Patent ID: 11937288
Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a base station of a telecommunication network, a user equipment (UE) report from a UE, wherein the UE report includes a radio condition metric and a position of the UE relative to the base station;
determining, by the base station, the radio condition metric and the position indicated by the UE report;
determining, by the base station, that the radio condition metric and the position indicated by the UE report satisfy a two-layer uplink criteria for the UE to use a two-layer uplink configuration instead of an uplink carrier aggregation (CA) configuration for uplink transmissions to the base station;
determining, by the base station, that the UE is currently using the uplink CA configuration; and
instructing, by the base station, the UE to switch from using the uplink CA configuration to using the two-layer uplink configuration for the uplink transmissions.