Radio resource control signaling of different user equipment capability of parent band combinations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11297490-B2
Application number	US-202016798221-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 21, 2020
Priority date	Apr 11, 2019
Publication date	Apr 5, 2022
Grant date	Apr 5, 2022

Abstract

Aspects are provided which allow an apparatus to efficiently indicate downgraded band combinations associated with carrier aggregation (CA) to a base station, in which one or more UE capabilities such as the DL MIMO of certain supported band combinations may be downgraded in exchange for other UE capabilities such as FD-MIMO and 256/1024QAM. The apparatus, which may be a UE, receives a request from a base station for information associated with downgraded band combinations and for information corresponding to at least one UE capability associated with each of the downgraded band combinations. After receiving the request, the UE sends, to the base station, information indicating the downgraded band combinations and the at least one UE capability. The UE may thus report downgraded band combinations for a subset of supported band combinations as requested by the base station, thereby minimizing capability reporting of the UE.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of wireless communication of a user equipment (UE), comprising:
transmitting, to a base station, a capability message indicating a first set of band combinations and at least one corresponding capability;
receiving a request from the base station for additional capability information associated with downgraded band combinations, that are derived from the first set of band combinations, and at least one different UE capability associated with the downgraded band combinations; and
sending, to the base station, the additional capability information indicating the downgraded band combinations and the at least one different UE capability for the downgraded band combinations,
wherein the downgraded band combinations support an added UE capability based on a downgrade of at least one other UE capability.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one different UE capability comprises at least one of downlink (DL) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) capability, full dimension (FD) MIMO capability, or modulation order.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the at least one different UE capability comprises the modulation order, which comprises x quadrature amplitude modulation, where x=4 n for integer n and n≥2.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein n≥4.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein n≥5.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one different UE capability comprises at least one of downlink (DL) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) capability, full dimension (FD) MIMO capability, or modulation order.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the additional capability information indicating the downgraded band combinations and the at least one different UE capability for the downgraded band combinations are sent to the base station in a capability information message.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the request from the base station requests a UE capability report for one or more fallback band combinations.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the capability message for the first set of band combinations further indicates that the UE supports different capabilities for one or more fallback band combination derived from the first set of band combinations.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
skipping transmission of the additional capability information associated with the downgraded band combinations and the at least one different UE capability associated with the downgraded band combinations until the request from the base station for the additional capability information is received.

11. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment, comprising:
means for transmitting, to a base station, a capability message indicating a first set of band combinations and at least one corresponding capability;
means for receiving a request from the base station for additional capability information associated with downgraded band combinations, that are a subset of the first set of band combinations, and at least one different UE capability associated with the downgraded band combinations; and
means for sending, to the base station, the additional capability information indicating the downgraded band combinations and the at least one different UE capability for the downgraded band combinations,
wherein the downgraded band combinations support an added UE capability based on a downgrade of at least one other UE capability.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the at least one different UE capability comprises at least one of downlink (DL) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) capability, full dimension (FD) MIMO capability, or modulation order.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the at least one different UE capability comprises the modulation order, which comprises x quadrature amplitude modulation, where x=4 n for integer n and n≥2.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein n≥4.

15. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein n≥5.

16. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the at least one different UE capability comprises at least one of downlink (DL) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) capability, full dimension (FD) MIMO capability, or modulation order.

17. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the additional capability information indicating the downgraded band combinations and the at least one different UE capability for the downgraded band combinations are sent to the base station in a capability information message.

18. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the request from the base station requests a UE capability report for one or more fallback band combinations from the first set of band combinations.

19. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment, comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
transmit, to a base station, a capability message indicating a first set of band combinations and at least one corresponding capability;
receive a request from the base station for additional capability information associated with downgraded band combinations, that are a subset of the first set of band combinations, and at least one different UE capability associated with each of the downgraded band combinations; and
send, to the base station, the additional capability information indicating the downgraded band combinations and the at least one different UE capability for the downgraded band combinations,
wherein the downgraded band combinations support an added UE capability based on a downgrade of at least one other UE capability.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the at least one different UE capability comprises at least one of downlink (DL) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) capability, full dimension (FD) MIMO capability, or modulation order.

21. The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the at least one different UE capability comprises the modulation order, which comprises x quadrature amplitude modulation, where x=4 n for integer n and n≥2.

22. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein n≥4.

23. The apparatus of claim 21 , wherein n≥5.

24. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the at least one different UE capability comprises at least one of downlink (DL) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) capability, full dimension (FD) MIMO capability, or modulation order.

25. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the additional capability information indicating the downgraded band combinations and the at least one different UE capability for the downgraded band combinations are sent to the base station in a capability information message.

26. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the request from the base station requests a UE capability report for one or more fallback band combinations from the first set of band combinations.

27. The apparatus of claim 19 , wherein the capability message for the first set of band combinations further indicates that the UE supports different capabilities for one or more fallback band combination derived from the first set of band combinations.

28. The apparatus of claim 27 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
skip transmission of the additional capability information associated with the downgraded band combinations and the at least one different UE capability associated with the downgraded band combinations until the request from the base station for the additional capability information is received.

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Pals Timothy Paul
• Rico Alvarino Alberto
• Farajidana Amir
• Kakkar Honey
• Kheirkhah Parastoo
• Pant Nitin
• Phuyal Umesh
• Zhang Wenshu

Classifications

• H04L5/0023

  Time-frequency-space · CPC title

• H04B7/0417

  Feedback systems · CPC title

• H04L1/0003

  by switching between different modulation schemes · CPC title

• H04B7/0413

  MIMO systems · CPC title

• H04L5/0091

  Signalling for the administration of the divided path, e.g. signalling of configuration information · CPC title