Opportunistic carrier aggregation using short range extension carriers
First Claim
1. An apparatus of a dual-mode base station, the apparatus comprising:
- a memory; and
processing circuitry in communication with the memory, the processing circuitry arranged to;
configure a primary cell (PCell) to communicate in a licensed band; and
configure a secondary cell (SCell) to communicate over a plurality of extension carriers to support carrier aggregation with the PCell;
configure a short range extension carrier to provide the SCell;
provide cross carrier scheduling of the short range extension carrier;
control activation and deactivation of the short range extension carrier;
obtain one or more network measurements; and
offload data from the PCell to the SCell in response to a determination made by the PCell based on the one or more network measurements.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for providing opportunistic carrier aggregation to short range or low power extension carriers are generally disclosed herein. One embodiment includes data traffic offload techniques to offload data communicated in a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) from a primary cell to a secondary cell. For example, the primary cell may be provided by a LTE/LTE-A base station operating in licensed spectrum, and the secondary cell may be provided by a low-power extension carrier operating in unlicensed spectrum using a LTE/LTE-A standard. The low-power extension carrier may be activated as needed to offload data transfers from the primary cell, in download-only, upload-only, and time-division LTE (TD-LTE) modes. Configurations involving multimode base stations, multi mode user equipment (UE), relay extension carriers, and remote radio equipment are also described herein, in conjunction with deployment of opportunistic carrier aggregation using extension carriers.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus of a dual-mode base station, the apparatus comprising:
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a memory; and processing circuitry in communication with the memory, the processing circuitry arranged to; configure a primary cell (PCell) to communicate in a licensed band; and configure a secondary cell (SCell) to communicate over a plurality of extension carriers to support carrier aggregation with the PCell; configure a short range extension carrier to provide the SCell; provide cross carrier scheduling of the short range extension carrier; control activation and deactivation of the short range extension carrier; obtain one or more network measurements; and offload data from the PCell to the SCell in response to a determination made by the PCell based on the one or more network measurements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a dual-mode base station, the one or more processors to configure the dual-mode base station to:
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configure a short range extension carrier via an evolved NodeB (eNB), a primary cell (PCell) provided by the eNB and a secondary cell (SCell) provided by the short range extension carrier; activate the short range extension carrier via the eNB; determine whether to offload traffic flow from the PCell to the SCell in response to a determination made by the PCell based on one or more measurements at at least one of the PCell or SCell; in response to a determination to offload the traffic flow, select at least one traffic flow of a user equipment (UE) based on at least one of;
a type of traffic of the at least one traffic flow, the UE, network conditions or a configuration of the SCell; andin response to a determination to offload transmissions from the PCell to the SCell, provide cross carrier scheduling and carrier aggregation in a licensed band and an unlicensed band for the at least one traffic flow of the UE. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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19. An apparatus of a dual-mode base station, the apparatus comprising:
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a memory; and processing circuitry in communication with the memory, the processing circuitry arranged to; configure an evolved NodeB (eNB) to provide a primary cell (PCell); and configure a short range extension carrier to provide a secondary cell (SCell), configure the eNB to; activate and deactivate the short range extension carrier, obtain measurements at at least one of the PCell or SCell and determine whether to offload traffic flow from the PCell to the SCell based on the one or more measurements, select at least one traffic flow of a user equipment (UE) based on at least one of;
a type of traffic of the at least one traffic flow, the UE, network conditions or a configuration of the SCell, andprovide cross carrier scheduling and carrier aggregation in a licensed band and an unlicensed band for the at least one traffic flow of the UE. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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