Granted Patent B2

US 10,560,143 · App. 16/117,192 · Granted Feb 11, 2020

Inventors: Wei Zeng (San Diego, CA); Haijing Hu (Beijing, CN); Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, CA); Xiangying Yang (Cupertino, CA); Haitong Sun (Irvine, CA); Christian W. Mucke (Cupertino, CA)

Assignee: Apple Inc.

H04B1/711H04B17/309H04W52/146H04W52/365H04W72/0453H04W72/082

Abstract

Claims (75)

1. An apparatus, comprising a processing element configured to cause a wireless device to:

determine a potential intermodulation issue for a dual connectivity configuration of Long Term Evolution (LTE) and New Radio (NR) at the wireless device for one or more band combinations;

provide, to a base station, based on said determining the potential intermodulation issue, a capability of whether simultaneous transmission on dual uplink carriers is supported for the dual connectivity configuration of LTE and NR for one or more band combinations;

provide, to the base station, an indication that the wireless device supports reporting intermodulation issues associated with dual connectivity on LTE and NR;

receive an indication that the wireless device is allowed to report the intermodulation issues from the base station;

determine that an intermodulation issue associated with dual connectivity of LTE and NR is occurring at the wireless device;

provide an indication of the intermodulation issue to the base station; and

receive first configuration information from the base station, wherein the first configuration information configures the wireless device for single uplink carrier communication, wherein the configuration information is received based at least in part on one or more of the capability and the indication of the intermodulation issue.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing element is further configured to cause the wireless device to:

determine an amount of power head room of the wireless device for each of a first uplink carrier and a second uplink carrier; and

provide an indication of the amount of power head room of the wireless device for each of the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier to the base station.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing element is further configured to cause the wireless device to:

determine an amount of receiver sensitivity degradation that the wireless device can mitigate; and

provide an indication of the amount of receiver sensitivity degradation that the wireless device can mitigate to the base station.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said determining the potential intermodulation issue is based on an intermodulation order of the potential intermodulation issue.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing element is further configured to cause the wireless device to determine that an intermodulation issue is occurring at the wireless device based on one or more of:

an amount of power head room of the wireless device for each of a first uplink carrier and a second uplink carrier;

an intermodulation order of the intermodulation issue;

an amount of receiver sensitivity degradation that the wireless device can mitigate; or

one or more intermodulation orders that the wireless device can mitigate.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing element is further configured to cause the wireless device to, at a later time:

determine that the intermodulation issue is no longer occurring at the wireless device;

provide an indication that the intermodulation issue is no longer occurring at the wireless device to the base station; and

receive second configuration information from the base station, wherein the second configuration information configures the wireless device for simultaneous multiple uplink carrier communication, wherein the second configuration information is received based at least in part on the indication that the intermodulation issue is no longer occurring at the wireless device.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 ,

wherein the indication that the wireless device supports reporting intermodulation issues and the indication that the wireless device is allowed to report intermodulation issues are exchanged during a radio resource control connection setup procedure.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 ,

wherein determining that the intermodulation issue is occurring at the wireless device is performed based at least in part on an uplink band combination configured for the wireless device for multiple uplink carrier communication.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the indication of the intermodulation issue and the first configuration information are exchanged using one of:

radio resource control (RRC) signaling; or

media access control (MAC) control elements.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processing element is further configured to cause the wireless device to:

determine one or more of a network associated with the base station, a location associated with the base station, cell type information for a cell provided by the base station, or one or more possible channel allocations for a configured combination of operating bands; and

provide the indication of the intermodulation issue to the base station based at least in part on one or more of the network associated with the base station, the location associated with the base station, the cell type information for the cell provided by the base station, or the one or more possible channel allocations for the configured combination of operating bands.

11. An apparatus, comprising a processing element configured to cause a base station to:

receive, from a wireless device, a capability indicating that simultaneous transmission on dual uplink carriers is not supported by the wireless device due to a potential intermodulation issue associated with a dual connectivity configuration of LTE and NR for one or more band combinations;

receive, from the wireless device, an indication that the wireless device supports reporting intermodulation issues associated with dual connectivity on LTE and NR;

provide an indication that the wireless device is allowed to report the intermodulation issues;

receive, from the wireless device, an indication that an intermodulation issue associated with dual connectivity on LTE and NR is occurring at the wireless;

determine to configure the wireless device to use a single uplink carrier at a time based at least in part on one or more of the capability and the indication of the intermodulation issue.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 ,

wherein determining to configure the wireless device to use a single uplink carrier at a time is further based at least in part on an intermodulation order of the potential intermodulation issue.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the processing element is further configured to cause the base station to:

receive an indication of an amount of power head room for each of a first uplink carrier and a second uplink carrier of the wireless device;

determine an effective amount of receiver sensitivity degradation for the wireless device based at least in part on the amount of power head room of the wireless device for each of the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier and the intermodulation order of the potential intermodulation issue; and

determine to configure the wireless device to use a single uplink carrier at a time further based on the effective amount of receiver sensitivity degradation for the wireless device being above a receiver sensitivity degradation threshold.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the processing element is further configured to cause the base station to:

receive information indicating an amount of receiver sensitivity degradation that the wireless device can mitigate,

wherein determining to configure the wireless device to use a single uplink carrier at a time is further based at least in part on the amount of receiver sensitivity degradation that the wireless device can mitigate.

15. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the processing element is further configured to cause the base station to:

receive information indicating one or more intermodulation orders that the wireless device can mitigate from the wireless device,

wherein determining to configure the wireless device to use a single uplink carrier at a time is further based at least in part on the information indicating one or more intermodulation orders that the wireless device can mitigate.

16. A base station, comprising:

an antenna;

a radio coupled to the antenna; and

a processing element coupled to the radio;

wherein the base station is configured to:

receive, from a wireless device, a capability indicating that simultaneous transmission on dual uplink carriers is not supported by the wireless device due to a potential intermodulation issue associated with a dual connectivity configuration of LTE and NR for one or more band combinations;

receive, from the wireless device, an indication that the wireless device supports reporting intermodulation issues associated with dual connectivity on LTE and NR;

provide an indication that the wireless device is allowed to report the intermodulation issues;

receive, from the wireless device, an indication that an intermodulation issue associated with dual connectivity on LTE and NR is occurring at the wireless device; and

configure the wireless device to use a single uplink carrier at a time based at least in part on one or more of the capability and the intermodulation issue.

17. The base station of claim 16 , wherein the base station is further configured to:

receive an indication of an amount of power head room of the wireless device for each of a first uplink carrier and a second uplink carrier;

determine an intermodulation order of the potential intermodulation issue; and

determine an effective amount of receiver sensitivity degradation for the wireless device based at least in part on the amount of power head room of the wireless device for each of the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier and the intermodulation order of the potential intermodulation issue,

wherein determining that an intermodulation issue is currently occurring at the wireless device is further based at least in part on the effective amount of receiver sensitivity degradation for the wireless device.

18. The base station of claim 16 , wherein the base station is further configured to:

receive an indication of an amount of receiver sensitivity degradation that the wireless device can mitigate from the wireless device,

wherein determining that an intermodulation issue is currently occurring at the wireless device is further based at least in part on the amount of receiver sensitivity degradation that the wireless device can mitigate.

19. The base station of claim 16 , wherein the base station is further configured to:

receive an indication of one or more intermodulation orders that the wireless device can mitigate from the wireless device,

wherein determining that an intermodulation issue is currently occurring at the wireless device is further based at least in part on the indication of one or more intermodulation orders that the wireless device can mitigate.

20. The base station of claim 16 , wherein the base station is further configured to, at a later time:

determine that an intermodulation issue is no longer occurring at the wireless device; and configure the wireless device to allow simultaneous use of multiple uplink carriers based at least in part on determining that an intermodulation issue is no longer occurring at the wireless device.

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