Patent ID: 11942983
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 26:
27. An apparatus for wireless communication by a base station, comprising:
one or more memories, individually or in combination, storing computer-executable instructions; and
one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories and configured to configured to, individually or in combination, execute the computer-executable instructions to:
configure one or more user equipment (UEs) with one or more respective narrow bandwidth part (NBWP) hopping patterns for each of a plurality of configured NBWPs, each configured NBWP having a bandwidth less than or equal to a maximum configurable bandwidth of a respective UE by transmitting a configuration of the one or more respective NBWP hopping patterns that includes a number of hops for each hopping pattern, and a respective hop duration and a respective hop frequency offset for each of the number of hops, wherein the respective hop frequency offset for at least one hop is larger than a bandwidth of an active NBWP for the respective UE;
determine, for the respective UE, an active NBWP hopping pattern of the one or more respective NBWP hopping patterns corresponding to the an active NBWP of the one or more configured NBWPs having a nominal confugration; and
communicate with the respective UE on frequency domain resources for each of a plurality of frequency domain hop indicated by the active NBWP hopping pattern applied to the nominal NBWP configuration of the active NBWP, wherein the nominal NBWP configuration is maintained for each of the plurality of frequency domain hops.