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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Haitong Sun, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chunhai Yao, Beijing, CN;
Chunxuan Ye, San Diego, CA (US);
Dawei Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hong He, Cupertino, CA (US);
Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US);
Pengkai Zhao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sigen Ye, Cupertino, CA (US);
Wei Zeng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Weidong Yang, San Diego, CA (US);
Wen Zhao, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yushu Zhang, Beijing, CN;
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Various systems and methods disclosed herein describe improvements for beam management that leverage virtualization across a vertical polarization (V-Pol) and horizontal polarization (H-Pol). One or more of a user equipment (UE) and a base station may include an antenna array comprising both V-Pol and H-Pol antenna elements. A UE may message a base station to configure uplink (UL) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) operations across one or more of the V-Pol and the H-Pol. The message may include a number of MIMO layers to be concurrently used for communicating data to the base station, where each MIMO layer is transmitted using one of a V-Pol and an H-Pol; a number of sounding reference signals (SRS) to be transmitted by the UE, each SRS to be transmitted using one of the V-Pol and the H-Pol; and a supported maximum number of antenna ports per each SRS.