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

Claim 1:
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
receiving, by the base station, a second UE report from the UE;
determining, by the base station, a second radio condition metric and second position indicated by the second UE report;
determining, by the base station, that the second radio condition metric and the second position indicated by the second UE report do not satisfy the two-layer uplink criteria for the UE to use the two-layer uplink configuration instead of the uplink CA configuration;
determining, by the base station, that the UE is currently using the two-layer uplink configuration; and
instructing, by the base station, the UE to switch from using the two-layer uplink configuration to using the uplink CA configuration for the uplink transmissions.