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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
May. 17, 2013
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Osok Song, San Diego, CA (US);
Aleksandar Damnjanovic, San Diego, CA (US);
Tingfang Ji, San Diego, CA (US);
Taesang Yoo, San Diego, CA (US);
Parag Arun Agashe, San Diego, CA (US);
Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam, San Diego, CA (US);
Yongbin Wei, San Diego, CA (US);
Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US);
Rajat Prakash, San Diego, CA (US);
Masato Kitazoe, Tokyo, JP;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for partitioning resources for enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (eICIC) are provided. Certain aspects involve broadcasting a message indicating time-domain resource partitioning information (RPI), where a user equipment (UE) may be operating in idle mode. With the RPI, the UE may be able to identify protected resources with reduced/eliminated interference from neighboring cells. The RPI in this broadcasted message may be encoded as a bitmap as an alternative or in addition to enumeration of the U/N/X subframes. Other aspects entail transmitting a dedicated or unicast message indicating the time-domain RPI, where a UE may be operating in connected mode. With the RPI, the UE may be able to determine channel state information (CSI), make radio resource management (RRM) measurements, or perform radio link monitoring (RLM), based on one or more signals from a serving base station during the protected time-domain resources.