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Granted Patent B2
US 11,706,782 · App. 17/711,366 · Granted Jul 18, 2023

BWP activation method for terminal

Inventors: Inkwon Seo (Seoul, KR); Joonkui Ahn (Seoul, KR); Suckchel Yang (Seoul, KR); Seonwook Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
H04W72/23
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Patent No.
US 11,706,782
App. No.
17/711,366
Granted
Jul 18, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus, wherein a terminal, for which a primary cell and a secondary cell are configured, performs a random access procedure, and a specific BWP on the secondary cell is activated on the basis that DCI received from a base station indicates non-dormancy.

Claims (33)

1. A method for activating a bandwidth part (BWP) performed by a user equipment (UE) for which a primary cell and a secondary cell are configured in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving BWP information from a base station via a radio resource control (RRC) signaling;

receiving downlink control information (DCI) including information related to dormancy from the base station; and

activating a specific BWP on the secondary cell based on the DCI,

wherein, based on a current active BWP being a dormant BWP, the DCI informs the activation of the specific BWP provided based on the BWP information via the RRC signaling, and

wherein a BWP inactivity timer is not used for transitioning from the dormant BWP, which is activated, to a default BWP.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE receives the DCI on a primary cell.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the DCI indicates non-dormancy in units of a plurality of cells.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein a field length of a field indicating the non-dormancy in the DCI is 1 bit.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a maximum number of configurable BWPs per cell configured for the UE is four.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE receives a PDSCH or a PDCCH on the specific BWP.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE does not perform physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring or does not receive a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) on the dormant BWP.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the dormant BWP is a BWP configured by a higher layer signaling.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the primary cell is a cell in which the UE performs an initial connection establishment procedure or a connection re-establishment procedure, and the secondary cell is a cell in which additional radio resources are provided to the UE.

10. A user equipment (UE) for which a primary cell and a secondary cell are configured, the UE comprising:

one or more memories storing instructions;

one or more transceivers; and

one or more processors coupling the one or more memories and the one or more transceivers,

wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:

receive bandwidth part (BWP) information from a base station via a radio resource control (RRC) signaling;

receive downlink control information (DCI) including information related to dormancy from the base station; and

activate a specific BWP on the secondary cell based on the DCI,

wherein, based on a current active BWP being a dormant BWP, the DCI informs the activation of the specific BWP provided based on the BWP information via the RRC signaling, and

wherein a BWP inactivity timer is not used for transitioning from the dormant BWP, which is activated, to a default BWP.

11. An apparatus configured to control a user equipment (UE) for which a primary cell and a secondary cell are configured, the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more memories operably coupled by the one or more processors and storing instructions,

wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:

receive bandwidth part (BWP) information from a base station via a radio resource control (RRC) signaling;

receive downlink control information (DCI) including information related to dormancy from the base station; and

activate a specific BWP on the secondary cell based on the DCI,

wherein, based on a current active BWP being a dormant BWP, the DCI informs the activation of the specific BWP provided based on the BWP information via the RRC signaling, and

wherein a BWP inactivity timer is not used for transitioning from the dormant BWP, which is activated, to a default BWP.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 1, 2022
From: SEO, INKWON; AHN, JOONKUI; YANG, SUCKCHEL; KIM, SEONWOOK
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 060074/0949 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2019-0129283 · Oct 17, 2019 · national
KR 10-2019-0141015 · Nov 6, 2019 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation PCTKR2020011700 · Sep 1, 2020
Provisional Application 62932607 · Nov 8, 2019
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