Methods and apparatuses for scheduling for coexistence between NB-IoT and E-MTC
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsYufei Blankenship, Johan Bergman
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Abstract
A communication device identifies a subset of physical resource blocks, PRBs, within a Long Term Evolution, LTE, system bandwidth that are eligible for use as narrowband internet of things, NB-IoT, PRBs, wherein the eligibility of PRBs for use as NB-IoT PRBs is determined in relation to at least one machine-type-communication, MTC, narrowband within the LTE system bandwidth, and transmits or receives information via at least one of the eligible PRBs that has been allocated as a NB-IoT PRB, or via the at least one MTC narrowband.
Claims23
A method comprising:
- identifying a subset of physical resource blocks, PRBs, within a Long Term Evolution, LTE, system bandwidth that are eligible for use as narrowband internet of things, NB-IoT, PRBs, wherein the eligibility of PRBs for use as NB-IoT PRBs is determined in relation to at least one machine-type-communication, MTC, narrowband within the LTE system bandwidth;
- and
- transmitting or receiving information via at least one of the eligible PRBs that has been allocated as a NB-IoT PRB, or via the at least one MTC narrowband,
- wherein identifying the eligible PRBs comprises predefining or configuring at least one 6-PRB MTC narrowband as invalid for transmission of an MTC System Information Block 1, SIB1bis, and identifying at least one PRB within the predefined or configured narrowband as eligible for use as a NB-IoT PRB.
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one processor configured to:
- identify a subset of physical resource blocks, PRBs, within a Long Term Evolution, LTE, system bandwidth that are eligible for use as narrowband internet of things, NB-IoT, PRBs, wherein the eligibility of PRBs for use as NB-IoT PRBs is determined in relation to at least one machine-type-communication, MTC, narrowband within the LTE system bandwidth;
- and
- at least one transmitter or receiver configured to transmit or receive information via at least one of the eligible PRBs that has been allocated as a NB-IoT PRB, or via the at least one MTC narrowband,
- wherein identifying the eligible PRBs comprises predefining or configuring at least one 6-PRB MTC narrowband as invalid for transmission of an MTC System Information Block 1, SIB1bis, and identifying at least one PRB within the predefined or configured narrowband as eligible for use as a NB-IoT PRB.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium, having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by at least one processor of a radio access node, causes the radio access node to:
- identify a subset of physical resource blocks, PRBs, within a Long Term Evolution, LTE, system bandwidth that are eligible for use as narrowband internet of things, NB-IoT, PRBs, wherein the eligibility of PRBs for use as NB-IoT PRBs is determined in relation to at least one machine-type-communication, MTC, narrowband within the LTE system bandwidth;
- and
- transmit or receive information via the at least one of the eligible PRBs that has been allocated as a NB-IoT PRB, or via the at least one MTC narrowband,
- wherein identifying the eligible PRBs comprises predefining or configuring at least one 6-PRB MTC narrowband as invalid for transmission of an MTC System Information Block 1, SIB1bis, and identifying at least one PRB within the predefined or configured narrowband as eligible for use as a NB-IoT PRB.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.