Abstract:
In order to ensure coexistence over shared frequency bands or unlicensed spectrum, a common channel reservation mechanism decodable (ie no energy detection) by both Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) and LTE users is provided: An enhanced preamble is proposed to be transmitted by LTE-U devices to reserve the channel (instead of the conventional CUBS signal): The enhanced preamble is detectable by WLAN devices but also includes a characteristic that indicates that the associated transmission will be an LTE-U based transmission to other LTE-U devices. The characteristic may be 1) a phase shift between the STF and LTF or 2) the use of an enhanced STF which has a different frequency domain sequence or a different subcarrier mapping of the sequence at the IFFT, or 3) additional preamble field: an initial STF' waveform inverted at half its duration so that it is not detected by usual WLAN autocorrelators but only by LTE-U devices, or 4) the timing alignment of the WLAN preamble with LTE-U symbol periods.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a methods and apparatus for wireless communication. In one aspect, a method of communication over a wireless medium includes transmitting, from a first wireless device, a first communication reserving access to the wireless medium during a first time period. The method further includes transmitting or receiving a long term evolution unlicensed (LTE-U) transmission during the first time period. The method further includes detecting, prior to the first time period, an interfering WLAN transmission that will result in its transmitter and recipients not detecting the first communication. The method further includes transmitting, after the interfering WLAN transmission, a second communication reserving access to the wireless medium during a second time period at least partially overlapping the first.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a methods and apparatus for wireless communication. In one aspect, a method a method of communication over a wireless medium. The method includes transmitting, from a first wireless device, a first communication reserving access to the wireless medium during an indicated first time period. The first communication includes a contention-based transmission. The method further includes transmitting, during the first time period, a second communication reserving access to the wireless medium during an indicated second time period at least partially overlapping the first. The second communication includes a scheduled transmission. The method further includes transmitting or receiving a long term evolution unlicensed (LTE-U) transmission during the second time period.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to ultra low-power paging frames for wake up and discovery. One example apparatus for wireless communications generally includes at least one interface configured to receive via a first radio and a second radio, wherein the at least one interface receives a paging frame from another apparatus via the second radio while the first radio is in a first power state that is lower than a second power state of the second radio; and a processing system configured to take one or more actions based on a command field included in the paging frame.
Abstract:
A method of adjusting a carrier sense threshold to avoid hidden nodes during wireless broadcast. The method includes monitoring a load of the peer-to-peer network before broadcasting a message from a node. The method also includes adjusting a carrier sense threshold (CST) based on the load of the peer-to-peer network to avoid broadcast message collisions due to one or more hidden nodes.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for performing a beam recovery procedure using a second CC are disclosed. A UE may perform a beam recovery procedure using two component carriers (CCs): for example, CC1 may be a beam formed millimeter wave (MMW) carrier having a beam recovery procedure and CC2 may be an assisting carrier such as a sub-6 GHz carrier. In a first example, a UE may trigger beam recovery for CC1 (on CC2), generate a beam measurement report, and transmit the beam report on resources allocated for uplink transmission on CC2. In a second example, a new scheduling request (SR) may be defined on CC1 for CC2 beam recovery. In a third example, RACH resources or procedures on CC2 may be used to perform the beam recovery for CC1.
Abstract:
Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method includes sensing an indication of first radio access technology (RAT) communications occupying a shared radio frequency spectrum band; and configuring, in response to the sensing, at least one parameter of a second RAT used by a device to contend for access to the band. A second method includes randomly selecting a number from a range of numbers extending between a lower bound and an upper bound; contending for access to a shared radio frequency spectrum band by performing an extended clear channel assessment (ECCA) procedure over a plurality of CCA slots, the plurality of CCA slots including a first number of CCA slots equal to the upper bound; and winning contention for access to the band after determining, while performing the ECCA procedure, that the band is available for a second number of CCA slots equal to the randomly selected number.