US 12,075,500 B2
Virtual carrier and virtual connection aggregation
Zhengwei Gong, Ottawa (CA); Amine Maaref, Ottawa (CA); Mohammadhadi Baligh, Ottawa (CA); and Hamidreza Farmanbar, Ottawa (CA)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Nov. 11, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/679,616.
Application 16/679,616 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2018/086714, filed on May 14, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/506,462, filed on May 15, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0112959 A1, Apr. 9, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04L 1/1812 (2023.01); H04L 1/1822 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 80/02 (2009.01); H04W 80/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) [H04L 1/1819 (2013.01); H04L 5/0092 (2013.01); H04L 5/0094 (2013.01); H04L 27/2602 (2013.01); H04L 27/2607 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02); H04W 80/02 (2013.01); H04W 80/08 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for receiving data, the method comprising:
receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from a cell associated with a same physical cell ID (PCI), a first data stream over a physical component carrier and a second data stream over a virtual component carrier using a carrier aggregation scheme,
wherein the physical component carrier and the virtual component carrier have a same carrier frequency and a same carrier bandwidth, the physical component carrier and the virtual component carrier belong to a same component carrier group and are assigned different carrier indices, carrier aggregation of the physical component carrier and the virtual component carrier is achieved by the physical component carrier and the virtual component carrier having the same PCI and by the physical component carrier and the virtual component carrier being associated with at least one common sublayer of a common media access control (MAC) sublayer of the UE, a common radio link control (RLC) sublayer of the UE, or a common packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) sublayer of the UE.