US 11,882,457 B2
Baseband processing capability handling in split deployment
Ioanna Pappa, Stockholm (SE); Matteo Fiorani, Solna (SE); Paulson Angelo Vijay Silveris, Stockholm (SE); and Tao Cui, Upplands Väsby (SE)
Assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/289,808
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Oct. 25, 2019, PCT No. PCT/SE2019/051056
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 29, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/091657, PCT Pub. Date May 7, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/754,914, filed on Nov. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0400495 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 16/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 16/02 (2013.01) [H04W 76/15 (2018.02)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a distributed unit of a base station for adding the base station as a secondary base station to a wireless device connected to a master base station, the method comprising:
receiving, from a central unit of the base station, an indication of one or more band combinations, each band combination having one or more associated feature sets;
selecting a band combination from the one or more band combinations;
selecting a feature set from the one or more associated feature sets of the selected band combination, in dependence on baseband processing capabilities of the base station; and
informing, the central unit of said base station, of:
a band combination index indicative of said selected band combination; and
a feature set index indicative of said selected feature set.