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US 12,120,539 B2Granted
Dynamic tune-away for neighbor cell measurements
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsMungal Singh Dhanda, Umesh Phuyal, Bharat Shrestha, Prasad Reddy Kadiri, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Ayan Sengupta
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Abstract
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that a tune-away period is available. The UE may perform one or more neighbor cell measurements during the tune-away period based at least in part on the indication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
Claims30
A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:
- one or more memories;
- and
- one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more memories comprising instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the UE to:
- transmit, to a network entity, a request for a tune-away period to perform one or more neighbor cell measurements, wherein the request is included in a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE);
- receive an indication responsive to the request that the tune-away period is available, the indication indicating that the tune-away period is to begin when at least one of a scheduled uplink activity or a scheduled downlink activity is complete;
- and
- perform the one or more neighbor cell measurements to detect one or more neighbor cells based at least in part on one or more synchronization signals, wherein the one or more neighbor cell measurements are performed during the tune-away period based at least in part on the indication.
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A network entity for wireless communication, comprising:
- one or more memories;
- and
- one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more memories comprising instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the network entity to:
- receive, from a user equipment (UE), a request for a tune-away period to perform one or more neighbor cell measurements, wherein the one or more neighbor cell measurements are performed to detect one or more neighbor cells based at least in part on one or more synchronization signals, and wherein the request is included in a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE);
- transmit an indication responsive to the request that the tune-away period is available, the indication indicating that the tune-away period is to begin when at least one of a scheduled uplink activity or a scheduled downlink activity is complete;
- and
- avoid scheduling downlink and uplink activity for the UE during the tune-away period to begin when the at least one of the scheduled uplink activity or the scheduled downlink activity is complete.
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A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
- transmitting, to a network entity, a request for a tune-away period to perform one or more neighbor cell measurements, wherein the request is included in a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE);
- receiving an indication responsive to the request that the tune-away period is available, the indication indicating that the tune-away period is to begin when at least one of a scheduled uplink activity or a scheduled downlink activity is complete;
- and
- performing the one or more neighbor cell measurements to detect one or more neighbor cells based at least in part on one or more synchronization signals, wherein the one or more neighbor cell measurements are performed during the tune-away period based at least in part on the indication.
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A method of wireless communication performed by a network entity, comprising:
- receiving, from a user equipment (UE), a request for a tune-away period to perform one or more neighbor cell measurements, wherein the one or more neighbor cell measurements are performed to detect one or more neighbor cells based at least in part on one or more synchronization signals, and wherein the request is included in a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE);
- transmitting an indication responsive to the request that the tune-away period is available, the indication indicating that the tune-away period is to begin when at least one of a scheduled uplink activity or a scheduled downlink activity is complete;
- and
- avoiding scheduling downlink and uplink activity for the UE during the tune-away period to begin when the at least one of the scheduled uplink activity or the scheduled downlink activity is complete.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.