Sprint Spectrum L.p.

Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Cellco Partnership

Sprint Communication Company L.p.

Spring Spectrum L.p.

Sachin R Vargantwar

Manoj Shetty

Siddharth S Oroskar

Deveshkumar Narendrapratap Rai

Jasinder P Singh

Maulik K Shah

Bhagwan Singh Khanka

Debasish Sarkar

Anoop Kumar Goyal

Ashvini Ganesh Canjeevaram

Maneesh Gauba

Ashish Bhan

Maulik Shah

Jason Peter Sigg

Kamal Doshi

Mathew Thomas

Chin Chiu

Mark Edward Hanna

Andrew Mark Wurtenberger

Mark Ernest Newbury

Sandeep Goyal

Siddarth S Oroskar

Jack Anthony Smith

Rodrigo Teliaken Rodelas

Mark Yarkosky

Peretz Moshe Feder

Matthijs Andries Visser

Ashvini Ganesh G Canjeevaram

James Mathew

Sreekar Marupaduga

Hemanth Balaji Pawar

Rajveen Narendran

Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas

Piyush X Upadhyay

Badri Prasad Subramanyan

Yuexin Dong

Nischal Patel

Mourad B Takla

Anthony Clay Reynolds

Abhishek Lall

Chokri Trabelsi

Dante A Puliatti

Michael Erich

Nicholas James Cordaro

Alpaslan Gence Savas

Ashvini Ganesh

Siddharth T Oroskar

Devesh Kumar Rai

Robert Stedman

Robert D Carter

Matthew S Telep

Srinivasarao Venkata Naga Satya Penugonda

Daniel S Saska

Ankur Bharadwaj

Sanjay Charanlal Bisen

A device described herein, such as a User Plane Function ('UPF') of a core network or some other network element, may receive traffic associated with a first User Equipment (“UE”) and a second UE. The traffic may include a first set of packets associated with the first UE and a second set of packets associated with the second UE. The first and second packets may be received in a first sequence. The device may generate a second sequence by re-sequencing the received traffic based on Quality of Service (“QoS”) parameters associated with the traffic, such as 5G QoS Identifier (“5QI”) values. The device may generate a third sequence by re-sequencing the second sequence based on parameters associated with at least the first UE or the second UE. The device may output at least a portion of the received traffic in accordance with the third sequence.

Systems and methods for multi-factor traffic scheduling in a wireless network

A system comprises one or more devices that implement network functions (NFs). The NFs comprise a network data analytics function (NWDAF) configured to provide first analytics to a policy control function (PCF). In addition, the NFs also comprise the PCF configured to: receive the first analytics from the NWDAF; generate a first policy rule based on the first analytics; and forward the generated first policy rule to a network component to process the first policy rule at the network component.

System and method for reducing network component loads

A device may receive network data identifying uplink/downlink packet loss percentage, uplink/downlink jitter, uplink/downlink latency, and uplink/downlink packet throughput associated with a slice of a network, and may set an uplink value for each of the uplink packet loss percentage, the uplink jitter, the uplink latency, and the uplink packet throughput. The device may multiply the uplink values by corresponding uplink weights to calculate an uplink cost, and may set a downlink value for each of the downlink packet loss percentage, the downlink jitter, the downlink latency, and the downlink packet throughput. The device may multiply the downlink values by corresponding downlink weights to calculate a downlink cost, and may calculate a total cost based on the uplink cost and the downlink cost. The device may cause another slice, with the same attributes as the slice, to be instantiated when the total cost satisfies a threshold for a time period.

Systems and methods for monitoring performance of a network slice and mitigating load on the network slice

A base station may be associated with a primary cell to communicate with a user equipment (UE) in a licensed frequency band and at least one secondary cell to communicate with the UE in an unlicensed frequency band. The base station may receive a traffic flow associated with an application executing at the UE and assign the traffic flow to either the primary cell or the at least one secondary cell based on a classification associated with the traffic flow. For example, the traffic flow may be assigned to the primary cell based on the classification indicating that the application is executing at the UE in a foreground state or to the at least one secondary cell based on the classification indicating that the application is executing at the UE in a background state.

Systems and methods for classifying traffic flows to enable intelligent use of spectrum

In some implementations, a device may determine a signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) value associated with a communication channel between a user equipment and the device. The device may select, based on the SINR value, a channel quality indicator (CQI) value associated with the communication channel or a sounding reference signal (SRS) from the UE to determine a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) configuration for transmitting data to the UE. The device may determine the MIMO configuration according to the CQI value based on the SINR value being a first value. The device may determine the MIMO configuration according to the SRS based on the SINR value being a second value that is different than the first value. The device may transmit the data to the UE using the MIMO configuration.

Systems and methods for determining a massive multiple-input and multiple-output configuration for transmitting data

A base station may receive uplink data identifying uplink performance indicators associated with user equipment connected to the base station, and may receive tuning factors associated with shared channel traffic received by the user equipment and quality of service requirements of the user equipment. The base station may determine a total score associated with utilizing a long duration physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format for uplink control information based on the uplink data and the tuning factors. The base station may determine that the total score satisfies a threshold score and may switch to the long duration PUCCH format for the uplink control information based on the total score satisfying the threshold score. The base station may perform one or more actions based on switching to the long duration PUCCH format for the uplink control information.

Systems and methods for dynamic selection of a physical uplink control channel format

A device may determine traffic information of a user equipment (UE) operating in a first operating mode. The first operating mode may be associated with the UE monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), via a first bandwidth part (BWP), according to a first rate. The device may determine, based on the traffic information, that the UE is to operate in a different operating mode including one of: a second operating mode associated with monitoring the PDCCH, via the first BWP, according to a second rate exceeding the first rate, a third operating mode associated with monitoring the PDCCH, via a second BWP less than the first BWP, according to the second rate, or a fourth operating mode associated with monitoring the PDCCH, via the second BWP, according to the first rate. The device may cause the UE to transition to the different operating mode.

Systems and methods for transitioning between operating modes associated with bandwidth parts for efficient battery consumption

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a TDD slot format selection service is provided. The service may calculate a distance between a radio access network device and an end device and use the distance to select a TDD configuration for the end device. The service may use other criteria to select the TDD configuration such as downlink or uplink ratios and/or interference value pertaining to a neighboring radio access network device. The service may also include scheduling of traffic adjustments based on a determined traffic bias associated with the end device and slot format symbols.

TDD slot format selection service

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an component carrier management service is provided. The service may monitor data pertaining to a transmit power of an end device and a component carrier of a carrier aggregation. Based on the monitoring, the service may determine when the end device is at or near a maximum transmit power. The service may perform a mitigation procedure to prevent or minimize the end device shutting off a component carrier in a radio transmitter chain.

Component carrier management service

New Radio (NR)-aware LTE scheduling is provided. An access station for a radio access network includes a first scheduling function. The first scheduling function identifies a User Equipment (UE) device that has a first active wireless connection and a second active wireless connection to the radio access network. The first scheduling function determines that expanded coverage is need for an uplink transmission for the second active wireless connection and obtains uplink scheduling information for the second active wireless connection. The first scheduling function adjusts uplink scheduling for the first active wireless connection such that power sharing is prioritized for uplink time intervals of the second active wireless connection over overlapping uplink time intervals of the first active wireless connection.

Systems and methods for new-radio-aware LTE scheduling

The disclosed embodiments are directed toward improvements in dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) between cellular network technologies. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising initiating scheduling for a resource in a slot and determining a neighboring base station associated with user equipment (UE). The method then determines a type of interference associated with the neighboring base station and the slot and identifies an outer loop link adaptation (OLLA) value associated with the type of interference. An effective data rate is calculated based on the OLLA value and the method completes scheduling using the effective data rate.

Interference avoidance based on multiple outer loop link adaptation (OLLA) processes

A method, a device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in which a Listen Before Talk-based dynamic energy detection service is provided. The dynamic energy detection service includes provisioning a dynamic threshold value that is used during a clear channel assessment procedure. The dynamic threshold value may be increased or decreased by an adjustment value depending on the success or failure of a data transmission indicated by an end device.

Method and system for contention-based protocol and unlicensed band use

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Sachin R Vargantwar