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公开(公告)号:US20240080799A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-07
申请号:US18379382
申请日:2023-10-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Alexander Sirotkin , Jaemin Han
IPC: H04W68/00 , H04L1/1607 , H04W28/06 , H04W80/08
CPC classification number: H04W68/005 , H04L1/1642 , H04W28/06 , H04W80/08 , H04W84/18
Abstract: Devices, methods, communication nodes, base stations, storage media, and other embodiments are provided for managing associations in a communication network. In one example embodiment, a New Radio (NR) node is configured for NR user-plane protocol communications between a master node (MN) and a secondary node (SN). The NRnode is configured to generate a downlink (DL) user data message with downlink user data, initiate transmission of the DL user data message to a second node, and process a DL data delivery status message from the second node in response to the DL user data message. In various embodiments, polling and SCG split-bearer configurations are supported by such messaging. In some embodiments, packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) serial numbers are communicated for transmission and retransmission management. In some embodiments, DL configurations initiated by an SN are enabled, as well as UL configurations initiated by either an MN or an SN.
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公开(公告)号:US11818793B2
公开(公告)日:2023-11-14
申请号:US16615054
申请日:2018-06-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Alexander Sirotkin , Alexandre Saso Stojanovski
IPC: H04W8/08 , H04W76/11 , H04L29/12 , H04L29/08 , H04W8/26 , H04W60/00 , H04W80/02 , H04L67/00 , H04L101/663
CPC classification number: H04W8/08 , H04L67/34 , H04W8/26 , H04W60/005 , H04W76/11 , H04W80/02 , H04L2101/663
Abstract: Devices, methods, user equipment (UE), base stations, storage media, and other embodiments are provided for managing associations in a communication network. In one example embodiment, a Next Generation (NG) core network device is configured for an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) with an NG-Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) node. The network device may be configured to access a plurality of Transport Network Link (TNL) associations and generate an AMF configuration update using the TNL associations, the AMF configuration update comprising AMF transport layer address information for the plurality of TNL associations. The network device may then initiate transmission of the AMF configuration update comprising the AMF transport layer address information to the NG-RAN node. Additional embodiments may involve binding updates or setup response messaging for managing associations, along with additional operations.
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公开(公告)号:US20230136741A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-04
申请号:US17962447
申请日:2022-10-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Alexander Sirotkin , Fangli Xu , Haijing Hu , Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata , Pavan Nuggehalli , Ralf Rossbach , Sarma V. Vangala , Sethuraman Gurumoorthy , Yuqin Chen , Zhibin Wu
IPC: H04W72/00
Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for control-plane signaling for UE associations in wireless networks.
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公开(公告)号:US20230134245A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-04
申请号:US17966520
申请日:2022-10-14
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor: Ralf Rossbach , Alexander Sirotkin , Dawei Zhang , Fangli Xu , Haijing Hu , Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata , Pavan Nuggehalli , Sarma V. Vangala , Sethuraman Gurumoorthy , Weidong Yang , Yuqin Chen , Zhibin Wu
Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for transmission of variable-size data bursts. Applications to uplink data transmissions and applications to downlink data transmissions are described.
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公开(公告)号:US20230044346A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-09
申请号:US17438324
申请日:2021-08-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Pavan Nuggehalli , Fangli Xu , Alexander Sirotkin , Chunxuan Ye , Haijing Hu , Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata , Ralf Rossbach , Sarma V. Vangala , Sethuraman Gurumoorthy , Yuqin Chen , Zhibin Wu
Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for ephemeris signaling in wireless networks.
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公开(公告)号:US20210360483A1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-18
申请号:US17287062
申请日:2019-11-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Alexander Sirotkin , Zhaohua Yi
Abstract: A device of a User Equipment (UE), a method to operate the device, and a machine readable medium. The device includes processing circuitry and a radio frequency (RF) interface coupled to the processing circuitry, the processing circuitry to: decode a signal sent in a cellular network from a base station (BS), the signal including a network allocation vector (NAV) information update regarding a NAV corresponding to a Wi-Fi network, the NAV to be set by a Wi-Fi station (STA) that is in the Wi-Fi network, and that is to be coupled to the UE via a connection; and send the NAV information update to the STA by way of the connection to allow the STA to set its NAV in the Wi-Fi network based on the NAV information update.
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公开(公告)号:US11153272B2
公开(公告)日:2021-10-19
申请号:US16408028
申请日:2019-05-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Feng Yang , Min Huang , Xu Zhang , Alexander Sirotkin , Jaemin Han
Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to managing bearers in a radio access network (e.g., next generation RAN (NG-RAN), etc.). In one example, a central-unit control-plane (CU-CP) communicates with a distributed unit (DU) and a CU-UP to exchange transport network layer addresses (TNLAs) and tunnel endpoint identifiers (TEIDs) between the DU and the CU-UP. In this way, the DU becomes resistant to the CU-UP's rejection of a bearer setup request from the CU-CP during a bearer setup procedure. Furthermore, during virtual machine (VM) migration or local problems of the CU-UP, an E1 procedure known as “bearer relocate” can be defined to notify the DU of a new TNLA for one or more affected general packet radio service tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnels that are affected by the VM migration or local problems.
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公开(公告)号:US11153271B2
公开(公告)日:2021-10-19
申请号:US16277658
申请日:2019-02-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Feng Yang , Min Huang , Xu Zhang , Alexander Sirotkin , Jaemin Han
Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to managing bearers in a radio access network (e.g., next generation RAN (NG-RAN), etc.). In one example, a central-unit control-plane (CU-CP) communicates with a distributed unit (DU) and a CU-UP to exchange transport network layer addresses (TNLAs) and tunnel endpoint identifiers (TEIDs) between the DU and the CU-UP. In this way, the DU becomes resistant to the CU-UP's rejection of a bearer setup request from the CU-CP during a bearer setup procedure. Furthermore, during virtual machine (VM) migration or local problems of the CU-UP, an E1 procedure known as “bearer relocate” can be defined to notify the DU of a new TNLA for one or more affected general packet radio service tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnels that are affected by the VM migration or local problems.
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公开(公告)号:US11006312B2
公开(公告)日:2021-05-11
申请号:US16299389
申请日:2019-03-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jaemin Han , Yujian Zhang , Sudeep K. Palat , Alexander Sirotkin
Abstract: Systems and methods of providing feedback when a specific PDU is successfully delivered or transmitted are described. The node hosting PDCP entity indicates triggering of a DDDS frame from the remote corresponding node. Rather than immediately triggering transmission of a DDDS frame, the node hosting PDCP entity indicates triggering based on successful delivery of a PDU having a specific SN, as long as in-sequence delivery or transmission of PDUs up to the specific SN was successful. The DDDS frame is transmitted once the corresponding node determines that the PDU having the SN was successfully delivered or transmitted. After reporting by the DDDS frame, the QoS flow associated with the PDUs is remapped from a source DRB to a target DRB.
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公开(公告)号:US10952265B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-16
申请号:US16393709
申请日:2019-04-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Feng Yang , Alexander Sirotkin , Jaemin Han , Xu Zhang
Abstract: Systems and methods of modifying the bearer context of a DRB of an E1 interface for a gNB are described. To modify the bearer context associated with a DRB for a particular UE, the gNB-CU-UP transmits a Bearer Context Modification Required message through the E1 interface and receives in response a Bearer Context Modification Confirm message that confirms the modification of the bearer context. The Bearer Context Modification Required message and Bearer Context Modification Confirm message both include the new GTP TEID and TNL address to be used after modification of the bearer context, a gNB-CU-CP UE E1AP ID that uniquely identifies a UE association over the E1 interface within the gNB-CU-CP, a gNB-CU-UP UE E1AP ID that uniquely identifies a UE association over the E1 interface within the gNB-CU-UP, and a DRB ID IE that uniquely identifies the DRB.
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