Multiple power class operation
A terminal ( 10 ) configured for communication with a wireless network ( 100 ), the terminal comprising: —a transceiver ( 313 ) for communicating with the wireless network; —logic ( 310 ) configured to control the transceiver to transmit ( 510 ), to the wireless network, a power class capability indication identifying communication capability of the terminal in the wireless network under at least a first power class (PC-A) and a second power class (PC-B); control the transceiver to receive ( 550 ), from the wireless network, resource configuration to execute wireless communication using an identified one, or both, of said first and second power class; and control the transceiver to operate ( 555 ) with the received resource configuration using the first and/or second power class.
1. A terminal configured for communication with a wireless network, the terminal comprising
a transceiver for communicating with the wireless network;
logic configured to
control the transceiver to transmit, to the wireless network, a power class capability indication identifying communication capability of the terminal in the wireless network under at least a first power class and a second power class;
control the transceiver to transmit, to the wireless network, an identification of support for concurrent operation of a first service under the first power class and a second service under the second power class;
control the transceiver to receive, from the wireless network, resource configuration to execute wireless communication using an identified one, or both, of said first and second power class; and
control the transceiver to operate with the received resource configuration using the first and/or second power class.
2. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the first power class is a default power class.
3. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein said capability indication includes an identity of both the first power class and the second power class.
4. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the logic is configured to
control the transceiver to transmit, to the wireless network, a service type indication identifying one or more services associated with at least one of said first and second power class.
5. The terminal of claim 4 , wherein the logic is configured to operate the transceiver for the first service and the second service in one or more of time, code, frequency, and spatial division duplex during said concurrent operation.
6. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the logic is configured to
detect initiation of a predetermined service associated with one of said first and second power class;
operate said predetermined service under the associated power class.
7. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the power class capability indication identifies partial communication capability of the terminal in the wireless network under the second power class such that the terminal meets the requirements for at least one parameter of the second power class, but does not meet the requirements for at least one other parameter of the second power class.
8. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the logic is configured to
control the transceiver to transmit, to the wireless network, a link direction indication identifying at least one of said first and second power class to only one, or both, of uplink and downlink, associated with at least one service.
9. The terminal of claim 8 , wherein the logic is configured to
control the transceiver to communicate with the wireless network in a first spatial direction using one of said first and second power class, and in a second spatial direction, which is at least partially different from the first spatial direction, using the other of said first and second power class.
10. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the logic is configured to
control the transceiver to receive, from the wireless network, resource configuration to execute wireless communication using one power class in uplink and another power class in downlink.
11. A method for operating a terminal in communication with a wireless network, comprising
transmitting, to the wireless network, a power class capability indication identifying communication capability of the terminal in the wireless network under at least a first power class and a second power class;
control the transceiver to transmit, to the wireless network, an identification of support for concurrent operation of a first service under the first power class and a second service under the second power class;
receiving, from the wireless network, resource configuration to execute wireless communication using an identified one, or both, of said first and second power class; and
operating with the received resource configuration using the first and/or second power class.
12. A network node of a wireless network configured for communication with a terminal, comprising
a transceiver for communicating with the terminal;
an interface for communicating with a core network of the wireless network;
logic configured to
control the transceiver to receive, from the terminal, a power class capability indication identifying communication capability of the terminal in the wireless network under at least a first power class and a second power class;
control the transceiver to receive, from the terminal, an identification of support for concurrent operation of a first service under the first power class and a second service under a second power class;
control the transceiver to transmit resource configuration to the terminal for wireless communication using an identified one, or both, of said first and second power class.
13. The network node of claim 12 , wherein the logic is configured to
control the transceiver to execute communication with the terminal with said resource configuration using the first and/or second power class.
14. The network node of claim 12 , wherein the logic is configured to
store power class capability of said first and second power classes associated with the terminal.
15. The network node of claim 12 , wherein the logic is configured to
control the transceiver to receive, from the terminal, a service type indication identifying one or more services associated with at least one of said first and second power class.
16. The network node of claim 15 , wherein the logic is configured to
control the wireless network to operate a first network slice for the first service, and a second network slice for the second service.
17. The network node of claim 15 , wherein the logic is configured to concurrently support the first service under the first power class, and the second service under the second power class.
18. The network node of claim 15 , wherein the logic is configured to operate the transceiver for the first service and the second service in one or more of time, code, frequency, and spatial division duplex.