Qualcomm Incorporated

Defang Chen

Thawatt Gopal

Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam

Scott Hoover

Sridhar Bandaru

Xiaoning Lu

Yuanbo Wang

Viswanath Sankaran

Yue Hong

Xiao William Cheng

Christopher James Pais

Harsimransingh Narindersingh Bindra

Billy Andika

Shan Qing

Sandeep Rao

Parth AshwinKumar Pandya

In a dual network link scenario, a wireless network may provide a user equipment (UE) with a measurement configuration indicating multiple inter-frequency measurement objects during an off duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle configured on a first network link. The UE may assign the inter-frequency measurement objects to a second network link if the second network link has an always-on configuration. Alternatively, if the second network link has a DRX configuration, the UE may perform some inter-frequency measurement activities on the first network link and assign some inter-frequency measurement objects to unoccupied gap occasions in the off duration for the DRX cycle configured on the second network link. In this way, the UE may save power by spending more time in a low power state, and mobility performance for the UE may be improved by increasing the efficiency and reliability of inter-frequency measurement activities.

Load balancing inter-frequency measurement activities for dual network link scenarios

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A multi-antenna user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station using a first antenna, determine to switch from the first antenna to a second antenna for communicating with the base station, determine a silence window in which communication with the base station is suspended, schedule the switch from the first antenna to the second antenna to occur during the silence window, and switch from the first antenna to the second antenna during the silence window.

Antenna switch scheduling

The apparatus may be an apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus for wireless communication may include a processing system. The processing system may manage an antenna beam. The processing system may be configured to monitor a parameter of a signal and widen the antenna beam of the apparatus for wireless communication when the parameter falls below a threshold.

Apparatus and methods for beam refinement

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