IP Library Granted Patent US 12671530
Granted Patent B2
US 12671530 · App. 18/706,237 · Granted Jun 30, 2026

Carrier aggregation method and apparatus, and electronic device

Inventors: Gang Qiu (Shenzhen, CN); Feng Wu (Shenzhen, CN); Lingbin Wang (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
H04L5/001H04L5/0098H04W72/0453
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Patent No.
US 12671530
App. No.
18/706,237
Granted
Jun 30, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed in the present disclosure are a carrier aggregation method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method is applied to a base station and includes: acquiring basic information of a carrier within a preset period in response to determining that discrete carrier segments present in the carrier; determining a required number of pieces of common information of the carrier segments according to the basic information; and in response to a current number of pieces of common information being inconsistent with the required number, disabling or enabling the common information of at least one of the carrier segments to make the current number of pieces of common information consistent with the required number of pieces of common information.

Claims (28)

1 . A carrier aggregation method, applied to a base station, the method comprising:

acquiring basic information of a carrier within a preset period in response to determining that discrete carrier segments present in the carrier;

determining a required number of pieces of common information of the carrier segments according to the basic information; and

in response to a current number of pieces of common information being inconsistent with the required number, disabling or enabling the common information of at least one of the carrier segments to make the current number of pieces of common information consistent with the required number of pieces of common information.

2 . The method of claim 1 , prior to acquiring basic information of a carrier within a preset period, the method further comprising:

configuring common information for each of the carrier segments in response to present of discrete carrier segments in the carrier.

3 . The method of claim 2 , after disabling or enabling the common information of at least one of the carrier segments to make the current number of pieces of common information consistent with the required number of pieces of common information, the method further comprising:

adding the carrier segment of which the common information is disabled or enabled to the carrier as a Secondary Carrier Component (SCC) in response to a service requirement.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the basic information of the carrier comprises the current number of pieces of common information, a number of connections of Radio Resource Control (RRC) of the carrier, and a number of consecutive carrier segments in the carrier.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein determining a required number of pieces of common information of the carrier segments according to the basic information comprises:

obtaining the required number of pieces of common information according to the number of connections of the RRC of the carrier and a preset average threshold of the RRC.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the required number of pieces of common information is equal to a ratio of the number of connections of the RRC to the preset average threshold of the RRC.

7 . The method of claim 4 , wherein disabling or enabling the common information of at least one of the carrier segments to make the current number of pieces of common information consistent with the required number of pieces of common information comprises:

performing an enable operation on the carrier segments of which the common information is in a disabled state in an order from low frequency to high frequency in response to the number of connections of the RRC being greater than a first threshold, until the current number of pieces of common information is consistent with the required number of pieces of common information.

8 . The method of claim 7 , after performing an enable operation on the carrier segments of which the common information is in a disabled state in an order from low frequency to high frequency in response to the number of connections of the RRC being greater than a first threshold, the method further comprising:

migrating an RRC connection in the carrier to the carrier segment of which the common information is enabled.

9 . The method of claim 7 , disabling or enabling the common information of at least one of the carrier segments to make the current number of pieces of common information consistent with the required number further comprising:

performing a disable operation on the carrier segments of which the common information is in an enabled state in an order from high frequency to low frequency in response to the number of connections of the RRC being less than a second threshold, until the current number of pieces of common information is consistent with the required number of pieces of common information.

10 . The method of claim 9 , prior to performing a disable operation on the carrier segments of which the common information is in an enabled state in an order from high frequency to low frequency in response to the number of connections of the RRC being less than a second threshold, the method further comprising:

migrating an RRC connection of the carrier segment of which the common information is to be disabled to the carrier segment with a low frequency.

11 . A carrier aggregation apparatus, comprising:

a configuration module, configured to configure, in response to present of discrete carrier segments in a carrier, common information for each of the carrier segments;

an acquisition module, configured to acquire basic information of a carrier within a preset period in response to determining that discrete carrier segments present in the carrier;

a determining module, configured to determine a required number of pieces of common information according to the basic information;

an execution module, configured to disable or enabling the common information of at least one of the carrier segments to make a current number of pieces of common information consistent with the required number of pieces of common information; and

an addition module, configured to add the carrier segment of which the common information is disabled or enabled to the carrier as a Secondary Carrier Component (SCC) in response to a service requirement.

12 . An electronic device, comprising a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable by the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the carrier aggregation method of claim 1 .

13 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing a computer program which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform the carrier aggregation method of claim 1 .