US 11,683,826 B2
Low power downlink control channel monitoring
Gideon Shlomo Kutz, Ramat Hasharon (IL); David Yunusov, Holon (IL); Tal Oved, Modiin (IL); Shay Landis, Hod Hasharon (IL); Igor Gutman, Ramat Gan (IL); and Ran Berliner, Kfar-Aviv (IL)
Assigned to QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 21, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/659,346.
Prior Publication US 2021/0120560 A1, Apr. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/542 (2023.01) [H04L 1/0069 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 72/0466 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE), comprising:
performing a measurement of one or more signals associated with a downlink control channel to obtain a quality metric for the downlink control channel, the quality metric indicating channel conditions of the downlink control channel based at least in part on the measurement of the one or more signals, wherein a plurality of decoding candidates for the downlink control channel are mapped to a plurality of aggregation levels, and wherein a coding rate for a decoding process is selected based at least in part on comparing the quality metric to one or more thresholds for each of the plurality of aggregation levels; and
performing the decoding process on one or more of the plurality of decoding candidates based at least in part on a result of the comparing, wherein the decoding process comprises a first partial decoding process on a first decoding candidate of a first aggregation level based at least in part on the result of the comparing being a first result and a second partial decoding process on a second decoding candidate of a second aggregation level based at least in part on the result of the comparing being a second result, and wherein the first partial decoding process comprises refraining from processing a first quantity of resource elements of the downlink control channel and the second partial decoding process comprises refraining from processing a second quantity of resource elements that is different from the first quantity of resource elements.