UE may transmit multiple SRSs via multiple SRS ports, such as an SRS that is based at least in part on a multi-port SRS that uses more than one antenna port, and / or multiple SRSs that use, respectively, a respective (single) SRS port. In the multi-port SRS scenario, the UE may receive a precoded CSI-RS using a same antenna port (e.g., a transceiver antenna port) that is used in the SRS port associated with the precoding and / or may receive the precoded CSI-RS using a different antenna port (e.g., a different transceiver antenna port) than the SRS port associated with the precoding. A precoded CSI-RS (and / or a portion of a CSI-RS that is precoded) that is received by the UE using a different antenna port than the SRS port used for the precoding may be referred to as a cross-link signal and / or a Tx-Rx mismatch as described above. Under some operating scenarios, the UE may be unable to cancel out the cross-link signals and / or the Tx-Rx mismatches, resulting in inter-TRP phase offset estimations and / or inter-TRP timing offset estimations that are inaccurate by an amount that leads to transmissions from a first TRP and a second TRP (e.g., CJT by the TRPs) being unsynchronized. Unsynchronized transmissions between TRPs may result in reduced signal quality at the UE (e.g., a signal power level that satisfies a low power threshold) , increased data recovery errors, reduced data throughput, and / or increased data transfer latencies.
[0160] Some techniques and apparatuses described herein provide dynamic port selection for time and phase synchronization for CJT. In some aspects, a UE may transmit one or more SRSs using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports (M being a first integer) . The UE may receive multiple CSI-RSs using N CSI-RS resource sets (N being a second integer) . In some aspects, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets may include M respective CSI-RS resources. The UE may receive the multiple CSI-RSs based at least in part on one or more operating conditions. As one example, a first operating condition may specify for the UE to use at least a same set of antenna ports (e.g., from the multiple antenna ports) to receive at least a first CSI-RS (e.g., of the multiple CSI-RSs) using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set (e.g. from the N CSI-RS resource sets) and a second CSI-RS (e.g., of the multiple CSI-RSs) using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set (e.g., of the N CSI-RS resource sets) . As another example, a second operating condition may specify for the UE to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set (e.g., of the N CSI-RS resource sets) using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs. In some aspects, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports may be linked to a respective CSI-RS resource of each CSI-RS resource set in the N C SI-RS resource sets.
[0161] Using one or more operating conditions that specify allowed and / or disallowed antenna ports for receiving precoded CSI-RSs may enable a UE (e.g., a UE 120) to cancel cross-link signals and / or Tx-Rx mismatches and improve an accuracy of an inter-TRP phase offset estimation and / or an inter-TRP timing estimation as described below. That is, the operating condition (s) may ensure that the UE receives precoded CSI-RS resources that belong to different CSI-RS resource sets but are associated with the same SRS port (e.g., the first CSI-RS resource 810-1 of the first CSI-RS resource set 806 and the first CSI-RS resource 812-1 of the second CSI-RS resource set 808 that are associated with the first SRS port 804-1) using a same antenna port, thus enabling the UE to cancel cross-link signals. Example operating conditions may include a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from multiple antenna ports at the UE, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of multiple CSI-RSs (e.g., using M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set associated with the first CSI-RS) and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs (e.g., using M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets) and / or a second operating condition that specifies to receive M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set (e.g., of multiple CSI-RS resource sets) using each antenna port of M SRS ports that are used to transmit one or more SRSs, where each antenna port included in the M SRS ports is linked to M respective CSI-RS resource of multiple CSI-RS resource sets.
[0162] To illustrate, and using the notations as described with regard to Fig. 7, two SRSs received at a first TRP (e.g., the first TRP 604 and / or the first TRP 704) via a link with a UE (e.g., the UE 602 and / or the UE 702) may be represented as:
[0163] Similar representations may be used for two SRSs received at a second TRP operating in a CJT manner with the first TRP.
[0164] At a UE side, CSI-RS resources and / or CSI-RSs received at the UE using an antenna port that is linked to the respective CSI-RS resource may be referred to as self-terms. Using the notations as described with regard to Fig. 7, self-terms at the UE may be calculated using:
[0165] in an expanded form.
[0166] At the UE side, cross-link signals and / or Tx-Rx mismatched signals may be represented as:
[0167] where the subscript UE [1] ←TRP1 [2] in (3a) refers to a second CSI-RS resource that is transmitted by the first TRP, is precoded based at least in part on a second SRS port (e.g., using TRP1 [2] ) , and is received by the UE using an antenna port that is associated with the first SRS port (e.g., UE [1] ) . The subscript UE [2] ←TRP1 [1] in (3b) refers to a first CSI-RS resource that is transmitted by the first TRP, is precoded based at least in part on a first SRS port (e.g., using TRP1 [1] ) , and is received by the UE using an antenna port that is associated with the second SRS port (e.g., UE [2] ) . Multiplying (3a) with (3b) results in:
[0168] cancelling out channel phase that is associated with the first TRP. Similar computations may be applied to CSI-RS transmissions by a second TRP (e.g., the second TRP 606 and / or the second TRP 706) , and may be referred to as (1′) , (2′) , (3a′) , (3b′) , and (3′) , respectively. Based at least in part on the following operating conditions being satisfied:
[0169] yUE (1) ←TRP1 [1] and yUE (1) ←TRP2 [1] are received on the same antenna port,
[0170] yUE (2) ←TRP1 [2] and yUE (2) ←TRP2 [2] are received on the same UE antenna port,
[0171] yUE (1) ←TRP1 [2] and yUE (1) ←TRP2 [2] are received on the same UE antenna port,
[0172] yUE (2) ←TRP1 [1] and yUE (2) ←TRP2 [1] are received on the same UE antenna port,
[0173] phase offset and / or timing offset that is due to cross-link signals and / or Tx-Rx mismatched signals may be cancelled out by performing the following computations
[0174] Equation (1) *× Equation (2) *× Equation (3) *×Equation (1′) × Equation (2′) × Equation (3′)
[0175] Equation (1) *refers to a phase conjugate of (1) described above for a first TRP, Equation (2) *refers to a phase conjugate of (2) described above for the first TRP, Equation (3) *refers to a phase conjugate of (3) described above for a first TRP, Equation (1′) refers to (1) described above for the second TRP, Equation (2′) refers to (2) described above with regard to the second TRP, and Equation (3′) refers to (3) described above with regard to the second TRP. By using the above operating conditions, a UE may cancel cross-link signals and / or Tx-Rx mismatches and improve an accuracy of an inter-TRP phase offset estimation and / or an inter-TRP timing offset estimation. Improving an accuracy of an inter-TRP phase offset estimation and / or an inter-TRP timing offset estimation may improve synchronization in CJT between TRPs (e.g., reduce a timing offset and / or reduce a phase offset) , resulting in an increased signal quality at the UE (e.g., a signal power level that satisfies a high power threshold) , reduced data recovery errors, increased data throughput, and / or decreased data transfer latencies.
[0176] As indicated above, Fig. 8 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 8.
[0177] Figs. 9A, 9B, 9C, and 9D are diagrams illustrating a first example 900, a second example 920, a third example 940, and a fourth example 960, respectively, of allowed and disallowed operating conditions, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0178] As described above, a UE (e.g., a UE 120) may be configured with multiple SRS ports, and the multiple SRS ports may include M SRS ports (e.g., an SRS resource set may be associated with M SRS ports, M being an integer greater than 1) and / or M single-port SRSs (e.g., each SRS resource set is associated with a different, single SRS port) . In some aspects, the UE may alternatively or additionally be configured with multiple CSI-RS resource sets, such as N CSI-RS resource sets, N being an integer greater than 1 that represents a number of TRPs performing CJT with the UE. That is, the UE may be configured with a respective CSI-RS resource set for each TRP as described with regard to Fig. 8. In some aspects, and based at least in part on one or more operating conditions, for multiple CSI-RS resource sets, each CSI-RS resource set may include at least M CSI-RS resources based at least in part on the UE being configured with M SRS ports. Alternatively, or additionally, and based at least in part on the one or more operating conditions, each SRS port may be linked to multiple CSI-RS resources. For instance, each SRS port may be linked to a respective CSI-RS resource in each CSI-RS resource set of the N C SI-RS resource sets as described with regard to Fig. 8.
[0179] In some aspects, a communication standard may specify the one or more operating conditions. For instance, as a first operating condition, the communication standard may specify that a UE uses a same set of antenna ports to receive the CSI-RS resources in different CSI-RS resource sets. To illustrate, for multiple CSI-RS resource sets associated with multiple TRPs operating in a CJT scenario, the first operating condition specified by the communication standard may indicate that the UE uses a same set of antennas, out of multiple antennas at the UE, to receive a first respective CSI-RS resource from each respective CSI-RS resource set. As a complementary example, the communication standard may specify that the UE does not use different sets of antenna ports to receive different CSI-RS resource sets, such as a first set of antenna ports to receive the respective CSI-RS resources in a first CSI-RS resource set and a second set of (different) antenna ports to receive the respective CSI-RS resources in a second CSI-RS resource set. As described above, the first operating condition may enable a UE to perform calculations that cancel out cross-link signals and / or Tx-Rx mismatch signals to improve an inter-TRP phase offset estimation and / or an inter-TRP timing offset estimation.
[0180] Alternatively, or additionally, as a second operating condition, a communication standard may specify that a UE receive the one or more CSI-RS resources in a particular CSI-RS resource set using a same one or more antenna ports that are linked to the respective SRS port used to precode each respective CSI-RS resource of the CSI-RS resources. To illustrate, the second operating condition may indicate that the UE receive a first CSI-RS resource (e.g., of a CSI-RS resource set) that is precoded based at least in part on a first SRS port using the same antenna port (s) of the first SRS port, and that the UE receive a second CSI-RS resource (e.g., of the same CSI-RS resource set) that is precoded based at least in part on a second SRS port using the same antenna port (s) of the second SRS port. As described above, the second operating condition may enable a UE to perform calculations that cancel out the channel delay and channel phase to improve an inter-TRP phase offset estimation and / or an inter-TRP timing offset estimation. In some aspects, the UE may include a same number of transmit antennas and receive antennas, and the UE may automatically satisfy at least one of the first condition or the second condition based at least in part on the linkage (e.g., the precoding linkage) between a CSI-RS resource and an SRS port. The first condition and / or the second condition may alternatively or additionally apply to scenarios in which a number of receive antennas at the UE is larger than a number of transmit antennas at the UE.
[0181] To further illustrate, Fig. 9A illustrates a first example 900 that is a first allowed scenario that satisfies at least one of the first operating condition or the second operating condition described above. The first example 900 includes a UE 902 that include multiple antenna ports, shown in Fig. 9A as antenna port 1 (e.g., a first transmit / receive (Tx / Rx) antenna port) , antenna port 2 (e.g., a second Tx / Rx antenna port) , antenna port 3 (e.g., a first receive antenna port) , and antenna port 4 (a second receive antenna port) . In some aspects, the UE 902 may be configured with M = 2 SRS ports (shown in Fig. 9A as including antenna 1 and antenna 2) . As shown by reference number 908 and reference number 910, the UE 902 may transmit one or more SRSs using the first antenna port and the second antenna port, and the one or more SRSs may be received by a first TRP 904 and a second TRP 906 (shown with a respective dashed line from antenna port 1 and antenna port 2 to each TRP) . The first TRP 904 may transmit a first CSI-RS using at least M = 2 respective CSI-RS resources that are precoded, respectively, based at least in part on the M = 2 SRS ports at the UE 902. Similarly, the second TRP 906 may transmit a second CSI-RS using at least M = 2 respective CSI-RS resources that are precoded, respectively, based at least in part on the M = 2 SRS ports at the UE 902. Based at least in part on satisfying at least one of the first operating condition or the second operating condition, the UE 902 may receive the respective CSI-RS resources using antenna port 1 and antenna port 2, which were used as the SRS ports to transmit the SRS (s) .
[0182] A second example 920 that is shown by Fig. 9B is a second allowed scenario that satisfies at least one of the first operating condition or the second operating condition described above. The second example 920 includes the UE 902, the first TRP 904, and the second TRP 906 described with regard to Fig. 9A. In a similar manner as the first example 900, the UE 902 may be configured with M = 2 SRS ports (shown in Fig. 9B as including antenna 1 and antenna 2) . As shown by reference number 922, the UE 902 may transmit one or more SRSs using the first antenna port and the second antenna port, and the one or more SRSs may be received by the first TRP 904 and the second TRP 906 (shown with a respective dashed line from antenna port 1 and antenna port 2 to each TRP) . The first TRP 904 may transmit a first CSI-RS using at least M = 2 respective CSI-RS resources that are precoded, respectively, based at least in part on the M = 2 SRS ports at the UE 902. Similarly, the second TRP 906 may transmit a second CSI-RS using at least M = 2 respective CSI-RS resources that are precoded, respectively, based at least in part on the M = 2 SRS ports at the UE 902. However, as shown by reference number 924 and a dotted line with a one-way arrow, the UE 902 may also receive at least a portion of the first CSI-RS and / or the second CSI-RS using the third antenna and the fourth antenna. The UE 902 may ignore the signals received on antenna port 3 and antenna port 4, such as by not including those signals in calculations used to estimate an inter-TRP phase offset and / or an inter-TRP timing offset.
[0183] A third example 940 that is shown by Fig. 9C is a first disallowed scenario that fails to satisfy both the first operating condition and the second operating condition described above. The third example 940 includes the UE 902, the first TRP 904, and the second TRP 906 described with regard to Fig. 9A. In a similar manner as the first example 900, the UE 902 may be configured with M = 2 SRS ports (shown in Fig. 9C as including antenna 1 and antenna 2) . As shown by reference number 942, the UE 902 may transmit one or more SRSs using the first antenna port and the second antenna port, and the one or more SRSs may be received by the first TRP 904 and the second TRP 906 (shown with a respective dashed line from antenna port 1 and antenna port 2 to each TRP) . The first TRP 904 may transmit a first CSI-RS using at least M = 2 respective CSI-RS resources that are precoded, respectively, based at least in part on the M = 2 SRS ports at the UE 902. Similarly, the second TRP 906 may transmit a second CSI-RS using at least M = 2 respective CSI-RS resources that are precoded, respectively, based at least in part on the M = 2 SRS ports at the UE 902. As shown by reference number 944 and a dotted line, the UE 902 may receive the respective CSI-RSs from each TRP using the third antenna port and the fourth antenna port. Although the UE 902 uses the same antenna ports to receive the CSI-RSs, the receive antenna ports are different antenna ports than the antenna ports used by the UE 902 to transmit the SRS (s) . That is, the receive antenna ports used by the UE to receive the CSI-RSs are not included in the SRS ports. Accordingly, the third example shown by Fig. 9C does not satisfy the first operating condition and the second operating condition, and is a disallowed operating scenario.
[0184] A fourth example 960 that is shown by Fig. 9D is a second disallowed scenario that fails to satisfy both the first operating condition and the second operating condition described above. The fourth example 960 includes the UE 902, the first TRP 904, and the second TRP 906 described with regard to Fig. 9A. In a similar manner as the first example 900, the UE 902 may be configured with M = 2 SRS ports (shown in Fig. 9D as including antenna 1 and antenna 2) . As shown by reference number 962, the UE 902 may transmit one or more SRSs using the first antenna port and the second antenna port, and the one or more SRSs may be received by the first TRP 904 and the second TRP 906 (shown with a respective dashed line from antenna port 1 and antenna port 2 to each TRP) . The first TRP 904 may transmit a first CSI-RS using at least M = 2 respective CSI-RS resources that are precoded, respectively, based at least in part on the M = 2 SRS ports at the UE 902. As shown by reference number 962 and the use of double arrows, the UE 902 may receive the first CSI-RS from the first TRP 904 using antenna 1 and antenna 2 (e.g., the same antennas that were used in the transmission of the SRS(s) ) . As shown by reference number 964, the second TRP 906 may transmit a second CSI-RS using at least M = 2 respective CSI-RS resources that are precoded, respectively, based at least in part on the M = 2 SRS ports at the UE 902. However, as also shown by reference number 964, the UE 902 may receive the second CSI-RS from the second TRP (and / or the CSI-RS resources associated with the second CSI-RS) using the third antenna port and the fourth antenna port. That is, the UE 902 uses different sets of antenna ports (antenna port 1 and antenna port 2 for the first TRP 904 and antenna port 3 and 4 for the second TRP 906) to receive the respective CSI-RS resources from the first TRP 904 and the second TRP 906. Although the UE uses a same set of antenna ports as the SRS ports (antenna port 1 and antenna port 2) to receive the first CSI-RS and / or the first set of CSI-RS resources from the first TRP 904, the UE 902 uses a different set of antenna ports (antenna port 3 and antenna port 4) from the SRS ports (antenna port 1 and antenna port 2) to receive the second CSI-RS and / or the second set of CSI-RS resources from the second TRP 906. Accordingly, the fourth example shown by Fig. 9D does not satisfy the first operating condition and the second operating condition, and is a disallowed operating scenario.
[0185] Figs. 10A and 10B are diagrams illustrating a first example 1000 and a second example 1050, respectively, of indicating a linkage between a CSI-RS resource and an SRS port, in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0186] In CJT, a UE (e.g., a UE 120) may communicate with multiple TRPs using multiple antenna ports (e.g., one or more transmit antenna ports, one or more receive antenna ports, and / or one or more transceiver antenna ports) , such as multiple antenna ports that are used for SRS transmission. In some aspects, additional signal gain to a transmission may be based at least in part on a cross-link signal and / or a Tx-Rx mismatch signal, such as cross-link signals represented as yUE [2] ←TRP (i) ←UE [1] and / or yUE [1] ←TRP (i) ←UE [2] as described with regard to Fig. 8. Alternatively, or additionally, multiple transmit ports at a TRP may provide digital beamforming gain. Achieving a signal gain based at least in part on a cross-link signal and / or a number of transmit ports at a TRP may be based at least in part on using M CSI-RS resources (e.g., based at least in part on a UE using M transmit antenna ports and / or M transceiver antenna ports for SRS transmissions) for each TRP, compared to a single CSI-RS resource at each TRP (e.g., based at least in part on a UE using a single transmit antenna port and / or a single transceiver antenna port for SRS transmissions) . In some aspects, the use of the M CSI-RS resources by each TRP may be based at least in part on each CSI-RS resource being precoded based at least in part on an associated SRS port (e.g., of the M SRS ports) to enable a UE to cancel out the channel delay and channel phase as described with regard to Fig. 6, Fig. 7, and Fig. 8. The use of M CSI-RS resources by each TRP may increase a CSI-RS resource overhead. Accordingly, one or more TRPs may indicate a dynamic port selection (e.g., indicating a subset of CSI-RS resources and / or a subset of SRS ports) to the UE using mechanisms that reduce CSI-RS resource overhead, relative to other mechanisms. As one example, one or more TRPs may select and / or indicate a subset of the UE transmit antenna ports and / or transceiver antenna ports (e.g., that are configured as at least part of an SRS port) that are linked to N CSI-RS resources for precoding, as described above. Alternatively, or additionally, the TRP (s) may indicate a subset of CSI-RS resources that are linked to a subset of SRS ports. The TRPs may indicate the dynamic port selection using CJT and / or using a single transmission (e.g., an independent transmission) . Using a subset of SRS ports and / or CSI-RS resources may reduce resource overhead that is used to transmit the multiple CSI-RSs via the multiple CSI-RS resources and / or TRPs.
[0187] One example of reduced resource overhead may include the use of DCI and / or a codepoint. In some aspects, DCI may include one or more fields that represent a codepoint, and the codepoint may indicate one or more parameters. To illustrate, at a first point in time, a network node (e.g., a network node 110 and / or a TRP) may transmit, in RRC signaling, multiple codepoint configurations for TRP CJT synchronization. To illustrate, the codepoint configurations for TRP CJT synchronization may be associated with a subset of SRS ports that are configured for a UE and / or a subset of CSI-RS resources that are configured for a respective TRP. At a second point in time, the network node may transmit, in DCI, selection of a particular codepoint configuration (e.g., from the multiple codepoint configurations for TRP CJT synchronization) . For instance, the DCI may indicate the selection using an SRS request field and / or a CJT synchronization field. The DCI may be a unicast DCI that is directed to the UE.
[0188] In some aspects, the network node may trigger and / or request a CSI report from the UE using a unicast DCI, and the CSI report may be associated with and / or based at least in part on multiple CSI-RS resource sets (e.g., a first CSI-RS resource set associated with a first TRP and a second CSI-RS resource set associated with a second TRP) . Each CSI-RS resource set may include multiple CSI-RS resources (e.g., M CSI-RS resources, where M is greater than 1) based at least in part on the UE being configured with multiple SRS ports (e.g., M SRS ports) , and each CSI-RS resource may be linked to a respective SRS port as described above (e.g., based at least in part on precoding) . In some aspects, in triggering and / or requesting the CSI-RS report, the network node may trigger the UE to generate the CSI-RS report using a respective subset of CSI-RS resources in each of the multiple CSI-RS resource sets using a field in the unicast DCI and / or codepoints.
[0189] As one example, each codepoint in a field of the unicast DCI may indicate a subset of the SRS ports (e.g., M′ SRS ports, where M′ is an integer that is less than or equal to M) . Accordingly, the variety of codepoint configurations transmitted in RRC signaling may indicate multiple subsets of SRS ports and / or multiple combinations of subsets of SRS ports, and the field in the unicast DCI may indicate selection of one of the multiple subsets of SRS ports and / or one of the multiple combinations of subsets of SRS ports. Based at least in part on the subset of SRS ports indicated in the unicast DCI, the UE may generate the CSI-RS report by measuring, for each CSI-RS resource sets of the multiple CSI-RS resource sets, a subset of CSI-RS resources instead of an entirety of the CSI-RS resources. That is, the UE will measure the M′ CSI-RS resources using each CSI-RS resource that is associated with a respective SRS port in the subset of SRS ports indicated by the unicast DCI. In some aspects, each TRP may not use the CSI-RS resources that are not linked to the subset of SRS ports and / or the UE may not receive and / or use signals on antenna ports that are not included in the subset of SRS ports.
[0190] As another example, each codepoint in a field of the unicast DCI may indicate and / or be mapped to a subset of the CSI-RS resources (e.g., M′ CSI-RS resources, where M′ is an integer that is less than or equal to M) . Accordingly, the variety of codepoint configurations transmitted in RRC signaling may indicate multiple subsets of CSI-RS resources and / or multiple combinations of subsets of CSI-RS resources, and the field in the unicast DCI may indicate selection of one of the multiple subsets of CSI-RS resources and / or one of the multiple combinations of subsets of CSI-RS resources. Based at least in part on the subset of CSI-RS resources indicated in the unicast DCI, the UE may generate the CSI-RS report by measuring, for each CSI-RS resource set of the multiple CSI-RS resource sets, a subset of CSI-RS resources instead of an entirety of the CSI-RS resources. In some aspects, the UE may not receive and / or use signals on antenna ports that are not linked to the M′ CSI-RS resources and / or each TRP may not use the CSI-RS resources that are not indicated in subset of CSI-RS resources.
[0191] In some aspects, the first operating condition and / or the second operating condition that are described with regard to Figs. 9A, 9B, 9C, and 9D may be used in combination with dynamic port selection. For dynamic port selection, each operating condition may apply the subset of SRS ports (e.g., the M′ SRS ports) and / or the subset of CSI-RS resources (e.g., the M′ CSI-RS resources) in each CSI-RS resource set.
[0192] The first example 1000 shown by Fig. 10A includes a UE 1002 (e.g., a UE 120) that may include at least four antenna ports, shown in Fig. 10A as antenna port 1, antenna port 2, antenna port 3, and antenna port 4, which may be any combination of a transmit port, a receive port, and / or a transceiver port. In some aspects, and as shown by reference number 1004, the UE 1002 may be configured with four SRS ports (e.g., M = 4) , shown in Fig. 10A as SRS 1, SRS 2, SRS 3, and SRS 4. For simplicity, each SRS port shown by reference number 1004 is configured with a respective antenna port of the UE 120. For instance, SRS 1 is configured with antenna port 1 (each shown with diagonal stripes) , SRS 2 is configured with antenna port 2 (each shown with horizontal stripes) , SRS 3 is configured with antenna port 3 (each shown with a dotted pattern) , and SRS 4 is configured with antenna port 4 (each shown in solid white) .
[0193] In some aspects, the UE 1002 may communicate with multiple TRPs, such as by using CJT communications as described above. In the example 1000, the UE 1002 is in communication with four TRPs (not shown in Fig 10A) , and each TRP has been configured with a respective CSI-RS resource set: a first TRP is configured with a first CSI-RS resource set 1006-1, a second TRP is configured with a second CSI-RS resource set 1006-2, a third TRP is configured with a third CSI-RS resource set 1006-3, and a fourth TRP is configured with a fourth CSI-RS resource set 1006-4. Each CSI-RS resource set may include at least four CSI-RS resources (shown as circles within each CSI-RS resource set) based at least in part on the UE 1002 being configured with four SRS ports. To illustrate, the first CSI-RS resource set 1006-1 includes a CSI-RS resource 1008-1, the second CSI-RS resource set 1006-2 includes a CSI-RS resource 1008-2, the third CSI-RS resource set 1006-3 includes a CSI-RS resource 1008-3, and the fourth CSI-RS resource set 1006-4 includes a CSI-RS resource 1008-4. Each CSI-RS resource of a respective CSI-RS resource set may be linked to a respective SRS port of the UE 1002 as indicated by the key and through the use of a same pattern. For instance, the CSI-RS resource 1008-1 of the first CSI-RS resource set 1006-1 may be linked to the third SRS port (e.g., SRS 3) as indicated by the dotted pattern used in Fig. 10A for each, and the CSI-RS resource 1008-4 of the fourth CSI-RS resource set 1006-4 may also be linked to the third SRS port (e.g., SRS 3) as also indicated by the dotted pattern used in Fig. 10A for each. Accordingly, across the multiple CSI-RS resource sets shown in Fig. 10A, the UE 1002 uses a same antenna port to receive the selected CSI-RS resources.
[0194] In some aspects, a network node (e.g., a network node 110 and / or a TRP) may indicate to generate a CSI-RS report 1010 that is based at least in part on a subset of SRS ports. For example, the network node may indicate selection of a particular entry in a codepoint as shown by reference number 1012. Accordingly, each TRP may transmit a subset of CSI-RS resources (shown in Fig 10A as subset 1014-1, subset 1014-2, subset 1014-3, and subset 1014-4) and / or the UE 1002 may receive a subset of CSI-RS resources, as shown by reference number 1016, using the antenna ports that are linked to the selected CSI-RS resources (e.g., via SRS transmission using a linked SRS port) .
[0195] The second example 1050 shown by Fig. 10B includes the UE 1002 (described with regard to Fig. 10 A) , and the UE 1002 is configured with the four SRS ports described with regard to Fig. 10A. The UE 1002 is in communication with four TRPs (not shown in Fig. 10B) , and each TRP has been configured with M respective CSI-RS resource sets. Each CSI-RS resource set may include at least four CSI-RS resources, such as the CSI-RS resource 1008-1 in the first CSI-RS resource set 1006-1, the CSI-RS resource 1008-2 in the second CSI-RS resource set 1006-2, the CSI-RS resource 1008-3 in the third CSI-RS resource set 1006-3, and the CSI-RS resource 1008-4 in the fourth CSI-RS resource set 1006-4. Each CSI-RS resource of a respective CSI-RS resource set may be linked to a respective SRS port of the UE 1002 as indicated by the key and through the use of a same pattern.
[0196] In the second example 1050, the network node may indicate to generate a second CSI-RS report 1052 that is based at least in part on a different subset of SRS ports relative to the first CSI-RS report 1010. For example, the network node may indicate selection of a particular entry in a codepoint as shown by reference number 1054. Accordingly, each TRP may transmit a subset of CSI-RS resources (shown in Fig. 10B as subset 1054-1, subset 1054-2, subset 1054-3, and subset 1054-4) and / or the UE 1002 may receive a subset of CSI-RS resources, as shown by reference number 1056, using the antenna ports that are linked to the selected CSI-RS resources (e.g., via SRS transmission using a linked SRS port) .
[0197] As indicated above, Figs. 10A and 10B are provided as examples. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Figs. 10A and 10B.
[0198] Fig. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example 1100 of a wireless communication process between a UE 1102 (e.g., a UE 120) , a first network node 1104 (e.g., a first network node 110 and / or a first TRP) , and a second network node 1106 (e.g., a second network node 110 and / or a second TRP) , in accordance with the present disclosure.
[0199] As shown by reference number 1110, a first network node 1104 and a second network node 1106 may establish a connection with a UE 1102. In some aspects, the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 may establish a connection with the UE 1102 based at least in part on CJT between the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106.
[0200] In some aspects, the UE 1102 may power up in a cell coverage area that is jointly provided by the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 (e.g., via CJT) , and the UE 1102, the first network node 1104, and the second network node 1106 may perform one or more procedures (e.g., a random access channel (RACH) procedure and / or an RRC procedure) to establish a wireless connection. As another example, the UE 1102 may move into the cell coverage area jointly provided by the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 and may perform a handover from a source network node (e.g., another network node 110) to at least one of the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106. Alternatively, or additionally, the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 may communicate with the UE 1102 via the connection based at least in part on any combination of Layer 1 signaling (e.g., DCI and / UCI) , Layer 2 signaling (e.g., a MAC CE) , and / or Layer 3 signaling (e.g., RRC signaling) . To illustrate, the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 may request, via RRC signaling, UE capability information and / or the UE 1102 may transmit, via RRC signaling, the UE capability information. As part of communicating via the connection, the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 may transmit configuration information via Layer 3 signaling (e.g., RRC signaling) , and activate and / or deactivate a particular configuration via Layer 2 signaling (e.g., a MAC CE) and / or Layer 1 signaling (e.g., DCI) . To illustrate, the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 may transmit the configuration information via Layer 3 signaling at a first point in time associated with the UE 1102 being tolerant of communication delays, and the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 may transmit an activation of the configuration via Layer 2 signaling and / or Layer 1 signaling at a second point in time associated with the UE 1102 being intolerant to communication delays.
[0201] As shown by reference number 1120, the first network node 1104 and / or the second network node 1106 may transmit, and the UE 1102 may receive, configuration information. For clarity, Fig. 11 illustrates the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 transmitting the configuration information separately from establishing the connection with the UE 1102, but in other examples, the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 may transmit the configuration as part of establishing the connection as described above. The first network node 1104 and / or the second network node 1106 may indicate configuration information in any combination of Layer 1 signaling, Layer 2 signaling, and / or Layer 3 signaling.
[0202] In some aspects, the configuration information may indicate SRS port configuration information. To illustrate, the UE 1102 may include multiple antenna ports, such as any combination of one or more transmit antenna ports, one or more receive antenna ports, and / or one or more transceiver antenna ports as described with regard to Figs. 9A, 9B, 9C, and 9D, and the configuration information may indicate SRS port information that configures M SRS ports at the UE 1102 using the multiple antenna ports.
[0203] Alternatively, or additionally, the configuration information may indicate one or more CSI-RS resource sets (e.g., N CSI-RS resource sets, as described with regard to Fig. 10A and Fig. 10B) , such as a first CSI-RS resource set that is associated with the first network node 1104 and / or a second CSI-RS resource set that is associated with the second network node 1106. Each CSI-RS resource set may include at least M CSI-RS resources as described with regard to Fig. 10A and 10B based at least in part on the UE 1102 being configured with M SRS ports. In some aspects, each respective antenna port of the M SRS ports is linked to M respective CSI-RS resource of the M CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets.
[0204] In some aspects, the configuration information may indicate one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports of the M SRS ports, such as multiple combinations of subsets of SRS antenna ports that may be indicated via a codepoint as described above. Alternatively, or additionally, the configuration information may specify one or more potential subsets of respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set.
[0205] As shown by reference number 1130, the first network node 1104 and / or the second network node 1106 may transmit, and the UE 1102 may receive, a CSI report request. In some aspects, the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 may transmit the request using CJT. Alternatively, or additionally, the first network node 1104 and / or the second network node 1106 may transmit an indication to transmit a CSI report that is based at least in part on a respective subset of CSI-RS resources of the M respective CSI-RS resources in the CSI-RS resource set. The first network node 1104 and / or the second network node 1106 may indicate the respective subset of CSI-RS resources in a unicast DCI field as described with regard to Figs. 10A and 10B, such as by indicating a selection of a codepoint entry. As one example, the selection of the codepoint entry may indicate selection of a particular subset of SRS antenna ports from the one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports indicated by the configuration information. As another example, the selection of the codepoint entry may indicate selection of a particular subset of respective CSI-RS resources from the one or more potential subsets of respective CSI-RS resources indicated by the configuration information. As described above, each CSI-RS resource of the particular subset of the respective CSI-RS resources in each respective CSI-RS resource set may be linked to a respective antenna port of the M SRS ports. Accordingly, the indication of a subset of SRS ports may implicitly indicate a selection of (linked) CSI-RS resources and / or the indication of a subset of CSI-RS resources may implicitly indicate a selection of (linked) SRS ports.
[0206] As shown by reference number 1140, the UE 1102 may transmit, and the first network node 1104 and / or the second network node 1106 may receive, one or more SRS(s) using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports as described above with regard to reference number 1120. As one example, and as described with regard to Figs. 10A and 10B, the M SRS ports may include a first antenna port of the multiple antenna ports and a second antenna port of the multiple antenna ports, and the UE 1102 may transmit the SRS (s) using the first antenna port and the second antenna port. Alternatively, or additionally, a third antenna port and / or a fourth antenna port may not be included in the M SRS ports, and the UE 1102 may not transmit the SRS (s) using the third antenna port and / or the fourth antenna port. Alternatively, as described above, the UE 1102 may transmit a subset of SRS antenna ports from the M SRS ports based at least in part on receiving an indication in unicast DCI for selection of a particular subset of SRS antenna ports.
[0207] As shown by reference number 1150, the first network node 1104 and / or the second network node 1106 may transmit, and the UE 1102 may receive, one or more CSI-RS (s) . As one example, each network node may be assigned a respective CSI-RS resource set that includes M CSI-RS resources based at least in part on the UE 1102 being configured with M SRS ports. Accordingly, the first network node 1104 and / or the second network node 1106 may transmit a respective CSI-RS using the M CSI-RS resources in the respective CSI-RS resource set. In other aspects, the first network node 1104 and / or the second network node 1106 may transmit a respective CSI-RS using a subset of CSI-RS resources, such as the subset of CSI-RS resources indicated via the unicast DCI.
[0208] The UE 1102 may receive each respective CSI-RS using each respective CSI-RS resource set associated with the first network node 1104 and the second network node 1106 (e.g., the N CSI-RS resource sets) . Alternatively, the UE 1102 may receive each respective CSI-RS using a respective subset of CSI-RS resources in each respective CSI-RS resource set as described with regard to Figs. 10A and 10B. In some aspects, the UE 1102 may receive the CSI-RS (s) based at least in part on one or more operating conditions, such as one or more operating conditions that may be specified by a communication standard.
[0209] A first example operating condition may include an operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports to receive at least a first CSI-RS using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set (and / or a portion of the first CSI-RS using a subset of CSI-RS resources in a first CSI-RS resource set) and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set (and / or a portion of the second CSI-RS using a subset of CSI-RS resources in a second CSI-RS resource set) . In some aspects, the first operating condition may alternatively or additionally specify to not use different sets of antenna ports of the multiple antenna ports to receive the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS resource set, such as that described with regard to Fig. 9D.
[0210] A second example operating condition may include an operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set (and / or a respective subset of CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set) using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs (and / or a subset of SRS ports from the M SRS ports) based at least in part on a linkage between the M SRS ports and M respective CSI-RS resource of the M CSI-RS resources in each respective CSI-RS resource set.
[0211] As described above, a respective portion of the CSI-RS (e.g., a portion that is carried by a respective CSI-RS resource) may be precoded based at least in part on a respective SRS that is transmitted via a respective SRS port of the M SRS ports. Accordingly, each respective antenna port of the M SRS ports may be linked to a respective CSI-RS resource of the M CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource set, and a respective portion of a CSI-RS that is carried by the respective CSI-RS resource may be precoded based at least in part on a respective SRS that is transmitted via the respective (linked) SRS port.
[0212] As shown by reference number 1160, the UE 1102 may calculate a phase offset and / or a timing offset. To illustrate, the UE 1102 may calculate an inter-TRP phase offset and / or an inter-TRP timing offset as described with regard to Fig. 6, Fig. 7, and Fig. 8 based at least in part on satisfying a first operating condition and / or a second operating condition as described with regard to reference number 1150. In some aspects, as part of calculating the phase offset and / or the timing offset, the UE 1102 may not use a portion of the CSI-RS (s) that are received via one or more antennas that are not included in the M SRS ports.
[0213] As shown by reference number 1170, the UE 1102 may transmit, and at least one of the first network node 1104 or the second network node 1106 may receive, an indication of the phase offset and / or the timing offset. As one example, the UE 1102 may transmit a CSI-RS report that is requested by the first network node 1104 and / or the second network node 1106 as describe with regard to reference number 1130, and the CSI-RS report may indicate the phase offset and / or the timing offset. The UE 1102 may transmit the indication in one or more of Layer 1 signaling, Layer 2 signaling, or Layer 3 signaling.
[0214] As shown by reference number 1180, the second network node 1106 may synchronize to the first network node 1104 using at least one of the phase offset or the timing offset. For example, the second network node 1106 may adjust a downlink transmission to reduce a timing offset and / or reduce a phase offset with a downlink transmission by the first network node 1104.
[0215] Using one or more operating conditions that specify allowed and / or disallowed antenna ports for receiving precoded CSI-RSs may enable a UE (e.g., a UE 120) to cancel cross-link signals and / or Tx-Rx mismatches and improve an accuracy of an inter-TRP phase offset estimation and / or an inter-TRP timing estimation as described above. That is, the operating condition (s) may ensure that the UE receives precoded CSI-RS resources that belong to different CSI-RS resource sets but are associated with the same SRS port using a same antenna port, thus enabling the UE to cancel cross-link signals in computations associated with estimating the inter-TRP phase offset and / or the inter-TRP timing. Improving an accuracy of an inter-TRP phase offset estimation and / or an inter-TRP timing offset estimation may improve synchronization in CJT between TRPs (e.g., reduce a timing offset and / or reduce a phase offset) , resulting in an increased signal quality at the UE (e.g., a signal power level that satisfies a high power threshold) , reduced data recovery errors, increased data throughput, and / or decreased data transfer latencies.
[0216] As indicated above, Fig. 11 is provided as an example. Other examples may differ from what is described with regard to Fig. 11.
[0217] Fig. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example process 1200 performed, for example, at a UE or an apparatus of a UE, in accordance with the present disclosure. Example process 1200 is an example where the apparatus or the UE (e.g., UE 120) performs operations associated with dynamic port selection for time and phase synchronization for CJT.
[0218] As shown in Fig. 12, in some aspects, process 1200 may include transmitting one or more SRSs using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer (block 1210) . For example, the UE (e.g., using transmission component 1404 and / or communication manager 1406, depicted in Fig. 14) may transmit one or more SRSs using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer, as described above.
[0219] As further shown in Fig. 12, in some aspects, process 1200 may include receiving multiple CSI-RSs from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources, the receiving being based at least in part on at least one of: a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, or a second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N CSI-RS resource sets (block 1220) . For example, the UE (e.g., using reception component 1402 and / or communication manager 1406, depicted in Fig. 14) may receive multiple CSI-RSs from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources, the receiving being based at least in part on at least one of: a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, or a second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N CSI-RS resource sets, as described above.
[0220] Process 1200 may include additional aspects, such as any single aspect or any combination of aspects described below and / or in connection with one or more other processes described elsewhere herein.
[0221] In a first aspect, receiving the N CSI-RS resource sets is based at least in part on the first operating condition, and the first operating condition further specifies to not use different sets of antenna ports of the multiple antenna ports to receive the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS resource set.
[0222] In a second aspect, each respective antenna port of the M SRS ports is linked to M respective CSI-RS resource of the A CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, and a respective portion of the CSI-RS carried by the respective CSI-RS resource is precoded based at least in part on a respective SRS of the one or more SRSs that is transmitted via the respective SRS port.
[0223] In a third aspect, receiving the multiple CSI-RSs includes receiving the first CSI-RS using the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS using the second CSI-RS resource set based at least in part on at least one of the first operating condition or the second operating condition, and process 1200 includes calculating a time offset and a phase offset between a first TRP and a second TRP using the first CSI-RS received using the first CSI-RS resource set, the second CSI-RS received using the second CSI-RS resource set, the M SRS ports that are linked to the first CSI-RS, and the M SRS ports that are linked to the second CSI-RS, and transmitting an indication of the time offset and the phase offset to at least one of the first TRP or the second TRP.
[0224] In a fourth aspect, transmitting the one or more SRSs using the M SRS ports includes transmitting the one or more SRSs using a first antenna port of the multiple antenna ports and a second antenna port of the multiple antenna ports, the first antenna port and the second antenna port are included in the M SRS ports, the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS resource set are linked to the M SRS ports, and receiving N CSI-RS resource sets includes receiving the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS using the first antenna port, the second antenna port, and at least a third antenna port of the multiple antenna ports, the third antenna port not being included in the M SRS ports used to transmit the one or more SRSs, and process 1200 includes not using a portion of the first CSI-RS and a portion of the second CSI-RS that are received via the third antenna port to calculate a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP.
[0225] In a fifth aspect, each respective CSI-RS resource of the M respective CSI-RS resources in a CSI-RS resource set of the N C SI-RS resource sets is linked to a respective antenna port included in the M SRS ports, and process 1200 includes receiving an indication to transmit a CSI report that is based at least in part on a respective subset of CSI-RS resources of the M respective CSI-RS resources in the CSI-RS resource set.
[0226] In a sixth aspect, receiving the indication includes receiving the indication in a unicast DCI field.
[0227] In a seventh aspect, process 1200 includes receiving, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports of the M SRS ports, the unicast DCI field indicating a particular subset of SRS antenna ports from the one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports, and generating the CSI report using, as the respective subset of CSI-RS resources, each CSI-RS resource of the one or more respective CSI-RS resources in the respective CSI-RS resource set that is linked to the particular subset of SRS antenna ports.
[0228] In an eighth aspect, process 1200 includes receiving, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set, the unicast DCI field indicating a particular subset of respective CSI-RS resources from the one or more potential subsets of respective CSI-RS resources, and generating the CSI report using, as the respective subset of CSI-RS resources, each CSI-RS resource of the particular subset of the respective CSI-RS resources in the respective CSI-RS resource set.
[0229] In a ninth aspect, each CSI-RS resource of the particular subset of the respective CSI-RS resources in each respective CSI-RS resource set is linked to a respective antenna port of the M SRS ports.
[0230] In a tenth aspect, the unicast DCI field indicates a selection of a codepoint entry.
[0231] In an eleventh aspect, the multiple antenna ports include any combination of one or more transmit antenna ports, one or more receive antenna ports, or one or more transceiver antenna ports.
[0232] Although Fig. 12 shows example blocks of process 1200, in some aspects, process 1200 may include additional blocks, fewer blocks, different blocks, or differently arranged blocks than those depicted in Fig. 12. Additionally, or alternatively, two or more of the blocks of process 1200 may be performed in parallel.
[0233] Fig. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example process 1300 performed, for example, at a first TRP or an apparatus of a first TRP, in accordance with the present disclosure. Example process 1300 is an example where the apparatus or the first TRP (e.g., a first network node 110 and / or a first apparatus 1500) performs operations associated with dynamic port selection for time and phase synchronization for CJT.
[0234] As shown in Fig. 13, in some aspects, process 1300 may include receiving an SRS from a UE (block 1310) . For example, the first TRP (e.g., using reception component 1502 and / or communication manager 1506, depicted in Fig. 15) may receive an SRS from a UE, as described above.
[0235] As further shown in Fig. 13, in some aspects, process 1300 may include transmitting a CSI-RS that is based at least in part on a CSI-RS resource set that includes one or more CSI-RS resources, the CSI-RS including precoding that is based at least in part on the SRS (block 1320) . For example, the first TRP (e.g., using transmission component 1504 and / or communication manager 1506, depicted in Fig. 15) may transmit a CSI-RS that is based at least in part on a CSI-RS resource set that includes one or more CSI-RS resources, the CSI-RS including precoding that is based at least in part on the SRS, as described above.
[0236] As further shown in Fig. 13, in some aspects, process 1300 may include receiving an indication of a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP (block 1330) . For example, the first TRP (e.g., using reception component 1502 and / or communication manager 1506, depicted in Fig. 15) may receive an indication of a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP, as described above.
[0237] Process 1300 may include additional aspects, such as any single aspect or any combination of aspects described below and / or in connection with one or more other processes described elsewhere herein.
[0238] In a first aspect, the indication is a first indication, and process 1300 includes transmitting a second indication to transmit a CSI report that is based at least in part on a subset of CSI-RS resources of the one or more CSI-RS resources.
[0239] In a second aspect, receiving the indication includes transmitting the indication in a unicast DCI field.
[0240] In a third aspect, process 1300 includes transmitting, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports of multiple SRS antenna ports that are configured at the UE, and the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of SRS antenna ports from the one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports.
[0241] In a fourth aspect, process 1300 includes transmitting, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of CSI-RS resources of the CSI-RS resource set, and the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of CSI-RS resources from the one or more potential subsets of CSI-RS resources.
[0242] In a fifth aspect, each CSI-RS resource of the particular subset of the CSI-RS resources is linked to a respective antenna port of multiple SRS antenna ports at the UE.
[0243] In a sixth aspect, the unicast DCI field indicates a selection of a codepoint entry.
[0244] Although Fig. 13 shows example blocks of process 1300, in some aspects, process 1300 may include additional blocks, fewer blocks, different blocks, or differently arranged blocks than those depicted in Fig. 13. Additionally, or alternatively, two or more of the blocks of process 1300 may be performed in parallel.
[0245] Fig. 14 is a diagram of an example apparatus 1400 for wireless communication, in accordance with the present disclosure. The apparatus 1400 may be a UE, or a UE may include the apparatus 1400. In some aspects, the apparatus 1400 includes a reception component 1402, a transmission component 1404, and / or a communication manager 1406, which may be in communication with one another (for example, via one or more buses and / or one or more other components) . In some aspects, the communication manager 1406 is the communication manager 140 described in connection with Fig. 1. As shown, the apparatus 1400 may communicate with another apparatus 1408, such as a UE or a network node (such as a CU, a DU, an RU, or a base station) , using the reception component 1402 and the transmission component 1404.
[0246] In some aspects, the apparatus 1400 may be configured to perform one or more operations described herein in connection with Figs. 6-11. Additionally, or alternatively, the apparatus 1400 may be configured to perform one or more processes described herein, such as process 1200 of Fig. 12, or a combination thereof. In some aspects, the apparatus 1400 and / or one or more components shown in Fig. 14 may include one or more components of the UE described in connection with Fig. 2. Additionally, or alternatively, one or more components shown in Fig. 14 may be implemented within one or more components described in connection with Fig. 2. Additionally, or alternatively, one or more components of the set of components may be implemented at least in part as software stored in one or more memories. For example, a component (or a portion of a component) may be implemented as instructions or code stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium and executable by one or more controllers or one or more processors to perform the functions or operations of the component.
[0247] The reception component 1402 may receive communications, such as reference signals, control information, data communications, or a combination thereof, from the apparatus 1408. The reception component 1402 may provide received communications to one or more other components of the apparatus 1400. In some aspects, the reception component 1402 may perform signal processing on the received communications (such as filtering, amplification, demodulation, analog-to-digital conversion, demultiplexing, deinterleaving, de-mapping, equalization, interference cancellation, or decoding, among other examples) , and may provide the processed signals to the one or more other components of the apparatus 1400. In some aspects, the reception component 1402 may include one or more antennas, one or more modems, one or more demodulators, one or more MIMO detectors, one or more receive processors, one or more controllers / processors, one or more memories, or a combination thereof, of the UE described in connection with Fig. 2.
[0248] The transmission component 1404 may transmit communications, such as reference signals, control information, data communications, or a combination thereof, to the apparatus 1408. In some aspects, one or more other components of the apparatus 1400 may generate communications and may provide the generated communications to the transmission component 1404 for transmission to the apparatus 1408. In some aspects, the transmission component 1404 may perform signal processing on the generated communications (such as filtering, amplification, modulation, digital-to-analog conversion, multiplexing, interleaving, mapping, or encoding, among other examples) , and may transmit the processed signals to the apparatus 1408. In some aspects, the transmission component 1404 may include one or more antennas, one or more modems, one or more modulators, one or more transmit MIMO processors, one or more transmit processors, one or more controllers / processors, one or more memories, or a combination thereof, of the UE described in connection with Fig. 2. In some aspects, the transmission component 1404 may be co-located with the reception component 1402 in one or more transceivers.
[0249] The communication manager 1406 may support operations of the reception component 1402 and / or the transmission component 1404. For example, the communication manager 1406 may receive information associated with configuring reception of communications by the reception component 1402 and / or transmission of communications by the transmission component 1404. Additionally, or alternatively, the communication manager 1406 may generate and / or provide control information to the reception component 1402 and / or the transmission component 1404 to control reception and / or transmission of communications.
[0250] The transmission component 1404 may transmit one or more SRSs using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer. The reception component 1402 may receive multiple CSI-RSs from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources, the receiving being based at least in part on at least one of a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, or a second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N C SI-RS resource sets.
[0251] The reception component 1402 may receive, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports of the M SRS ports, and the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of SRS antenna ports from the one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports. Alternatively, or additionally, the communication manager 1406 may generate the CSI report using, as the respective subset of CSI-RS resources, each CSI-RS resource of the one or more respective CSI-RS resources in the respective CSI-RS resource set that is linked to the particular subset of SRS antenna ports.
[0252] The reception component 1402 may receive, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set, and the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of respective CSI-RS resources from the one or more potential subsets of respective CSI-RS resources. Alternatively, or additionally, the communication manager 1406 may generate the CSI report using, as the respective subset of CSI-RS resources, each CSI-RS resource of the particular subset of the respective CSI-RS resources in the respective CSI-RS resource set.
[0253] The number and arrangement of components shown in Fig. 14 are provided as an example. In practice, there may be additional components, fewer components, different components, or differently arranged components than those shown in Fig. 14. Furthermore, two or more components shown in Fig. 14 may be implemented within a single component, or a single component shown in Fig. 14 may be implemented as multiple, distributed components. Additionally, or alternatively, a set of (one or more) components shown in Fig. 14 may perform one or more functions described as being performed by another set of components shown in Fig. 14.
[0254] Fig. 15 is a diagram of an example apparatus 1500 for wireless communication, in accordance with the present disclosure. The apparatus 1500 may be a TRP, or a TRP may include the apparatus 1500. In some aspects, the apparatus 1500 includes a reception component 1502, a transmission component 1504, and / or a communication manager 1506, which may be in communication with one another (for example, via one or more buses and / or one or more other components) . In some aspects, the communication manager 1506 is the communication manager 150 described in connection with Fig. 1. As shown, the apparatus 1500 may communicate with another apparatus 1508, such as a UE or a network node (such as a CU, a DU, an RU, or a base station) , using the reception component 1502 and the transmission component 1504.
[0255] In some aspects, the apparatus 1500 may be configured to perform one or more operations described herein in connection with Figs. 6-11. Additionally, or alternatively, the apparatus 1500 may be configured to perform one or more processes described herein, such as process 1300 of Fig. 13, or a combination thereof. In some aspects, the apparatus 1500 and / or one or more components shown in Fig. 15 may include one or more components of the TRP described in connection with Fig. 2. Additionally, or alternatively, one or more components shown in Fig. 15 may be implemented within one or more components described in connection with Fig. 2. Additionally, or alternatively, one or more components of the set of components may be implemented at least in part as software stored in one or more memories. For example, a component (or a portion of a component) may be implemented as instructions or code stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium and executable by one or more controllers or one or more processors to perform the functions or operations of the component.
[0256] The reception component 1502 may receive communications, such as reference signals, control information, data communications, or a combination thereof, from the apparatus 1508. The reception component 1502 may provide received communications to one or more other components of the apparatus 1500. In some aspects, the reception component 1502 may perform signal processing on the received communications (such as filtering, amplification, demodulation, analog-to-digital conversion, demultiplexing, deinterleaving, de-mapping, equalization, interference cancellation, or decoding, among other examples) , and may provide the processed signals to the one or more other components of the apparatus 1500. In some aspects, the reception component 1502 may include one or more antennas, one or more modems, one or more demodulators, one or more MIMO detectors, one or more receive processors, one or more controllers / processors, one or more memories, or a combination thereof, of the TRP described in connection with Fig. 2. In some aspects, the reception component 1502 and / or the transmission component 1504 may include or may be included in a network interface. The network interface may be configured to obtain and / or output signals for the apparatus 1500 via one or more communications links, such as a backhaul link, a midhaul link, and / or a fronthaul link.
[0257] The transmission component 1504 may transmit communications, such as reference signals, control information, data communications, or a combination thereof, to the apparatus 1508. In some aspects, one or more other components of the apparatus 1500 may generate communications and may provide the generated communications to the transmission component 1504 for transmission to the apparatus 1508. In some aspects, the transmission component 1504 may perform signal processing on the generated communications (such as filtering, amplification, modulation, digital-to-analog conversion, multiplexing, interleaving, mapping, or encoding, among other examples) , and may transmit the processed signals to the apparatus 1508. In some aspects, the transmission component 1504 may include one or more antennas, one or more modems, one or more modulators, one or more transmit MIMO processors, one or more transmit processors, one or more controllers / processors, one or more memories, or a combination thereof, of the TRP described in connection with Fig. 2. In some aspects, the transmission component 1504 may be co-located with the reception component 1502 in one or more transceivers.
[0258] The communication manager 1506 may support operations of the reception component 1502 and / or the transmission component 1504. For example, the communication manager 1506 may receive information associated with configuring reception of communications by the reception component 1502 and / or transmission of communications by the transmission component 1504. Additionally, or alternatively, the communication manager 1506 may generate and / or provide control information to the reception component 1502 and / or the transmission component 1504 to control reception and / or transmission of communications.
[0259] The reception component 1502 may receive an SRS from a UE. The transmission component 1504 may transmit a CSI-RS that is based at least in part on a CSI-RS resource set that includes one or more CSI-RS resources, the CSI-RS including precoding that is based at least in part on the SRS. The reception component 1502 may receive an indication of a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP.
[0260] In some aspects, the transmission component 1504 may transmit, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports of multiple SRS antenna ports that are configured at the UE, and the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of SRS antenna ports from the one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports. In other aspects, the transmission component 1504 may transmit, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of CSI-RS resources of the CSI-RS resource set, and the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of CSI-RS resources from the one or more potential subsets of CSI-RS resources.
[0261] The number and arrangement of components shown in Fig. 15 are provided as an example. In practice, there may be additional components, fewer components, different components, or differently arranged components than those shown in Fig. 15. Furthermore, two or more components shown in Fig. 15 may be implemented within a single component, or a single component shown in Fig. 15 may be implemented as multiple, distributed components. Additionally, or alternatively, a set of (one or more) components shown in Fig. 15 may perform one or more functions described as being performed by another set of components shown in Fig. 15.
[0262] The following provides an overview of some Aspects of the present disclosure:
[0263] Aspect 1: A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) , comprising: transmitting one or more sounding reference signals (SRSs) using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer; and receiving multiple channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources, the receiving being based at least in part on at least one of: a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N C SI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, or a second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port included in the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N CSI-RS resource sets.
[0264] Aspect 2: The method of Aspect 1, wherein receiving the N CSI-RS resource sets is based at least in part on the first operating condition, and wherein the first operating condition further specifies to not use different sets of antenna ports of the multiple antenna ports to receive the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS resource set.
[0265] Aspect 3: The method of any of Aspects 1-2, wherein each respective antenna port of the M SRS ports is linked to M respective CSI-RS resource of the A CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, wherein a respective portion of the CSI-RS carried by the respective CSI-RS resource is precoded based at least in part on a respective SRS of the one or more SRSs that is transmitted via the respective SRS port.
[0266] Aspect 4: The method of any of Aspects 1-3, wherein receiving the multiple CSI-RSs further comprises: receiving the first CSI-RS using the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS using the second CSI-RS resource set based at least in part on at least one of the first operating condition or the second operating condition, and wherein the method further comprises: calculating a time offset and a phase offset between a first transmit-receive point (TRP) and a second TRP using the first CSI-RS received using the first CSI-RS resource set, the second CSI-RS received using the second CSI-RS resource set, the M SRS ports that are linked to the first CSI-RS, and the M SRS ports that are linked to the second CSI-RS; and transmitting an indication of the time offset and the phase offset to at least one of the first TRP or the second TRP.
[0267] Aspect 5: The method of any of Aspects 1-4, wherein transmitting the one or more SRSs using the M SRS ports comprises: transmitting the one or more SRSs using a first antenna port of the multiple antenna ports and a second antenna port of the multiple antenna ports, wherein the first antenna port and the second antenna port are included in the M SRS ports, wherein the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS resource set are linked to the M SRS ports, wherein receiving the N CSI-RS resource sets further comprises: receiving the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS using the first antenna port, the second antenna port, and at least a third antenna port of the multiple antenna ports, wherein the third antenna port is not included in the M SRS ports used to transmit the one or more SRSs, and wherein the method further comprises: not using a portion of the first CSI-RS and a portion of the second CSI-RS that are received via the third antenna port to calculate a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP.
[0268] Aspect 6: The method of any of Aspects 1-5, wherein each respective CSI-RS resource of the M respective CSI-RS resources in a CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets is linked to a respective antenna port included in the M SRS ports, and wherein the method further comprises: receiving an indication to transmit a CSI report that is based at least in part on a respective subset of CSI-RS resources of the M respective CSI-RS resources in the CSI-RS resource set.
[0269] Aspect 7: The method of Aspect 6, wherein receiving the indication comprises: receiving the indication in a unicast downlink control information (DCI) field.
[0270] Aspect 8: The method of Aspect 7, further comprising: receiving, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports of the M SRS ports, wherein the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of SRS antenna ports from the one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports; and generating the CSI report using, as the respective subset of CSI-RS resources, each CSI-RS resource of the one or more respective CSI-RS resources in the respective CSI-RS resource set that is linked to the particular subset of SRS antenna ports.
[0271] Aspect 9: The method of Aspect 7, further comprising: receiving, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set, wherein the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of respective CSI-RS resources from the one or more potential subsets of respective CSI-RS resources; and generating the CSI report using, as the respective subset of CSI-RS resources, each CSI-RS resource of the particular subset of the respective CSI-RS resources in the respective CSI-RS resource set.
[0272] Aspect 10: The method of Aspect 9, wherein each CSI-RS resource of the particular subset of the respective CSI-RS resources in each respective CSI-RS resource set is linked to a respective antenna port of the M SRS ports.
[0273] Aspect 11: The method of any of Aspects 7-10, wherein the unicast DCI field indicates a selection of a codepoint entry.
[0274] Aspect 12: The method of any of Aspects 1-11, wherein the multiple antenna ports comprise any combination of: one or more transmit antenna ports, one or more receive antenna ports, or one or more transceiver antenna ports.
[0275] Aspect 13: A method of wireless communication performed by a first transmit-receive point (TRP) , comprising: receiving a sounding reference signal (SRS) from a user equipment (UE) ; transmitting a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) that is based at least in part on a CSI-RS resource set that includes one or more CSI-RS resources, the CSI-RS including precoding that is based at least in part on the SRS; and receiving an indication of a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP.
[0276] Aspect 14: The method of Aspect 13, wherein the indication is a first indication, and wherein the method further comprises: transmitting a second indication to transmit a CSI report that is based at least in part on a subset of CSI-RS resources of the one or more CSI-RS resources.
[0277] Aspect 15: The method of Aspect 14, wherein receiving the indication comprises: transmitting the indication in a unicast downlink control information (DCI) field.
[0278] Aspect 16: The method of Aspect 15, further comprising: transmitting, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports of multiple SRS antenna ports that are configured at the UE, wherein the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of SRS antenna ports from the one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports.
[0279] Aspect 17: The method of Aspect 15, further comprising: transmitting, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of CSI-RS resources of the CSI-RS resource set, wherein the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of CSI-RS resources from the one or more potential subsets of CSI-RS re sources.
[0280] Aspect 18: The method of Aspect 17, wherein each CSI-RS resource of the particular subset of the CSI-RS resources is linked to a respective antenna port of multiple SRS antenna ports at the UE.
[0281] Aspect 19: The method of any of Aspects 15-17, wherein the unicast DCI field indicates a selection of a codepoint entry.
[0282] Aspect 20: An apparatus for wireless communication at a device, the apparatus comprising one or more processors; one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors; and instructions stored in the one or more memories and executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-12.
[0283] Aspect 21: An apparatus for wireless communication at a device, the apparatus comprising one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors configured to cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-12.
[0284] Aspect 22: An apparatus for wireless communication, the apparatus comprising at least one means for performing the method of one or more of Aspects 1-12.
[0285] Aspect 23: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communication, the code comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-12.
[0286] Aspect 24: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for wireless communication, the set of instructions comprising one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-12.
[0287] Aspect 25: A device for wireless communication, the device comprising a processing system that includes one or more processors and one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors, the processing system configured to cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-12.
[0288] Aspect 26: An apparatus for wireless communication at a device, the apparatus comprising one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors individually or collectively configured to cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 1-12.
[0289] Aspect 27: An apparatus for wireless communication at a device, the apparatus comprising one or more processors; one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors; and instructions stored in the one or more memories and executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 13-19.
[0290] Aspect 28: An apparatus for wireless communication at a device, the apparatus comprising one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors configured to cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 13-19.
[0291] Aspect 29: An apparatus for wireless communication, the apparatus comprising at least one means for performing the method of one or more of Aspects 13-19.
[0292] Aspect 30: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communication, the code comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 13-19.
[0293] Aspect 31: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for wireless communication, the set of instructions comprising one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 13-19.
[0294] Aspect 32: A device for wireless communication, the device comprising a processing system that includes one or more processors and one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors, the processing system configured to cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 13-19.
[0295] Aspect 33: An apparatus for wireless communication at a device, the apparatus comprising one or more memories and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more processors individually or collectively configured to cause the device to perform the method of one or more of Aspects 13-19.
[0296] The foregoing disclosure provides illustration and description but is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the aspects to the precise forms disclosed. Modifications and variations may be made in light of the above disclosure or may be acquired from practice of the aspects.
[0297] As used herein, the term “component” is intended to be broadly construed as hardware or a combination of hardware and at least one of software or firmware. “Software” shall be construed broadly to mean instructions, instruction sets, code, code segments, program code, programs, subprograms, software modules, applications, software applications, software packages, routines, subroutines, objects, executables, threads of execution, procedures, or functions, among other examples, whether referred to as software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description language, or otherwise. As used herein, a “processor” is implemented in hardware or a combination of hardware and software. It will be apparent that systems or methods described herein may be implemented in different forms of hardware or a combination of hardware and software. The actual specialized control hardware or software code used to implement these systems or methods is not limiting of the aspects. Thus, the operation and behavior of the systems or methods are described herein without reference to specific software code, because those skilled in the art will understand that software and hardware can be designed to implement the systems or methods based, at least in part, on the description herein. A component being configured to perform a function means that the component has a capability to perform the function, and does not require the function to be actually performed by the component, unless noted otherwise.
[0298] As used herein, “satisfying a threshold” may, depending on the context, refer to a value being greater than the threshold, greater than or equal to the threshold, less than the threshold, less than or equal to the threshold, equal to the threshold, or not equal to the threshold, among other examples.
[0299] As used herein, a phrase referring to “at least one of” a list of items refers to any combination of those items, including single members. As an example, “at least one of: a, b, or c” is intended to cover a, b, c, a + b, a + c, b + c, and a + b + c, as well as any combination with multiples of the same element (for example, a + a, a + a + a, a + a + b, a + a + c, a + b + b, a + c + c, b + b, b + b + b, b + b + c, c + c, and c + c + c, or any other ordering of a, b, and c) .
[0300] No element, act, or instruction used herein should be construed as critical or essential unless explicitly described as such. Also, as used herein, the articles “a” and “an” are intended to include one or more items and may be used interchangeably with “one or more. ” Further, as used herein, the article “the” is intended to include one or more items referenced in connection with the article “the” and may be used interchangeably with “the one or more. ” Furthermore, as used herein, the terms “set” and “group” are intended to include one or more items and may be used interchangeably with “one or more. ” Where only one item is intended, the phrase “only one” or similar language is used. Also, as used herein, the terms “has, ” “have, ” “having, ” and similar terms are intended to be open-ended terms that do not limit an element that they modify (for example, an element “having” A may also have B) . Further, the phrase “based on” is intended to mean “based on or otherwise in association with” unless explicitly stated otherwise. Also, as used herein, the term “or” is intended to be inclusive when used in a series and may be used interchangeably with “and / or, ” unless explicitly stated otherwise (for example, if used in combination with “either” or “only one of” ) . It should be understood that “one or more” is equivalent to “at least one. ”
[0301] Even though particular combinations of features are recited in the claims or disclosed in the specification, these combinations are not intended to limit the disclosure of various aspects. Many of these features may be combined in ways not specifically recited in the claims or disclosed in the specification. The disclosure of various aspects includes each dependent claim in combination with every other claim in the claim set.
Claims
1.An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) , comprising:one or more memories; andone or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to cause the UE to:transmit one or more sounding reference signals (SRSs) using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer; andreceive multiple channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources, the receiving being based at least in part on at least one of:a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, ora second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port of the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port included in the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N CSI-RS resource sets.2.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein receiving the N CSI-RS resource sets is based at least in part on the first operating condition, andwherein the first operating condition further specifies to not use different sets of antenna ports of the multiple antenna ports to receive the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS resource set.3.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each respective antenna port of the M SRS ports is linked to a respective CSI-RS resource of the M CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets,wherein a respective portion of the CSI-RS carried by the respective CSI-RS resource is precoded based at least in part on a respective SRS of the one or more SRSs that is transmitted via the respective SRS port.4.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors, to cause the UE to receive the multiple CSI-RSs, are configured to cause the UE to:receive the first CSI-RS using the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS using the second CSI-RS resource set based at least in part on at least one of the first operating condition or the second operating condition, andwherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the UE to:calculate a time offset and a phase offset between a first transmit-receive point (TRP) and a second TRP using the first CSI-RS received using the first CSI-RS resource set, the second CSI-RS received using the second CSI-RS resource set, the M SRS ports that are linked to the first CSI-RS, and the M SRS ports that are linked to the second CSI-RS; andtransmit an indication of the time offset and the phase offset to at least one of the first TRP or the second TRP.5.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors, to cause the UE to transmit the one or more SRSs using the M SRS ports, are configured to cause the UE to:transmit the one or more SRSs using a first antenna port of the multiple antenna ports and a second antenna port of the multiple antenna ports, wherein the first antenna port and the second antenna port are included in the M SRS ports,wherein the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS resource set are linked to the M SRS ports,wherein the one or more processors, to cause the UE to receive the N CSI-RS resource sets, are configured to cause the UE to:receive the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS using the first antenna port, the second antenna port, and at least a third antenna port of the multiple antenna ports, wherein the third antenna port is not included in the M SRS ports used to transmit the one or more SRSs, andwherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the UE to: not use a portion of the first CSI-RS and a portion of the second CSI-RS that are received via the third antenna port to calculate a time offset and a phase offset between a first transmit-receive point (TRP) and a second TRP.6.The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each respective CSI-RS resource of the M respective CSI-RS resources in a CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets is linked to a respective antenna port included in the M SRS ports, andwherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the UE to:receive an indication to transmit a CSI report that is based at least in part on a respective subset of CSI-RS resources of the M respective CSI-RS resources in the CSI-RS resource set.7.The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the one or more processors, to cause the UE to receive the indication, are configured to cause the UE to:receive the indication in a unicast downlink control information (DCI) field.8.An apparatus for wireless communication at a first transmit-receive point (TRP) , comprising:one or more memories; andone or more processors, coupled to the one or more memories, configured to cause the first transmit-receive point (TRP) to:receive a sounding reference signal (SRS) from a user equipment (UE) ;transmit a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) that is based at least in part on a CSI-RS resource set that includes one or more CSI-RS resources, the CSI-RS including precoding that is based at least in part on the SRS; andreceive an indication of a time offset and a phase offset between the first TRP and a second TRP.9.The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the indication is a first indication, andwherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the first transmit-receive point (TRP) to:transmit a second indication to transmit a CSI report that is based at least in part on a subset of CSI-RS resources of the one or more CSI-RS resources.10.The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the one or more processors, to cause the first transmit-receive point (TRP) to receive the indication, are configured to cause the first transmit-receive point (TRP) to:transmit the indication in a unicast downlink control information (DCI) field.11.The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the first transmit-receive point (TRP) to:transmit, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports of multiple SRS antenna ports that are configured at the UE, wherein the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of SRS antenna ports from the one or more potential subsets of SRS antenna ports.12.The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause the first transmit-receive point (TRP) to:transmit, prior to the unicast DCI field, a configuration that specifies one or more potential subsets of CSI-RS resources of the CSI-RS resource set, wherein the unicast DCI field indicates a particular subset of CSI-RS resources from the one or more potential subsets of CSI-RS resources.13.The apparatus of claim 12, wherein each CSI-RS resource of the particular subset of the CSI-RS resources is linked to a respective antenna port of multiple SRS antenna ports at the UE.14.The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the unicast DCI field indicates a selection of a codepoint entry.15.A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) , comprising:transmitting one or more sounding reference signals (SRSs) using M SRS ports that are configured from multiple antenna ports, M being a first integer; andreceiving multiple channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) from N CSI-RS resource sets, N being a second integer, each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets including M respective CSI-RS resources, the receiving being based at least in part on at least one of:a first operating condition that specifies to use at least a same set of antenna ports, from the multiple antenna ports, to receive at least a first CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a first CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets and a second CSI-RS of the multiple CSI-RSs using the M respective CSI-RS resources of a second CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets, ora second operating condition that specifies to receive the M respective CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets using each antenna port of the M SRS ports that are used to transmit the one or more SRSs, each antenna port of the M SRS ports being linked to M respective CSI-RS resources of the N CSI-RS resource sets.16.The method of claim 15, wherein each respective antenna port of the M SRS ports is linked to M respective CSI-RS resource of the A CSI-RS resources of each respective CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets,wherein a respective portion of the CSI-RS carried by the respective CSI-RS resource is precoded based at least in part on a respective SRS of the one or more SRSs that is transmitted via the respective SRS port.17.The method of claim 15, wherein receiving the multiple CSI-RSs further comprises:receiving the first CSI-RS using the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS using the second CSI-RS resource set based at least in part on at least one of the first operating condition or the second operating condition, andwherein the method further comprises:calculating a time offset and a phase offset between a first transmit-receive point (TRP) and a second TRP using the first CSI-RS received using the first CSI-RS resource set, the second CSI-RS received using the second CSI-RS resource set, the M SRS ports that is linked to the first CSI-RS, and the M SRS ports that is linked to the second CSI-RS; andtransmitting an indication of the time offset and the phase offset to at least one of the first TRP or the second TRP.18.The method of claim 15, wherein transmitting the one or more SRSs using the M SRS ports comprises:transmitting the one or more SRSs using a first antenna port of the multiple antenna ports and a second antenna port of the multiple antenna ports, wherein the first antenna port and the second antenna port are included in the M SRS ports,wherein the first CSI-RS resource set and the second CSI-RS resource set are linked to the M SRS ports,wherein receiving the N CSI-RS resource sets further comprises:receiving the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS using the first antenna port, the second antenna port, and at least a third antenna port of the multiple antenna ports, wherein the third antenna port is not included in the M SRS ports used to transmit the one or more SRSs, andwherein the method further comprises:not using a portion of the first CSI-RS and a portion of the second CSI-RS that are received via the third antenna port to calculate a time offset and a phase offset between a first transmit-receive point (TRP) and a second TRP.19.The method of claim 15, wherein each respective CSI-RS resource of the M respective CSI-RS resources in a CSI-RS resource set of the N CSI-RS resource sets is linked to a respective antenna port included in the M SRS ports, andwherein the method further comprises:receiving an indication to transmit a CSI report that is based at least in part on a respective subset of CSI-RS resources of the M respective CSI-RS resources in the CSI-RS resource set.20.The method of claim 19, wherein the indication comprises a unicast DCI field that indicates a selection of a codepoint entry.
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