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Granted Patent B2
US 11,751,275 · App. 17/249,063 · Granted Sep 5, 2023

Management of antenna switching according to a sounding reference symbol antenna switching configuration

Inventors: Thawatt Gopal (San Diego, CA); Brian Clarke Banister (San Diego, CA); Timothy Paul Pals (San Diego, CA); Reza Shahidi (San Diego, CA); Supratik Bhattacharjee (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
H04W76/25H04W88/06
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Patent No.
US 11,751,275
App. No.
17/249,063
Granted
Sep 5, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an antenna switch selection associated with a dual connectivity antenna configuration, wherein the antenna switch selection is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and the dual connectivity antenna configuration permits communication via the first RAT and a second RAT; determine, based at least in part on the antenna switching selection, a quantity of communication chains, associated with the first RAT, that are affected by an antenna switching process of the second RAT; and selectively permit, based at least in part on the quantity of communication chains, a reconfiguration of the dual connectivity antenna configuration according to the antenna switch selection. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Claims (78)

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

receiving an antenna switch selection associated with a dual connectivity antenna configuration,

wherein the antenna switch selection is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and the dual connectivity antenna configuration permits communication via the first RAT and a second RAT;

determining, based at least in part on the antenna switch selection, a quantity of communication chains, associated with the first RAT, that are affected by a sounding reference symbol (SRS) antenna switching process of the second RAT, wherein the second RAT uses time-division duplexing (TDD) for wireless communication and the first RAT uses at least one of TDD or frequency-division duplexing (FDD) for wireless communication; and

selectively permitting, based at least in part on the quantity of communication chains affected by the SRS antenna switching process, a reconfiguration of the dual connectivity antenna configuration according to the antenna switch selection.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the antenna switch selection is associated with an antenna switched diversity selection process of the first RAT.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein a communication chain, of the quantity of communication chains, comprises at least one of:

a receive chain of the first RAT, or

a transmit chain of the first RAT.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a communication chain, of the quantity of communication chains, is affected by the SRS antenna switching process based at least in part on the SRS antenna switching process causing the communication chain to be switched to a different antenna.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a communication chain, of the quantity of communication chains, is affected by the SRS antenna switching process based at least in part on the SRS antenna switching process causing the first RAT and the second RAT to share a same antenna of the dual connectivity antenna configuration.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the dual connectivity antenna configuration comprises:

a plurality of antennas, and

one or more cross-switches to adjust the dual connectivity antenna configuration.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein selectively permitting the antenna switch selection comprises:

determining that the quantity of communication chains does not satisfy a threshold associated with enabling the dual connectivity antenna configuration to be adjusted according to the antenna switch selection;

determining an alternative antenna switch selection that satisfies the threshold; and

enabling the alternative antenna switch selection to be selected to adjust the dual connectivity antenna configuration.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein selectively permitting the antenna switch selection comprises:

selectively permitting the reconfiguration based at least in part on whether the quantity of the communication chains satisfies a threshold associated with enabling the dual connectivity antenna configuration to be adjusted according to the antenna switch selection,

wherein the antenna switch selection is to be blocked when the quantity of the communication chains does not satisfy the threshold, or

wherein the antenna switch selection is to be performed when the quantity of the communication chains satisfies the threshold.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the threshold is a fixed threshold.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the fixed threshold is used to determine a maximum downlink rank that is reported to a network associated with the first RAT.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the fixed threshold is associated with a multiple-input multiple-output antenna capability that is reported to a network associated with the first RAT.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the threshold is a dynamic threshold that is based at least in part on a metric associated with the first RAT.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the metric comprises at least one of:

a current downlink rank state,

a filtered downlink rank state during a time period, or

a maximum rank state during a time period.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first RAT comprises a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology and the second RAT comprises a New Radio (NR) technology.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first RAT and the second RAT are associated with a New Radio (NR) technology.

16. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

one or more memories; and

one or more processors, communicatively coupled to the one or more memories, configured to:

receive an antenna switch selection associated with a dual connectivity antenna configuration,

wherein the antenna switch selection is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and the dual connectivity antenna configuration permits communication via the first RAT and a second RAT, wherein the second RAT uses time-division duplexing (TDD) for wireless communication and the first RAT uses at least one of TDD or frequency-division duplexing (FDD) for wireless communication;

determine, based at least in part on the antenna switch selection, a quantity of communication chains, associated with the first RAT, that are affected by a sounding reference symbol (SRS) antenna switching process of the second RAT; and

selectively permit, based at least in part on the quantity of communication chains affected by the SRS antenna switching process, a reconfiguration of the dual connectivity antenna configuration according to the antenna switch selection.

17. The UE of claim 16 , wherein a communication chain, of the quantity of communication chains, is affected by the SRS antenna switching process based at least in part on the SRS antenna switching process causing the communication chain to be switched to a different antenna.

18. The UE of claim 16 , wherein a communication chain, of the quantity of communication chains, is affected by the SRS antenna switching process based at least in part on the SRS antenna switching process causing the first RAT and the second RAT to share a same antenna of the dual connectivity antenna configuration.

19. The UE of claim 16 , wherein the one or more processors, when selectively permitting the antenna switch selection, are configured to:

determine that the quantity of communication chains does not satisfy a threshold associated with enabling the dual connectivity antenna configuration to be adjusted according to the antenna switch selection;

determine an alternative antenna switch selection that satisfies the threshold; and

enable the alternative antenna switch selection to be selected to adjust the dual connectivity antenna configuration.

20. The UE of claim 16 , wherein the one or more processors, when selectively permitting the antenna switch selection, are configured to:

selectively permit the reconfiguration based at least in part on whether the quantity of the communication chains satisfies a threshold associated with enabling the dual connectivity antenna configuration to be adjusted according to the antenna switch selection,

wherein the antenna switch selection is to be blocked when the quantity of the communication chains does not satisfy the threshold, or

wherein the antenna switch selection is to be performed when the quantity of the communication chains satisfies the threshold.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), cause the UE to:

receive an antenna switch selection associated with a dual connectivity antenna configuration,

wherein the antenna switch selection is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and the dual connectivity antenna configuration permits communication via the first RAT and a second RAT, wherein the second RAT uses time-division duplexing (TDD) for wireless communication and the first RAT uses at least one of TDD or frequency-division duplexing (FDD) for wireless communication;

determine, based at least in part on the antenna switch selection, a quantity of communication chains, associated with the first RAT, that are affected by a sounding reference symbol (SRS) antenna switching process of the second RAT; and

selectively permit, based at least in part on the quantity of communication chains affected by the SRS antenna switching process, a reconfiguration of the dual connectivity antenna configuration according to the antenna switch selection.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein a communication chain, of the quantity of communication chains, is affected by the SRS antenna switching process based at least in part on the SRS antenna switching process causing the communication chain to be switched to a different antenna.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein a communication chain, of the quantity of communication chains, is affected by the SRS antenna switching process based at least in part on the SRS antenna switching process causing the first RAT and the second RAT to share a same antenna of the dual connectivity antenna configuration.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the one or more instructions, that cause the UE to selectively permit the antenna switch selection, cause the UE to:

determine that the quantity of communication chains does not satisfy a threshold associated with enabling the dual connectivity antenna configuration to be adjusted according to the antenna switch selection;

determine an alternative antenna switch selection that satisfies the threshold; and

enable the alternative antenna switch selection to be selected to adjust the dual connectivity antenna configuration.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 21 , wherein the one or more instructions, that cause the UE to selectively permit the antenna switch selection, cause the UE to:

selectively permit the reconfiguration based at least in part on whether the quantity of the communication chains satisfies a threshold associated with enabling the dual connectivity antenna configuration to be adjusted according to the antenna switch selection,

wherein the antenna switch selection is to be blocked when the quantity of the communication chains does not satisfy the threshold, or

wherein the antenna switch selection is to be performed when the quantity of the communication chains satisfies the threshold.

26. An apparatus, comprising:

means for receiving an antenna switch selection associated with a dual connectivity antenna configuration,

wherein the antenna switch selection is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and the dual connectivity antenna configuration permits communication via the first RAT and a second RAT, wherein the second RAT uses time-division duplexing (TDD) for wireless communication and the first RAT uses at least one of TDD or frequency-division duplexing (FDD) for wireless communication;

means for determining, based at least in part on the antenna switch selection, a quantity of communication chains, associated with the first RAT, that are affected by a sounding reference symbol (SRS) antenna switching process of the second RAT; and

means for selectively permitting, based at least in part on the quantity of communication chains affected by the SRS antenna switching process, a reconfiguration of the dual connectivity antenna configuration according to the antenna switch selection.

27. The apparatus of claim 26 , wherein the means for selectively permitting the antenna switch selection comprises:

means for determining that the quantity of communication chains does not satisfy a threshold associated with enabling the dual connectivity antenna configuration to be adjusted according to the antenna switch selection;

means for determining an alternative antenna switch selection that satisfies the threshold; and

means for enabling the alternative antenna switch selection to be selected to adjust the dual connectivity antenna configuration.

28. The apparatus of claim 26 , wherein the means for selectively permitting the antenna switch selection comprises:

means for selectively permitting the reconfiguration based at least in part on whether the quantity of the communication chains satisfies a threshold associated with enabling the dual connectivity antenna configuration to be adjusted according to the antenna switch selection,

wherein the antenna switch selection is to be blocked when the quantity of the communication chains does not satisfy the threshold, or

wherein the antenna switch selection is to be performed when the quantity of the communication chains satisfies the threshold.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 12, 2021
From: GOPAL, THAWATT; BANISTER, BRIAN CLARKE; PALS, TIMOTHY PAUL; SHAHIDI, REZA; BHATTACHARJEE, SUPRATIK
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 055887/0261 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62979263 · Feb 20, 2020
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