US 12,294,552 B2
Method and device for providing resource status information
Pablo Soldati, Solna (SE); and Angelo Centonza, Granada (ES)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/764,719
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Oct. 2, 2020, PCT No. PCT/SE2020/050936
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 29, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/066729, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/910,000, filed on Oct. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/910,022, filed on Oct. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0020284 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 5/0091 (2013.01) 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, performed by a first network node, for providing resource status information to a second network node, wherein the first network node controls a radio cell comprising a plurality of partitions, the method comprising:
determining a resource status information based on a ratio between a resource status associated to the radio cell and a resource status associated to at least one partition of the radio cell, wherein the at least one cell partition comprises at least one of a coverage area of reference signal beams and a bandwidth part of an uplink or downlink band;
transmitting, to the second network node, a resource status update message comprising at least one information element comprising the determined resource status information.