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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2016
Intel Ip Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stefan Franz, Munich, DE;
Ziyang Ju, Munich, DE;
Yeong-Sun Hwang, Oberhaching, DE;
Ismael Gutierrez, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel IP Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) may include memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry may be configured to estimate a communication channel for a multi-carrier signal based on a received reference signal, the multi-carrier signal aggregating a plurality of component carriers. During a transmission time interval of the multi-carrier signal, the UE can perform a global search over a beam search space to obtain a beam index recommendation for a component carrier of the plurality of component carriers. The beam index recommendation corresponds to a maximized channel quality metric of the estimated communication channel and is indicative of a beam grid within the beam search space. The UE can perform a localized search of a subset of the beam search space to obtain a second beam index recommendation for a second component carrier of the plurality of component carriers.