Radio-unlicensed (NR-U) virtual component carrier (CC) for improved link budget
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsLuanxia Yang, Changlong Xu, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang, Hao Xu
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Abstract
A method for wireless communication performed by a wireless device includes aggregating a number of component carriers (CCs) to generate a virtual CC. The method also includes allocating data channel resources in the virtual CC based on a virtual bandwidth part (BWP) and allocating control channel resources in the virtual CC based on the virtual BWP. The method further includes communicating on a data channel based on the allocated data channel resources and communicating on a control channel based on the allocated control channel resources.
Claims29
A method for wireless communication performed by a wireless device, comprising:
- aggregating a plurality of component carriers (CCs) to generate a virtual CC, the virtual CC representing a unified CC comprising a respective physical resource block (PRB) of each CC of the plurality of CCs;
- allocating data channel resources to one or more first resource allocation areas of a plurality of resource allocation areas of a virtual bandwidth part (BWP) defined within the virtual CC, each resource allocation area of the plurality of resource allocation areas being defined by a starting PRB and a number of contiguous PRBs;
- allocating control channel resources to one or more second resource allocation areas of the plurality of resource allocation areas of the virtual BWP;
- communicating on a data channel based on the allocated data channel resources;
- and
- communicating on a control channel based on the allocated control channel resources.
An apparatus for wireless communications performed by a wireless device, comprising:
- at least one processor,
- at least one memory coupled with the processor;
- and
- instructions stored in the at least one memory and operable, when executed by the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus:
- to aggregate a plurality of component carriers (CCs) to generate a virtual CC, the virtual CC representing a unified CC comprising a respective physical resource block (PRB) of each CC of the plurality of CCs;
- to allocate data channel resources to one or more first resource allocation areas of a plurality of resource allocation areas of a virtual bandwidth part (BWP) defined within the virtual CC, each resource allocation area of the plurality of resource allocation areas being defined by a starting PRB and a number of contiguous PRBs;
- to allocate control channel resources to one or more second resource allocation areas of the plurality of resource allocation areas of the virtual BWP;
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- to communicate on a control channel based on the allocated control channel resources.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.