Abstract:
A user equipment (UE) speed up handover/redirection when the user equipment is in a coverage area of multiple radio access technologies (RATs). In one instance the user equipment determines whether to transmit an uplink (UL) reconfiguration message. The user equipment delays transmission of the uplink reconfiguration message when a transition from a serving radio access technology to a non-serving preferred radio access technology has been initiated while the UE is on a packet switched (PS) data call.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for improved downlink data transport with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback and a measurement gap are provided. A user equipment (UE) receives from a network a transmission grant for downlink data on a first control channel. The UE receives the data from the network via a transport channel. In response to the received data, the UE determines whether transmission of an acknowledgement message falls in a measurement gap. Upon determining that the transmission of the acknowledgement message by the UE falls in the measurement gap, and prior to receiving from the network a retransmission grant for the data on the first control channel, the UE sends the acknowledgement message on a second control channel in a sub-frame following the measurement gap. The first control channel is associated with the second control channel.
Abstract:
A system acquisition is initiated to perform inter radio access technology (IRAT) measurement. A waiting period of time is provided before aborting the system acquisition. The period of time is adjustable based on at least one metric. The metric can be a frequency of available measurement gaps, a total number of available measurement gaps, and/or a length of each measurement gap within a subframe. The metric could also be an absolute signal strength of a single neighbor cell and/or a relative signal strength between neighbor cells. The metric could also be a user equipment (UE) measured signal strength compared to a network indicated threshold value for triggering an IRAT measurement report. The metric could also be a percentage of a tone that falls within a measurement gap.
Abstract:
In a system and method for wireless communication, a user equipment (UE) is configured to determine whether it failed to detect and decode a data transmission while the UE tuned away from a first RAT to a second RAT based on a grant sequence number. The HARQ buffer is flushed when the UE determines it missed a grant and the duration of the tune away gap meets a particular criteria.
Abstract:
A user equipment (UE) considers both the signal strength in time slot zero and the signal quality of the downlink traffic time slots when determining whether to send an IRAT measurement report to trigger IRAT handover to GSM.
Abstract:
An early BSIC (base station identity code) abort procedure includes comparing a first signal strength of a serving cell with a first threshold and comparing a second signal strength of a target cell to a second threshold. The first threshold is a sum of a network indicated threshold and a user equipment (UE) threshold. The second threshold is a difference between the network indicated threshold and the UE threshold. When the first signal strength is below the first threshold and the second signal strength is above the second threshold, the base station identity code (BSIC) procedure is initiated. A number of BSIC failure attempts is adaptively set before terminating the BSIC procedure.
Abstract:
A method of buffer status reporting for multiple preserved data protocol (PDP) contexts includes communicating with a base station. A service request is sent to the base station, the service request requesting a set of radio access bearers (RABs) for a set of PDP contexts. The set of preserved PDP contexts includes one or more PDP contexts that have no uplink data ready to transmit on a high speed shared data channel. The set of preserved PDP contexts also includes one or more PDP contexts that have uplink data ready to transmit on the high speed shared data channel.
Abstract:
A method of wireless communication reports buffer size in TD-HSUPA networks. A protocol data unit is transmitted and an artificial buffer size is reported in response to the transmitted PDU. The artificial buffer size corresponds to the size of a scheduling request. The actual buffer size is reported when a NACK is received or when a round trip timer expires. The actual buffer size corresponds to a PDU retransmit size.
Abstract:
A user equipment may save power and improve performance by adjusting a paging indicator detection threshold of power at which a user equipment (UE) determines a paging indicator channel transmission is received when detecting a signal on a paging indicator channel. The adjustment may be based on the UE's remaining battery power. When the battery power level is low, the threshold is increased to reduce false detections. When the battery power level is high, the threshold is decreased to increase the likelihood of detecting the signal on a paging indicator channel.
Abstract:
A user equipment (UE) may scale down a signal strength of a radio access technology (RAT) cell in a report to a serving cell to avoid multiple connection attempts to the same radio access technology cell. The UE may initiate a predefined timer, called a target cell timer, on which the scaling down of the reported signal strength of the particular RAT cell is based. The timer is initiated when the UE returns back to the serving cell after failure to access a top ranked RAT neighbor cell.