User-Equipment-Coordination-Set Control Aggregation

A method for command aggregation by a user equipment configured as a coordinating user equipment for a user-equipment-coordination set in a wireless communications network, the method comprising the coordinating user equipment:

• receiving a downlink transmission of an aggregated-command message from a base station;
• demodulating and sampling the received downlink transmission to produce a first set of I/Q samples corresponding to the aggregated-command message;
• receiving, from each of multiple user equipments in the user-equipment-coordination set, a respective additional set of I/Q samples corresponding to the aggregated-command message;
• processing the first set of I/Q samples and the additional sets of I/Q samples to decode the aggregated-command message;
• disaggregating the decoded aggregated-command message to extract commands for individual user equipments;
• and
• generating user-equipment-specific command messages for each user equipment in the user-equipment-coordination set from the extracted commands, each user-equipment-specific command message directing the respective user equipment to apply a setting to the user equipment based on the user-equipment specific message.

A user equipment comprising:

• a wireless transceiver;
• a local wireless network transceiver;
• a processor;
• and
• instructions for a communication manager application that are executable by the processor to configure the user equipment to:
• receive, from each of multiple user equipments in a user-equipment-coordination set, a respective report message;
• consolidate the received report messages and a report value of a coordinating user equipment to generate a consolidated report message;
• and
• transmit the consolidated report message to a base station, directing the base station to evaluate resource allocations for the user-equipment-coordination set based on the consolidated report message.