Patent Publication Number: US-11026233-B2

Title: Emission and panel aware beam selection

Description:
PRIORITY CLAIM 
     This application claims the benefit of priority to the following applications: 
     PCT Patent Application Serial No. PCT/CN2019/074737, filed Feb. 8, 2019, and entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETRANSMISSION OF CFRA-BFR AND CROSS-CC BEAM FAILURE DETECTION;” 
     PCT Patent Application Serial No. PCT/CN2018/096427, filed Jul. 20, 2018, and entitled “SINGLE BEAM OPERATION AND DOWNLINK BEAM MANAGEMENT WITH LOW OVERHEAD AND LATENCY;” 
     U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/805,873, filed Feb. 14, 2019, and entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMISSION AND PANEL AWARE BEAM SELECTION;” 
     PCT Patent Application Serial No. PCT/CN2018/092040, filed Jun. 20, 2018, and entitled “RETRANSMISSION OF CONTENTION FREE RANDOM ACCESS (CFRA) BEAM FAILURE RECOVERY (BFR) AND CROSS-COMPONTNENT CARRIER (CC) BEAM FAILURE DETECTION (BFD);” 
     U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/688,624, filed Jun. 22, 2018, and entitled “METHODS OF SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL (SRS) BASED BEAM FAILURE RECOVERY INDICATION;” and 
     U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/697,320, filed Jul. 12, 2018, and entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMISSION AND PANEL AWARE BEAM SELECTION.” 
     Each of the above-identified patent applications are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. 
    
    
     TECHNICAL FIELD 
     Aspects pertain to wireless communications. Some aspects relate to wireless networks including 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) networks, 3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks, 3GPP LTE-A (LTE Advanced) networks, and fifth-generation (5G) networks including 5G new radio (NR) (or 5G-NR) networks and 5G-LTE networks. Other aspects are directed to systems and methods for retransmission of contention-free random access (CFRA) beam failure recovery (BFR) (CFRA-BFR) cross-component carrier (CC) beam failure detection (BFD). Additional aspects are directed to single beam operation and downlink beam management with low overhead and latency. Yet other aspects are directed to systems and methods for emission and panel aware beam selection. Other aspects are directed to retransmission of CFRA BFR and cross-CC BFD. Additional aspects are directed to systems and methods for sounding reference signal (SRS) based beam failure recovery indication. Yet other aspects are directed to systems and methods for emission and panel aware beam selection. 
     BACKGROUND 
     Mobile communications have evolved significantly from early voice systems to today&#39;s highly sophisticated integrated communication platform. With the increase in different types of devices communicating with various network devices, usage of 3GPP LTE systems has increased. The penetration of mobile devices (user equipment or UEs) in modern society has continued to drive demand for a wide variety of networked devices in a number of disparate environments. Fifth generation (5G) wireless systems are forthcoming, and are expected to enable even greater speed, connectivity, and usability. Next generation 5G networks (or NR networks) are expected to increase throughput, coverage, and robustness and reduce latency and operational and capital expenditures. 5G-NR networks will continue to evolve based on 3GPP LTE-Advanced with additional potential new radio access technologies (RATs) to enrich people&#39;s lives with seamless wireless connectivity solutions delivering fast, rich content and services. As current cellular network frequency is saturated, higher frequencies, such as millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency, can be beneficial due to their high bandwidth. 
     Potential LTE operation in the unlicensed spectrum includes (and is not limited to) the LTE operation in the unlicensed spectrum via dual connectivity (DC), or DC-based LAA, and the standalone LTE system in the unlicensed spectrum, according to which LTE-based technology solely operates in unlicensed spectrum without requiring an “anchor” in the licensed spectrum, called MulteFire. MulteFire combines the performance benefits of LTE technology with the simplicity of Wi-Fi-like deployments. Additional operations in the unlicensed spectrum include NR-U type communications in the unlicensed band. 
     Further enhanced operation of LTE systems in the licensed as well as unlicensed spectrum is expected in future releases and 5G systems. Such enhanced operations can include techniques to address retransmission of CFRA BFR and cross-CC BFD, single beam operation and downlink beam management with low overhead and latency, emission and panel aware beam selection, and SRS based beam failure recovery indication. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES 
       In the figures, which are not necessarily drawn to scale, like numerals may describe similar components in different views. Like numerals having different letter suffixes may represent different instances of similar components. The figures illustrate generally, by way of example, but not by way of limitation, various aspects discussed in the present document. 
         FIG. 1A  illustrates an architecture of a network in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 1B  is a simplified diagram of an overall next generation (NG) system architecture in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 1C  illustrates an example MulteFire Neutral Host Network (NHN) 5G architecture in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 1D  illustrates a functional split between next generation radio access network (NG-RAN) and the 5G Core network (5GC) in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 1E  and  FIG. 1F  illustrate a non-roaming 5G system architecture in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 1G  illustrates an example Cellular Internet-of-Things (CIoT) network architecture in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 1H  illustrates an example Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF) in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 1I  illustrates an example roaming architecture for SCEF in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 1J  illustrates an example Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) New Radio Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) architecture in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 2  illustrates example components of a device  200  in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 3  illustrates example interfaces of baseband circuitry in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 4  is an illustration of a control plane protocol stack in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 5  is an illustration of a user plane protocol stack in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 6  is a block diagram illustrating components, according to some example aspects, able to read instructions from a machine-readable or computer-readable medium (e.g., a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium) and perform any one or more of the methodologies discussed herein. 
         FIG. 7  is an illustration of an initial access procedure including PRACH preamble retransmission in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 8  illustrates an example procedure for beam failure recovery (BFR), in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 9  illustrates an example retransmission of PRACH for BFR in a first option, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 10  illustrates an example retransmission of PRACH for BFR in a second option, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 11  illustrates a flowchart of an example method for sounding reference signal (SRS)-based BFR indication at the UE side, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 12  illustrates a flowchart of an example method for sounding reference signal (SRS)-based BFR indication at the base station side, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 13  illustrates a graph of example beam emissions, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 14  illustrates a communication exchange for an example procedure for emission or panel-aware based beam selection, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 15  illustrates a communication exchange for an example procedure for uplink beam recovery, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 16  illustrates an example beam management framework, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 17  illustrates an example beam indication framework, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 18  illustrates a time domain signal structure for IFDMA based CSI-RS, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 19  illustrates a time unit partition in a first option, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 20  illustrates a time unit partition in a second option, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 21  illustrates a flowchart of an example method for PDSCH beam indication, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 22  illustrates a flowchart of an example method for emission and panel aware beam selection, in accordance with some aspects. 
         FIG. 23  illustrates a block diagram of a communication device such as an evolved Node-B (eNB), a new generation Node-B (gNB), an access point (AP), a wireless station (STA), a mobile station (MS), or a user equipment (UE), in accordance with some aspects. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     The following description and the drawings sufficiently illustrate aspects to enable those skilled in the art to practice them. Other aspects may incorporate structural, logical, electrical, process, and other changes. Portions and features of some aspects may be included in or substituted for, those of other aspects. Aspects set forth in the claims encompass all available equivalents of those claims. 
       FIG. 1A  illustrates an architecture of a network in accordance with some aspects. The network  140 A is shown to include user equipment (UE)  101  and a UE  102 . The UEs  101  and  102  are illustrated as smartphones (e.g., handheld touchscreen mobile computing devices connectable to one or more cellular networks), but may also comprise any mobile or non-mobile computing device, such as Personal Data Assistants (PDAs), pagers, laptop computers, desktop computers, wireless handsets, drones, or any other computing device including a wired and/or wireless communications interface. 
     Any of the radio links described herein (e.g., as used in the network  140 A or any other illustrated network) may operate according to any one or more of the following exemplary radio communication technologies and/or standards including, but not limited to: a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) radio communication technology, a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) radio communication technology, an Enhanced Data. Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) radio communication technology, and/or a Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) radio communication technology, for example Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UITS), Freedom of Multimedia Access (FOMA), 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), 3GPP Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE Advanced), Code division multiple access 2000 (CDMA2000), Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD), Mobitex, Third Generation (3G), Circuit Switched Data (CSD), High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data (HSCSD), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (Third Generation) (UMITS (3G)), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) (W-CDMA (UMTS)), High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), High Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System-Time-Division Duplex (UMTS-TDD), Time Division-Code Division Multiple Access (TD-CDMA), Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-CDMA), 3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 8 (Pre-4th Generation) (3GPP Rel. 8 (Pre-4G)), 3GPP Rel. 9 (3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 9), 3GPP Rel. 10 (3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 10), 3GPP Rel. 11 (3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 11), 3GPP Rel. 12 (3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 12), 3GPP Rel. 13 (3rd Generation Partnership Project Rel ease  13 ), 3GPP Rel. 14 (3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 14), 3GPP Rel. 15 (3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 15), 3GPP Rel. 16 (3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 16), 3GPP Rel. 17 (3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 17), 3GPP Rel. 18 (3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 18), 3GPP 5G or 5G-NR, 3GPP LTE Extra, LTE-Advanced Pro, LTE Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA), MulteFire, UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA), Long Term Evolution Advanced (4th Generation) (LTE Advanced (4G)), cdmaOne (2G), Code division multiple access 2000 (Third generation) (CDMA2000 (3G)), Evolution-Data Optimized or Evolution-Data Only (EV-DO), Advanced Mobile Phone System (1st Generation) (AMPS (1G)), Total Access Communication System/Extended Total Access Communication System (TACS/ETACS), Digital AMPS (2nd Generation) (D-AMPS (2G)), Push-to-talk (PTT), Mobile Telephone System (MTS), Improved Mobile Telephone System (IMTS), Advanced Mobile Telephone System (AMTS), OLT (Norwegian for Offentlig Landmobil Telefoni, Public Land Mobile Telephony), MTD (Swedish abbreviation for Mobiltelefonisystem D, or Mobile telephony system D), Public Automated Land Mobile (Autotel/PALM), ARP (Finnish for Autoradiopuhelin, “car radio phone”), NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony), High capacity version of NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) (Hiicap), Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD), Mobitex, DataTAC, Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN), Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), Circuit Switched Data (CSD), Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), Wideband Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (WiDEN), iBurst, Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA), also referred to as also referred to as 3GPP Generic Access Network, or GAN standard), Zigbee, Bluetooth(r), Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig) standard, mmWave standards in general (wireless systems operating at 10-300 GHz and above such as WiGig, IEEE 802.11ad, IEEE 802.11ay, and the like), technologies operating above 300 GHz and THz bands, (3GPP/LTE based or IEEE 802.11p and other), Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-X (V2X), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I), and Infrastructure-to-Vehicle (I2V) communication technologies, 3GPP cellular V2X, DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communications) communication systems such as Intelligent-Transport-Systems and others. 
     LTE and LTE-Advanced are standards for wireless communications of high-speed data for user equipment (UE) such as mobile telephones. In LTE-Advanced and various wireless systems, carrier aggregation is a technology according to which multiple carrier signals operating on different frequencies may be used to carry communications for a single UE, thus increasing the bandwidth available to a single device. In some aspects, carrier aggregation may be used where one or more component carriers operate on unlicensed frequencies. 
     There are emerging interests in the operation of LTE systems in the unlicensed spectrum. As a result, an important enhancement for LTE in 3GPP Release 13 has been to enable its operation in the unlicensed spectrum via Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA), which expands the system bandwidth by utilizing the flexible carrier aggregation (CA) framework introduced by the LTE-Advanced system. Rel-13 LAA system focuses on the design of downlink operation on unlicensed spectrum via CA, while Rel-14 enhanced LAA (eLAA) system focuses on the design of uplink operation on unlicensed spectrum via CA. 
     Aspects described herein can be used in the context of any spectrum management scheme including, for example, dedicated licensed spectrum, unlicensed spectrum, (licensed) shared spectrum (such as Licensed Shared Access (LSA) in 2.3-2.4 GHz, 3.4-3.6 GHz, 3.6-3.8 GHz, and further frequencies and Spectrum Access System (SAS) in 3.55-3.7 GHz and further frequencies). Applicable exemplary spectrum bands include IMT (International Mobile Telecommunications) spectrum (including 450-470 MHz, 790-960 MHz, 1710-2025 MHz, 2110-2200 MHz, 2300-2400 MHz, 2500-2690 MHz, 698-790 MHz, 610-790 MHz, 3400-3600 MHz, to name a few), IMT-advanced spectrum, IMT-2020 spectrum (expected to include 3600-3800 MHz, 3.5 GHz bands, 700 MHz bands, bands within the 24.25-86 GHz range, for example), spectrum made available under the Federal Communications Commission&#39;s “Spectrum Frontier” 5G initiative (including 27.5-28.35 GHz, 29.1-29.25 GHz, 31-31.3 GHz, 37-38.6 GHz, 38.6-40 GHz, 42-42.5 GHz, 57-64 GHz, 71-76 GHz, 81-86 GHz and 92-94 GHz, etc), the ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) band of 5.9 GHz (typically 5.85-5.925 GHz) and 63-64 GHz, bands currently allocated to WiGig such as WiGig Band 1 (57.24-59.40 GHz), WiGig Band 2 (59.40-61.56 GHz), WiGig Band 3 (61.56-63.72 GHz), and WiGig Band 4 (63.72-65.88 GHz); the 70.2 GHz-71 GHz band; any band between 65.88 GHz and 71 GHz; bands currently allocated to automotive radar applications such as 76-81 GHz; and future bands including 94-300 GHz and above. Furthermore, the scheme can be used on a secondary basis on bands such as the TV White Space bands (typically below 790 MHz) where, in particular, the 400 MHz and 700 MHz bands can be employed. Besides cellular applications, specific applications for vertical markets may be addressed, such as PMSE (Program Making and Special Events), medical, health, surgery, automotive, low-latency, drones, and the like. 
     Aspects described herein can also be applied to different Single Carrier or OFDM flavors (CP-OFDM, SC-FDMA, SC-OFDM, filter bank-based multicarrier (FBMC), OFDMA, etc.) and in particular 3GPP NR (New Radio) by allocating the OFDM carrier data bit vectors to the corresponding symbol resources. 
     In some aspects, any of the UEs  101  and  102  can comprise an Internet-of-Things (IoT) LE or a Cellular IoT (CIoT) UE, which can comprise a network access layer designed for low-power IoT applications utilizing short-lived UE connections. In some aspects, any of the UEs  101  and  102  can include a narrowband (NB) IoT UE (e.g., such as an enhanced NB-IoT (eNB-IoT) UE and Further Enhanced (FeNB-IoT) UE). An IoT UE can utilize technologies such as machine-to-machine (M2M) or machine-type communications (MTC) for exchanging data with an MTC server or device via a public land mobile network (PLMN), Proximity-Based Service (ProSe) or device-to-device (D2D) communication, sensor networks, or IoT networks. The M2M or MTC exchange of data may be a machine-initiated exchange of data. An IoT network includes interconnecting IoT UEs, which may include uniquely identifiable embedded computing devices (within the Internet infrastructure), with short-lived connections. The IoT UEs may execute background applications (e.g., keep-alive messages, status updates, etc.) to facilitate the connections of the IoT network. 
     In some aspects, NB-IoT devices can be configured to operate in a single physical resource block (PRB) and may be instructed to retune two different PRBs within the system bandwidth. In some aspects, an eNB-IoT UE can be configured to acquire system information in one PRB, and then it can retune to a different PRB to receive or transmit data. 
     In some aspects, any of the UEs  101  and  102  can include enhanced MTC (eMTC) UEs or further enhanced MTC (FeMTC) UEs. 
     The UEs  101  and  102  may be configured to connect, e.g., communicatively couple, with a radio access network (RAN)  110 . The RAN  110  may be, for example, an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN), a NextGen RAN (NG RAN), or some other type of RAN. The UEs  101  and  102  utilize connections  103  and  104 , respectively, each of which comprises a physical communications interface or layer (discussed in further detail below); in this example, the connections  103  and  104  are illustrated as an air interface to enable communicative coupling, and can be consistent with cellular communications protocols, such as a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) protocol, a code-division multiple access (CDMA) network protocol, a Push-to-Talk (PTT) protocol, a PTT over Cellular (POC) protocol, a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) protocol, a 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) protocol, a fifth generation (5G) protocol, a New Radio (NR) protocol, and the like. 
     In some aspects, the network  140 A can include a core network (CN)  120 . Various aspects of NG RAN and NG Core are discussed herein in reference to, e.g.,  FIG. 1B ,  FIG. 1C ,  FIG. 1D ,  FIG. 1E ,  FIG. 1F , and  FIG. 1G . 
     In an aspect, the UEs  101  and  102  may further directly exchange communication data via a ProSe interface  105 . The ProSe interface  105  may alternatively be referred to as a sidelink interface comprising one or more logical channels, including but not limited to a Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH), a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH), a Physical Sidelink Discovery Channel (PSDCH), and a Physical Sidelink Broadcast Channel (PSBCH). 
     The LE  102  is shown to be configured to access an access point (AP)  106  via connection  107 . The connection  107  can comprise a local wireless connection, such as, for example, a connection consistent with any IEEE 802.11 protocol, according to which the AP  106  can comprise a wireless fidelity (WiFi®) router. In this example, the AP  106  is shown to be connected to the Internet without connecting to the core network of the wireless system (described in further detail below). 
     The RAN  110  can include one or more access nodes that enable the connections  103  and  104 . These access nodes (ANs) can be referred to as base stations (BSs), NodeBs, evolved NodeBs (eNBs), Next Generation NodeBs (gNBs), RAN nodes, and the like, and can comprise ground stations (e.g., terrestrial access points) or satellite stations providing coverage within a geographic area (e.g., a cell). In some aspects, the communication nodes  111  and  112  can be transmission/reception points (TRPs). In instances when the communication nodes  111  and  112  are NodeBs (e.g., eNBs or gNBs), one or more TRPs can function within the communication cell of the NodeBs. The RAN  110  may include one or more RAN nodes for providing macrocells, e.g., macro RAN node  111 , and one or more RAN nodes for providing femtocells or picocells (e.g., cells having smaller coverage areas, smaller user capacity, or higher bandwidth compared to macrocells), e.g., low power (LP) RAN node  112 . 
     Any of the RAN nodes  111  and  112  can terminate the air interface protocol and can be the first point of contact for the UEs  101  and  102 . In some aspects, any of the RAN nodes  111  and  112  can fulfill various logical functions for the RAN  110  including, but not limited to, radio network controller (RNC) functions such as radio bearer management, uplink and downlink dynamic radio resource management and data packet scheduling, and mobility management. In an example, any of the nodes  111  and/or  112  can be a new generation node-B (gNB), an evolved node-B (eNB), or another type of RAN node. 
     In accordance with some aspects, the UEs  101  and  102  can be configured to communicate using Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication signals with each other or with any of the RAN nodes  111  and  112  over a multicarrier communication channel in accordance various communication techniques, such as, but not limited to, an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication technique (e.g., for downlink communications) or a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) communication technique (e.g., for uplink and ProSe for sidelink communications), although such aspects are not required. The OFDM signals can comprise a plurality of orthogonal subcarriers. 
     In some aspects, a downlink resource grid can be used for downlink transmissions from any of the RAN nodes  111  and  112  to the UEs  101  and  102 , while uplink transmissions can utilize similar techniques. The grid can be a time-frequency grid, called a resource grid or time-frequency resource grid, which is the physical resource in the downlink in each slot. Such a time-frequency plane representation may be used for OFDM systems, which makes it applicable for radio resource allocation. Each column and each row of the resource grid may correspond to one OFDM symbol and one OFDM subcarrier, respectively. The duration of the resource grid in the time domain may correspond to one slot in a radio frame. The smallest time-frequency unit in a resource grid may be denoted as a resource element. Each resource grid may comprise a number of resource blocks, which describe the mapping of certain physical channels to resource elements. Each resource block may comprise a collection of resource elements; in the frequency domain, this may, in some aspects, represent the smallest quantity of resources that currently can be allocated. There may be several different physical downlink channels that are conveyed using such resource blocks. 
     The physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) may carry user data and higher-layer signaling to the UEs  101  and  102 . The physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) may carry information about the transport format and resource allocations related to the PDSCH channel, among other things. It may also inform the UEs  101  and  102  about the transport format, resource allocation, and H-ARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) information related to the uplink shared channel. Typically, downlink scheduling (assigning control and shared channel resource blocks to the UE  102  within a cell) may be performed at any of the RAN nodes  111  and  112  based on channel quality information fed back from any of the UEs  101  and  102 . The downlink resource assignment information may be sent on the PDCCH used for (e.g., assigned to) each of the UEs  101  and  102 . 
     The PDCCH may use control channel elements (CCEs) to convey the control information. Before being mapped to resource elements, the PDCCH complex-valued symbols may first be organized into quadruplets, which may then be permuted using a sub-block interleaver for rate matching. Each PDCCH may be transmitted using one or more of these CCEs, where each CCE may correspond to nine sets of four physical resource elements known as resource element groups (REGs). Four Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) symbols may be mapped to each REG. The PDCCH can be transmitted using one or more CCEs, depending on the size of the downlink control information (DCI) and the channel condition. There can be four or more different PDCCH formats defined in LTE with different numbers of CCEs (e.g., aggregation level, L=1, 2, 4, or 8). 
     Some aspects may use concepts for resource allocation for control channel information that are an extension of the above-described concepts. For example, some aspects may utilize an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) that uses PDSCH resources for control information transmission. The EPDCCH may be transmitted using one or more enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs). Similar to above, each ECCE may correspond to nine sets of four physical resource elements known as an enhanced resource element groups (EREGs). An ECCE may have other numbers of EREGs according to some arrangements. 
     The RAN  110  is shown to be communicatively coupled to a core network (CN)  120  via an S1 interface  113 . In aspects, the CN  120  may be an evolved packet core (EPC) network, a NextGen Packet Core (NIPC) network, or some other type of CN (e.g., as illustrated in reference to  FIGS. 1B-1I ). In this aspect, the S1 interface  113  is split into two parts: the S1-U interface  114 , which carries traffic data between the RAN nodes  111  and  112  and the serving gateway (S-GW)  122 , and the S1-mobility management entity (MME) interface  115 , which is a signaling interface between the RAN nodes  111  and  112  and MMEs  121 . 
     In this aspect, the CN  120  comprises the MMEs  121 , the S-GW  122 , the Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway (P-GW)  123 , and a home subscriber server (HSS)  124 . The MMEs  121  may be similar in function to the control plane of legacy Serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Support Nodes (SGSN). The MMEs  121  may manage mobility aspects in access such as gateway selection and tracking area list management. The HSS  124  may comprise a database for network users, including subscription-related information to support the network entities&#39; handling of communication sessions. The CN  120  may comprise one or several HSSs  124 , depending on the number of mobile subscribers, on the capacity of the equipment, on the organization of the network, etc. For example, the HSS  124  can provide support for routing/roaming, authentication, authorization, naming/addressing resolution, location dependencies, etc. 
     The S-GW  122  may terminate the S1 interface  113  towards the RAN  110 , and routes data packets between the RAN  110  and the CN  120 . In addition, the S-GW  122  may be a local mobility anchor point for inter-RAN node handovers and also may provide an anchor for inter-3GPP mobility. Other responsibilities of the S-GW  122  may include lawful intercept, charging, and some policy enforcement. 
     The P-GW  123  may terminate an SGi interface toward a PDN. The P-GW  123  may route data packets between the EPC network  120  and external networks such as a network including the application server  184  (alternatively referred to as application function (AF)) via an Internet Protocol (IP) interface  125 . The P-GW  123  can also communicate data to other external networks  131 A, which can include the Internet, IP multimedia subsystem (IPS) network, and other networks. Generally, the application server  184  may be an element offering applications that use IP bearer resources with the core network (e.g., UMTS Packet Services (PS) domain, LTE PS data services, etc.). In this aspect, the P-GW  123  is shown to be communicatively coupled to an application server  184  via an IP interface  125 . The application server  184  can also be configured to support one or more communication services (e.g., Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) sessions, PTT sessions, group communication sessions, social networking services, etc.) for the UEs  101  and  102  via the CN  120 . 
     The P-GW  123  may further be a node for policy enforcement and charging data collection. Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF)  126  is the policy and charging control element of the CN  120 . In a non-roaming scenario, in some aspects, there may be a single PCRF in the Home Public Land Mobile Network (HPLMN) associated with a UE&#39;s Internet Protocol Connectivity Access Network (P-CAN) session. In a roaming scenario with a local breakout of traffic, there may be two PCRFs associated with a UE&#39;s IP-CAN session: a Home PCRF (H-PCRF) within an HPLMN and a Visited PCRF (V-PCRF) within a Visited Public Land Mobile Network (VPLMN). The PCRF  126  may be communicatively coupled to the application server  184  via the P-GW  123 . The application server  184  may signal the PCRF  126  to indicate a new service flow and select the appropriate Quality of Service (QoS) and charging parameters. The PCRF  126  may provision this rule into a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) (not shown) with the appropriate traffic flow template (TFT) and QoS class of identifier (QCI), which commences the QoS and charging as specified by the application server  184 . 
     In an example, any of the nodes  111  or  112  can be configured to communicate to the UEs  101 ,  102  (e.g., dynamically) an antenna panel selection and a receive (Rx) beam selection that can be used by the UE for data reception on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) as well as for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) measurements and channel state information (CSI) calculation. 
     In an example, any of the nodes  111  or  112  can be configured to communicate to the UEs  101 ,  102  (e.g., dynamically) an antenna panel selection and a transmit (Tx) beam selection that can be used by the UE for data transmission on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) as well as for sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission. 
     In some aspects, the communication network  140 A can be an IoT network. One of the current enablers of IoT is the narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT). NB-IoT has objectives such as coverage extension, UE complexity reduction, long battery lifetime, and backward compatibility with the LTE network. In addition, NB-IoT aims to offer deployment flexibility allowing an operator to introduce NB-IoT using a small portion of its existing available spectrum, and operate in one of the following three modalities: (a) standalone deployment (the network operates in re-farmed GSM spectrum); (b) in-band deployment (the network operates within the LTE channel); and (c) guard-band deployment (the network operates in the guard band of legacy LTE channels). In some aspects, such as with further enhanced NB-IoT (FeNB-IoT), support for NB-IoT in small cells can be provided (e.g., in microcell, picocell or femtocell deployments). One of the challenges NB-IoT systems face for small cell support is the UL/DL link imbalance, where for small cells the base stations have lower power available compared to macro-cells, and, consequently, the DL coverage can be affected and/or reduced. In addition, some NB-IoT UEs can be configured to transmit at maximum power if repetitions are used for UL transmission. This may result in large inter-cell interference in dense small cell deployments. 
     In some aspects, the UE  101  can receive configuration information  190 A for beam reporting via, e.g., higher layer signaling or other types of signaling. The configuration information  190 A can include downlink control information (DCI). The DCI can activate reporting of beam emissions or panel information (also referred to as emission/panel information)  192 A to the gNB  111  as discussed herein. After receiving such information, the gNB  111  can communicate beam indication to the UE  101 , based on the received emission/panel information  192 A. The beam indication can indicate an uplink or downlink beam for transmitting or receiving by the UE of uplink or downlink data. 
       FIG. 1B  is a simplified diagram of a next generation (NG) system architecture  140 B in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 1B , the NG system architecture  140 B includes RAN  110  and a 5G network core (5GC)  120 . The NG-RAN  110  can include a plurality of nodes, such as gNBs  128  and NG-eNBs  130 . The gNBs  128  and the NG-eNBs  130  can be communicatively coupled to the UE  102  via, e.g., an N1 interface. 
     The core network  120  (e.g., a 5G core network or 5GC) can include an access and mobility management function (AMF)  132  and/or a user plane function (UPF)  134 . The AMF  132  and the UPF  134  can be communicatively coupled to the gNBs  128  and the NC-eNBs  130  via NG interfaces. More specifically, in some aspects, the gNBs  128  and the NG-eNBs  130  can be connected to the AMF  132  by NG-C interfaces, and to the UPF  134  by NG-U interfaces. The gNBs  128  and the NG-eNBs  130  can be coupled to each other via Xn interfaces. 
     In some aspects, a gNB  128  can include a node providing new radio (NR) user plane and control plane protocol termination towards the UE and is connected via the NG interface to the 5GC  120 . In some aspects, an NG-eNB  130  can include a node providing evolved universal terrestrial radio access (E-UTRA) user plane and control plane protocol terminations towards the UE and is connected via the NG interface to the 5GC  120 . 
     In some aspects, each of the gNBs  128  and the NG-eNBs  130  can be implemented as a base station, a mobile edge server, a small cell, a home eNB, and so forth. 
       FIG. 1C  illustrates an example MulteFire Neutral Host Network (NHN) 5G architecture  140 C in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 1C , the MulteFire 5G architecture  140 C can include the UE  102 , NG-RAN  110 , and the core network  120 . The NG-RAN  110  can be a MulteFire NG-RAN (MF NG-RAN), and the core network  120  can be a MulteFire 5G neutral host network (NHN). 
     In some aspects, the MF NIN  120  can include a neutral host AMF (NH AMF)  132 , an NH SMF  136 , an NH UPF  134 , and a local AAA proxy  151 C. The AAA proxy  151 C can provide a connection to a 3GPP AAA server  155 C and a participating service provider AAA (PSP AAA) server  153 C. The NH-UPF  134  can provide a connection to a data network  157 C. 
     The MF NG-RAN  120  can provide similar functionalities as an NG-RAN operating under a 3GPP specification. The NH-AMF  132  can be configured to provide similar functionality as an AMF in a 3GPP 5G core network (e.g., as described in reference to  FIG. 1D ). The NH-SMF  136  can be configured to provide similar functionality as an SMF in a 3GPP 5G core network (e.g., as described in reference to  FIG. 1D ). The NH-UPF  134  can be configured to provide similar functionality as a UPF in a 3GPP 5G core network (e.g., as described in reference to  FIG. 1D ). 
       FIG. 1D  illustrates a functional split between NG-RAN and the 5G Core (5GC) in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 1D , there is illustrated a more detailed diagram of the functionalities that can be performed by the gNBs  128  and the NG-eNBs  130  within the NG-RAN  110 , as well as the AMF  132 , the UPF  134 , and the SMF  136  within the 5GC  120 . In some aspects, the 5GC  120  can provide access to the Internet  138  to one or more devices via the NG-RAN  110 . 
     In some aspects, the gNBs  128  and the NG-eNBs  130  can be configured to host the following functions: functions for Radio Resource Management (e.g., inter-cell radio resource management  129 A, radio bearer control  129 B, connection mobility control  129 C, radio admission control  129 D, dynamic allocation of resources to UEs in both uplink and downlink (scheduling)  129 F); IP header compression, encryption and integrity protection of data; selection of an AMF at UE attachment when no routing to an AMF can be determined from the information provided by the UE; routing of User Plane data towards UPF(s); routing of Control Plane information towards AMF; connection setup and release; scheduling and transmission of paging messages (originated from the AMF); scheduling and transmission of system broadcast information (originated from the AMF or Operation and Maintenance); measurement and measurement reporting configuration for mobility and scheduling  129 E; transport level packet marking in the uplink; session management; support of network slicing; QoS flow management and mapping to data radio bearers; support of UEs in RRC_INACTIVE state; distribution function for non-access stratum (NAS) messages; radio access network sharing; dual connectivity; and tight interworking between NR and E-UTRA, to name a few. 
     In some aspects, the AMF  132  can be configured to host the following functions, for example: NAS signaling termination; NAS signaling security  133 A; access stratum (AS) security control; inter-core network (CN) node signaling for mobility between 3GPP access networks; idle state/mode mobility handling  133 B, including mobile device, such as a UE reachability (e.g., control and execution of paging retransmission); registration area management; support of intra-system and inter-system mobility; access authentication; access authorization including check of roaming rights; mobility management control (subscription and policies); support of network slicing; and/or SMF selection, among other functions. 
     The UPF  134  can be configured to host the following functions, for example: mobility anchoring  135 A (e.g., anchor point for Intra-/Inter-RAT mobility); packet data unit (PDU) handling  135 B (e.g., external PDU session point of interconnect to data network); packet routing and forwarding; packet inspection and user plane part of policy rule enforcement; traffic usage reporting; uplink classifier to support routing traffic flows to a data network; branching point to support multi-homed PDU session; QoS handling for user plane, e.g., packet filtering, gating, UL/DL rate enforcement; uplink traffic verification (SDF to QoS flow mapping); and/or downlink packet buffering and downlink data notification triggering, among other functions. 
     The Session Management function (SMF)  136  can be configured to host the following functions, for example: session management; UE IP address allocation and management  137 A; selection and control of user plane function (UPF); PDU session control  137 B, including configuring traffic steering at UPF  134  to route traffic to proper destination; control part of policy enforcement and QoS; and/or downlink data notification, among other functions. 
       FIG. 1E  and  FIG. 1F  illustrate a non-roaming 5G system architecture in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 1E , there is illustrated a 5G system architecture  140 E in a reference point representation. More specifically, LIE  102  can be in communication with RAN  110  as well as one or more other 5G core (5GC) network entities. The 5G system architecture  140 E includes a plurality of network functions (NFs), such as access and mobility management function (AMF)  132 , session management function (SMF)  136 , policy control function (PCF)  148 , application function (AF)  150 , user plane function (UPF)  134 , network slice selection function (NSSF)  142 , authentication server function (AUSF)  144 , and unified data management (UDM)/home subscriber server (HSS)  146 . The UPF  134  can provide a connection to a data network (DN)  152 , which can include, for example, operator services, Internet access, or third-party services. The AMF can be used to manage access control and mobility, and can also include network slice selection functionality. The SMF can be configured to set up and manage various sessions according to network policy. The UPF can be deployed in one or more configurations according to the desired service type. The PCF can be configured to provide a policy framework using network slicing, mobility management, and roaming (similar to PCRF in a 4G communication system). The UDM can be configured to store subscriber profiles and data (similar to an HSS in a 4G communication system). 
     In some aspects, the 5G system architecture  140 E includes an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS)  168 E as well as a plurality of IP multimedia core network subsystem entities, such as call session control functions (CSCFs). More specifically, the IMS  168 E includes a CSCF, which can act as a proxy CSCF (P-CSCF)  162 E, a serving CSCF (S-CSCF)  164 E, an emergency CSCF (E-CSCF) (not illustrated in  FIG. 1E ), and/or interrogating CSCF (I-CSCF)  166 E. The P-CSCF  162 E can be configured to be the first contact point for the UE  102  within the IM subsystem (IMS)  168 E. The S-CSCF  164 E can be configured to handle the session states in the network, and the E-CSCF can be configured to handle certain aspects of emergency sessions such as routing an emergency request to the correct emergency center or PSAP. The I-CSCF  166 E can be configured to function as the contact point within an operator&#39;s network for all IMS connections destined to a subscriber of that network operator, or a roaming subscriber currently located within that network operator&#39;s service area. In some aspects, the I-CSCF  166 E can be connected to another IP multimedia network  170 E, e.g. an IMS operated by a different network operator. 
     In some aspects, the UDM/HSS  146  can be coupled to an application server  160 E, which can include a telephony application server (TAS) or another application server (AS). The AS  160 E can be coupled to the IMS  168 E via the S-CSCF  164 E and/or the I-CSCF  166 E. 
     In some aspects, the 5G system architecture  140 E can use unified access barring mechanism using one or more of the techniques described herein, which access barring mechanism can be applicable for all RRC states of the UE  102 , such as RRC_IDLE, RRC_CONNECTED, and RRC_INACTIVE states. 
     In some aspects, the 5G system architecture  140 E can be configured to use 5G access control mechanism techniques described herein, based on access categories that can be categorized by a minimum default set of access categories, which are common across all networks. This functionality can allow the public land mobile network PLMN, such as a visited PLMN (VPLMN) to protect the network against different types of registration attempts, enable acceptable service for the roaming subscriber and enable the VPLMN to control access attempts aiming at receiving certain basic services. It also provides more options and flexibility to individual operators by providing a set of access categories, which can be configured and used in operator-specific ways. 
     Referring to  FIG. 1F , there is illustrated a 5G system architecture  140 F and a service-based representation. System architecture  140 F can be substantially similar to (or the same as) system architecture  140 E. In addition to the network entities illustrated in  FIG. 1E , system architecture  140 F can also include a network exposure function (NEF)  154  and a network repository function (NRF)  156 . 
     In some aspects, 5G system architectures can be service-based and interaction between network functions can be represented by corresponding point-to-point reference points Ni (as illustrated in  FIG. 1E ) or as service-based interfaces (as illustrated in  FIG. 1F ). 
     A reference point representation shows that interaction can exist between corresponding NF services. For example,  FIG. 1E  illustrates the following reference points: N1 (between the UE  102  and the AMF  132 ), N2 (between the RAN  110  and the AMF  132 ), N3 (between the RAN  110  and the UPF  134 ), N4 (between the SMF  136  and the UPF  134 ), N5 (between the PCF  148  and the AF  150 ), N6 (between the UPF  134  and the DN  152 ), N7 (between the SMF  136  and the PCF  148 ), N8 (between the UDM  146  and the AMF  132 ), N9 (between two UPFs  134 ), N10 (between the UDM  146  and the SMF  136 ), N11 (between the AMF  132  and the SMF  136 ), N12 (between the AUSF  144  and the AMF  132 ), N13 (between the AUSF  144  and the UDM  146 ), N14 (between two AMFs  132 ), N15 (between the PCF  148  and the AMF  132  in case of a non-roaming scenario, or between the PCF  148  and a visited network and AMF  132  in case of a roaming scenario), N16 (between two SMFs; not illustrated in  FIG. 1E ), and N22 (between AMF  132  and NSSF  142 ). Other reference point representations not shown in  FIG. 1E  can also be used. 
     In some aspects, as illustrated in  FIG. 1F , service-based representations can be used to represent network functions within the control plane that enable other authorized network functions to access their services. In this regard, 5G system architecture  140 F can include the following service-based interfaces: Namf  158 H (a service-based interface exhibited by the AMF  132 ), Nsmf  1581  (a service-based interface exhibited by the SMF  136 ), Nnef  158 B (a service-based interface exhibited by the NEF  154 ), Npcf  158 D (a service-based interface exhibited by the PCF  148 ), a Nudm  158 E (a service-based interface exhibited by the UDM  146 ), Naf  158 F (a service-based interface exhibited by the AF  150 ), Nnrf  158 C (a service-based interface exhibited by the NRF  156 ), Nnssf  158 A (a service-based interface exhibited by the NSSF  142 ), Nausf  158 G (a service-based interface exhibited by the AUSF  144 ). Other service-based interfaces (e.g., Nudr, N5g-eir, and Nudsf) not shown in  FIG. 1F  can also be used. 
       FIG. 1G  illustrates an example of CIoT network architecture in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 1G , the CIoT architecture  140 G can include the UE  102  and the RAN  110  coupled to a plurality of core network entities. In some aspects, the UE  102  can be machine-type communication (MTC) UE. The CIoT network architecture  140 G can further include a mobile services switching center (MSC)  160 , MME  121 , a serving GPRS support node (SGSN)  162 , a S-GW  122 , an IP-Short-Message-Gateway (IP-SM-GW)  164 , a Short Message Service Service Center (SMS-SC)/gateway mobile service center (GMSC)/Interworking MSC (IWMSC)  166 , MTC interworking function (MTC-IWF)  170 , a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF)  172 , a gateway GPRS support node (GGSN)/Packet-GW (P-GW)  174 , a charging data function (CDF)/charging gateway function (CGF)  176 , a home subscriber server (HSS)/a home location register (HLR)  177 , short message entities (SME)  168 , MTC authorization, authentication, and accounting (MTC AAA) server  178 , a service capability server (SCS)  180 , and application servers (AS)  182  and  184 . 
     In some aspects, the SCEF  172  can be configured to securely expose services and capabilities provided by various 3GPP network interfaces. The SCEF  172  can also provide means for the discovery of the exposed services and capabilities, as well as access to network capabilities through various network application programming interfaces (e.g., API interfaces to the SCS  180 ). 
       FIG. 1G  further illustrates various reference points between different servers, functions, or communication nodes of the CIoT network architecture  140 G. Some example reference points related to MTC-IWF  170  and SCEF  172  include the following: Tsms (a reference point used by an entity outside the 3GPP network to communicate with UEs used for MTC via SMS), Tsp (a reference point used by a SCS to communicate with the MTC-IWF related control plane signaling), T4 (a reference point used between MTC-IWF  170  and the SMS-SC  166  in the HPLMN), T6a (a reference point used between SCEF  172  and serving MME  121 ), T6b (a reference point used between SCEF  172  and serving SGSN  162 ), T8 (a reference point used between the SCEF  172  and the SCS/AS  180 / 182 ), S6m (a reference point used by MTC-IWF  170  to interrogate HSS/HLR  177 ), S6n (a reference point used by MTC-AAA server  178  to interrogate HSS/HLR  177 ), and S6t (a reference point used between SCEF  172  and HSS/HLR  177 ). 
     In some aspects, the CIoT UE  102  can be configured to communicate with one or more entities within the CIoT architecture  140 G via the RAN  110  according to a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) protocol, and using one or more reference points, such as a narrowband air interface, for example, based on one or more communication technologies, such as Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology. As used herein, the term “CIoT UE” refers to a UE capable of CIoT optimizations, as part of a CIoT communications architecture. 
     In some aspects, the NAS protocol can support a set of NAS messages for communication between the CIoT UE  102  and an Evolved Packet System (EPS) Mobile Management Entity (MME)  121  and SGSN  162 . 
     In some aspects, the CIoT network architecture  140 F can include a packet data network, an operator network, or a cloud service network, having, for example, among other things, a Service Capability Server (SCS)  180 , an Application Server (AS)  182 , or one or more other external servers or network components. 
     The RAN  110  can be coupled to the HSS/HLR servers  177  and the AAA servers  178  using one or more reference points including, for example, an air interface based on an S6a reference point, and configured to authenticate/authorize CIoT UE  102  to access the CIoT network. The RAN  110  can be coupled to the CIoT network architecture  140 G using one or more other reference points including, for example, an air interface corresponding to an SGi/Gi interface for 3GPP accesses. The RAN  110  can be coupled to the SCEF  172  using, for example, an air interface based on a T6a/T6b reference point, for service capability exposure. In some aspects, the SCEF  172  may act as an API GW towards a third-party application server such as AS  182 . The SCEF  172  can be coupled to the HSS/HLR  177  and MTC AAA  178  servers using an S6t reference point, and can further expose an Application Programming Interface to network capabilities. 
     In certain examples, one or more of the CIoT devices disclosed herein, such as the CIoT UE  102 , the CIoT RAN  110 , etc., can include one or more other non-CIoT devices, or non-CIoT devices acting as CIoT devices, or having functions of a CIoT device. For example, the CIoT UE  102  can include a smartphone, a tablet computer, or one or more other electronic device acting as a CIoT device for a specific function, while having other additional functionality. 
     In some aspects, the RAN  110  can include a CIoT enhanced Node B (CIoT eNB)  111  communicatively coupled to the CIoT Access Network Gateway (CIoT GW)  195 . In certain examples, the RAN  110  can include multiple base stations (e.g., CIoT eNBs) connected to the CIoT GW  195 , which can include MSC  160 , MME  121 , SGSN  162 , and/or S-GW  122 . In certain examples, the internal architecture of RAN  110  and CIoT GW  195  may be left to the implementation and need not be standardized. 
     As used herein, the term “circuitry” may refer to, be part of, or include an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) or other special purpose circuit, an electronic circuit, a processor (shared, dedicated, or group), or memory (shared, dedicated, or group) executing one or more software or firmware programs, a combinational logic circuit, or other suitable hardware components that provide the described functionality. In some aspects, the circuitry may be implemented in, or functions associated with the circuitry may be implemented by, one or more software or firmware modules. In some aspects, the circuitry may include logic, at least partially operable in hardware. In some aspects, circuitry, as well as modules disclosed herein, may be implemented in combinations of hardware, software and/or firmware. In some aspects, functionality associated with a circuitry can be distributed across more than one piece of hardware or software/firmware module. In some aspects, modules (as disclosed herein) may include logic, at least partially operable in hardware. Aspects described herein may be implemented into a system using any suitably configured hardware or software. 
       FIG. 1H  illustrates an example of a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF) in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 1H , the SCEF  172  can be configured to expose services and capabilities provided by 3GPP network interfaces to external third-party service provider servers hosting various applications. In some aspects, a 3GPP network such as the CIoT architecture  140 G, can expose the following services and capabilities: a home subscriber server (HSS)  1161 H, a policy and charging rules function (PCRF)  118 H, a packet flow description function (PFDF)  120 H, a MME/SGSN  122 H, a broadcast multicast service center (BM-SC)  124 H, a serving call server control function (S-CSCF)  126 H, a RAN congestion awareness function (RCAF)  128 H, and one or more other network entities  130 H. The above-mentioned services and capabilities of a 3GPP network can communicate with the SCEF  172  via one or more interfaces as illustrated in  FIG. 1H . 
     The SCEF  172  can be configured to expose the 3GPP network services and capabilities to one or more applications running on one or more service capability server (SCS)/application server (AS), such as SCS/AS  102 H,  104 H, . . . ,  106 H. Each of the SCS/AG  102 H- 106 H can communicate with the SCEF  172  via application programming interfaces (APIs)  108 H,  110 H,  112 H, . . . ,  114 H, as seen in  FIG. 1H . 
       FIG. 1I  illustrates an example of roaming architecture for SCEF in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 11I , the SCEF  172  can be located in HPLMN  110 I and can be configured to expose 3GPP network services and capabilities, such as  102 I, . . . ,  104 I. In some aspects, 3GPP network services and capabilities, such as  106 I, . . . ,  108 I, can be located within VPLMN  112 I. In this case, the 3GPP network services and capabilities within the VPLMN  112 I can be exposed to the SCEF  172  via an interworking SCEF (IWK-SCEF)  197  within the VPLMN  112 I. 
       FIG. 1J  illustrates an example Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) New Radio Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) architecture in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 1G , the EN-DC architecture  140 J includes radio access network (or E-TRA network, or E-TRAN)  110  and EPC  120 . The EPC  120  can include MMEs  121  and S-GWs  122 . The E-UTRAN  110  can include nodes  111  (e.g., eNBs) as well as Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access New Radio (EN) next generation evolved Node-Bs (en-gNBs)  128 . 
     In some aspects, en-gNBs  128  can be configured to provide NR user plane and control plane protocol terminations towards the UE  102  and acting as Secondary Nodes (or SgNBs) in the EN-DC communication architecture  140 J. The eNBs  111  can be configured as master nodes (or MeNBs) in the EN-DC communication architecture  140 J. as illustrated in  FIG. 1J , the eNBs  111  are connected to the EPC  120  via the S1 interface and to the EN-gNBs  128  via the X2 interface. The EN-gNBs  128  may be connected to the EPC  120  via the S1-U interface, and to other EN-gNBs via the X2-U interface. 
       FIG. 2  illustrates example components of a device  200  in accordance with some aspects. In some aspects, the device  200  may include application circuitry  202 , baseband circuitry  204 , Radio Frequency (RF) circuitry  206 , front-end module (FEM) circuitry  208 , one or more antennas  210 , and power management circuitry (PMC)  212  coupled together at least as shown. The components of the illustrated device  200  may be included in a UE or a RAN node. In some aspects, the device  200  may include fewer elements (e.g., a RAN node may not utilize application circuitry  202 , and instead include a processor/controller to process IP data received from an EPC). In some aspects, the device  200  may include additional elements such as, for example, memory/storage, display, camera, sensor, and/or input/output (I/O) interface elements. In other aspects, the components described below may be included in more than one device (e.g., said circuitries may be separately included in more than one device for Cloud-RAN (C-RAN) implementations). 
     The application circuitry  202  may include one or more application processors. For example, the application circuitry  202  may include circuitry such as, but not limited to, one or more single-core or multi-core processors. The processor(s) may include any combination of general-purpose processors, special-purpose processors, and dedicated processors (e.g., graphics processors, application processors, etc.). The processors may be coupled with, and/or may include, memory/storage and may be configured to execute instructions stored in the memory/storage to enable various applications or operating systems to run on the device  200 . In some aspects, processors of application circuitry  202  may process IP data packets received from an EPC. 
     The baseband circuitry  204  may include circuitry such as, but not limited to, one or more single-core or multi-core processors. The baseband circuitry  204  may include one or more baseband processors or control logic to process baseband signals received from a receive signal path of the RF circuitry  206  and to generate baseband signals for a transmit signal path of the RF circuitry  206 . Baseband processing circuitry  204  may interface with the application circuitry  202  for generation and processing of the baseband signals and for controlling operations of the RF circuitry  206 . For example, in some aspects, the baseband circuitry  204  may include a third-generation (3G) baseband processor  204 A, a fourth generation (4G) baseband processor  204 B, a fifth generation (5G) baseband processor  204 C, or other baseband processor(s)  204 D for other existing generations, generations in development or to be developed in the future (e.g., second generation (2G), sixth-generation (6G), etc.). The baseband circuitry  204  (e.g., one or more of baseband processors  204 A-D) may handle various radio control functions that enable communication with one or more radio networks via the RF circuitry  206 . In other aspects, some or all of the functionality of baseband processors  204 A-D may be included in modules stored in the memory  204 G and executed via a Central Processing Unit (CPU)  204 E. The radio control functions may include but are not limited to, signal modulation/demodulation, encoding/decoding, radio frequency shifting, etc. In some aspects, modulation/demodulation circuitry of the baseband circuitry  204  may include Fast-Fourier Transform (FFT), precoding, or constellation mapping/de-mapping functionality. In some aspects, encoding/decoding circuitry of the baseband circuitry  204  may include convolution, tail-biting convolution, turbo, Viterbi, or Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder/decoder functionality. Aspects of modulation/demodulation and encoder/decoder functionality are not limited to these examples and may include other suitable functionality in other aspects. 
     In some aspects, the baseband circuitry  204  may include one or more audio digital signal processor(s) (DSP)  204 F. The audio DSP(s)  204 F may include elements for compression/decompression and echo cancellation and may include other suitable processing elements in other aspects. Components of the baseband circuitry  204  may be suitably combined in a single chip, a single chipset, or disposed on the same circuit board in some aspects. In some aspects, some or all of the constituent components of the baseband circuitry  204  and the application circuitry  202  may be implemented together such as, for example, on a system on a chip (SOC). 
     In some aspects, the baseband circuitry  204  may provide for communication compatible with one or more radio technologies. For example, in some aspects, the baseband circuitry  204  may support communication with an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (EUTRAN) or other wireless metropolitan area networks (WMAN), a wireless local area network (WLAN), and/or a wireless personal area network (WPAN). Baseband circuitry  204  configured to support radio communications of more than one wireless protocol may be referred to as multi-mode baseband circuitry, in some aspects. 
     RF circuitry  206  may enable communication with wireless networks using modulated electromagnetic radiation through a non-solid medium. In various aspects, the RF circuitry  206  may include switches, filters, amplifiers, etc. to facilitate communication with the wireless network. RF circuitry  206  may include a receive signal path which may include circuitry to down-convert RF signals received from the FEM circuitry  208  and provide baseband signals to the baseband circuitry  204 . RF circuitry  206  may also include a transmit signal path which may include circuitry to up-convert baseband signals provided by the baseband circuitry  204  and provide RF output signals to the FEM circuitry  208  for transmission. 
     In some aspects, the receive signal path of the RF circuitry  206  may include a mixer  206 A, an amplifier  206 B, and a filter  206 C. In some aspects, the transmit signal path of the RF circuitry  206  may include a filter  206 C and a mixer  206 A. RF circuitry  206  may also include a synthesizer  206 D for synthesizing a frequency for use by the mixer  206 A of the receive signal path and the transmit signal path. In some aspects, the mixer  206 A of the receive signal path may be configured to down-convert RF signals received from the FEM circuitry  208  based on the synthesized frequency provided by synthesizer  206 D. The amplifier  206 B may be configured to amplify the down-converted signals and the filter  206 C may be a low-pass filter (LPF) or band-pass filter (BPF) configured to remove unwanted signals from the down-converted signals to generate output baseband signals. Output baseband signals may be provided to the baseband circuitry  204  for further processing. In some aspects, the output baseband signals may optionally be zero-frequency baseband signals. In some aspects, mixer  206 A of the receive signal path may comprise passive mixers. 
     In some aspects, the mixer  206 A of the transmit signal path may be configured to up-convert input baseband signals based on the synthesized frequency provided by the synthesizer  206 D to generate RF output signals for the FEM circuitry  208 . The baseband signals may be provided by the baseband circuitry  204  and may be filtered by filter  206 C. 
     In some aspects, the mixer  206 A of the receive signal path and the mixer  206 A of the transmit signal path may include two or more mixers and may be arranged for quadrature down conversion and upconversion, respectively. In some aspects, the mixer  206 A of the receive signal path and the mixer  206 A of the transmit signal path may include two or more mixers and may be arranged for image rejection (e.g., Hartley image rejection). In some aspects, the mixer  206 A of the receive signal path and the mixer  206 A may be arranged for direct down conversion and direct upconversion, respectively. In some aspects, the mixer  206 A of the receive signal path and the mixer  206 A of the transmit signal path may be configured for super-heterodyne operation. 
     In some aspects, the output baseband signals and the input baseband signals may optionally be analog baseband signals. According to some alternate aspects, the output baseband signals and the input baseband signals may be digital baseband signals. In these alternate aspects, the RF circuitry  206  may include an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuitry and the baseband circuitry  204  may include a digital baseband interface to communicate with the RF circuitry  206 . 
     In some dual-mode aspects, a separate radio IC circuitry may optionally be provided for processing signals for each spectrum. 
     In some aspects, the synthesizer  206 D may optionally be a fractional-N synthesizer or a fractional N/N+1 synthesizer, although other types of frequency synthesizers may be suitable. For example, the synthesizer  206 D may be a delta-sigma synthesizer, a frequency multiplier, or a synthesizer comprising a phase-locked loop with a frequency divider. 
     The synthesizer  206 D may be configured to synthesize an output frequency for use by the mixer  206 A of the REF circuitry  206  based on a frequency input and a divider control input. In some aspects, the synthesizer  206 D may be a fractional N/N+1 synthesizer. 
     In some aspects, frequency input may be provided by a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), although that is not a requirement. The divider control input may be provided, for example, by either the baseband circuitry  204  or the applications circuitry  202  depending on the desired output frequency. In some aspects, a divider control input (e.g., N) may be determined from a look-up table based on a channel indicated by the applications circuitry  202 . 
     Synthesizer circuitry  206 D of the RF circuitry  206  may include a divider, a delay-locked loop (DLL), a multiplexer and a phase accumulator. In some aspects, the divider may be a dual modulus divider (DMD) and the phase accumulator may be a digital phase accumulator (DPA). In some aspects, the DMD may be configured to divide the input signal by either N or N+1 (e.g., based on a carry out) to provide a fractional division ratio. In some example aspects, the DLL may include a set of cascaded, tunable, delay elements, a phase detector, a charge pump, and a D-type flip-flop. In these aspects, the delay elements may be configured to break a VCO period up into Nd equal packets of phase, where Nd is the number of delay elements in the delay line. In this way, the DLL provides negative feedback to assist in keeping the total delay through the delay line to one VCO cycle. 
     In some aspects, synthesizer circuitry  206 D may be configured to generate a carrier frequency as the output frequency, while in other aspects, the output frequency may be a multiple of the carrier frequency (e.g., twice the carrier frequency, or four times the carrier frequency) and may be used in conjunction with quadrature generator and divider circuitry to generate multiple signals at the carrier frequency with multiple different phases with respect to each other. In some aspects, the output frequency may be a LO frequency (fLO). In some aspects, the RF circuitry  206  may include an IQ/polar converter. 
     FEM circuitry  208  may include a receive signal path which may include circuitry configured to operate on RF signals received from one or more antennas  210 , and/or to amplify the received signals and provide the amplified versions of the received signals to the RF circuitry  206  for further processing. FEM circuitry  208  may also include a transmit signal path which may include circuitry configured to amplify signals for transmission provided by the RF circuitry  206  for transmission by one or more of the one or more antennas  210 . In various aspects, the amplification through the transmit signal paths or the receive signal paths may be done in part or solely in the RF circuitry  206 , in part or solely in the FEM circuitry  208 , or in both the RF circuitry  206  and the FEM circuitry  208 . 
     In some aspects, the FEM circuitry  208  may include a TX/RX switch to switch between transmit mode and receive mode operation. The FEM circuitry  208  may include a receive signal path and a transmit signal path. The receive signal path of the FEM circuitry  208  may include an LNA to amplify received RF signals and provide the amplified received RF signals as an output (e.g., to the RF circuitry  206 ). The transmit signal path of the FEM circuitry  208  may include a power amplifier (PA) to amplify input RF signals (e.g., provided by RF circuitry  206 ), and one or more filters to generate RF signals for subsequent transmission (e.g., by one or more of the one or more antennas  210 ). 
     In some aspects, the PMC  212  may manage power provided to the baseband circuitry  204 . The PMC  212  may control power-source selection, voltage scaling, battery charging, and/or DC-to-DC conversion. The PMC  212  may, in some aspects, be included when the device  200  is capable of being powered by a battery, for example, when the device is included in a LE. The PMC  212  may increase the power conversion efficiency while providing beneficial implementation size and heat dissipation characteristics. 
       FIG. 2  shows the PMC  212  coupled with the baseband circuitry  204 . In other aspects, the PMC  212  may be additionally or alternatively coupled with, and perform similar power management operations for, other components such as, but not limited to, application circuitry  202 , RF circuitry  206 , or FEM circuitry  208 . 
     In some aspects, the PMC  212  may control, or otherwise be part of, various power saving mechanisms of the device  200 . For example, if the device  200  is in an RRC_Connected state, in which it is still connected to the RAN node as it expects to receive traffic shortly, then it may enter a state known as Discontinuous Reception Mode (DRX) after a period of inactivity. During this state, the device  200  may power down for brief intervals of time and thus save power. 
     According to some aspects, if there is no data traffic activity for an extended period of time, then the device  200  may transition off to an RRC_Idle state, in which it disconnects from the network and does not perform operations such as channel quality feedback, handover, etc. The device  200  goes into a very low power state and it performs paging during which it periodically wakes up to listen to the network and then powers down again. The device  200  may transition back to RRC_Connected state to receive data. 
     An additional power saving mode may allow a device to be unavailable to the network for periods longer than a paging interval (ranging from seconds to a few hours). During this time, the device  200  in some aspects may be unreachable to the network and may power down. Any data sent during this time incurs a delay, which may be large, and it is assumed the delay is acceptable. 
     Processors of the application circuitry  202  and processors of the baseband circuitry  204  may be used to execute elements of one or more instances of a protocol stack. For example, processors of the baseband circuitry  204 , alone or in combination, may be used execute Layer 3, Layer 2, or Layer 1 functionality, while processors of the application circuitry  202  may utilize data (e.g., packet data) received from these layers and further execute Layer 4 functionality (e.g., transmission communication protocol (TCP) and user datagram protocol (UDP) layers). As referred to herein, Layer 3 may comprise a radio resource control (RRC) layer, described in further detail below. As referred to herein, Layer 2 may comprise a medium access control (MAC) layer, a radio link control (RLC) layer, and a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer, described in further detail below. As referred to herein, Layer 1 may comprise a physical (PHY) layer of a UE/RAN node, described in further detail below. 
       FIG. 3  illustrates example interfaces of baseband circuitry  204 , in accordance with some aspects. As discussed above, the baseband circuitry  204  of  FIG. 2  may comprise processors  204 A- 204 E and a memory  204 G utilized by said processors. Each of the processors  204 A- 204 E may include a memory interface,  304 A- 304 E, respectively, to send/receive data to/from the memory  204 G. 
     The baseband circuitry  204  may further include one or more interfaces to communicatively couple to other circuitries/devices, such as a memory interface  312  (e.g., an interface to send/receive data to/from memory external to the baseband circuitry  204 ), an application circuitry interface  314  (e.g., an interface to send/receive data to/from the application circuitry  202  of  FIG. 2 ), an RF circuitry interface  316  (e.g., an interface to send/receive data to/from RF circuitry  206  of  FIG. 2 ), a wireless hardware connectivity interface  318  (e.g., an interface to send/receive data to/from Near Field Communication (NFC) components, Bluetooth® components (e.g., Bluetooth® Low Energy), Wi-Fi® components, and other communication components), and a power management interface  320  (e.g., an interface to send/receive power or control signals to/from the PMC  212 ). 
       FIG. 4  is an illustration of a control plane protocol stack in accordance with some aspects. In one aspect, a control plane  400  is shown as a communications protocol stack between the UE  102 , the RAN node  128  (or alternatively, the RAN node  130 ), and the AMF  132 . 
     The PHY layer  401  may in some aspects transmit or receive information used by the MAC layer  402  over one or more air interfaces. The PHY layer  401  may further perform link adaptation or adaptive modulation and coding (AMC), power control, cell search (e.g., for initial synchronization and handover purposes), and other measurements used by higher layers, such as the RRC layer  405 . The PHY layer  401  may in some aspects still further perform error detection on the transport channels, forward error correction (FEC) coding/decoding of the transport channels, modulation/demodulation of physical channels, interleaving, rate matching, mapping onto physical channels, and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna processing. 
     The MAC layer  402  may in some aspects perform mapping between logical channels and transport channels, multiplexing of MAC service data units (SDUs) from one or more logical channels onto transport blocks (TB) to be delivered to PHY via transport channels, de-multiplexing MAC SDUs to one or more logical channels from transport blocks (TB) delivered from the PHY via transport channels, multiplexing MAC SDUs onto TBs, scheduling information reporting, error correction through hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ), and logical channel prioritization. 
     The RLC layer  403  may in some aspects operate in a plurality of modes of operation, including Transparent Mode (TM), Unacknowledged Mode (UM), and Acknowledged Mode (AM). The RLC layer  403  may execute the transfer of upper layer protocol data units (PDUs), error correction through automatic repeat request (ARQ) for AM data transfers, and segmentation and reassembly of RLC SDUs for EUM and AM data transfers. The RLC layer  403  may also maintain sequence numbers independent of the ones in PDCP for UM and AM data transfers. The RLC layer  403  may also in some aspects execute re-segmentation of RLC data PDUs for AM data transfers, detect duplicate data for AM data transfers, discard RLC SDUs for UM and AM data transfers, detect protocol errors for AM data transfers, and perform RLC re-establishment. 
     The PDCP layer  404  may in some aspects execute header compression and decompression of IP data, maintain PDCP Sequence Numbers (SNs), perform in-sequence delivery of upper layer PDUs at re-establishment of lower layers, perform reordering and eliminate duplicates of lower layer SDUs, execute PDCP PDU routing for the case of split bearers, execute retransmission of lower layer SDUs, cipher and decipher control plane and user plane data, perform integrity protection and integrity verification of control plane and user plane data, control timer-based discard of data, and perform security operations (e.g., ciphering, deciphering, integrity protection, integrity verification, etc.). 
     In some aspects, primary services and functions of the RRC layer  405  may include broadcast of system information (e.g., included in Master Information Blocks (MIBs) or System Information Blocks (SIBs) related to the non-access stratum (NAS)); broadcast of system information related to the access stratum (AS); paging initiated by 5GC  120  or NG-RAN  110 , establishment, maintenance, and release of an RRC connection between the LIE and NG-RAN (e.g., RRC connection paging, RRC connection establishment, RRC connection addition, RRC connection modification, and an RRC connection release, also for carrier aggregation and Dual Connectivity in NR or between E-UTRA and NR); establishment, configuration, maintenance, and release of Signalling Radio Bearers (SRBs) and Data Radio Bearers (DRBs); security functions including key management, mobility functions including handover and context transfer, UE cell selection and reselection and control of cell selection and reselection, and inter-radio access technology (RAT) mobility; and measurement configuration for UE measurement reporting. Said MIBs and SIBs may comprise one or more information elements (IEs), which may each comprise individual data fields or data structures. The RRC layer  405  may also, in some aspects, execute QoS management functions, detection of and recovery from radio link failure, and NAS message transfer between the NAS layer  406  in the UE and the NAS layer  406  in the AMF  132 . 
     In some aspects, the following NAS messages can be communicated during the corresponding NAS procedure, as illustrated in Table 1 below: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
               
             
               
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                 5G NAS 
                 5G NAS 
                 4G NAS 
                 4G NAS 
               
               
                 Message 
                 Procedure 
                 Message name 
                 Procedure 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 Registration 
                 Initial 
                 Attach Request 
                 Attach 
               
               
                 Request 
                 registration 
                   
                 procedure 
               
               
                   
                 procedure 
               
               
                 Registration 
                 Mobility 
                 Tracking Area 
                 Tracking area 
               
               
                 Request 
                 registration 
                 Update (TAU) 
                 updating 
               
               
                   
                 update 
                 Request 
                 procedure 
               
               
                   
                 procedure 
               
               
                 Registration 
                 Periodic 
                 TAU Request 
                 Periodic 
               
               
                 Request 
                 registration 
                   
                 tracking area 
               
               
                   
                 update 
                   
                 updating 
               
               
                   
                 procedure 
                   
                 procedure 
               
               
                 Deregistration 
                 Deregistration 
                 Detach 
                 Detach 
               
               
                 Request 
                 procedure 
                 Request 
                 procedure 
               
               
                 Service 
                 Service request 
                 Service 
                 Service request 
               
               
                 Request 
                 procedure 
                 Request or 
                 procedure 
               
               
                   
                   
                 Extended 
               
               
                   
                   
                 Service 
               
               
                   
                   
                 Request 
               
               
                 PDU Session 
                 PDU session 
                 PDN 
                 PDN 
               
               
                 Establishment 
                 establishment 
                 Connectivity 
                 connectivity 
               
               
                 Request 
                 procedure 
                 Request 
                 procedure 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In some aspects, when the same message is used for more than one procedure, then a parameter can be used (e.g., registration type or TAU type) which indicates the specific purpose of the procedure, e.g. registration type=“initial registration”, “mobility registration update” or “periodic registration update”. 
     The UE  101  and the RAN node  128 / 130  may utilize an NG radio interface (e.g., an LTE-Uu interface or an NR radio interface) to exchange control plane data via a protocol stack comprising the PHY layer  401 , the MAC layer  402 , the RLC layer  403 , the PDCP layer  404 , and the RRC layer  405 . 
     The non-access stratum (NAS) protocol layers  406  forms the highest stratum of the control plane between the UE  101  and the AMF  132  as illustrated in  FIG. 4 . In aspects, the NAS protocol layers  406  support the mobility of the UE  101  and the session management procedures to establish and maintain IP connectivity between the UE  101  and the UPF  134 . In some aspects, the UE protocol stack can include one or more upper layers, above the NAS layer  406 . For example, the upper layers can include an operating system layer  424 , a connection manager  420 , and an application layer  422 . In some aspects, the application layer  422  can include one or more clients which can be used to perform various application functionalities, including providing an interface for and communicating with one or more outside networks. In some aspects, the application layer  422  can include an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) client  426 . 
     The NG Application Protocol (NG-AP) layer  415  may support the functions of the N2 and N3 interface and comprise Elementary Procedures (EPs). An EP is a unit of interaction between the RAN node  128 / 130  and the 5GC  120 . In certain aspects, the NG-AP layer  415  services may comprise two groups: UE-associated services and non-UE-associated services. These services perform functions including, but not limited to CE context management, PDU session management and management of corresponding NG-RAN resources (e.g. Data Radio Bearers [DRBs]), UE capability indication, mobility, NAS signaling transport, and configuration transfer (e.g. for the transfer of SON information). 
     The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) layer (which may alternatively be referred to as the SCTP/IP layer)  414  may ensure reliable delivery of signaling messages between the RAN node  128 / 130  and the AMF  132  based, in part, on the IP protocol, supported by the IP layer  413 . The L2 layer  412  and the L1 layer  411  may refer to communication links (e.g., wired or wireless) used by the RAN node  128 / 130  and the AMF  132  to exchange information. 
     The RAN node  128 / 130  and the AMF  132  may utilize an N2 interface to exchange control plane data via a protocol stack comprising the L1 layer  411 , the L2 layer  412 , the IP layer  413 , the SCTP layer  414 , and the S1-AP layer  415 . 
       FIG. 5  is an illustration of a user plane protocol stack in accordance with some aspects. In this aspect, a user plane  500  is shown as a communications protocol stack between the UE  102 , the RAN node  128  (or alternatively, the RAN node  130 ), and the UPF  134 . The user plane  500  may utilize at least some of the same protocol layers as the control plane  400 . For example, the UE  102  and the RAN node  128  may utilize an NR radio interface to exchange user plane data via a protocol stack comprising the PHY layer  401 , the MAC layer  402 , the RLC layer  403 , the PDCP layer  404 , and the Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP) layer  416 . The SDAP layer  416  may, in some aspects, execute a mapping between a Quality of Service (QoS) flow and a data radio bearer (DRB), and a marking of both DL and UL packets with a QoS flow ID (QFI). In some aspects, an IP protocol stack  513  can be located above the SDAP  416 . A user datagram protocol (UDP)/transmission control protocol (TCP) stack  520  can be located above the IP stack  513 . A session initiation protocol (SIP) stack  522  can be located above the UDP/TCP stack  520  and can be used by the UE  102  and the UPF  134 . 
     The General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunneling Protocol for the user plane (GTP-U) layer  504  may be used for carrying user data within the 5G core network  120  and between the radio access network  110  and the 5G core network  120 . The user data transported can be packets in IPv4, IPv6, or PPP formats, for example. The UDP and IP security (UDP/IP) layer  503  may provide checksums for data integrity, port numbers for addressing different functions at the source and destination, and encryption and authentication on the selected data flows. The RAN node  128 / 130  and the UPF  134  may utilize an N3 interface to exchange user plane data via a protocol stack comprising the L1 layer  411 , the L2 layer  412 , the UDP/IP layer  503 , and the GTP-U layer  504 . As discussed above with respect to  FIG. 4 , NAS protocols support the mobility of the UE  101  and the session management procedures to establish and maintain IP connectivity between the UE  101  and the UPF  134 . 
       FIG. 6  is a block diagram illustrating components, according to some example aspects, able to read instructions from a machine-readable or computer-readable medium (e.g., a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium) and perform any one or more of the methodologies discussed herein. Specifically,  FIG. 6  shows a diagrammatic representation of hardware resources  600  including one or more processors (or processor cores)  610 , one or more memory/storage devices  620 , and one or more communication resources  630 , each of which may be communicatively coupled via a bus  640 . For aspects in which node virtualization (e.g., NFV) is utilized, a hypervisor  602  may be executed to provide an execution environment for one or more network slices and/or sub-slices to utilize the hardware resources  600   
     The processors  610  (e.g., a central processing unit (CPU), a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processor, a complex instruction set computing (CISC) processor, a graphics processing unit (GPU), a digital signal processor (DSP) such as a baseband processor, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC), another processor, or any suitable combination thereof) may include, for example, a processor  612  and a processor  614 . 
     The memory/storage devices  620  may include a main memory, disk storage, or any suitable combination thereof. The memory/storage devices  620  may include, but are not limited to, any type of volatile or non-volatile memory such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM), static random-access memory (SRAM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), Flash memory, solid-state storage, etc. 
     The communication resources  630  may include interconnection or network interface components or other suitable devices to communicate with one or more peripheral devices  604  or one or more databases  606  via a network  608 . For example, the communication resources  630  may include wired communication components (e.g., for coupling via a Universal Serial Bus (USB)), cellular communication components, NFC components, Bluetooth® components (e.g., Bluetooth® Low Energy), Wi-Fi® components, and other communication components. 
     Instructions  650  may comprise software, a program, an application, an applet, an app, or other executable code for causing at least any of the processors  610  to perform any one or more of the methodologies discussed herein. The instructions  650  may reside, completely or partially, within at least one of the processors  610  (e.g., within the processor&#39;s cache memory), the memory/storage devices  620 , or any suitable combination thereof. Furthermore, any portion of the instructions  650  may be transferred to the hardware resources  600  from any combination of the peripheral devices  604  or the databases  606 . Accordingly, the memory of processors  610 , the memory/storage devices  620 , the peripheral devices  604 , and the databases  606  are examples of computer-readable and machine-readable media. 
       FIG. 7  is an illustration of an initial access procedure  700  including PRACH preamble retransmission which can be performed by the UE  101 , in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 7 , the initial access procedure  700  can start with operation  702 , when initial synchronization can take place. For example, the UE  101  can receive a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal to achieve the initial synchronization. In some aspects, the initial synchronization at operation  702  can be performed using one or more SS blocks received within an SS burst set. At operation  704 , the UE  101  can receive system information, such as one or more system information blocks (SIBs) and/or master information blocks (MIBs). 
     At operation  706  through  714 , a random access procedure can take place. More specifically, at operation  706 , a PRACH preamble transmission can take place as message 1 (Msg1). At operation  710 , UE  101  can receive a random access response (RAR) message, which can be random access procedure message 2 (Msg2). In Msg2, the node (e.g., gNB)  111  can respond with random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI), which can be calculated from the preamble resource (e.g., time and frequency allocation). 
     In some aspects, UE  101  can be configured to perform one or more retransmissions of the PRACH preamble at operation  708 , when the RAR is not received or detected within a preconfigured or predefined time window. The PRACH preamble retransmission can take place with power ramping, as explained hereinbelow so that the transmission power is increased until the random-access response is received. 
     At operation  712 , UE  101  can transmit a random access procedure message 3 (Msg3), which can include a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message. At operation  714 , a random access procedure message 4 (Msg4) can be received by the UE  101 , which can include an RRC connection setup message, carrying the cell radio network temporary identifier (CRNTI) used for subsequent communication between the UE  101  and the node  111 . 
     In some aspects associated with 5G communication systems, the UE and the gNB may maintain a plurality of beams. An optimal gNB-UE beam pair can help to increase link budget. However due to blockage or UE&#39;s movement or rotation, a current beam pair may not provide optimal communication performance. If the beams used for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) fail below a threshold within a given time, which is based on beam failure detection (BFD) procedure, it can be considered as a beam failure. A UE can use a beam failure recovery (BFR) operation to inform the gNB of a new beam information. An example BFR procedure is shown in  FIG. 8 . 
       FIG. 8  illustrates an example procedure for beam failure recovery (BFR), in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 8 , the procedure  800  takes place between a gNB  802  and a UE  804 . At operation  806 , periodic reference signals (RSs) are communicated from the gNB  802  to the UE  804 . A beam failure instance could be declared if a hypothetical block error rate (BLER) for all RSs are above a threshold. After N number of beam failure instance declarations, a beam failure is considered to exist. 
     At operation  808 , PRACH for BFR is communicated. The UE can identify one PRACH resource based on newly identified beam to carry a BFR request. At operation  810 , a BFR response carried by a dedicated search space is communicated from the gNB  802  to the UE  804 . In some aspects, the UE can start to monitor the BFR response 4 slots (or another number of slots) after the UE transmits PRACH for BFR. 
     In some aspects, the PRACH to carry BFR request can be associated with the newly identified beam. This new identified beam should be based on the Layer 1 Reference Signal Receiving Power (L1-RSRP) measured from configured DL RS resources. In some aspects, only the beams whose L1-RSRP is above a threshold can be considered as a candidate new beam. In some aspects, the search space used to carry BFR response is configured by higher layer signaling, which is called as SS-BFR in the following sections. In some aspects, the SS-BFR can be quasi-co-located (QCLed) with the newly identified beam. 
     In some aspects, PRACH for BFR is not detected by the gNB, and then the retransmission of PRACH for BFR could be allowed. However, whether the UE can change the newly identified beam during retransmission of the BFR can be one issue to be addressed by the disclosed techniques. Furthermore, how to assume the QCL information to monitor SS-BFR for the retransmission of PRACH for BFR can be another issue to be addressed by the disclosed techniques. In some aspects, the PRACH for BFR indicates contention-free PRACH. 
     In some aspects, for beam failure detection, if the downlink (DL) reference signal (RS) is not explicitly configured, the UE can use the reference signal configured in a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state for Control Resource Set (CORESET) in active Bandwidth Part (BWP). In some aspects, whether the BFD RS can be from another Component Carrier (CC) or BWP can be an issue addressed by the disclosed techniques. 
     Techniques disclosed herein can include some methods for BFR and BFD, including new beam identification for retransmission of PRACH based BF, QCL assumption for SS-BFR after retransmission of PRACH based BFR, and cross component carrier (cross CC)/BWP BFD. 
     BFR operation during retransmission of PRACH. 
     For new beam identification during retransmission of PRACH for BFR, the following two options can be used: 
     Option 1: the newly identified beam for retransmission of PRACH for BFR can be the same as that for initial transmission; and 
     Option 2: the UE can update the newly identified beam for retransmission of PRACH for BFR. 
     In some aspects, for contention-free PRACH based BFR, the newly identified beam (NIB) can be the same for each transmission instance of PRACH for BFR. In one aspect, the UE can apply the same spatial domain transmission filter (Tx beam) to transmit each instance of PRACH for BFR. In another aspect, the UE can use different spatial domain transmission filters to transmit each instance of PRACH for BFR.  FIG. 9  illustrates an example for this aspect. 
       FIG. 9  illustrates an example retransmission of PRACH for BFR in a first option, in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 9 , PRACH for BFR is transmitted at  902 . The SS-BFR monitoring window  904  starts 4 slots after the PRACH transmission at  902 . At  906 , the PRACH for BFR is re-transmitted. The SS-BFR monitoring window  908  starts 4 slots after the PRACH transmission at  906 . A BFR response is received at  910 . 
     In another aspect, for contention-free PRACH based BFR, the UE can generate each transmission instance based on different newly identified beam. Then the QCL assumption for SS-BFR to monitor the response of one transmission instance of PRACH for BFR can be based on the NIB. The transmission power for different instance of PRACH can be different and the power control for each instance of PRACH can be based on the associated DL RS for NIB.  FIG. 10  illustrates an example for this aspect. 
       FIG. 10  illustrates an example retransmission of PRACH for BFR in a second option, in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 10 , PRACH for BFR (with NIB=x) is transmitted at  1002 . The SS-BFR monitoring window  1004  starts 4 slots after the PRACH transmission at  1002  (with SS-BFR being QCLed with x). At  1006 , the PRACH for BFR is re-transmitted (with NIB=y). The SS-BFR monitoring window  1008  starts 4 slots after the PRACH transmission at  1006  (with SS-BFR being QCLed with y). A BFR response is received at  1010 . 
     In another aspect, if there is no DCI scrambled by C-RNTI received from SS-BFR after transmitting PRACH for BFR, the UE shall not monitor SS-BFR after the timer configured by beamFailureRecoveryTimer expires, as this timer is used to control the whole contention free based PRACH based BFR procedure. If the timer expires, the UE can use contention-based PRACH based BFR if configured. 
     In some aspects, if CORESET0 is configured in active BWP or current CC, after K (e.g., K=28) symbols after receiving the beam failure recovery response for the request based on contention-free PRACH, if the PRACH is associated with an SSB or a CSI-RS that is quasi-co-located (QCLed) with an SSB with a subset of or all the parameters including Doppler shift, Doppler spread, average delay, delay spread and spatial Rx parameter, the UE shall assume the CORESET0 should be QCLed with the corresponding SSB/CSI-RS associated with the PRACH. 
     In some aspects, if CORESET0 is configured in active BWP or current CC, after K (e.g., K=28) symbols after transmitting the beam failure recovery request by contention-based PRACH, the UE shall assume the CORESET0 should be QCLed with the corresponding SSB/CSI-RS associated with the PRACH. 
     In some aspects, the following could be defined: after 28 symbols from a last symbol of a first PDCCH reception in a search space set provided by recoverySearchSpaceId where a UE detects a DCI format with CRC scrambled by C-RNTI or MCS-C-RNTI, the UE assumes same antenna port quasi-collocation parameters as the ones associated with index q new  for PDCCH monitoring in a CORESET with index 0, if q new  is based on SS/PBCH block or CSI-RS quasi-collocated with an SS/PBCH block, as described in clause 5.1.5 in 3GPP TS 38.214. In some aspects, as an extension, after K symbols after transmitting the contention based PRACH, the UE shall assume CORESET0 should be QCLed with the corresponding downlink reference signal associated with the PRACH. 
     Cross-CC BFD Operation 
     In an embodiment, the DL RS for BFD should not be from other CC/BWP. If no DL RS is explicitly configured for BFD by RRC parameter failureDetectionResources, UE shall expect the parameter cell and bwp-ID is not configured for the RS with QCL-TypeD in QCL-Info in the TCI state for CORESET(s) in active BWP in current CC, i.e. PCell. Alternatively UE shall expect the parameter cell and bwp-ID for TCI state for CORESET(s) in active BWP is configured based on active BWP ID and current CC ID, i.e. PCell. In another option, UE may use DL RS in active BWP in current CC, i.e. PCell, and it shall ignore the RS configured in other CC/BWP. 
     In some aspects, the following TCI configuration can be used: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 TCI-State ::= 
                  SEQUENCE { 
               
               
                  tci-StateId 
                   TCI-StateId,  
               
               
                  qcl-Type1 
                   QCL-Info, 
               
               
                  qcl-Type2 
                   QCL-Info 
               
               
                   
                 OPTIONAL,  -- Need R 
               
               
                  . . . 
                   
               
               
                 } 
                   
               
               
                 QCL-Info ::= 
                  SEQUENCE { 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                  cell 
                  ServCellIndex 
                     OPTIONAL,  
                 - 
               
               
                 - Need R 
                   
                   
                   
               
               
                  bwp-Id 
                   BWP-Id 
                 OPTIONAL, -- Cond 
                   
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 CSI-RS-Indicated 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                  referenceSignal 
                   CHOICE { 
               
               
                   csi-rs 
                    NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceId, 
               
               
                   ssb 
                    SSB-Index 
               
               
                  }, 
                   
               
               
                  qcl-Type 
                   ENUMERATED {typeA, typeB, typeC, 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 typeD}, 
               
               
                  . . . 
               
               
                 } 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In another aspect, the BFD can be based on DL RS in other CC/BWP. Thus, the CC ID and the bandwidth part (BWP) ID can be included in the explicitly configured resource. In an example, the following enhanced BFD RS configuration parameters can be used to configure one DL RS for BFD: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 RadioLinkMonitoringRS ::= 
                  SEQUENCE { 
               
               
                  radioLinkMonitoringRS-Id 
                   RadioLinkMonitoringRS-Id, 
               
               
                  purpose 
                  ENUMERATED {beamFailure, rlf, 
               
               
                 both}, 
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                  cell 
                 ServCellIndex 
                 OPTIONAL, 
                 - 
               
               
                 - Need R 
                   
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                  bwp-Id 
                  BWP-Id 
                 OPTIONAL, -- Cond 
               
               
                 CSI-RS-Indicated 
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                  detectionResource 
                  CHOICE { 
               
               
                   ssb-Index 
                   SSB-Index, 
               
               
                   csi-RS-Index 
                   NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceId 
               
               
                  }, 
                   
               
               
                  . . . 
                   
               
               
                 } 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In some aspects, a UE includes circuitry to determine the resource for contention-free (CF) physical random access channel (PRACH) based beam failure recovery (BFR). In some aspects, the PRACH resource is based on the newly identified beam (NIB), which shall be the same for each transmission instances of CF-PRACH within a BFR procedure. In some aspects, for each transmission instances of CF-PRACH within a BFR procedure, the UE can select different PRACH resources based on different NIB. In some aspects, the UE may assume that the search space for BFR (SS-BFR) can be quasi-co-located (QCLed) with the NIB associated with the latest CF-PRACH transmission within a SS-BFR monitoring window. In some aspects, if there is no DCI scrambled by C-RNTI received from SS-BFR after transmitting PRACH for BFR, the UE shall not monitor the SS-BFR after the timer configured by beamFailureRecoveryTimer expires. The LIE including the circuitry to perform beam failure detection (BFD) when multiple component carriers (CCs) and/or bandwidth parts (BWPs) are configured. In some aspects, in one CC, the UE shall expect that the downlink reference signal (RS) for BFD is not be from other CC/BWP. In some aspects, the UE shall ignore the RS configured in other CC/BWP for BFD. In some aspects, the BFD can be on downlink RS in other CC/BWP. In some aspects, the CC ID and BWP ID can be included in the explicitly configured resource for BFD. 
     In some aspects, if CORESET0 is configured in active BWP or current CC, after K symbols after receiving the beam failure recovery response for the request based on contention-free PRACH, if the PRACH is associated with an SSB or a CSI-RS that is QCLed with an SSB with a subset of or all the parameters including Doppler shift, Doppler spread, average delay, delay spread and spatial Rx parameter, UE shall assume the CORESET0 should be QCLed with the corresponding SSB/CSI-RS associated with the PRACH. In some aspects, if CORESET0 is configured in active BWP or current CC, after K symbols after transmitting the beam failure recovery request by contention-based PRACH, the UE shall assume the CORESET0 would be QCLed with the corresponding SSB/CSI-RS associated with the PRACH. In some aspects, after K symbols after transmitting the contention based PRACH, the UE shall assume CORESET0 should be QCLed with the corresponding downlink reference signal associated with the PRACH. 
     SRS based beam failure recovery indication techniques are disclosed. Beam Management (BM) is a feature introduced by 5G NR. Beam failure detection (BFD) and beam Failure Recovery (BFR) are features associated with 5G NR BM framework. In 5G NR, on downlink (DL) carriers, the UE monitors the radio link quality via measurements on a set  q   0  of predefined periodic CSI-RS resources or SS/PBCH blocks. A second set  q   1  of CSI-RS resource configuration indexes and/or SS/PBCH block indexes is configured from the network to the UE for radio link quality measurements of other candidate beams. During periodic measurements, if the radio link quality of all resource configurations in the set  q   0  is worse than a threshold, then a beam failure has been detected. In case of beam failure, the UE can be configured to identify a new periodic CSI-RS configuration index or SS/PBCH block index (q new ) from the set  q   1 . Afterwards, the UE may indicate the identified new beam index q new  throughput uplink (UL) channel to the gNB in order to recover the beam. In some aspects, the indication of q new  is carried by uplink transmission of PRACH signals from UE to the gNB. BFR indication can be based on contention based PRACH (CB-PRACH) or contention free PRACH (CF-PRACH). 
     The PRACH based BFR indication may be associated with the following shortcomings: (1) In mmWave band communications, for low-cost UEs which do not hold UL/DL correspondence, the PRACH based BFR indication may not be robust (since the identified new beam q new  is only based on DL measurements by UE). When the identified new beam is used for spatial domain TX filter setting for PRACH transmission, it cannot guarantee that gNB can reliably receive the BFR indication, when UL/DL correspondence is not on hold. (2) Only a single beam (indicated by a single resource index q new ) can be proposed from UE to gNB for beam failure recovery. 
     SRS based BFR indication techniques are disclosed herein. In some aspects, based on UL BM framework, each SRS resource can be directly or indirectly (through inter-SRS resource association) associated to a DL CSI-RS or SS/PBCH block resource index based on spatialRelationInfo configuration by RRC signaling. Therefore, the UE can transmit an SRS resource, which is associated with the identified q new  (or q_new) for BFR indication. 
     Since multiple SRS resources can be transmitted within one UL slot, in one aspect, multiple SRS resources associated to a same q_new can be transmitted with different TX beams (TX beam sweeping) which increases the robustness for BFR indication. As another option, multiple SRS resources associated to more multiple q_new indexes can be transmitted with different TX beams which increases the capacity of new beam candidates that UE can indicate for gNB selection from for beam recovery. 
     In some aspects, the techniques disclosed herein are associated with the following advantages: (1) Robust BFR indication in mmWave bands when UE does not hold UL/DL correspondence; (2) Capability of indicating multiple candidate new beams to enable gNB selection; and (3) Better user experience and fast BFR due to shorter indication time with better robustness. 
     In some aspects, in a 3GPP 5G NR UL BM framework, a structure of spatialRelationInfo is provided by gNB to UE through RRC messages, which contains the spatial resource association between each SRS resource and a reference resource. The reference resource can be CSI-RS resource or SS/PBCH block resource or another SRS resource. 
       FIG. 11  illustrates a flowchart of an example method  1100  for sounding reference signal (SRS)-based BFR indication at the UE side, in accordance with some aspects. When the UE has identified a new beam index q_new (e.g., at operation  1102 ), it searches within spatialRelationInfo which SRS resources are associated to q_new, and transmits the identified SRS resources for beam failure recovery (BFR) indication. 
     More specifically, at operation  1104 , spatialRelationInfo is loaded. At operation  1106 , SRS resources associated with q_new are searched within spatialRelationInfo. At operation  1108 , it is determined if the associated SRS resources are found. If the SRS resources are not found, at operation  1110 , a fall back to legacy PRACH based BFR indication takes place. If the SRS resources are found, at operation  1112 , the associated SRS resources are transmitted for BFR indication. When the associated SRS resources are not found, UE falls back to the legacy PRACH based BFR indication. When more than one SRS resource within an SRS resource set are identified for FR indication, they can be transmitted in time-multiplexed manner using different UE TX beams, which results in improved robustness for BFR indication. 
     In some aspects, a UE can also indicate multiple q_new indices while each index is associated to a different SRS resource. The maximal number of indicated q_new indices can be indicated by gNB to UE through high layer signaling. 
     In some aspects, the gNB has the information of the configured  q   1  from which q_new is selected from, and it also has the information of the configured spatialRelationInfo. In this regard, the gNB is aware of whether the UE is using SRS based BFR indication or legacy PRACH based BFR indication. In case of SRS based BFR indication is selected, the gNB can blindly detect the resource indices of the received SRS resources (e.g., by correlations with different SRS sequence templates each mapped to one resource index). The gNB can then identify q_new from the detected SRS resource indexes, through the resource association mapping in spatialRelationInfo. An example procedure for this technique is illustrated in  FIG. 12 . 
       FIG. 12  illustrates a flowchart of an example method  1200  for sounding reference signal (SRS)-based BFR indication at the base station side, in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 12 , the method  1200  starts at operation  1202 , when a candidate beam set q_1 is configured to the UE. At operation  1204 , spatialRelationInfo is configured to the UE. At operation  1206 , it can be determined whether the UE is using SRS-based BFR indication. If the UE is not using SRS-based BFR indication, at operation  1208 , processing can fall back to legacy PRACH-based BFR reception. If the UE is using SRS-based BFR indication, at operation  1210 , the resources indexes of the received SRS signals are detected. At operation  1212 , the indicated q_new is identified from the detected SRS resources indexes. 
     In some aspects, the gNB can directly indicate a set of BFR SRS resources by high layer signaling (e.g. RRC or MAC CE) while each indicated SRS resource is associated to an index within the set  q   1 . The association information of the new BFR SRS resources can override the association information from spatialRelationInfo. 
     In some aspects, in carrier aggregation scenarios, for BFR indication for one failed component carrier (CC), when another CC is still in good link quality, SRS resources can be transmitted in the good quality CC, in which the selected SRS resources are cross-CC associated with the identified new beam indexes q new  in failed CCs. 
     In some aspects, in carrier aggregation scenarios, for BFR indication for one failed component carrier (CC), when another CC is still in good link quality, we further propose to transmit PUCCH in the good quality CC. The transmitted PUCCH contains the identified new beam indexes, the cell index of the beam failed CC, and optionally, the associated L1-RSRP measurement for the identified new beam indexes. 
     A base station (BS) configures a BFR SRS resource set to UE through high layer signaling, in which each SRS resource within the set is associated to an index within candidate beam downlink resource set ( q   1 ). The BS can configure the UE about the maximal number of new beam indexes (q new ) in BFR indication through high layer signaling. The maximal number can be higher than 1. In some aspects, the UE dynamically determines PRACH or SRS resources for beam failure recovery (BFR) indication. In some aspects, the decision can be based on the availability of the configured SRS resources which are associated with the identified new beam index (q new ). In some aspects, the association information can be derived by spatialRelationInfo configured by RRC messages. In some aspects, the association information can be derived by configured BFR SRS resource set information. When available, it overrides the association information. In some aspects, when multiple SRS resources from the same SRS resource set are identified which are associated to a same new beam index (q new ), the UE can transmit those SRS resources in a time-multiplexed manner with different UE spatial domain TX filtering settings. In some aspects, the BS detects the resource indexes of the received SRS signals, and then identifies the indicated new beam index(es) from the detected SRS resource indexes. In some aspects, when SRS resources are decided for BFR indication for a one beam failed component carrier (CC), the selected SRS resources can be transmitted in a different CC, which are cross-component-carrier associated with the identified q new  from the beam failed CC. In some aspects, the UE transmits PUCCH in one CC, which contains the BFR indication for a different CC. In some aspects, the PUCCH can contain a cell index of the beam failed CC, the identified new beam indexes for the beam failed CC, and optionally the L1-RSRP values for the identified new beam indexes. 
     Techniques for emission and panel aware beam selection are disclosed herein. In some aspects associated with uplink beam management, a gNB can use a synchronization signal block (SSB) index, a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource index, or a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource index for uplink beam indication. If an SRS Resource Index (SRI) is indicated, the LE can apply the same spatial domain transmission filter (Tx beam) to the indicated uplink signal as the SRS resource indicated by SRI. If an SSB/CSI-RS index is indicated, the UE can apply the same Tx beam to the indicated uplink signal as the spatial domain receiving filter (Rx beam) as the indicated SSB/CSI-RS. However, if SSB/CSI-RS is indicated, the gNB has no information on the UE beam. Consequently, the following two issues can be of importance: 
     (1) There could be some emission for a particular UE beam, which is targeting (or harmful) to the human body.  FIG. 13  illustrates a graph  1300  of example beam emissions, in accordance with some aspects. As shown in  FIG. 13 , a main signal lobe  1302  is associated with signal emissions targeting to the strongest channel cluster.  FIG. 13  also illustrates a side lobe  1304 , which may be targeting to the human body (i.e., the signal beam associated with this lobe can be considered as “not safe” or harmful). 
     (2) It is unknown which antenna panel(s) the UE would use to receive indicated SSB/CSI-RS. Then which antenna panel(s) the UE Tx beam should be from is unknown to the gNB so that the gNB cannot control the interference and cannot select a multi-panel transmission operation. 
     In addition, due to movement and rotation of the device (UE) user, some (or all) of the current UE beams may point to the human body. In this case, the UE cannot find a way to communicate with the gNB in the uplink, and consequently, some uplink beam recovery may be necessary. 
     Techniques disclosed herein can be used to enable emission and panel aware beam selection, including UE reported information on beam emission status and panel information, and control signaling on beam and panel indication. 
     The gNB has no information on the emission and the LIE antenna panel(s) for a UE beam. Therefore, in an initial first step, the UE can report some information (e.g., CSI report). In some aspects, the second step is to utilize gNB control signaling on beam indication based on the UE reported information. In some aspects, a UE panel (or antenna panel) can be considered as a UE antenna port(s) group.  FIG. 14  illustrates the procedure for emission aware and panel aware based beam selection. 
       FIG. 14  illustrates a communication exchange for an example procedure  1400  for emission or panel-aware based beam selection, in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 14 , the procedure  1400  may take place between a base station (e.g., a gNB)  1402  and a UE  1404  (or any other UEs discussed herein). The procedure  1400  may start at operation  1402 , when control signaling for beam reporting is communicated from the base station  1402  to the UE  1404 . 
     In some aspects, for a beam reporting, the gNB  1402  can indicate whether the UE should report the emission and/or panel related information for a beam by RRC signaling or medium access control—control element (MAC-CE) signaling, or Downlink Control Information (DCI) signaling, or a combination thereof. 
     In some aspects, the gNB  1402  can indicate whether the reported beam can be selected for uplink transmission. If it is configured that the reported beam can be selected for uplink transmission, the reported beam in a corresponding beam reporting instance can should be emission-safe; otherwise, the reported beam may not be used for uplink transmission so that this beam reporting instance can be considered as for downlink beam selection only. 
     In some aspects, the gNB  1402  can indicate whether the UE  1404  should report whether one reported SSB/CSI-RS index can be selected for uplink beam indication. Additionally, the gNB  1402  can indicate whether the UE  1404  should report which UE antenna panel(s) the SSB/CSI-RS is measured from. As used herein, the terms “antenna panel” and “panel” are synonymous. 
     At operation  1408 , the UE  1404  reports emission or panel information for an SSB/CSI-RS resource (e.g., as identified by an SSB resource index, or SSBRI, or CSI-RS resource index, or CRI). 
     In some aspects, in each beam reporting instance, if configured, the UE  1404  can report whether the SSB/CSI-RS resource can be used for uplink beam indication. Table 2 illustrates one example on UE beam reporting information, where CRI indicates a CSI-RS Resource Index and SSBRI indicates an SSB Resource Index. The flag could take 1-bit, where value 0 may indicate the reported beam cannot be used for uplink beam indication and a value 1 may indicate the reported beam can be used for uplink beam indication. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 2 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 an example for UE beam reporting with flag for uplink 
               
               
                 beam indication: 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 CSI 
                   
               
               
                 report 
               
               
                 number 
                 CSI fields 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 CSI 
                 CRI or SSBRI #1, if reported 
               
               
                 report 
                 CRI or SSBRI #2, if reported 
               
               
                 #n 
                 CRI or SSBRI #3, if reported 
               
               
                   
                 CRI or SSBRI #4, if reported 
               
               
                   
                 RSRP #1, if reported 
               
               
                   
                 Differential RSRP #2, if reported 
               
               
                   
                 Differential RSRP #3, if reported 
               
               
                   
                 Differential RSRP #4, if reported 
               
               
                   
                 Flag on whether the CRI or SSBRI #1 can be used for uplink 
               
               
                   
                 spatial relation indication, if reported 
               
               
                   
                 Flag on whether the CRI or SSBRI #2 can be used for uplink 
               
               
                   
                 spatial relation indication, if reported 
               
               
                   
                 Flag on whether the CRI or SSBRI #3 can be used for uplink 
               
               
                   
                 spatial relation indication, if reported 
               
               
                   
                 Flag on whether the CRI or SSBRI #4 can be used for uplink 
               
               
                   
                 spatial relation indication, if reported 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     Alternatively, for each CRI/SSBRI, the UE can report a maximum power reduction (MPR) level to the gNB. Then to reduce emission, the uplink maximum transmission power could be reduced if a corresponding beam is indicated. Table 3 illustrates one example for MPR based beam reporting. Table 4 illustrates one example for MPR indication. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 3 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 an example for UE beam reporting with MPR information: 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 CSI report 
                   
               
               
                   
                 number 
                 CSI fields 
               
               
                   
                   
               
               
                   
                 CSI report 
                 CRI or SSBRI #1, if reported 
               
               
                   
                 #n 
                 CRI or SSBRI #2, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 CRI or SSBRI #3, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 CRI or SSBRI #4, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 RSRP #1, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 Differential RSRP #2, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 Differential RSRP #3, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 Differential RSRP #4, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 MPR for CRI or SSBRI #1, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 MPR for CRI or SSBRI #2, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 MPR for CRI or SSBRI #3, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 MPR for CRI or SSBRI #4, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 4 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 an example for MPR indication: 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 MPR 
                   
               
               
                 bits 
                 Indication 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 00 
                 MPR = 0 dB 
               
               
                 01 
                 MPR = 3 dB 
               
               
                 10 
                 MPR = 6 dB 
               
               
                 11 
                 Not used for uplink spatial 
               
               
                   
                 relation info indication 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In some aspects, the UE may report the panel index(es) for a beam in beam reporting if configured. Table 5 illustrates an example for beam reporting with LE panel information. Table 6 illustrates an example for the indication of the UE antenna port(s) group in a beam reporting. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 5 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 an example for beam reporting with UE panel information: 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 CSI report 
                   
               
               
                   
                 number 
                 CSI fields 
               
               
                   
                   
               
               
                   
                 CSI report 
                 CRI or SSBRI #1, if reported 
               
               
                   
                 #n 
                 CRI or SSBRI #2, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 CRI or SSBRI #3, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 CRI or SSBRI #4, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 RSRP #1, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 Differential RSRP #2, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 Differential RSRP #3, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 Differential RSRP #4, if reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 UE antenna port(s) group(s) for CRI or SSBRI #1, if 
               
               
                   
                   
                 reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 UE antenna port(s) group(s) for CRI or SSBRI #2, if 
               
               
                   
                   
                 reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 UE antenna port(s) group(s) for CRI or SSBRI #3, if 
               
               
                   
                   
                 reported 
               
               
                   
                   
                 UE antenna port(s) group(s) for CRI or SSBRI #4, if 
               
               
                   
                   
                 reported 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 6 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 an example for indication of UE antenna port(s) group(s): 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 UE antenna port(s) group(s) 
                   
               
               
                 indicator 
                 Indication 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 00 
                 Antenna port(s) group 1 
               
               
                 01 
                 Antenna port(s) group 2 
               
               
                 10 
                 Antenna port(s) group 1 and 2 
               
               
                 11 
                 reserved 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     AT operation  1410 , the gNB  1402  communicates a beam indication based on the panel/emission information for a beam. 
     In some aspects, for uplink beam indication, the gNB  1402  can indicate the UE antenna port(s) group(s) for each uplink beam for PUSCH/SRS/PUCCH/PRACH by RRC signaling and/or MAC CE and/or DCI. An example for the spatial relation info configuration for SRS, PUCCH and PRACH is configured using the following configuration signaling: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                     SRS configuration: 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 SRS-SpatialRelationInfo ::= 
                 SEQUENCE { 
               
               
                  servingCellId 
                  ServCellIndex 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                  OPTIONAL,  -- Need S 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                  referenceSignal 
                  CHOICE { 
               
               
                   ssb-Index 
                   SSB-Index, 
               
               
                   csi-RS-Index 
                   NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceId, 
               
               
                   srs 
                   SEQUENCE { 
               
               
                    resourceId 
                    SRS-ResourceId, 
               
               
                    uplinkBWP 
                    BWP-Id 
               
               
                   } 
                   
               
               
                  } 
                   
               
               
                  antennaPortsGroups 
                   ENUMERATED { g1, g2, g1&amp;2 } 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                   OPTIONAL.,  -- Need S 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 } 
                   
               
               
                     PUCCH configuration: 
                   
               
               
                 PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfo ::= 
                   SEQUENCE { 
               
               
                  pucch-SpatialRelationInfoId 
                   PUCCH-SpatialRelationInfoId, 
               
               
                  servingCellId 
                   ServCellIndex 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                     OPTIONAL,  -- Need S 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                  referenceSignal 
                   CHOICE { 
               
               
                   ssb-Index 
                    SSB-Index, 
               
               
                   csi-RS-Index 
                     NZP-CSI-RS-ResourceId, 
               
               
                   srs 
                    SEQUENCE { 
               
               
                   
                     resource 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                   SRS-ResourceId, 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                     uplinkBWP 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                   BWP-Id 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                    } 
               
               
                  }, 
                   
               
               
                  pucch-PathlossReferenceRS-Id 
                   PUCCH-PathlossReferenceRS-Id, 
               
               
                  p0-PUCCH-Id 
                    P0-PUCCH-Id, 
               
               
                  closedLoopIndex 
                    ENUMERATED { i0, i1 } 
               
               
                  antennaPortsGroups 
                   ENUMERATED { g1, g2, g1&amp;2 } 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                   OPTIONAL.,  -- Need S 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 } 
                   
               
               
                     PRACCH configuration: 
                   
               
               
                 CFRA-SSB-Resource ::= 
                 SEQUENCE { 
               
               
                  ssb 
                 SSB-Index, 
               
               
                  ra-PreambleIndex 
                 INTEGER (0..63), 
               
               
                  antennaPortsGroups 
                   ENUMERATED { g1, g2, g1&amp;2 } 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                   OPTIONAL,  -- Need S 
               
               
                  . . . 
               
               
                 } 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 CFRA-CSIRS-Resource ::= 
                 SEQUENCE { 
               
               
                  csi-RS 
                 CSI-RS-index, 
               
               
                  ra-OccasionList 
                 SEQUENCE (SIZE(1..maxRA- 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 OccasionsPerCSIRS)) OF INTEGER (0..maxRA-Occasions-1), 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                  ra-PreambleIndex 
                 INTEGER (0..63), 
               
               
                  antennaPortsGroups 
                   ENUMERATED { g1, g2, g1&amp;2 } 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                   OPTIONAL,  -- Need S 
               
               
                  . . . 
               
               
                 } 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In some aspects, the antenna port(s) group(s) can also be indicated for each SRS resource set. There could be multiple SRS resource sets configured for uplink codebook and non-codebook based transmission. The antenna port(s) could be configured to be different in different SRS resource sets to support uplink panel selection. 
     In some aspects, for PDCCH ordered PRACH, the antenna port group index could be indicated by downlink control information (DCI). In one example, for a 2 panel UE, the following could be configured in DCI to trigger PRACH: SS/PBCH block (SSB) index, a PRACH mask, and an antenna port group index. 
     In some aspects, the UE would transmit the PRACH based on the Tx beam associated with the SSB index indicated by DCI from the panel indicated by antenna. port group index. Alternatively, the PRACH could be transmitted from the indicated panel with the Tx beam associated with the reference signal configured in Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state of the corresponding PDCCH that triggers PRACH. 
     In some aspects, the antenna port group index for PDCCH ordered PRACH can be configured by higher layer signaling or based on the latest reported panel index in beam reporting for the correspondence SSB, or based on the indicated spatial relation info which is based on the indicated SSB. 
     In some aspects, the transmission from an antenna port group index as disclosed herein can be considered as an uplink transmission entity. Uplink transmission from different antenna port indexes could be considered as different uplink transmission entities. 
     As a result of UE&#39;s movement or rotation, current uplink beam(s) may not be emission-safe. Consequently, the UE cannot use current uplink beam(s) to transmit uplink signal. The UE can then attempt to recover the uplink beam by an uplink beam recovery procedure.  FIG. 15  illustrates the procedure for uplink beam recovery. 
       FIG. 15  illustrates a communication exchange for an example procedure  1500  for uplink beam recovery, in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 15 , the procedure  1500  takes place between a base station (e.g., a gNB)  1502  and a UE  1504 . The procedure  1500  may start at operation  1506 , when a UE detects that a subset of (or all of) the uplink beams is not emission-safe, or the beam quality is sub-optimal. In this case, the UE communicates a beam recovery request to the gNB. In response, at operation  1508 , a beam recovery request response is communicated back to the UE  1504  from the gNB  1502 . 
     In some aspects, the beam recovery request can be carried by PUCCH or PRACH, which is used to identify SSB or CSI-RS resource index(es) for uplink beam indication. For PUCCH based scheme, the SSB/CSI-RS resource index(es) can be explicitly indicated. The failed SSB/CSI-RS resource index(ex) for uplink beam indication may also be transmitted. For PRACH based scheme, the SSB/CSI-RS resource index can be identified based on the PRACH resource index. 
     In some aspects, the beam recovery request response can be carried by a PDCCH scrambled by C-RNTI or a predefined/configured RNTI. This response can be transmitted in a dedicated search space or control resource set configured by higher layer signaling or all the configured search spaces. After receiving a reconfiguration of uplink beam for uplink signal, a UE can consider the uplink beam has been recovered. 
     In some aspects, if no beam recovery request response is received in a configured time window, the UE can retransmit the uplink beam recovery request. In some aspects, a UE may be allowed for N times retransmission, where N can be predefined or configured by higher layer signaling. 
     In some aspects, the UE includes circuitry to report information on beam emission, to report information on panel selection, and to determine the beam and panel for downlink reception and uplink transmission. In some aspects, for a beam reporting, the gNB can indicate whether the UE should report the emission and/or panel related information for a beam by RRC signaling or medium access control—control element (MAC-CE), or Downlink Control Information (DCI), or a combination thereof. In some aspects, the gNB can indicate whether the reported beam can be selected for uplink transmission. In some aspects, if it is configured that the reported beam can be selected for uplink transmission, the reported beam in corresponding beam reporting instance should be emission-safe; otherwise, the reported beam may not be used for uplink transmission so that this beam reporting instance can be considered as for downlink beam selection only. In some aspects, the gNB can indicate whether UE should report whether one reported SSB/CSI-RS index can be selected for uplink beam indication. In some aspects, in each beam reporting instance, if configured, UE can report whether the SSB/CSI-RS resource can be used for uplink beam indication. In some aspects, for each CRI/SSBRI, the UE can report a maximum power reduction (MPR) level to gNB. In some aspects, for uplink beam indication, the gNB can indicate the UE antenna port(s) group(s) for each uplink beam for PUSCH/SRS/PUCCH/PRACH by RRC signaling, and/or MAC CE, and/or DCI. In some aspects, the antenna port(s) group(s) can also be indicated for each SRS resource set. In some aspects, a UE may be configured with multiple SRS resource sets for codebook based or non-codebook based transmission. In some aspects, the beam recovery request can be carried by PUCCH or PRACH, which is used to identify SSB or CSI-RS resource index(es) for uplink beam indication. In some aspects, for PUCCH based scheme, the SSB/CSI-RS resource index(es) can be explicitly indicated. The failed SSB/CSI-RS resource index(ex) for uplink beam indication may also be transmitted. In some aspects, the beam recovery request response can be carried by a PDCCH scrambled by C-RNTI, or a predefined/configured RNTI. In some aspects, the response can be transmitted in a dedicated search space or control resource set configured by higher layer signaling or all the configured search spaces. 
     In some aspects, if no beam recovery request response is received in a configured time window, the UE can retransmit the uplink beam recovery request. In some aspects, a UE is allowed for N times retransmission, where N can be predefined or configured by higher layer signaling. In some aspects, for PDCCH ordered PRACH, the antenna port group index could be indicated by downlink control information (DCI). In some aspects, the UE transmits the PRACH based on the Tx beam associated with the SSB index indicated by DCI from the panel indicated by antenna port group index. In some aspects, the PRACH can be transmitted from the indicated panel with the Tx beam associated with the reference signal configured in Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state of the corresponding PDCCH that triggers PRACH. In some aspects, the antenna port group index for PDCCH ordered PRACH can be configured by higher layer signaling. In some aspects, the antenna port group index for PDCCH ordered PRACH can be based on the latest reported panel index in beam reporting for the correspondence SSB. In some aspects, the antenna port group index for PDCCH ordered PRACH can be based on the indicated spatial relation info which is based on the indicated SSB. 
     Techniques for single beam operation and downlink beam management with low overhead and latency are disclosed herein. In some aspects, beam measurement and reporting can be based on Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) and Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS). A gNB can apply different beams in different SSB/CSI-RS resources, where one CSI-RS resource can take one symbol and one SSB resource can take 4 symbols. The UE can measure and report the Layer 1 Reference Signal Receiving Power (L1-RSRP) for each resources so that gNB can understand the quality of each beam. Furthermore, the UE can use different receiving beam to receive different CSI-RS resources to find a good UE beam. 
       FIG. 16  illustrates an example beam management framework  1600 , in accordance with some aspects. For different CSI-RS resources, which is identified based on CSI-RS Resource Index (CRI), when they are configured in a resource set with repetition=ON, it denotes the gNB beams for CSI-RS in those symbols are the same (e.g., beams  1616 ). Thus, the UE can use different receiving beams to receive different symbols. If repetition=OFF, the gNB beams can be different (e.g., beams  1618 ). Referring to  FIG. 16 , the CSI-RS resource set 1  1606  is based on resources with indexes  1602  and  1604 , and the CSI-RS resource set 2  1612  is based on resources with indexes  1608  and  1610 . The resource sets are mapped to corresponding symbols  1614 . 
     In this regard, the beam management framework of  FIG. 16  can support symbol-level beam measurement, which can be associated with a large overhead, especially when the number of beams is large. Then how to reduce the overhead for downlink beam management can be one issue addressed by disclosed techniques. 
     In some aspects, the beam indication is based on a SSB/CSI-RS resource by a Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI). For PDSCH, the DCI based beam indication can be used when the scheduling offset is above or equal to a threshold UE reported. When scheduling offset is below a threshold, PDSCH beam should be based on a PDCCH beam in a Control Resource Set (CORESET). 
       FIG. 17  illustrates an example beam indication framework  1700 , in accordance with some aspects. In some aspects, the UE may report its capability that it can only support 1 active PDSCH beam. Referring to  FIG. 17 , a scheduling PDCCH is communicated at operation  1702  scheduling PDSCH  1706 , and a CORESET 1 is communicated at operation  1704 . In aspects when the scheduling offset is smaller than a threshold, CORSET 1 QCL information is followed; otherwise, QCL information indicated by TCI is followed, if TCI is present, or QCL information for scheduling PDCCH is followed if TCI is not present. In some aspects, according to the procedure in  FIG. 17 , although only 1 active TCI state is configured, UE has to maintain multiple candidate PDSCH beams: one is based on the active TCI state and the others are based on the PDCCH beam. 
     In some aspects, disclosed techniques include enabling the downlink beam management with low overhead and latency, as well as a single beam operation based downlink beam management, including beam measurement and selection with overhead and latency reduction and single beam operation support. 
     As used herein, the term “gNB beam” indicates a gNB spatial domain transmission filter, and the term “UE beam” indicates a UE spatial domain receiving filter, and “the same beam between two downlink signals” indicates the antenna ports for the downlink signals are quasi-co-located (QCLed). 
     Low Overhead/Latency Based Beam Management 
     In some aspects, the CSI-RS could have 1 port with a configurable density, e.g. 1 Resource Element (RE) per Resource Block (RB) or 3 RE/RB. The CSI-RS is mapped in a uniformly distributed manner, which is based on Interleaved Frequency Division Multiplexing Access (IFDMA) structure.  FIG. 18  illustrates a time domain signal structure for IFDMA based CSI-RS when its frequency domain density is 3 REs/RB, where the signal can be repeatedly transmitted 4 times (at  1804 ) after a cyclic prefix (CP) transmission (at  1802 ), in accordance with some aspects. In some aspects, the gNB or the UE can apply different beams in different repetitions. 
     In some aspects, up to N beams can be applied to a CSI-RS symbol with the frequency density equals to D, where N=12/D and each beam can be applied to a time unit of one or multiple repetition or a time unit which equals to T/N and T indicates the duration for the CSI-RS symbol. The duration of the time unit can be configured by higher layer signaling and/or be determined by the frequency density of CSI-RS and/or the subcarrier offset of the CSI-RS.  FIG. 19  and  FIG. 20  illustrate different options for time unit (TU) partition. 
       FIG. 19  illustrates a time unit partition  1900  in a first option, in accordance with some aspects.  FIG. 20  illustrates a time unit partition  2000  in a second option, in accordance with some aspects. 
     In some aspects, the maximum number of TUs (N_max) could be equal to the frequency domain densities. 
     In some aspects, for a CSI-RS resource, its time unit(s) can be configured by RRC signaling or DCI. In some aspects, the time unit(s) can be configured by a bit-map with the length of N_max, where each bit is associated with corresponding TU—value 0 may indicate the TU is not allocated and value 1 may indicate the TU is allocated to the CSI-RS resource. A UE may expect a CSI-RS resource should be located in consecutive TU(s). 
     In some aspects, the TU index(es) can be jointly coded. For example, when the frequency domain density for a CSI-RS is 3 REs/RB, the candidate TU index(es) could be {TU0, TU1, TU2, TU3, TU0 and TU1, TU2 and TU3, TU0 and TU1 and TU2 and TU3}. 
     If the time unit(s) is not configured, the whole symbol should be used by the CSI-RS resource. 
     In some aspects, for UE beam refinement, the gNB may inform the UE whether one CSI-RS resource could be divided into multiple TUs. In some aspects, the UE can use different receiving beams to receive different TUs to support fast beam refinement and measurement. Whether one CSI-RS resource could be dived into multiple TUs can be configured by RRC signaling or DCI or a combination thereof. Alternatively, it could be determined based on the frequency domain density and/or the subcarrier offset. For example, only when subcarrier offset is 0, the UE can consider the CSI-RS could be divided into multiple TUs. 
     In some aspects, the UE may report whether it support fast beam sweeping operation or report the minimal time domain granularity of for a CSI-RS resource, e.g. {¼ symbol, ⅓ symbol ½ symbol, 1 symbol} per subcarrier spacing or across all subcarrier spacing as a UE capability, which is reported via RRC signaling. 
     Single beam operation support. 
     In some aspects, for a UE supporting only 1 active TCI state, the gNB may configure 1 TCI state by RRC or active 1 TCI state by MAC Control Element (CE) if multiple TCI states are configured by RRC. In that case, the UE does not need to use different beams to receive the downlink signal with different scheduling offsets as shown in  FIG. 17 . 
     In some aspects, if a UE is configured with 1 TCI state for PDSCH by MAC CE or RRC, it can follow this configured TCI state to receive PDSCH regardless of scheduling offset and/or whether TCI state is present in the scheduling DCI. If a UE is configured with more than 1 TCI state for PDSCH by MAC CE, it could determine the PDSCH beam based on the scheduling offset and whether the TCI is present in DCI.  FIG. 21  illustrates a flowchart of an example method  2100  for PDSCH beam indication, in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 21 , the method  2100  may start at operation  2102 , when it is determined whether one, or more than one, active TCI state is configured. If no TCI states are configured, at operation  2104 , the PDSCH beam is based on an SSB beam identified in an initial access. If one, or more than one, active TCI state is configured, at operation  2106 , when it is determined whether more than one active TCI state is configured. If not more than one TCI state is configured, at operation  2108 , the PDSCH beam is based on the active TCI state. If more than one active TCI state is configured, at operation  2110 , it is determined whether the scheduling offset is below a threshold. If it is determined that the offset is below a threshold, at operation  2114 , the PDSCH beam is based on the CORESET in the latest slot with the lowest CORESET ID. If the scheduling offset is not below the threshold, at operation  2112 , it is determined whether TCI is present in DCI. If the TCI is present in the DCI, at operation  2118 , the PDSCH beam is based on the indicated TCI state. If the TCI is not present in the DCI, at operation  2116 , the PDSCH beam is based on the TCI state for scheduling PDCCH. 
       FIG. 22  illustrates a flowchart of an example method  2200  for emission and panel aware beam selection, in accordance with some aspects. Referring to  FIG. 22 , at operation  2202 , a plurality of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) received from a base station on a corresponding plurality of beams are decoded (e.g., by UE  101 ). At operation  2204 , downlink control information (DCI) received via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is downloaded. The DCI activating reporting of beam emissions information associated with the plurality of beams. At operation  2206 , a channel state information (CSI) report is encoded with the beam emissions information for transmission to the base station. The beam emissions information includes a flag for each beam of the plurality of beams indicating whether the beam can be used for uplink beam indication. At operation  2208 , configuration signaling with the uplink beam indication is decoded by the UE. The uplink beam indication is based on the beam emissions information and includes a channel resource index (CRI) of a selected beam of the plurality of beams. At operation  2210 , data is encoded for transmission via an uplink channel using the selected beam. 
     In some aspects, a UE includes circuitry to measure the quality of a gNB or a UE beam based on a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) with a configurable time domain granularity. In some aspects, a symbol of CSI-RS can be divided into N_max time units (TUs). In some aspects, N_max can be configured by higher layer signaling and/or DCI and/or determined by the frequency domain density and/or starting subcarrier offset of CSI-RS. In some aspects, up to N_max beams can be applied to a CSI-RS symbol. In some aspects, a TU can be determined by the symbol duration of a CSI-RS and number of TUs. In some aspects, the first TU may start from the beginning of a CSI-RS symbol including cyclic prefix (CP). In some aspects, the first TU may start from the beginning of a CSI-RS symbol after cyclic prefix (CP). In some aspects, the allocated TU(s) for a CSI-RS resource can be configured by RRC signaling and/or DCI. In some aspects, the time unit(s) can be configured by a bit-map with the length of N_max. where each bit is associated with corresponding TU: value 0 may indicate the TU is not allocated and value 1 may indicate the TU is allocated to the CSI-RS resource. In some aspects, a UE may expect a CSI-RS resource should be located in consecutive TU(s). In some aspects, the TU index(es) can be jointly coded. In some aspects, if the time unit(s) is not configured, the whole symbol should be used by the CSI-RS resource. In some aspects, for UE beam refinement, the gNB may inform the UE whether one CSI-RS resource could be divided into multiple TUs. In some aspects, whether one CSI-RS resource could be dived into multiple TUs can be configured by RRC signaling or DCI or a combination thereof. In some aspects, whether one CSI-RS resource could be dived into multiple TUs could be determined based on the frequency domain density and/or the subcarrier offset. In some aspects, the UE may report whether it support fast beam sweeping operation or report the minimal time domain granularity of for a CSI-RS resource per subcarrier spacing or across all subcarrier spacing as a UE capability. In some aspects, the UE includes the circuitry to support single-beam operation. In some aspects, if a UE is configured with 1 TCI state for PDSCH by MAC CE or RRC, it should follow this configured TCI state to receive PDSCH regardless of scheduling offset and/or whether TCI state is present in the scheduling DCI. In some aspects, if a UE is configured with more than 1 TCI state for PDSCH by MAC CE, it could determine the PDSCH beam based on the scheduling offset and whether the TCI is present in DCI. 
       FIG. 23  illustrates a block diagram of a communication device such as an evolved Node-B (eNB), a next generation Node-B (gNB), an access point (AP), a wireless station (STA), a mobile station (MS), or a user equipment (UE), in accordance with some aspects. In alternative aspects, the communication device  2300  may operate as a standalone device or may be connected (e.g., networked) to other communication devices. 
     Circuitry (e.g., processing circuitry) is a collection of circuits implemented in tangible entities of the device  2300  that include hardware (e.g., simple circuits, gates, logic, etc.). Circuitry membership may be flexible over time. Circuitries include members that may, alone or in combination, perform specified operations when operating. In an example, the hardware of the circuitry may be immutably designed to carry out a specific operation (e.g., hardwired). In an example, the hardware of the circuitry may include variably connected physical components (e.g., execution units, transistors, simple circuits, etc.) including a machine-readable medium physically modified (e.g., magnetically, electrically, moveable placement of invariant massed particles, etc.) to encode instructions of the specific operation. 
     In connecting the physical components, the underlying electrical properties of a hardware constituent are changed, for example, from an insulator to a conductor or vice versa. The instructions enable embedded hardware (e.g., the execution units or a loading mechanism) to create members of the circuitry in hardware via the variable connections to carry out portions of the specific operation when in operation. Accordingly, in an example, the machine-readable medium elements are part of the circuitry or are communicatively coupled to the other components of the circuitry when the device is operating. In an example, any of the physical components may be used in more than one member of more than one circuitry. For example, under operation, execution units may be used in a first circuit of a first circuitry at one point in time and reused by a second circuit in the first circuitry, or by a third circuit in a second circuitry at a different time. Additional examples of these components with respect to the device  2300  follow. 
     In some aspects, the device  2300  may operate as a standalone device or may be connected (e.g., networked) to other devices. In a networked deployment, the communication device  2300  may operate in the capacity of a server communication device, a client communication device, or both in server-client network environments. In an example, the communication device  2300  may act as a peer communication device in peer-to-peer (P2P) (or other distributed) network environment. The communication device  2300  may be a UE, eNB, PC, a tablet PC, a STB, a PDA, a mobile telephone, a smartphone, a web appliance, a network router, switch or bridge, or any communication device capable of executing instructions (sequential or otherwise) that specify actions to be taken by that communication device. Further, while only a single communication device is illustrated, the term “communication device” shall also be taken to include any collection of communication devices that individually or jointly execute a set (or multiple sets) of instructions to perform any one or more of the methodologies discussed herein, such as cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), and other computer cluster configurations. 
     Examples, as described herein, may include, or may operate on, logic or a number of components, modules, or mechanisms. Modules are tangible entities (e.g., hardware) capable of performing specified operations and may be configured or arranged in a certain manner. In an example, circuits may be arranged (e.g., internally or with respect to external entities such as other circuits) in a specified manner as a module. In an example, the whole or part of one or more computer systems (e.g., a standalone, client or server computer system) or one or more hardware processors may be configured by firmware or software (e.g., instructions, an application portion, or an application) as a module that operates to perform specified operations. In an example, the software may reside on a communication device-readable medium. In an example, the software, when executed by the underlying hardware of the module, causes the hardware to perform the specified operations. 
     Accordingly, the term “module” is understood to encompass a tangible entity, be that an entity that is physically constructed, specifically configured (e.g., hardwired), or temporarily (e.g., transitorily) configured (e.g., programmed) to operate in a specified manner or to perform part or all of any operation described herein. Considering examples in which modules are temporarily configured, each of the modules need not be instantiated at any one moment in time. For example, where the modules comprise a general-purpose hardware processor configured using software, the general-purpose hardware processor may be configured as respective different modules at different times. Software may accordingly configure a hardware processor, for example, to constitute a particular module at one instance of time and to constitute a different module at a different instance of time. 
     Communication device (e.g., UE)  2300  may include a hardware processor  2302  (e.g., a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), a hardware processor core, or any combination thereof), a main memory  2304 , a static memory  2306 , and mass storage  2307  (e.g., hard drive, tape drive, flash storage, or other block or storage devices), some or all of which may communicate with each other via an interlink (e.g., bus)  2308 . 
     The communication device  2300  may further include a display device  2310 , an alphanumeric input device  2312  (e.g., a keyboard), and a user interface (UI) navigation device  2314  (e.g., a mouse). In an example, the display device  2310 , input device  2312  and UI navigation device  2314  may be a touch screen display. The communication device  2300  may additionally include a signal generation device  2318  (e.g., a speaker), a network interface device  2320 , and one or more sensors  2321 , such as a global positioning system (GPS) sensor, compass, accelerometer, or other sensors. The communication device  2300  may include an output controller  2328 , such as a serial (e.g., universal serial bus (USB), parallel, or other wired or wireless (e.g., infrared (IR), near field communication (NFC), etc.) connection to communicate or control one or more peripheral devices (e.g., a printer, card reader, etc.). 
     The storage device  2307  may include a communication device-readable medium  2322 , on which is stored one or more sets of data structures or instructions  2324  (e.g., software) embodying or utilized by any one or more of the techniques or functions described herein. In some aspects, registers of the processor  2302 , the main memory  2304 , the static memory  2306 , and/or the mass storage  2307  may be, or include (completely or at least partially), the device-readable medium  2322 , on which is stored the one or more sets of data structures or instructions  2324 , embodying or utilized by any one or more of the techniques or functions described herein. In an example, one or any combination of the hardware processor  2302 , the main memory  2304 , the static memory  2306 , or the mass storage  2316  may constitute the device-readable medium  2322 . 
     As used herein, the term “device-readable medium” is interchangeable with “computer-readable medium” or “machine-readable medium”. While the communication device-readable medium  2322  is illustrated as a single medium, the term “communication device-readable medium” may include a single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributed database, and/or associated caches and servers) configured to store the one or more instructions  2324 . 
     The term “communication device-readable medium” may include any medium that is capable of storing, encoding, or carrying instructions (e.g., instructions  2324 ) for execution by the communication device  2300  and that causes the communication device  2300  to perform any one or more of the techniques of the present disclosure, or that is capable of storing, encoding or carrying data structures used by or associated with such instructions. Non-limiting communication device-readable medium examples may include solid-state memories and optical and magnetic media. Specific examples of communication device-readable media may include: non-volatile memory, such as semiconductor memory devices (e.g., Electrically Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM)) and flash memory devices; magnetic disks, such as internal hard disks and removable disks; magneto-optical disks; Random Access Memory (RAM); and CD-ROM and DVD-ROM disks. In some examples, communication device-readable media may include non-transitory communication device-readable media. In some examples, communication device-readable media may include communication device-readable media that is not a transitory propagating signal. 
     The instructions  2324  may further be transmitted or received over a communications network  2326  using a transmission medium via the network interface device  2320  utilizing any one of a number of transfer protocols (e.g., frame relay, internet protocol (IP), transmission control protocol (TCP), user datagram protocol (UDP), hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), etc.). Example communication networks may include a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), a packet data network (e.g., the Internet), mobile telephone networks (e.g., cellular networks), Plain Old Telephone (POTS) networks, and wireless data networks (e.g., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 family of standards known as Wi-Fi®, IEEE 802.16 family of standards known as WiMax®), IEEE 802.15.4 family of standards, a Long Term Evolution (LTE) family of standards, a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMITS) family of standards, peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, among others. In an example, the network interface device  2320  may include one or more physical jacks (e.g., Ethernet, coaxial, or phone jacks) or one or more antennas to connect to the communications network  2326 . In an example, the network interface device  2320  may include a plurality of antennas to wirelessly communicate using at least one of single-input multiple-output (SIMO), MIO, or multiple-input single-output (MISO) techniques. In some examples, the network interface device  2320  may wirelessly communicate using Multiple User MIMO techniques. 
     The term “transmission medium” shall be taken to include any intangible medium that is capable of storing, encoding or carrying instructions for execution by the communication device  2300 , and includes digital or analog communications signals or another intangible medium to facilitate communication of such software. In this regard, a transmission medium in the context of this disclosure is a device-readable medium. 
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     Example 1 is an apparatus of a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising: processing circuitry, wherein to configure the UE for New Radio (NR) communications, the processing circuitry is to: decode a plurality of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) received from a base station on a corresponding plurality of beams; decode downlink control information (DCI) received via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the DCI activating reporting of beam emissions information associated with the plurality of beams; encode a channel state information (CSI) report with the beam emissions information for transmission to the base station, the beam emissions information comprising a flag for each beam of the plurality of beams indicating whether the beam can be used for uplink beam indication; decode configuration signaling with the uplink beam indication, the uplink beam indication based on the beam emissions information and including a channel resource index (CRI) of a selected beam of the plurality of beams; and encode data for transmission via an uplink channel using the selected beam; and memory coupled to the processing circuitry, the memory configured to store the beam emissions information. 
     In Example 2, the subject matter of Example 1 includes, wherein the CSI report includes: a CRI for each beam of the plurality of beams; beam quality information for each beam of the plurality of beams; and the flag for each beam of the plurality of beams, wherein the flag is based on whether the beam is associated with harmful emissions. 
     In Example 3, the subject matter of Examples 1-2 includes, wherein the processing circuitry is to: encode the CSI report with the beam emissions information for transmission to the base station, the beam emissions information comprising a maximum power reduction (MPR) level for each beam of the plurality of beams, indicating maximum uplink transmission power can be reduced when a corresponding beam is indicated by the configuration signaling. 
     In Example 4, the subject matter of Examples 1-3 includes, wherein the processing circuitry is to: encode the CSI report with antenna panel information for each beam of the plurality of beams, the antenna panel information for a corresponding beam of the plurality of beams indicating an antenna panel index of a UE antenna panel used for uplink transmissions when the corresponding beam is selected for the uplink beam indication. 
     In Example 5, the subject matter of Examples 1-4 includes, wherein the processing circuitry is to: encode the CSI report with antenna ports group information for each beam of the plurality of beams, the antenna ports group information for a corresponding beam of the plurality of beams indicating at least one antenna port used for uplink transmissions when the corresponding beam is selected for the uplink beam indication. 
     In Example 6, the subject matter of Example 5 includes, wherein the configuration signaling is one of sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration signaling, physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) configuration signaling, and physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration signaling. 
     In Example 7, the subject matter of Examples 1-6 includes, wherein the configuration signaling includes an antenna ports group information for each beam of the plurality of beams, the antenna ports group information indicating at least one antenna port used for uplink transmissions when a corresponding beam of the plurality of beams is selected for the uplink beam indication. 
     In Example 8, the subject matter of Examples 1-7 includes, wherein the processing circuitry is to: detect a beam of the plurality of beams is not emission-safe when used for transmitting uplink data; and encode a beam recovery request for transmission to the base station, the beam recovery request to initiate a beam recovery procedure based on the detected beam. 
     In Example 9, the subject matter of Examples 1-8 includes, wherein the processing circuitry is to: decode a plurality of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) received from the base station via the corresponding plurality of beams; encode the CSI report with the beam emissions information for transmission to the base station, the beam emissions information comprising a flag for each of the plurality of beams used to receive the plurality of SSBs indicating whether the beam can be used for uplink beam indication; and decode the configuration signaling with the uplink beam indication, the uplink beam indication based on the beam emissions information and including an SSB resource index (SSBRI) of the selected beam of the plurality of beams. 
     In Example 10, the subject matter of Examples 1-9 includes, transceiver circuitry coupled to the processing circuitry; and, one or more antennas coupled to the transceiver circuitry. 
     Example 11 is a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a base station operating in a 5G network, the instructions to configure the one or more processors for New Radio (NR) communications and to cause the base station to: encode a plurality of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) for transmission to a user equipment (UE) on a corresponding plurality of beams; encode downlink control information (DCI) for transmission via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the DCI activating reporting of beam emissions information associated with the plurality of beams; decode a channel state information (CSI) report with the beam emissions information, the beam emissions information comprising a flag for each beam of the plurality of beams indicating whether the beam can be used for uplink beam indication; encode configuration signaling with the uplink beam indication, the uplink beam indication based on the beam emissions information and including a channel resource index (CRI) of a selected beam of the plurality of beams; and decode uplink data received via an uplink channel using the selected beam. 
     In Example 12, the subject matter of Example 11 includes, wherein the instructions further configure the one or more processors to cause the base station to: encode a plurality of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) for transmission to the UE using the corresponding plurality of beams; decode the CSI report with the beam emissions information, the beam emissions information comprising a flag for each of the plurality of beams used to receive the plurality of SSBs indicating whether the beam can be used for uplink beam indication; and encode the configuration signaling with the uplink beam indication, the uplink beam indication based on the beam emissions information and including an SSB resource index (SSBRI) of the selected beam of the plurality of beams. 
     In Example 13, the subject matter of Example 12 includes, wherein the CSI report includes: a CRI for each beam of the plurality of beams; beam quality information for each beam of the plurality of beams; and the flag for each beam of the plurality of beams, wherein the flag is based on whether the beam is associated with harmful emissions. 
     In Example 14, the subject matter of Examples 11-13 includes, wherein the instructions further configure the one or more processors to cause the base station to: decode the CSI report with antenna ports group information for each beam of the plurality of beams, the antenna ports group information for a corresponding beam of the plurality of beams indicating at least one antenna port used for uplink transmissions when the corresponding beam is selected for the uplink beam indication. 
     In Example 15, the subject matter of Example 14 includes, wherein the configuration signaling is one of sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration signaling, physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) configuration signaling, and physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration signaling. 
     Example 16 is a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), the instructions to configure the one or more processors for New Radio (NR) communications and to cause the UE to: decode a plurality of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) received from a base station on a corresponding plurality of beams; decode downlink control information (DCI) received via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), the DCI activating reporting of beam emissions information associated with the plurality of beams; encode a channel state information (CSI) report with the beam emissions information for transmission to the base station, the beam emissions information comprising a flag for each beam of the plurality of beams indicating whether the beam can be used for uplink beam indication; decode configuration signaling with the uplink beam indication, the uplink beam indication based on the beam emissions information and including a channel resource index (CRI) of a selected beam of the plurality of beams; and encode data for transmission via an uplink channel using the selected beam. 
     In Example 17, the subject matter of Example 16 includes, wherein the instructions further configure the one or more processors to cause the UE to: encode the CSI report with the beam emissions information for transmission to the base station, the beam emissions information comprising a maximum power reduction (MPR) level for each beam of the plurality of beams, indicating maximum uplink transmission power can be reduced when a corresponding beam is indicated by the configuration signaling. 
     In Example 18, the subject matter of Examples 16-17 includes, wherein the instructions further configure the one or more processors to cause the UE to: encode the CSI report with antenna panel information for each beam of the plurality of beams, the antenna panel information for a corresponding beam of the plurality of beams indicating an antenna panel index of a UE antenna panel used for uplink transmissions when the corresponding beam is selected for the uplink beam indication. 
     In Example 19, the subject matter of Examples 16-18 includes, wherein the instructions further configure the one or more processors to cause the UE to: encode the CSI report with antenna ports group information for each beam of the plurality of beams, the antenna ports group information for a corresponding beam of the plurality of beams indicating at least one antenna port used for uplink transmissions when the corresponding beam is selected for the uplink beam indication. 
     In Example 20, the subject matter of Examples 16-19 includes, wherein the CSI report includes: a CRI for each beam of the plurality of beams; beam quality information for each beam of the plurality of beams; and the flag for each beam of the plurality of beams, wherein the flag is based on whether the beam is associated with harmful emissions. 
     Example 21 is at least one machine-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to perform operations to implement of any of Examples 1-20. 
     Example 22 is an apparatus comprising means to implement of any of Examples 1-20. 
     Example 23 is a system to implement of any of Examples 1-20. 
     Example 24 is a method to implement of any of Examples 1-20. 
     Although an aspect has been described with reference to specific example aspects, it will be evident that various modifications and changes may be made to these aspects without departing from the broader scope of the present disclosure. Accordingly, the specification and drawings are to be regarded in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. The accompanying drawings that form a part hereof show, by way of illustration, and not of limitation, specific aspects in which the subject matter may be practiced. The aspects illustrated are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the teachings disclosed herein. Other aspects may be utilized and derived therefrom, such that structural and logical substitutions and changes may be made without departing from the scope of this disclosure. This Detailed Description, therefore, is not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of various aspects is defined only by the appended claims, along with the full range of equivalents to which such claims are entitled. 
     Such aspects of the inventive subject matter may be referred to herein, individually and/or collectively, merely for convenience and without intending to voluntarily limit the scope of this application to any single aspect or inventive concept if more than one is in fact disclosed. Thus, although specific aspects have been illustrated and described herein, it should be appreciated that any arrangement calculated to achieve the same purpose may be substituted for the specific aspects shown. This disclosure is intended to cover any and all adaptations or variations of various aspects. Combinations of the above aspects, and other aspects not specifically described herein, will be apparent to those of skill in the art upon reviewing the above description. 
     The Abstract of the Disclosure is provided to allow the reader to quickly ascertain the nature of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. In addition, in the foregoing Detailed Description, it can be seen that various features are grouped together in a single aspect for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure. This method of disclosure is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed aspects require more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive subject matter lies in less than all features of a single disclosed aspect. Thus the following claims are hereby incorporated into the Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate aspect.