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公开(公告)号:US11778516B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-03
申请号:US17722033
申请日:2022-04-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tarik Tabet , Awais M. Hussain , Lydi Smaini , Moustafa M. Elsayed , Syed Aon Mujtaba , Matthias Sauer , Ronald W. Dimpflmaier , Bernd W. Adler , Christian W. Mucke
CPC classification number: H04W28/24 , H04L5/0005 , H04L5/0044 , H04W8/22 , H04W52/0235 , Y02D30/70
Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive. The UE device may also switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a third mode of operation associated with a third (pre-existing) device type in response to the link budget requirement not exceeding the specified value, or the QoS requirements being sensitive and a downlink throughput requirement exceeding a specified throughput value.
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公开(公告)号:US20220240127A1
公开(公告)日:2022-07-28
申请号:US17722033
申请日:2022-04-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tarik Tabet , Awais M. Hussain , Lydi Smaini , Moustafa M. Elsayed , Syed Aon Mujtaba , Matthias Sauer , Ronald W. Dimpflmaier , Bernd W. Adler , Christian W. Mucke
Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive. The UE device may also switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a third mode of operation associated with a third (pre-existing) device type in response to the link budget requirement not exceeding the specified value, or the QoS requirements being sensitive and a downlink throughput requirement exceeding a specified throughput value.
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公开(公告)号:US11044635B2
公开(公告)日:2021-06-22
申请号:US16587200
申请日:2019-09-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Farouk Belghoul , Lydi Smaini , Tarik Tabet , Syed Aon Mujtaba
IPC: H04W28/08 , H04W72/12 , H04W16/14 , H04W72/04 , H04W72/14 , G01N27/90 , B08B3/02 , B08B3/04 , B08B3/08 , F16H57/01
Abstract: A wireless communication device (UE) may monitor grants received from respective cells associated with one or more first (e.g. licensed) frequency band(s) and one or more second (e.g. unlicensed) frequency band(s). Based on the received grants the UE may determine if an imbalance exists in the radio resource allocation, whereby the UE communicates more than intended in the second frequency band(s). The imbalance may be specified with respect to the ratio or portion of the communications that are conducted in the second frequency band(s) with respect to all wireless communications of the UE. If the UE detects an imbalance, it may transmit a report to the network (e.g. to the base station serving the UE) indicating unfavorable conditions for the UE to be operating in the second frequency band(s). In response, the network may disable the respective cell(s) associated with the second frequency band(s) and/or it may disable carrier aggregation for the UE.
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公开(公告)号:US20210152291A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-20
申请号:US17157469
申请日:2021-01-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tarik Tabet , Youngjae Kim , Syed Aon Mujtaba
Abstract: Mobile devices, base stations, and/or relay stations may implement a method for an improved and reliable automatic repeat request feedback indication. A mobile device (UE) may establish communication within a wireless network, and indicate to the network that the UE is a special type device, e.g. a constrained device. The network (base station) may then not send an indication on a physical indicator channel to the UE when certain conditions are met, and instead, the mobile device may interpret control information received from the network on a physical control channel as a negative acknowledgment indication corresponding to an automatic repeat request from the network. The UE may then perform a retransmission according to the interpreted control information. A new control information format may be used to further define how the network and UE implement the automatic repeat request process, to reduce the total number of bits required in the control information.
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公开(公告)号:US20200221313A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-09
申请号:US16822123
申请日:2020-03-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Farouk Belghoul , Lydi Smaini , Tarik Tabet , Syed Aon Mujtaba
Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing cellular communication in unlicensed spectrum in a manner that accounts for the possible existence of hidden nodes by opportunistically introducing the use of RTS and CTS messages. A listen-before-talk procedure may be performed to determine whether a wireless medium is available. When the listen-before-talk procedure is complete, an amount of time until a next possible start time for communicating in the cellular communication system according to a timing synchronization scheme for the cellular communication system may be determined. The wireless medium may be occupied until the next possible start time for communicating in the cellular communication system in a manner selected based at least in part on the amount of time until the next possible start time for communicating in the cellular communication system. Cellular communication may be performed on the wireless medium at the next possible start time for communicating in the cellular communication system.
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公开(公告)号:US10652788B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-12
申请号:US16037788
申请日:2018-07-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tarik Tabet , Farouk Belghoul , Samy Khay-Ibbat , Sarma V. Vangala , Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto , David Boettger , Awais M. Hussain , Syed Aon Mujtaba
IPC: H04W36/00 , H04B17/336 , H04B17/382
Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a link budget limited UE to improve communications performance with a cellular network. The UE may perform signal to interference noise ratio (SINR) measurements and use these measurements to adjust a received signal power value that is provided to the cellular network as a received signal power measurement. The UE may generate the received signal power value based at least in part on the SINR measurement in order to reduce the likelihood of handover when the UE has good SINR but poor received signal power. The UE may also provide preferred configuration information to the base station which enhances the performance of the UE when link budget limited. The configuration information may specify one or more parameter values designed to provide improved performance for a link budget limited device.
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公开(公告)号:US20200059892A1
公开(公告)日:2020-02-20
申请号:US16665069
申请日:2019-10-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tarik Tabet , Syed Aon Mujtaba , Moustafa M. Elsayed
Abstract: For paging user devices that are link budget limited (LBL), a base station transmits a special ID that is used by said devices to identify a paging frame and/or a paging occasion. When transmitting a paging message for an LBL device, the base station may use: (a) larger aggregation and larger CFI (than conventionally allowed) and (b) a larger number of resource blocks (than conventionally allowed) for paging payload. If paging messages for LBL devices saturate the paging frame capacity, the base station may allocate a plurality of special IDs. If paging messages for LBL devices and/or other data transfers saturate network capacity, at least a subset of the LBL devices may be directed to enter a connected-state discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, wherein those devices will remain in connected mode and periodically check for resource allocations. Paging payload information may be repeatedly transmitted in successive subframes, to support soft combining.
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公开(公告)号:US20200037206A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-30
申请号:US16590866
申请日:2019-10-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tarik Tabet , Awais M. Hussain , Lydi Smaini , Moustafa M. Elsayed , Syed Aon Mujtaba , Matthias Sauer , Ronald W. Dimpflmaier , Bernd W. Adler , Christian W. Mucke
Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive. The UE device may also switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a third mode of operation associated with a third (pre-existing) device type in response to the link budget requirement not exceeding the specified value, or the QoS requirements being sensitive and a downlink throughput requirement exceeding a specified throughput value.
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公开(公告)号:US10455454B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-22
申请号:US15387904
申请日:2016-12-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tarik Tabet , Awais M. Hussain , Lydi Smaini , Moustafa M. Elsayed , Syed Aon Mujtaba , Matthias Sauer , Ronald W. Dimpflmaier , Bernd W. Adler , Christian W. Mucke
Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive. The UE device may also switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a third mode of operation associated with a third (pre-existing) device type in response to the link budget requirement not exceeding the specified value, or the QoS requirements being sensitive and a downlink throughput requirement exceeding a specified throughput value.
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公开(公告)号:US20190200321A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-27
申请号:US16288996
申请日:2019-02-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tarik Tabet , Syed Aon Mujtaba , Moustafa M. Elsayed
CPC classification number: H04W68/005 , H04W72/042 , H04W72/0446 , H04W72/048 , H04W76/28
Abstract: For paging user devices that are link budget limited (LBL), a base station transmits a special ID that is used by said devices to identify a paging frame and/or a paging occasion. When transmitting a paging message for an LBL device, the base station may use: (a) larger aggregation and larger CFI (than conventionally allowed) and (b) a larger number of resource blocks (than conventionally allowed) for paging payload. If paging messages for LBL devices saturate the paging frame capacity, the base station may allocate a plurality of special IDs. If paging messages for LBL devices and/or other data transfers saturate network capacity, at least a subset of the LBL devices may be directed to enter a connected-state discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, wherein those devices will remain in connected mode and periodically check for resource allocations. Paging payload information may be repeatedly transmitted in successive subframes, to support soft combining.
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