公开(公告)号：US20180233055A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-16

申请号：US15712103

申请日：2017-09-21

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Aleksandar DAMNJANOVIC ,  Juan MONTOJO ,  Yongbin WEI ,  Peter GAAL ,  Alberto RICO ALVARINO ,  Edward TEAGUE

IPC: G08G5/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: G08G5/0069 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  G05D1/0022 ,  G08G5/0013 ,  G08G5/0021 ,  H04B7/18504 ,  H04B7/18506 ,  H04W60/00 ,  H04W64/006 ,  H04W76/10

Abstract: The disclosure relates to drone user equipment (UE) indications that may be conveyed to a wireless network. In particular, a UE that has flight capabilities (i.e., capabilities to operate as an unmanned aircraft system) and optional further capabilities to report a current height level may indicate such capabilities to the wireless network. As such, the wireless network may differentiate the drone UE from other UEs that only operate on the ground. Furthermore, the optional current height level may enable the wireless network to differentiate among drone UEs operating at different heights and/or from other UEs that are operating on the ground. The wireless network may further use the information indicating the flight capabilities either alone or in combination with the optional height information to configure power control parameters, manage interference, provide mobility management functions, generate neighbor lists, control beamforming, or implement a radio resource configuration or management procedure.

公开(公告)号：US20180220422A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-02

申请号：US15718314

申请日：2017-09-28

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Kapil BHATTAD ,  Gowrisankar SOMICHETTY ,  Shashidhar VUMMINTALA ,  Alberto RICO ALVARINO ,  Hao XU

IPC: H04W72/04

Abstract: A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may allocate one or more narrowbands for at least one downlink transmission to a UE. The apparatus may transmit information associated with the one or more narrowbands and a RIV to the UE. In one aspect, the RIV may indicate a common starting RB and a common set of RBs allocated for the at least one downlink transmission in each of the one or more narrowbands.

公开(公告)号：US20180205488A1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-19

申请号：US15799813

申请日：2017-10-31

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alberto RICO ALVARINO ,  Kirankumar Bhoja ANCHAN ,  Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN ,  Feilu LIU

IPC: H04L1/00 ,  H04L27/00

CPC classification number: H04L1/0004 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L1/0023 ,  H04L1/0025 ,  H04L1/08 ,  H04L27/00 ,  H04L27/0012 ,  H04W72/042

Abstract: Techniques for indicating and/or selecting a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) are disclosed. A method for selecting the MCS may comprise receiving control information, identifying a change indicator, determining a first MCS based on the control information, and modifying the first MCS based on the change indicator to determine a second MCS.

公开(公告)号：US20180124776A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-03

申请号：US15635018

申请日：2017-06-27

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Srinivas YERRAMALLI ,  Tamer KADOUS ,  Chih-Hao LIU ,  Chirag PATEL ,  Alberto RICO ALVARINO

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W4/00

Abstract: A method and apparatus for wireless communication in the unlicensed spectrum between an eNB and UEs having different bandwidths, e.g., between a narrowband UE and a wideband eNB. A user equipment apparatus segments an uplink duration in each frame into multiple transmission units for each frequency, wherein a frame comprises an integer number of the transmission units. The apparatus transmits uplink communication based on the multiple transmission units, wherein each transmission unit comprises at least one on period and at least one off period corresponding to each of a plurality of frequencies, wherein during an on period the UE transmits uplink communication on the corresponding frequency and during an off period the UE refrains from transmitting uplink communication on the corresponding frequency. Each transmission unit may comprise multiple on periods and multiple off periods. The on/off periods may be configured by a base station or specified for each frame type.

公开(公告)号：US20180098357A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-05

申请号：US15619063

申请日：2017-06-09

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alberto RICO ALVARINO ,  Peter GAAL ,  Wanshi CHEN ,  Hao XU ,  Jing SUN

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W52/32

CPC classification number: H04W74/0833 ,  H04L5/001 ,  H04L5/0048 ,  H04L5/0051 ,  H04L5/0053 ,  H04L5/0092 ,  H04L5/0096 ,  H04W52/325 ,  H04W52/34 ,  H04W72/042 ,  H04W72/0453

Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for improving random access for SRS switching in a wireless network. Prior to transmitting a SRS, a UE may interrupt communication on a first carrier to switch from the first carrier to a second carrier to transmit a PRACH. To reduce interruption to the first carrier, the UE may use the beginning symbol(s) of a UpPTS on the second carrier to transmit the PRACH. In addition, to reduce interruption to the first carrier, the UE may monitor for another PDCCH order before transmitting another PRACH. Further, aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for jointly triggering SRS transmissions and performing power control for SRS transmissions. A BS may trigger SRS transmissions from multiple UEs, trigger SRS transmissions from multiple carriers from the same UE at the same time and/or perform power control separately for each carrier.

公开(公告)号：US20180098314A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-05

申请号：US15718220

申请日：2017-09-28

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alberto RICO ALVARINO ,  Peter GAAL ,  Wanshi CHEN ,  Hao XU

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04L5/00

CPC classification number: H04W72/048 ,  H04L5/0051 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W72/042

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications, and more specifically to positioning reference signal (PRS) enhancements for enhanced machine type communication (eMTC). An example method generally includes determining a first bandwidth within a larger system bandwidth to transmit a first positioning reference signal (PRS) to a first type of user equipment (UE), determining a second bandwidth within the system bandwidth to transmit a second PRS to a second type of UE, and transmitting information associated with the first PRS and the second PRS.

公开(公告)号：US20180097596A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-05

申请号：US15718447

申请日：2017-09-28

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Arul Durai Murugan PALANIVELU ,  Kapil BHATTAD ,  Manikandan CHANDRASEKAR ,  Alberto RICO ALVARINO

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W56/00

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating positioning reference signals (PRSs) for narrowband communication are provided. A first wireless communication device determines a time-frequency PRS pattern based at least in part on a narrowband communication frequency band configuration and a PRS subframe configuration mode associated with a set of subframes. The first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a plurality of PRSs using the determined PRS time-frequency pattern in the set of subframes. The PRS subframe configuration mode can indicate a first configuration including a bitmap indicating a set of PRS subframes positioned within a group of contiguous subframes, a second configuration indicating a subset of the group of contiguous subframes that may carry the PRSs, or a combination thereof. The first configuration and/or the second configuration can be used to indicate the set of subframes.

公开(公告)号：US20180092106A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15624980

申请日：2017-06-16

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alberto RICO ALVARINO ,  Peter GAAL ,  Wanshi CHEN ,  Shimman Arvind PATEL ,  Ozcan OZTURK

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/00

CPC classification number: H04W72/121 ,  H04W72/005 ,  H04W72/1205 ,  H04W72/1263

Abstract: Various aspects relate to determining whether one or more subframes are multicast-broadcast single-frequency network (MBSFN) subframes. A user equipment (UE) can receive, from a base station, a system information broadcast signal that includes an indication of one or more subframes as MBSFN subframes, and a subsequent system information broadcast signal that indicates at least scheduling information for a multicast control channel (MCCH) in at least a portion of the one or more subframes. The UE can determine, based at least in part on the indication or on the subsequent system information broadcast signal, a numerology for a physical multicast channel (PMCH) corresponding to the MCCH in at least the portion of the one or more subframes, and can process at least the portion of the one or more subframes based at least in part on the scheduling information or the numerology for the PMCH.

公开(公告)号：US20180083745A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-22

申请号：US15692436

申请日：2017-08-31

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Jing SUN ,  Wanshi CHEN ,  Peter GAAL ,  Alberto RICO ALVARINO

IPC: H04L5/00

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for flexible scheduling of reference signals and data in an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) in a wireless network. A method of wireless communication by a base station (BS) is provided. The method generally includes scheduling a first one or more symbols of a UpPTS for one or more user equipments (UEs) to transmit data and a second one more symbols of the UpPTS for one or more UEs to transmit one or more sounding reference signals (SRSs). The BS receives the data in the first one or more symbols and the one or more SRSs in the second one or more symbols. Based on the scheduling received from the BS, the UE determines the symbols of the UpPTS for transmission of SRSs and data.

公开(公告)号：US20180020360A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-18

申请号：US15610869

申请日：2017-06-01

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Srinivas YERRAMALLI ,  Alberto RICO ALVARINO ,  Hao XU ,  Wanshi CHEN ,  Juan MONTOJO ,  Yongbin WEI ,  Peter GAAL

IPC: H04W16/14 ,  H04B1/713 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04B1/7156

CPC classification number: H04W72/0453 ,  H04B1/713 ,  H04B1/7143 ,  H04B1/7156 ,  H04B1/7183 ,  H04B2001/71563 ,  H04L5/001 ,  H04L5/0012 ,  H04L5/0048 ,  H04L5/0098 ,  H04L27/0006 ,  H04L27/2634 ,  H04L27/2655 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04W16/14 ,  H04W52/143 ,  H04W52/146 ,  H04W52/346 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W56/0005 ,  H04W56/0015 ,  H04W72/042 ,  H04W72/0473 ,  H04W74/006 ,  H04W74/085 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Various aspects of utilizing narrowband internet of things (NB IOT) communication are still under development. According to an aspect of the disclosure, the apparatus may be a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication via narrowband internet of things (NB IOT) in an unlicensed spectrum using frequency hopping and digital modulation. The UE performs a synchronization with a base station via at least one of a licensed spectrum or the unlicensed spectrum. The UE communicates with the base station based on the synchronization.