Apparatus and Methods of Scheduling for Low Power Consumption

A method for scheduling a wireless communication, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a base station, a capability message from a user equipment (UE) indicating a scheduling delay for the UE to transmit to the base station;
• transmitting, by the base station, a downlink control frame to the UE indicating a scheduled time for a transmission of a frame by the UE, a time delay between the scheduled time and a reception time of the downlink control frame being greater than or equal to the scheduling delay;
• and
• receiving, by the base station, the frame from the UE in accordance with the scheduled time.

A method for scheduling a wireless communication, the method comprising:

• transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a capability message to a base station indicating a scheduling delay for transmitting a frame to the base station;
• receiving, by the UE, a downlink control frame from the base station over a receive radio frequency (RF) chain of the UE, the downlink control frame indicating a scheduled time for transmitting the frame by the UE, a time delay between the scheduled time and reception time of the downlink control frame being greater than or equal to the scheduling delay;
• and
• transmitting, by the UE, the frame to the base station over a transmit RF chain of the UE in accordance with the scheduled time.

A method for scheduling a wireless communication, the method comprising:

• transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a capability message to a base station indicating a scheduling delay for receiving a frame from the base station;
• receiving, by the UE, a downlink control frame from the base station over a first receive radio frequency (RF) chain of the UE, the downlink control frame indicating a scheduled time for receiving the frame by the UE, a time delay between the scheduled time and reception time of the downlink control frame being greater than or equal to the scheduling delay;
• and
• receiving, by the UE, the frame from the base station over the first receive RF chain and a second receive RF chain in accordance with the scheduled time.

A method for scheduling a wireless communication, the method comprising:

• transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a capability message to a base station indicating a scheduling delay for receiving a frame from the base station;
• receiving, by the UE operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) ON state, a downlink control frame from the base station over a first receive RF chain of the UE, the downlink control frame indicating a scheduled time for receiving the frame by the UE, a time delay between reception of the frame and the downlink control frame, by the UE, being greater than or equal to the scheduling delay;
• and
• receiving, by the UE operating in the DRX ON state, the frame from the base station in accordance with the scheduled time over the first receive RF chain and a second receive RF chain.

A method for scheduling a wireless communication, the method comprising:

• transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a capability message to a base station indicating a scheduling delay for transmitting a frame to the base station;
• receiving, by the UE operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) ON state, a downlink control frame from the base station over a receive radio frequency (RF) chain of the UE, the downlink control frame indicating a scheduled time for transmitting the frame by the UE, a time delay between a transmission of the frame and a reception of the downlink control frame by the UE being greater than or equal to the scheduling delay;
• and
• transmitting, by the UE operating in the DRX ON state, the frame to the base station over a transmit RF chain in accordance with the scheduled time.

A base station comprising:

• a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions;
• and
• one or more processors in communication with the non-transitory memory storage, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
• receive a capability message from a user equipment (UE) indicating a scheduling delay for the UE to receive a transmission from the base station;
• transmit a downlink control frame to the UE indicating a scheduled time for reception of a frame by the UE, a time delay between the scheduled time and reception time of the downlink control frame being greater than or equal to the scheduling delay;
• and
• transmit the frame to the UE in accordance with the scheduled time.

A base station comprising:

• a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions;
• and
• one or more processors in communication with the non-transitory memory storage, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
• receive a capability message from a user equipment (UE) indicating a scheduling delay for the UE to transmit to the base station;
• transmit a downlink control frame to the UE indicating a scheduled time for a transmission of a frame by the UE, a time delay between the scheduled time and a reception time of the downlink control frame being greater than or equal to the scheduling delay;
• and
• receive the frame from the UE in accordance with the scheduled time.

A user equipment (UE) comprising:

• a receive radio frequency (RF) chain;
• a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions;
• and
• one or more processors in communication with the non-transitory memory storage, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
• transmit a capability message to a base station indicating a scheduling delay for transmitting a frame to the base station;
• receive a downlink control frame from the base station over the receive RF chain of the UE, the downlink control frame indicating a scheduled time for transmitting the frame by the UE, a time delay between the scheduled time and reception time of the downlink control frame being greater than or equal to the scheduling delay;
• and
• transmit the frame to the base station over a transmit RF chain of the UE in accordance with the scheduled time.

A user equipment (UE) comprising:

• a first and a second receive radio frequency (RF) chain;
• a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions;
• and
• one or more processors in communication with the non-transitory memory storage, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
• transmit a capability message to a base station indicating a scheduling delay for receiving a frame from the base station;
• receive a downlink control frame from the base station over the first receive RF chain of the UE, the downlink control frame indicating a scheduled time for receiving the frame by the UE, a time delay between the scheduled time and reception time of the downlink control frame being greater than or equal to the scheduling delay;
• and
• receive the frame from the base station over the first receive RF chain and the second receive RF chain in accordance with the scheduled time.

A user equipment (UE) operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, the UE comprising:

• a first and a second receive radio frequency (RF) chain;
• a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions;
• and
• one or more processors in communication with the non-transitory memory storage, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
• transmit a capability message to a base station indicating a scheduling delay for receiving a frame from the base station;
• receive a downlink control frame from the base station over the first receive RF chain of the UE in a DRX ON state, the downlink control frame indicating a scheduled time for receiving the frame by the UE, a time delay between reception of the frame and the downlink control frame, by the UE, being greater than or equal to the scheduling delay;
• and
• receive the frame from the base station in accordance with the scheduled time over the first receive RF chain and the second receive RF chain of the UE in the DRX ON state.

A user equipment (UE) operating in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, the UE comprising:

• a receive radio frequency (RF) chain;
• a transmit RF chain;
• a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions;
• and
• one or more processors in communication with the non-transitory memory storage, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
• transmit a capability message to a base station indicating a scheduling delay for transmitting a frame to the base station;
• receive a downlink control frame from the base station over the receive RF chain of the UE in a DRX ON state, the downlink control frame indicating a scheduled time for transmitting the frame by the UE, a time delay between a transmission of the frame and a reception of the downlink control frame by the UE being greater than or equal to the scheduling delay;
• and
• transmit the frame to the base station over the transmit RF chain in accordance with the scheduled time, the UE operating in a DRX ON state.