Mode-Specific Power Headroom Reporting for Full-Duplex Communications

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wireless communication systems struggle with reporting power headroom information accurately for full-duplex communications, leading to suboptimal network adjustments and performance issues.

Innovation Solution

Implementing schemes for power headroom reporting that differentiate between half-duplex and full-duplex communications, ensuring accurate and reliable power headroom information is provided to the network entity, allowing for optimized parameter adjustments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If power headroom reporting is implemented for full-duplex communications, then network performance and channel usage efficiency are improved, but device complexity and configuration requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechannel usage efficiencyVSAvoidreporting configuration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The power headroom report is segmented into different types: first power headroom report for full-duplex communications and second power headroom report for half-duplex communications. This segmentation allows the system to handle different communication modes separately, improving channel usage efficiency while maintaining manageable complexity through structured reporting categories.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically switches between different power headroom reporting modes based on the communication type. The apparatus determines whether to send full-duplex or half-duplex power headroom reports based on the actual communication mode, enabling adaptive reporting that optimizes performance without requiring permanent complex configurations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Measurement precision

If differentiated power headroom reporting is implemented for full-duplex and half-duplex communications, then measurement precision and network optimization are improved, but loss of information and processing overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepower headroom information accuracyVSAvoidprocessing overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The power headroom information is segmented into distinct reports based on communication mode. The first power headroom report contains full-duplex specific parameters while the second contains half-duplex parameters. This segmentation improves measurement precision by ensuring the right data is collected for each mode while minimizing processing overhead through targeted data collection rather than comprehensive reporting for all modes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Each power headroom report is tailored to the specific communication mode with appropriate local parameters. The full-duplex report includes parameters relevant to simultaneous transmission while the half-duplex report includes parameters for sequential transmission. This local quality approach ensures accurate measurement for each mode without requiring processing of irrelevant information, reducing overall processing overhead.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20250286695A1Power headroom reporting for duplex communications
Publication Date: 2025.09.11 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for power headroom reporting for duplex communications. A method for wireless communications by an apparatus includes obtaining a configuration that indicates one or more parameters for power headroom reporting, wherein the one or more parameters include an indication to enable reporting of at least first information associated with full-duplex communications; and sending a first power headroom report that comprises the first information associated with full-duplex communications.