RRM requirement for D2D inter-carrier discovery gap

• US 10,448,237 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2016
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intel IP Corporation (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Huang, Rui, Tang, Yang
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Duc C
• Application Number:
  US15/756,943
• Publication Number:
  US 20180279109A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,110 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

A radio resource management requirement is described for a device-to-device inter-carrier discovery gap. A device to device (D2D) user equipment (UE) interruption requirement can be specified in which the interruption is not allowed. In one example, operations include receiving device-to-device (D2D) discovery data on a D2D discovery data frequency in a receive chain of a user equipment (UE) during a set of subframes, tuning the receive chain of the UE to a wireless access network (WAN) data frequency, and receiving WAN data in the receive chain of the UE on the WAN data frequency from a primary cell (PCell) during the set of subframes, wherein the D2D discovery data is received during a gap in receiving the WAN data without an interruption in the WAN data.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions to cause an electronic device, upon execution of the instructions by one or more processors of the electronic device, to perform one or more operations comprising:

receiving device-to-device (D2D) discovery data on a D2D discovery data frequency in a receive chain of a user equipment (UE) during a set of subframes;

tuning the receive chain of the UE to a wireless access network (WAN) data frequency; and

receiving WAN data in the receive chain of the UE on the WAN data frequency from a primary cell (PCell) during the set of subframes,

wherein the D2D discovery data is received during a gap in receiving the WAN data without an interruption in the WAN data.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein an interruption requirement is based on a configuration of the gap in receiving the WAN data.

3. The media of claim 1, wherein the gap is during a retuning of the receive chain from the WAN data frequency to the D2D discovery data frequency to receive the D2D data and the retuning from the D2D discovery data frequency to the WAN data frequency.

4. The media of claim 3, wherein the gap does not include the duration of receiving the D2D discovery data.

5. The media of claim 1, the operations further comprising receiving a message from an evolved nodeB (eNB) that schedules the gap.

6. The media of claim 5, the operations further comprising sending a request for gaps for receiving D2D discovery data from the UE to the eNB.

7. The media of claim 1, further comprising receiving WAN data on a second WAN data frequency in a second receive chain from a secondary cell (SCell) during the set of subframes.

8. The media of claim 7, the instructions further comprising a restriction that carrier aggregation is not supported for different receive frequencies.

9. The media of claim 7, wherein the first and second receive chains operate simultaneously, the instructions further comprising a restriction that carrier aggregation is supported for different receive frequencies.

10. An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors and one or more computer readable media comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform specifying a device to device (D2D) user equipment (UE) interruption requirement for D2D discovery, wherein the interruption will not be allowed, wherein for a D2D inter-carrier and inter-public land mobile network (PLMN) discovery, there are gaps for discovery and interruption depends on an assigned gap configuration.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the discovery gap for inter-carrier and inter-PLMN D2D discovery cannot allow wireless area network (WAN) data transmission, for example because an eNB does not schedule any transmission data for WAN during the gap.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein there is no dedicated radio frequency (RF) chain for D2D.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the discovery gap for inter-carrier and inter-PLMN D2D discovery is scheduled during UE re-tuning and only before and after UE D2D discovery receive.

14. A processing circuitry of a user equipment (UE), the processing circuitry to:

configure a receive chain of a user equipment (UE) to receive device-to-device (D2D) discovery data on a D2D discovery data frequency during a set of subframes;

tune the receive chain of the UE to a wireless access network (WAN) data frequency; and

configure the receive chain of the UE to receive WAN data on the WAN data frequency from a primary cell (PCell) during the set of subframes, wherein the D2D discovery data is received during a gap in receiving the WAN data without an interruption in the WAN data.

15. The circuitry of claim 14, the circuitry further to receive a message from an evolved nodeB (eNB) that schedules the gap.

16. The circuitry of claim 15, the circuitry further to send a request for gaps for receiving D2D discovery data from the UE to the eNB.

17. An apparatus comprising:

a receive chain of a user equipment (UE) to receive device-to-device (D2D) discovery data during a set of subframes;

a tuner to tune the receive chain of the UE to a wireless access network (WAN) data frequency; and

the receive chain of the UE to receive wireless access network (WAN) data from a primary cell (PCell) during the set of subframes,

wherein the D2D discovery data is received during a gap in receiving the WAN data without an interruption in the WAN data.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the gap is during a retuning of the receive chain from the WAN data frequency to the D2D discovery data frequency to receive the D2D data and the retuning from the D2D discovery data frequency to the WAN data frequency.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the gap does not include the duration of receiving the D2D discovery data.