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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2016
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Yajun Zhu, Beijing, CN;
Hua Xu, Ottawa, CA;
Zhijun Cai, Asburn, VA (US);
Shiwei Gao, Nepean, CA;
Yufei Wu Blankenship, Kildeer, IL (US);
Vahid Pourahmadi, Ottawa, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A wireless access network node receives, from a coordinating network node, configuration information relating to a configuration of an uplink signal comprising a given uplink sequence selected by a user equipment (UE) from a plurality of uplink sequences and to be transmitted by the UE, the configuration information to enable the wireless access network node to monitor for the uplink signal, the plurality of uplink sequences mapped to respective power levels. The wireless access network node monitors for the uplink signal according to the configuration while the wireless access network node is in an off state, and determines a power level of the uplink signal based on the given uplink sequence in the uplink signal detected by the wireless access network node.