Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Samung Electronics Co., Ltd

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Sripada Kadambar

Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva

Anusha Gunturu

Shubham Khunteta

Anshuman Nigam

Anirudh Reddy Godala

G Venkata Ramana

Nitin Saini

Kushagra

Chaiman Lim

Venkata Ratnakar Rao Rayavarapu

Koustav Roy

Chai-Man Lim

Rishav Agarwal

Vaishal Sujal Tijoriwala

Ashok Kumar Sahoo

Ankur Pooniya

Seon-Ik Seong

Naga Santha Mohan Rao Goli

Neelesh B Mehta

Ankur Goyal

Chirodeep Paul

The disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for performing beam alignment. In some embodiments, a method of performing beam alignment by a user equipment (UE) of a wireless network, includes determining, by the UE based on a plurality of parameters associated with the UE, a first quality level of a connection of the UE in a first orientation and at a geographical location. The connection uses a first beam from at least one network entity of the wireless network. The method further includes determining, by the UE based on the first quality level, a second orientation from a plurality of orientations at the geographical location. The second quality level of the second orientation exceeds the first quality level. The method further includes changing, by the UE, an orientation of the UE from the first orientation to the second orientation.

Method and system for beam alignment in wireless network

A method is provided. The method includes receiving, by a User Equipment (UE), a plurality of transmit (Tx) beams from a Base Station (BS), on a plurality of receive (Rx) beams. The method includes determining the beam parameters associated with a plurality of Tx and Rx beam pairs changing at a frequency above a first threshold. The method includes deriving a beam selection metric for the plurality of Tx and Rx beam pairs using the associated beam parameters. The method includes identifying a subset of Tx and Rx beam pairs from the plurality of Tx and Rx beam pairs with the beam selection metric above a second threshold. The method includes prioritizing scanning of the identified subset of Tx and Rx beam pairs to select a Tx and Rx beam pair for communication.

Method and apparatus for selecting beam pairs in a beamforming based communication system

Presented herein is a pre-5-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system that supports higher data rates beyond 4-Generation (4G) communication systems. In particular, methods and systems for performing cell search in a millimeter wave (mmWave) based communication network are presented. A method disclosed herein includes selecting a subset of receive (Rx) beams from a plurality of Rx beams and scheduling a scan order for the selected subset of Rx beams, upon receiving a plurality of signals from a Base Station. The method also includes performing a cell search using the selected subset of Rx beams individually in the determined scan order. The method further includes combining two or more of the selected Rx beams, upon failing the cell search using the selected subset of Rx beams individually. The method further includes performing the cell search using the combined Rx beams.

Methods and systems for performing cell search in a millimeter wave (mmWave) based communication network

Methods and systems for tracking frequency offset in NR are provided. A user equipment (UE) can compute the frequency offset comprising of crystal frequency drift and Doppler shift. Drift in frequencies generated by crystal oscillators in the UE and a base station are detected and nullified. Doppler shift of a serving beam is estimated using either data collected by sensors in the UE or reference signals received from the base station. Values of Doppler shift for a plurality of beams are estimated using the Doppler shift of the serving beam and sensor data, wherein the serving beam and the plurality of beams correspond to a same transmitter beam or different transmitter beams, wherein the type of QCL of the beams is either A, B, or C.

Methods for frequency offset tracking in NR mmwave for efficient beam management

Methods and systems for reporting CSI and selecting optimal beams using ML. The CSI report is sent to a gNB, which includes feedback parameters, computed and predicted using ML. The feedback parameters are computed using measurements performed using CSI-RS. Values of the feedback parameters likely at future, based on channel variation and the measurements, are pre-dieted using ML. The computed and predicted feedback parameters are included in the CSI report. Optimal CSI-RS resource allocation and optimal CSI reporting periodicity are determined using ML and sent to the gNB. The CSI report is encoded using the ML based model. The RSRP of the beams are predicted using ML for beam selection.

Method and apparatus for reporting channel state information

The disclosure relates to 5G or pre-5G communication systems for supporting higher data transfer rates, following the 4G communication systems, such as LTE. The disclosure describes a method and a UE for sensor-based optimal antenna array switching in a wireless communication system. The method comprising: detecting at least one orientation parameter of the UE using one or more sensors of the UE, comparing a current signal strength parameter value of one or more serving Antenna Array Modules (AAMs) of the UE with a first threshold value or comparing a non-serving AAM monitor timer of the UE with a second threshold value, comparing at least one orientation parameter with a third threshold value based on the current signal strength parameter value of one or more serving AAMs being less than the first threshold value or based on the non-serving AAM monitor timer exceeding the second threshold value, performing measurements on one or more non-serving AAMs, and selecting at least the one or more serving AAMs and the one or more non-serving AAMs based on the measurements performed.

Method and apparatus for sensor based optimal antenna array switching in a wireless communication system

The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for managing a system information block (SIB) in a wireless communication network.

Method and device for managing system information block, physical broadcast channel in wireless communication network

The embodiments herein provide methods and systems for implementing time division duplex (TDD) operations in a narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) to enable cellular IoT operations in user equipment (UE). A method includes receiving TDD uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration and transmitting a predetermined number of a symbol group for a random access in one or more UL subframes based on the received TDD UL-DL configuration, each symbol group including a plurality of symbols, wherein at least part of the predetermined number of symbol groups are transmitted discontinuously.

Method and apparatus for communicating in a wireless communication system

Embodiments herein provide methods and systems for achieving D2D communications through unlicensed spectrum. The D2D-U operations can be achieved through multiple approaches. In the first approach, the devices can communicate with each other without any involvement of network. In the second approach, the network provides partial assistance to the devices such as allocating time and frequency resources for D2D-U communication. In the third approach, the network completely controls D2D-U operations between the devices. The embodiments include allocating time and frequency resources for transmission of PSBCH, PSDCH, PSCCH, and PSSCH. The allocations of the time and frequency resources meet regulatory requirements of minimum bandwidth utilization for unlicensed band operation. The embodiments include distributing power in narrow frequency sub-bands of D2D-U spectrum, in order to maximize transmission range of D2D-U communications.

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