Techniques for POLL bit trigger enhancement in a wireless communication system

1. A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

generating a POLL bit in response to a determination that a packet data unit (PDU) without POLL count associated with a current PDU sequence satisfies a threshold for maximum PDUs without POLL and a determination that a total transmission queue memory exceeds an uplink transmission queue memory threshold; and

transmitting, to a network entity, the current PDU with the POLL bit.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving, from the network entity, a status PDU in response to transmitting the current PDU sequence with the POLL bit.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the POLL bit triggers reporting of the status PDU at a peer acknowledgement mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) entity associated with the network entity.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the status PDU is configured to acknowledge or negatively acknowledge one or more received radio link control (RLC) service data unit (SDU) segments.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

incrementing the count of PDU without POLL based on a determination that at least the count of PDU without POLL associated with the current PDU sequence fails to satisfy the threshold for maximum PDUs without POLL or the total transmission queue memory fails to exceed the uplink transmission queue memory threshold; and

transmitting the current PDU without POLL bit.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising selecting the uplink transmission queue memory threshold.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the count of PDU without POLL corresponds to a number of sequentially transmitted PDUs without a POLL bit included.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein each of the sequentially transmitted PDUs include a sequence number (SN).

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein each of the sequentially transmitted PDUs correspond to an acknowledgement mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) PDU.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the total transmission queue memory corresponds to an amount of data associated with a number of sequentially transmitted PDUs transmitted that is stored in a memory of a transmission queue.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the total transmission queue memory corresponds to an amount of data for transmitting and excludes transmitted PDUs awaiting acknowledgements.

12. A method of wireless communication at network entity, comprising:

receiving, from a user equipment (UE), a current packet data unit (PDU) with a POLL bit configured to trigger reporting of a status PDU at a peer acknowledgement mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) entity associated with the network entity; and

transmitting, to the UE, the status PDU in response to receiving the current PDU with the POLL bit, the status PDU configured to acknowledge or negatively acknowledge one or more received RLC service data unit (SDU) segments,

the current PDU with the POLL bit being sent in response to the UE determining that a PDU without POLL count associated with the current PDU satisfies a threshold for maximum PDUs without POLL and a total transmission queue memory of the UE exceeds an uplink transmission queue memory threshold.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising receiving the current PDU without POLL bit.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein a count of PDU without POLL corresponds to a number of sequentially transmitted PDUs without a POLL bit included.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein each of the sequentially transmitted PDUs include a sequence number (SN).

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein each of the sequentially transmitted PDUs correspond to an AM RLC PDU.

17. An apparatus for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), comprising:

a transceiver;

a memory configured to store instructions; and

one or more processors communicatively coupled with the transceiver and the memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to:

generate a POLL bit in response to a determination that a packet data unit (PDU) without POLL count associated with a current PDU-sequence satisfies a threshold for maximum PDUs without POLL and a determination that a total transmission queue memory exceeds an uplink transmission queue memory threshold; and

transmit, to a network entity, the current PDU with the POLL bit.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to receive, from the network entity, a status PDU in response to transmitting the current PDU sequence with the POLL bit.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the POLL bit triggers reporting of the status PDU at a peer acknowledgement mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) entity associated with the network entity.

20. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein the status PDU is configured to acknowledge or negatively acknowledge one or more received radio link control (RLC) service data unit (SDU) segments.

21. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to:

increment the count of PDU without POLL based on a determination that at least the count of PDU without POLL associated with the current PDU sequence fails to satisfy the threshold for maximum PDUs without POLL or the total transmission queue memory fails to exceed the uplink transmission queue memory threshold; and

transmit the current PDU without POLL bit.

22. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to select the uplink transmission queue memory threshold.

23. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the count of PDU without POLL corresponds to a number of sequentially transmitted PDUs without a POLL bit included.

24. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein each of the sequentially transmitted PDUs include a sequence number (SN).

25. The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein each of the sequentially transmitted PDUs correspond to an acknowledgement mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) PDU.

26. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the total transmission queue memory corresponds to an amount of data associated with a number of sequentially transmitted PDUs transmitted that is stored in a memory of a transmission queue.

27. An apparatus for wireless communication at a network entity, comprising:

a transceiver;

a memory configured to store instructions; and

one or more processors communicatively coupled with the transceiver and the memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to:

receiving, from a user equipment (UE), a current packet data unit (PDU) with a POLL bit configured to trigger reporting of a status PDU at a peer acknowledgement mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) entity associated with the network entity; and

transmitting, to the UE, the status PDU in response to receiving the current PDU with the POLL bit, the status PDU configured to acknowledge or negatively acknowledge one or more received RLC service data unit (SDU) segments,

the current PDU with the POLL bit being sent in response to the UE determining that a PDU without POLL count associated with the current PDU satisfies a threshold for maximum PDUs without POLL and a total transmission queue memory of the UE exceeds an uplink transmission queue memory threshold.

28. The apparatus of claim 27 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to receive the current PDU without POLL bit.

29. The apparatus of claim 28 , wherein a count of PDU without POLL corresponds to a number of sequentially transmitted PDUs without a POLL bit included.

30. The apparatus of claim 29 , wherein each of the sequentially transmitted PDUs include a sequence number (SN).

31. The apparatus of claim 29 , wherein each of the sequentially transmitted PDUs correspond to an AM RLC PDU.