US 11,937,288 B2
Base station selection of UE uplink configuration
Nishant Patel, Irvine, CA (US)
Assigned to T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed by T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/494,637.
Prior Publication US 2023/0106410 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 72/542 (2023.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/542 (2023.01) [H04B 7/0632 (2013.01); H04W 72/20 (2023.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a base station of a telecommunication network, a user equipment (UE) report from a UE, wherein the UE report includes a radio condition metric and a position of the UE relative to the base station;
determining, by the base station, the radio condition metric and the position indicated by the UE report;
determining, by the base station, that the radio condition metric and the position indicated by the UE report satisfy a two-layer uplink criteria for the UE to use a two-layer uplink configuration instead of an uplink carrier aggregation (CA) configuration for uplink transmissions to the base station;
determining, by the base station, that the UE is currently using the uplink CA configuration; and
instructing, by the base station, the UE to switch from using the uplink CA configuration to using the two-layer uplink configuration for the uplink transmissions.