Full Duplex Resource Direction Determination

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wireless communication systems face challenges in efficiently managing available frequency resources and determining communication directions for full duplex operations, particularly in shared spectrum environments, leading to potential interference and suboptimal resource utilization.

Innovation Solution

The method involves a user equipment (UE) receiving indications of available frequency resources and direction information from a base station, determining communication directions based on this information, and communicating accordingly to optimize full duplex operations within the available resources.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the base station senses the spectrum to determine available portions and transmits control messages to indicate these portions, then the system can avoid interfering with other wireless systems, but the resource utilization efficiency decreases due to the additional sensing and signaling overhead

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinterference avoidanceVSAvoidresource utilization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The base station performs spectrum sensing in advance to identify available frequency portions before communication occurs. The LBT procedure is executed preliminarily to detect channel availability, and the base station prepares and transmits control messages indicating the available portions beforehand, allowing UEs to efficiently utilize pre-identified resources without real-time decision delays

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Control messages serve as an intermediary mechanism between the base station's spectrum sensing results and the actual communication process. These messages convey available frequency portions to UEs, enabling coordinated resource usage without direct real-time sensing by each device, thus reducing overall sensing overhead while maintaining interference avoidance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If the base station and UE communicate using available portions of the spectrum identified through LBT, then interference with other wireless systems is minimized, but the communication flexibility and adaptability to dynamic spectrum conditions are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinterference to other systemsVSAvoidcommunication flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adapts to spectrum conditions by continuously performing LBT sensing and updating control messages that indicate available frequency portions. The base station can change which portions are indicated as available based on real-time sensing results, allowing flexible adaptation to dynamic spectrum conditions while maintaining interference avoidance through the LBT framework

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The base station changes the parameters of available frequency portions indicated in control messages based on LBT sensing outcomes. When spectrum conditions change, the base station updates which frequency portions are marked as available, enabling adaptive communication that responds to changing environmental conditions while maintaining protection against interference

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11991677B2Full duplex for available resources
Publication Date: 2024.05.21 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) includes receiving an indication of available frequency resources, receiving direction information, and determining one or more communication directions for each of the available frequency resources based on the direction information. The method also includes communicating with a base station using the available frequency resources based on the determined one or more communication directions for each of the available frequency resources.