Increased carrier monitoring
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsCandy Yiu, Yang Tang, Hyung-Nam Choi, Richard Burbidge, Youn Hyoung Heo
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Abstract
A user equipment (UE) operable to perform inter-frequency measurements is disclosed. The UE can decode an information element (IE) received from an eNodeB. The UE can determine whether the IE received from the eNodeB includes a reduced measurement performance field. The UE can determine that a neighboring inter-frequency is configured for a reduced measurement performance when the reduced measurement performance field is included in the IE.
Claims18
An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) operable to perform inter-frequency measurements, the apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors configured to:
- decode, at the UE, an information element (IE) received from an eNodeB;
- determine, at the UE, whether the IE received from the eNodeB includes a reduced measurement performance field;
- determine, at the UE, based on the reduced measurement performance field, that a neighbouring inter-frequency is configured for a reduced measurement performance when the reduced measurement performance field is included in the IE;
- and
- determine that the neighbouring inter-frequency is configured for a normal measurement performance when the reduced measurement performance field is not included in the IE;
- and
- memory configured to store the IE received from the eNodeB.
An apparatus of an eNodeB operable to send measurement performance information to a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors configured to:
- select, at the eNodeB, a value for a reduced measurement performance field;
- and
- encode, at the eNodeB, an information element (IE) for transmission to the UE that includes the reduced measurement performance field with the selected value, wherein the selected value in the reduced measurement performance field indicates a reduced measurement performance for a neighbouring inter-frequency;
- and
- memory configured to store the reduced measurement performance field.
At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon for performing inter-frequency measurements at a user equipment (UE), the instructions when executed by one or more processors cause the UE to perform the following:
- decoding, at the UE, an information element (IE) received from an eNodeB;
- determining, at the UE, whether the IE received from the eNodeB includes a reduced measurement performance field;
- determining, at the UE, based on the reduced measurement performance field, that a neighbouring inter-frequency is configured for a reduced measurement performance when the reduced measurement performance field is included in the IE;
- and
- determining that the neighbouring inter-frequency is configured for a normal measurement performance when the reduced measurement performance field is not included in the IE.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.