Qualcomm Incorporated

Gene Fong

Peter S Gaal

Tingfang Ji

Timo Ville Vintola

Sumit Verma

Kapil Gulati

Sudhir Kumar Baghel

Shailesh Patil

Tien Viet Nguyen

Valentin Alexandru Gheorghiu

Yongbin Wei

Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov

Xiao Feng Wang

Kapil Bhattad

Heechoon Lee

Edward George Tiedemann, Jr

Philip David Coan

William Ronald Panton

Wanshi Chen

Xiaoxia Zhang

Jing X Sun

Juan Montojo

Alberto Rico Alvarino

Kazuki Takeda

Jelena Damnjanovic

Umesh Phuyal

Le Liu

Stefano M Faccin

Avneesh Agrawal

Shimman Arvind Patel

Gokul Sridharan

Masato Kitazoe

Lorenzo Casaccia

Supratik Bhattacharjee

Udara Fernando

Marco Papaleo

Oronzo Flore

John Forrester

Benjamin Cheadle

Jianqiang He

Kai Bai

Udara Charman Fernando

Edward George Tiedemann Jr

Aspects described herein relate to energy headroom report (EHR) and sustainable duty cycle (SDC) reporting for dynamic power aggregation. In one example, a user equipment (UE) may identify an available energy or available time period for an uplink transmission via uplink carrier aggregation or dual connectivity. The UE may further transmit, to a network entity, a report including the available energy or available time period for uplink transmission. In another example, a network entity may transmit a configuration message to configure the UE with carrier aggregation or dual connectivity. The network entity may further receive a report including the available energy or time for uplink transmission via carrier aggregation or dual connectivity. The network entity may further adjust uplink communication with the UE based on the received report.

Techniques for energy headroom report (EHR) and sustainable duty cycle (SDC) reporting for dynamic power aggregation

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine that uplink communications are to be performed between the UE and a first cell group associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and between the UE and a second cell group associated with a second RAT. The UE may determine that the UE is configured for power sharing for the uplink communications with the first cell group associated with the first RAT and the second cell group associated with the second RAT. The UE may calculate, based on the power sharing and the uplink communications, a power reduction factor for the uplink communications between the UE and the second cell group. The UE may perform the uplink communications with the first cell group and selectively perform the uplink communications with the second cell group.

Multiplexing solutions in dual connectivity

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a plurality regulation requirement parameters corresponding to an unlicensed carrier, where the unlicensed carrier spans at least a portion of a first unlicensed band associated with a first set of regulation requirements and at least a portion of a second unlicensed band associated with a second set of regulation requirements. The UE may identify, from the plurality of regulation requirement parameters, a set of regulation requirement parameters for an uplink transmission based at least in part on whether a set of frequency resources for the uplink transmission overlaps with the first unlicensed band and the second unlicensed band. The UE may transmit the uplink transmission using the set of regulation requirement parameters.

Configurations for a carrier overlapping multiple unlicensed bands

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine that uplink communications are to be performed between the UE and a first cell group associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and between the UE and a second cell group associated with a second RAT. The UE may determine that the UE is configured for power sharing for the uplink communications with the first cell group associated with the first RAT and the second cell group associated with the second RAT. The UE may calculate, based at least in part on the power sharing and the uplink communications, a power reduction factor for the uplink communications between the UE and the second cell group. The UE may perform the uplink communications with the first cell group and selectively perform the uplink communications with the second cell group.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a base station may signal one or more emission limits for one or more different frequency bands, and two or more values for one of the emission limits may be provided. A first subset of user equipments (UEs) may be capable of aerial operations (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones) and may use a first value of the first emission limit and the second subset of UEs may not capable of aerial operations and may use a second value of the first emission limit. A UE status such as altitude or position, or transmission directivity may also be used to determine if the UE is to apply the first value or the second value for an emission limit of a frequency band.

Emission limit indication techniques for aerial wireless devices

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may mitigate self-interference and intermodulation products caused by communicating over two carriers in order to improve measurements of a third carrier. The UE may determine a measurement configuration to determine the quality of the third carrier. The measurement configuration may include identifying time periods with no scheduled uplink transmissions, time periods with a transmit power below a power threshold, time periods with frequency locations with an expected lower intermodulation interference, or time periods with a scheduled reference signal transmission (e.g., a synchronization signal (SS) block). The UE may also reduce a transmit power for a time period or drop a scheduled uplink transmission in order to perform more accurate measurements on the third carrier. In some cases, a base station may schedule a measurement gap for the UE to perform the measurements.

Mobility measurements with interference caused by intermodulation products

A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus operate to reduce or eliminate interference with one or more other communication systems having specific transmission requirements within a specific geographic area. For example, aspects operate by determining that a user equipment (UE) is in a protection zone where additional transmission requirements apply. The additional transmission requirements enable coexistence with one or more other communication systems in the protection zone. The UE may identify, based on being in the protection zone and a coexistence mode, one or more transmit emission limit requirements to be met. The UE may identify, based on being in the protection zone and the coexistence mode, one or more maximum transmit power requirements to be met. The UE may configure a transmit output power, at which the UE can meet the one or more transmit emission limit requirements and the one or more maximum transmit power requirements.

User equipment transmission management for dynamically varying transmission emission requirements

Additional requirements for spectrum emissions may be matched with regional requirements, and an additional maximum power reduction (A-MPR) for a user equipment (UE) may be based on an actual antenna gain of the UE. For example, a UE may be located in a particular region and be required to meet regional requirements for wireless communications. In such cases, the UE may receive network signaling from a base station, and identify an antenna gain for its antenna. The UE may then identify a set of emission requirements based on the identified antenna gain and the network signaling. Additionally, the UE may identify an A-MPR based on the set of emission requirements and the antenna gain and may adjust a maximum output power in accordance with the identified A-MPR. In some examples, an output power threshold may be derived using a difference between a regional requirement and the UE's antenna gain.

Compliance with regional regulatory requirements for user equipment with positive antenna gain

User equipment management limiting transmit output power in protection zones

Techniques for mitigating data loss during autonomous system information (SI) reading by a user equipment (UE) are described. For autonomous SI reading, the UE may autonomously determine when to read system information from neighbor cells and may not inform a serving cell. In one design, the UE may autonomously select a SI reading gap for reading system information from a neighbor cell. During the SI reading gap, the UE may suspend reception of downlink transmission from the serving cell, receive system information from the neighbor cell, and maintain capability to transmit on the uplink to the serving cell. In one design, the serving cell may determine SI reading gaps autonomously selected by the UE for reading system information from neighbor cells. The serving cell may communicate with the UE by accounting for the SI reading gaps of the UE, e.g., may suspend communication with the UE during the SI reading gaps.

Method and apparatus for mitigating data loss during autonomous system information reading

Techniques for determining power relaxation values are disclosed. The power relaxation values may be determined according to an ending resource block (RB) and a number of RBs in a contiguous allocation. In one aspect, the power relaxation values are arranged into regions based, at least in part, on transmission channel bandwidths and the distance from a protected adjacent channel. A user equipment (UE) can determine a power relaxation value for its current allocation using the ending RB index and contiguous RB length and can adjust its transmission power accordingly. Evolved NodeBs may estimate the power relaxation that a particular UE has selected in order to more accurately determine the transmit power available to the UE. Using the more accurate estimate of transmit power, the eNB may schedule the UE for uplink transmissions accordingly.

Maximum power reduction for interference control in adjacent channels

Techniques for signaling carrier bandwidths supported by a user equipment (UE) for carrier aggregation are disclosed. A UE may be configured with a plurality of carriers for carrier aggregation. Each carrier may have one carrier bandwidth of a set of possible carrier bandwidths. The set of possible carrier bandwidths may be dependent on a band in which the carrier belongs. Multiple combinations of carrier bandwidths for the plurality of carriers may be possible. The UE may identify at least one supported carrier bandwidth combination for the plurality of carriers. Each of the supported carrier bandwidth combinations may include a particular carrier bandwidth for each configured carrier. The UE may send signaling indicative of the at least one supported carrier bandwidth combination. The UE may thereafter communicate on the plurality of carriers based on a carrier bandwidth combination selected from the supported carrier bandwidth combination(s).

Signaling of supported carrier bandwidths for carrier aggregation

In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a method for reducing out of band emissions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a network signal value from a network, and reducing a transmission signal power on the basis of the network signal value, a center frequency of a transmitting channel, a number of allocated resource blocks, and a location of the allocated resource blocks within the channel.

Supplemental maximum power reduction for operation in restricted configurations

To support very high QAM rates, a user equipment (UE) needs extremely good signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Using a receiver configuration that improves SNR comes at the expense of higher power consumption. However, consuming higher power to support very high QAM rates when poor channel conditions are present is a waste of power. By correlating the modulation and coding scheme used by the UE with the UE channel quality estimate, the UE can modify the receiver configuration to improve SNR only when channel conditions support very high QAM rates.

Dynamic SNR adjustment in a receiver supporting 256QAM

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