One Method for Pathloss Estimation

Abstract

A method of path loss estimation at a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving a downlink cell-specific signal block comprising a synchronization channel and a broadcasting channel demodulation reference signal; receiving control information indicative of a signal transmission power of the downlink cell-specific signal block; and determining an estimated path loss for the UE based at least in part on the signal transmission power of the downlink cell-specific signal block and a received power of the downlink cell-specific signal block filtered using a layer 3 filtering coefficient.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method comprising:
 receiving, by a device, a downlink cell-specific signal block configuration;   receiving, by the device, a downlink user equipment (UE)-specific reference signal configuration;   determining, by the device, that a path loss estimation of a channel is based on a path loss reference signal, the path loss reference signal being one of a downlink cell-specific signal block corresponding to the downlink cell-specific signal block configuration or a UE-specific reference signal corresponding to the downlink UE-specific reference signal configuration; and   determining, by the device, an estimated path loss for the channel based on a received power of the path loss reference signal.