Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network node, a wireless device, and methods therein for beam selection
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Application No.: US15570880Application Date: 2017-06-29
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Publication No.: US10341005B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Johan Furuskog , Håkan Andersson , Mattias Frenne , Johan Kåredal , John Skördeman , Tomas Sundin , Niclas Wiberg , Qiang Zhang
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Murphy, Bilak & Homiller, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/SE2017/050727 WO 20170629
- International Announcement: WO2019/004887 WO 20190103
- Main IPC: H04L5/12
- IPC: H04L5/12 ; H04B7/06 ; H04W36/30 ; H04W36/00 ; H04L5/00 ; H04W36/18

Abstract:
A Network Node (NN) 208 and a method therein for beam selection. When an upcoming ability to serve a Wireless Device (WD) 210 using a current NN beam is predicted to be lost based on historic data, the NN selects an upcoming NN beam out of one or more candidate NN beams that are able to serve the WD when the NN has lost ability to serve the WD using the current NN beam. The NN configures a dedicated Beam Reference Signal (BRS) for the upcoming NN beam, which is to be detected in beam selection by the WD when the NN loses ability to serve the wireless device using the current NN beam. By means of the current NN beam, the NN transmits, to the WD, a configuration of the dedicated BRS. Further, by means of the upcoming NN beam, the NN transmits, to the WD, the dedicated BRS.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190007122A1 A Network Node, A Wireless Device, and Methods Therein for Beam Selection Public/Granted day:2019-01-03
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