Distributed Antenna Panel Measurement Reporting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless communication systems face challenges in managing and optimizing finite wireless channel resources due to signal attenuation or blocking in complex and dynamic environments, which affects channel measurement and reporting mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
The method involves distributing antenna panels between wireless devices, allowing a device experiencing blockage to use a remote antenna panel from another device for improved signal transmission and reception, and enabling devices to share antenna panels to enhance data transmission and reception performance, including channel measurement and reporting without reconfiguring the network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If antenna panels are shared between devices, then communication reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The antenna panel is designed to serve multiple functions and multiple devices. A single antenna panel can be dynamically allocated to different user equipments based on their communication needs and environmental conditions, allowing the same physical resource to provide reliable service to multiple users without requiring separate dedicated antenna panels for each device.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamic allocation and reconfiguration of antenna panels between different devices. The network can dynamically switch which device has access to which antenna panel based on real-time conditions such as signal blockage, communication quality, and device requirements, making the antenna sharing flexible and adaptive rather than fixed.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If distributed antenna panels are used, then signal blockage is mitigated, but measurement and reporting complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The network acts as an intermediary that manages the complexity of distributed antenna panel measurements. Instead of each device independently managing its own measurements and reporting, the network coordinates the measurement processes, aggregates the measurement reports from distributed antenna panels, and presents unified information to the relevant devices, thereby reducing individual device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Measurement reports from multiple distributed antenna panels are merged and consolidated into a unified measurement information structure. The network combines measurement data from different spatial locations and devices into a coherent set of information that can be processed and acted upon as a single unit, simplifying the overall measurement and reporting process.
3Speed
If antenna panels are shared without network reconfiguration, then communication speed is improved, but measurement precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary measurements and characterizations of antenna panels and their performance characteristics before actual data communication begins. By pre-measuring antenna properties, channel conditions, and device capabilities, the system can quickly allocate and switch between antenna panels without requiring complex real-time reconfiguration, enabling fast communication while maintaining measurement accuracy through pre-established profiles.
Data Source
AI summary
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication. Particular aspects provide for a method, including sending, from a first user equipment to a second user equipment, a measurement configuration for an antenna panel of the second user equipment; receiving, at the first user equipment from the second user equipment, a remote antenna panel measurement report based on the measurement configuration; and sending, from the first user equipment to a network, a first measurement report comprising the remote antenna panel measurement report.