Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) operating in an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band may transmit autonomously (e.g., without a resource assignment) to a base station. For example, a base station may indicate a periodic resource allocation to the UE using radio resource control (RRC) messaging. The UE may then perform a listen-before talk (LBT) procedure and transmit physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or other messages using the periodic resource allocation. Thus, the UE may transmit uplink messages without receiving an assignment of uplink resources from the base station. The UE may transmit identification and synchronization information in a scheduling request (SR) resource of the autonomous PUCCH. For example, the UE may indicate a start time and duration of an autonomous uplink transmit opportunity (TxOP) using resources designated for SR transmission.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station within a wireless system may determine a measurement scheme or uplink mode and then transmit an indication of the scheme or uplink mode to an associated user equipment (UE). The base station may, for example, identify a set of hidden nodes for the UE and configure the UE for autonomous or grant-based uplink transmissions accordingly. The UE may identify a signal strength of neighboring nodes, which the UE may communicated to the base station for identification of hidden nodes. In some examples, the UE may be configured with an autonomous uplink, which may support unscheduled uplink communications, when a base station determines that operating in the autonomous uplink mode would provide a benefit for the UE—e.g., a benefit for UE operation in view of hidden nodes with which the UE may contend.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided for determining one or more parameters of an access point that can be set or adjusted to mitigate interference to other access points. A rise-over-thermal (RoT) threshold can be set at an access point based on one or more parameters, such as pathloss measurements, location of the access point, etc., such that interference from devices communicating with the access point can be mitigated. In addition, a noise floor, RoT threshold, etc., can be adjusted based on determining a transmit power difference, out-of-cell interference, and/or similar measurements.
Abstract:
Transmit power for an access point (106) is controlled based on information received by the access point. For example, an access point may employ one or more algorithms that use messages received from nearby access terminals (102, 104) to maintain an acceptable tradeoff between providing an adequate coverage area for access point transmissions and mitigating interference that these transmissions cause at nearby access terminals. Here, the access point may employ a network listen-based algorithm upon initialization of the access terminal to provide preliminary transmit power control until sufficient information is collected for another transmit power control algorithm (e.g., an access terminal assisted algorithm). Also, the access point may employ an active access terminal protection scheme to mitigate interference the access point may otherwise cause to a nearby access terminal (104) that is in active communication with another access point (108).
Abstract:
Testing an information packet processing capability of a wireless device is provided. The testing includes obtaining a device state corresponding to a test wireless device. The device state is processed with the scheduling priority function to define a test device metric. The testing also includes developing a mathematical model representing a load scenario on a wireless network produced by a multitude of wireless devices operating on the wireless network. The load scenario is processed with a scheduling priority function to determine a network load metric. The network load metric is compared to the test device metric to define an information packet scheduling decision corresponding to operation of the test wireless device in the load scenario.
Abstract:
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for including physical layer RS SI in CSI reporting. In some cases, a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a channel state information (CSI) reporting configuration that specifies physical layer received signal strength indicator (RS SI) measurement as a report quantity, performing physical layer RS SI measurement, and reporting the RS SI to a network entity in accordance with the CSI reporting configuration.
Abstract:
A method for wireless communication includes a first wireless communication device receiving, from a second wireless communication device, one or more signals for each of a plurality of candidate sensing beams and a transmission beam. The method also includes determining, for each of the plurality of candidate sensing beams based on at least one of the one or more signals for the respective candidate sensing beam, a first signal measurement. The method also includes determining, based on at least one of the one or more signals for the transmission beam, a second signal measurement with respect to a direction of the transmission beam, and determining, for each of the plurality of candidate sensing beams based on the respective first signal measurement and the second signal measurement, beam coverage information with respect to the transmission beam direction.
Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support management of network-configured sensing bandwidths in a wireless communication system. In particular aspects, a network configures a sensing bandwidth, and the sensing bandwidth configuration is signaled to a contending node. The contending node (e.g., a UE or a base station) performs a medium sensing procedure (e.g., a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure) using the signaled configuration of the sensing bandwidth. Aspects of this disclosure provide various techniques for signaling the configuration of the sensing bandwidth to the contending node.
Abstract:
Wireless communication methods and devices for selective receiver-assisted channel sensing are provided. In some aspects, one or more receivers (e.g., UEs) can be selectively configured to perform receiver-assisted channel sensing (e.g., class A channel sensing) using at least one of trigger signaling and channel sensing configuration by a BS, UE capabilities, or operational mode. For example, a method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) includes: sensing a channel based on at least one of a receiver-assisted channel sensing trigger, or a UE capability; and transmitting, to a base station (BS) based on the sensing, channel sensing information.
Abstract:
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a grant including information for triggering a clear channel assessment based sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission. The UE may perform the clear channel assessment for a channel based at least in part on receiving the grant. The UE may transmit, to the base station, the SRS that initiates a shared channel occupancy time (COT) on the channel based at least in part on performing the clear channel assessment. Numerous other aspects are provided.