A1 enrichment information for user equipment (UE) physical positioning information
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsDawei Ying, Nicholas Whinnett, Jan Schreck, Jaemin Han, Leifeng Ruan, Qian Li
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Abstract
Various embodiments herein provide techniques related to communication between a non real-time (Non-RT) radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC) and a near real-time (Near-RT) RIC. Specifically, the Non-RT RIC may identify physical positioning information related to a user equipment (UE); generate enrichment information (EI) related to the physical positioning information; and transmit the EI over an A1 interface to the Near-RT RIC. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
Claims20
An electronic device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions that, upon execution of the instructions by the one or more processors, are to cause a non real-time (Non-RT) radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC) to:
- identify physical positioning information related to a user equipment (UE), the physical positioning information including location information of the UE that is based on a geographical area description (GAD) shape;
- generate enrichment information (EI) related to the physical positioning information;
- and
- transmit the EI over an A1 interface to a near real-time (Near-RT) RIC.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media (NTCRM) comprising instructions that, upon execution of the instructions by one or more processors, are to cause a near real-time (Near-RT) radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC) to:
- identify enhancement information (EI) received over an A1 interface from a non real-time (Non-RT) RIC;
- identify, based on the EI, physical positioning information related to a user equipment (UE);
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- identify, from the Non-RT RIC, an indication of an EI type definition that is related to what physical positioning information the Non-RT RIC is configured to provide to the Near-RT RIC,
- wherein the EI type definition indicates at least one of:
- whether the Non-RT RIC is configured to provide velocity information,
- what types of location information the Non-RT RIC is configured to provide, or
- what types of velocity information the Non-RT RIC is configured provide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.