Reduction of power consumption for 5G or other next generation network non-standalone devices
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsYupeng Jia, Inderpreet Ahluwalia
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Abstract
Control parameters can be used to enable or disable new radios (NR) of mobile devices and preserve battery life. For example, the control parameters can comprise a scan timer and a sleep timer. A mobile device can decode a network message, turn on an NR, and enable the scan timer. If an NR cell is available, the mobile device can enter LTE-NR dual connectivity mode in response to the network message. Conversely, when the scan timer expires, the mobile device can turn off the NR radio, and enable the sleep timer to preserve the mobile device battery. When the sleep timer expires, the mobile device can turn on the NR radio and enable the scan timer.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a user equipment comprising a processor, system information block data representative of a system information block, wherein the system information block data comprises upper layer indication data representative of an upper layer indication;
- in response to the receiving the system information block data, decoding, by the user equipment, the system information block data and enabling a scan timer associated with a new radio of the user equipment;
- in response to disabling the scan timer, enabling a sleep timer of the user equipment;
- and
- based on a location of the user equipment, reducing a duration of a time associated with the sleep timer from a first duration associated with enabling the sleep timer to a second duration associated with enabling the sleep timer.
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving system information block data representative of a system information block, wherein the system information block data comprises upper layer indication data representative of an upper network layer;
- in response to the receiving the system information block data, enabling a scan timer associated with a new radio of a user equipment;
- in response to disabling the scan timer, enabling a sleep timer of the user equipment;
- and
- based on a location of the user equipment, reducing a duration of a time associated with the sleep timer from a first duration associated with enabling the sleep timer to a second duration associated with enabling the sleep timer.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving system information block data representative of a system information block, wherein the system information block data comprises upper layer indication data representative of an upper layer associated with a network;
- in response to the receiving the system information block data:
- enabling a scan timer of a mobile device of the network;
- and
- enabling a new radio of the mobile device;
- in response to disabling the scan timer, enabling a sleep timer of the mobile device;
- and
- based on a location of the mobile device, reducing a duration of a time associated with the sleep timer from a first duration associated with enabling the sleep timer to a second duration associated with enabling the sleep timer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.