System and method for resource allocation using bandwidth parts
AssigneeT-Mobile Innovations LLC
InventorJun Wang
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and processing nodes for managing network resources perform and/or comprise: configuring a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second BWP for a wireless device, wherein the wireless device is configured to communicate with an access node over the first BWP, wherein the first BWP has a first resource allocation type and the second BWP has a second resource allocation type; setting a traffic condition; monitoring a traffic parameter for communications between the wireless device and the access node; and in response to a determination that the traffic parameter meets the traffic condition, instructing the wireless device to switch from communication with the access node over the first BWP to communication with the access node over the second BWP.
Claims20
A method of resource allocation using bandwidth parts, comprising:
- configuring a first bandwidth part (BWP) comprising a first group of contiguous resource blocks (RBs) and a second BWP comprising a second group of contiguous RBs for a wireless device, wherein the wireless device is configured to communicate with an access node over the first BWP, wherein the first BWP has a first resource allocation type and the second BWP has a second resource allocation type;
- setting a traffic condition comprising a plurality of parameters, the plurality of parameters comprising a packet type parameter and an additional parameter that includes a configurable corresponding time parameter that is a respective predetermined amount of time that the additional parameter must satisfy a respective trigger criteria for the traffic condition to be deemed met;
- monitoring traffic parameters for communications between the wireless device and the access node;
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- in response to a determination that the traffic parameters meet the traffic condition by satisfying a packet type of the packet type parameter and the configurable corresponding time parameter of the additional parameter, instructing the wireless device to switch from communication with the access node over the first BWP to communication with the access node over the second BWP.
A system for resource allocation using bandwidth parts, comprising:
- an access node configured to communicate with a wireless device over a carrier, the access node including at least one electronic processor configured to perform operations including:
- transmitting a configuration message to the wireless device, the configuration message defining a first bandwidth part (BWP) having a first resource allocation type and a second BWP having a second resource allocation type different from the first resource allocation type, wherein the first BWP comprises a first group of contiguous resource blocks (RBs) and the second BWP comprises a second group of contiguous RBs;
- setting a traffic condition comprising a plurality of parameters, the plurality of parameters comprising a packet type parameter and an additional parameter that includes a configurable corresponding time parameter that is a respective predetermined amount of time that the additional parameter must satisfy a respective trigger criteria for the traffic condition to be deemed met;
- monitoring traffic parameters for data communications from the access node to the wireless device;
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- in response to a determination that the traffic parameters meet the traffic condition by satisfying a packet type of the packet type parameter and the configurable corresponding time parameter of the additional parameter, transmitting a first instruction to the wireless device, the instruction causing the wireless device to switch from using the first BWP to using the second BWP.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by an electronic processor of a processing node, cause the processing node to perform operations comprising:
- defining a first dedicated bandwidth part (BWP) comprising a first group of contiguous resource blocks (RBs) and a second BWP comprising a second group of contiguous RBs for communications from an access node to a wireless device, wherein the first BWP is associated with a first resource allocation type and the second BWP is associated with a second resource allocation type different from the first resource allocation type;
- configuring the wireless device with the first BWP and the second BWP;
- setting a traffic condition comprising a first threshold, the first threshold comprising a plurality of parameters, the plurality of parameters comprising a packet type parameter and an additional parameter that includes a configurable corresponding time parameter that is a respective predetermined amount of time that the additional parameter must satisfy a respective trigger criteria for the traffic condition to be deemed met;
- monitoring traffic parameters for the communications between the access node and the wireless device using the first BWP;
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- in response to a determination that the traffic parameters meet the first threshold by satisfying a packet type of the packet type parameter and the configurable corresponding time parameter of the additional parameter, instructing the wireless device to switch to receiving the communications from the access node using the second BWP.
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