Dynamic transmission power backoff

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12425984-B2
Application number	US-202217839684-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 14, 2022
Priority date	Sep 9, 2021
Publication date	Sep 23, 2025
Grant date	Sep 23, 2025

Abstract

An electronic device receives an indication of a number of physical resource blocks and subcarrier spacing of at least a portion of a transmission channel and determines a dynamic transmission bandwidth, or receives an indication of a modulation coding scheme of the transmission channel and determines a modulation order. The electronic device transmits, using a transmitter, a signal over at least the portion of the transmission channel based on the dynamic transmission bandwidth being less than or equal to a threshold bandwidth, or the modulation order not corresponding to an additional power backoff, using a first power based on a maximum output power capacity of the electronic device and a maximum power reduction. Otherwise, the electronic device transmits the signal over at least the portion of the transmission channel at a second power based on the maximum output power capacity, the maximum power reduction and the additional power backoff.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a receiver of user equipment, an indication of a number of physical resource blocks and subcarrier spacing of at least a portion of a transmission channel;
receiving, by the user equipment, a dynamic transmission bandwidth of at least the portion of the transmission channel based on the number of physical resource blocks and the subcarrier spacing; and
transmitting, by a transmitter of the user equipment, a signal over at least the portion of the transmission channel based on the dynamic transmission bandwidth being greater than a threshold bandwidth using a power, the power being based on a maximum output power capacity of the user equipment, a maximum power reduction, and a power backoff associated with one or more frequency bands of the transmission channel.

2. The method of claim 1 , comprising determining the power based on a difference between the maximum output power capacity of the user equipment and a sum of the maximum power reduction and the power backoff.

3. The method of claim 1 , comprising transmitting, by the transmitter of the user equipment, a second signal over at least the portion of the transmission channel based on the dynamic transmission bandwidth being less than or equal to the threshold bandwidth using a second power based on the maximum output power capacity of the user equipment and the maximum power reduction.

4. The method of claim 3 , comprising determining the second power based on a difference between the maximum output power capacity of the user equipment and the maximum power reduction.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the power backoff is between 1 decibel and 3 decibels.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the threshold bandwidth comprises 20 megahertz.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the maximum power reduction is associated with meeting a regulatory requirement for emission by the transmitter.

8. The method of claim 1 , comprising receiving, at the receiver of the user equipment, downlink control information on a physical downlink channel control channel, the downlink control information comprising the indication of the number of physical resource blocks and the subcarrier spacing.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the portion of the transmission channel comprises a bandwidth part of the transmission channel as defined by a fifth generation cellular standard.

10. An electronic device, comprising:
a receiver;
a transmitter; and
processing circuitry coupled to the receiver and the transmitter, the processing circuitry configured to
cause the receiver to receive an indication of a number of physical resource blocks and subcarrier spacing of at least a portion of a transmission channel,
receive a dynamic transmission bandwidth of at least the portion of the transmission channel based on the number of physical resource blocks and the subcarrier spacing, and
cause the transmitter to transmit a signal over at least the portion of the transmission channel based on the dynamic transmission bandwidth being greater than a threshold bandwidth using a power, the power being based on a maximum output power capacity of the electronic device, a maximum power reduction, and a power backoff associated with a modulation order of the portion of the transmission channel.

11. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the power comprises a difference between the maximum output power capacity of the electronic device and a sum of the maximum power reduction and the power backoff.

12. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to cause the transmitter to transmit the signal over at least the portion of the transmission channel based on the dynamic transmission bandwidth less than or equal to the threshold bandwidth using a second power based on the maximum output power capacity of the electronic device and the maximum power reduction.

13. The electronic device of claim 12 , wherein the second power comprises a difference between the maximum output power capacity of the electronic device and the maximum power reduction.

14. One or more tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media, storing instructions that are configured to cause processing circuitry to:
receive, at a receiver of user equipment, an indication of a number of physical resource blocks and subcarrier spacing of at least a portion of a transmission channel;
receive, by the user equipment, a dynamic transmission bandwidth of at least the portion of the transmission channel based on the number of physical resource blocks and the subcarrier spacing; and
transmit, by a transmitter of the user equipment, a signal over at least the portion of the transmission channel based on the dynamic transmission bandwidth being greater than a threshold bandwidth using a power, the power being based on a maximum output power capacity of the user equipment, a maximum power reduction, and a power backoff based on a headroom associated with the user equipment.

15. The one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the instructions cause the processing circuitry to determine the power based on a difference between the maximum output power capacity of the user equipment and a sum of the maximum power reduction and the power backoff.

16. The one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the instructions cause the processing circuitry to transmit, by the transmitter of the user equipment, a second signal over at least the portion of the transmission channel based on the dynamic transmission bandwidth being less than or equal to the threshold bandwidth using a second power based on the maximum output power capacity of the user equipment and the maximum power reduction.

17. The one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 16 , wherein the instructions cause the processing circuitry to determine the second power based on a difference between the maximum output power capacity of the user equipment and the maximum power reduction.

18. The one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the maximum power reduction is associated with meeting a regulatory requirement for emission by the transmitter.

19. The one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the instructions cause the processing circuitry to receive, at the receiver of the user equipment, downlink control information on a physical downlink channel control channel, the downlink control information comprising the indication of the number of physical resource blocks and the subcarrier spacing.

20. The one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 14 , wherein the portion of the transmission channel comprises a bandwidth part of the transmission channel as defined by a fifth generation cellular standard.

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Zhang Lijie
• Yang Hailong
• Ma Kexin
• Ho Alex Yee Kit
• Zhang Sr Feng
• Zhao Bing
• Zhang Ying
• Wang Zhiwei
• Miao Qiang

Classifications

• H04W72/23

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

• H04W52/146

  Uplink power control · CPC title

• H04L5/0053

  Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals · CPC title

• H04L5/001

  the frequencies being arranged in component carriers · CPC title

• H04L27/34

  Amplitude- and phase-modulated carrier systems, e.g. quadrature-amplitude modulated carrier systems · CPC title