US-20260129655-A1 - SKIPPING MEASUREMENT GAPS

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Abstract

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive downlink control information comprising a first indication of whether the UE is to skip a first measurement gap and a second indication of whether the UE is to skip a second measurement gap. The UE may selectively skip the first measurement gap based at least in part on the first indication in the downlink control information. The UE may selectively skip the second measurement gap based at least in part on the second indication in the downlink control information. Numerous other aspects are described.

Inventors

Hyun Yong Lee
Linhai He
Huilin Xu
Prashanth Haridas Hande
Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap
Prashant Sharma
Jae Ho Ryu
Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi
Diana Maamari

Assignees

QUALCOMM INCORPORATED

Dates

Publication Date: 20260507
Application Date: 20251023

Claims (20)

1 . A user equipment (UE), comprising: a processing system that includes one or more processors and one or more code-storing memories coupled with the one or more processors, the processing system configured to cause the UE to: receive downlink control information comprising a first indication of whether the UE is to skip a first measurement gap and a second indication of whether the UE is to skip a second measurement gap; selectively skip the first measurement gap based at least in part on the first indication in the downlink control information; and selectively skip the second measurement gap based at least in part on the second indication in the downlink control information.
2 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the processing system is configured to cause the UE to: receive signaling configuring a quantity of indications within the downlink control information that indicate whether the UE is to skip measurement gaps, wherein the processing system is configured to cause the UE to receive the downlink control information based at least in part on receiving the signaling.
3 . The UE of claim 2 , wherein the configured quantity of indications within the downlink control information is one or more.
4 . The UE of claim 2 , wherein the signaling comprises radio resource control signaling.
5 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein: the downlink control information comprises a first bit corresponding to the first indication; and the downlink control information comprises a second bit corresponding to the second indication.
6 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the downlink control information is scheduling downlink control information that does not comprise physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or physical uplink shared channel grant information.
7 . The UE of claim 6 , wherein the scheduling downlink control information comprises: a first field configured to carry scheduling information, the first field comprising an invalid value indicative of the scheduling downlink control information not comprising the physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or the physical uplink shared channel grant information; a second field configured to carry scheduling information, the second field comprising a predefined value indicative of the scheduling downlink control information not comprising the physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or the physical uplink shared channel grant information; or a third field configured to carry an indication of whether the scheduling downlink control information comprises the physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or the physical uplink shared channel grant information, the third field comprising a value indicative of the scheduling downlink control information not comprising the physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or the physical uplink shared channel grant information.
8 . The UE of claim 6 , wherein the processing system is configured to cause the UE to: refrain from transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission associated with the scheduling downlink control information, based at least in part on the scheduling downlink control information not comprising the physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or the physical uplink shared channel grant information.
9 . The UE of claim 6 , wherein the processing system is configured to cause the UE to: refrain from restarting a discontinuous reception timer responsive to receiving the scheduling downlink control information, based at least in part on the scheduling downlink control information not comprising the physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or the physical uplink shared channel grant information.
10 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein: to selectively skip the first measurement gap, the processing system is configured to cause the UE to: skip the first measurement gap in response to the first indication indicating for the UE to skip the first measurement gap, or measure a neighbor cell signal strength during the first measurement gap in response to the first indication indicating for the UE to not skip the first measurement gap; and to selectively skip the second measurement gap, the processing system is configured to cause the UE to: skip the second measurement gap in response to the second indication indicating for the UE to skip the second measurement gap, or measure the neighbor cell signal strength during the second measurement gap in response to the second indication indicating for the UE to not skip the second measurement gap.
11 . The UE of claim 1 , wherein the first measurement gap and the second measurement gap correspond to a next two scheduled occurrences of measurement gaps.
12 . A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving downlink control information comprising a first indication of whether the UE is to skip a first measurement gap and a second indication of whether the UE is to skip a second measurement gap; selectively skipping the first measurement gap based at least in part on the first indication in the downlink control information; and selectively skipping the second measurement gap based at least in part on the second indication in the downlink control information.
13 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising: receiving signaling configuring a quantity of indications within the downlink control information that indicate whether the UE is to skip measurement gaps, wherein receiving the downlink control information is based at least in part on receiving the signaling.
14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the configured quantity of indications within the downlink control information is one or more.
15 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the signaling comprises radio resource control signaling.
16 . The method of claim 12 , wherein: the downlink control information comprises a first bit corresponding to the first indication; and the downlink control information comprises a second bit corresponding to the second indication.
17 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the downlink control information is scheduling downlink control information that does not comprise physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or physical uplink shared channel grant information.
18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the scheduling downlink control information comprises: a first field configured to carry scheduling information, the first field comprising an invalid value indicative of the scheduling downlink control information not comprising the physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or the physical uplink shared channel grant information; a second field configured to carry scheduling information, the second field comprising a predefined value indicative of the scheduling downlink control information not comprising the physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or the physical uplink shared channel grant information; or a third field configured to carry an indication of whether the scheduling downlink control information comprises the physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or the physical uplink shared channel grant information, the third field comprising a value indicative of the scheduling downlink control information not comprising the physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or the physical uplink shared channel grant information.
19 . The method of claim 17 , further comprising: refraining from transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission associated with the scheduling downlink control information, based at least in part on the scheduling downlink control information not comprising the physical downlink shared channel scheduling information or the physical uplink shared channel grant information.
20 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions for wireless communication, the set of instructions comprising: one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), cause the UE to: receive downlink control information comprising a first indication of whether the UE is to skip a first measurement gap and a second indication of whether the UE is to skip a second measurement gap; selectively skip the first measurement gap based at least in part on the first indication in the downlink control information; and selectively skip the second measurement gap based at least in part on the second indication in the downlink control information.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This Patent Application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/717,744, filed on Nov. 7, 2024, entitled “SKIPPING MEASUREMENT GAPS,” and assigned to the assignee hereof. The disclosure of the prior Application is considered part of and is incorporated by reference into this Patent Application. FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication and specifically relate to techniques, apparatuses, and methods associated with skipping measurement gaps. BACKGROUND Wireless communication systems are widely deployed to provide various services, which may involve carrying or supporting voice, text, other messaging, video, data, and/or other traffic. Typical wireless communication systems may employ multiple-access radio access technologies (RATs) capable of supporting communication among multiple wireless communication devices including user devices or other devices by sharing the available system resources (for example, time domain resources, frequency domain resources, spatial domain resources, and/or device transmit power, among other examples). Such multiple-access RATs are supported by technological advancements that have been adopted in various telecommunication standards, which define common protocols that enable different wireless communication devices to communicate on a local, municipal, national, regional, or global level. An example telecommunication standard is New Radio (NR). NR, which may also be referred to as 5G, is part of a continuous mobile broadband evolution promulgated by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). NR (and other RATs beyond NR) may be designed to better support enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) access, Internet of things (IoT) networks or reduced capability device deployments, and ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) applications. To support these verticals, NR systems may be designed to implement a modularized functional infrastructure, a disaggregated and service-based network architecture, network function virtualization, network slicing, multi-access edge computing, millimeter wave (mmWave) technologies including massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), licensed and unlicensed spectrum access, non-terrestrial network (NTN) deployments, sidelink and other device-to-device direct communication technologies (for example, cellular vehicle-to-everything (CV2X) communication), multiple-subscriber implementations, high-precision positioning, and/or radio frequency (RF) sensing, among other examples. As the demand for connectivity continues to increase, further improvements in NR may be implemented, and other RATs, such as 6G and beyond, may be introduced to enable new applications and facilitate new use cases. SUMMARY Some aspects described herein relate to a method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE). The method may include receiving downlink control information (DCI) comprising a first indication of whether the UE is to skip a first measurement gap and a second indication of whether the UE is to skip a second measurement gap. The method may include selectively skipping the first measurement gap based at least in part on the first indication in the DCI. The method may include selectively skipping the second measurement gap based at least in part on the second indication in the DCI. Some aspects described herein relate to a method of wireless communication performed by a UE. The method may include receiving signaling indicating a pattern of valid measurement gap occurrences and skipped measurement gap occurrences. The method may include measuring a neighbor cell signal strength during the valid measurement gap occurrences indicated by the pattern. The method may include skipping measurement gaps that correspond to the skipped measurement gap occurrences indicated by the pattern. Some aspects described herein relate to a method of wireless communication performed by a UE. The method may include receiving signaling indicating for the UE to skip measurement gaps that overlap in a time domain with a discontinuous reception (DRX) active duration of the UE. The method may include identifying one or more measurement gaps that overlap in the time domain with the DRX active duration of the UE. The method may include skipping the one or more measurement gaps based at least in part on the one or more measurement gaps overlapping in the time domain with the DRX active duration of the UE. Some aspects described herein relate to a method of wireless communication performed by a UE. The method may include receiving DCI comprising an indication of whether the UE is to skip a measurement gap corresponding to a next measurement gap occurrence that overlaps in time with a DRX active duration of the UE. The method may include switching from a DRX active state to a DRX inactive state for a DRX inactive duration, wherein the DRX inactive durati