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US 12,407,457 · App. 17/266,298 · Granted Sep 2, 2025

Carrier aggregation for wireless transmit/receive unit

Inventors: Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego, CA); Nagi Mahalingam (San Diego, CA); Ravikumar V. Pragada (Warrington, PA); Benoit Pelletier (Roxboro, CA)
Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
H04L5/0044H04L5/001H04L5/0053H04L5/0076H04W72/0453H04W72/40H04W72/542
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Patent No.
US 12,407,457
App. No.
17/266,298
Granted
Sep 2, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) may include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The WTRUs/UAVs may cooperate to exchange channel busy ratio (CBR) and/or CBR statistics of one or more (e.g., all) the carriers that the WTRUs/UAVs monitors with each other for carrier selection/carrier reselection. A network may provide one or more inputs on carrier selection. For example, a network may provide one or more inputs on carrier selection based on the congestion that the network infers (e.g., through the CBR measurements reported by the WTRUs/UAVs and/or through its own measurements). MAC/PHY layers may be configured to perform transmit adaptation during PDCP packet duplication. For example, the carrier aggregation capability of receivers may be considered to adapt the number of transmissions per carrier. Based on the carrier aggregation capability of the receivers, the number of transmissions at one or more (e.g., every) carriers may be optimized jointly across carriers.

Claims (38)

1. A first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising:

a processor configured to:

monitor a first sidelink resource associated with a first set of carriers to determine a first resource usage parameter for the first sidelink resource;

receive, from a second WTRU, a second resource usage parameter for a second sidelink resource, wherein the second sidelink resource is associated with a second set of carriers and the second sidelink resource is associated with the second WTRU, and wherein the first set of carriers is different from the second set of carriers;

perform a reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement based on one or more of the first sidelink resource and the second sidelink resource;

assign respective weights to the first sidelink resource and the second sidelink resource based on the RSRP measurement;

generate an aggregated carrier usage report based on the respective weights respectively applied to the first resource usage parameter for the monitored first sidelink resource associated with the first set of carriers and to the second resource usage parameter for the second sidelink resource associated with the second set of carriers; and

transmit the generated aggregated carrier usage report.

2. The first WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

generate the first resource usage parameter for the first sidelink resource based on the monitored first sidelink resource, wherein the monitored first sidelink resource is connected to the first WTRU.

3. The first WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the aggregated carrier usage report comprises one or more of channel busy ratio, channel occupancy ratio, or channel ratio associated with the first sidelink resource and the second sidelink resource.

4. The first WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

determine the respective weights, wherein the respective weights comprise one or more of RSRP information, staleness information, or frequency information associated with one or more of the first sidelink resource or the second sidelink resource.

5. The first WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

transmit the aggregated carrier usage report periodically.

6. The first WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

perform a sidelink carrier selection based on the aggregated carrier usage report.

7. The first WTRU of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

transmit the aggregated carrier usage report to at least one of the first set of carriers or the second set of carriers.

8. A method comprising:

monitoring a first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for a first sidelink resource associated with a first set of carriers to determine a first resource usage parameter for the first sidelink resource;

receiving, from a second WTRU, a second resource usage parameter for a second sidelink resource, wherein the second sidelink resource is associated with a second set of carriers, and the second sidelink resource is associated with the second WTRU, and wherein the first set of carriers is different from the second set of carriers;

performing a reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement based on one or more of the first sidelink resource and the second sidelink resource;

assigning respective weights to the first sidelink resource and the second sidelink resource based on the RSRP measurement;

generating an aggregated carrier usage report based on the respective weights respectively applied to the first resource usage parameter for the monitored first sidelink resource associated with the first set of carriers and to the second resource usage parameter for the second sidelink resource associated with the second set of carriers; and

transmitting the generated aggregated carrier usage report.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises:

generating the first resource usage parameter for the first sidelink resource based on the monitored first sidelink resource, wherein the monitored first sidelink resource is connected to the first WTRU.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the aggregated carrier usage report comprises one or more of channel busy ratio, channel occupancy ratio, or channel ratio associated with the first sidelink resource and the second sidelink resource.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises:

determining the respective weights, the respective weights comprising one or more of RSRP information, staleness information, or frequency information associated with one or more of the first sidelink resource or the second sidelink resource.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises:

transmitting the aggregated carrier usage report periodically.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises:

performing a sidelink carrier selection based on the aggregated carrier usage report.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises:

transmitting the aggregated carrier usage report to at least one of the first set of carriers or the second set of carriers.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the method of claim 8 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 11, 2022
From: BALASUBRAMANIAN, ANANTHARAMAN; MAHALINGAM, NAGI; PRAGADA, RAVIKUMAR V.; PELLETIER, BENOIT
To: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62716706 · Aug 9, 2018
Related Publication 20210314112A1 · Oct 7, 2021
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