IP Library Granted Patent US 10,834,761
Granted Patent B2
US 10,834,761 · App. 16/279,392 · Granted Nov 10, 2020

Cell uplink selection control

Inventors: Kyungmin Park (Herndon, VA); Esmael Dinan (McLean, VA); Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, VA); Hua Zhou (Herndon, VA); Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, VA); Ali Cirik (Herndon, VA)
Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
H04W74/0833H04W72/0473H04W72/085H04W74/006H04W76/27H04W72/02H04W74/0866H04W88/02H04W88/08
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Patent No.
US 10,834,761
App. No.
16/279,392
Granted
Nov 10, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A wireless device receives at least one message from a base station. The at least one message comprises uplink configuration parameters for a cell of the base station. The uplink configuration parameters indicate: a first uplink; a second uplink; and a power value for selecting one of the first uplink and the second uplink. The wireless device determines a scaled power value based on: the power value; and a moving speed of the wireless device. The wireless device selects as a selected uplink, one of the first uplink and the second uplink based on the scaled power value. The wireless device transmits a random access preamble via the selected uplink.

Claims (34)

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a wireless device from a base station, at least one message comprising uplink configuration parameters for a cell of the base station, the uplink configuration parameters indicating:

a first uplink carrier;

a second uplink carrier; and

a power threshold for selecting one of the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier;

determining, by the wireless device, a scaled power threshold based on the configured power threshold and a moving speed of the wireless device;

selecting as a selected uplink carrier, by the wireless device, one of the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier based on the scaled power threshold; and

transmitting, by the wireless device, a random access preamble via the selected uplink carrier.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink configuration parameters further comprise a scaling factor for the determining the scaled power threshold.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the uplink configuration parameters further comprise a second scaling factor for the selecting the one of the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the wireless device employs the second scaling factor based on a service type of the wireless device.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the scaled power threshold is further based on a preconfigured scaling factor.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining further comprises increasing the configured power threshold to the scaled power threshold in response to the moving speed of the wireless device being higher than a moving speed value.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first uplink carrier is a normal uplink carrier.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second uplink carrier is a supplementary uplink carrier.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first uplink carrier employs a higher frequency than the second uplink carrier.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device selects the second uplink carrier in response to a measured downlink quality of the cell being lower than the scaled power threshold.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the measured downlink quality is based on a received power of the cell.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one message further comprises a radio resource control message.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink configuration parameters further comprise a second power threshold for the determining the scaled power threshold when using an ultra reliable and low latency service.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the uplink configuration parameters further comprise at least one of:

first bandwidth information of the first uplink carrier; or

second bandwidth information of the second uplink carrier.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cell is configured with at least one of:

a time division duplex; or

a frequency division duplex.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first uplink carrier covers a smaller area than the second uplink carrier.

17. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, by the wireless device from the base station, a random access response in response to transmitting the random access preamble.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless device is in a radio resource control idle state or in a radio resource control inactive state.

19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one message further comprises one or more system information blocks.

20. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one message further comprises at least one of:

a cell identifier of the cell;

a base station identifier of the base station; or

core network pool information of the base station.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 14, 2019
From: PARK, KYUNGMIN; DINAN, ESMAEL HEJAZI; JEON, HYOUNGSUK; ZHOU, HUA; BABAEI, ALIREZA; CIRIK, ALI
To: OFINNO, LLC
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62631654 · Feb 17, 2018
Related Publication 20190261424A1 · Aug 22, 2019