Extending narrow band monitoring
    212.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10680785B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-09

    申请号:US15941651

    申请日:2018-03-30

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: A method, device and integrated circuit for receiving signals in a narrow bandwidth range from a base station of a network, the narrow bandwidth range being a portion of an overall bandwidth range of the network and the signals comprising one or more of cell-specific reference signal (CRS) tones, determining whether a condition exists based on the one or more CRS tones, when the condition exists, extending the narrow bandwidth range to an extended narrow bandwidth range, the extended narrow bandwidth range including at least one further CRS tone than the narrow bandwidth range and monitoring the extended narrow bandwidth range to receive further signals comprising the at least one further CRS tone.

    Control channel for UE power saving
    214.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10609700B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-31

    申请号:US15923078

    申请日:2018-03-16

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A downlink control information (DCI), such as a blanking DCI (bDCI) message may be transmitted by a base station (e.g., eNB) and received by a mobile device (e.g., UE). The bDCI may indicate that the eNB will not transmit a subsequent DCI to the UE for a duration of time. The UE may be in continuous reception mode or connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) mode. The UE may therefore determine to enter a sleep state or take other action. The bDCI may specify an explicit blanking duration, or an index indicating a blanking duration from a lookup table, and/or the blanking duration (and/or a blanking duration offset value) may be determined in advance, e.g., semi-statically. When the UE is in C-DRX mode, the UE may be configured such that either the sleep/wake period of the C-DRX mode or the blanking period of the bDCI may take precedence over the other.

    Synchronization Signal Design for Unlicensed Spectrum Access Using Cellular Communications

    公开(公告)号:US20190313350A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-10

    申请号:US16373504

    申请日:2019-04-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing timing synchronization between a base station and a user equipment device within an unlicensed spectrum band. In some scenarios, beamforming tracking may also be performed. Upon determining that a transmission medium within the unlicensed spectrum band is available for transmission, a base station may transmit a plurality of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), or a plurality of copies of one SSB, with associated remaining minimum system information (RMSI) blocks, within a single time instance within a SSB burst window. The SSBs may be transmitted at different frequency positions and according to distinct beamforming configurations. The SSBs and RMSI blocks may be configured such that a receiving user equipment device may determine the time-domain, and optionally the frequency-domain, position of the SSB and RMSI within the SSB burst window, to allow timing synchronization and optionally beamforming tracking.

    Device, system, and method for adaptively utilizing data exchange operations

    公开(公告)号:US10419193B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-17

    申请号:US15812291

    申请日:2017-11-14

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment that includes receiving a redundancy version (RV) of control information during a transmission time interval (TTI) from a network to which the user equipment has established a connection, wherein the control information comprises a plurality of RVs, determining a first value corresponding to the TTI, determining a second value based on a connectivity parameter measurement of the connection and determining whether to perform a decode operation on the RV based on a comparison of the first value and the second value.

    Hierarchical CDRX Configuration for Dynamic Bandwidth Part Management and Power Saving

    公开(公告)号:US20190281652A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-12

    申请号:US16295517

    申请日:2019-03-07

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a base station to perform a method construct dynamic hierarchical sub-configurations of bandwidth parts (BWPs) for use in a connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) communication session with a user equipment (UE) device. The base station may configure a first BWP at a baseband frequency associated with the CDRX communication session as a default BWP, a second BWP with a wider bandwidth than the first BWP as a transmission BWP, and one or more third BWPs as resting BWPs. The transmission BWP and the one or more resting BWPs may be configured to periodically override the default BWP as the active BWP for a predetermined number of CDRX cycles. The transmission BWP may be utilized, when activated to perform data transmission by UE device, and the one or more resting BWPs may be utilized, when activated, for performing channel measurements.

    Device and method for adaptive channel estimation

    公开(公告)号:US10177938B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-08

    申请号:US15601265

    申请日:2017-05-22

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: A method to be performed at a station configured to connect to a Long Term Evolution radio access network (LTE-RAN) to utilize enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services using a Multicast-Broadcast Single-Frequency Network (MBSFN). The method including receiving a MBSFN subframe having a MBSFN subframe structure including a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, a first one of the OFDM symbols having a first reference symbol inserted therein, a second one of the OFDM symbols having a second reference symbol inserted therein, determining a rate of change of channel conditions being experienced by the station and performing a non-destaggered channel estimation when the rate of change of channel conditions is greater than a predetermined threshold, the non-destaggered channel estimation using a first Channel Impulse Response (CIR) at the first OFDM symbol and a second CIR at the second OFDM symbol.

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