Granted Patent B2

US 12,513,628 · App. 17/995,350 · Granted Dec 30, 2025

Inventors: Haewook Park (Seoul, KR); Joonkui Ahn (Seoul, KR); Byounghoon Kim (Seoul, KR); Suckchel Yang (Seoul, KR); Jiwon Kang (Seoul, KR)

Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

H04W52/34H04W52/143H04W52/365H04W52/367

Abstract

Claims (43)

1 . A method by a user equipment (UE) comprising:

reporting a first power headroom report (PHR) for a first carrier of a first cell;

reporting a second PHR for a second carrier of a second cell;

receiving transmit (TX) chain switching information for switching a number of Tx chains allocated to the second carrier from M to K;

receiving a downlink control channel including downlink control information including a transmit power control (TPC) command;

determining a first TX power for the first carrier of the first cell based on the TPC command;

determining a second TX power for the second carrier of the second cell based on the TPC command;

based on the second TX power being greater than a first maximum output power of K TX chains, adjusting the second TX power to a third TX power determined based on N and K, wherein N is a maximum number of TX chains;

transmitting a first uplink data channel based on the first TX power for the first carrier of the first cell; and,

transmitting a second uplink data channel based on the third TX power for the second carrier of the second cell,

wherein M, K and N are positive integers, and

wherein the first carrier of the first cell and the second carrier of the second cell are for a carrier aggregation (CA).

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the reporting the second PHR includes reporting the second PHR based on a second maximum output power of N TX chains.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the third Tx power is determined as the second maximum output power multiplied by N/K.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein, in the reporting the first PHR, the UE allocates the TX chain for the first carrier of the first cell based on a number of TX chains preconfigured for a bandwidth part (BWP) for the first carrier of the first cell.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein, based on that the first PHR and the second PHR are reported in the Nth orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, the UE reports the first PHR and the second PHR based on a number of TX chains configured for each of the first carrier of the first cell and the second carrier of the second cell before k OFDM symbols from the Nth OFDM symbol.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the TX chain switching information is signaled through the downlink control information or a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE).

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein, based on a plurality of maximum output powers configured for the second carrier of the second cell, the UE independently reports the second PHR with respect to each of the plurality of maximum output powers.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein a number of the plurality of maximum output powers corresponds to a number of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets configured for the second carrier of the second cell or a number of a number of SRS resources having different SRS ports in one SRS resource set configured for the second carrier of the second cell.

9 . User equipment (UE) comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) transceiver; and

a processor connected to the RF transceiver,

wherein the processor controls the RF transceiver to report a first power headroom report (PHR) for thea first carrier of a first cell, report a second PHR for a second carrier of a second cell receive a downlink control channel including downlink control including a transmit power control (TPC) command, receive transmit (TX) chain switching information for switching a number of Tx chains allocated to the second carrier from M to K, determine a first transmit power for the first carrier of the first cell based on the TPC command, determine a second TX power for the second carrier of the second cell based on the TPC command, based on the second TX power being greater than a first maximum output power of K TX chains, adjust the second TX power to a third TX power determined based on N and K, wherein N is a maximum number of TX chains, transmit a first uplink data channel based on the first TX power for the first carrier of the first cell, and transmit a second uplink data channel based on the third TX power for the second carrier of the second cell,

wherein M, K and N are positive integers, and

wherein the first carrier of the first cell and the second carrier of the second cell are for a carrier aggregation (CA).

10 . The UE of claim 9 , wherein the reporting the second PHR includes reporting the second PHR based on a second maximum output power of N TX chains.

11 . The UE of claim 9 , wherein the third TX power is determined as the second maximum output power multiplied by N/K.

12 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including at least one computer program, comprising:

at least one computer program configured to cause at least one processor to perform operations; and

a computer-readable storage medium configured to store the at least one computer program,

wherein the operations includes:

reporting a first power headroom report (PHR) for a first carrier of a first cell;

reporting a second PHR for a second carrier of a second cell;

receiving transmit (TX) chain switching information to change a TX chain for the second carrier of the second cell to K TX chains;

receiving a downlink control channel including downlink control information including a transmit power control (TPC) command;

determining a first TX power for the first carrier of the first cell;

determining a second TX power for the second carrier of the second cell;

based on the second TX power being greater than a first maximum output power of K TX chains, adjusting the second TX power to a third TX power determined based on N and K,

wherein N is a maximum number of TX chains;

transmitting a first uplink data channel based on the first TX power for the first carrier of the first cell; and,

transmitting a second uplink data channel based on the third TX power for the second carrier of the second cell,

wherein M, K and N are positive integers, and

wherein the first carrier of the first cell and the second carrier of the second cell are for a carrier aggregation (CA).

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