MULTIPLE CELL MEASUREMENT AND DATA RECEPTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE

摘要

Methods, apparatuses and computer readable media are described that configure wireless circuitry of a wireless communication device connected to a wireless network. Processing circuitry in the wireless communication device establishes a connection to a access network subsystem of the wireless network using a plurality of radio frequency carriers and provides an indication of wireless circuitry included therein. The wireless network provides a measurement gap configuration, and the wireless communication device suspends communication on at least one carrier and measures signals from one or more additional access network subsystems during a measurement gap time period. The wireless communication device provides a measurement report to the access network subsystem based at least in part on measured signals. In an embodiment, the wireless communication device also receives downlink communication from the wireless network during at least a portion of the measurement gap time period.

主权项

1. A method to configure wireless circuitry, during one or more measurement gap time periods, in a wireless communication device connected to a long term evolution (LTE) wireless network, the method comprising:
establish a connection that uses a plurality of carriers simultaneously for carrier aggregation between the wireless communication device and an access network subsystem of the LTE wireless network; provide an indication of a number of parallel radio frequency receive signal chains included in wireless circuitry of the wireless communication device to the access network subsystem of the LTE wireless network; obtain a measurement gap configuration from the access network subsystem of the LTE wireless network; when the measurement gap configuration indicates at least one carrier in the plurality of carriers is usable for downlink communication from the access network subsystem of the LTE wireless network during the one or more measurement gap time periods:
suspend communication on one or more carriers in the plurality of carriers to measure a set of signals from at least one additional access network subsystem using at least a first receive signal chain in the wireless circuitry of the wireless communication device during at least a portion of the one or more measurement gap time periods; andreceive at least a portion of a downlink communication from the network subsystem of the LTE wireless network using at least a second receive signal chain in the wireless circuitry of the wireless communication device during the at least a portion of the one or more measurement gap time periods; and provide one or more measurement reports to the access network subsystem of the LTE wireless network based at least in part on the set of signals received from the at least one additional access network subsystem.