Method and apparatus for enhancing cell-edge user performance and signaling radio link failure conditions via downlink cooperative component carriers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11218978-B2
Application number	US-201916700425-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 2, 2019
Priority date	Feb 12, 2010
Publication date	Jan 4, 2022
Grant date	Jan 4, 2022

Abstract

A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) receives first timing advances and first power control commands from a first eNodeB and second timing advances and second power control commands from a second eNodeB and transmits, to the first eNodeB, a first physical uplink control channel using a first uplink component carrier. The first physical uplink control channel has a first timing adjusted by the first timing advances but not by the second timing advances and a first power level adjusted by the first power control commands but not by the second power control commands. The WTRU transmits a second physical uplink control channel using a second uplink component carrier. The second physical uplink control channel has a second timing adjusted by the second timing advances but not by the first timing advances and a second power level adjusted by the second power control commands but not by the first power control commands.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising:
a transceiver; and
a processor,
wherein the transceiver and the processor are configured to transmit, in a time interval, a first uplink transmission to a first network node associated with a first site,
wherein the transceiver and the processor are further configured to transmit, in the time interval, a second uplink transmission to a second network node associated with a second site,
wherein the processor is further configured to scale a power level of only the second uplink transmission to the second network node associated with the second site on a condition that a determined transmission power for the first uplink transmission to the first network node and the second uplink transmission to the second network node would exceed a maximum transmission power level in the time interval, and
wherein the scaling the power level of only the second uplink transmission to the second network node associated with the second site comprises prioritizing power to physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions over physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions without uplink control information (UCI).

2. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to scale the power level of only the second uplink transmission to the second network node by prioritizing power to PUSCH transmissions with UCI over PUSCH transmissions without UCI.

3. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the transceiver and the processor are further configured to receive different transmit power commands for the first and second network nodes.

4. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the transceiver and the processor are further configured to receive different timing advances for the first and second network nodes.

5. The WTRU of claim 1 , wherein data is split between the first and second network node using packet data convergence protocol (PDCP).

6. A method, implemented by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), the method comprising:
transmitting, in a time interval, a first uplink transmission to a first network node associated with a first site;
transmitting, in the time interval, a second uplink transmission to a second network node associated with a second site;
scaling a power level of only the second uplink transmission to the second network node associated with the second site on a condition that a determined transmission power for the first uplink transmission to the first network node and the second uplink transmission to the second network node would exceed a maximum transmission power level in the time interval,
wherein the scaling the power level of only the second uplink transmission to the second network node associated with the second site comprises prioritizing power to physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions over physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions without uplink control information (UCI).

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising scaling the power level of only the second uplink transmission to the second network node by prioritizing power to PUSCH transmissions with UCI over PUSCH transmissions without UCI.

8. The method of claim 6 , further comprising receiving different transmit power commands for the first and second network nodes.

9. The method of claim 6 , further comprising receiving different timing advances for the first and second network nodes.

10. The method of claim 6 , further comprising splitting data between the first and second network node using packet data convergence protocol (PDCP).

Assignees

• Interdigital Patent Holdings Inc

Inventors

• Pietraski Philip J
• Yang Rui
• Li Kai
• Wang Carl
• Deng Tao
• Kaur Samian
• Bala Erdem
• Pragada Ravikumar V

Classifications

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04W72/0453

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

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04W52/346 Primary

  distributing total power among users or channels · CPC title

• H04W52/325 Primary

  Power control of control or pilot channels · CPC title