Interference mitigation through carrier aggregation

1. A method comprising:

transmitting data and control information over a primary component carrier to a wireless device;

determining that a first condition associated with the primary component carrier is satisfied;

temporarily transmitting at least a portion of the data or control information to the wireless device over a secondary component carrier until a second condition is determined to be satisfied with respect to the primary component carrier; and

maintaining connectivity with the wireless device over the primary component carrier while the at least the portion of the data or control information is transmitted to the wireless device over the secondary component carrier.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

transmitting the at least the portion of the data and the control information over the primary component carrier in response to determining that the second condition is satisfied with respect to the primary component carrier.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

deactivating the secondary component carrier in response to determining that the second condition with respect to the primary component carrier is satisfied.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the first condition associated with the primary component carrier is satisfied further comprises receiving a first message that indicates that the first condition associated with the primary component carrier is satisfied.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

activating the secondary component carrier in response to receiving the first message.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

configuring the secondary component carrier prior to activating the secondary component carrier.

7. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

selecting the secondary component carrier based at least in part on the first message.

8. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:

determining that the second condition with respect to the primary component carrier is satisfied based at least in part on receipt of a second message that indicates that the second condition with respect to the primary component carrier is satisfied.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least the portion of the data or the control information is temporarily transmitted to the wireless device over the secondary component carrier without transmitting any of the data over the primary component carrier.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the maintaining the connectivity with the wireless device over the primary component carrier further comprises:

maintaining a physical control channel over the primary component carrier with the wireless device.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the primary component carrier and the secondary component carrier comprise contiguous frequency bands or non-contiguous frequency bands.

12. A computer program product comprising instructions stored in a non-transitory tangible computer-readable storage medium, the instructions comprising:

instructions to receive data transmissions and control transmissions over a primary component carrier from a base station;

instructions to receive at least a portion of the data transmissions or at least a portion of the control transmissions over a secondary component carrier from the base station; and

instructions to maintain connectivity with the base station over the primary component carrier while the at least the portion of the data or control information is received from the base station over the secondary component carrier.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the primary component carrier and the secondary component carrier comprise contiguous frequency bands or non-contiguous frequency bands.

14. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the instructions to maintain connectivity with the base station over the primary component carrier while the at least the portion of the data transmissions or the at least the portion of the control transmissions is received from the base station over the secondary component carrier further comprise:

instructions to maintain a radio resource control connection with the base station over the primary component carrier while receiving the at least the portion of the data transmissions or the at least the portion of the control transmissions over the secondary component carrier.

15. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the instructions further comprise:

instructions to receive the at least the portion of the data transmissions or the at least the portion of the control transmissions over the primary component carrier in response to determining that a condition is satisfied with respect to the primary component carrier.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the instructions further comprise:

instructions to deactivate the secondary component carrier in response to determining that the condition with respect to the primary component carrier is satisfied.

17. A device, comprising:

at least one processor configured to perform operations comprising:

providing data transmissions and control transmissions to a wireless device over a primary component carrier;

switching at least a portion of the data transmissions or at least a portion of the control transmissions to a secondary component carrier at a first time;

maintaining connectivity with the wireless device over the primary component carrier while the at least the portion of the data transmissions or the at least the portion of the control transmissions are switched to the secondary component carrier; and

switching the at least the portion of the data transmissions or the at least the portion of the control transmissions to the primary component carrier at a second time.

18. The device of claim 17 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to perform operations comprising:

deactivating the secondary component carrier upon switching the at least the portion of the data transmissions or the at least the portion of the control transmissions to the primary component carrier at the second time.

19. The device of claim 17 , wherein the primary component carrier and the secondary component carrier comprise contiguous frequency bands or non-contiguous frequency bands.

20. The device of claim 19 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to perform operations comprising:

deactivating the secondary component carrier upon switching the portion of the data transmissions or the at least the portion of the control transmissions to the primary component carrier at the second time.