System and methods for enhancing coexistence efficiency for multi-radio terminals

摘要

A method of scheduling transmitting and receiving communication slots for co-located radio devices is provided. A Bluetooth (BT) device first synchronizes its communication time slots with a co-located radio module, and then obtains the traffic pattern of the co-located radio module. Based on the traffic pattern, the BT device selectively skips one or more TX or RX time slots to avoid data transmission or reception in certain time slots and thereby reducing interference with the co-located radio module. In addition, the BT device generates a co-located coexistence (CLC) bitmap and transmits the CLC bitmap to its peer BT device such that the peer BT device can also skip data transmission or reception in certain time slots affected by the co-located radio module. The skipped time slots are disabled for TX or RX operation to prevent interference and to achieve more energy saving.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
obtaining traffic pattern information of a first plurality of communication slots of a first radio module; scheduling a second plurality of communication slots for transmitting (TX) or receiving (RX) operation of a second radio module, wherein the second radio module and the first radio module are co-located within a wireless communication device; and selectively skipping one or more communication slots from the second plurality of communication slots based at least in part on the traffic pattern information, wherein the skipped slots are disabled for TX or RX operation, and wherein the selectively skipping improves scheduling efficiency of the second plurality of communication slots.