Bandwidth part inactivity timer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11356229-B2
Application number	US-202016857669-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 24, 2020
Priority date	Oct 26, 2017
Publication date	Jun 7, 2022
Grant date	Jun 7, 2022

Abstract

A wireless device monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of an active bandwidth part (BWP) during a discontinuous reception (DRX) active time. A switch is made to a first downlink BWP as the active BWP during the DRX active time. In response to the switching, a first PDCCH of the first downlink BWP is monitored and a BWP inactivity timer is started. A packet is transmitted via a transmission interval of periodic resources indicated by a configured grant. The BWP inactivity timer is restarted at a time based on the transmission interval. In response to an expiration of the BWP inactivity timer, a switch is made to a second downlink BWP as the active BWP during the DRX active time, and a second PDCCH is monitored.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
monitoring, by a wireless device, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of an active bandwidth part (BWP) during a discontinuous reception (DRX) active time;
switching to a first downlink BWP as the active BWP during the DRX active time;
in response to the switching, monitoring a first PDCCH of the first downlink BWP and starting a BWP inactivity timer of the first downlink BWP;
transmitting a packet via a transmission interval of periodic resources indicated by a configured grant;
restarting the BWP inactivity timer at a time based on the transmission interval; and
in response to an expiration of the BWP inactivity timer, switching to a second downlink BWP as the active BWP during the DRX active time, and monitoring a second PDCCH of the second downlink BWP.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, from a base station, at least one message indicating the periodic resources of the configured grant, wherein the configured grant is configured in a first uplink BWP that is paired with the first downlink BWP.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the at least one message further indicates:
a first number of first contiguous physical radio resource blocks of the first uplink BWP; and
a first offset of a first physical radio resource block of the first contiguous physical radio resource blocks.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein switching to the second downlink BWP as the active BWP comprises deactivating the first uplink BWP, and wherein the method further comprises deactivating the configured grant of the first uplink BWP in response to deactivating the first uplink BWP.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, from a base station, at least one message indicating:
a first subcarrier spacing and a first cyclic prefix of the first downlink BWP; and
a second subcarrier spacing and a second cyclic prefix of the second downlink BWP.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, from a base station, at least one message indicating a timer value of the BWP inactivity timer.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second downlink BWP is a default BWP, and a bandwidth of the second downlink BWP is smaller than a bandwidth of the first downlink BWP.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising stopping the monitoring of the PDCCH of the active BWP after an end of the DRX active time, wherein the end of the DRX active time is based on an expiration of a DRX inactivity timer.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein switching to the second downlink BWP as the active BWP comprises deactivating the first downlink BWP.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first downlink BWP is maintained as the active BWP based on the BWP inactivity timer, of the first downlink BWP, being running.

11. A wireless device comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the wireless device to:
monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of an active bandwidth part (BWP) during a discontinuous reception (DRX) active time;
switch to a first downlink BWP as the active BWP during the DRX active time;
in response to the switching, monitor a first PDCCH of the first downlink BWP and start a BWP inactivity timer of the first downlink BWP;
transmit a packet via a transmission interval of periodic resources indicated by a configured grant;
restart the BWP inactivity timer at a time based on the transmission interval; and
in response to an expiration of the BWP inactivity timer, switch to a second downlink BWP as the active BWP during the DRX active time, and monitor a second PDCCH of the second downlink BWP.

12. The wireless device of claim 11 , wherein the instructions further cause the wireless device to receive, from a base station, at least one message indicating the periodic resources of the configured grant, wherein the configured grant is configured in a first uplink BWP that is paired with the first downlink BWP.

13. The wireless device of claim 12 , wherein the at least one message further indicates:
a first number of first contiguous physical radio resource blocks of the first uplink BWP; and
a first offset of a first physical radio resource block of the first contiguous physical radio resource blocks.

14. The wireless device of claim 12 , wherein switching to the second downlink BWP as the active BWP comprises deactivating the first uplink BWP.

15. The wireless device of claim 11 , wherein the instructions further cause the wireless device to receive, from a base station, at least one message indicating:
a first subcarrier spacing and a first cyclic prefix of the first downlink BWP; and
a second subcarrier spacing and a second cyclic prefix of the second downlink BWP.

16. The wireless device of claim 11 , wherein the instructions further cause the wireless device to receive, from a base station, at least one message indicating a timer value of the BWP inactivity timer.

17. The wireless device of claim 11 , wherein the second downlink BWP is a default BWP, and a bandwidth of the second downlink BWP is smaller than a bandwidth of the first downlink BWP.

18. The wireless device of claim 11 , wherein the instructions further cause the wireless device to stop monitoring the PDCCH of the active BWP after an end of the DRX active time, wherein the end of the DRX active time is based on an expiration of a DRX inactivity timer.

19. The wireless device of claim 11 , wherein switching to the second downlink BWP as the active BWP comprises deactivating the first downlink BWP.

20. A system comprising:
a wireless device comprising:
one or more first processors; and
first memory storing first instructions that, when executed by the one or more first processors, cause the wireless device to:
monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of an active bandwidth part (BWP) during a discontinuous reception (DRX) active time;
switch to a first downlink BWP as the active BWP during the DRX active time;
in response to switching to the first downlink BWP, monitor a first PDCCH of the first downlink BWP and start a BWP inactivity timer of the first downlink BWP;
transmit a packet via a transmission interval of periodic resources indicated by a configured grant;
restart the BWP inactivity timer at a time based on the transmission interval; and
in response to an expiration of the BWP inactivity timer, switch to a second downlink BWP as the active BWP during the DRX active time, and monitor a second PDCCH of the second downlink BWP;

a base station comprising:
one or more second processors; and
second memory storing second instructions that, when executed by the one or more second processors, cause the base station to:
transmit, during the DRX active time, a first control message indicating switching of the wireless device to the first BWP as the active BWP;
start, in response to transmitting, a second BWP inactivity timer for the first downlink BWP;
receive the packet from the wireless device via the transmission interval;
restart the second BWP inactivity timer at the time based on the transmission interval; and
transmit during the DRX active time, based on an expiration of the second BWP inactivity timer, a second control message to the wireless device via the second PDCCH of the second downlink BWP.

Assignees

• Ofinno Llc

Inventors

• Jeon Hyoungsuk
• Dinan Esmael
• Zhou Hua
• Babaei Alireza
• Park Kyungmin
• Cirik Ali

Classifications

• H04W72/23

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

• H04B17/328

  Reference signal received power [RSRP]; Reference signal received quality [RSRQ] · CPC title

• Y02D30/70

  in wireless communication networks · CPC title

• H04W76/27

  Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states · CPC title

• H04B7/0626

  Channel coefficients, e.g. channel state information [CSI] · CPC title