Patent ID: 11917675
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 29:
30. An apparatus for wireless communications at a network device, comprising:
one or more memories storing processor-executable code; and
one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories and individually or collectively operable to execute the code to cause the network device to:
receive, from a user equipment (UE), one or more reference signals;
determine, based at least in part on a channel estimation procedure associated with the one or more reference signals received from the UE, a first rank for communicating with the UE in a first set of frequency resources and a second rank for communicating with the UE in a second set of frequency resources, the second rank being lower than the first rank;
transmit, to the UE, control signaling indicating a rank adaptation parameter for communications with the network device, the rank adaptation parameter based at least in part on determining the first rank and the second rank, and the rank adaptation parameter indicative of a quantity of frequency resources or a threshold; and
communicate with the UE in the first set of frequency resources according to the first rank and in the second set of frequency resources according to the second rank, the communicating based at least in part on the rank adaptation parameter.