Sub-network bands determination

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025220653-A1
Application number	US-202418999604-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 23, 2024
Priority date	Dec 27, 2023
Publication date	Jul 3, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a terminal device, a method, an apparatus, and a medium for determining sub-network bands. In an aspect, a terminal device determines one or more common bands among supported operating bands received from a network node and at least one sub-network device. The terminal device determines one or more available bands from the one or more common bands. The terminal device determines one or more candidate bands to be used for creating the at least one sub-network. With the embodiments in the present disclosure, the terminal device can avoid bands which may cause or suffer channel access failures due to operation of other radio access technologies, and the terminal device can select the sub-network spectrum based on least co-existence and least self-interference impacts and establish the sub-network at this spectrum location.

First claim

1 . A terminal device comprising:
at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the terminal device at least to:
determine one or more common bands among supported operating bands received from a network node and at least one sub-network device, wherein the at least one sub-network device is to be served by the terminal device in at least one sub-network;
determine one or more available bands from the one or more common bands, wherein the one or more available bands are bands that the terminal device and the network node jointly support and are not active as a cell for communication with the network node; and
determine, based on hardware capabilities of the terminal device, from the one or more available bands, one or more candidate bands to be used for creating the at least one sub-network.

2 . The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the terminal device is further caused to:
determine, based on one or more interference conditions of the one or more candidate bands, a frequency allocation which has minimum impacts of self-interferences of the one or more candidate bands.

3 . The terminal device of claim 2 , wherein the one or more interference conditions comprise at least one of the following:
a combination of the one or more candidate bands with an active band having a minimum maximum sensitivity degradation (MSD) value, wherein the combination is an addition of the one or more candidate bands; a combination of the one or more candidate bands having a minimum coexistence interference; or a combination of the one or more candidate bands having a minimum interference disturbance from other radio access technologies (RATs).

4 . The terminal device of claim 3 , wherein a self-interference comprises at least one of the following:
an uplink (UL) harmonic self-interference impact; or a harmonic mixing MSD.

5 . The terminal device of claim 2 , wherein the terminal device is further caused to:
determine, based on frequency ranges affected by MSD, the frequency allocation of the one or more candidate bands; and create the sub-network based on the frequency allocation.

6 . The terminal device of claim 5 , wherein the terminal device is caused to determine the frequency allocation of the one or more candidate bands by:
determining whether frequency relations between the one or more candidate bands satisfy predetermined frequency relations; based on determining that the frequency relations do not satisfy the predetermined frequency relations, selecting a corresponding frequency allocation; or based on determining that the frequency relations satisfy the predetermined frequency relations, preventing from selecting a corresponding frequency allocation.

7 . The terminal device of claim 6 , wherein a frequency relation of an uplink (UL) harmonic is associated with:
an UL frequency including channel bandwidth (CBW) of a first candidate band and/or an active band, a frequency including CBW of a second candidate band and/or the active band, and a first predetermined parameter.

8 . The terminal device of claim 6 , wherein a frequency relation of a harmonic mixing is associated with:
a frequency including channel bandwidth (CBW) of a first candidate band and/or an active band, a frequency including CBW of a second candidate band and/or the active band, and a second predetermined parameter.

9 . The terminal device of claim 6 , wherein a frequency relation of a source of an intermodulation products (IMD) is associated with:
a frequency including channel bandwidth (CBW) of a first candidate band combined with a second candidate band or an active band, a frequency including CBW of a third candidate band or the active band, and a third predetermined parameter.

10 . The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the terminal device is further caused to:
based on determining that none of the candidate bands satisfy the one or more interference condition, restrict an uplink (UL) power of the terminal device in a sub-network assigned band to mitigate interferences.

11 . The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the terminal device is further caused to:
transmit, to the network node, information on sub-network existence including information as the frequency allocation, channel bandwidth (CBW), and power class.

12 . The terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the terminal device is further caused to:
based on determining that no frequency resource satisfies the one or more interference conditions, or all frequency resources are exhausted, select a secondary cell (Scell) to carry a channel bandwidth (CBW) which allows the sub-network device to be serviced; and create the sub-network using a channel within the band of the Scell.

13 . A method comprising:
determining, at a terminal device, one or more common bands among supported operating bands received from a network node and at least one sub-network device, wherein the at least one sub-network device is to be served by the terminal device in at least one sub-network; determining one or more available bands from the one or more common bands, wherein the one or more available bands are bands that the terminal device and the network node jointly support and are not active as a cell for communication with the network node; and determining based on hardware capabilities of the terminal device, from the one or more available bands, one or more candidate bands to be used for creating the at least one sub-network.

14 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising:
determining, based on one or more interference conditions of the one or more candidate bands, a frequency allocation which has minimum impacts of self-interferences of the one or more candidate bands.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the one or more interference conditions comprise at least one of the following:
a combination of the one or more candidate bands with an active band having a minimum maximum sensitivity degradation (MSD) value, wherein the combination is an addition of the one or more candidate bands; a combination of the one or more candidate bands having a minimum coexistence interference; or a combination of the one or more candidate bands having a minimum interference disturbance from other radio access technologies (RATs).

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein a self-interference comprises at least one of the following:
an uplink (UL) harmonic self-interference impact; or a harmonic mixing MSD.

17 . The method of claim 14 , further comprising:
determining, based on frequency ranges affected by maximum sensitivity degradation (MSD), the frequency allocation of the one or more candidate bands; and creating the sub-network based on the frequency allocation.

18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein determining the frequency allocation of the one or more candidate bands comprises:
determining whether frequency relations between the one or more candidate bands satisfy predetermined frequency relations; based on determining that the frequency relations do not satisfy the predetermined frequency relations, selecting a corresponding frequency allocation; or based on determining that the frequency relations satisfy the predetermined frequency relations, preventing from selecting a corresponding frequency allocation.

19 . The method of claim 18 , wherein a frequency relation of an uplink (UL) harmonic is associated with:
an UL frequency including channel bandwidth (CBW) of a first candidate band and/or

Assignees

• Nokia Technologies Oy

Inventors

• Nielsen Kim
• Jalili Feridoon
• Jacobsen Thomas Haaning
• Abreu Renato Barbosa

Classifications

• H04W52/367

  Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range · CPC title

• H04W72/541

  using the level of interference · CPC title

• H04W84/10

  Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks · CPC title

• H04W16/10

  Dynamic resource partitioning · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title