Retuning in machine type communications
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsAlberto Rico Alvarino, Kapil Bhattad, Peter Gaal
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Abstract
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for applying rules to determine when to retune radio components of a user equipment (UE). Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a UE. The method includes determining first resources assigned to the UE in a first subframe and second resources assigned to the UE for uplink transmissions in a second subframe. The method further includes determining whether to retune radio frequency (RF) circuitry prior to transmitting in the second subframe based on at least one rule involving an overlap between the first resources and second resources.
Claims37
A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
- determining first resources assigned to the UE in a first subframe and second resources assigned to the UE for uplink transmissions in a second subframe, wherein the first subframe is different than the second subframe;
- determining whether to retune radio frequency (RF) circuitry prior to transmitting in the second subframe based on at least one rule involving an overlap between the first resources and second resources;
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- retuning the RF circuitry prior to transmitting in the second subframe upon determining to retune based on the at least one rule.
An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:
- a transmit processor configured to determine first resources assigned to the UE in a first subframe, to determine second resources assigned to the UE for the uplink transmissions in a second subframe, wherein the first subframe is different than the second subframe, to apply at least one rule involving an overlap between the first resources and second resources, the at least one rule being used by the transmit processor to determine whether to retune radio frequency (RF) circuitry after uplink transmissions in the first subframe and prior to uplink transmissions in the second subframe;
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- a circuit in the RF circuitry that is configured to be retuned by the transmit processor prior to uplink transmissions in the second subframe if the transmit processor determines to retune the RF circuitry.
An apparatus for wireless communications, comprising:
- a means for determining first resources assigned to the UE in a first subframe and second resources assigned to the UE for uplink transmissions in a second subframe, wherein the first subframe is different than the second subframe;
- a means for determining whether to retune radio frequency (RF) circuitry prior to transmitting in the second subframe based on at least one rule involving an overlap between the first resources and second resources;
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- a means for retuning the RF circuitry prior to transmitting in the second subframe upon determining to retune based on the at least one rule.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.