CN-122029897-A - Management of uplink/downlink transmissions

Abstract

Certain examples provide an apparatus (10, 100) comprising means (11, 15) for receiving information (302) from a network node (120) indicative of one or more resources (303), the one or more resources (303) for the apparatus to send a request (306) to suspend at least one activity for a period of time (309), wherein the at least one activity comprises at least one of at least one receive Rx procedure, at least one transmit Tx procedure, or a monitor control channel, means (11) for determining whether to request suspension of the at least one activity for the period of time based at least in part on an energy state of the apparatus, means (11, 15) for sending the request to the network node via the one or more resources in response to determining to request suspension of the at least one activity for the period of time, and means (11) for suspending the at least one activity for the period of time in response to the determination.

Inventors

• N. Hadilamani
• M. Tayab
• M. M. Bart
• N. Mangalvedeh

Assignees

• 诺基亚技术有限公司

Dates

Publication Date

20260512

Application Date

20240917

Priority Date

20231019

Claims (15)

1. 1. An apparatus, comprising: means for receiving information from a network node indicating one or more resources for the apparatus to send a request to suspend at least one activity for a period of time, wherein the at least one activity comprises at least one of: at least one receive Rx process; at least one transmission Tx procedure, or Monitoring a control channel; Means for determining whether to request suspension of the at least one activity for the period of time based at least in part on an energy state of the apparatus; means for sending a request to the network node via the one or more resources in response, at least in part, to determining that the request suspends the at least one activity for the period of time, and Means for suspending the at least one activity for the period of time at least partially in response to the determination.
2. 2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein determining whether to request to pause the at least one activity for the period of time based at least in part on an energy state of the apparatus comprises determining whether one or more criteria are met, and wherein the one or more criteria are based at least in part on at least one of: whether the device has sufficient energy to complete the at least one activity; An amount of energy stored at the device; a rate of energy harvesting at the device; An estimate of the energy and/or power available to the device, or Whether the device needs to pause the at least one activity during the period of time in order to collect energy during the period of time.
3. 3. The apparatus of any preceding claim, further comprising: Means for transitioning to or remaining in an energy harvesting mode at least partially in response to the determination, and/or Means for harvesting energy during said period of time.
4. 4. The apparatus of any preceding claim, wherein the at least one activity comprises at least one of: hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, processes; HARQ Rx, or HARQ Tx。
5. 5. The apparatus of any preceding claim, wherein the request to pause the at least one activity for a period of time is a request to pause the at least one activity during at least one of: An HARQ process; UL session, or DL session.
6. 6. The apparatus of any preceding claim, wherein the time period is at least one of: Preconfigured, or Indicated by the network node.
7. 7. The apparatus of any preceding claim, further comprising means for receiving information indicative of one or more threshold parameter values for enabling the apparatus to determine whether to send the request, and Wherein the determining is based at least in part on the one or more threshold parameter values.
8. 8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the one or more threshold parameter values comprise at least one of: An indication of the amount of data to be transmitted by the device; an indication of an estimate of data to be received by the device, or An indication of the number of requests allowed within a time period.
9. 9. The apparatus of any preceding claim, further comprising means for resuming the at least one activity at least partially in response to determining at least one of: the time period has expired; Before the expiration of the time period, the device has sufficient energy to complete the at least one activity, or Before the expiration of the time period, an estimated amount of energy and/or power available to the device exceeds a threshold amount.
10. 10. The apparatus of any preceding claim, further comprising means for sending a request to a network node via the one or more resources to change a radio resource control state of the apparatus.
11. 11. The apparatus of any preceding claim, further comprising means for sending information to the network node indicating a request to resume the at least one activity.
12. 12. The apparatus of any preceding claim, further comprising: means for determining whether the apparatus has been released from an RRC connected state, wherein the determining is based at least in part on determining that a request to resume the at least one activity has not been sent by the apparatus to a network node within the period of time.
13. 13. The apparatus of any preceding claim, further comprising: Means for receiving information from the network node indicating that the apparatus has been released from an RRC connected state, wherein the information is received at least in part in response to the apparatus not sending a request to the network node to resume the at least one activity within the period of time.
14. 14. The device of any preceding claim, wherein the device is at least one of: a user equipment UE; An energy harvesting EH device; a reduced capability RedCap device; IoT (Internet of things) devices or Environmental internet of things AIoT equipment.
15. 15. An apparatus, comprising: Means for transmitting information to a user equipment, UE, indicating one or more resources for the UE to transmit a request to suspend at least one activity for a period of time, wherein the at least one activity comprises at least one of: at least one receive Rx process; at least one transmission Tx procedure, or Scheduling a control channel; Means for receiving the request from the UE via the one or more resources, and Means for suspending the at least one activity for the period of time at least partially in response to the received request.

Description

Management of uplink/downlink transmissions Technical Field Examples of the present disclosure relate to managing uplink UL and/or downlink DL transmissions. Various examples provide an apparatus, method, system, and computer program for managing UL and/or DL transmission sessions. Some examples (although not affecting the foregoing) relate to enabling an energy harvesting EH device to temporarily suspend a hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, process. Background Conventional systems for managing UL and/or DL transmissions, such as conventional HARQ processes, are not always optimal. In some cases, it can be desirable to improve management of UL and/or DL transmissions. In some cases, it can be desirable to improve spectrum usage efficiency for UL and/or DL transmission sessions and avoid redundant transmissions. In some cases, it can be desirable to reduce the risk of radio link failure, RLF, during UL and/or DL transmission sessions. In some cases, it can be desirable to reduce the energy consumption and the risk of energy exhaustion of the UE during UL and/or DL transmission sessions. Any previously disclosed document or any background listed or discussed in this specification should not necessarily be construed as an admission that the document or background is part of the prior art or is common general knowledge. One or more aspects/examples of the present disclosure may or may not relate to one or more of the background issues. Disclosure of Invention The scope of protection sought for the various embodiments of the invention is as set forth in the claims below. According to various, but not all, examples of the present disclosure, examples are provided as set forth in the following claims. Any examples and features described in this specification that do not fall within the scope of the independent claims should be construed as examples to facilitate an understanding of the various embodiments of the invention. According to at least some examples of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus comprising: means for receiving information from a network node indicating one or more resources for an apparatus to send a request to suspend at least one activity for a period of time, wherein the at least one activity comprises at least one of: at least one receive Rx process; at least one transmission Tx procedure, or Monitoring a control channel; means for determining whether to request suspension of at least one activity for a period of time based at least in part on an energy state of the apparatus; Means for sending a request to a network node via one or more resources at least partially in response to a determination that the request suspends at least one activity for a period of time, and Means for suspending at least one activity for a period of time at least partially in response to the determination. According to various, but not all, examples of the present disclosure, there is provided a method comprising: At the apparatus, information is received from a network node indicating one or more resources for the apparatus to send a request to suspend at least one activity for a period of time, wherein the at least one activity comprises at least one of: at least one receive Rx process; at least one transmission Tx procedure, or Monitoring a control channel; At the device, determining whether to request to suspend at least one activity for a period of time based at least in part on an energy state of the device; Responsive at least in part to determining that the request suspends at least one activity for a period of time, transmitting a request from the apparatus to the network node via one or more resources, and At the apparatus, at least one activity is paused for a period of time in response, at least in part, to the determination. According to various, but not necessarily all, examples of the disclosure there is provided a chipset comprising processing circuitry configured to perform the above-described methods. According to various, but not necessarily all, examples of the disclosure there is provided a module, circuitry, apparatus and/or system comprising means for performing the above-described methods. According to various, but not necessarily all, examples of the disclosure there is provided a computer program comprising instructions that, when executed by an apparatus, cause the apparatus to perform: Receiving, from a network node, information indicative of one or more resources for a device to send a request to suspend at least one activity for a period of time, wherein the at least one activity comprises at least one of: at least one receive Rx process; at least one transmission Tx procedure, or Monitoring control channel, and Determining whether to request to suspend at least one activity for a period of time based at least in part on an energy state of the device; Responsive at least in part to determining that the request suspends at least one activity for a period of time,