WO2014059662A1

WO2014059662A1 - Receiver diversity control for idle mode in td-scdma systems

Info

Publication number: WO2014059662A1
Application number: PCT/CN2012/083206
Authority: WO
Inventors: Jinghu Chen; Qiang Shen; Insung Kang; Wanlun Zhao; Jilei Hou
Original assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
Priority date: 2012-10-19
Filing date: 2012-10-19
Publication date: 2014-04-24

Abstract

It can be determined whether to enable receive diversity based on channel conditions and decoding results for a paging channel. If a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for a paging channel decode fails, receive diversity can be enabled. The channel conditions can be measured based on RSCP (reference signal code power) and/or SIR (signal to interference ratio).

Description

RECEIVER DIVERSITY CONTROL FOR IDLE MODE IN TD-SCDMA SYSTEMS

BACKGROUND

Field

[0001] Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to wireless communication systems, and more particularly, to control receiver diversity in idle mode in a TD-SCDMA network.

Background

[0002] Wireless communication networks are widely deployed to provide various communication services such as telephony, video, data, messaging, broadcasts, and so on. Such networks, which are usually multiple access networks, support communications for multiple users by sharing the available network resources. One example of such a network is the Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN). The UTRAN is the radio access network (RAN) defined as a part of the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), a third generation (3G) mobile phone technology supported by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The UMTS, which is the successor to Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) technologies, currently supports various air interface standards, such as Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), Time Division-Code Division Multiple Access (TD-CDMA), and Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA). For example, China is pursuing TD-SCDMA as the underlying air interface in the UTRAN architecture with its existing GSM infrastructure as the core network. The UMTS also supports enhanced 3G data communications protocols, such as High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), which provides higher data transfer speeds and capacity to associated UMTS networks. HSPA is a collection of two mobile telephony protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), that extends and improves the performance of existing wideband protocols.

[0003] As the demand for mobile broadband access continues to increase, research and development continue to advance the UMTS technologies not only to meet the growing demand for mobile broadband access, but to advance and enhance the user experience with mobile communications. SUMMARY

[0004] According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method for receiver diversity control for idle mode in a TD-SCDMA system is described. The method includes determining whether to enable receive diversity for a next wake up period based at least in part on a channel quality and paging channel decode result.

[0005] According to another aspect of the present disclosure, an apparatus for receiver diversity control during idle mode in a TD-SCDMA system is described. The apparatus includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to determine whether to enable receive diversity for a next wake up period based at least in part on a channel condition and/or a paging channel decode result.

[0006] According to a further aspect, a computer program product for receiver diversity control during idle mode in a TD-SCDMA system is described. The computer program product includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium having program code recorded thereon. The computer program product has program code to determine whether to enable receive diversity for a next wake up period based at least in part on a channel condition and/or a paging channel decode result.

[0007] According to another aspect of the present disclosure, an apparatus for receiver diversity control during idle mode in a TD-SCDMA system is described. The apparatus includes means for determining a channel quality and paging channel decode result. The apparatus also includes means for determining whether to enable receive diversity for a next wake up period based at least in part on a channel condition and/or a paging channel decode result.

[0008] This has outlined, rather broadly, the features and technical advantages of the present disclosure in order that the detailed description that follows may be better understood. Additional features and advantages of the disclosure will be described below. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that this disclosure may be readily utilized as a basis for modifying or designing other structures for carrying out the same purposes of the present disclosure. It should also be realized by those skilled in the art that such equivalent constructions do not depart from the teachings of the disclosure as set forth in the appended claims. The novel features, which are believed to be characteristic of the disclosure, both as to its organization and method of operation, together with further objects and advantages, will be better understood from the following description when considered in connection with the accompanying figures. It is to be expressly understood, however, that each of the figures is provided for the purpose of illustration and description only and is not intended as a definition of the limits of the present disclosure.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0009] FIGURE 1 is a block diagram conceptually illustrating an example of a telecommunications system.

[0010] FIGURE 2 is a block diagram conceptually illustrating an example of a frame structure in a telecommunications system.

[0011] FIGURE 3 is a block diagram conceptually illustrating an example of a node B in communication with a UE in a telecommunications system.

[0012] FIGURE 4 illustrates the structure of a Paging Indicator Channel (PICH) transmission.

[0013] FIGURE 5 illustrates a paging block according to one aspect of the present invention.

[0014] FIGURE 6 illustrates a finite state machine according to one aspect of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0015] The detailed description set forth below, in connection with the appended drawings, is intended as a description of various configurations and is not intended to represent the only configurations in which the concepts described herein may be practiced. The detailed description includes specific details for the purpose of providing a thorough understanding of the various concepts. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that these concepts may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known structures and components are shown in block diagram form in order to avoid obscuring such concepts.

[0016] Turning now to FIGURE 1, a block diagram is shown illustrating an example of a telecommunications system 100. The various concepts presented throughout this disclosure may be implemented across a broad variety of telecommunication systems, network architectures, and communication standards. By way of example and without limitation, the aspects of the present disclosure illustrated in FIGURE 1 are presented with reference to a UMTS system employing a TD-SCDMA standard. In this example, the UMTS system includes a (radio access network) RAN 102 (e.g., UTRAN) that provides various wireless services including telephony, video, data, messaging, broadcasts, and/or other services. The RAN 102 may be divided into a number of Radio Network Subsystems (RNSs) such as an RNS 107, each controlled by a Radio Network Controller (RNC) such as an RNC 106. For clarity, only the RNC 106 and the RNS 107 are shown; however, the RAN 102 may include any number of RNCs and RNSs in addition to the RNC 106 and RNS 107. The RNC 106 is an apparatus responsible for, among other things, assigning, reconfiguring and releasing radio resources within the RNS 107. The RNC 106 may be interconnected to other RNCs (not shown) in the RAN 102 through various types of interfaces such as a direct physical connection, a virtual network, or the like, using any suitable transport network.

[0017] The geographic region covered by the RNS 107 may be divided into a number of cells, with a radio transceiver apparatus serving each cell. A radio transceiver apparatus is commonly referred to as a node B in UMTS applications, but may also be referred to by those skilled in the art as a base station (BS), a base transceiver station (BTS), a radio base station, a radio transceiver, a transceiver function, a basic service set (BSS), an extended service set (ESS), an access point (AP), or some other suitable terminology. For clarity, two node Bs 108 are shown; however, the RNS 107 may include any number of wireless node Bs. The node Bs 108 provide wireless access points to a core network 104 for any number of mobile apparatuses. Examples of a mobile apparatus include a cellular phone, a smart phone, a session initiation protocol (SIP) phone, a laptop, a notebook, a netbook, a smartbook, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a satellite radio, a global positioning system (GPS) device, a multimedia device, a video device, a digital audio player (e.g., MP3 player), a camera, a game console, or any other similar functioning device. The mobile apparatus is commonly referred to as user equipment (UE) in UMTS applications, but may also be referred to by those skilled in the art as a mobile station (MS), a subscriber station, a mobile unit, a subscriber unit, a wireless unit, a remote unit, a mobile device, a wireless device, a wireless communications device, a remote device, a mobile subscriber station, an access terminal (AT), a mobile terminal, a wireless terminal, a remote terminal, a handset, a terminal, a user agent, a mobile client, a client, or some other suitable terminology. For illustrative purposes, three UEs 110 are shown in communication with the node Bs 108. The downlink (DL), also called the forward link, refers to the communication link from a node B to a UE, and the uplink (UL), also called the reverse link, refers to the communication link from a UE to a node B.

[0018] The core network 104, as shown, includes a GSM core network. However, as those skilled in the art will recognize, the various concepts presented throughout this disclosure may be implemented in a RAN, or other suitable access network, to provide UEs with access to types of core networks other than GSM networks.

[0019] In this example, the core network 104 supports circuit-switched services with a mobile switching center (MSC) 112 and a gateway MSC (GMSC) 114. One or more RNCs, such as the RNC 106, may be connected to the MSC 112. The MSC 112 is an apparatus that controls call setup, call routing, and UE mobility functions. The MSC 112 also includes a visitor location register (VLR) (not shown) that contains subscriber-related information for the duration that a UE is in the coverage area of the MSC 112. The GMSC 114 provides a gateway through the MSC 112 for the UE to access a circuit-switched network 116. The GMSC 114 includes a home location register (HLR) (not shown) containing subscriber data, such as the data reflecting the details of the services to which a particular user has subscribed. The HLR is also associated with an authentication center (AuC) that contains subscriber- specific authentication data. When a call is received for a particular UE, the GMSC 114 queries the HLR to determine the UE's location and forwards the call to the particular MSC serving that location.

[0020] The core network 104 also supports packet-data services with a serving GPRS support node (SGSN) 118 and a gateway GPRS support node (GGSN) 120. GPRS, which stands for General Packet Radio Service, is designed to provide packet-data services at speeds higher than those available with standard GSM circuit-switched data services. The GGSN 120 provides a connection for the RAN 102 to a packet-based network 122. The packet-based network 122 may be the Internet, a private data network, or some other suitable packet-based network. The primary function of the GGSN 120 is to provide the UEs 110 with packet- based network connectivity. Data packets are transferred between the GGSN 120 and the UEs 110 through the SGSN 118, which performs primarily the same functions in the packet- based domain as the MSC 112 performs in the circuit-switched domain.

[0021] The UMTS air interface is a spread spectrum Direct-Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) system. The spread spectrum DS-CDMA spreads user data over a much wider bandwidth through multiplication by a sequence of pseudorandom bits called chips. The TD-SCDMA standard is based on such direct sequence spread spectrum technology and additionally calls for a time division duplexing (TDD), rather than a frequency division duplexing (FDD) as used in many FDD mode UMTS/W-CDMA systems. TDD uses the same carrier frequency for both the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) between a node B 108 and a UE 110, but divides uplink and downlink transmissions into different time slots in the carrier.

[0022] FIGURE 2 shows a frame structure 200 for a TD-SCDMA carrier. The TD-SCDMA carrier, as illustrated, has a frame 202 that is 10 ms in length. The chip rate in TD-SCDMA is 1.28 Mcps. The frame 202 has two 5 ms subframes 204, and each of the subframes 204 includes seven time slots, TSO through TS6. The first time slot, TSO, is usually allocated for downlink communication, while the second time slot, TSl, is usually allocated for uplink communication. The remaining time slots, TS2 through TS6, may be used for either uplink or downlink, which allows for greater flexibility during times of higher data transmission times in either the uplink or downlink directions. A downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS) 206, a guard period (GP) 208, and an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) 210 (also known as the uplink pilot channel (UpPCH)) are located between TSO and TSl . Each time slot, TS0-TS6, may allow data transmission multiplexed on a maximum of 16 code channels. Data transmission on a code channel includes two data portions 212 (each with a length of 352 chips) separated by a midamble 214 (with a length of 144 chips) and followed by a guard period (GP) 216 (with a length of 16 chips). The midamble 214 may be used for features, such as channel estimation, while the guard period 216 may be used to avoid inter-burst interference. Also transmitted in the data portion is some Layer 1 control information, including Synchronization Shift (SS) bits 218. Synchronization Shift bits 218 only appear in the second part of the data portion. The Synchronization Shift bits 218 immediately following the midamble can indicate three cases: decrease shift, increase shift, or do nothing in the upload transmit timing. The positions of the SS bits 218 are not generally used during uplink communications .

[0023] FIGURE 3 is a block diagram of a node B 310 in communication with a UE 350 in a RAN 300, where the RAN 300 may be the RAN 102 in FIGURE 1, the node B 310 may be the node B 108 in FIGURE 1, and the UE 350 may be the UE 110 in FIGURE 1. In the downlink communication, a transmit processor 320 may receive data from a data source 312 and control signals from a controller/processor 340. The transmit processor 320 provides various signal processing functions for the data and control signals, as well as reference signals (e.g., pilot signals). For example, the transmit processor 320 may provide cyclic redundancy check (CRC) codes for error detection, coding and interleaving to facilitate forward error correction (FEC), mapping to signal constellations based on various modulation schemes (e.g., binary phase-shift keying (BPSK), quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), M- phase-shift keying (M-PSK), M-quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM), and the like), spreading with orthogonal variable spreading factors (OVSF), and multiplying with scrambling codes to produce a series of symbols. Channel estimates from a channel processor 344 may be used by a controller/processor 340 to determine the coding, modulation, spreading, and/or scrambling schemes for the transmit processor 320. These channel estimates may be derived from a reference signal transmitted by the UE 350 or from feedback contained in the midamble 214 (FIGURE 2) from the UE 350. The symbols generated by the transmit processor 320 are provided to a transmit frame processor 330 to create a frame structure. The transmit frame processor 330 creates this frame structure by multiplexing the symbols with a midamble 214 (FIGURE 2) from the controller/processor 340, resulting in a series of frames. The frames are then provided to a transmitter 332, which provides various signal conditioning functions including amplifying, filtering, and modulating the frames onto a carrier for downlink transmission over the wireless medium through smart antennas 334 (334-1,..., 334-N). The smart antennas 334 may be implemented with beam steering bidirectional adaptive antenna arrays or other similar beam technologies.

[0024] At the UE 350, a receiver 354 receives the downlink transmission through an antenna 352 (352-l,...,352-N) and processes the transmission to recover the information modulated onto the carrier. The information recovered by the receiver 354 is provided to a receive frame processor 360, which parses each frame, and provides the midamble 214 (FIGURE 2) to a channel processor 394 and the data, control, and reference signals to a receive processor 370. The receive processor 370 then performs the inverse of the processing performed by the transmit processor 320 in the node B 310. More specifically, the receive processor 370 descrambles and despreads the symbols, and then determines the most likely signal constellation points transmitted by the node B 310 based on the modulation scheme. These soft decisions may be based on channel estimates computed by the channel processor 394. The soft decisions are then decoded and deinterleaved to recover the data, control, and reference signals. The CRC codes are then checked to determine whether the frames were successfully decoded. The data carried by the successfully decoded frames will then be provided to a data sink 372, which represents applications running in the UE 350 and/or various user interfaces (e.g., display). Control signals carried by successfully decoded frames will be provided to a controller/processor 390. When frames are unsuccessfully decoded by the receiver processor 370, the controller/processor 390 may also use an acknowledgement (ACK) and/or negative acknowledgement (NACK) protocol to support retransmission requests for those frames.

[0025] In the uplink, data from a data source 378 and control signals from the controller/processor 390 are provided to a transmit processor 380. The data source 378 may represent applications running in the UE 350 and various user interfaces (e.g., keyboard). Similar to the functionality described in connection with the downlink transmission by the node B 310, the transmit processor 380 provides various signal processing functions including CRC codes, coding and interleaving to facilitate FEC, mapping to signal constellations, spreading with OVSFs, and scrambling to produce a series of symbols. Channel estimates, derived by the channel processor 394 from a reference signal transmitted by the node B 310 or from feedback contained in the midamble transmitted by the node B 310, may be used to select the appropriate coding, modulation, spreading, and/or scrambling schemes. The symbols produced by the transmit processor 380 will be provided to a transmit frame processor 382 to create a frame structure. The transmit frame processor 382 creates this frame structure by multiplexing the symbols with a midamble 214 (FIGURE 2) from the controller/processor 390, resulting in a series of frames. The frames are then provided to a transmitter 356, which provides various signal conditioning functions including amplification, filtering, and modulating the frames onto a carrier for uplink transmission over the wireless medium through the antenna 352.

[0026] The uplink transmission is processed at the node B 310 in a manner similar to that described in connection with the receiver function at the UE 350. A receiver 335 receives the uplink transmission through the antenna 334 and processes the transmission to recover the information modulated onto the carrier. The information recovered by the receiver 335 is provided to a receive frame processor 336, which parses each frame, and provides the midamble 214 (FIGURE 2) to the channel processor 344 and the data, control, and reference signals to a receive processor 338. The receive processor 338 performs the inverse of the processing performed by the transmit processor 380 in the UE 350. The data and control signals carried by the successfully decoded frames may then be provided to a data sink 339 and the controller/processor, respectively. If some of the frames were unsuccessfully decoded by the receive processor, the controller/processor 340 may also use an acknowledgement (ACK) and/or negative acknowledgement (NACK) protocol to support retransmission requests for those frames.

[0027] The controller/processors 340 and 390 may be used to direct the operation at the node B 310 and the UE 350, respectively. For example, the controller/processors 340 and 390 may provide various functions including timing, peripheral interfaces, voltage regulation, power management, and other control functions. The computer readable media of memories 342 and 392 may store data and software for the node B 310 and the UE 350, respectively. For example, the memory 392 of the UE 350 may store receiver diversity control module 391 which, when executed by the controller/processor 390, configures the UE 350. A scheduler/processor 346 at the node B 310 may be used to allocate resources to the UEs and schedule downlink and/or uplink transmissions for the UEs.

RECEIVE DIVERSITY CONTROL FOR IDLE MODE IN TD-SCDMA SYSTEMS

[0028] In certain situations, a UE may employ more than one communication chain capable of performing wireless communication. A communication chain may include components for performing wireless communication such as, for example, an antenna, processor, software, etc. A UE that has multiple receive chains may be said to have receive diversity. If multiple receive chains are tuned to different networks (such as a TD-SCDMA network or a GSM network) such UEs may simultaneously communicate on multiple networks. If multiple receive chains are combined to communicate with one network, the UE may employ receive diversity to improve communication performance with the network. For example, employing receive diversity to communications with a single network may improve data throughput compared with single chain receive activity. Employing receive diversity in this manner, however, may also increase UE power consumption.

[0029] To improve UE performance, a receive diversity control method is offered to control UE operation in IDLE mode in TD-SCDMA systems. The teachings herein may be applicable to two or more antenna receive diversity schemes.

[0030] Referring again to FIGURE 2, in a TD-SCDMA frame TS0 is always assigned to downlink transmission and TS1 is always assigned to uplink transmission. In the example shown in FIGURE 2, TS1 and TS2 are assigned to uplink, and all the other traffic timeslots are assigned to downlink. As shown in FIGURE 2, in the special timeslot between TSO and TS1, the DwPTS consists of 32 chips of guard period 220 and 64 chips of a SYNC-DL sequence 222. Each cell is identified by a SYNC-DL (synchronous downlink) code, and there are totally 32 possible SYNC-DL codes.

[0031] The DwPTS is used for cell identification. It may be transmitted without beam- forming. Each of the 32 SYNC-DL codes is mapped to four basic midamble codes, so that there are 128 basic midamble codes in the system, with one to one mapping between the midamble code and the scrambling code.

[0032] The midamble code is QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying) modulated, has a length of 128 chips, and is cyclically extended to form up to 16 midamble codes, which are commonly referred to as "shifts" of the basic midamble code. For TSO, the number of shifts allocated is K=8, of which only the first is guaranteed to be used to transmit primary common control physical channel (P-CCPCH).

[0033] The Paging Indicator Channel (PICH) is a physical channel used to carry the paging indicators. In a multi-frequency cell the PICH may be transmitted only on the primary frequency. FIGURE 4 depicts the structure of a PICH transmission and the numbering of the bits within the bursts. Npm = 352 bits are used to carry all the paging indicators in each frame.

[0034] Each paging indicator P_q (where P_q, q = 0, Npi-1, P_? e {0, 1 }) in one radio frame is mapped to the bits {s2L_PI*q+iv,S2L_PI*(q+i)} in sub-frame #1 or sub-frame #2. The possible length of paging indicator is L_PI=2, 4 or 8 symbols. Consequently, the number of paging indicators Npi per radio frame is Npi = 88, 44 and 22, respectively. The PICH indicator bits on each Walsh channel are QPSK modulated, and spread by Walsh codes of length 16.

[0035] As depicted in FIGURE 5, a paging block comprises one PICH block and one PCH block. If a paging indicator in a certain PICH block is set to T it is an indication that UEs associated with this paging indicator shall read their corresponding paging sub-channel within the same paging block. The value NGA_P>0 of frames between the end of the PICH block and the beginning of the PCH block is configured by higher layers. [0036] When the UE is in IDLE mode (also including CELL PCH or URA PCH mode), it is configured to wake up every DRX (discontinuous reception) cycle (a typical value is 640ms), capture antenna samples, and perform the following tasks. a. The UE should update frequency offset and timing offset. The update can be based on TSO midamble and/or DwPTS slot. b. For each wakeup in every DRX cycle, the UE should perform demodulation and decoding on the PICH channel. Possibly the UE may also perform demodulation and decoding on P-CCPCH channel. c. If PICH decoding returns a Ί ', then in the subsequent frames the UE should perform PCH decoding for paging channel information. The PCH channel may be transmitted in either TSO or any other downlink TS, as configured by higher layers.

[0037] Offered is a state machine of two states in the receiver diversity (RxD) control for IDLE mode, as shown in FIGURE 6. When the UE starts waking up, it should first check the value of the state. If the state is RD ON, then RxD should be turned on for current wake -up period; otherwise, if the state is RD OFF, then only one antenna is turned on for current wake-up period.

[0038] During each wakeup period, the state machine is updated to decide whether RxD (receive diversity) should be turned on in the next wakeup. The state transition may depend on the long-term signal to interference ratio (SIR) value, the received signal code power (RSCP) value, and/or the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) returned by the PCH decoding.

[0039] In time slot 0 (TS0) and on the primary antenna, RSCP and the linear-domain midamble SIR are used to estimate the channel condition. They are based on the first midamble shift. The midamble SIR is defined as:

SIR = RSCP / NO

where NO is a term to reflect the total power of thermal noise and other-cell interference that cannot be cancelled by the UE. Some other metrics may also be used as SIR. For example, the value to measure the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of demodulated symbols can be another option.

[0040] Both SIR and RSCP may be filtered to reflect the long-term channel condition, i.e.,

Filt SIR = a-SIR + (1- a) Filt_SIR

Filt RSCP = a RSCP + (1- a) Filt_RSCP

where a is a time constant of the filter.

[0041] During the wakeup period, if the current state is RD ON (receive diversity ON), a demodulation algorithm, assuming two Rx antennas are both turned on, may be applied to the PICH channel demodulation and possibly P-CCPCH channel demodulation. Otherwise, the demodulation may be based at least in part on an algorithm assuming the primary antenna is the only antenna currently on. PICH decoding may be performed in every wake-up TS0 slot. If PICH decoding returns a Ί ', then in the subsequent frames, the UE should perform a PCH decoding.

[0042] If the PCH channel is also scheduled in TS0, then the state in the current wakeup period can be used to decide whether receive diversity (RxD) should be turned on and, consequently, RxD demodulation should be used. If the PCH channel is scheduled in a non- TS0 slot, RxD is turned on for PCH decoding if Flag PCH RxD is true: Flag PCH RxD = RSCP < TH RSCP PCH RXD

[0043] Note that the threshold TH RSCP PCH RXD is a threshold value that may be set to be sufficiently high to always turn on RxD for PCH decoding in non-TSO traffic slots.

[0044] After each PCH decoding, if the current state is RD OFF, then the UE may check the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) returned by PCH decoding. If the CRC fails, it indicates that with high probability, the Node-B will transmit PCH information in the next wakeup periods. Therefore, the state is transferred to RD ON, and 'timerl ' is set to Tl DRX cycles.

[0045] When the state is transferring from RD ON to RD OFF, the UE can turn off the secondary antenna, or turn off the weaker antenna indicated by the antenna SIR value.

[0046] When the state is transferring from RD OFF to RD ON, a timer called 'timerl ' can be initialized to 0 or a positive number to specify the minimum amount of DRX cycles to stay in RD ON state. Depending on whether the transition is triggered by PCH decoding failure, 'timerl ' can be initialized to different values. If the state is in RD ON, timerl can be reset to Tl whenever PCH decoding returns a CRC failure. When the state is transferring from RD ON to RD OFF, a timer named 'timer2' can be initialized to 0 or a positive value to specify the minimum amount of DRX cycles to stay in RD OFF state. In each following wakeup period, 'timerl ' or 'timer2' decreases by 1 until it is equal to 0.

[0047] As a summary, the overall conditions for the state transition are computed as:

Cond RD Off = (timerl==0)

& (Filt_SIR>TH_SIR_HI) & (Filt_RSCP>TH_RSCP_HI)

Cond RD On = (timer2==0)

& { (Filt_SIR<TH_SIR_LO) | (Filt_RSCP<TH_RSCP_LO) | (PCH CRC failure) }

where TH SIR HI and TH SIR LO are two thresholds for SIR test, and TH RSCP HI and TH RSCP LO are two thresholds for RSCP test.

[0048] Several aspects of a telecommunications system has been presented with reference to TD-SCDMA systems. As those skilled in the art will readily appreciate, various aspects described throughout this disclosure may be extended to other telecommunication systems, network architectures and communication standards. By way of example, various aspects may be extended to other UMTS systems such as W-CDMA, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), High Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+) and TD-CDMA. Various aspects may also be extended to systems employing Long Term Evolution (LTE) (in FDD, TDD, or both modes), LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) (in FDD, TDD, or both modes), CDMA2000, Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO), Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, Ultra- Wideband (UWB), Bluetooth, and/or other suitable systems. The actual telecommunication standard, network architecture, and/or communication standard employed will depend on the specific application and the overall design constraints imposed on the system.

[0049] Several processors have been described in connection with various apparatuses and methods. These processors may be implemented using electronic hardware, computer software, or any combination thereof. Whether such processors are implemented as hardware or software will depend upon the particular application and overall design constraints imposed on the system. By way of example, a processor, any portion of a processor, or any combination of processors presented in this disclosure may be implemented with a microprocessor, microcontroller, digital signal processor (DSP), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), a programmable logic device (PLD), a state machine, gated logic, discrete hardware circuits, and other suitable processing components configured to perform the various functions described throughout this disclosure. The functionality of a processor, any portion of a processor, or any combination of processors presented in this disclosure may be implemented with software being executed by a microprocessor, microcontroller, DSP, or other suitable platform.

[0050] Software shall be construed broadly to mean instructions, instruction sets, code, code segments, program code, programs, subprograms, software modules, applications, software applications, software packages, routines, subroutines, objects, executables, threads of execution, procedures, functions, etc., whether referred to as software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description language, or otherwise. The software may reside on a computer-readable medium. A computer-readable medium may include, by way of example, memory such as a magnetic storage device (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, magnetic strip), an optical disk (e.g., compact disc (CD), digital versatile disc (DVD)), a smart card, a flash memory device (e.g., card, stick, key drive), random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), programmable ROM (PROM), erasable PROM (EPROM), electrically erasable PROM (EEPROM), a register, or a removable disk. Although memory is shown separate from the processors in the various aspects presented throughout this disclosure, the memory may be internal to the processors (e.g., cache or register).

[0051] Computer-readable media may be embodied in a computer-program product. By way of example, a computer-program product may include a computer-readable medium in packaging materials. Those skilled in the art will recognize how best to implement the described functionality presented throughout this disclosure depending on the particular application and the overall design constraints imposed on the overall system.

[0052] It is to be understood that the specific order or hierarchy of steps in the methods disclosed is an illustration of exemplary processes. Based upon design preferences, it is understood that the specific order or hierarchy of steps in the methods may be rearranged. The accompanying method claims present elements of the various steps in a sample order, and are not meant to be limited to the specific order or hierarchy presented unless specifically recited therein.

[0053] The previous description is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to practice the various aspects described herein. Various modifications to these aspects will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other aspects. Thus, the claims are not intended to be limited to the aspects shown herein, but is to be accorded the full scope consistent with the language of the claims, wherein reference to an element in the singular is not intended to mean "one and only one" unless specifically so stated, but rather "one or more." Unless specifically stated otherwise, the term "some" refers to one or more. A phrase referring to "at least one of a list of items refers to any combination of those items, including single members. As an example, "at least one of: a, b, or c" is intended to cover: a; b; c; a and b; a and c; b and c; and a, b and c. All structural and functional equivalents to the elements of the various aspects described throughout this disclosure that are known or later come to be known to those of ordinary skill in the art are expressly incorporated herein by reference and are intended to be encompassed by the claims. Moreover, nothing disclosed herein is intended to be dedicated to the public regardless of whether such disclosure is explicitly recited in the claims. No claim element is to be construed under the provisions of 35 U.S.C. § 112, sixth paragraph, unless the element is expressly recited using the phrase "means for" or, in the case of a method claim, the element is recited using the phrase "step for."

Claims

WHAT IS CLAIMED IS: CLAIMS

1. A method of wireless communication, comprising:

determining whether to enable receive diversity for a next wake up period based at least in part on a channel condition and/or a paging channel decode result.

2. The method of claim 1, in which the determining is also based at least in part on a time slot in which a paging channel is received.

3. The method of claim 1, in which the determining based at least in part on the paging channel decode result enables receiver diversity when a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) fails.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising controlling receive diversity based at least in part on a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles specified to stay in a receive diversity OFF state.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising controlling receive diversity based at least in part on a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles specified to stay in a receive diversity ON state.

6. The method of claim 1, in which the channel condition is based at least in part on a reference signal code power (RSCP) and/or a signal to interference (SIR) ratio.

7. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to determine whether to enable receive diversity for a next wake up period based at least in part on a channel condition and/or a paging channel decode result.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, in which the at least one processor is further configured to determine based at least in part on a time slot in which a paging channel is received.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, in which the at least one processor is further configured to determine based at least in part on the paging channel decode result enables receiver diversity when a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) fails.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, in which the at least one processor is further configured to control receive diversity based at least in part on a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles specified to stay in a receive diversity OFF state.

11. The apparatus of claim 7, in which the at least one processor is further configured to control receive diversity based at least in part on a number of discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles specified to stay in a receive diversity ON state.

12. The apparatus of claim 7, in which the channel condition is based at least in part on a reference signal code power (RSCP) and/or a signal to interference (SIR) ratio.

13. A computer program product operable for wireless communication, the computer program product comprising:

a computer-readable medium having non-transitory program code recorded thereon, the program code comprising program code to determine whether to enable receive diversity for a next wake up period based at least in part on a channel condition and/or a paging channel decode result.

14. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:

means for determining a channel condition and/or a paging channel decode result; and means for determining whether to enable receive diversity for a next wake up period based at least in part on the channel condition and the paging channel decode result.