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WO2018144670A1 - Mesures à large bande dans des systèmes de nouvelle radio - Google Patents

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WO2018144670A1
WO2018144670A1 PCT/US2018/016345 US2018016345W WO2018144670A1 WO 2018144670 A1 WO2018144670 A1 WO 2018144670A1 US 2018016345 W US2018016345 W US 2018016345W WO 2018144670 A1 WO2018144670 A1 WO 2018144670A1
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Jie Cui
Yang Tang
Rui Huang
Youn Hyoung Heo
Candy YIU
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  • the implementation to support wide bandwidth on the order of one GHz for all UEs may not be realistic due to potential issues such as the complexity and cost to support such wider bandwidths. It may be more reasonable to allow multiple categories of UEs with differing bandwidth capabilities to be able to operate over a wider band channel while accommodating the different bandwidth capabilities on the network, for example in performing measurements for handover of a UE from a serving cell to a target cell.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram of a user equipment (UE) to perform wideband measurements in a new radio standard in accordance with one or more embodiments;
  • UE user equipment
  • FIG. 2 is a diagram of example bandwidth capabilities of multiple user equipment
  • UE devices within a single new radio channel in accordance with one or more embodiments
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram of a measurement configuration flow to indicated wideband measurement configuration information to a user equipment (UE) and for the UE to conduct measurements on a target cell in accordance with one or more embodiments;
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram of example measurement configuration information provided to a user equipment (UE) in accordance with one or more embodiments;
  • FIG. 5 is a diagram of other example measurement configuration information provided to a user equipment (UE) in accordance with one or more embodiments;
  • FIG. 6 illustrates an architecture of a system of a network in accordance with some embodiments
  • FIG. 7 illustrates example components of a device in accordance with some embodiments.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates example interfaces of baseband circuitry in accordance with some embodiments.
  • a user equipment (UE) 110 device may be connected with a serving cell 112 on a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) network to receive messages and/or data in the downlink 116, and to send messages and/or data to the serving cell 112 in the uplink 118.
  • 5G Fifth Generation
  • NR New Radio
  • UE 110 may receive measurement configuration information from serving cell 112 as a radio resource control (RRC) message in the downlink 116 to configure the UE 110 to perform Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) or Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) measurements on a neighbor or target cell 114, for example via channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) transmitted by the neighbor or target cell 114.
  • RRC radio resource control
  • the measurement configuration information informs the UE 110 the parameters for obtaining measurements for the neighbor or target cell.
  • UE 110 may periodically or aperiodically perform RSRP and/or RSRQ measurements for the neighbor or target cell 114, for example during a measurement gap period, and generate a measurement report for the neighbor or target cell 114.
  • the UE 110 performs measurements on reference signals transmitted by the neighbor or target cell 114 in a downlink 120 channel. After a measurement report is generated, UE 110 may transmit an RRC message in the uplink 118 to serving cell 112. If conditions favor a handover to the neighbor or target cell 114, UE 110 may switch to the neighbor or target cell 114 as its new serving cell, and UE 110 may then transmit messages or data to cell 114 in the uplink 122, and/or may receive messages or data from cellll4 in the downlink after completion of the handover.
  • the channel bandwidth may be at least 100 MHz per NR carrier, and may be as high as 1 GHz. It is expected that different UEs may support different bandwidths ranging from 100 MHz to 1 GHz and may also be present on the network simultaneously.
  • a first UE may have a channel bandwidth of 100 MHz.
  • a second UE may have a channel bandwidth of 1 GHz.
  • a third UE may have a channel bandwidth of 500 MHz.
  • a fourth UE (UE 4) and a fifth UE (UE 5) may have a channel bandwidth of 100 MHz each.
  • the minimum measurement bandwidth or a typical measurement bandwidth, in terms of Hertz or a number of resource blocks (RBs) should be defined for 5G NR systems.
  • the defined minimum measurement bandwidth can be used to specify the related minimum RRM requirements.
  • the system bandwidth is super wide, for example 200 MHz or greater, the operating frequency of a UE potentially may be quite far away from the system center frequency and possibly may be completely independent or one another.
  • the measurement behavior for a UE should be specified, for example all measurements should be conducted on UE's operating frequency.
  • the minimum measurement bandwidth (BW) is X MHz
  • the system BW of one single carrier is Y MHz
  • Y is much larger than X
  • the measurement on the central X MHz may not reflect the real channel condition or signal quality of this carrier whose system BW is 1 GHz.
  • the UE 110 may operate on a band which is not the central minimum measurement band such that the measured channel condition and carrier quality may be quite different from the real operation band of this UE 110.
  • the real operation band is the band where the UE 110 conducts data and/or signaling reception or transmission.
  • signaling from serving cell 112 is provided to indicate the available measurement bandwidth for the UE 110 to perform the measurement on the neighbor or target cell 114.
  • the serving cell 112 may signal the wideband measurement information in a measurement configuration message 310 sent from the serving cell 112 to the UE 110.
  • the measurement configuration message 310 may include the system bandwidth of neighbor or target cell 114 and or the frequency of the neighbor or target cell 114.
  • the measurement configuration message 310 also may include the measurement bandwidth of neighbor or target cell 114 and/or its frequency, and so on.
  • the serving cell sends the measurement configuration message 310 to the UE 110 to indicate the information of the neighbor and/or target cell, for example the absolute frequency of the cell 114, the physical cell identifier (ID), and/or bandwidth information of the neighbor or target cell 114.
  • This bandwidth information of the neighbor or target cell 114 may include but is not limited to target cell system bandwidth and/or measurement bandwidth for the neighbor or target cell 114.
  • the measurement bandwidth for the neighbor or target cell 114 is a reference bandwidth for the UE 110 to perform measurements on the neighbor or target cell 114 and/or its frequency. This measurement bandwidth may be same as the target cell system bandwidth, or the measurement bandwidth may be smaller than the neighbor or target cell 114 system bandwidth.
  • the UE 110 may use the measurement bandwidth for the neighbor or target cell 114 indicated by the serving cell 112 to perform measurements, or the UE may choose another bandwidth to perform measurements.
  • the UE 110 may conduct measurements on the neighbor or target cell 114 at operation 312 on the bandwidth information received from the serving cell 112 in the measurement configuration message.
  • An example of the measurement configuration 310 information is shown in and described with respect to FIG. 4, below.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates the information included in the measurement configuration message 310 of FIG. 3 in one embodiment.
  • An example of the signaling measurement configuration message 310 may be as follows wherein the radio resource control (RRC) information element (IE) MeasObjectNR is provided as part of the measurement configuration message 310.
  • the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable for one or more synchronization signals (SS) and/or physical broadcast channel (PBCH) blocks intra-frequency measurements and/or inter-frequency measurements, or channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) intra-frequency and/or inter-frequency measurements.
  • SS synchronization signals
  • PBCH physical broadcast channel
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signals
  • the Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number is the absolute central frequency 410 of the neighbor or target cell 114 and may have a value of ARFCN- Value NR.
  • the system bandwidth 412 of the target cell 114 or its frequency may have a value of TargetCellBandwidth.
  • the UE wideband measurement 414 for the target cell 114 or its frequency may have a value of WiderMeaB andwidth and is the reference or expected bandwidth for the UE 110 to perform measurements on a wideband target cell 114 and/or its frequency.
  • the UE 110 may perform the measurements on the target cell 114 based on the bandwidth information provided by the serving cell 112 in the measurement configuration message 310.
  • the measurement configuration message 310 sent by the serving cell 112 to the UE 110 may signal measurement band information for the UE to perform measurements on the neighbor or target cell 114.
  • the serving cell 112 may indicate a frequency offset 518 between the central frequency 516 of UE measurement bandwidth 514 and the central frequency of the target cell 114, with or without a measurement bandwidth.
  • the serving cell may indicate an absolute central frequency 516 for the UE measurement bandwidth which may be different from the central frequency of the target cell 114, with or without measurement bandwidth.
  • the UE's band of operation may be not on the central frequency 510 of the system bandwidth 512 of the target cell 114.
  • the serving cell 112 may indicate the real measurement frequency 516 and the UE measurement bandwidth 514 to this UE 110.
  • the measurement configuration message 310 indicates to the UE 110 the frequency offset 518 between the UE measurement frequency 516 and the central frequency 510 of the target cell 112.
  • the UE measurement frequency 516 may be the central frequency of operation for the UE 110.
  • the Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number is the absolute central frequency 510 of the neighbor or target cell 114 and may have a value of ARFCN- Value NR.
  • the UE measurement bandwidth 514 may have a value of MeaBandwidth and is the reference bandwidth used for measurement of the neighbor or target cell 114.
  • the UE 110 may or may not use this bandwidth as the real measurement bandwidth.
  • the difference or frequency offset 518 between the target cell center frequency 510 and the UE central measurement frequency 516 of the UE measurement bandwidth 514 may have a value of MeaFreqOffset as shown for example in FIG. 5.
  • Another approach is to indicate to the UE 110 the absolute frequency for UE measurement bandwidth 516 which may be different from target cell central frequency 510.
  • Signaling of the measurement configuration message 310 in this example may be as follows.
  • the Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number is the absolute central frequency 510 of the neighbor or target cell 114 and may have a value of ARFCN- Value NR.
  • the UE reference measurement bandwidth 516 used for measurement of target cell 114 may have a value of MeaBandwidth.
  • the UE 110 may or may not use this bandwidth as the real measurement bandwidth.
  • the absolute central frequency of the UE measurement bandwidth may be the UE measurement frequency 516 and may have a value of ARFCN-MeaFreq.
  • the UE 110 may tune to this frequency to perform measurements, an example of which is shown in FIG. 5.
  • the measurement configuration message 310 may include the IE MeasObjectNR as specified in 3 GPP Technical Specification (TS) 38.331 Vl.0.0 (2017-12) or later, Section 6.3.2, for example as reproduced, below.
  • TS Technical Specification
  • frequencyOffset refers to the frequency offset MeaFreqOffset 518 discussed herein and shown in FIG. 5.
  • csi-rs-measurementBW-size may refer to the measurement bandwidth 414 of FIG. 4 or the measurement bandwidth 514 of FIG. 5 for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) measurements where the measurement bandwidth may be indicated by the serving cell 112.
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signal
  • FIG. 6 illustrates an architecture of a system of a network in accordance with some embodiments.
  • the system 600 is shown to include a user equipment (UE) 601 and a UE 602.
  • the UEs 601 and 602 are illustrated as smartphones (e.g., handheld touchscreen mobile computing devices connectable to one or more cellular networks), but may also comprise any mobile or non- mobile computing device, such as Personal Data Assistants (PDAs), pagers, laptop computers, desktop computers, wireless handsets, or any computing device including a wireless communications interface.
  • PDAs Personal Data Assistants
  • pagers pagers
  • laptop computers desktop computers
  • wireless handsets wireless handsets
  • any of the UEs 601 and 602 can comprise an Internet of Things (IoT) UE, which can comprise a network access layer designed for low-power IoT applications utilizing short-lived UE connections.
  • An IoT UE can utilize technologies such as machine-to-machine (M2M) or machine-type communications (MTC) for exchanging data with an MTC server or device via a public land mobile network (PLMN), Proximity-Based Service (ProSe) or device-to-device (D2D) communication, sensor networks, or IoT networks.
  • M2M or MTC exchange of data may be a machine-initiated exchange of data.
  • An IoT network describes interconnecting IoT UEs, which may include uniquely identifiable embedded computing devices (within the Internet infrastructure), with short-lived connections.
  • the IoT UEs may execute background applications (e.g., keep-alive messages, status updates, etc.) to facilitate the connections of the IoT network.
  • the UEs 601 and 602 may be configured to connect, e.g., communicatively couple, with a radio access network (RAN) 610—
  • the RAN 610 may be, for example, an Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E- UTRAN), a NextGen RAN (NG RAN), or some other type of RAN.
  • UMTS Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
  • E- UTRAN Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
  • NG RAN NextGen RAN
  • the UEs 601 and 602 utilize connections 603 and 604, respectively, each of which comprises a physical communications interface or layer (discussed in further detail below); in this example, the connections 603 and 604 are illustrated as an air interface to enable communicative coupling, and can be consistent with cellular communications protocols, such as a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) protocol, a code-division multiple access (CDMA) network protocol, a Push-to-Talk (PTT) protocol, a PTT over Cellular (POC) protocol, a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) protocol, a 3 GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) protocol, a fifth generation (5G) protocol, a New Radio (NR) protocol, and the like.
  • GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
  • CDMA code-division multiple access
  • PTT Push-to-Talk
  • POC PTT over Cellular
  • UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • 5G fifth generation
  • NR New Radio
  • the UEs 601 and 602 may further directly exchange communication data via a ProSe interface 605.
  • the ProSe interface 605 may alternatively be referred to as a sidelink interface comprising one or more logical channels, including but not limited to a Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH), a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH), a Physical Sidelink Discovery Channel (PSDCH), and a Physical Sidelink Broadcast Channel (PSBCH).
  • PSCCH Physical Sidelink Control Channel
  • PSSCH Physical Sidelink Shared Channel
  • PSDCH Physical Sidelink Discovery Channel
  • PSBCH Physical Sidelink Broadcast Channel
  • the UE 602 is shown to be configured to access an access point (AP) 606 via connection 607.
  • the connection 607 can comprise a local wireless connection, such as a connection consistent with any IEEE 802.11 protocol, wherein the AP 606 would comprise a wireless fidelity (WiFi®) router.
  • WiFi® wireless fidelity
  • the AP 606 is shown to be connected to the Internet without connecting to the core network of the wireless system (described in further detail below).
  • the RAN 610 can include one or more access nodes that enable the connections 603 and 604. These access nodes (ANs) can be referred to as base stations (BSs), NodeBs, evolved NodeBs (eNBs), next Generation NodeBs (gNB), RAN nodes, and so forth, and can comprise ground stations (e.g., terrestrial access points) or satellite stations providing coverage within a geographic area (e.g., a cell).
  • BSs base stations
  • eNBs evolved NodeBs
  • gNB next Generation NodeBs
  • RAN nodes and so forth, and can comprise ground stations (e.g., terrestrial access points) or satellite stations providing coverage within a geographic area (e.g., a cell).
  • the RAN 610 may include one or more RAN nodes for providing macrocells, e.g., macro RAN node 611, and one or more RAN nodes for providing femtocells or picocells (e.g., cells having smaller coverage areas, smaller user capacity, or higher bandwidth compared to macrocells), e.g., low power (LP) RAN node 612.
  • macro RAN node 611 e.g., macro RAN node 611
  • femtocells or picocells e.g., cells having smaller coverage areas, smaller user capacity, or higher bandwidth compared to macrocells
  • LP low power
  • any of the RAN nodes 611 and 612 can terminate the air interface protocol and can be the first point of contact for the UEs 601 and 602.
  • any of the RAN nodes 611 and 612 can fulfill various logical functions for the RAN 610 including, but not limited to, radio network controller (RNC) functions such as radio bearer management, uplink and downlink dynamic radio resource management and data packet scheduling, and mobility management.
  • RNC radio network controller
  • the UEs 601 and 602 can be configured to communicate using Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication signals with each other or with any of the RAN nodes 611 and 612 over a multicarrier communication channel in accordance various communication techniques, such as, but not limited to, an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) communication technique (e.g., for downlink communications) or a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC- FDMA) communication technique (e.g., for uplink and ProSe or sidelink communications), although the scope of the embodiments is not limited in this respect.
  • OFDM signals can comprise a plurality of orthogonal subcarriers.
  • a downlink resource grid can be used for downlink transmissions from any of the RAN nodes 611 and 612 to the UEs 601 and 602, while uplink transmissions can utilize similar techniques.
  • the grid can be a time-frequency grid, called a resource grid or time-frequency resource grid, which is the physical resource in the downlink in each slot.
  • a time-frequency plane representation is a common practice for OFDM systems, which makes it intuitive for radio resource allocation.
  • Each column and each row of the resource grid corresponds to one OFDM symbol and one OFDM subcarrier, respectively.
  • the duration of the resource grid in the time domain corresponds to one slot in a radio frame.
  • the smallest time- frequency unit in a resource grid is denoted as a resource element.
  • Each resource grid comprises a number of resource blocks, which describe the mapping of certain physical channels to resource elements.
  • Each resource block comprises a collection of resource elements; in the frequency domain, this may represent the smallest quantity of resources that currently can be allocated.
  • the physical downlink shared channel may carry user data and higher- layer signaling to the UEs 601 and 602.
  • the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) may carry information about the transport format and resource allocations related to the PDSCH channel, among other things. It may also inform the UEs 601 and 602 about the transport format, resource allocation, and H-ARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request) information related to the uplink shared channel.
  • downlink scheduling (assigning control and shared channel resource blocks to the UE 102 within a cell) may be performed at any of the RAN nodes 611 and 612 based on channel quality information fed back from any of the UEs 601 and 602.
  • the downlink resource assignment information may be sent on the PDCCH used for (e.g., assigned to) each of the UEs 601 and 602.
  • the PDCCH may use control channel elements (CCEs) to convey the control information.
  • CCEs control channel elements
  • the PDCCH complex-valued symbols may first be organized into quadruplets, which may then be permuted using a sub-block interleaver for rate matching.
  • Each PDCCH may be transmitted using one or more of these CCEs, where each CCE may correspond to nine sets of four physical resource elements known as resource element groups (REGs).
  • RAGs resource element groups
  • QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
  • the PDCCH can be transmitted using one or more CCEs, depending on the size of the downlink control information (DCI) and the channel condition.
  • DCI downlink control information
  • There can be four or more different PDCCH formats defined in LTE with different numbers of CCEs (e.g., aggregation level, L l, 2, 4, or 8).
  • Some embodiments may use concepts for resource allocation for control channel information that are an extension of the above-described concepts.
  • some embodiments may utilize an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) that uses PDSCH resources for control information transmission.
  • the EPDCCH may be transmitted using one or more enhanced the control channel elements (ECCEs). Similar to above, each ECCE may correspond to nine sets of four physical resource elements known as an enhanced resource element groups (EREGs). An ECCE may have other numbers of EREGs in some situations.
  • EPCCH enhanced physical downlink control channel
  • ECCEs enhanced the control channel elements
  • each ECCE may correspond to nine sets of four physical resource elements known as an enhanced resource element groups (EREGs).
  • EREGs enhanced resource element groups
  • An ECCE may have other numbers of EREGs in some situations.
  • the RAN 610 is shown to be communicatively coupled to a core network (CN) 620 — via an SI interface 613.
  • the CN 620 may be an evolved packet core (EPC) network, a NextGen Packet Core (NPC) network, or some other type of CN.
  • EPC evolved packet core
  • NPC NextGen Packet Core
  • the SI interface 613 is split into two parts: the Sl-U interface 614, which carries traffic data between the RAN nodes 611 and 612 and the serving gateway (S-GW) 622, and the Sl-mobility management entity (MME) interface 615, which is a signaling interface between the RAN nodes 611 and 612 and MMEs 621.
  • S-GW serving gateway
  • MME Sl-mobility management entity
  • the CN 620 comprises the MMEs 621, the S-GW 622, the Packet Data Network (PDN) Gateway (P-GW) 623, and a home subscriber server (HSS) 624.
  • the MMEs 621 may be similar in function to the control plane of legacy Serving General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Support Nodes (SGSN).
  • GPRS General Packet Radio Service
  • the MMEs 621 may manage mobility aspects in access such as gateway selection and tracking area list management.
  • the HSS 624 may comprise a database for network users, including subscription-related information to support the network entities' handling of communication sessions.
  • the CN 620 may comprise one or several HSSs
  • the HSS 624 can provide support for routing/roaming, authentication, authorization, naming/addressing resolution, location dependencies, etc.
  • the S-GW 622 may terminate the SI interface 613 towards the RAN 610, and routes data packets between the RAN 610 and the CN 620.
  • the S-GW 622 may be a local mobility anchor point for inter-RAN node handovers and also may provide an anchor for inter-3GPP mobility. Other responsibilities may include lawful intercept, charging, and some policy enforcement.
  • the P-GW 623 may terminate an SGi interface toward a PDN.
  • the P-GW 623 may route data packets between the EPC network 623 and external networks such as a network including the application server 630 (alternatively referred to as application function (AF)) via an Internet Protocol (IP) interface 625.
  • the application server 630 may be an element offering applications that use IP bearer resources with the core network (e.g., UMTS Packet Services (PS) domain, LTE PS data services, etc.).
  • PS UMTS Packet Services
  • LTE PS data services etc.
  • the P-GW 623 is shown to be communicatively coupled to an application server 630 via an IP communications interface
  • the application server 630 can also be configured to support one or more communication services (e.g., Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) sessions, PTT sessions, group communication sessions, social networking services, etc.) for the UEs 601 and 602 via the CN 620.
  • VoIP Voice-over-Internet Protocol
  • PTT sessions PTT sessions
  • group communication sessions social networking services, etc.
  • the P-GW 623 may further be a node for policy enforcement and charging data collection.
  • Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCRF) 626 is the policy and charging control element of the CN 620.
  • PCRF Policy and Charging Enforcement Function
  • HPLMN Home Public Land Mobile Network
  • IP-CAN Internet Protocol Connectivity Access Network
  • HPLMN Home Public Land Mobile Network
  • V-PCRF Visited PCRF
  • VPLMN Visited Public Land Mobile Network
  • the PCRF 626 may be communicatively coupled to the application server 630 via the P-GW 623.
  • the application server 630 may signal the PCRF 626 to indicate a new service flow and select the appropriate Quality of Service (QoS) and charging parameters.
  • the PCRF 626 may provision this rule into a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) (not shown) with the appropriate traffic flow template (TFT) and QoS class of identifier (QCI), which commences the QoS and charging as specified by the application server 630.
  • PCEF Policy and Charging Enforcement Function
  • TFT traffic flow template
  • QCI QoS class of identifier
  • the device 700 may include application circuitry 702, baseband circuitry 704, Radio Frequency (RF) circuitry 706, front-end module (FEM) circuitry 708, one or more antennas 710, and power management circuitry (PMC) 712 coupled together at least as shown.
  • the components of the illustrated device 700 may be included in a UE or a RAN node.
  • the device 700 may include less elements (e.g., a RAN node may not utilize application circuitry 702, and instead include a processor/controller to process IP data received from an EPC).
  • the device 700 may include additional elements such as, for example, memory/storage, display, camera, sensor, or input/output (I/O) interface.
  • the components described below may be included in more than one device (e.g., said circuitries may be separately included in more than one device for Cloud- RAN (C-RAN) implementations).
  • C-RAN Cloud- RAN
  • the application circuitry 702 may include one or more application processors.
  • the application circuitry 702 may include circuitry such as, but not limited to, one or more single-core or multi-core processors.
  • the processor(s) may include any combination of general-purpose processors and dedicated processors (e.g., graphics processors, application processors, etc.).
  • the processors may be coupled with or may include memory/storage and may be configured to execute instructions stored in the memory/storage to enable various applications or operating systems to run on the device 700.
  • processors of application circuitry 702 may process IP data packets received from an EPC.
  • the baseband circuitry 704 may include circuitry such as, but not limited to, one or more single-core or multi-core processors.
  • the baseband circuitry 704 may include one or more baseband processors or control logic to process baseband signals received from a receive signal path of the RF circuitry 706 and to generate baseband signals for a transmit signal path of the RF circuitry 706.
  • Baseband processing circuity 704 may interface with the application circuitry 702 for generation and processing of the baseband signals and for controlling operations of the RF circuitry 706.
  • the baseband circuitry 704 may include a third generation (3G) baseband processor 704 A, a fourth generation (4G) baseband processor 704B, a fifth generation (5G) baseband processor 704C, or other baseband processor(s) 704D for other existing generations, generations in development or to be developed in the future (e.g., second generation (2G), sixth generation (6G), etc.).
  • the baseband circuitry 704 e.g., one or more of baseband processors 704A-D
  • baseband processors 704A-D may be included in modules stored in the memory 704G and executed via a Central Processing Unit (CPU) 704E.
  • the radio control functions may include, but are not limited to, signal modulation/demodulation, encoding/decoding, radio frequency shifting, etc.
  • modulation/demodulation circuitry of the baseband circuitry 704 may include Fast-Fourier Transform (FFT), precoding, or constellation mapping/demapping functionality.
  • encoding/decoding circuitry of the baseband circuitry 704 may include convolution, tail-biting convolution, turbo, Viterbi, or Low- Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder/decoder functionality.
  • LDPC Low- Density Parity Check
  • the baseband circuitry 704 may include one or more audio digital signal processor(s) (DSP) 704F.
  • the audio DSP(s) 704F may be include elements for compression/decompression and echo cancellation and may include other suitable processing elements in other embodiments.
  • Components of the baseband circuitry may be suitably combined in a single chip, a single chipset, or disposed on a same circuit board in some embodiments.
  • some or all of the constituent components of the baseband circuitry 704 and the application circuitry 702 may be implemented together such as, for example, on a system on a chip (SOC).
  • SOC system on a chip
  • the baseband circuitry 704 may provide for communication compatible with one or more radio technologies.
  • the baseband circuitry 704 may support communication with an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network (EUTRAN) or other wireless metropolitan area networks (WMAN), a wireless local area network (WLAN), a wireless personal area network (WPAN).
  • EUTRAN evolved universal terrestrial radio access network
  • WMAN wireless metropolitan area networks
  • WLAN wireless local area network
  • WPAN wireless personal area network
  • Embodiments in which the baseband circuitry 704 is configured to support radio communications of more than one wireless protocol may be referred to as multi-mode baseband circuitry.
  • RF circuitry 706 may enable communication with wireless networks using modulated electromagnetic radiation through a non-solid medium.
  • the RF circuitry 706 may include switches, filters, amplifiers, etc. to facilitate the communication with the wireless network.
  • RF circuitry 706 may include a receive signal path which may include circuitry to down-convert RF signals received from the FEM circuitry 708 and provide baseband signals to the baseband circuitry 704.
  • RF circuitry 706 may also include a transmit signal path which may include circuitry to up-convert baseband signals provided by the baseband circuitry 704 and provide RF output signals to the FEM circuitry 708 for transmission.
  • the receive signal path of the RF circuitry 706 may include mixer circuitry 706a, amplifier circuitry 706b and filter circuitry 706c.
  • the transmit signal path of the RF circuitry 706 may include filter circuitry 706c and mixer circuitry 706a.
  • RF circuitry 706 may also include synthesizer circuitry 706d for synthesizing a frequency for use by the mixer circuitry 706a of the receive signal path and the transmit signal path.
  • the mixer circuitry 706a of the receive signal path may be configured to down- convert RF signals received from the FEM circuitry 708 based on the synthesized frequency provided by synthesizer circuitry 706d.
  • the amplifier circuitry 706b may be configured to amplify the down-converted signals and the filter circuitry 706c may be a low-pass filter (LPF) or bandpass filter (BPF) configured to remove unwanted signals from the down-converted signals to generate output baseband signals.
  • Output baseband signals may be provided to the baseband circuitry 704 for further processing.
  • the output baseband signals may be zero-frequency baseband signals, although this is not a requirement.
  • mixer circuitry 706a of the receive signal path may comprise passive mixers, although the scope of the embodiments is not limited in this respect.
  • the mixer circuitry 706a of the transmit signal path may be configured to up-convert input baseband signals based on the synthesized frequency provided by the synthesizer circuitry 706d to generate RF output signals for the FEM circuitry 708.
  • the baseband signals may be provided by the baseband circuitry 704 and may be filtered by filter circuitry 706c.
  • the mixer circuitry 706a of the receive signal path and the mixer circuitry 706a of the transmit signal path may include two or more mixers and may be arranged for quadrature downconversion and upconversion, respectively.
  • the mixer circuitry 706a of the receive signal path and the mixer circuitry 706a of the transmit signal path may include two or more mixers and may be arranged for image rejection (e.g., Hartley image rejection).
  • the mixer circuitry 706a of the receive signal path and the mixer circuitry 706a may be arranged for direct downconversion and direct upconversion, respectively.
  • the mixer circuitry 706a of the receive signal path and the mixer circuitry 706a of the transmit signal path may be configured for super-heterodyne operation.
  • the output baseband signals and the input baseband signals may be analog baseband signals, although the scope of the embodiments is not limited in this respect.
  • the output baseband signals and the input baseband signals may be digital baseband signals.
  • the RF circuitry 706 may include analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and digital-to- analog converter (DAC) circuitry and the baseband circuitry 704 may include a digital baseband interface to communicate with the RF circuitry 706.
  • ADC analog-to-digital converter
  • DAC digital-to- analog converter
  • a separate radio IC circuitry may be provided for processing signals for each spectrum, although the scope of the embodiments is not limited in this respect.
  • the synthesizer circuitry 706d may be a fractional-N synthesizer or a fractional N/N+l synthesizer, although the scope of the embodiments is not limited in this respect as other types of frequency synthesizers may be suitable.
  • synthesizer circuitry 706d may be a delta-sigma synthesizer, a frequency multiplier, or a synthesizer comprising a phase-locked loop with a frequency divider.
  • the synthesizer circuitry 706d may be configured to synthesize an output frequency for use by the mixer circuitry 706a of the RF circuitry 706 based on a frequency input and a divider control input.
  • the synthesizer circuitry 706d may be a fractional N/N+l synthesizer.
  • frequency input may be provided by a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), although that is not a requirement.
  • VCO voltage controlled oscillator
  • Divider control input may be provided by either the baseband circuitry 704 or the applications processor 702 depending on the desired output frequency.
  • a divider control input (e.g., N) may be determined from a lookup table based on a channel indicated by the applications processor 702.
  • Synthesizer circuitry 706d of the RF circuitry 706 may include a divider, a delay- locked loop (DLL), a multiplexer and a phase accumulator.
  • the divider may be a dual modulus divider (DMD) and the phase accumulator may be a digital phase accumulator (DP A).
  • the DMD may be configured to divide the input signal by either N or N+l (e.g., based on a carry out) to provide a fractional division ratio.
  • the DLL may include a set of cascaded, tunable, delay elements, a phase detector, a charge pump and a D-type flip-flop.
  • the delay elements may be configured to break a VCO period up into Nd equal packets of phase, where Nd is the number of delay elements in the delay line.
  • Nd is the number of delay elements in the delay line.
  • synthesizer circuitry 706d may be configured to generate a carrier frequency as the output frequency, while in other embodiments, the output frequency may be a multiple of the carrier frequency (e.g., twice the carrier frequency, four times the carrier frequency) and used in conjunction with quadrature generator and divider circuitry to generate multiple signals at the carrier frequency with multiple different phases with respect to each other.
  • the output frequency may be a LO frequency (fLO).
  • the RF circuitry 706 may include an IQ/polar converter.
  • FEM circuitry 708 may include a receive signal path which may include circuitry configured to operate on RF signals received from one or more antennas 710, amplify the received signals and provide the amplified versions of the received signals to the RF circuitry 706 for further processing.
  • FEM circuitry 708 may also include a transmit signal path which may include circuitry configured to amplify signals for transmission provided by the RF circuitry 706 for transmission by one or more of the one or more antennas 710.
  • the amplification through the transmit or receive signal paths may be done solely in the RF circuitry 706, solely in the FEM 708, or in both the RF circuitry 706 and the FEM 708.
  • the FEM circuitry 708 may include a TX/RX switch to switch between transmit mode and receive mode operation.
  • the FEM circuitry may include a receive signal path and a transmit signal path.
  • the receive signal path of the FEM circuitry may include an LNA to amplify received RF signals and provide the amplified received RF signals as an output (e.g., to the RF circuitry 706).
  • the transmit signal path of the FEM circuitry 708 may include a power amplifier (PA) to amplify input RF signals (e.g., provided by RF circuitry 706), and one or more filters to generate RF signals for subsequent transmission (e.g., by one or more of the one or more antennas 710).
  • PA power amplifier
  • the PMC 712 may manage power provided to the baseband circuitry 704.
  • the PMC 712 may control power-source selection, voltage scaling, battery charging, or DC-to-DC conversion.
  • the PMC 712 may often be included when the device 700 is capable of being powered by a battery, for example, when the device is included in a UE.
  • the PMC 712 may increase the power conversion efficiency while providing desirable implementation size and heat dissipation characteristics.
  • FIG. 7 shows the PMC 712 coupled only with the baseband circuitry 704.
  • the PMC 7 12 may be additionally or alternatively coupled with, and perform similar power management operations for, other components such as, but not limited to, application circuitry 702, RF circuitry 706, or FEM 708.
  • the PMC 712 may control, or otherwise be part of, various power saving mechanisms of the device 700. For example, if the device 700 is in an RRC_Connected state, where it is still connected to the RAN node as it expects to receive traffic shortly, then it may enter a state known as Discontinuous Reception Mode (DRX) after a period of inactivity. During this state, the device 700 may power down for brief intervals of time and thus save power.
  • DRX Discontinuous Reception Mode
  • the device 700 may transition off to an RRC_Idle state, where it disconnects from the network and does not perform operations such as channel quality feedback, handover, etc.
  • the device 700 goes into a very low power state and it performs paging where again it periodically wakes up to listen to the network and then powers down again.
  • the device 700 may not receive data in this state, in order to receive data, it must transition back to RRC_Connected state.
  • An additional power saving mode may allow a device to be unavailable to the network for periods longer than a paging interval (ranging from seconds to a few hours). During this time, the device is totally unreachable to the network and may power down completely. Any data sent during this time incurs a large delay and it is assumed the delay is acceptable.
  • Processors of the application circuitry 702 and processors of the baseband circuitry 704 may be used to execute elements of one or more instances of a protocol stack.
  • processors of the baseband circuitry 704 alone or in combination, may be used execute Layer 3, Layer 2, or Layer 1 functionality, while processors of the application circuitry 704 may utilize data (e.g., packet data) received from these layers and further execute Layer 4 functionality (e.g., transmission communication protocol (TCP) and user datagram protocol (UDP) layers).
  • Layer 3 may comprise a radio resource control (RRC) layer, described in further detail below.
  • RRC radio resource control
  • Layer 2 may comprise a medium access control (MAC) layer, a radio link control (RLC) layer, and a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer, described in further detail below.
  • Layer 1 may comprise a physical (PHY) layer of a UE/RAN node, described in further detail below.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates example interfaces of baseband circuitry in accordance with some embodiments.
  • the baseband circuitry 704 of FIG. 7 may comprise processors 704A-704E and a memory 704G utilized by said processors.
  • Each of the processors 704A-704E may include a memory interface, 804A-804E, respectively, to send/receive data to/from the memory 704G.
  • the baseband circuitry 704 may further include one or more interfaces to communicatively couple to other circuitries/devices, such as a memory interface 812 (e.g., an interface to send/receive data to/from memory external to the baseband circuitry 704), an application circuitry interface 814 (e.g., an interface to send/receive data to/from the application circuitry 702 of FIG. 7), an RF circuitry interface 816 (e.g., an interface to send/receive data to/from RF circuitry 706 of FIG.
  • a memory interface 812 e.g., an interface to send/receive data to/from memory external to the baseband circuitry 704
  • an application circuitry interface 814 e.g., an interface to send/receive data to/from the application circuitry 702 of FIG. 7
  • an RF circuitry interface 816 e.g., an interface to send/receive data to/from RF circuitry 706 of FIG.
  • a wireless hardware connectivity interface 818 e.g., an interface to send/receive data to/from Near Field Communication (NFC) components, Bluetooth® components (e.g., Bluetooth® Low Energy), Wi-Fi® components, and other communication components
  • a power management interface 820 e.g., an interface to send/receive power or control signals to/from the PMC 712.
  • an apparatus of a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to decode a measurement configuration message from a serving cell for the UE to perform a measurement on a target cell, wherein the measurement configuration message includes an information element (IE) MeasObjectNR to indicate a carrier frequency carrierFreq of the target cell, and a measurement frequency offset frequencyOffset from the carrier frequency for the UE to perform the measurement, and a memory to store the measurement configuration message.
  • Example two may include the subject matter of example one or any of the examples described herein, wherein the one or more baseband processors are to perform the measurement on one or more reference signals received from the target cell according to the measurement configuration message.
  • Example three may include the subject matter of example one or any of the examples described herein, wherein the measurement comprises a reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement or a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement.
  • Example four may include the subject matter of example one or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to synchronization signals or physical broadcast channel (PBCH) blocks transmitted by the target call to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter-frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • PBCH physical broadcast channel
  • Example five may include the subject matter of example one or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) broadcast by the target cell to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter-frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • Example six may include the subject matter of example one or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR further includes a measurement bandwidth for the UE to perform the measurement.
  • Example seven may include the subject matter of example one or any of the examples described herein, wherein the carrier frequency of the target cell is the Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (ARFCN) of the target cell having a value of ARFCN -ValueNR.
  • ARFCN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
  • a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) user equipment comprises one or more baseband processors to encode or decode a measurement configuration message from a serving cell for the UE to perform a measurement on a target cell, wherein the measurement configuration message includes an information element (IE) MeasObjectNR to indicate a carrier frequency carrierFreq of the target cell, and a system bandwidth TargetCellBandwidth of the target cell for the UE to perform the measurement, and a memory to store the measurement configuration message.
  • Example nine may include the subject matter of example eight or any of the examples described herein, wherein the one or more baseband processors are to perform the measurement on one or more reference signals received from the target cell according to the measurement configuration message.
  • Example ten may include the subject matter of example eight or any of the examples described herein, wherein the measurement comprises a reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement or a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement.
  • Example eleven may include the subject matter of example eight or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to synchronization signals or physical broadcast channel (PBCH) blocks transmitted by the target call to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter-frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • PBCH physical broadcast channel
  • Example twelve may include the subject matter of example eight or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) broadcast by the target cell to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter- frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • Example thirteen may include the subject matter of example eight or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR further includes a measurement bandwidth WiderbandMeaBandwidth for the UE to perform the measurement.
  • Example fourteen may include the subject matter of example eight or any of the examples described herein, wherein the carrier frequency of the target cell is the Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (ARFCN) ARFCN- ValueNR of the target cell.
  • ARFCN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
  • one or more machine-readable media may have instructions thereon that, when executed by an apparatus of a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) user equipment (UE), result in decoding a measurement configuration message from a serving cell for the UE to perform a measurement on a target cell, wherein the measurement configuration message includes an information element (IE) MeasObjectNR to indicate a carrier frequency carrierFreq of the target cell, and a measurement frequency offset frequency Offset from the carrier frequency for the UE to perform the measurement, and performing the measurement on one or more reference signals received from the target cell according to the measurement configuration message.
  • IE information element
  • Example sixteen may include the subject matter of example fifteen or any of the examples described herein, wherein the measurement comprises a reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement or a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement.
  • Example seventeen may include the subject matter of example fifteen or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to synchronization signals or physical broadcast channel (PBCH) blocks transmitted by the target call to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter-frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • PBCH physical broadcast channel
  • Example eighteen may include the subject matter of example fifteen or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) broadcast by the target cell to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter-frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • Example nineteen may include the subject matter of example fifteen or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR further includes a measurement bandwidth for the UE to perform the measurement.
  • Example twenty may include the subject matter of example fifteen or any of the examples described herein, wherein the carrier frequency of the target cell is the Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (ARFCN) of the target cell having a value of ARFCN- ValueNR.
  • ARFCN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
  • one or more machine-readable media may have instructions thereon that, when executed by an apparatus of a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) user equipment (UE), result in decoding a measurement configuration message from a serving cell for the UE to perform a measurement on a target cell, wherein the measurement configuration message includes an information element (IE) MeasObjectNR to indicate a carrier frequency carrierFreq of the target cell, and a system bandwidth TargetCellBandwidth of the target cell for the UE to perform the measurement, and performing the measurement on one or more reference signals received from the target cell according to the measurement configuration message.
  • IE information element
  • Example twenty-two may include the subject matter of example twenty-one or any of the examples described herein, wherein the measurement comprises a reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement or a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement.
  • Example twenty-three may include the subject matter of example twenty-one or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to synchronization signals or physical broadcast channel (PBCH) blocks transmitted by the target call to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter-frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • PBCH physical broadcast channel
  • Example twenty-four may include the subject matter of example twenty-one or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) broadcast by the target cell to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter- frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • Example twenty-five may include the subject matter of example twenty-one or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR further includes a measurement bandwidth WiderbandMeaBandwidth for the UE to perform the measurement.
  • Example twenty-six may include the subject matter of example twenty-one or any of the examples described herein, wherein the carrier frequency of the target cell is the Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (ARFCN) ARFCN- ValueNR of the target cell.
  • ARFCN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
  • an apparatus of a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) user equipment (UE) comprises means for decoding a measurement configuration message from a serving cell for the UE to perform a measurement on a target cell, wherein the measurement configuration message includes an information element (IE) MeasObjectNR to indicate a carrier frequency carrierFreq of the target cell, and a measurement frequency offset frequencyOjfset from the carrier frequency for the UE to perform the measurement, and means for performing the measurement on one or more reference signals received from the target cell according to the measurement configuration message.
  • IE information element
  • Example twenty-eight may include the subject matter of example twenty-seven or any of the examples described herein, wherein the measurement comprises a reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement or a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement.
  • Example twenty-nine may include the subject matter of example twenty-seven or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to synchronization signals or physical broadcast channel (PBCH) blocks transmitted by the target call to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter-frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • PBCH physical broadcast channel
  • Example thirty may include the subject matter of example twenty- seven or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) broadcast by the target cell to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter- frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • Example thirty-one may include the subject matter of example twenty-seven or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR further includes a measurement bandwidth for the UE to perform the measurement.
  • Example thirty-two may include the subject matter of example twenty-seven or any of the examples described herein, wherein the carrier frequency of the target cell is the Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (ARFCN) of the target cell having a value of ARFCN- ValueNR.
  • ARFCN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
  • an apparatus of a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) user equipment (UE) comprises means for decoding a measurement configuration message from a serving cell for the UE to perform a measurement on a target cell, wherein the measurement configuration message includes an information element (IE) MeasObjectNR to indicate a carrier frequency carrierFreq of the target cell, and a system bandwidth TargetCellBandwidth of the target cell for the UE to perform the measurement, and means for performing the measurement on one or more reference signals received from the target cell according to the measurement configuration message.
  • IE information element
  • Example thirty-four may include the subject matter of example thirty- three or any of the examples described herein, wherein the measurement comprises a reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement or a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement.
  • Example thirty-five may include the subject matter of example thirty-three or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to synchronization signals or physical broadcast channel (PBCH) blocks transmitted by the target call to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter-frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • PBCH physical broadcast channel
  • Example thirty-six may include the subject matter of example thirty-three or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR specifies information applicable to channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) broadcast by the target cell to perform an intra-frequency measurement or an inter- frequency measurement between the serving cell and the target cell.
  • Example thirty-seven may include the subject matter of example thirty-three or any of the examples described herein, wherein the IE MeasObjectNR further includes a measurement bandwidth WiderbandMeaBandwidth for the UE to perform the measurement.
  • CSI-RS channel state information reference signals
  • Example thirty-eight may include the subject matter of example thirty-three or any of the examples described herein, wherein the carrier frequency of the target cell is the Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number (ARFCN) ARFCN-ValueNR of the target cell.
  • Example thirty- nine is directed to an apparatus comprising means to perform a method as claimed in any preceding claim.
  • Example forty is directed to machine-readable storage including machine-readable instructions, when executed, to implement a method or realize an apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim.
  • Coupled may mean that two or more elements are in direct physical and/or electrical contact. Coupled, however, may also mean that two or more elements may not be in direct contact with each other, but yet may still cooperate and/or interact with each other.
  • Coupled may mean that two or more elements do not contact each other but are indirectly joined together via another element or intermediate elements.
  • on may be used in the following description and claims.

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L'invention concerne un appareil d'un équipement d'utilisateur de nouvelle radio (NR) de cinquième génération (5G) comprenant un ou plusieurs processeurs de bande de base pour coder ou décoder un message de configuration de mesure d'une cellule de desserte pour l'UE afin d'effectuer une mesure sur une cellule cible, le message de configuration de mesure inclut un élément d'informations (IE) NRObjetMesure pour indiquer une fréquence porteuse Fréquenceporteuse de la cellule cible, et un décalage de fréquence de mesure Décalagefréquence de la fréquence de porteuse de l'UE pour effectuer la mesure. L'appareil de l'UE NR 5G comprend en outre une mémoire afin de stocker le message de configuration de mesure.
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