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Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Siddharth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);

Jasinder P. Singh, Olathe, KS (US);

Ravi Kallepalli, Overland Park, KS (US);

Ryan P. Dreiling, Shawnee, KS (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04B 7/0413 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04B 7/0413 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for controlling how many carriers to aggregate together for carrier-aggregation service of a UE. A base station could take into account how many MIMO layers a UE would support respectively for each of various candidate quantities of carriers, and the base station could select the candidate quantity of carriers that would result in use of a highest aggregate total number of MIMO layers. Further, the selection could involve mapping UE-reported rank to a quantity of carriers, with the rank being inversely proportional to the selected quantity of carriers. The base station could then configure carrier-aggregation service of the UE with the selected quantity of carriers.


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