Apparatus and method for optimizing uplink carrier aggregation in a radio access network
AssigneeRakuten Mobile, Inc.
InventorSandeep Mani Tripathi
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for optimizing an uplink carrier aggregation in a radio access network (RAN) are provided. The apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to determine whether uplink data to be sent by a user equipment exceeds a first threshold; determine whether an available power at the user equipment exceeds a second threshold, wherein the second threshold is determined based on a variable offset value; and activate uplink carrier aggregation for the user equipment based on the uplink data to be sent being determined to exceed the first threshold and the power available at the user equipment being determined to exceed the second threshold.
Claims20
An apparatus for optimizing an uplink carrier aggregation in a radio access network (RAN), the apparatus comprising:
- a memory storing instructions, and
- at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to:
- determine whether uplink data to be sent by a user equipment exceeds a first threshold;
- determine whether an available power at the user equipment exceeds a second threshold, wherein the second threshold is dynamically modified and determined based on a variable offset value that is dynamically modified during a current communication session with the user equipment based on current communication conditions determined during the current communication session, and wherein the available power is an available transmit power at the user equipment;
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- activate uplink carrier aggregation for the user equipment based on the uplink data to be sent being determined to exceed the first threshold and the power available at the user equipment being determined to exceed the second threshold.
A method for optimizing an uplink carrier aggregation in a radio access network (RAN), the method comprising:
- determining whether uplink data to be sent by a user equipment exceeds a first threshold;
- determining whether an available power at the user equipment exceeds a second threshold, wherein the second threshold is dynamically modified and determined based on a variable offset value that is dynamically modified during a current communication session with the user equipment based on current communication conditions determined during the current communication session, and wherein the available power is an available transmit power at the user equipment;
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- activating uplink carrier aggregation for the user equipment based on the uplink data to be sent being determined to exceed the first threshold and the power available at the user equipment being determined to exceed the second threshold.
A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon instructions executable by at least one processor to perform a method for optimizing an uplink carrier aggregation in a radio access network (RAN), the method comprising:
- determining whether uplink data to be sent by a user equipment exceeds a first threshold;
- determining whether an available power at the user equipment exceeds a second threshold, wherein the second threshold is dynamically modified and determined based on a variable offset value that is dynamically modified during a current communication session with the user equipment based on current communication conditions determined during the current communication session, and wherein the available power is an available transmit power at the user equipment;
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- activating uplink carrier aggregation for the user equipment based on the uplink data to be sent being determined to exceed the first threshold and the power available at the user equipment being determined to exceed the second threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.