Systems and methods for optimizing micro-sleep cycles of user equipment for energy savings
AssigneesAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Vivanco, Yupeng Jia
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Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a slot offset value for a target user equipment (UE) based on an application running on the target UE, where the slot offset value is elastic, providing the slot offset value to an access network equipment serving the target UE, and mandating the access network equipment to buffer downlink data during the determined slot offset value and schedule to send to the target UE the downlink data in clusters after the determined slot offset value. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A device, comprising:
- a processing system including a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- determining a slot offset value for a target user equipment (UE) based on an application running on the target user equipment, wherein the slot offset value is elastic;
- providing the slot offset value to an access network equipment serving the target UE;
- and
- mandating the access network equipment to buffer downlink data during the determined slot offset value and schedule to send the target UE the downlink data in clusters after the determined slot offset value.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system of an access network equipment including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving a slot offset parameter, wherein the slot offset parameter is configured to vary based on a type of user equipment (UE), a type of application, or both, and wherein the slot offset parameter is elastic;
- sending downlink control information (DCI) to a user equipment via PDCCH, wherein the DCI includes the slot offset parameter;
- and
- sending data in clusters to the UE by buffering the data for a time period corresponding to the slot offset parameter.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a processing system of user equipment including a processor, from a network counterpart, a downlink control information (DCI) including a slot offset parameter, wherein the slot offset parameter is elastic;
- monitoring, by the processing system, the DCI to check a data grant indicator and the slot offset parameter;
- entering, by the processing system, into a micro-sleep cycle during a time period corresponding to the slot offset parameter;
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- receiving, by the processing system, from the network counterpart, downlink data buffered by the network counterpart during the time period corresponding to the slot offset parameter, wherein the downlink data are sent in clusters after the time period corresponding to the slot offset parameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.