UE Decoding Configuration for Multi-Node Control Resources

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional overbooking handling techniques in wireless communications systems are inefficient and ineffective, leading to communication loss and resource wastage when user equipment (UE) exceeds its decoding limit while receiving control information from multiple transceiver nodes, as they prioritize control resources based on IDs without ensuring balanced decoding across associated transceiver nodes.

Innovation Solution

The UE identifies and selects a decoding configuration based on its decoding limit, using identifiers for control resources and transceiver nodes to efficiently decode control signals from multiple transceiver nodes by allocating decoding limits and configuring resource IDs to ensure balanced resource utilization across associated nodes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the UE receives control resources from multiple transceiver nodes, then the communication coverage and connectivity are improved, but the decoding complexity and resource utilization exceed the UE's decoding limit

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication coverageVSAvoiddecoding complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the control resources from multiple transceiver nodes into separate groups, each associated with a specific transceiver node. The UE identifies and separates control resources by transceiver node, allowing independent decoding configuration for each node. This segmentation enables the UE to manage decoding complexity by handling each transceiver node's control resources separately rather than as a single large set.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by configuring different decoding parameters and resource allocation strategies for different transceiver nodes based on their individual characteristics and the UE's local decoding capabilities. Each transceiver node receives customized resource configuration within the UE's decoding limit, optimizing resource utilization locally for each node rather than applying a uniform approach.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Ease of manufacture

If conventional overbooking handling techniques are used, then resource allocation is simplified, but communication reliability deteriorates due to loss of control information

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource allocation simplicityVSAvoidcommunication reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the UE monitors decoding success and control information reception from each transceiver node. Based on this feedback, the UE and network can dynamically adjust resource allocation and decoding configurations to ensure reliable communication. The system uses feedback to identify when control information is lost and adjusts configurations to prevent future losses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-configuring multiple control resources for each transceiver node before communication begins. The network proactively allocates sufficient control resources and establishes decoding configurations that anticipate potential overbooking scenarios, ensuring reliability is maintained before problems occur rather than reacting after communication loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Speed

If control resources are allocated without considering transceiver node association, then resource allocation is faster, but resource utilization efficiency decreases due to unbalanced decoding

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource allocation speedVSAvoidresource utilization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments control resources by their associated transceiver node, creating distinct groups for each node. This segmentation enables efficient identification and allocation of resources specific to each transceiver node, maintaining fast allocation while ensuring balanced utilization across nodes. The UE can quickly identify which resources belong to which node without complex cross-node analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by tailoring resource allocation and decoding configuration to each specific transceiver node's characteristics and the UE's local decoding capacity. Each transceiver node receives an appropriate share of control resources based on its importance, signal quality, and the UE's ability to decode from that node, optimizing overall resource utilization efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP3827431B1Overbooking handling for multiple transceiver nodes
Publication Date: 2022.08.31 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a first plurality of control resources associated with a first transceiver node and a second plurality of control resources associated with a second transceiver node. The UE may select, based at least in part on a decoding limit for the UE, a decoding configuration to use for decoding one or more control resources from the first plurality of control resources and one or more resources from the second plurality of control resources. The UE may decode control signals received over control resources from the first plurality of control resources and the second plurality of control resources according to the decoding configuration.