Virtual carrier aggregation for wideband operation of wireless communication systems
Facilitating virtual carrier aggregation for wideband operation of wireless communication systems is provided herein. A system can comprise: a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise: receiving, from a network device of network devices, downlink transmission data comprising downlink control information applicable to a downlink channel of the network device; as a function of the downlink transmission data, adjusting a subband of subbands resulting in an aggregation of multiple subbands; and transmitting uplink radio traffic data via the aggregation of multiple subbands to the network device.
1. A device, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
based on a field that jointly encodes a value representing a defined quasi-colocation behavior associated with a base station device, a slot index value representing a transmission time interval, and a subband index value representing a subband of subbands, adjusting the subband to form an aggregation of multiple subbands;
determining that a mobile device is in an idle state and that the mobile device has received a control message to facilitate scheduling a first transmission and a second transmission; and
facilitating transmission of the first transmission and the second transmission via the aggregation of multiple subbands, by the mobile device, as a proxy device for the base station device.
2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving the field from a network device of network devices as downlink transmission data comprising downlink control information applicable to a downlink channel of the network device.
3. The device of claim 2 , wherein the downlink transmission data further comprises physical downlink shared channel data.
4. The device of claim 2 , wherein the operations further comprise, in response to the network device using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing encoding scheme, receiving a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol representing the downlink control information in a first subband of the subband of subbands.
5. The device of claim 4 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving, subsequent to the first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol, a second orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol.
6. The device of claim 5 , wherein the second orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol comprises physical downlink shared channel data.
7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the aggregation of multiple subbands comprises a middle frequency block.
8. The device of claim 7 , wherein the operations further comprise determining the middle frequency block based on a physical resource block size associated with the subbands of the aggregation of multiple subbands.
9. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise facilitating scheduling the first transmission and the second transmission in a single transmission interval.
10. A method, comprising:
adjusting, by a device comprising a processor, a subband of subbands to form a grouping of multiple subbands, wherein the adjusting is based on a field that jointly encodes a value representing a defined quasi-colocation behavior associated with a base station device, a slot index value representing a transmission time interval, and a subband index value representing the subband of subbands;
determining, by the device, that a user equipment device has received a control message to facilitate scheduling a first transmission and a second transmission; and
facilitating, by the device, transmission of the first transmission and the second transmission via the grouping of multiple subbands, by the user equipment device, as a proxy device for the base station device.
11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising determining, by the device, that the user equipment device is in an idle state.
12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising receiving, by the device, the field from a network device of a group of devices as downlink transmission data comprising downlink control information applicable to a downlink channel of the network device.
13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising, in response to detecting that the network device uses a frequency division multiplexing encoding scheme, receiving, by the device, a first frequency division multiplexing symbol representing the downlink control information in a first subband of the subband of subbands.
14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising receiving, by the device, a second frequency division multiplexing symbol subsequent to the first frequency division multiplexing symbol.
15. The method of claim 10 , further comprising determining, by the device, the base station device based on quasi-colocation data associated with a transmission of data scheduled based on downlink transmission data comprising downlink control data applicable to a downlink channel of a network device of a group of devices.
16. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
adjusting a subband of subbands to create a group of multiple subbands, wherein the adjusting is based on a field that jointly encodes a value representing a defined quasi-colocation behavior associated with a base station device, a slot index value representing a transmission time interval, and a subband index value representing a subband of subbands;
determining that a user equipment device has received a control message to facilitate scheduling a first transmission and a second transmission; and
facilitating transmission of the first transmission and the second transmission via the group of multiple subbands using the user equipment device as a proxy device for the base station device.
17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving the field from a network device of network devices as downlink transmission data comprising downlink control information applicable to a downlink channel of the network device.
18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the operations further comprise, in response to the network device using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing encoding scheme, receiving a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol representing the downlink control information in a first subband of the subband of subbands.
19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a second orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol after receiving the first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol.
20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprise determining that the user equipment device is in an idle state.