User equipments (UES), cellular stations, and access control methods thereof

    公开(公告)号:US10904821B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-26

    申请号:US16401381

    申请日:2019-05-02

    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a cell. The controller receives first barring information and second barring information from the cell via the wireless transceiver, and ignores the first barring information in response to the UE supporting network-based Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS) interference mitigation. Also, the controller allows the UE to access the cell in response to the UE supporting network-based CRS interference mitigation and the second barring information indicating that the cell is not barred.

    CANDIDATE CELL CONFIGURATION FOR L1/L2-BASED MOBILITY

    公开(公告)号:US20240049085A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-08

    申请号:US18220197

    申请日:2023-07-10

    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

    CPC classification number: H04W36/08 H04W36/0061

    Abstract: A method of L1/L2-based mobility with signaling optimization using base (reference) configuration and replaceable (delta) configuration for candidate cells is proposed. All candidates can be configured at different levels provided by Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling. To support L1/L2-triggered mobility (LTM), there is a common base configuration for candidates, and the candidates are modelled as replaceable configurations which are delta configurations on top of the common base configuration (instead of UE's current RRC configuration). The common and replaceable configurations are also referred to as reference configuration and candidate delta configuration. The candidate delta configuration is applied on top of the reference configuration to form a complete candidate configuration for handover.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SPEED UP DIRECT ACELL ACTIVATION

    公开(公告)号:US20230262824A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-17

    申请号:US18135725

    申请日:2023-04-17

    Applicant: MediaTek INC.

    CPC classification number: H04W76/20 H04L5/0051 H04W80/02

    Abstract: A method for expediting Secondary Cell (SCell) activation is proposed. Under the proposed enhanced direct SCell activation procedure, while adding an SCell to be activated state, the network can add transmission configuration indication (TCI) state information for the SCell in a radio resource control (RRC) signaling message, in addition to TCI state information for a list of candidate TCI states. Upon receiving the RRC signaling message, UE adds the SCell accordingly, and then activates the SCell based on the received TCI state information. Because there is no additional time required for receiving and processing the TCI state information via a media access control (MAC) control element (CE), the SCell activation time is reduced.

    Apparatuses and methods for user equipment (UE) to report new radio (NR) measurement gap requirement information

    公开(公告)号:US11470523B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-11

    申请号:US16953927

    申请日:2020-11-20

    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

    Inventor: Chun-Fan Tsai

    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a first base station. The controller is coupled to the wireless transceiver, and configured to receive an RRC reconfiguration message from the first base station via the wireless transceiver, and in response to the UE being configured to provide measurement gap requirement information of NR target bands, send an RRC reconfiguration complete message including the measurement gap requirement information to the first base station via the wireless transceiver.

    Buffer Status Report For Split Bearer Preprocessing In Wireless Communications

    公开(公告)号:US20190132771A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US16177427

    申请日:2018-11-01

    Applicant: MediaTek Inc.

    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) compares a total amount of data available for transmission, including a total amount of packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) data volume and radio link control (RLC) data volume pending for initial transmission in two associated RLC entities comprising a primary RLC entity and a secondary RLC entity, to a threshold. In response to the total amount of data available for transmission being less than the threshold, the UE indicates an amount of the PDCP data volume to a first medium access control (MAC) entity associated with the primary RLC entity as well as indicating zero to a second MAC entity associated with the secondary RLC entity. In response to the total amount of data available for transmission being greater than or equal to the threshold, the UE indicates the amount of the PDCP data to both the first MAC entity and the second MAC entity.

    Apparatuses and methods for multi-radio access technology (RAT) coordination

    公开(公告)号:US11751279B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-05

    申请号:US17123296

    申请日:2020-12-16

    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

    CPC classification number: H04W76/30 H04W76/27

    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a first service network utilizing a first RAT or a second service network utilizing a second RAT. The controller sends an indicator of a connection release request to the first service network via the wireless transceiver in response to terminating a first communication service with the first service network or in response to leaving the first service network for the second service network. Also, the controller releases a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with the first service network after sending the indicator of the connection release request.

    TIMING ADVANCE ACQUISITION FOR MULTIPLE CELLS

    公开(公告)号:US20230102742A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17939843

    申请日:2022-09-07

    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

    Abstract: A method of acquiring timing advance (TA) for neighbor cells to reduce latency and interruption for inter-cell mobility is proposed. A UE is configured with a set of active cells for fast cell-switching. To reduce handover interruption, UE performs early RACH for potential target cells and obtains the TA of the potential target cells. In one novel aspect, for overhead reduction, a single RACH preamble may be received by multiple cells. Using a single RACH preamble, UE acquires TA for multiple cells, aiming at reducing the interruption due to RACH during handover. In another novel aspect, UE reports DL reception timing difference between the serving cell and the neighbor cell, and then adjust the TA for the neighbor cell accordingly.

    Enhanced handover methods and apparatuses using the same

    公开(公告)号:US11546820B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US17289064

    申请日:2019-10-17

    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a first cellular station and a second cellular station. The controller continues to send or receive UP data to or from the first cellular station via the wireless transceiver after receiving a handover command message for a handover of the UE from the first cellular station to the second cellular station, and receives a Radio Resource Control (RRC) request message from the second cellular station via the wireless transceiver after sending a handover complete message to the second cellular station. Also, the controller detaches from the first cellular station in response to receiving the RRC request message.

    Method to reduce access delay
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10912144B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-02

    申请号:US16406168

    申请日:2019-05-08

    Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

    Abstract: A method to speed up uplink data access during a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration procedure is proposed. UE first sends an RRC request, and in response receives an RRC reconfiguration message from BS. UE then decodes the RRC reconfiguration message and performs reconfiguration. UE also waits for UL grant for transmitting RRC reconfiguration complete with UL data if available. In one embodiment, BS provides the UL grant in a common search space while UE is performing the reconfiguration, and UE does not need to wait the UL grant until after the reconfiguration is done. In other words, the reconfiguration and the UL grant occurs in parallel, which reduces access delay for UL data. In an alternative embodiment, BS provides UL grant in RRC reconfiguration message, so that UE does not have to receive UL grant while performing the reconfiguration.

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