TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE RADIO FREQUENCY CHAINS

摘要

Various embodiments may be generally directed to techniques for configuring a secondary RF chain of a mobile device—in particular, a secondary receiver chain—to perform wireless network measurements when the secondary RF chain is not used for data communications. Various embodiments provide for a primary RF chain to provide data communications with a wireless network and for the secondary RF chain to be capable of providing aggregated data communications with the wireless network. Various embodiments provide for the mobile device to determine that the wireless network does not support carrier aggregation and to reconfigure the secondary receiver chain, which would otherwise be left unused or inactive, to perform wireless network measurements. System throughout can be improved in comparison to using the primary RF chain for performing the wireless network measurements.

主权项

1. User equipment (UE), comprising:
a primary radio frequency (RF) chain; a secondary RF chain including a secondary receiver chain; and logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, to manage wireless data communications using the primary RF chain and to perform wireless network measurements using the secondary receiver chain.