Radio link monitoring evaluation for cases with CSI-RS overlapping with different symbol types
Patent Information
- Application Number
- PCT/CN2025/085496
- Authority / Receiving Office
- WO · WO
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2025-03-27
- Publication Date
- 2026-10-01
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Abstract
Description
RADIO LINK MONITORING EVALUATION FOR CASES WITH CSI-RS OVERLAPPING WITH DIFFERENT SYMBOL TYPESFIELD
[0001] Example embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to the field of communication, and in particular, to a terminal device, a network device, methods, apparatuses, and a computer readable medium for radio link monitoring evaluation (RLM) for cases with channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) overlapping with different symbol types.BACKGROUND
[0002] A communication network can be seen as a facility that enables communications between two or more communication devices, or provides communication devices access to a data network. A mobile or wireless communication network is one example of a communication network.
[0003] Such communication networks operate in accordance with standards, such as those promulgated by 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) or ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) . Examples of such standards include the so-called 5G (5th Generation) standard or other standards promulgated by 3GPP.SUMMARY
[0004] In general, example embodiments of the present disclosure provide solutions for radio link monitoring evaluation (RLM) for cases with channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) overlapping with different symbol types.
[0005] In a first aspect, there is provided a terminal device. The terminal device comprises at least one processor and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the terminal device at least to: receive, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; and calculate downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0006] In a second aspect, there is provided a network device. The network device comprises: at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the network device at least to: receive, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.
[0007] In a third aspect, there is provided a method. The method comprises: receiving, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; and calculating downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0008] In a fourth aspect, there is provided a method. The method comprises: receiving, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.
[0009] In a fifth aspect, there is provided an apparatus. The apparatus comprises: means for receiving, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; and means for calculating downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0010] In a sixth aspect, there is provided an apparatus. The apparatus comprises: means for receiving, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.
[0011] In a seventh aspect, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium comprising program instructions. The program instructions, when executed by an apparatus, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: receiving, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; and calculating downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0012] In an eighth aspect, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium comprising program instructions. The program instructions, when executed by an apparatus, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: receiving, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.
[0013] In a ninth aspect, there is provided a computer program comprising instructions, which, when executed by an apparatus, cause the apparatus at least to: receive, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; and calculate downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0014] In a tenth aspect, there is provided a computer program comprising instructions, which, when executed by an apparatus, cause the apparatus at least to: receive, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.
[0015] In an eleventh aspect, there is provided a terminal device. The terminal device comprises: a receiving circuitry configured to receive, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; and a calculating circuitry configured to calculate downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0016] In a twelfth aspect, there is provided a network device. The network device comprises: a receiving circuitry configured to receive, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.
[0017] It is to be understood that the summary section is not intended to identify key or essential features of embodiments of the present disclosure, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the present disclosure. Other features of the present disclosure will become easily comprehensible through the following description.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0018] Some example embodiments will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
[0019] FIG. 1 illustrates an example communication network in which embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented;
[0020] FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic diagram of different duplexing schemes;
[0021] FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic diagram of an example of a SBFD configuration and related terminology;
[0022] FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic diagram of an example of CSI-RS resources punctured within SBFD symbols;
[0023] FIG. 5 illustrates a process flow for RLM in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0024] FIG. 6 illustrates a schematic diagram of RLM-RS resource overlapping with SBFD and non-SBFD symbols over time in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0025] FIG. 7 illustrates a process flow of RLM-RS sample differentiation based on gNB explicit indication in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0026] FIG. 8 illustrates a process flow of RLM-RS sample differentiation based on applicability conditions in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0027] FIG. 9 illustrates a flowchart of an example method implemented at a terminal device in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0028] FIG. 10 illustrates another flowchart of an example method implemented at a network device in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure;
[0029] FIG. 11 illustrates a simplified block diagram of a device that is suitable for implementing some example embodiments of the present disclosure; and
[0030] FIG. 12 illustrates a block diagram of an example of a computer-readable medium in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure.
[0031] Throughout the drawings, the same or similar reference numerals represent the same or similar elements.DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0032] Principle of the present disclosure will now be described with reference to some example embodiments. It is to be understood that these embodiments are described only for the purpose of illustration and help those skilled in the art to understand and implement the present disclosure, without suggesting any limitation as to the scope of the disclosure. The disclosure described herein can be implemented in various manners other than the ones described below.
[0033] In the following description and claims, unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skills in the art to which this disclosure belongs.
[0034] References in the present disclosure to “one embodiment, ” “an embodiment, ” “an example embodiment, ” and the like indicate that the embodiment described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but it is not necessary that every embodiment includes the particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Moreover, such phrases are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Further, when a particular feature, structure, or characteristic is described in connection with an embodiment, it is submitted that it is within the knowledge of one skilled in the art to affect such feature, structure, or characteristic in connection with other embodiments whether or not explicitly described.
[0035] It shall be understood that although the terms “first” and “second” etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one element from another. For example, a first element could be termed a second element, and similarly, a second element could be termed a first element, without departing from the scope of example embodiments. As used herein, the term “and / or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the listed terms.
[0036] The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments. As used herein, the singular forms “a” , “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises” , “comprising” , “has” , “having” , “includes” and / or “including” , when used herein, specify the presence of stated features, elements, and / or components etc., but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, elements, components and / or combinations thereof. As used herein, “at least one of the following: <a list of two or more elements>” and “at least one of <a list of two or more elements>” and similar wording, where the list of two or more elements are joined by “and” or “or” , mean at least any one of the elements, or at least any two or more of the elements, or at least all the elements.
[0037] As used in this application, the term “circuitry” may refer to one or more or all of the following: (a) hardware-only circuit implementations (such as implementations in only analog and / or digital circuitry) and (b) combinations of hardware circuits and software, such as (as applicable) : (i) a combination of analog and / or digital hardware circuit (s) with software / firmware and (ii) any portions of hardware processor (s) with software (including digital signal processor (s) ) , software, and memory (ies) that work together to cause an apparatus, such as a mobile phone or server, to perform various functions) and (c) hardware circuit (s) and or processor (s) , such as a microprocessor (s) or a portion of a microprocessor (s) , that requires software (for example, firmware) for operation, but the software may not be present when it is not needed for operation.
[0038] This definition of circuitry applies to all uses of this term in this application, including in any claims. As a further example, as used in this application, the term circuitry also covers an implementation of merely a hardware circuit or processor (or multiple processors) or portion of a hardware circuit or processor and its (or their) accompanying software and / or firmware. The term circuitry also covers, for example and if applicable to the particular claim element, a baseband integrated circuit or processor integrated circuit for a mobile device or a similar integrated circuit in server, a cellular network device, or other computing or network device.
[0039] As used herein, the term “network” , “communication network” or “data network” refers to a network following any suitable communication standards, such as long term evolution (LTE) , LTE-advanced (LTE-A) , wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) , high-speed packet access (HSPA) , narrow band Internet of things (NB-IoT) , wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) and so on. Furthermore, the communications between a terminal device and a network device / element in the communication network may be performed according to any suitable generation communication protocols, including, but not limited to, the fourth generation (4G) , 4.5G, the fifth generation (5G) , 5.5G (also known as 5G-Advanced) , IEEE 802.11 communication protocols, and / or any other protocols either currently known or to be developed in the future. Embodiments of the present disclosure may be applied in various communication systems. Given the rapid development in communications, there will of course also be future type communication technologies and systems with which the present disclosure may be embodied. It should not be seen as limiting the scope of the present disclosure to only the aforementioned system.
[0040] As used herein, the term “network device” refers to a node in a communication network via which a terminal device accesses the network and receives services therefrom. The network device may refer to a base station (BS) or an access point (AP) or a transmission and reception point (TRP) , for example, a node B (NodeB or NB) , an evolved NodeB (eNodeB or eNB) , a NR NB (also referred to as a gNB) , a remote radio unit (RRU) , a radio header (RH) , a remote radio head (RRH) , a WiFi device, a relay, a low power node such as a femto, a pico, and so forth, depending on the applied terminology and technology. In the following description, the terms “network device” , “AP device” , “AP” and “access point” may be used interchangeably.
[0041] The term “terminal device” refers to any end device that may be capable of wireless communication. By way of example rather than limitation, a terminal device may also be referred to as a communication device, user equipment (UE) , a Subscriber Station (SS) , a Portable Subscriber Station, a Mobile Station (MS) , a station (STA) or station device, or an Access Terminal (AT) . The terminal device may include, but not limited to, a mobile phone, a cellular phone, a smart phone, voice over IP (VoIP) phones, wireless local loop phones, a tablet, a wearable terminal device, a personal digital assistant (PDA) , portable computers, desktop computer, image capture terminal devices such as digital cameras, gaming terminal devices, music storage and playback appliances, vehicle-mounted wireless terminal devices, wireless endpoints, mobile stations, laptop-embedded equipment (LEE) , laptop-mounted equipment (LME) , USB dongles, smart devices, wireless customer-premises equipment (CPE) , an Internet of Things (IoT) device, a watch or other wearable, a head-mounted display (HMD) , a vehicle, a drone, a medical device and applications (for example, remote surgery) , an industrial device and applications (for example, a robot and / or other wireless devices operating in an industrial and / or an automated processing chain contexts) , a consumer electronics device, a device operating on commercial and / or industrial wireless networks, and the like. In the following description, the terms “station” , “station device” , “STA” , “terminal device” , “communication device” , “terminal” , “user equipment” and “UE” may be used interchangeably.
[0042] The term “transceiver” may refer to any device that may be coupled to one or more antennas or antenna ports to wirelessly transmit and / or receive communication signals. The antennas or antenna ports may be the same or different types. The antennas or antenna ports may be located in different positions of an apparatus. One or more transceivers allow the apparatus to communicate with other devices that may be wired and / or wireless. The one or more transceivers may include processors, controllers, radios, sockets, plugs, buffers, or the like circuits to form one or more communication channels to one or more radio frequency units. The one or more transceivers may be integrated in an apparatus or a system, for example a cellular communication apparatus or system, a satellite communication apparatus or system, a WLAN system, or a short ranging system for example Bluetooth system.
[0043] For illustrative purposes, principle and example embodiments of the present disclosure will be described below with reference to FIG. 1 to FIG. 12. However, it is to be noted that these embodiments are given to enable the skilled in the art to understand inventive concepts of the present disclosure and implement the solution as proposed herein, and not intended to limit scope of the present application in any way.
[0044] FIG. 1 illustrates an example of an application scenario 100 in which some example embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented. The application scenario 100, which is a part of a communication network, includes terminal devices and network devices.
[0045] In the descriptions of the example embodiments of the present disclosure, the network environment 100 may also be referred to as a communication system 100 (for example, a portion of a communication network) . The communication system 100 may be a non-terrestrial or terrestrial system.
[0046] For illustrative purposes only, various aspects of example embodiments will be described in the context of one or more terminal devices and network devices that communicate with one another. It should be appreciated, however, that the description herein may be applicable to other types of apparatus or other similar apparatuses that are referenced using other terminology.
[0047] As illustrated in FIG. 1, the communication network 100 may include a network device 110 (which may also be referred to as a gNB or a BS) . The communication network 100 may further include a terminal device 120 (which may also be referred to as user equipment 120 or UE 120. Although only one network device 110 and one terminal devices 120 are shown in FIG. 1, the numbers of the network device and the terminal device are not limited. In other words, there may be one or more network devices 110 and one or more terminal devices 120 in the network.
[0048] The network device 110 can provide services to the terminal device 120, and the network device 110 and the terminal device 120 may communicate data and control information with each other. In some embodiments, the network device 110 and the terminal device 120 may communicate with direct links / channels.
[0049] In the communication system 100, a link from the network device 110 to the terminal device 120 is referred to as a downlink (DL) , while a link from the terminal device 120 to the network device 110 is referred to as an uplink (UL) . In downlink, the network device 110 is a transmitting (TX) device (or a transmitter) and the terminal device 120 is a receiving (RX) device (or a receiver) . In uplink, the terminal device 120 is a transmitting (TX) device (or a transmitter) and the network device 110 is a RX device (or a receiver) . It is to be understood that the network device 110 may provide one or more serving cells. As illustrated in FIG. 1, the network device 110 provides one serving cell 102, and the terminal device 120 camps on the serving cell 102. In some embodiments, the network device 110 can provide multiple serving cells and the terminal device 120 may switch from a source cell to a target cell between the serving cells during its mobility. It is to be understood that the number of serving cell (s) shown in FIG. 1 is for illustrative purposes without suggesting any limitation.
[0050] Communications in the network environment 100 may be implemented according to any proper communication protocol (s) , comprising, but not limited to, cellular communication protocols of the fourth generation (4G) , the fifth generation (5G) and the sixth generation (6G) and on the like, wireless local network communication protocols such as institute for electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE) 802.11 and the like, and / or any other protocols currently known or to be developed in the future, such as universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) , long term evolution (LTE) , LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) , the fifth generation (5G) , new radio (NR) , the sixth generation (6G) , wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) and worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) standards, and employs any suitable communication technologies, including, for example, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) , orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) , time division multiplexing (TDM) , frequency division multiplexing (FDM) , code division multiplexing (CDM) , Bluetooth, ZigBee, narrowband-Internet of things (NB-IoT) , enhanced machine type communication (eMTC) , enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) , massive machine type communication (mMTC) , ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) , carrier aggregation (CA) , dual connectivity (DC) , and new radio unlicensed (NR-U) technologies.
[0051] It is to be understood that the number of devices and their connection relationships and types shown in FIG. 1 are for illustrative purposes without suggesting any limitation. The communication system 100 may comprise any suitable number of devices adapted for implementing embodiments of the present disclosure.
[0052] 3GPP 5G NR currently supports two duplexing modes: frequency division duplexing (FDD) for paired bands and time division duplexing (TDD) for unpaired bands. In TDD, uplink and downlink phases are separated in time domain. This may create unnecessary latency, possibly reduce coverage and capacity depending on the considered layout. In TDD real-field deployments, the situation is further exacerbated by the fact that the scheduling offers lower dynamism, i.e., the slot structure is fixed and does not change very often in practice. This may result in rather limited time duration for the uplink in TDD.
[0053] Motivated by this, 3GPP has done a study item on the evolution of duplexing operation in NR that addresses the challenges above. One of the objectives is to allow the gNB to do simultaneous DL transmission and UL reception on different physical resource blocks (PRBs) / subbands within an unpaired wideband NR cell. In this disclosure, this is referred as sub-band non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) . This duplexing scheme may be also referred to as cross-division duplexing (xDD) scheme or flexible duplexing (FDU) in other sources.
[0054] SBFD can allow more UL transmission opportunities compared to the typical DL-heavy TDD configurations used in today’s TDD deployments. This bring benefits in terms of UL coverage and UL latency especially in wide area macro networks where many UEs are in power-limited conditions in the UL direction. A high-level comparison of SBFD versus traditional TDD or FDD operation is illustrated in FIG. 2.
[0055] Some high-level principles on SBFD operation as agreed are as follows: ● Simultaneous transmission and reception (on non-overlapping set of RBs) is assumed at the gNB side, while half-duplex operation is assumed the UE side. ● Only one UL subband, while one or at most two DL subbands within a TDD carrier. These are commonly referred as DU (or UD) or DUD operation, respectively. ○ A SBFD subband is defined as 1 RB or more consecutive RBs which are used for the same transmission direction (either UL or DL) . ● UL transmissions take place within UL subband only, while DL receptions take place within DL subband (s) only. ● SBFD-aware UEs is used to refer to UEs supporting (at least some) SBFD-related features to be standardized in Rel-19. ● As baseline, it is assumed that both time and frequency locations of subbands for SBFD operation are known to SBFD-aware UEs, while this information is not available for legacy (pre Rel-19) UEs. ● Legacy UEs are not aware of SBFD operation and thus behave in similar manner as in today’s TDD system. The Rel-18 study concluded that non-SBFD aware UEs, including legacy UEs, and SBFD aware UEs can coexist in cells with SBFD operation at gNB side from RAN1 specification point of view.
[0056] FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic diagram of an example of a SBFD configuration and related terminology. In FIG. 3, an example arrangement of UL and DL resources for both DU / UD (left) and DUD (right) SBFD operation is illustrated. SBFD symbols (or slots) refer to those symbols (or slots) where both a UL and one or more DL subbands are simultaneously available, and non-SBFD symbols refer to unidirectional symbols. Different time-domain sequences were discussed by RAN1 in the TR 38.858, e.g. DXXXU, XXXXX, or XXXXU where D, U, X refers to downlink, uplink and SBFD slots (1 slot corresponds to 14 OFDM symbols) , respectively. One or more RBs may be used as guard band between the UL and DL subbands to facilitate rejection of cross-link interference. Similarly, a guard time or period of one or more OFDM symbols may take place for the transition between different symbol / slot types.
[0057] NR Rel-15 radio link monitoring (RLM) , is based on RLM reference signals (RLM-RS) , which are either SSB or CSI-RS. Each UE is required to monitor up to NRLM resources -where NRLM is defined by a table in TS 38.133, herein copied for convenience: Table 8.1.1-2: Maximum number of RLM-RS resources NRLM where the value LMAX is related to the maximum candidate SSBs per half frame the UE is expected to be able to evaluate, which is also related to the number of transmitted beams.
[0058] The UE is constantly monitoring the RLM-RS for the purpose of radio link monitoring. The UE is configured with an in-sync (IS) threshold and an out-of-sync (OOS) threshold. As described in TS 38.133, Section 8.1.1, the threshold Q_out is defined as the level at which the downlink radio link cannot be reliable received and corresponds to the out-of-sync block error rate (BLER_out) . Similarly, the threshold Q_in is defined as the level at which the downlink radio link quality can be received with significantly higher reliability than Q_out and shall correspond to the in-sync block error rate (BLER_in) . The BLER_out and BLER_in parameters are configured by the network with the parameter rlmInSyncOutOfSyncThreshold. If the UE is not explicitly receiving such configuration, it assumes the following values: BLER_out = 10%, and BLERin =2%.
[0059] The UE evaluates the RLM-RS within an IS evaluation period and an OOS evaluation period. If in an OOS evaluation period all the RLM-RS are below the OOS threshold, the UE sends OOS indication to the upper layers, and counts how many consecutive OOS indications are sent. If at least one RLM-RS is above the threshold within an IS evaluation period, the UE sends an IS indication to upper layers, and counts how many consecutive IS indications are sent. After a predefined number of consecutive OOS indications, the UE starts a timer with a predefined duration, and continues evaluating RLM.
[0060] It has been agreed that:
[0061] The above agreements mean that CSI-RS configuration follows the legacy way (start and end RB) , but only the CSI-RS resources in the DL subband are measured by the UE and used to derive the report. The CSI-RS resources in the UL subband and guardbands are assumed not to be present. The physical resources blocks (PRBs) that are not available for DL signals, e.g., for CSI-RS transmissions are denoted as punctured PRBs.
[0062] FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic diagram of an example of CSI-RS resources punctured within SBFD symbols. In principle, for the same periodic CSI-RS resource configuration, some instances might take place during SBFD symbols (for which the “puncturing” of non-DL RBs is applied) while other instances might take place during non-SBFD symbols (for which no puncturing is needed) . For example, a CSI-RS can be configured with a certain periodicity, that on some occasions overlap with DL symbols, and in others overlap with SBFD symbols. This is least captured as part of Option A of the following agreement regarding CSI-reporting for different symbol types:
[0063] Last but not least, it was agreed that a CSI report can be configured with a ‘valid symbol type’ (either SBFD symbol or non SBFD symbol) , and only the measurements on that symbol type are used to derive the corresponding CSI report: Note that this agreement only applies to reporting of CSI information. The CSI report includes information (CQI, PMI, RI, and other quantities as specified in CSI-ReportConfig) . However the possibility of supporting similar feature for RLM purposes has not been discussed yet.
[0064] It was recently agreed that the SBFD-aware UE can be provided with one of the configurations: ● Configuration 1: The transmissions / receptions are restricted to SBFD symbols only or non- SBFD symbols only. ● Configuration 2: The transmissions / receptions can be in SBFD symbols and non-SBFD symbols.
[0065] Note that in the above, Configuration 1 refers to a type of configuration of CSI-RS resources which are only valid in one symbol type, either SBFD or non SBFD symbols. On the other hand, Configuration 2 refers to the case where CSI-RS configuration and occurrences are valid in both non-SBFD and SBFD symbols. However, this is not applicable to RLM-RS.
[0066] Up to Rel-18, RLM is always evaluated in DL symbols. In Rel-19, RLM-RS symbols can occur in different types of symbols (DL or SBFD symbols) , and the interference conditions in DL and SBFD symbols can be quite different due to the UE-to-UE cross-link interference (CLI) in SBFD symbols. Note that UE-to-UE CLI occurs when a UE receiving a DL signal is interfered by the UL signal of a nearby UE. The focus of this disclosure is on CSI-RS-based radio link monitoring, given that SSB-based radio link monitoring is not affected by the UE-to-UE CLI. This is because UL transmissions are not allowed during SSB symbols within SBFD slots. However, CSI-RS reception plus UL transmissions of other UEs is possible.
[0067] As shown, it has been agreed that the CSI-RS reporting is derived from CSI-RS resources which are defined exclusively within SBFD or non SBFD symbols. However, it is still open what would be the decision for RLM procedures. For RLM, at least the following two cases can be considered.
[0068] One case is that the UE is configured with CSI-RS as RLM-RS and RLM is only performed in either SBFD or non-SBFD symbols. In this case, the legacy UE operation could be re-used. In other words, the in-sync (IS) and out-of-sync (OOS) evaluations are performed based on only the CSI-RS occurrences in SBFD or non-SBFD symbols. If one CSI-RS resource is configured on SBFD symbols and the other CSI-RS resource is configured on non-SBFD symbols as RLM-RSs, the downlink channel quality evaluated from different CSI-RS resources would be different due to the CLI impact on SBFD symbols.
[0069] Another case is that the UE is configured with CSI-RS as RLM-RS and RLM is performed in both SBFD and non-SBFD symbols. One possible UE operation would be that the UE uses the RLM-RS occurrences in both symbol types to evaluate the in-sync (IS) and out-of-sync (OOS) . During an evaluation period, the UE can average the radio link quality of the RLM-RS occurrences. Given the nature of the CSI-RS, samples collide with non-SBFD and SBFD slots, thus resulting in unreliable average signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) . The unreliable SINR comes from the fact that measurements over SBFD slots can be impacted by UE-to-UE cross-link interference. Embodiments of the present disclosure target to provide solutions for this case.
[0070] Embodiments of the present disclosure propose new UE behaviour to evaluate the radio link monitoring when configured with a CSI-RS that overlaps with SBFD and non-SBFD slots. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, the UE may evaluate the IS and OOS for RLM based on a single Q_in / Q_out threshold. This relies on the fact that the SINR of SBFD symbols may be lower (as best, equal) than the SINR in non-SBFD symbols. The new UE behaviour can be indicated by the UE as a new UE capability, or it can also be the default behaviour for RLM evaluation. In case of capability, the gNB can configure the UE with the preferred method to perform the RLM evaluation, i.e., measure the DL channel jointly across the SBFD symbols and non-SBFD symbols, or separately for the SBFD symbols and non-SBFD symbol, as the explained in the following.
[0071] FIG. 5 illustrates a process flow 500 for RLM in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure. For ease of understanding, the process flow 400 will be described with reference to FIG. 1. It would be appreciated that although the process flow 400 has been described referring to the communication network 100 of FIG. 1, this process flow 400 may be likewise applied to other similar communication scenarios.
[0072] At 501, a terminal device (which can be interchangeably referred to as “UE” ) 120 transmits capability information 502 indicating the terminal device 120 supports RLM-RS sample differentiation between SBFD symbols and non-SBFD symbols to a network device (which can be interchangeably referred to as “network” or “NW” ) 110. Correspondingly, at 503, the network device 110 receives the capability information 502 from the terminal device 120.
[0073] At 504, the network device 110 transmits, to the terminal device 120, a configuration 505 of a RLM-RS resource that overlaps with SBFD symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource 505 comprises a periodic CSI-RS resource. Correspondingly, the terminal device 120 receives the RLM-RS resource 505 from the network device 110.
[0074] At 507, the terminal device 120 calculates downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0075] When the terminal device 120 supports the RLM-RS sample differentiation between SBFD symbols and non-SBFD symbols, it can differentiate the RLM-RS samples that overlaps with the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols. Then, the terminal device 120 may calculate the downlink radio link quality, for example an average SINR of the RLM-RS samples across the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols separately.
[0076] An example of how the UE can evaluate the IS and OOS is shown in FIG. 6. As illustrated in the figure, a periodic RLM-RS resource overlaps with the SBFD and the non-SBFD symbols, and the SINRs in the SBFD symbols are lower than that in the non-SBFD symbols because of UE-to-UE cross link interference.
[0077] Note that in the legacy behavior, the UE would average the received SINR across all the RLM-RS received during the evaluation periods (T_evaluate_out and T_evaluate_in to evaluate OOS and IS, respectively) to determine whether the radio link quality is above or below Q_out and Q_in and thus decide to send an in-sync (IS) or out-of-sync (OOS) indication to higher layers. As the evaluation is based on the averaged SINR across SBFD and non-SBFD symbols, when radio link quality is determined e.g. as above Q_in, the measurement on SBFD symbols may not reach the threshold Q_in. Due to the potential large differences in SINR between SBFD and non-SBFD slots, simply calculating the SINR as the average of all the RLM-RS occurrences is not optimal.
[0078] In some embodiments, to calculate the downlink radio link quality, the UE may average the SINR on the RLM-RS resource across the SBFD symbols or the non-SBFD symbols during an evaluation period. Based on this, within the evaluation period (for IS or OOS) , the UE may calculate the average SINR separately for the RLM-RS occurrences over the SBFD and non-SBFD symbols / slots. The UE may evaluate the in-sync during SBFD symbols, i.e., based on the SINR derived from the SBFD symbols, and the out-of-sync during the non-SBFD symbols, i.e., using the SINR derived from the non-SBFD symbols.
[0079] In some embodiments, for in-sync evaluation, the UE may calculate a first downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the non-SBFD symbols. For out-of-sync evaluation, the UE may calculate a second downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols. The UE may compare the first downlink radio link quality with threshold Q_in, and the second downlink radio link quality with threshold Q_out, to decide to send the IS or OOS indication to the higher layers.
[0080] The reason for this approach is the fact that the SINR in SBFD symbols is expected to be lower (as best, equal) than the SINR in non-SBFD symbols. If the UE is in-sync during the SBFD symbols, it is implicitly also in-sync during the non-SBFD symbol. Similarly, if the UE is out-of-sync during non-SBFD symbols, it will implicitly also be out-of-sync during SBFD symbols. This can ensure the measurements on both SBFD and non-SBFD symbols fulfills the Q_in / Q_out condition.
[0081] Alternatively, the UE may evaluate the in-sync during non-SBFD symbols and the out-of-sync during the SBFD symbols. This may be possible if Q_in / Q_out is configured as an optimal threshold. Then the RLM can be evaluated in opposite way. It can be up to network to indicate if to evaluate based on the worse case or the best case.
[0082] In this embodiment, for in-sync evaluation, the UE may calculate a third downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols. For out-of-sync evaluation, the UE may calculate a fourth downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the non-SBFD symbols. The UE may compare the third downlink radio link quality with threshold Q_in, and the fourth downlink radio link quality with threshold Q_out, to decide to send the IS or OOS indication to the higher layers.
[0083] FIG. 7 illustrates a process flow 700 of RLM-RS sample differentiation based on gNB explicit indication in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure. In FIG. 7, gNB 710 is an example implementation of the network device 110, and the UE 720 is an example implementation of the terminal device 120.
[0084] In the process flow 700, the gNB is explicitly configuring the UE about how to perform the RLM when it comes to RLM-RS samples differentiation. The gNB shall indicate whether the UE shall differentiate the RLM-RS samples, or whether the UE should consider all RLM-RS occurrences jointly to evaluate the radio link quality.
[0085] At Step 701, the UE 720 indicates to the gNB 710 as UE capability the support for RLM-RS sample differentiation between the non-SBFD symbols and the SBFD symbols.
[0086] At Step 702, the gNB 710 configures a periodic CS-RS resource across the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols to the UE 702. The CS-RS resource can be used as the RLM-RS resource for RLM.
[0087] At Step 703, the gNB 710 indicates the UE behaviour about how to evaluate in-sync and out-of-sync according to UE capability. In some embodiments, the gNB 710 may transmit an indication about whether to calculate the radio link quality (e.g. average SINR) separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, or jointly across all of the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0088] If the gNB 710 indicates the UE 720 to calculate the radio link quality separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, the UE 720 performs Steps 704 to 706; otherwise, the UE 720 calculates the downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource jointly across all of the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, which is not illustrated in the figure.
[0089] At Step 704, during an evaluation period, the UE 720 differentiate the RLM-RS samples that overlap with the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0090] At Step 705, the UE 720 calculates the radio link quality individually or the SBFD and non-SBFD RLM-RS occurences.
[0091] At Step 706, the UE 720 evaluates the in-sync (IS) in SBFD symbols and the out-of-sync (OOS) in the non-SBFD symbols, or vice versa.
[0092] In addition to network indication or by default if UE supports, the proposed RLM evaluation behaviour can be applied based on one or more conditions.
[0093] FIG. 8 illustrates a process flow 800 of RLM-RS sample differentiation based on applicability conditions in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure. In FIG. 8, gNB 810 is an example implementation of the network device 110, and the UE 820 is an example implementation of the terminal device 120.
[0094] In the process flow 800, the gNB configures certain applicability conditions for the UE to determine, on an evaluation period basis, what should be the UE behaviour for radio link monitoring. The UE autonomously defines its behaviour according to the received applicability conditions. These conditions are evaluated on an evaluation period basis. If the applicability conditions are not met, the UE is expected to perform the RLM evaluation as legacy, i.e., it will calculate the average SINR without any distinction on the RLM-RS sample occurrence. On the other hand, if the applicability conditions are met, the UE is expected to differentiate the RLM-RS occurring in SBFD and in non-SBFD symbols. The UE behaviour in this case is the one described in FIG. 7.
[0095] Steps 801 and 802 are similar as the Steps 701 and 702.
[0096] At Step 803, the gNB 810 configures applicability condition (s) for how to perform RLM if RLM-RS resource overlaps with the SBFD and non-SBFD symbols. In some embodiments, the gNB 810 may transmit a configuration of the one or more conditions to the UE 820.
[0097] At Step 804, if the conditions are not met, the UE 820 performs the RLM evaluation without differentiation between the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols. In some embodiments, if none of the conditions is met, and the UE will perform RLM evaluation based on joint measurement samples across SBFD and non-SBFD symbols.
[0098] At Step 805, if at least one condition is met, the UE 820 performs the RLM evaluation separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0099] In some embodiments, the conditions may include that a ratio or an absolute number of CSI-RS resources of the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols is above a threshold. If the UE determines this condition is met, it performs the action in Step 805; otherwise, it performs the action in Step 804.
[0100] In some embodiments, the conditions may include that a difference of channel quality evaluated on the SBFD and the non-SBFD symbols exceeds a threshold. If the UE determines this condition is met, it performs the action in Step 805; otherwise, it performs the action in Step 804.
[0101] In some embodiments, the conditions may include that the number of punctured physical resource blocks (PRBs) of the RLM-RS resource in the SBFD symbols is larger than a threshold. If the UE determines this condition is met, it performs the action in Step 805; otherwise, it performs the action in Step 804.
[0102] FIG. 9 illustrates a flowchart of an example method 900 implemented at a terminal device in accordance with some other embodiments of the present disclosure. For ease of understanding, the method 900 will be described from the perspective of the terminal device 120 with reference to FIG. 1.
[0103] At block 910, the terminal device 120 receives, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource.
[0104] At block 920, the terminal device 120 calculates downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0105] In some embodiments, the terminal device may further transmit, to the network device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports RLM-RS sample differentiation between the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0106] In some embodiments, the terminal device may further receive, from the network device, an indication about whether to calculate the radio link quality separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, or across all of the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0107] In some embodiments, the terminal device may further differentiate samples of the RLM-RS resource that overlap with the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols during an evaluation period.
[0108] In some embodiments, the terminal device may further determine to calculate the downlink radio link quality separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols based on a determination that one or more conditions are met.
[0109] In some embodiments, the terminal device may further receive, from the network device, a configuration of the one or more conditions.
[0110] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: a ratio or an absolute number of CSI-RS resources of the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols is above a threshold.
[0111] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: a difference of channel quality evaluated on the SBFD and the non-SBFD symbols exceeds a threshold.
[0112] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: the number of punctured physical resource blocks (PRBs) of the RLM-RS resource in the SBFD symbols is larger than a threshold.
[0113] In some embodiments, the terminal device may further calculate, based on a determination that none of the one or more conditions is met, calculate the downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource jointly across all of the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0114] In some embodiments, to calculate downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, the terminal device may calculate, for in-sync evaluation, a first downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the non-SBFD symbols; and calculate, for out-of-sync evaluation, a second downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols.
[0115] In some embodiments, to calculate downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, the terminal device may calculate, for in-sync evaluation, a third downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols; and calculate, for out-of-sync evaluation, a fourth downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the non-SBFD symbols.
[0116] In some embodiments, to calculate downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, the terminal device may average signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) on the RLM-RS resource across the SBFD symbols or the non-SBFD symbols during an evaluation period.
[0117] FIG. 10 illustrates another flowchart of an example method 1000 implemented at a network device in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure. For ease of understanding, the method 1000 will be described from the perspective of the network device 110 with reference to FIG. 1.
[0118] At block 1010, the network device 110 receives, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.
[0119] In some embodiments, the network device may further transmit, to the terminal device, an indication about whether to calculate radio link quality on a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols or across all of the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, for in-sync and out-of-sync evaluation.
[0120] In some embodiments, the network device may further transmit, to the terminal device, a configuration of the one or more conditions to enable the terminal device to calculate downlink radio link quality separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols when at least one of the one or more conditions is met.
[0121] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: a ratio or an absolute number of CS-RS resources of the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols is above a threshold.
[0122] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: a difference of channel quality evaluated on the SBFD and the non-SBFD symbols exceeds a threshold.
[0123] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: the number of punctured physical resource blocks (PRBs) of the RLM-RS resource in the SBFD symbols is larger than a threshold.
[0124] In some embodiments, an apparatus capable of performing the method 900 (for example, the terminal device 120) may comprise means for performing the respective steps of the method 900. The means may be implemented in any suitable form. For example, the means may be implemented in a circuitry or software module.
[0125] In some example embodiments, the apparatus comprises: means for receiving, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; and means for calculating downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0126] In some embodiments, the apparatus may comprise means for transmitting, to the network device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports RLM-RS sample differentiation between the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0127] In some embodiments, the apparatus may comprise means for receiving, from the network device, an indication about whether to calculate the radio link quality separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, or across all of the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0128] In some embodiments, the apparatus may comprise means for differentiating samples of the RLM-RS resource that overlap with the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols during an evaluation period.
[0129] In some embodiments, the apparatus may comprise means for determining to calculate the downlink radio link quality separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols based on a determination that one or more conditions are met.
[0130] In some embodiments, the apparatus may comprise means for receiving, from the network device, a configuration of the one or more conditions.
[0131] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: a ratio or an absolute number of CSI-RS resources of the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols is above a threshold.
[0132] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: a difference of channel quality evaluated on the SBFD and the non-SBFD symbols exceeds a threshold.
[0133] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: the number of punctured physical resource blocks (PRBs) of the RLM-RS resource in the SBFD symbols is larger than a threshold.
[0134] In some embodiments, the apparatus may comprise means for calculating, based on a determination that none of the one or more conditions is met, calculate the downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource jointly across all of the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.
[0135] In some embodiments, means for calculating downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols may comprise means for calculating, for in-sync evaluation, a first downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the non-SBFD symbols; and means for calculating, for out-of-sync evaluation, a second downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols.
[0136] In some embodiments, means for calculating downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols may comprise means for calculating, for in-sync evaluation, a third downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols; and means for calculating, for out-of-sync evaluation, a fourth downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the non-SBFD symbols.
[0137] In some embodiments, means for calculating downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbol may comprise means for averaging signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) on the RLM-RS resource across the SBFD symbols or the non-SBFD symbols during an evaluation period.
[0138] In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises means for performing other steps in some embodiments of the method 900. In some embodiments, the means comprises at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the performance of the apparatus.
[0139] In some embodiments, an apparatus capable of performing the method 1000 (for example, the network device 110) may comprise means for performing the respective steps of the method 1000. The means may be implemented in any suitable form. For example, the means may be implemented in a circuitry or software module.
[0140] In some embodiments, the apparatus may comprise: means for receiving, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.
[0141] In some embodiments, the apparatus may further comprise means for transmitting, to the terminal device, an indication about whether to calculate radio link quality on a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols or across all of the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, for in-sync and out-of-sync evaluation.
[0142] In some embodiments, the apparatus may further comprise means for transmitting, to the terminal device, a configuration of the one or more conditions to enable the terminal device to calculate downlink radio link quality separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols when at least one of the one or more conditions is met.
[0143] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: a ratio or an absolute number of CS-RS resources of the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols is above a threshold.
[0144] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: a difference of channel quality evaluated on the SBFD and the non-SBFD symbols exceeds a threshold.
[0145] In some embodiments, the one or more conditions may comprise: the number of punctured physical resource blocks (PRBs) of the RLM-RS resource in the SBFD symbols is larger than a threshold.
[0146] In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises means for performing other steps in some embodiments of the method 1000. In some embodiments, the means comprises at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the performance of the apparatus.
[0147] FIG. 11 illustrates a simplified block diagram of a device 1100 that is suitable for implementing some example embodiments of the present disclosure. The device 1100 may be provided to implement a communication device, for example, the network device 110 or the terminal device 120 as shown in FIG. 1. As shown, the device 1100 includes one or more processors 1110, one or more memories 1120 coupled to the processor 1110, and one or more communication modules 1140 coupled to the processor 1110.
[0148] The communication module 1140 is for bidirectional communications. The communication module 1140 has at least one antenna to facilitate communication. The communication interface may represent any interface that is necessary for communication with other network elements.
[0149] The processor 1110 may be of any type suitable to the local technical network and may include one or more of the following: general purpose computers, special purpose computers, microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSPs) and processors based on multicore processor architecture, as non-limiting examples. The device 1100 may have multiple processors, such as an application specific integrated circuit chip that is slaved in time to a clock which synchronizes the main processor.
[0150] The memory 1120 may include one or more non-volatile memories and one or more volatile memories. Examples of the non-volatile memories include, but are not limited to, a Read Only Memory (ROM) 1124, an electrically programmable read only memory (EPROM) , a flash memory, a hard disk, a compact disc (CD) , a digital video disk (DVD) , and other magnetic storage and / or optical storage. Examples of the volatile memories include, but are not limited to, a random access memory (RAM) 1122 and other volatile memories that will not last in the power-down duration.
[0151] A computer program 1130 includes computer executable instructions that are executed by the associated processor 1110. The program 1130 may be stored in the ROM 1124. The processor 1110 may perform any suitable actions and processing by loading the program 1130 into the RAM 1122.
[0152] The embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented by means of the program 1130 so that the device 1100 may perform any process of the disclosure as discussed with reference to FIGS. 9 and 10. The embodiments of the present disclosure may also be implemented by hardware or by a combination of software and hardware.
[0153] In some example embodiments, the program 1130 may be tangibly contained in a computer-readable medium which may be included in the device 1100 (such as in the memory 1120) or other storage devices that are accessible by the device 1100. The device 1100 may load the program 1130 from the computer-readable medium to the RAM 1122 for execution. The computer-readable medium may include any types of tangible non-volatile storage, such as ROM, EPROM, a flash memory, a hard disk, CD, DVD, and the like.
[0154] FIG. 12 illustrates a block diagram of an example of a computer-readable medium 1200 in accordance with some example embodiments of the present disclosure. The computer-readable medium 1200 has the program 1130 stored thereon. It is noted that although the computer-readable medium 1200 is depicted in form of CD or DVD in FIG. 12, the computer-readable medium 1200 may be in any other form suitable for carry or hold the program 1130.
[0155] Generally, various embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented in hardware or special purpose circuits, software, logic or any combination thereof. Some aspects may be implemented in hardware, while other aspects may be implemented in firmware or software which may be executed by a controller, microprocessor or other computing device. While various aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure are illustrated and described as block diagrams, flowcharts, or using some other pictorial representations, it is to be understood that the block, apparatus, system, technique or method described herein may be implemented in, as non-limiting examples, hardware, software, firmware, special purpose circuits or logic, general purpose hardware or controller or other computing devices, or some combination thereof.
[0156] The present disclosure also provides at least one computer program product tangibly stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The computer program product includes computer-executable instructions, such as those included in program modules, being executed in a device on a target real or virtual processor, to carry out the method 900 or 1000 as described above with reference to FIG. 9 or 10. Generally, program modules include routines, programs, libraries, objects, classes, components, data structures, or the like that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The functionality of the program modules may be combined or split between program modules as desired in various embodiments. Machine-executable instructions for program modules may be executed within a local or distributed device. In a distributed device, program modules may be located in both local and remote storage media.
[0157] Program code for carrying out methods of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages. These program codes may be provided to a processor or controller of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus, such that the program codes, when executed by the processor or controller, cause the functions / operations specified in the flowcharts and / or block diagrams to be implemented. The program code may execute entirely on a machine, partly on the machine, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the machine and partly on a remote machine or entirely on the remote machine or server.
[0158] In the context of the present disclosure, the computer program codes or related data may be carried by any suitable carrier to enable the device, apparatus or processor to perform various processes and operations as described above. Examples of the carrier include a signal, computer-readable medium, and the like.
[0159] The computer-readable medium may be a computer-readable signal medium or a computer-readable storage medium. A computer-readable medium may include but not limited to an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples of the computer-readable storage medium would include an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM) , a read-only memory (ROM) , an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory) , an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) , an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. The term “non-transitory, ” as used herein, is a limitation of the medium itself (i.e., tangible, not a signal) as opposed to a limitation on data storage persistency (e.g., RAM vs. ROM) .
[0160] Further, while operations are depicted in a particular order, this should not be understood as requiring that such operations be performed in the particular order shown or in sequential order, or that all illustrated operations be performed, to achieve desirable results. In certain circumstances, multitasking and parallel processing may be advantageous. Likewise, while several specific implementation details are contained in the above discussions, these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of the present disclosure, but rather as descriptions of features that may be specific to particular embodiments. Certain features that are described in the context of separate embodiments may also be implemented in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely, various features that are described in the context of a single embodiment may also be implemented in multiple embodiments separately or in any suitable sub-combination.
[0161] Although the present disclosure has been described in languages specific to structural features and / or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the present disclosure defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described above. Rather, the specific features and acts described above are disclosed as example forms of implementing the claims.
Claims
1.A terminal device comprising:at least one processor; andat least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the terminal device at least to:receive, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; andcalculate downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.2.The terminal device of claim 1, wherein the terminal device is further caused to:transmit, to the network device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports RLM-RS sample differentiation between the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.3.The terminal device of claim 1 or 2, wherein the terminal device is further caused to:receive, from the network device, an indication about whether to calculate the radio link quality separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, or across all of the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.4.The terminal device of any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the terminal device is further caused to:differentiate samples of the RLM-RS resource that overlap with the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols during an evaluation period.5.The terminal device of any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the terminal device is further caused to:determine to calculate the downlink radio link quality separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols based on a determination that one or more conditions are met.6.The terminal device of claim 5, wherein the terminal device is further caused to:receive, from the network device, a configuration of the one or more conditions.7.The terminal device of claim 5 or 6, wherein the one or more conditions comprise:a ratio or an absolute number of CSI-RS resources of the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols is above a threshold.8.The terminal device of any of claims 5 to 7, wherein the one or more conditions further comprise:a difference of channel quality evaluated on the SBFD and the non-SBFD symbols exceeds a threshold.9.The terminal device of any of claims 5 to 8, wherein the one or more conditions further comprise:the number of punctured physical resource blocks (PRBs) of the RLM-RS resource in the SBFD symbols is larger than a threshold.10.The terminal device of any of claims 5 to 9, wherein the terminal device is further caused to:based on a determination that none of the one or more conditions is met, calculate the downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource jointly across all of the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.11.The terminal device of claim any of claims 1 to 10, wherein to calculate downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, the terminal device is caused to:for in-sync evaluation, calculate a first downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the non-SBFD symbols; andfor out-of-sync evaluation, calculate a second downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols.12.The terminal device of claim any of claims 1 to 10, wherein to calculate downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, the terminal device is caused to:for in-sync evaluation, calculate a third downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols; andfor out-of-sync evaluation, calculate a fourth downlink radio link quality based on the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the non-SBFD symbols.13.The terminal of any of claims 1 to 12, wherein to calculate downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, the terminal device is caused to:average signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) on the RLM-RS resource across the SBFD symbols or the non-SBFD symbols during an evaluation period.14.A network device comprising:at least one processor; andat least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the terminal device at least to:receive, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.15.The network device of claim 14, wherein the network device is further caused to:transmit, to the terminal device, an indication about whether to calculate radio link quality on a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols or across all of the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols, for in-sync and out-of-sync evaluation.16.The network device of claim 14 or 15, wherein the network device is further caused to:transmit, to the terminal device, a configuration of the one or more conditions to enable the terminal device to calculate downlink radio link quality separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols when at least one of the one or more conditions is met.17.The network device of claim 16, wherein the one or more conditions comprises:a ratio or an absolute number of CS-RS resources of the RLM-RS resource overlapping with the SBFD symbols is above a threshold.18.The network device of claim 16 or 17, wherein the one or more conditions further comprises:a difference of channel quality evaluated on the SBFD and the non-SBFD symbols exceeds a threshold.19.The network device of any of claims 16 to 18, wherein the one or more conditions further comprises:the number of punctured physical resource blocks (PRBs) of the RLM-RS resource in the SBFD symbols is larger than a threshold.20.A method comprising:receiving, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; andcalculating downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.21.A method comprising:receiving, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.22.An apparatus comprising:means for receiving, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; andmeans for calculating downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.23.An apparatus comprising:means for receiving, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.24.A computer readable medium comprising program instructions that, when executed by an apparatus, cause the apparatus to perform at least:receiving, from a network device, a configuration of a radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RS) resource that overlaps with subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols, wherein the RLM-RS resource comprises a periodic channel state information (CSI) -reference signal (CSI-RS) resource; andcalculating downlink radio link quality on the RLM-RS resource separately for the SBFD symbols and the non-SBFD symbols.25.A computer readable medium comprising program instructions that, when executed by an apparatus, cause the apparatus to perform at least:receiving, from a terminal device, capability information indicating the terminal device supports radio link monitoring (RLM) -reference signal (RLM-RS) sample differentiation between subband non-overlapping full duplex (SBFD) symbols and non-SBFD symbols.