IP Library Granted Patent US 10,992,339
Granted Patent B2
US 10,992,339 · App. 16/732,415 · Granted Apr 27, 2021

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

Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi (Kista, SE); Arunabha Ghosh (Austin, TX)
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
H04B1/7136H04B1/7143H04B7/02H04B7/0834H04B7/18547H04L1/1858H04L1/1864H04L1/1896H04B7/2615
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Patent No.
US 10,992,339
App. No.
16/732,415
Granted
Apr 27, 2021
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 (42)

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 user equipment with a multi-slot operation, associated with slots of the user equipment, for sending uplink channel control data or traffic channel data;

based on global positioning system data associated with the user equipment, determining the hopping patterns to be used by the user equipment;

transmitting the configuration data to the user equipment, resulting in a multi-slot configuration of the user equipment, wherein the configuration data comprises hopping patterns to be used by the slots; and

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

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the configuration data comprises hopping patterns to be used by the slots.

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

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

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein transmitting of the configuration data comprises transmitting the configuration data via a radio resource control signal.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein transmitting of the configuration data comprises transmitting the configuration data via a physical layer signal.

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

configuring the user equipment with a hopping pattern, wherein the hopping pattern is a defined hopping pattern, for the multi-slot operation.

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

sending configuration data associated with the multi-slot configuration to the user equipment.

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 user equipment in relation to network equipment;

based on the location of the user equipment, generating configuration data associated with configuring the user equipment with a multi-slot operation, associated with slots of the user equipment, for sending uplink channel control data and control channel data;

based on global positioning system data associated with the user equipment, determining the hopping patterns to be used by the user equipment;

transmitting the configuration data to the user equipment, resulting in a multi-slot configuration of the user equipment, wherein the configuration data comprises hopping patterns to be used by the slots; and

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

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the configuration data comprises hopping patterns to be used by the slots.

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 user equipment.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein transmitting of 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 constraint data representative of a number of times that the user equipment is to repeat a transmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the configuration data comprises hopping patterns that 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 network equipment, receiving, by a mobile device comprising a processor, a recommendation of a slot configuration for the mobile device applicable to the slot;

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

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

facilitating, by the mobile device, transmitting uplink channel control data in accordance with the recommendation, wherein the configuration data comprises hopping patterns to be used by the slot; and

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

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the slot configuration data is determined based on a path loss associated with data being transmitted from the mobile device.

17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the recommendation comprises a frequency hopping pattern recommendation associated with a 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:

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 the Doppler metric representative of a speed of the mobile device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 10, 2020
From: NAMMI, SAIRAMESH; GHOSH, ARUNABHA
To: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Reel/Frame 053440/0577 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15870641 · Jan 12, 2018
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