Wireless resource configuration for simultaneous connectivity

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020351729-A1
Application number	US-202016864381-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 1, 2020
Priority date	May 2, 2019
Publication date	Nov 5, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

Wireless communications are described for wireless resource configuration. A wireless device may be configured for simultaneous connectivity with multiple base stations, such as a source base station and a target base station during a handover procedure. A wireless resource configuration may be determined that reduces the time period during which the wireless device may not be able to communicate with any base station.

First claim

1 . A method comprising:
receiving, by a wireless device from a first base station, one or more first messages comprising configuration parameters of one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) of a first cell associated with the first base station; activating, as a first active BWP, a first BWP of the one or more BWPs for the first cell; receiving, from the first base station:
an indication of a handover from the first cell to a second cell associated with a second base station; and
an indication of a second BWP, as a second active BWP, associated with the second cell;
activating, based on the second BWP overlapping with the active BWP of the first cell, the second BWP of the second cell; and sending, using the second BWP, an indication of the handover of the wireless device to the second cell.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first cell and the second cell are configured to operate in a same frequency band.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the second BWP fully overlaps with the first active BWP.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending, to the first base station, an indication of a capability of parallel connection using a frequency band combination comprising frequencies of the first cell and the second cell.

5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising deactivating, based on performing the handover, the first active BWP of the first cell.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the activating the first BWP is based on:
receiving, from the first base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message indicating an identifier of the first BWP.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a second identifier of the second BWP is a same identifier as a first identifier of the first active BWP of the first cell.

8 . A method comprising:
receiving, by a second base station from a first base station:
an indication of a handover of a wireless device from the first base station to the second base station;
an indication of a capability, of the wireless device, for parallel communications with the first base station, via a first cell, and the second base station, via a second cell; and
an indication that a first bandwidth part (BWP) of the first cell is an active BWP for the wireless device;
determining, by the second base station and based on the first active BWP and the indication of the capability of the wireless device, a second BWP of the second cell; sending, by the second base station to the first base station, an indication for the wireless device to activate the second BWP; and sending, using the second BWP, an indication of the handover of the wireless device via the second cell.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the receiving, from the first base station by the second base station, further comprises receiving configuration parameters, for each of one or more BWPs, that indicate:
at least one frequency domain location; at least one bandwidth; at least one subcarrier spacing; at least one identifier; and at least one channel configuration for an uplink or a downlink.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the receiving, from the first base station by the second base station, further comprises receiving an indicator of radio frequency chain configuration.

11 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising receiving, from the first base station, an indication of a capability, of the wireless device, of parallel connection using a frequency band combination comprising frequencies of the first cell and the second cell.

12 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the second BWP fully overlaps with the first active BWP.

13 . The method of claim 8 , wherein a frequency domain location of the second BWP is a same frequency domain location of the first active BWP.

14 . The method of claim 8 , wherein a second subcarrier spacing of the second BWP is a same subcarrier spacing of the first active BWP.

15 . A method comprising:
sending, by a first base station to a wireless device, one or more first messages comprising configuration parameters of one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) of a first cell of the first base station; sending, to a second base station: an indication of a handover of the wireless device from the first base station to the second base station; a capability indicator, of the wireless device, indicating a capability of parallel connections; and a first indication that a first BWP of the first cell is a first active BWP for the wireless device; receiving, from the second base station, a second indication of a second BWP to be activated by the wireless device; and sending, to the wireless device, one or more second messages indicating:
an indication of the handover from the first cell to a second cell of the second base station; and
an indication of the second BWP of the second cell.

16 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising configuring the wireless device to activate, as the first active BWP of the wireless device, the first BWP of the one or more BWPs for the first cell.

17 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
determining that the second BWP does not overlap with the first BWP; and sending a message, to the wireless device, to switch the first active BWP to a third BWP that overlaps with the second BWP.

18 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
determining that bandwidth part identifier (BWP-ID) associated with the second BWP is different than a BWP-ID associated with the first BWP; and sending a message, to the wireless device, to switch the first active BWP to a third BWP that is associated with a same BWP-ID as the second BWP.

19 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising receiving, from the wireless device, a message indicating a switching of the first active BWP to a third BWP that overlaps the second BWP.

20 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the capability indicator indicates that the wireless device is capable of simultaneous connection to the first cell and the second cell.

Assignees

• Comcast Cable Comm Llc

Inventors

• Rastegardoost Nazanin
• Dinan Esmael
• Jeon Hyoungsuk
• Yi Yunjung
• Park Kyungmin
• Cirik Ali

Classifications

• H04W36/0072 Primary

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