Joint Panel Parameter Update for Wireless Carrier Configuration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wireless communication systems face inefficiencies in managing panel or beam configurations across multiple carriers, leading to increased control information overhead, latency, and potential communication interruptions during parameter updates.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a joint panel parameter update method where user equipment (UE) and base stations communicate to identify common or independent panel-related operation parameters across a set of carriers, allowing for simultaneous updates through a single message, reducing overhead and latency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If separate parameter updates are performed for each carrier, then each carrier can be updated independently, but control information overhead increases and latency increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveindependent parameter update capabilityVSAvoidupdate latency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple separate parameter update messages into a single joint parameter update message that simultaneously updates parameters across multiple carriers. This merging approach reduces the total number of messages exchanged, thereby reducing control information overhead and update latency while maintaining the ability to update parameters independently for each carrier through separate update indications within the joint message.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If separate parameter updates are performed for each carrier, then each carrier can be updated independently, but control information overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveindependent parameter update capabilityVSAvoidcontrol information overhead

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple separate parameter update messages into a single joint parameter update message that contains update indications for multiple carriers. This consolidation reduces the total volume of control information transmitted while preserving the ability to independently update parameters for each carrier through carrier-specific update indications within the unified message structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Productivity

If sequential parameter updates are performed across carriers, then parameter updates can be completed, but communication interruptions increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveparameter update completionVSAvoidcommunication continuity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges parameter update operations across multiple carriers into a single simultaneous update process triggered by one joint parameter update message. This approach eliminates sequential updates that cause repeated communication interruptions, thereby improving communication continuity and reliability while maintaining complete parameter update functionality across all carriers.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11831384B2Joint panel parameter update

Publication Date: 2023.11.28 QUALCOMM INC

AI summary

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit information identifying a panel or beam configuration associated with a set of carriers. The UE may communicate with a base station in accordance with the panel or beam configuration associated with the set of carriers. Numerous other aspects are described.