Patent ID: 11863477
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media (NTCRM) having instructions, stored thereon, that when executed by one or more processors cause a device to:
measure discovery reference signals (DRSs) transmitted within DRS occasions;
update an out-of-sync (OOS) counter in response to a listen-before-talk failure associated with the DRS transmissions;
measure a DRS quality metric associated with one or more signals from one DRS occasion;
map the measured DRS quality metric into a hypothetical physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) block error rate (BLER) value; and
increment the OOS counter in response to the hypothetical PDCCH BLER value exceeding a predetermined threshold.