Abstract:
Method and apparatus are described for wireless communication. A user equipment (UE) located at a public land mobile network (PLMN) border area may modify cell selection parameters in order to leave a current PLMN for a more favorable visited PLMN (VPLMN). The UE may, for example, identify the border area by monitoring GPS coordinates, identifying a mobile country code (MCC) of a network, searching for a background PLMN after experiencing a number of uplink transmit failures, or by detecting a high block error rate (BLER). Additionally or alternatively, the UE may have certain physical or environmental constraints that create a mismatch between the Downlink (DL) reception range and the Uplink (UL) transmission range, and this mismatch may be a basis for, or may be accounted for, in modifying cell selection parameters.
Abstract:
A user equipment (UE) and source base station may use data compression techniques for data packets sent between them. During a handover, the source base station may provide data compression context to a target base station, thus enabling the target base station to continue the data compression following the handover without having to reestablish the data compression context. The source base station may determine data compression capabilities of the UE or the target base station, or both, and may communicate the determined data compression capabilities to the UE or target base station. The source base station may identify at least one gap in a sequence of packets received from the UE, and communicate the existence of the gap to the target base station, which may request retransmission of packets associated with the gap.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication. A user equipment (UE), for example, may determine a content size of an uncompressed buffer and a content size of a compressed buffer. The UE may then generate a buffer status report (BSR) based on the content sizes of the uncompressed buffer and the compressed buffer. Alternatively, a base station may receive a BSR based on a size of an uncompressed buffer of the UE. The base station may then receive a compressed packet from the UE and may determine a compression gain based on a size of the compressed packet and a size of a corresponding uncompressed packet. The base station may then adjust the received BSR based on the compression gain.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices for IMS based WWAN-WLAN mobility are described. A user equipment (UE) may generate channel quality metrics and media performance metrics for a source radio access technology (RAT). The UE may then select a state for the source RAT metrics. The UE may also generate channel quality metrics for a target RAT and select a state for the target RAT. The UE may make a handover decision based on the states of the RATs and on priority levels for the RATs.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided for managing a list of target frequencies for cell measurement. A set of available target frequencies for performing cell measurements from a serving cell can be received, and at least a subset of the set of available target frequencies can be prioritized based at least in part on a list of a plurality of target frequencies stored in a reselection database for the serving cell. Cell measurements can be performed based at least in part on at least the subset of the set of available target frequencies as prioritized. Additionally, the plurality of target frequencies in the reselection database may correspond to target frequencies to which successful reselection has occurred from the serving cell.
Abstract:
The application relates to a wireless relay device which acts as a mobile hotspot, in particular to enable non-4G-LTE-capable IMS clients to establish IMS connections to the 4G-LTE network. Such a device is also referred to as MiFi router, SoftAP or software hotspot. In order to ensure QoS for all IMS clients on the LTE network, there may be one or more policies in place limiting the number of concurrent connections between IMS clients and the network via a particular relay device. Such policies might operate on a first-come-first- serve basis. However, in certain situation, such policies might be unsatisfactory because different connections might be associated with different priorities. Therefore the application proposes to determine the priority associated with the device seeking connection establishment (522) and handle the connection accordingly, i.e. either to terminate a connection of lower priority (523) or to reject the connection if the priority is lower than the priorities of the other connections (526).
Abstract:
Systems and methods which provide partial bandwidth support of secondary cells for Carrier Aggregation (referred to as Partial Bandwidth Carrier Aggregation) are disclosed. Partial Bandwidth Carrier Aggregation according to embodiments implements wireless links using a plurality of cells with a user equipment (UE), as a means to improve the UE throughput, by using of a portion of the secondary cell bandwidth to accommodate bandwidth limitations of the UE and thereby facilitates the aggregation of component carriers (or portions thereof) when Carrier Aggregation would not otherwise be possible.
Abstract:
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. In one aspect, the UE may establish a context for a first RAT, perform an activity involving at least one transmission via a second RAT without initiating a procedure to suspend the context for the first RAT when a duration of the activity is less than a threshold, and communicate via the first RAT using the context after the activity is performed. In another aspect, the UE may receive one or more signals via at least a first RAT, transmit via a second RAT, and perform at least one cell reselection procedure using the one or more signals during the transmission via the second RAT.
Abstract:
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication at a first user equipment (UE) are provided. The apparatus sends a request to a second UE for establishing a call connection, receives from the second UE an acknowledgment for establishing the call connection, establishes at least one first dedicated bearer between the first UE and a network for communicating media packets with the second UE, sends first dummy data to the second UE via the established at least one first dedicated bearer, receives at least one of second dummy data or a media packet from the second UE via the established at least one first dedicated bearer, and exchanges media packets with the second UE via the established at least one first dedicated bearer after receiving the at least one of the second dummy data or the media packet from the second UE.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for increasing the emergency call success rate by reducing the number of retries in a same domain. According to one aspect, a multi-mode user equipment may measure a first time period upon a first attempt of establishing an emergency call in a first RAT network. The UE may use a configurable parameter to determine a number of times that the UE may retry the emergency call in the first RAT network after expiration of the first time period without establishing the emergency call or after a failed attempt of the emergency call during the first time period. The UE may switch to a second RAT network if the UE fails in establishing the emergency call in the first RAT network after retrying the determined number of times.