Exposure control
According to an example, there is provided an apparatus being configured to: receive, by a user device from an access node, at least one channel status reporting configuration dedicated for reporting exposure incidents of power or energy density, wherein the at least one channel status reporting configuration comprises at least one exposure indication sequence; determine or predict an exposure incident for at least one beam, and as a response to the determining or predicting the exposure incident adjust experienced transmission power, report the exposure incident to the access node by a channel status message comprising the at least one exposure indication sequence and information on the adjusting using physical channel resources according to the at least one channel status reporting configuration, and receive, as a response to the reporting, control information, wherein the control information comprises acknowledgement to the adjusting, transmission configuration and/or information request.
1 . A method, comprising:
receiving, by a user device from an access node, at least one channel status reporting configuration dedicated for reporting exposure incidents of power or energy density, wherein the at least one channel status reporting configuration comprises at least one exposure indication sequence;
determining or predicting an exposure incident for at least one beam, and
as a response to the determining or predicting the exposure incident adjusting experienced transmission power,
reporting the exposure incident to the access node by a channel status message comprising the at least one exposure indication sequence and information on the adjusting using physical channel resources according to the at least one channel status reporting configuration, and receiving, as a response to the reporting, control information, wherein the control information comprises acknowledgement to the adjusting, transmission configuration and/or information request,
wherein the at least one exposure indication sequence is a computer-search based zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift or channel state information indication.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the physical channel resources comprise a scheduling request process configuration, channel state information process resources, data-less physical uplink shared channel resources, configured grant physical uplink shared channel resources, contention-based random access resources for MSG3 message and contention-free random access resources.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one exposure indication sequence is a Zadoff-Chu sequence/cyclic shift, or constant amplitude zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift, computer-search based zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift and channel state information indication.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the reporting exposure incident further comprises informing: amount of needed transmission power adjustment, uplink bandwidth request, number of physical resource blocks request, downlink/uplink resource configuration request, beam-pair request and maximum uplink duty cycle request for the adjusted transmission configuration, wherein the further informing is expressed by at least part of the at least one exposure indication sequence.
5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the information request further comprises a request for informing: amount of needed transmission power adjustment, uplink bandwidth request, number of physical resource blocks request, downlink/uplink resource configuration request, beam-pair request and maximum uplink duty cycle request for the adjusted transmission configuration, wherein the further informing is expressed by at least part of the at least one exposure indication sequence.
6 . A method, comprising:
providing, by an access node, a user device with at least one channel status reporting configuration dedicated for reporting exposure incidents of power or energy density, wherein the at least one channel status reporting configuration comprises at least one exposure indication sequence;
receiving a report of the exposure incident for at least one beam from the user device by a channel status message comprising the at least one exposure indication sequence and information on adjusting experienced transmission power carried out by the user device using physical channel resources according to the at least one channel status reporting configuration, and
providing the user device with control information, wherein the control information comprises acknowledgement to the adjusting, transmission configuration and information request,
wherein the at least one exposure indication sequence is a computer-search based zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift or channel state information indication.
7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the physical channel resources comprise a scheduling request process configuration, channel state information process resources, data-less physical uplink shared channel resources, configured grant physical uplink shared channel resources, contention-based random access resources for MSG3 message and contention-free random access resources.
8 . The method of claim 6 wherein the at least one exposure indication sequence is a Zadoff-Chu sequence/cyclic shift, or constant amplitude zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift, computer-search based zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift and channel state information indication.
9 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the report of the exposure incident further comprises information on amount of needed transmission power adjustment, uplink bandwidth request, number of physical resource blocks request, downlink/uplink resource configuration request, beam-pair request and maximum uplink duty cycle request for the adjusted transmission configuration, wherein the further information is expressed by at least part of the at least one exposure indication sequence.
10 . The method of 6 , wherein the information request further comprises a request for informing amount of needed transmission power adjustment, uplink bandwidth request, number of physical resource blocks request, downlink/uplink resource configuration request, beam-pair request and maximum uplink duty cycle request for the adjusted transmission configuration, wherein the further informing is expressed by at least part of the at least one exposure indication sequence.
11 . An apparatus comprising at least one processor, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
receive, by a user device from an access node, at least one channel status reporting configuration dedicated for reporting exposure incidents of power or energy density, wherein the at least one channel status reporting configuration comprises at least one exposure indication sequence;
determine or predict an exposure incident for at least one beam, and
as a response to the determining or predicting the exposure incident adjust experienced transmission power,
report the exposure incident to the access node by a channel status message comprising the at least one exposure indication sequence and information on the adjusting using physical channel resources according to the at least one channel status reporting configuration, and receive, as a response to the reporting, control information, wherein the control information comprises acknowledgement to the adjusting, transmission configuration and information request,
wherein the at least one exposure indication sequence is a computer-search based zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift or channel state information indication.
12 . The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the physical channel resources comprise a scheduling request process configuration, channel state information process resources, data-less physical uplink shared channel resources, configured grant physical uplink shared channel resources, contention-based random access resources for MSG3 message and contention-free random access resources.
13 . The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the at least one exposure indication sequence is a Zadoff-Chu sequence/cyclic shift, or constant amplitude zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift, computer-search based zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift and channel state information indication.
14 . The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the reporting exposure incident further comprises information on amount of needed transmission power adjustment, uplink bandwidth request, number of physical resource blocks request, downlink/uplink resource configuration request, beam-pair request and maximum uplink duty cycle request for the adjusted transmission configuration, wherein the further informing is expressed by at least part of the at least one exposure indication sequence.
15 . The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the information request further comprises a request for informing: amount of needed transmission power adjustment, uplink bandwidth request, number of physical resource blocks request, downlink/uplink resource configuration request, beam-pair request and maximum uplink duty cycle request for the adjusted transmission configuration, wherein the further informing is expressed by at least part of the at least one exposure indication sequence.
16 . An apparatus comprising at least one processor, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
provide, by an access node, a user device with at least one channel status reporting configuration dedicated for reporting exposure incidents of power or energy density, wherein the at least one channel status reporting configuration comprises at least one exposure indication sequence;
receive a report of the exposure incident for at least one beam from the user device by a channel status message comprising the at least one exposure indication sequence and information on adjusting experienced transmission power carried out by the user device using physical channel resources according to the at least one channel status reporting configuration, and
provide the user device with control information, wherein the control information comprises acknowledgement to the adjusting, transmission configuration and information request,
wherein the at least one exposure indication sequence is a computer-search based zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift or channel state information indication.
17 . The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the physical channel resources comprise a scheduling request process configuration, channel state information process resources, data-less physical uplink shared channel resources, configured grant physical uplink shared channel resources, contention-based random access resources for MSG3 message and contention-free random access resources.
18 . The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the at least one exposure indication sequence is a Zadoff-Chu sequence/cyclic shift, or constant amplitude zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift, computer-search based zero autocorrelation sequence/cyclic shift and channel state information indication.
19 . The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the report of the exposure incident further comprises information on amount of needed transmission power adjustment, uplink bandwidth request, number of physical resource blocks request, downlink/uplink resource configuration request, beam-pair request and maximum uplink duty cycle request for the adjusted transmission configuration, wherein the further information is expressed by at least part of the at least one exposure indication sequence.
20 . The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the information request further comprises a request for informing amount of needed transmission power adjustment, uplink bandwidth request, number of physical resource blocks request, downlink/uplink resource configuration request, beam-pair request and maximum uplink duty cycle request for the adjusted transmission configuration, wherein the further informing is expressed by at least part of the at least one exposure indication sequence.