Method for power consumption reduction for measurement configurations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021392525-A1
Application number	US-201917290874-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 31, 2019
Priority date	Nov 2, 2018
Publication date	Dec 16, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform at least receiving from a communication network, by a user equipment, a measurement configuration; determining to adapt the measurement configuration, wherein the adapted measurement configuration identifies mobility measurements for use by the user equipment based on at least one condition; and performing the adapted measurement configuration instead of the measurement configuration received from the communication network.

First claim

1 .- 41 . (canceled)

42 . A method, comprising:
receiving from a communication network, by a user equipment, a measurement configuration; adapting the measurement configuration, wherein the adapted measurement configuration identifies mobility measurements for use by the user equipment based on at least one condition; and performing the adapted measurement configuration instead of the measurement configuration received from the communication network.

43 . The method of claim 42 , wherein the at least one condition comprises at least one of a synchronization signal block signal quality condition, and a channel state reference signal associated with the measurement configuration.

44 . The method of claim 43 , wherein the adapting comprises applying for the measurement configuration an adapted configuration associated with at least one of measurements, a time location, or a periodicity associated with measurements of at least one synchronization signal block.

45 . The method of claim 44 , wherein the adapted configuration comprises at least one of frequency or cell level information.

46 . The method of claim 45 , wherein the adapting the measurement configuration uses frequency level information or a lack thereof to adapt the at least one of measurements, a time location, or a periodicity associated or list configuration for measurement of at least one synchronization signal block with a different center frequency.

47 . The method of claim 46 , wherein the adapting the measurement configuration comprises, based on the adapted configuration for the measurement configuration, determining at least one of a scaling factor or an offset to an S-measure threshold to adapt the S-measure threshold.

48 . The method of claim 47 , wherein for a case where a cell quality based on the channel state reference signal or synchronization signal block associated with the measurement configuration is higher than the adapted S-measure threshold or a configured threshold, one of:
the user equipment is not required to perform the measurements on non-serving cells, the user equipment performing the measurements on non-serving cells with with an adjusted periodicity, or the user equipment is to measure in a more relaxed manner the at least one synchronization signal block having the different center frequency.

49 . The method of claim 48 , wherein the more relaxed manner comprises, based on the frequency level information, applying an adjusted periodicity to cause a periodicity of at least one of a measurement periodicity or a radio resource management to increase, such as to be performed less often on the at least one synchronization signal block having the different center frequency and during at least one of an idle, inactive, or connected mode of the user equipment.

50 . The method of claim 47 , wherein the adapting the measurement configuration comprises including intra-frequency, inter-frequency, and carrier aggregation for a specific cell or a set of cells of the communication network.

51 . An apparatus, comprising:
at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code being configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to perform:
receiving, from a communication network by a user equipment, a measurement configuration;
adapting the measurement configuration, wherein the adapted measurement configuration identifies mobility measurements for use by the user equipment based on at least one condition; and
performing the adapted measurement configuration instead of the measurement configuration received from the communication network.

52 . The apparatus of claim 51 , wherein the at least one condition comprises at least one of a synchronization signal block signal quality condition, and a channel state reference signal associated with the measurement configuration.

53 . The apparatus of claim 52 , wherein the adapting comprises applying for the measurement configuration an adapted configuration associated with at least one of measurements, a time location, or a periodicity associated with measurements of at least one synchronization signal block.

54 . The apparatus of claim 53 , wherein the adapted configuration comprises at least one of frequency or cell level information.

55 . The apparatus of claim 54 , wherein the adapting the measurement configuration uses frequency level information or a lack thereof to adapt the at least one of measurements, a time location, or a periodicity associated with a mask or list configuration for measurement of at least one synchronization signal block with a different center frequency.

56 . The apparatus of claim 55 , wherein the adapting the measurement configuration comprises, based on the adapted configuration for the measurement configuration, determining at least one of a scaling factor or an offset to an S-measure threshold to adapt the S-measure threshold.

57 . The apparatus of claim 56 , wherein for a case where a cell quality based on the channel state reference signal or synchronization signal block associated with the measurement configuration is higher than the adapted S-measure threshold or a configured threshold, one of:
the user equipment is not required to perform the measurements on non-serving cells, the user equipment performing the measurements on non-serving cells with with an adjusted periodicity, or the user equipment is to measure in a more relaxed manner the at least one synchronization signal block having the different center frequency.

58 . The apparatus of claim 56 , wherein the adapting the measurement configuration comprises including intra-frequency, inter-frequency, and carrier aggregation for a specific cell or a set of cells of the communication network.

59 . The apparatus of claim 51 , wherein the adapting comprises identifying a set of the at least one synchronization signal block based on the at least one condition, wherein the set is identified based on a signal quality condition associated with the synchronization signal block signal.

60 . A computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, said computer program comprising program code which, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to execute the method according to claim 42 .

Assignees

• Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventors

• Kaikkonen Jorma Johannes
• Koskela Timo
• Hakola Sami-Jukka
• Karjalainen Juha Pekka

Classifications

• H04B7/06952

  Selecting one or more beams from a plurality of beams, e.g. beam training, management or sweeping · CPC title

• H04W24/08 Primary

  Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic · CPC title

• Y02D30/70

  in wireless communication networks · CPC title

• H04W52/0229 Primary

  where the received signal is a wanted signal · CPC title

• H04W24/10

  Scheduling measurement reports {; Arrangements for measurement reports} · CPC title