PHYSICAL LAYER PROCEDURES FOR LTE IN UNLICENSED SPECTRUM

摘要

The disclosure provides for control plane measurements in a wireless device. The wireless device may perform, on signals received over an unlicensed spectrum across multiple sub-frames, radio resource management (RRM) measurements of a cell. The wireless device may identify one or both of a first subset of the RRM measurements associated with a first subset of the sub-frames including opportunistic transmissions (i.e. before the transmission, clear channel assessment, CCA, is carried out) and a second subset of the RRM measurements associated with a second subset of the sub-frames including guaranteed transmissions (i.e. before the transmission, clear channel assessment, CCA, is not carried out). The wireless device may determine one or more RRM measurement values (e.g. RSSI, RSRQ) based on one or both of the first subset of the RRM measurements and the second subset of the RRM measurements. The wireless device may similarly perform radio link management (RLM) measurements and determine RLM measurement values based on the first and second subsets. The wireless device may also use timers (e.g. CCA timer, RLC timer) for uplink transmissions to detect radio link failures, RLFs.