Qualcomm Incorporated

Shan Qing

Tom Chin

Kuo-Chun Lee

Qingxin Chen

Huan Xu

Aamod Dinkar Khandekar

Srinivasan Balasubramanian

Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam

Guangming Shi

Parthasarathy Krishnamoorthy

Steven D Cheng

Yan Wang

Chetan Chakravarthy

Nitin Pant

Chun Woo Lee

Arvindhan Kumar

Feng Guo

Fangqi Hu

Kyoung Cheol Oh

Patrick Lim

Xiaoning Lu

Kumarabhijeet Singh

Sandeep Rao

Defang Chen

Srikanth Gummadi

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a mode in which the user equipment is enabled, wherein the mode is one of a non-standalone mode, a standalone mode, or a standalone mode and a non-standalone mode; determine whether to prioritize a first set of frequencies associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) or a second set of frequencies associated with a second RAT based at least in part on the mode in which the user equipment is enabled, wherein the first RAT is different from the second RAT; and perform a search of the first set of frequencies or the second set of frequencies based at least in part on whether the first set of frequencies or the second set of frequencies is prioritized. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Techniques and apparatuses for mobile network searching in multiple radio access technologies

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine location information regarding the UE; and activate a receive beam of the UE in at least one symbol, associated with at least one transmit beam of at least one base station, based at least in part on the location information, wherein the UE is configured to activate the receive beam based at least in part on mapping information, at least partially determined by the UE, that indicates that the receive beam is associated with the location information. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Techniques and apparatuses for measuring beam reference signals based at least in part on location information

Methods and apparatus are provided for aggressive beam selection during a handover procedure. A User Equipment (UE) measures a plurality of candidate downlink beams of a target base station (BS), wherein measurement opportunities for each of the candidate downlink beams are scheduled periodically. The UE reports measurements relating to one or more of the measured candidate downlink beams to a source BS. The UE receives a command to handover to the target BS, and in response to receiving the command, attempts to find a new downlink beam of the target BS having a corresponding measurement opportunity that is earlier than a next measurement opportunity of one of the one or more candidate downlink beam.

Aggressive beam selection during handover procedure

The apparatus may be an apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus for wireless communication may include a processing system. The processing system may manage an antenna beam. The processing system may be configured to monitor a parameter of a signal and widen the antenna beam of the apparatus for wireless communication when the parameter falls below a threshold.

Apparatus and methods for beam refinement

Techniques presented herein allow a wireless device, (e.g., a mobile station, MS) to automatically enter a low power state when detecting silence based on monitored VoIP transmissions. Automatically entering the low power state may help the wireless device conserve power. In addition, for certain types of scheduling services in which bandwidth is allocated to the wireless device from within a system (e.g., Unsolicited Grant Service or extended real time polling service), automatically entering the low power state when silence is detected may also free up bandwidth (i.e., that would have otherwise been allocated to the wireless device entering the low power state) for allocation to other wireless devices in the system.

Methods and systems for using a power savings mode during voice over internet protocol communication

Certain embodiments of the present disclosure allow a mobile station (MS) to proactively request neighbor base station information from a serving base station, for example, if a mobile neighbor advertisement (MOB_NBR-ADV) message is not received (or expected) in a predetermined time period.

Methods and systems for proactively requesting neighbor base station information

A method for frame number synchronization in a wireless communication network may be implemented by a base station. The method may include determining a current time from a timing source that is common to multiple other base stations. The method may also include determining a time offset between the current time and a reference time, wherein the base station and the multiple other base stations use the same reference time for determining the time offset. The method may also include determining a current frame number based on the time offset.

Methods and apparatus for frame number synchronization in wireless communication networks

Methods and apparatus are provided for operating in a first RAN at a working frequency, determining a priority of measurement tasks enabled by the first RAN, and dynamically scheduling the tasks according to the priority. For certain aspects, the first RAN may be a TD-SCDMA network. The measurement tasks are intended to measure at least one parameter of a serving cell in the first RAN on a primary frequency, at least one cell in the first RAN on at least one frequency other than the primary frequency, one or more cells in at least one RAN other than the first RAN (e.g., a GSM network) or any combination thereof. This dynamic assignment allows the UE to make scheduling decisions on which frequencies and RANs to measure, as well as how often these frequencies and RANs are measured, thereby providing for more efficient use of idle slots over conventional haphazard scheduling.

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Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for effective measurement in a second Radio Access Technology (e.g., TD-SCDMA) while receiving service in a first Radio Access Technology (e.g., GSM).

Effective timing measurements by a multi-mode device

Certain embodiments allow security keys to be maintained across mobile device states, or communication events, such as hand-over, and system idle and sleep power savings modes. By monitoring the lifetime of security keys, keys may be refreshed in an effort to ensure key lifetimes will not expire during a hand-over process or other device unavailable state.

Methods and systems for maintaining security keys for wireless communication

A base station may be configured so that it operates in accordance with certain MAP transmission rules that may enable mobile stations to save battery power in certain situations. Upon receiving a MAP message, a mobile station may determine whether there is a burst allocated for the mobile station in the current frame by determining the value of at least one of the following: an idle users bit in the SUB-MAP pointer information element (IE), and a sleep users bit in the SUB-MAP pointer IE. The mobile station may discontinue processing of the MAP message and power down one or more components of the mobile station if there is not a burst allocated for the mobile station in the current frame.

Methods and apparatus for saving battery power in mobile stations

Certain embodiments provide techniques for background scanning in a wireless communication device receiving signals from multiple base stations using a background scanning processor separate from a receive processor. The techniques generally include buffering raw signal data from multiple base stations, forwarding the raw signal data to a receive baseband processor for decoding data from a first one of the base stations that is currently designated as a serving base station with an active connection to the wireless communications device, forwarding the raw signal data to a background scanning processor, separate from the receive baseband processor, and generating channel characteristics corresponding to the multiple base stations with the background scanning processor without interrupting the exchange of data with the first base station designated as the serving base station.

Methods and systems for background scanning in OFDMA mobile stations

Techniques for efficient transmission of messages in a ranging procedure between a mobile station (MS) and a base station (BS) are provided. The techniques may allow efficient bandwidth allocation for the ranging procedure.

Methods and systems using efficient ranging message transmission during initial ranging

Methods and apparatus for re-acquiring a WiMAX network after a relatively long power saving mode (e.g., sleep or idle mode) using a 'pre-wakeup' scheme are provided. According to this pre-wakeup scheme, a mobile station (MS) may power up receiving circuitry to search for the current channel or, if unsuccessful, a neighbor channel. After a successful network search during sleep mode, the MS may return to sleep for the remainder of the sleep window until the circuitry is powered up a second time to wakeup and then listen for an expected message. By pre-waking up and searching before waking up for the expected message, the MS may counteract the effects of the potential error in the local oscillator frequency accumulated during the long sleep mode. In this manner, the message miss rate may be reduced, thereby saving power and extending the time in which the MS may operate between battery rechargings.

Adaptive method for system re-acquisition in power saving mode operation in a mobile wiMAX system

Methods and apparatus for ranging with one or more neighboring sectors during normal operation of a mobile station (MS) with its serving sector are provided. The ranging results may be frequently updated in an effort to accelerate the handover process to another base station (BS) providing coverage for one of the neighboring sectors.

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