Strategies for Power Efficient Configuration of a Wireless Access Network

    公开(公告)号:US20230422168A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-28

    申请号:US18034814

    申请日:2021-11-03

    IPC分类号: H04W52/02

    CPC分类号: H04W52/0212

    摘要: A computer implemented method, performed in a network node (170, 700, 800, 900), for configuring one or more secondary component carriers, Scells, and/or at least one bandwidth part, BWP, in a wireless access network (100) fora wireless device (150), the method comprising obtaining (S1) control channel capacity data indicative of a nominal capacity of a current control channel of the wireless access network (100), determining (S2) a control channel load of the wireless access network (100), evaluating (S3) one or more alternative Scell and/or BWP configurations of the wireless access network (100) for the wireless device (150) in terms of an energy consumption of the wireless device (150), where each of the one or more alternative Scell and/or BWP configurations of the wireless access network (100) is associated with an increased control channel capacity compared to the nominal capacity of the current control channel, detecting (S4) control channel resource deficit based on the control channel load and on the control channel capacity data, and, in response to detecting control channel resource deficit, selecting (S5) an Scell and/or BWP configuration from the one or more alternative Scell and/or BWP configurations based on the evaluated energy consumptions of the wireless device, and reconfiguring (S6) the wireless device with the selected Scell and/or BWP configuration.

    Reducing Power Consumption of a User Equipment Configured for Discontinuous Reception

    公开(公告)号:US20230127023A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-27

    申请号:US17907752

    申请日:2020-03-12

    IPC分类号: H04W52/02

    摘要: An access node (110) configures a User Equipment, UE (105), with a power saving monitoring pattern, and subsequently transmits a power saving signal configured to switch the UE (105) from monitoring a downlink in accordance with a connected mode discontinuous reception, C-DRX, monitoring pattern to monitoring the downlink in accordance with the power saving monitoring pattern. For each of the monitoring patterns, monitoring the down-link in accordance with the monitoring pattern comprises monitoring the down-link only when a monitoring opportunity of the monitoring pattern is concurrent with a scheduled active interval of a C-DRX configuration of the UE (105). For any C-DRX cycle of the C-DRX configuration, the monitoring of the downlink in accordance with the power saving monitoring pattern has a shorter monitoring duration than the monitoring of the downlink in accordance with the C-DRX monitoring pattern. The UE (105) correspondingly receives the power saving signal and switches how it monitors the downlink accordingly.