Cooperation techniques for low-power devices
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsFan Yi, Umesh Phuyal, Alberto Rico Alvarino, Lorenzo Casaccia
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Abstract
Certain aspects provide a method of wireless communications by a user equipment, such as a low-power user equipment. The method includes receiving, from one grouped user equipment of a first group of user equipments, an indication that the user equipment is a current group leader of the first group of user equipments; receiving, from one or more grouped user equipments of the first group of user equipments via a first wireless transceiver system, one or more data requests; and sending, to a network entity via a second wireless transceiver system, one or more data payloads associated with the one or more data requests.
Claims27
A user equipment (UE), comprising:
- at least one memory;
- and
- one or more processors, coupled to the at least one memory, configured to cause the UE to:
- receive, from one grouped UE of a first group of UEs, an indication that the UE is a current group leader of the first group of UEs;
- receive, from one or more grouped UEs of the first group of UEs via a first wireless transceiver system, one or more data requests;
- and
- send, to a network entity via a second wireless transceiver system, one or more data payloads associated with the one or more data requests;
- receive, from the first group of UEs via the first wireless transceiver system, a plurality of leader selection scores, wherein each leader selection score of the plurality of leader selection scores is based, at least in part, on a state of charge of a battery of a respective UE of the first group of UEs and a target service life of the respective UE;
- determine a new group leader based, at least in part, on the new group leader having a highest leader selection score among the received plurality of leader selection scores of the first group of UEs, wherein the highest leader selection score is based on the new group leader having a lowest remaining target service life among the first group of UEs;
- and
- send, to the new group leader via the first wireless transceiver system, an indication that the new group leader is the new group leader.
A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE), comprising:
- receiving, from one grouped UE of a first group of UEs, an indication that the UE is a current group leader of the first group of UEs;
- receiving, from one or more grouped UEs of the first group of UEs via a first wireless transceiver system, one or more data requests;
- and
- sending, to a network entity via a second wireless transceiver system, one or more data payloads associated with the one or more data requests;
- receiving, from the first group of UEs via the first wireless transceiver system, a plurality of leader selection scores, wherein each leader selection score of the plurality of leader selection scores is based, at least in part, on a state of charge of a battery of a respective UE of the first group of UEs and a target service life of the respective UE;
- determining a new group leader based, at least in part, on the new group leader having a highest leader selection score among the received plurality of leader selection scores of the first group of UEs, wherein the highest leader selection score is based on the new group leader having a lowest remaining target service life among the first group of UEs;
- and
- sending, to the new group leader via the first wireless transceiver system, an indication that the new group leader is the new group leader.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer- executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment, cause the user equipment to perform a method of wireless communications, comprising:
- receiving, from one grouped UE of a first group of UEs, an indication that the UE is a current group leader of the first group of UEs;
- receiving, from one or more grouped UEs of the first group of UEs via a first wireless transceiver system, one or more data requests;
- and
- sending, to a network entity via a second wireless transceiver system, one or more data payloads associated with the one or more data requests;
- receiving, from the first group of UEs via the first wireless transceiver system, a plurality of leader selection scores, wherein each leader selection score of the plurality of leader selection scores is based, at least in part, on a state of charge of a battery of a respective UE of the first group of UEs and a target service life of the respective UE;
- determining a new group leader based, at least in part, on the new group leader having a highest leader selection score among the received plurality of leader selection scores of the first group of UEs, wherein the highest leader selection score is based on the new group leader having a lowest remaining target service life among the first group of UEs;
- and
- sending, to the new group leader via the first wireless transceiver system, an indication that the new group leader is the new group leader.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.