公开(公告)号：US11632813B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-18

申请号：US17517182

申请日：2021-11-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Yifan Yu ,  Min Huang ,  Jaemin Han ,  Feng Yang

IPC: H04W76/12 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W92/20

Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node B (gNB) are described herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes, including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU may include a gNB-CU control plane (gNB-CU-CP) for control-plane functionality, and a gNB-CU user plane (gNB-CU-UP) for user-plane functionality. The gNB may initiate an El interface setup procedure, a bearer context setup procedure, and a UE context setup procedure to establish a UE context that includes a signaling radio bearer (SRB) and a data radio bearer (DRB) configuration. The UE context setup request message may be configured to include quality-of-service parameters for the DRB configuration.

公开(公告)号：US20220061110A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-24

申请号：US17517182

申请日：2021-11-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Yifan Yu ,  Min Huang ,  Jaemin Han ,  Feng Yang

IPC: H04W76/12

Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node B (gNB) are described herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes, including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU may comprise a gNB-CU control plane (gNB-CU-CP) for control-plane functionality, and a gNB-CU user plane (gNB-CU-UP) for user-plane functionality. The gNB may initiate an E1 interface setup procedure, a bearer context setup procedure, and a UE context setup procedure to establish a UE context that includes a signaling radio bearer (SRB) and a data radio bearer (DRB) configuration. The UE context setup request message may be configured to include quality-of-service parameters for the DRB configuration.

公开(公告)号：US11166282B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-02

申请号：US16088239

申请日：2017-01-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Min Huang ,  Feng Yang ,  Xu Zhang ,  Alexander Sirotkin

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04W72/10 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W36/22

Abstract: Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), radio access network (RAN) central unit (RCU) and methods for radio resource control (RRC) are generally described herein. A RAN distributed unit (RDU) at an eNB may communicate with an RCU of a cloud RAN to cooperatively perform RRC functionality for the eNB 104. The RDU 105 may receive a request for an RRC connection from a User Equipment (UE), and may request global load information from the RCU. The RDU may determine whether to establish the requested RRC connection based on the global load information when a response from the RCU is received before a predetermined time. The RDU may determine whether to establish the requested RRC connection based on local load information when the response from the RCU is not received before the predetermined time.

公开(公告)号：US12096498B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-17

申请号：US18119463

申请日：2023-03-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexander Sirotkin ,  Yifan Yu ,  Min Huang ,  Jaemin Han ,  Feng Yang

IPC: H04W76/12 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W92/20

CPC classification number: H04W76/12 ,  H04W80/02 ,  H04W92/20

Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node B (gNB) are described herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes, including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU may include a gNB-CU control plane (gNB-CU-CP) for control-plane functionality, and a gNB-CU user plane (gNB-CU-UP) for user-plane functionality. The gNB may initiate an E1 interface setup procedure, a bearer context setup procedure, and a UE context setup procedure to establish a UE context that includes a signaling radio bearer (SRB) and a data radio bearer (DRB) configuration. The UE context setup request message may be configured to include quality-of-service parameters for the DRB configuration.

公开(公告)号：US11153272B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-19

申请号：US16408028

申请日：2019-05-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Feng Yang ,  Min Huang ,  Xu Zhang ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Jaemin Han

IPC: H04L29/12 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to managing bearers in a radio access network (e.g., next generation RAN (NG-RAN), etc.). In one example, a central-unit control-plane (CU-CP) communicates with a distributed unit (DU) and a CU-UP to exchange transport network layer addresses (TNLAs) and tunnel endpoint identifiers (TEIDs) between the DU and the CU-UP. In this way, the DU becomes resistant to the CU-UP's rejection of a bearer setup request from the CU-CP during a bearer setup procedure. Furthermore, during virtual machine (VM) migration or local problems of the CU-UP, an E1 procedure known as “bearer relocate” can be defined to notify the DU of a new TNLA for one or more affected general packet radio service tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnels that are affected by the VM migration or local problems.

公开(公告)号：US11153271B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-19

申请号：US16277658

申请日：2019-02-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Feng Yang ,  Min Huang ,  Xu Zhang ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Jaemin Han

IPC: H04L29/12 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to managing bearers in a radio access network (e.g., next generation RAN (NG-RAN), etc.). In one example, a central-unit control-plane (CU-CP) communicates with a distributed unit (DU) and a CU-UP to exchange transport network layer addresses (TNLAs) and tunnel endpoint identifiers (TEIDs) between the DU and the CU-UP. In this way, the DU becomes resistant to the CU-UP's rejection of a bearer setup request from the CU-CP during a bearer setup procedure. Furthermore, during virtual machine (VM) migration or local problems of the CU-UP, an E1 procedure known as “bearer relocate” can be defined to notify the DU of a new TNLA for one or more affected general packet radio service tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnels that are affected by the VM migration or local problems.

公开(公告)号：US10932168B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-23

申请号：US16141440

申请日：2018-09-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Feng Yang ,  Min Huang ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Xu Zhang

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W88/16 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W36/02 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The gNB may be configurable to operate as a source gNB (S-gNB). The S-gNB may transfer, from a control plane (CU-CP) of the S-gNB to a CU-CP of a target gNB (T-gNB), an XnAP handover request message that indicates an Xn handover of a User Equipment (UE) from the S-gNB to the T-gNB. The S-gNB may initiate data forwarding, from a user plane (CU-UP) of the S-gNB to a CU-UP of the T-gNB, of downlink data packets. The data forwarding may be terminated based on reception of end marker packets from a user plane function (UPF) entity. The CU-UP of the S-gNB may transfer end marker packets to the CU-UP of the S-gNB to indicate termination of the data forwarding.

公开(公告)号：US11457503B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-27

申请号：US16487173

申请日：2018-03-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jaemin Han ,  Yujian Zhang ,  Alexander Sirotkin ,  Xu Zhang ,  Yifan Yu ,  Min Huang ,  Feng Yang ,  Sudeep Palat

IPC: H04W80/02 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L69/16 ,  H04W28/06

Abstract: A centralized RAN architecture that includes lower layer transmission nodes (referred to as distributed units (DUs) herein) that connect to an upper layer RAN node (referred to as a centralized unit (CU) herein). A centralized RAN architecture may include a functional split, between the CU and DU, corresponding to the Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) and Radio Link Control (RLC) layers. In one embodiment, a CU may store copies of downlink PDCP PDUs that are transmitted to a first DU. The CU may retransmit, to a second DU, those of the PDCP PDUs which were previously transmitted to the source DU but have not been acknowledged as successfully delivered by the source DU.

公开(公告)号：US10998954B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-04

申请号：US16494474

申请日：2017-04-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Min Huang ,  Feng Yang ,  Xu Zhang

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04B7/0456

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a radio transceiver, comprising: a precoder configured to precode a data signal for transmission to a plurality of multi-stream terminals based on a plurality of precoding weight matrices; and a processor configured to generate for each terminal in an iterative manner a precoding weight matrix and a transformed channel matrix, wherein the transformed channel matrix indicates a channel gain between the radio transceiver and the respective terminal transformed by a receive filter matrix of the respective terminal, wherein the generation of the precoding weight matrix and the transformed channel matrix in a current iteration is based on the transformed channel matrix generated from a previous iteration.

公开(公告)号：US10912106B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-02

申请号：US15777430

申请日：2015-12-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Min Huang ,  Xu Sunny Zhang ,  Senjie Zhang ,  Shanshan Zheng ,  Hui Guo

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04L1/18

Abstract: An apparatus for use in a radio aggregation unit (RAU) of a cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN or C-RAN), the cloud-RAN including a radio cloud center (RCC) and a plurality of radio remote systems (RRS) coupled to the RCC, wherein each RRS comprises an RAU coupled to a plurality of Remote Radio Units (RRUs) is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an input circuit configured to receive a first scheduling result from the RCC and a scheduling circuit configured to generate a second scheduling result for scheduling the one or more UEs in the coverage area of the RAU. Further, the apparatus comprises a processing circuit configured to selectively schedule a select UE from one or more UEs in the coverage area of the RAU, based on the first scheduling result from the RCC or the second scheduling result or an integration of the first scheduling result and the second scheduling result, based on a predetermined threshold associated with a receipt time of the first scheduling result from the RCC at the RAU.