US 12,615,532 B2 · Radio resource management measurement prioritization for reduced capacity user equipment

Abstract

Some aspects include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for radio resource management measurement prioritization for reduced capacity (RedCap) user equipment (UE). A RedCap UE may be use Half-Duplex Frequency Division Duplex (HD-FDD) for wireless communications. When performing communications with a network, the RedCap UE may make several measurements, including Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP), Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR), and Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) measurements. To obtain these measurements, the RedCap UE may measure Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI), and/or Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) symbols. Difficulties may arise when a RedCap UE's serving cell signal timing is not synchronized with a neighboring cell. The RedCap UE may be configured to prioritize measurements over uplink transmissions. This prioritization may also include symbol buffers so that an overlap in uplink transmissions does not occur during a measurement.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

determining, at a reduced capacity user equipment (RedCap UE), that a synchronized signal physical broadcast channel block measurement timing configuration (SMTC) window includes a synchronized signal block (SSB) measurement for one or more neighboring cells;
determining, at the RedCap UE, that a measurement gap is not applied to the SSB measurement for the one or more neighboring cells;
and
in response to determining that the measurement gap is not applied to the SSB measurement for the one or more neighboring cells, prioritizing, at the RedCap UE, the SSB measurement for the one or more neighboring cells in the SMTC window over an uplink transmission from the RedCap UE.

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A method, comprising:

receiving, at a reduced capacity user equipment (RedCap UE) and from a serving cell, an indication of a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) measurement at a neighboring cell;
determining, at the RedCap UE, that a measurement gap is not applied to the CSI-RS measurement;
and
in response to determining that the measurement gap is not applied to the CSI-RS measurement, prioritizing, at the RedCap UE, the CSI-RS measurement over an uplink transmission from the RedCap UE.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Radio resource management measurement prioritization for reduced capacity user equipment

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Abstract

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