Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive information from a network node. The system information may include inter-frequency configuration and measurement reporting configuration. The UE may perform a measurement of a frequency or multiple frequencies that are associated with the inter-frequency configuration. Subsequent to the measurement, the UE may transmit a report of the measurement of the frequency or multiple frequencies to the network node during a radio resource control (RRC) connection procedure based on the measurement reporting configuration.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for user equipment (UE) autonomous radio resource configuration extension are provided. As disclosed herein, a UE may operate in dual connectivity with two (or more) base stations, each providing a set of carriers (e.g., cell groups) for wireless communication. The UE may have a simultaneous connection with a carrier from each base station and may autonomously determine a timing difference between carriers of respective cell groups. The UE may adjust the timing of an operation in relation to a radio resource configuration of one or both carriers to account for the difference. In some examples, the UE autonomously adjusts a measurement gap operation or adjusts a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation to account for a determined timing difference between carriers. The autonomous UE timing adjustments may include extending or offsetting a time duration or adjusting one or more subframes in which the operation is performed.
Abstract:
Extended DRX (e-DRX) operation using hyper frame extension signaling are described. The hyper frame extension signaling may extend the system frame number (SFN) range while maintaining backward compatibility for legacy devices not configured to use the extended SFN range. The hyper-SFN extension signaling may include an index to a hyper-SFN transmitted as part of system information different than that used for transmission of the SFN. UEs configured to use the hyper-SFN may effectively use a longer or extended SFN range that includes the legacy SFN range and the hyper-SFN range. The hyper-SFN extension may be used in an extended idle DRX (eI-DRX) mode which may coexist with existing I-DRX mode on the same paging resources. Additionally or alternatively, paging may be differentiated for eI-DRX mode UEs using separate paging occasions or a new paging radio network temporary identifier (RNTI).
Abstract:
Techniques are provided for assigning aggregated component carriers. For example, a method may include receiving from a user equipment (UE) a set of rules associated with timing advance groups (TAGs) comprising allowable combinations of frequency bands. The method may include determining frequencies of aggregated component carriers. The method may include assigning the aggregated component carriers to at least one timing advance group based on the allowable combinations of frequency bands and the determined frequencies of the aggregated component carriers.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for user equipment (UE) autonomous radio resource configuration extension are provided. As disclosed herein, a UE may operate in dual connectivity with two (or more) base stations, each providing a set of carriers (e.g., cell groups) for wireless communication. The UE may have a simultaneous connection with a carrier from each base station and may autonomously determine a timing difference between carriers of respective cell groups. The UE may adjust the timing of an operation in relation to a radio resource configuration of one or both carriers to account for the difference. In some examples, the UE autonomously adjusts a measurement gap operation or adjusts a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation to account for a determined timing difference between carriers. The autonomous UE timing adjustments may include extending or offsetting a time duration or adjusting one or more subframes in which the operation is performed.
Abstract:
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate notifying and detecting modification of system information in a wireless communication system. A mobile device may detect an inability to receive a paging message transmitted by a base station during a first time period, receive at least one system information block (SIB) transmitted by the base station during a second time period, and determine whether to receive one or more additional SIBs transmitted by the base station in the second time period based on information obtained from the at least one SIB received. The mobile device may detect an inability to receive a paging message upon entering a cell from being out of service or upon initial device starting up. The mobile device may determining whether to receive one or more additional SIBs by comparing a value tag of the at least one SIB received to a previously stored value tag.
Abstract:
Techniques are provided for assigning aggregated component carriers. For example, a method may include receiving from a user equipment (UE) a set of rules associated with timing advance groups (TAGs) comprising allowable combinations of frequency bands. The method may include determining frequencies of aggregated component carriers. The method may include assigning the aggregated component carriers to at least one timing advance group based on the allowable combinations of frequency bands and the determined frequencies of the aggregated component carriers.
Abstract:
Techniques are provided for transmission of measurement reports from a UE to a base station. A method may include receiving a measurement configuration message from a serving cell. The method may include determining a report value from the measurement configuration message, the report value indicating a number of measurement reports to be transmitted to the serving cell. The method may include, based on the number of measurement reports indicated by the report value, determining whether to wait for a signal measurement result of at least one neighboring cell to become available prior to sending a measurement report to the serving cell.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for partitioning resources for enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (eICIC) are provided. Certain aspects involve broadcasting a message indicating time-domain resource partitioning information (RPI), where a user equipment (UE) may be operating in idle mode. With the RPI, the UE may be able to identify protected resources with reduced/eliminated interference from neighboring cells. The RPI in this broadcasted message may be encoded as a bitmap as an alternative or in addition to enumeration of the U/N/X subframes. Other aspects entail transmitting a dedicated or unicast message indicating the time-domain RPI, where a UE may be operating in connected mode. With the RPI, the UE may be able to determine channel state information (CSI), make radio resource management (RRM) measurements, or perform radio link monitoring (RLM), based on one or more signals from a serving base station during the protected time-domain resources.
Abstract:
Aspects include systems and methods for compressed direct current (DC) location reporting, such as DC location reporting in uplink (UL) carrier aggregation (CA) deployments in a wireless network. Various aspects may include a UE computing device determining and indicating DC locations only for a subset of a plurality of component carriers (CCs) in a channel bandwidth to a base station and/or a UE computing device determining and indicating DC locations for a subset of activation permutations for bandwidth parts (BWPs) of a plurality of CCs in a channel bandwidth that is less than all possible activation permutations of the BWPs of the plurality of CCs in the channel bandwidth.