Techniques and apparatuses to improve drone-mounted user equipment performance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10356636-B2
Application number	US-201715477745-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 3, 2017
Priority date	Apr 3, 2017
Publication date	Jul 16, 2019
Grant date	Jul 16, 2019

Abstract

A method, an apparatus, a base station, user equipment, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In some aspects, the apparatus may identify a user equipment as a drone-mounted user equipment, and/or may configure one or more parameters associated with the user equipment based at least in part on identifying the user equipment as a drone-mounted user equipment. In some aspects, the apparatus may determine, for a user equipment mounted on a drone, that a threshold is satisfied with regard to an uplink throughput, a downlink throughput, a signal strength, or a signal quality associated with the user equipment, and/or may configure a transmission power parameter or a measurement reporting parameter based at least in part on determining that the threshold is satisfied.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for wireless communication, comprising:
determining, by a user equipment (UE) mounted on a drone, that a threshold is satisfied with regard to an uplink throughput, a downlink throughput, a signal strength, or a signal quality associated with the UE;
configuring, by the UE, a transmission power parameter or a measurement reporting parameter based at least in part on determining that the threshold is satisfied; and
transmitting, by the UE and to a base station, a measurement report based on the transmission power parameter or the measurement reporting parameter, wherein the measurement report includes information identifying a quantity of cells reported within a threshold level of a serving cell of the UE, and wherein the UE is identified by the base station based at least in part on the quantity of cells.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein configuring the transmission power parameter or the measurement reporting parameter comprises configuring a maximum transmission power of the UE to less than a maximum allowable transmit power of the UE.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein configuring the transmission power parameter or the measurement reporting parameter comprises configuring the measurement report to be provided by the UE only when the signal strength or the signal quality satisfies the threshold.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing, to the base station, one or more other measurement reports.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing, to the base station, information that identifies a quantity of handovers per unit time.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing, to the base station, information that identifies a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of one or more drone-mounted UEs.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
collecting measurement information for cells covering the UE; and
reporting the measurement information to the base station.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the measurement information is reported to the base station only when a strongest cell, of the cells, changes.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining to transmit a particular quantity of measurement reports over a particular length of time; and
transmitting the particular quantity of measurement reports, wherein the particular quantity of measurement reports include the measurement report.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing, to the base station, information identifying a signal quality variation based at least in part on network condition.

11. A user equipment (UE) mounted on a drone, comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors, communicatively connected to the memory, configured to:
determine that a threshold is satisfied with regard to an uplink throughput, a downlink throughput, a signal strength, or a signal quality associated with the UE;
configure a transmission power parameter or a measurement reporting parameter based at least in part on determining that the threshold is satisfied; and
provide, to a base station, a measurement report based on the transmission power parameter or the measurement reporting parameter, wherein the measurement report includes information identifying a quantity of cells reported within a threshold level of a serving cell of the UE, and wherein the information identifying the quantity of cells is used by the base station to identify the UE.

12. The UE of claim 11 , wherein configuring the transmission power parameter or the measurement reporting parameter comprises configuring a maximum transmission power of the UE to less than a maximum allowable transmit power of the UE.

13. The UE of claim 11 , wherein configuring the transmission power parameter or the measurement reporting parameter comprises configuring the measurement report to be provided by the UE only when the signal strength or the signal quality satisfies the threshold.

14. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
provide, to the base station, one or more other measurement reports.

15. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
provide, to the base station, information that identifies a quantity of handovers per unit time.

16. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
provide, to the base station, information that identifies a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of one or more drone-mounted UEs.

17. The UE of claim 11 ,
wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
collect measurement information for cells covering the UE; and
report the measurement information to the base station, and

wherein the measurement information is reported to the base station only when a strongest cell, of the cells, changes.

18. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
determine to transmit a particular quantity of measurement reports over a particular length of time; and
transmit the particular quantity of measurement reports, wherein the particular quantity of measurement reports include the measurement report.

19. The UE of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
provide, to the base station, information identifying a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) metric.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more instructions for wireless communication, the one or more instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE) mounted on a drone, cause the one or more processors to:
determine that a threshold is satisfied with regard to an uplink throughput, a downlink throughput, a signal strength, or a signal quality associated with the UE;
configure a transmission power parameter or a measurement reporting parameter based at least in part on determining that the threshold is satisfied; and
transmit, to a base station, a measurement report based on the transmission power parameter or the measurement reporting parameter, wherein the measurement report includes information identifying a quantity of cells reported within a threshold level of a serving cell of the UE, and wherein the UE is identified by the base station based at least in part on the quantity of cells.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20 , wherein configuring the transmission power parameter or the measurement reporting parameter comprises configuring a maximum transmission power of the UE to less than a maximum allowable transmit power of the UE.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20 , wherein configuring the transmission power parameter or the measurement reporting parameter comprises configuring the measurement report to be provided by the UE only when the signal strength or the signal quality satisfies the threshold.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20 , wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:
provide, to the base station, one or more other measurement reports.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20 , wherein the threshold level is a threshold signal strength.

25. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
means

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Guirguis Sameh
• Ray Chaudhuri Kausik
• Halder Atanu

Classifications

• H04W52/146

  Uplink power control · CPC title

• H04W52/288

  taking into account the usage mode, e.g. hands-free, data transmission or telephone · CPC title

• H04W52/247

  where the output power of a terminal is based on a path parameter sent by another terminal · CPC title

• H04W28/18

  Negotiating wireless communication parameters · CPC title

• H04W72/0453

  Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA · CPC title