DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION (DRX) ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUES FOR DUAL-CONNECTIVITY ARCHITECTURES

摘要

Discontinuous reception (DRX) alignment techniques for dual-connectivity architectures are described. In one embodiment, for example, user equipment (UE) may comprise one or more radio frequency (RF) transceivers, one or more RF antennas, and logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a radio resource control (RRC) configuration information message containing a small cell RRC configuration information element (IE), the small cell RRC configuration IE to contain a small cell discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration IE comprising one or more inter-cell-coordinated small cell DRX parameters, the logic to determine a start time for a small cell DRX cycle based on at least one of the one or more inter-cell-coordinated small cell DRX parameters and initiate the small cell DRX cycle at the determined start time. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

主权项

1. An apparatus, comprising:
a memory; and logic, at least a portion of which is implemented in circuitry coupled to the memory, the logic to:
determine, based on a received message, a system frame number (SFN) and a subframe number, the SFN and the subframe number associated with a system timing of a secondary evolved node B (SeNB) for dually-connected user equipment (UE);based on the SFN and the subframe number, select one or more master cell group (MCG) discontinuous reception (DRX) parameters to at least partially align MCG DRX operations of the dually-connected UE with secondary cell group (SCG) DRX operations of the dually-connected UE; andgenerate a radio resource control (RRC) message for transmission to the dually-connected UE, the RRC message to identify the one or more MCG DRX parameters.