IP Library Granted Patent US 10,547,347
Granted Patent B2
US 10,547,347 · App. 15/870,641 · Granted Jan 28, 2020

Uplink coverage for 5G or other next generation network using multi-slot frequency hopping

Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi (Austin, TX); Arunabha Ghosh (Austin, TX)
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
H04B1/7136H04B7/0834H04B7/18547
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Patent No.
US 10,547,347
App. No.
15/870,641
Granted
Jan 28, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Facilitating multi-slot frequency hopping can comprise generating configuration data associated with configuring a mobile device with a multi-slot operation, associated with slots of the mobile device, for sending uplink channel control data or traffic channel data. Additionally, facilitating multi-slot frequency hopping can comprise transmitting the configuration data to the mobile device, resulting in a multi-slot configuration of the mobile device, wherein the configuration data comprises hopping patterns to be used by the slots.

Claims (36)

1. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

generating configuration data associated with configuring a mobile device with a multi-slot operation, associated with slots of the mobile device, for sending uplink channel control data or traffic channel data, wherein the configuration data is determined based on a path loss associated with data being transmitted from the mobile device; and

transmitting the configuration data to the mobile device, resulting in a multi-slot configuration of the mobile device, wherein the configuration data comprises hopping patterns to be used by the slots.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

based on global positioning system data associated with the mobile device, determining the hopping patterns to be used by the mobile device.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the operations further comprise:

generating flag data associated with a flag indicative of a determination to use a same hopping pattern of the hopping patterns or a different hopping pattern of the hopping patterns for the slots.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the transmitting the configuration data comprises transmitting the configuration data via a radio resource control signal.

5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the transmitting the configuration data comprises transmitting the configuration data via a physical layer signal.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

facilitating configuring the mobile device with the hopping patterns, wherein the hopping patterns are defined hopping patterns, for the multi-slot operation.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to determining that a condition associated with the mobile device has been satisfied, sending configuration data associated with the multi-slot configuration to the mobile device.

8. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

receiving location data associated with a location of a mobile device, of a wireless network, in relation to a network device of the wireless network;

based on the location of the mobile device, generating configuration data associated with configuring the mobile device with a multi-slot operation, associated with slots of the mobile device, for sending uplink channel control data and control channel data, wherein the configuration data is determined based on a path loss associated with data being transmitted from the mobile device; and

transmitting the configuration data to the mobile device, resulting in a multi-slot configuration of the mobile device, wherein the configuration data comprises hopping patterns to be used by the slots.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining a signal-to-noise ratio associated with a channel utilized for communication between the mobile device and the network device.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the multi-slot configuration is for slots associated with the channel.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:

determining a frequency hopping pattern, for the slots, to be utilized by the mobile device.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the transmitting the configuration data comprises transmitting the configuration data via a radio resource control signal.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the configuration data comprises parameter data representative of a number of times that the mobile device is to repeat a transmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the hopping patterns are representative of frequency hopping patterns to be associated with the slots.

15. A method, comprising:

based on slot configuration data, associated with a slot of a channel, generated by a wireless network device of a wireless network, receiving, by a mobile device comprising a processor, a recommendation of a slot configuration for the mobile device applicable to the slot, wherein the slot configuration data is determined based on a path loss associated with data being transmitted from the mobile device;

based on the recommendation, determining, by the mobile device, a hybrid automatic repeat request to be sent to the wireless network device; and

transmitting, by the mobile device, uplink channel control data in accordance with the recommendation.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein a group of slots comprises the slot, and wherein the recommendation comprises a multi-slot recommendation associated with the group of slots.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the recommendation comprises a frequency hopping pattern recommendation associated with the group of slots.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the slot configuration data is determined based on a location associated with the mobile device.

19. The method of claim 15 , further comprising: based on a location of the mobile device, determining, by the mobile device, a hopping pattern, associated with the configuration data, to be used by the slot.

20. The method of claim 15 , wherein the slot configuration data is based on a value of a Doppler metric determined to be associated with a speed of the mobile device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 19, 2018
From: NAMMI, SAIRAMESH; GHOSH, ARUNABHA
To: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Reel/Frame 045273/0796 →
Continuity (1)
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