Patent ID: 9603126
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: configuring, by a network entity, a secondary carrier for carrier aggregation with a primary carrier of a terminal, including deactivating a physical common channel for the secondary carrier; transmitting, by the network entity, an indication of the deactivation of the physical common channel for the secondary carrier via the primary carrier to the terminal; and transmitting, by the network entity, a signaling of control information that is substituting other control information of the deactivated physical common channel, the control information facilitating selection of the secondary carrier and enabling the terminal to access and monitor a common reference signal of the secondary carrier without the deactivated physical common channel via the primary carrier to the terminal, wherein the control information comprises information for at least two of synchronization with the secondary carrier, radio resource management related measurements on the secondary carrier, demodulation of a shared data channel of the secondary carrier, and radio link failure recovery of the secondary carrier.