Signalling process
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsMihai ENESCU, Samantha CAPORAL DEL BARRIO
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Abstract
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus, for example a user equipment, configured to transmit, to a base station node, a request for at least one gap to be configured in an uplink transmission and/or downlink reception of the apparatus, during at least one configured gap of the apparatus, use at least one antenna array of the apparatus as a radar to determine a distance between the apparatus and a user or an object, and responsive to the determined distance being less than a preconfigured trigger distance, reduce a transmission power of the apparatus by a factor chosen in dependence of by how much the determined distance is less than the trigger distance.
Claims19
An apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to:
- transmit, to a base station node, a request for at least one gap to be configured in an uplink transmission and/or downlink reception of the apparatus;
- during at least one configured gap of the apparatus, use at least one antenna array of the apparatus as a radar to determine a distance between the apparatus and a user or an object, and
- responsive to the determined distance being less than a preconfigured trigger distance, reduce a transmission power of the apparatus by a factor chosen in dependence of by how much the determined distance is less than the trigger distance.
An apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to:
- receive, from a user equipment, a request for at least one gap to be configured in an uplink transmission and/or downlink reception of the user equipment, and
- transmit to the user equipment a gap configuration defining at least one gap in the uplink transmission and/or the downlink reception of the user equipment.
A method comprising:
- transmitting, from an apparatus to a base station node, a request for at least one gap to be configured in an uplink transmission and/or downlink reception of the apparatus;
- during at least one configured gap of the apparatus, using at least one antenna array of the apparatus as a radar to determine a distance between the apparatus and a user or an object, and
- responsive to the determined distance being less than a preconfigured trigger distance, reducing a transmission power of the apparatus by a factor chosen in dependence of by how much the determined distance is less than the trigger distance.
13-15. (canceled)
The method according to 12, comprising including in the request at least one request for gap configuration in a specific configured transmission configuration state of the apparatus, the specific configured transmission configuration being comprised in a proper subset of active transmission configurations of the apparatus which are received and/or transmitted from a same antenna array of the apparatus.
The method according to 12, comprising including in the request a request for a specific number of gaps such that the requested gaps are not associated in the request with specific configured transmission configuration states of the apparatus.
The method according to 12, comprising using each of the at least one antenna array for communication in a frequency range of between 24 and 300 gigahertz.
The method according to 12, comprising processing a gap configuration from the base station node, the gap configuration defining the at least one configured gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.