Mobile Station Component Carrier Capability Allocation

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Solution Overview

Problem

In LTE-A communication systems, existing technologies face challenges in allocating wireless resources effectively between mobile station apparatuses and base station apparatuses, leading to difficulties in accommodating various technical elements, reducing circuit complexity, lowering power consumption, and improving productivity while ensuring compatibility and high-speed data transfer.

Innovation Solution

A mobile station apparatus and base station apparatus communication system that allocates wireless resources by transmitting a mobile station CC capability message, allowing the base station to allocate appropriate resources based on the mobile station's capabilities, including support for multiple component carriers and MIMO streams, to achieve efficient high-speed data transfer.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If multiple component carriers and MIMO streams are supported to achieve high-speed data transfer, then data transfer rate is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata transfer rateVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic allocation of component carriers and MIMO streams based on real-time channel conditions and mobile station capabilities. The base station adjusts the number of active CCs and MIMO configurations adaptively, allowing the system to achieve high data transfer rates when conditions permit while reducing complexity when resources are constrained or channels are poor.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes operational parameters such as the number of component carriers, bandwidth allocation, and MIMO stream count based on channel quality indicators and mobile station capability reports. By dynamically adjusting these parameters, the system optimizes the trade-off between data transfer rate and device complexity, achieving high speed only when necessary and appropriate.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If wireless resources are allocated without considering mobile station capabilities, then allocation flexibility is improved, but resource allocation efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveallocation flexibilityVSAvoidresource allocation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary capability assessment where mobile stations report their supported features (number of component carriers, MIMO capabilities, bandwidth support) before resource allocation begins. The base station uses this pre-collected capability information to make informed allocation decisions, ensuring both flexibility in accommodating different device types and efficiency in matching resources to actual capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes a feedback mechanism where mobile stations provide capability information and channel quality reports to the base station. The base station uses this feedback to continuously optimize resource allocation, adjusting the number of component carriers and MIMO streams based on reported capabilities and actual channel conditions, thereby achieving both flexibility and efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Use of energy by moving object

If circuit complexity is reduced to lower power consumption and cost, then power consumption is improved, but compatibility with various LTE-A technical elements deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepower consumptionVSAvoidcompatibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Use of energy by moving objectVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the carrier aggregation functionality into modular components that can be independently activated. The mobile station and base station agree on a specific number of component carriers to use based on capability reports and network conditions. This segmentation allows the system to implement only the necessary level of complexity required for each deployment scenario, reducing power consumption and cost while maintaining compatibility with LTE-A features through selective activation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP3285531B1Mobile station apparatus, base station apparatus, communications control methods and integrated circuits
Publication Date: 2019.12.11 SHARP KK
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AI summary

An ASN coding unit of a mobile station apparatus generates mobile station component carrier capability information including information that defines a component carrier that supported by communication with a base station apparatus. A transceiver device transmits, to the base station apparatus, mobile station component carrier capability information. A control unit controls a communication with a base station apparatus, the control being made by using a component carrier allocated by a base station apparatus, the allocation being made based on mobile station component carrier capability information.