POWER HEADROOM REPORT FOR MULTIPLE UPLINK CARRIERS

• US 20190313348A1
• Filed: 04/05/2019
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: MolavianJazi, Ebrahim, Loehr, Joachim, Jung, Hyejung, Nangia, Vijay, Basu Mallick, Prateek
• Granted Patent: US 10,736,046 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/08 Closed loop power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/281 taking into account user or data type priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/365 Power headroom reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/367 Power values between minimum and maximum limits, e.g. dynamic range
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/44 in connection with interruption of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/50 at the moment of starting communication in a multiple access environment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/002 Transmission of channel access control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states

Abstract

Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for power headroom reporting for multiple uplink carriers. One apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a configuration of a plurality of uplink carriers for a serving cell. The first apparatus includes a processor that calculates a power headroom (“PH”) for each uplink carrier of the plurality of uplink carriers on the serving cell. The processor transmits (via the transceiver) a Power Headroom Report (“PHR”) based on the calculated PH for the plurality of uplink carriers of the serving cell.

Claims

1. A method of a UE comprising:

receiving a configuration of a plurality of uplink (UL”

) carriers for a serving cell;

calculating a power headroom (“

PH”

) for each UL carrier of the plurality of UL carriers on the serving cell; and

transmitting a Power Headroom Report (“

PHR”

) based on the calculated PH for the plurality of UL carriers of the serving cell.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a configured maximum output power for the UL carrier from the plurality of UL carriers of the serving cell, wherein the PH for an UL carrier from the plurality of UL carriers on the serving cell indicates a difference between the configured maximum output power for the UL carrier and a determined transmit power required for an UL transmission on the UL carrier.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a default power control parameter set for the serving cell,

wherein the PHR comprises a single PH,

wherein calculating the PH comprises calculating a virtual PH in response to no UL transmission on any UL carrier from the plurality of UL carriers of the serving cell at a time when the PHR is calculated, and

wherein the virtual PH is based on the default power control parameter set.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the default parameter control parameter set includes one or more of:

an open-loop parameter set, a closed-loop process, and a pathloss RS.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the default power control parameter set corresponds to an UL carrier on which PUCCH is semi-statically configured.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein only a first UL carrier of the plurality of UL carriers is semi-statically configured for PUSCH, wherein the default power control parameter set corresponds to the first UL carrier.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the default power control parameter set corresponds to an UL carrier with Carrier Indicator Field (“

CIF”

) index zero.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein the plurality of UL carriers comprises a supplementary uplink (“

SUL”

) carrier and a non-supplementary uplink (“

NUL”

) carrier, wherein the default power control parameter set corresponds to the NUL carrier.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the SUL carrier and the NUL carrier are not configured with PUCCH.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the PHR corresponds to one or more of:

a PUSCH PHR, a PUCCH PHR, and an SRS PHR.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the configuration of the plurality of UL carriers for a serving cell comprises receiving configuration of a first number of UL carriers of the plurality of UL carriers, the first number of UL carriers corresponds to a first number of configured and active UL bandwidth parts (BWPs”

) of the serving cell.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining a default power control parameter set for the serving cell,

wherein the PHR comprises a single PH,

wherein calculating the PH comprises calculating a virtual PH in response to no UL transmission on any active bandwidth part (“

BWP”

) from the first number of active UL BWPs of the serving cell at a time when the PHR is prepared, and

wherein the virtual PH is based on the default power control parameter set.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the default power control parameter set corresponds to one of:

a most recent active UL BWP, an initial UL BWP, and a default UL BWP, wherein the default UL BWP is an UL BWP linked to a default downlink (“

DL”

) BWP.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the default power control parameter set corresponds to one of:

a UL BWP having a smallest BWP index, an UL BWP having a smallest numerology, an UL BWP associated with a service type or traffic type, and an UL BWP associated with a modulation and coding scheme table, an UL BWP associated with a channel quality indicator table, an UL BWP associated with a target reliability requirement, or combination thereof.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the PHR comprises a plurality of PH fields, wherein a PH field comprises one or more of a PH, a configured maximum output power, and an UL bandwidth part (“

BWP”

) index.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the PHR comprises a first PH for a first active UL BWP and a second PH for a second active UL BWP, in response to the first active UL BWP and the second active UL BWP being associated with one or more of:

different configured maximum output power, different pathloss references and non-Quasi Co-Located pathloss references, wherein the first active UL BWP is different from the second active UL BWP.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the PHR comprises a PH for a first active UL BWP and a second active UL BWP, wherein the PH is calculated as a difference between the configured UE maximum transmit power of a serving cell and a sum of transmit powers for UL transmissions on the first active UL BWP and the second UL BWP.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

communicating on a first active UL bandwidth part (“

BWP”

) in a serving cell configured with a plurality of UL BWPs;

switching from the first active UL BWP to a second active UL BWP, wherein the first active UL BWP and second active UL BWP share a closed-loop power control (“

CL-PC”

) process; and

selectively resetting the CL-PC process in response to switching BWPs.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein selectively resetting the CL-PC process comprises:

determining a pathloss reference for the first and second BWPs;

carrying-over the CL-PC process in response to the pathloss references being the same values or having a quasi-co-location relationship for the first and second BWPs; and

resetting the CL-PC process in response to the pathloss references not being the same values and not having a quasi-co-location relationship for the first and second BWPs.

20. An apparatus comprising:

a transceiver that receives a configuration of a plurality of uplink (“

UL”

) carriers for a serving cell; and

a processor that;

calculates a power headroom (“

PH”

) for each UL carrier of the plurality of UL carriers on the serving cell; and

transmits a Power Headroom Report (“

PHR”

) based on the calculated PH for the plurality of UL carriers of the serving cell.