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Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2016
Applicant:

Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Yu Zhou, Herndon, VA (US);

Muhammad Ahsan Naim, Ashburn, VA (US);

Luca Zappaterra, Eindhoven, NL;

Assignee:

Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04B 7/26 (2006.01); H04B 7/024 (2017.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04B 7/2684 (2013.01); H04B 7/024 (2013.01); H04L 5/006 (2013.01); H04L 27/26 (2013.01); H04L 43/0852 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04W 56/00 (2013.01); H04W 56/001 (2013.01); H04W 56/0055 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method and system for adjusting a transport block size used for uplink transmissions from a user equipment device (UE) when engaging in uplink coordinated multipoint service (UL CoMP), under conditions in which a propagation delay to a receiving CoMP base station (BS) exceeds a threshold. Based on predicted delay reported to a serving BS from the CoMP BS, the serving BS may compute a reduced transport block size such that uplink resource blocks transmitted from the UE to the CoMP base station will be temporally under-filled by an amount corresponding to the predicted delay. As received at the CoMP BS, the under-filled resource blocks will not overrun their assigned transmission time interval (TTI), and therefore will not be a source of potential interference.


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