Abstract:
Cluster set management may benefit various communication systems. For example, a millimeter wave fifth generation (5G) system may benefit from cluster set management. A method can include receiving accessibility information to one or more access points from a user equipment. The method can also include determining a cluster set for the user equipment based on the received accessibility information. The method can further include communicating an identification of the cluster set to the user equipment.
Abstract:
An example technique may include measuring a wireless link between a user device and an access point to obtain a first set of measurement values, detecting that the wireless link is temporarily blocked during the measuring, modifying, based on the wireless link being temporarily blocked, the first set of measurement values to obtain a second set of measurement values, and sending, to a network device, a report indicating the second set of measurement values.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus may determine a plurality of access points. The plurality of access points belong to a cluster set of a user device. The method may also include allocating a plurality of random-access-channel slots to the plurality of access points such that the plurality of random-access-channel slots are staggered in time over a random-access-channel period within a frame structure used by the user device.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus can be configured to receive a first scheduling request. The first scheduling request corresponds to a request for a first access point to process data. The method can also include transmitting a second scheduling request. The second scheduling request corresponds to a request to transmit data to a second access point. The transmitting the second scheduling request comprises transmitting the second scheduling request before the data is processed at the first access point.
Abstract:
A technique of reducing interference at a wireless node includes: determining a location of a base station relative to a wireless node, determining, based at least on the location of the base station relative to the wireless node, a beam-reduction region that includes one or more interfering transmit beams of the base station within the beam-reduction region, and causing the base station to decrease a transmit power for the one or more interfering transmit beams within the beam-reduction region.
Abstract:
An example technique may include determining, by a user device, downlink control channel timing information for each of a plurality of access points including for a serving access point that serves the user device and one or more standby access points; sending, by the user device to a cluster set manager via the serving access point, the downlink control channel timing information for each of the plurality of access points; receiving, by the user device from the cluster set manager via the serving access point, downlink control channel allocations including information identifying a downlink control channel allocated to the user device for each of a plurality of the access points; and receiving, by the user device, information from at least one of a plurality of the access points via a downlink control channel allocated to the user device for the at least one of the plurality of access points.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus may determine a plurality of access points. The plurality of access points belong to a cluster set of a user device. The method may also include allocating a plurality of uplink access channels to the plurality of access points. The plurality of uplink access channels may include uplink polling channels. The plurality of uplink access channels are allocated such that the plurality of access channels are staggered in time within a frame structure used by the plurality of access points and the user device.
Abstract:
Various communication systems may benefit from managing signal interference. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from a dynamic time division duplex system involving slot allocation. A method includes allocating, by an access point, in a time division duplex frame a plurality of radio resource slots, each one of the plurality of radio resource slots being allocated for a downlink or an uplink transmission, and determining that the allocation of the downlink or uplink transmission should be changed. The method also includes applying a permutation pattern to re-allocate at least one of the plurality of radio resource slots for the downlink or uplink transmission.
Abstract:
According to an example aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method comprising performing with a first node beam measurement for downlink beams received with the first node from at least one second node, scheduling with the first node at least one third node for uplink transmission to the first node, determining with the first node one or more of the downlink beams that can be received simultaneously with a beam of the at least one third node based at least partially on the scheduling of the at least one third node and the performing of the beam measurement, and transmitting with the first node results of the performed beam measurement wherein the results comprise an indication of the one or more determined downlink beams that can be received simultaneously with the beam of the at least one third node.
Abstract:
An example implementation may include transmitting, by a first base station to a second base station, a beam-specific power down request value for one or more beams. Another example implementation may include receiving, by a second base station from a first base station, a beam-specific power down request value for one or more beams, and decreasing, by the second base station, transmit power for one or more transmit beams based on the beam-specific power down request value for the one or more beams.