SLOT FORMAT ENHANCEMENTS FOR RF ENERGY HARVESTING FOR AMBIENT IOT

Abstract: described herein are systems, apparatuses and methods with slot format enhancements for radio frequency (rf) harvesting. rf harvesting enhancements may facilitate the use of ambient iot devise. in some embodiments, a network node may allocate symbols within a slot and configure one or more of the symbols within the slot as one or more rf harvesting symbols. the network node may transmit data during downlink symbols of the slot, and receive data from one or more user equipment (ue) devices during uplink symbols of the slot. further, the network node may reserve the one or more rf harvesting symbols for transmission of an rf harvesting signal.

Inventor(s): Ankit Bhamri, Wei Zeng, Sigen Ye, Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Huaning Niu, Rolando E. Bettancourt Ortega

CPC Classification: H04W72/0446 (Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames)

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