Patent ID: 11956652
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method for wireless communications by a parent node of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network, comprising:
determining synchronization signal block (SSB) resources used for periodic SSB transmissions by a child node of the IAB network;
receiving an indication of a measurement gap for performing SSB-based interference measurements from at least one of a grandparent node or a central unit (CU) of the IAB network, wherein the measurement gap corresponds to a time window during which a mobile terminal (MT) function of the parent node is not scheduled by a distributed unit (DU) of a grandparent node:
using the determined SSB resources and the measurement gap to perform the SSB-based interference measurements; and
communicating, using a backhaul link, with at least one of the child node of the IAB network or the CU of the IAB network based on the SSB-based interference measurements.